Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1881, Page 9

1S CITICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MARCIH 2y, IRBI—1"'W SLVIS PAGE Yy THE STATE CAPITAL. Legislative Laggards Responsible for Brief and Profitless Sessions Yesterday. Takes the Senate Inif an Hour 1o Transnct Its Business. It A Ten-Minute Session, However, — |s Long Enough for the House, The Question of Apportionment At- traoting Considerable Attention Just at Present, Dovelopment of a Feellng In Favor of the Proposed Twenty-District Plan, Oomplaints Against Raiironds Accumulato During the Pendency of the Investigation. BENATE. BMALL POTATORS, AND FEW IN A INILE, Spectal Dispaten to The Chicagn Trlbune, SerizarieLy, I, Mareh 23,—The Sennto sonvened thls morning at the usual hour, President-pro-tem, Campbell presiding, Senator Lewis presented o Joint resolution Jooking toward an adjostrnment from Friday of thly week untll Wednesday of nest on account of munielpal electlons throughouts the State and the general desire to get home and vote, Lald over under the rules, Senator Whiting fntroduced n bill for the establishment of sewernge distrlets by Coun- ty Boards. The General Approprintion bill providing for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the State Government was mado a specal or- tlar for Wednesday next. The bl approprinting $000,000 for tho ex- penses of the next Legislature was advanced to third reading. Senator Whiting Introduced o bill limiting tho number of drum-shop lleenses to be fs- sned by County Bosrds, It fixes the ratio at one leense to 500 Inhubltants, necordlng to the United States censns. ‘The license-feo shiadl not b less than $5K per annuni, Senator Neeeo presented an amemnlment to the Revenue law, which exempts frowm taxa- tion chureh parsonages to the valne of $1,000, *Atthls Juncture it became paintully evi- ent that no further businesscould be * safe- v”? transacted, owing to the light attend- snce. and, nfter thivty-two minutes’ sesslon, the Senate adjourned untll to-morrow morn- g, HOUSE. SHORT AND NOT VERY SWERT, Bpectal Dispatch to The Chicage Tribune, Seaxarirnn, 1L, Mareh 23, —The Jouse held u ten-minute session this afternoon, * the fact that there werebut fifty-six mombers present, and that all the bills on first reading had been gotten out of tho way, praventing the transaction of anything welghtier than the Introuuction of bills, There were only a couple of these, and their authors had no dilMeulty In gotting them inand having them read a second thme for the sake of expediting them. Oue wns by Carter, of Adams, and proposesto appropriato $48,with interest, for an even forty years, to pay tho last outstanding Muceallster and Stebbing' bonds, the holder having falled to take advantago of the act of 1805, One of these same bonds was pald by the Inst (ienernl Assembly, and tho Carter Lill propuses to puy the lnst oneon the list and wipa off the score, . THE OTHER DILL ‘was ono introducued by Spanu, of Johinson, (o amend the luw in regurd to the removal of county-seats. ‘Tho amendment nllows one- fourth Instend of two-fifths of the residents of the county to petition for removal, and permits residents of o county-seat to unitein a petitlon, The amendment further provides for un appeal from the County to the Clreult Court, und for the practice in such cases, The il was drawm, a3 might ho supposed, chiefly intho interest of Jolnson County. 'The Houso then adjourned until toauor- row morning. APPORTIONMENT. FROBADILITY OF TII ADOPTION OF THE TWENTY-DISTRICT PLAN, Rpectal Dspatch to The Chicago Tribunes SrriNGRIELD, March 28.—While the nine- teen-district npportlonnient scheme referred to on severnl ocenslons of late In' Tur TrinuNg has points over any and nll others that have yot come to tho front, the members from the northern part of the State are likely to attack It or any other that provides for the posgible election of n Congressman-nt- large. With them the nrgument is that the southern portion of the State will demand, and probably secure, the nomination of tha candidute-nt-large, and depeind on tho heavy Tepublican majority In the northern counties to help him out. ‘Tho rensons which would bo browght forward in suvport of suchn de~ mand are not at wll new, They have boen urged befors when the Republleans from the sauthern countles, ploading thelr devotlon to the party causo and thelr Inability to cope in numbers with tholr Democratic brethren, huve come forward and AHKED FOIR A FATR BHOW attho expense of other portions of the State, There Is & provalent feeling among thenorths ern members that it o Democratic [louse of Representatives at Washington give Illinois twenty distrlets o Iepublican Houso will certaluly do mo worse. In fact, hey have made up their minds that Illinols Is to havo twenty districts, and that tho present Logislature may Just as well talo the risk this sesslon of redistricting the Btnte nccordingly, and of convening at tho enll of the Governor next winter ln case she only gets nioteen, and the thing hus to be done aver, As to redistricting on the nine- teen-districtbasls, and electing the twentieth wan from the southern part of tho State by the voto of the State at large, It is nlready veryapparent thut the squthern members are IN FAVOR OF TUE LATTRR SCHEME, which, nmong other things, nceounts for the fact that John M, Pearson, of Mudisun, who clalmg to have concerved it, 14 very anxious that It should go through, and s Jess dis- posed than he was to push tho following twenty-distrlet seheme, also tho result of his lubors with the ninp and tho election and cen- sus returns. It should bo stated, however, i justiceto Mr, Pearson, that the prospect of wnklng [t lively under the nincteen-district schemo for Springer, Morrison, and Spurks has probably lind quits as much to do with hla deslre to push tho latter as anythwg else. The ratlo wider the twonty-distrlet plan ls 153,400, which would give Cook Connty four Congressional districts, threo [tupublicin and oue Demoeratle, TIE TWENTY-DISTRICT PLAN. in full 1s ay follows: 1to4. Cook; Ropuullcan, 8; Demooratlo, 1, 8. do Diviuss, Curvoll, Biephenson, Winucbago, Boune, McHenry, Lake; Jopablicun. yfliu‘:v“""“"'"" Ugle, i, Do Kalb, Kuuo; Re- cun, 3 ) 7. Honry, Burcuy, La 8alle, Putnam; Hopub- leay. l{uuldnll. With, Grundy, Livingston, 8. Du Pugo, Ford: Repubtican, W Rocik Islund, Mercor, Warren, Honderdon, dMebanough, Haneoek; Ropublic 10, Btark, Knox, Peoria, Fulton: Ropublican 11, Murshall, Woodford, Tazewell, Logau, Mo Lean; Republican. ¢ L2 Do Witt, Macon, Platt, Moultrlo, Cotes, Chumpalien; Hopublicun. Runkukee, cl':-:lu'lnr.)l.l, Vormilion, Eduar, 4. Adams, Sohuyler, Brown, Plke, Bcott, Cal- boun, Jersey; Demveritie, 16. Musou, Monurd, Cass, Morgun, Sungawon, Greona; Democrativ, _16. Macoupin, Montgomery, Chrlstiun, Shetby, Fuyotte, Ettinghn mocratle, 1%, Cumnberiand, Clark, Ceawford, Juspor, Cliu- :l;:h Murion, Cluy, Hichlund, Lawrence; Dewo- 2 e A¥. Je@orvon, Pranklio, Wayne, Bumiiton, Ba- (st Line, Edwards, Wabas, Wilte, Oullatin, Htacding Demuoerntie, 10, Mardisan, Hond, 8t € ae- i diaon, Nond, St Clatr, Washington, Por. 20, Monron, Randotpl, Juckson Unlop. Jotinson, Popo, Alexauder, e Hepublican, 'ln ather words, under this seheme there would he fourteen Republican and six Dem oeentle “distriets, 'The Republleans would guinone and the Democrats winld bo Teft whero thes are, Whether the Republicans Wil be safistied with this will, of eourse, de- pend on their ability or Inability to figurs out A better one; but i TIE TWENTY-DISTRICT FECLING Is nppavently on the Inerease, and lnvgely for the reason mentionels thongh tiere 1 the ent, which hud hts weight ngress—namely: that n seheme whieh would give 1inols but nine- teen distriets would plve the Southern States an Inerense of twelvs and the North- ern States un fnerease of but six. Iiven the Northern Demoerats in the Lower 1Louse ot thet Inst Cgneress were able to see this, il 1o combinG with the Republlenns 1o beat it here will by a enuens of the Republlean members of the House and Senate Congres- slonal and Senntorial Apportionment Cow- mittees thig week, ab which it js expeeted o program will be marked ont, 'The twenty- people, 80 far as ean be learned, have the lead up to date, and propose to keep it WAVELETS, FARDONED, EBpeciat Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. Sruxaritd, L, March 28.—The Gov- ernor s pardoned Andrew J. Willoek, who wug convieted of farceny by the MeDonough County Cireulp Court fn September, 1870, and sentenced to the Penitentlary for thres years, The pardon was reconnnended by tho Judge and State’s Attorney on tho gronnd that, from subseguently-tiscovered evidence, they belleve the prisoner not gullty, A NUMBER OF CONPLAINTS have nceumulated in the oflice of the Rall- rond and Warehouse Commissloners durlng the thno they have been defending them- selves ugainst the recent investigution. ‘I'hese pending complaints, whieh the Com- missioners propose to nt once tnke up and Investigate, aro as follows: Complaing for violatlon of See. 11, Ark 11, of the Con- stitutton, and of the corresponding seetion of the Rahirond b, against the consolida tion ot parullel and eompeting lines, by Charles Hughes gainst the Wabush, St. Louis & Pacllic et nl.; compluints for extortion, S. M. Butler vs. The Loutsville & Nashyille Ratlrond Cunl[mn 3 . AL Thompson v, 1= nols Centenl Rablrond Company; J. 16N tellus v, Wabash, St. Lonls & Pacifie I roud Company : John MeWillinms va. Chlenzo & Alton Rullrand Cowpany; combluints for wnjust discrlmlnations, A. C. Harding Willinmaon, lnakt, Sus va, Ulinois Midland -Rallroud Company; same vy, Rock Istud & vorli Rullrond . Compnny 3 s vs, Wabish, 3 St Louts & Pacitie )mll\\*ny Company; 1113 Thrapp vs, Chieago & Alton Ruilroad Cote Imn v+ Peorin Stareh Company vs, Chieago, Burliigton & Quiney Ritlrond Compuny; Joln It Squire & Co. vs, Balthmore, Ohlo & Clileago Rallrond Company; Charles Hughes ys. Wibasll, St Loufs & Pacitie Railrond Company ; James S, Martin vs, Hllnols Cen- ra] Railrona Companys D, C. Bene Wabash, St. Louls & Tacltic lmm- 1. Holmes & Co. vs. taiirond Compny, TIE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON WARENOUSES will report a bl te-morrow Institutine State Inspection of grain ot Lnst St Louls and Peorin, "Phis bill will canse conslderable agitation to grain-buyers at these Imlmn. ns they express theinselves well satistied with g present systeni A well-defined report Is in elrculation that Gov. Calton will send to the Senate for con- firmation this week Canal and Penitentiary Commissionera for tho State. As the law nowstands the Commissloners of the Ches! Penltentiary must bo_confirmed by the Sen- ate, while® there 13 donbt expressed ns to the power of the Sonate to act on the numes of tho Joliet Commissioners, the stut- ute governinz tho case being peeulinely worded, It-wHI boremembered that Gov, Cutlom sent In tho Board for confirmation two years since, and, before actlon on the naimes, QUIETLY WITHDREW THEM, having obtained a legal opinion that confirm- atlon In these cases wis not necessury, Dill was offered st hat thne compelling con- firmation by the Senate, but it fulled to pass, Certuin Senators manifest a little mpationes when tho belief is stated. to thom that Snm Jones will reeeive arenomination ns Commlssloner of the Joliet bastile, and declare In positive terms that they will under no clrenmsinnees vole for his‘confirmution, 'This friction may ull b avolded, however, by Gov, Cullom’ making no nomination to tho Senate of Commis- sloners for the Northern Penitentiary, and allowing Jones to slt at the reecipt of custom for the next two years without the sanction of the Senate, MAD WITH JEALOUSY. The Advelitures of Mr, and Mrs. Young ~The Wilets Explanuation. The Younyg shooting affulr, which occurred Sunday night In the Union Purk Hotel, wos looked Intou little furthor yesterduy, and, ns Hrat atated, tho chiof cnuse of Mr. Young's nt- tompt to tiko his wite's lifo seems to huve beon Jealousy, Up tulust night Young had not beon arrested, though e wus soon on the street, and tho police were making o diligent suurch for hlm. Mres. Young was not injured (n the shoot- fug sorapo beyoud n epratned unkle, which re- sulted from her full down tho staira ut tho hotet. Mra, Adams und tho daughtor, Mrs. Younk. nra stopping on tho West Side. When calted upon yeaterdny tho mothor stated, ut the outset, that tho pupors were wrong In saying hor doughter Jessio had been flirting sluce sho bnd been nt tho boarding-house, us nothing of tho kind ud beou dono there. MRS, YOUNGU, who had seooted out ut first, waa then ealled in, und sho came mplog on hor spralned unkie, nnd st down near the frant-purior window, Bho lau ratbor good<lookiug blonde, short and plump lu_figure, snd was bocomingly drossud mooa blue o Jucket, She tulked with much glibness, reluting tho shooting nifuir at tho hotol, which was precedod by n tuss, sho wnid, fn_which Mr. Young hud throatendd to shoot bor [t sho evor ilved with unother man, During tho duy sho had nut felt vory well, und atter hor husbuand went out sho sought her mother, nnd luter ho entno aftor her, nrmed with o revolver, sho thought, which was usud |n tho ovonlng at the hotel, lunyxmurod ta huve been drinklug, Mra, Young sald hor husband wus very Jenlons, espeelidly of one man, Mr. Pine, whom she deolaresd shu Bud not ggpokon to sinco hor marriago, 580 bad novergiven her husband any eauso W be Jealous, uny way. Mr. Youug, bid wife thought, was In tho hubit of drinking on tho aly, and sho allwled to bis having been nre rosted I 0 soemingly intoxientod condition, twao rovolvers on’ his norson, and throntoned to shout M, Pino, Ste i an ldee that hor busbund bud married hor nuetly out of wpite to Mr. Pite, winom ho bud an ald grudigo against, ho buing nfraid 8o und Pl wolld be nuwle ono in_tho sprukg, Bho hnd lott Young about threu weeks #go ol nccount of bis y which seemed W bo gggravated by " 0 appoarud to b atmost fnsune, and had detormined to earn hor own liviug, Mrs, Young said she folt thut JHER LIFE WAR IN DANGER whilo bor hushund was st (lberty, Ho had heen Acen yesterdny on Wost Itandulph streot by her brothor, uud “she fenrod ho wi lurkiog I e vicinity of hor ublding pluco and watehing For unothoropuortunlty to wue her, They bnd boen murried nUoU Bix weeks or su, and she did not cury to huve uaything more to do with hiwm, Bho went’on to stite that hor busband huad somu slugular murka on hig body, uad o dotects vo had wid ber that ho bulieveld Young wis tho i ha hid been looking for who was_charged with buving s wife Hving in Mlssourl, Youny §8 abiout 24, wid {8 uiso a blondo, BMr, Adu:ng, the futhor of the young woman, lives un West Luke, near Paulliin stroot, Ho Bitid ho felt very uwien troubled over the uifalr, whilch seomed 1o spring from Jonlousy on tho husbupnd’s part. Tle il tukon specinl paine 1o g bis duughter up woil, knd sho was gqulto u .:.lllb'l -luoking young lydy. Buveral youog wmen It Illinois Central NEEN IN LOVE WITI HER AT BIGHT, and he suppoded that the youu, fol« Juows would nwld to ber occasiondlly, ?un us thoy would at oy womun with ~ whom thoy folt they weru ‘mequainted. Young und Jusale wore warried witboutl ber purculs' wanes tion or kowledye by u Justice, shu bolng only 10, though outh was udo that who wag 18, ‘The parenty thonght 1t bost to overtook tho mar- Fhuro, however, us Ar, Young soeimed to bu vory fund of bis wire, und thoy were tikely to gét nlxmwhnnfllly. ‘They lived ul her home for the, but o soou got 8o jealous and watohod hor 8o closly that it was desmed mdvisable for tho paie to live somoewhere else, und thoy went to tho hotel. Mr. Admns sald b felt very sorey for the young msu, though he thouwht his duughterquite too good for sln, - bire. Young Iy :‘mpplnr with her muther, who will take cure of ere AT THE UNION PARK HOTEL the reporter wus informud that Youug cumo thoro about 1 oelagk yesturday, unid wus mlvised 10 gu to tho police sintlon sud glve hlwwell up, toufiy e bl o would do. Tho tooply bud bee buarduyg there ouly i sbort tine, und the hutel peoplo soomed to tolnk Mes. Youny uppeared as 1f Aoy eareed vory 1ittle for her iushand, who bl B0t 10 drowil hik sorrows i drink. “lnrtes Youme wis cnploved 0t tho works of Amerienn Getndung Ml Campnng, on the orfe, e of it e il two - yenrs, (3 tho cornar of Canaland Van Buven Bls_cmplo knowit i b 4 stuten yesterd Young for hoo hd Cwarked I L hsdi- t sineo tnat June. 1lis cwployers speak highly of him, saying bu wiy i very bty nni nhotit the preinlses, togh ot 4 praetlet mitehiniat, o wis o vory gosdsnntured, fndoye trious young man, and one who ought to_mike alinost ANy reasonnblo womun happy. Youts hnd beon getting nhout §12 per week, which wiy |-uum1n for two to llve on comfortably, and fe would have heen ahila to earn more i it had not been for his domestle diflicalties, which within tho pnat few woeks vl 8o preved on hismimt na to ke htm very worose und depreseed, They woere disposed to think hiy wife hwl drivei bl into the desperute state which led to his at- tempt to tge hee e Sanday night, Duringe the first few weeks of thofr married fe Young hid been very inppy, but when his wife left him ho beenine mnost mnd, and had not been tho snne wnn uinee. 18 foraer employors had not seen tho youtg man sluee Sutardiy et ——— THE SMALLEST MAN. Jolhn Lewln, of Exonlua, Jefforson Conne 1y Winconsl Hpectal Correspundence of “The Chieagn Tribune, WaATENTOWS, Wi, Mareh 25—To-day, iv the 1iLtlo cematery t Txonky, Jefferson County, there wis Ll pway to fts it reat the body of Johy Loewts, the smuallest man i Awerien, and with searcely a rival in the world for diminutivencas, As stuted inon telegenm, Lowis died on Mondi Mareh 2), at the howme of hls parents, in tho Township of Ixonln, six miles east of this elty, of congestion of tho stomneh, ufter n brief (1. ness. John Lowls was born In Ixonla fn 1855, belng 24 yenrs of agent tho time of his decease, His parents, Lewls and Catherine Lewls, uro na- tives of Wales, They have lad seven chlldren, —threo sons aud four dnughters.—thelr dwarf belng the oldest, With the exception of John, all thelr offapring are of full average slze, weil formed, nud of g Intelleet, As abavy, John wasof falr averngo alze; but appears not to have grown mich after his sce- omd yenr. ‘bis wonderful ity man was only twenty-seven inches high, sad hls nverago welghl of lnto yeurs wis only nineteen pounds, —corresponding fn #lzo toa foll-grown infunt about 18 months old, Tom Thumb, ¢ ldered nt one tne so mieh of 0 prodigy, 4 aboue fort Inches bich, und twice the welrht Lowis wi i Commnedore Nutt seemed ull by the side ot the Ixoula dwarf, Lewls i u ol foce: with un futelligent look, blue eyes, blnek, bushy hatr, and falr complexion, He'wns perfect and symitricsl in form, exeept that his huids were without thumbs, nnd one fool was 1 elub and sllghtly turned in at tho ankle, 1o was fond ol dress—hls tuvorlt cont bulng the conventlonal bhun frock with brass buttons. [t wis usualy fonna fmpossibile to find o hut sl enough for himy wihieh minde it necesanry ta make ong for hiw' oxpressly, Whon dressed In his best, ho looked lke o mininture Browlway swell, He received n common-sehool education, such a8 his nelghborhood siforded, nud wis nsually denwn Lo school fn o Hitle wagon by his brothers il sisters, 1o was o beight scholar, both m tho Enelish and Welsh lnngunges; was especiolly noted for his retentlve mome nnd conld ye- peat mezt of the New ‘lestumeint by heart, Ho wits possesiend of considerably relliflons 1, at- tending chureh-services regalivly. and was' fn- varinbly able to repent tho toxt uind fel the part of tho Bible (L conld be founud in, when ho res tuened hoe, In tho Ixoaln Weish Methiodist Church, of which he wagw ember, tho privilego Wits gonernity orded hiw of wivinge vut and reading tho hymns, which he dia stundhig on the pulpite—n smull, to Lo stire, but no less carest, specinion of the church militant, But, notwith- standing his fervor nga religlonist, the ungov- eranbleness of s temper often ot - tho mastery of him.. When urou to an- al “he wis quite 1 te, i would make it somowbat unpleasunt for his Brethron of the hotwsehold, ~many a thno ehad- Ing hisbrothers and sisters ont of the house on such oceaslons, us.ng his elab-foot s i weapon 10 tho bust pussible advintauwe, 11e ever imin- tnined by big eonduet that, though o had bee owstripped 1n stature, e was completo mnster at tho bearthsiona ki Heo made n study of agricultural topl ramotmbered elearly the dhferent kKinds of gealn the fields hed bion Bown with the previous yuie, A strungo peculinrity he possessod, of pulling hlas cout Off at mienls und Keepn hat, 1o wua i neurxr o nd u great ton-drinker, s doath no doubt being hustened by his ravone ous appetite, e bl o great aptitudo for making monoy. When u piy, tor lnsouwes, was givor him by his aire, the clreumstines did not by any maner of me; turmsh - an Aflustra- ton of the adige * Buy's 1y and duddy's bacon"—fur tho progroes of tho animl wus elogely wat. kliled, the money sout in tho littlc man's pocke of nhen: uerlnflm::md neulntlons were prop- orly noted, nud tho proits necrulng pinesd whure they would dothe most good, In this wiiy Lewis had aceumulated somo money at tho timo of s doath. The greatest distinee ho over wid nway from houle wis when ho at- tonded i Welsh Chureh 8ynod at Oshikosh, a fow years ngo. Lewis never exhibited himself, although nitm- erous oifers bt been mndo him 1o do go. 110 Hurnuu hnd ni3 photogenph, and wrote him on the subject of making 1 engogoment witn ain, nnd otker showmen correspondod with hit, huvs g the samo objeet iy v 3 but tonli auch by torned adeal car. Mra, Lowls was v phatioin hor doterminution that ber dwarf son shonld nover loive Ly Bowme, especintly for tho Purpose of showtng himsuif to tha public, Sbu ulways took grent enve of Iilm, and, o reconnt of his mistortune, displayed a tewderer Feeling fur him tha for any other of her chile WhenTom ‘Coumit und Commudore hibited in this clty sone elght yeurs og Lowls went to seo thont, All theo of thesy men- widuets wore greatly intorested i onoanothor, Nuttadmitted be wna beaten, but poiuted to Lowis' bands and feot us nn offset for overs hight, Tuamb had nothing to suy, bulng quite tall by tho side of the Ixonl eotnpotitor, of the growih 1, uhd, when 0 pork wis Bo In tho caso An additfonul peculiarity of Lewls' momory, whieh may bu mendoned here, was, thut he never forgot u nume,—something thnt fow, of more robust budy wud gronter intelieet thun he, could bonst of, Johin Lowis exorelsed tha right of sulenro for tho flrat timo Just Il—Guriield recotving bls yoto for President, und Humpbrey B Democerat, his nefehbor and triond, for bivoan, From this it wiill bo seen thut Gen, Garlield had not only th largest support, but tho smutlost su rier, I tho country. ————— A Fronchmun's Defenne of Slavery Among thoe IBoers. Lizan, March 10.—~To the Kditor of the Pall- Il Glazeile: AS OU HXO AWILFQ, 1 gTenL muny natives (Kuthirs and ottior tribes) Hve nmong tho Boers. Tho Kullles are polyoiinists, very luzy by puture, and thoy prefer mukig thoir wives und ehlldran work to working thuniselvos, © As suon s u Kaflie husn son fUor 12 yours of age by tukes bim to 1 Boor and requests enployment tor him, If unswered o the allvmintive, the futbior uitd the Booe go with_tho youn Kaslir thu Lunddrost (Mayor aued Judge), und make n contruot for i cortihy nmibier of yeurs (i u gon- oral way until the boy becomor o youth, 1 this contract tho Hoer hinds himself to dress his apprentioo (tho ohild {5 fram tols tme congids eved ay such), to tront him woll, und, n additlon 0 this, to furnish the futhior ntstated thmes witt provistons, Iudmn corn, or gratn, oceasionntly n sheep or anything elso ho migbt requive, 'Tho o of tho wpprentice |3 ontered In, registor, and. the Jloer tukes i with bim 10 bis turm, Thoro ho Is (nvaris ably glvon ousy work—te look aftor the lnrgo flocks of ahcep or to cultivate tho curthi i fuet, o similae lnbor to tuie of our Youug pousunts, As he advunces o yeurs moro Importint and Barder work 18 futruated to b, bt never boyond i strength; for all tho Bours turn thalr dttention olthor to_cattivation ar to thig euising OF stock. As a rodo, tho apprentlees nre woll tronted und eapectally well fed, 1t s truo thnt the Boer 18 oceaslonilly histy, but his wife trents the youuk mon kindly and well; und It frequontly huppons that tho apprentico, bis torm ot servics comploted, fusteid ut tnking ad- vantngo of hisliborty, undertnkes fresh work with his old inastor for seviral yenrs more, untit e cun mnery,~1 o, untli bo bad galned sufli- clent money to buy n wife from his futhor und bulld himsell & houso, Tho liw, which condiss of thirty-three nrtiel 13 exceedingly sevory with rmfnnl 10 the manner I which apprentloes aro to bu tyeated, Soveral dll-trontments aro punishod by fned, aud, ¥ very Hugrant, the contruct _may be brokon, “und, at Lo wish —of the fathor, tho upprontico placed with another Hoor, Nothing in this stute of thitgs bewrs the smallest resomblunee Lo sluvery, Workmun fu a fuctory, o minord, aro fur moro #luves than tha Hoors' npnesntices, Thoy ure Lrought up to by obedivat wna o vegnlar work; they uro In coustant contuct with tho Boers' own chlliren, who aro also striotly edueatud,—~tholr mnner of life demunds it s not thiva surer step in the path of progross thun tho wanderiug fovest lite Lod By tha ehildren of tho suvage Rawr tribos? The knmedinto resute of this custom Is that the more ehilileen o Kutlie " s the richor ho beovmes, for the girks ns soon a8 thoy attain & marclageablo nge are ulso treated ns morchuibtise, In eosequonerof thi a8 Aoon us 4 Kattle hus tho means ho buys hime BUII 4 socondd wife, then w third, s fourth, und g0 on untll tho tenth, If pussible. A Kaflie fumlly thus resombiea a_sinull school or educationil vutablistinent, and the mora ehildron thers ure tho rieher tho futtior bechutes, At tho uge uf 40 ho ts quite a rioh man, wad cun o wnd Hve on bis rovgnuo, hils children representtug the cupital, " 1 am, sir, your obedlent survant, Bk bE LAVELEYE, ————— Bribery and rruption. 'Theie i3 u good storytold of ong purliamentary toutest which touk plice when rumlunn wure buard bofurs commjiiess of tho Housv of Com- wons, and not before ludges ot the Courty, us is Nt 0 cuse. A botion was tled ugainst the auccesstul oundiduto, wiloglig Lrlbory nid eor- raption. A voter wus Loing examined by tho burriator who uppeared for the potitiouer. ** Ara you sure My, Blank never gave you anything nt thu tiue of the vlection? ™" ¥ No, sir, unfly—"* hes Ituting, ** hoance seutino n buro, liribery! thundered the barelster, ** Liul the buro sulik,” suld tho witiess weckly. “Corruption!® roarcd the ndvocuate, aud glauced {u triuwph at the comtaittee, P THE COURT A Plucked Granger Wants His Feathers Back. The Result of Going into the Ivery Trade at Mike McDonald's, Another Chapter In the Chlengo Univer- sity Mortgage Litlgation. A Little Disputo Between a Bank Receiver and tho Depoaitors, Record of. Judgments, Now gSuits, Criminal Business. AGRANGERSAYS IIEGOT PLUCKED On the 21th of Nhvembder last, & Grauger From Enreka, Aduma County, Jown, named Osenr F Parsons, struck tho town to soll some produce. He suceeeded in chinoging his trm products It prreenhacka, and having carefully deposited tha Jatter In the Unfon Natlonal Bank, recelv- g thorefor soven certifiontes of deposit for 250 euch, he set out to study that brunch of nnural history known s scelng the elephant, Ilaving heard that thero was n menagerio at Mike McDunali's, his steps were direeted there ng rally ns o boy's ton elreus, and his wildest hopes wero gratlficd, One ot s certlileates was immediately invested In ¢ cholee colteetion of pleces of Ivory, nnd thon anothor, until In n shatt thne he 1 Indorserd nll his certllieates danated all his ¢hips to 0 tzed the fuct thut ho we toput it intetligitly, »skinned.” Huving made thiy explanation of the fucts in piain Engliso, tho reuder wilt bo able to transluto the follow. frue tewal neconuts *'Phat on the simo duy your orator went into MeDonnld's gnmbling-house, and then and theve n aeld gainbling-honse bt darsed one of suld cortiientes In blunk wnd de- livered §t to Melonald or somo ane acting for hit, and re vl [ exehange thorefor certnln chips or counters nsed tn playing o certain gamo of errds eatled fnro, whick suiil chips or counts ers for the pirposes of snkd guine purported to reprosent £304, That sald chipa or counters wvere then and there delivered to and recetved by your ormtor for the purpose of cunbling your arator to then and thore gumbls and bet ut wiid Rume of faro; and that hu continued betting on Rald gt ntil he lost allof tho ehips pur- chused with suld certifteates us aforesiid,” After rending sueh u cold-blonded nceount of the fuselmting game, 1t niight well be wondered what attractlon tnere was in favo, Parsony seemed to thiuk 2o tao, and the next day, Nov, @, o went to the Unfon Natlonal Btk and notiled It not to pay the certiticntes, MeDonald, De alleges, gave the certifieat to Mr. Trude 1o Le eolleeted, mil tho - lntter, nite depositing - certaln | coltuterals a8 ses eurlty with the Fiest Notlonul Bank, got tho “money on tho certiticutes, The Tirst National tlion turned the colluternls and cert cnes over nion Natdonul and re Parsons now n from Wi by guibling, that they tegal title to the sl il sk that the fndorscmonts on the certillentes vold, and_obtuined without i that tho EL6N iy b pulid The Fieat and Unfon " National deration, to bim. 41 baele Hanks, M. €, MeDonald, und - A. 8. Trude are mude defendanty, THE UNIVERSITY CASE. The Interminuble Univorsity litlgation hadan- other wrestlo i court yestoruay, This time the geene of netion wis before Juilge Tuley lu the Stute Court, where n motion was mude for u stay of proceedings pending the foreclusure suit In the Federal Court. Mr. . R, Mliss, on bebalt of tho Compuny, pro- sented u trauseript of the record of the United Stntes Clreuit Court In the foreclosuro proceeds 1ngs, nnd of Judge Deammond’s declsion on the matlon for fnjunction, holding that be had prior Jurisdiction, agd naked for natuy of proceedings ““I‘l" n llu_rcuam( rendered in tho Toreclosury ault, Mr. Swett opened the arguments in behalf of tho motion. Ho eontended that the Federab Conrt had first sequired Jurisdiction; thut tho Uul\'umuf' wis hound o put in §ts dulense thoro, nud that the validity of tno trnst-deed contd und should bo deelided thore. I tho State Court shuuld go on thore would necessarlly be n canlliet of Juvisdiction,usJudge Drumnnoind lnd sk he would grant un mjunesion iF necessary B0 s Lo ¥ty proveedgs in the btate Courty, “A\IrA firc;mrf. on Lenhif of tho people and 7n eraity, clalmed that tho Compuny ought. ty ke a record (n the Fudoral Court of the n- tlon order betore 1t eoulid nsk fura stay, Infunction hul g yet been granted. More- over, the defenso ot former sult pending aught to be set up by plen and nol by 1 motion, Tho Federnl Court suit wis one mierely to foreclose w mortgagu, and was much nar- rower In o §ts seope than tho inforoils tion Nled In the Btato Court, 'The peaplo had paramount equities to the mortgases, und way entitled to litignte fu the State Court, It could not be madn n party to the Federul Court tithaatlon nor protect Hs Tights thore, Me. Decker tollowed on behnlf of the Douglng heirs, contonding that thy people were u sov- ervignty and coitld not bo tiken out of tholr own_ Court. ‘Thpir equity waus unterior to that of the mortgages and would ust be Inquired o inon toreclosure \m)uv:c(l(ll . True, thy State’s Attornoy, Mr, Mills, bad ficon maile party defendant in the Fuderal Court, but only a3 State's Attorney of Couk Count d that did not muke the people of the Stu o purty. The chirtor was an implled contract with the donor or founder of the jnstltution, and also with the party fur whose bonetit the Institution wus estublisbod. Tho fund ouirht to be wdmlniatered wecording to the plin and purppse of tho founder, and boing n parey o sueh contract, tho people of the Sute bad i right to coma Into the courts of tho Stato and proteet the donor us woll 18 the benelicluries of the gift, It wnsa Chane tho people of the St steid of stuying thol ueh o purpose roceadings, Tho closing nrgianets will e minde this morns ng by Mr, High for the Company, SALE OF COOR COUNTY HBANK As In tho suso of the Cook County Nutional Ilank the ltécsiver, A. 11 Burloy, yesterday flled bos foro Judge Biodgett u report of tho sale of the deapernto assetd of tho buik which wasmado Just Thursday, and n longthy necount of which was Jlll\!"-fl <l tho followlng day in Tig Trane Thoso asseis conslsted — of nut Judipnonts, ete, cblotly agulnat the Howens and L% 8. Dolibing 0" faco valuo ot tho nssets ko sold wis RELKAT, hut the price ronlized wis only $1,408 The Recelver, however, thonght this was tho best thut eould bo dong wider the elrcumstnnces, und tho Judpe ordered tho sulv to Lo npproved BMALL COMTORT. Abont four yeurs ago W, 8, Hinckley was ap- polited Reestvor of the Chicuzo Suving & ‘Trust Institutlon, und, uftor threo yonrs' eiforts, ros contly fited u report stating that ho had colivoted £1,500, nnd he waked thut he be allowed to retuin tho 80 us componsution for his sorvices. Mr, Watorman, va behatt of tho unfortunnto depose Jtors, vtifeoted, and beld that the money should e distributed nmong_the depasitons. 1t woukl muko nbont w ons-cont divideml, The cuso Iy betng urguod bofore Judes Jutnvson, LN In tho caso of the Fidellty Bnvingd Nank, tho Heeelver yestorday, bofore Judge Jnmeson, sot out that i secordunes with un order of Court ho nadd rendvertised for Wds for Lots 12 to both Inglualve, ek 5, Lots 1 ta 12, inclusive, und 3 to 46, inclusive, Hock 0, the N, 15 of Block % Blook 8, exoopt the K, 4 of the south 20 feot 15, and Laots 2 6, 0, 7, 8, Mook 18, nll i rengo, and hil res cofve oF i Pt of ‘wioh bloeks, Tho Bigheat Llds, howover, woro 5,170 loss thun tho furmor bld of C. 1L NiX, which nmointed to 030, kod under tho clreumstances tho Ros ceiver thought all tho bids should bo rejostes] und the property udvortisod for subo wenin, - An ordor wis Fherounon enterad by the Court to that etfect, ull tho bids haviig brun puwde on the expresd understunding that they were subleot to the upprovil of the Court, The Appollute Court will” render npinlons this mornig, Judyn 1Hlodgots will probubly not bo Iu court this weuk, & DIVORCES, Augusta M, MeLatu fied a bill yestorday against hor husband, Frnest C. MoLuin, usking for u tiveres on tha groaml of desortion, Judgu Jomeson )‘mlunlu{ wranted a deereo of goparato maintonanes to Vistoria Umluut from Louls Umluuf, UNITED STATES COURTS, Danlel Harreington flod # bill yestorday agalnst Norton Brosw. & Co, to resteudn them from waiug bis patent Iksuced Ogt, B, 1838, for fmproved steps for wiil spiudics, iy RTATE COURTS, Jobanna Connell beyun A sult In trespass yos- terduy ugulust Willlum Curnoy, claiming $2,000 duuiuges, . Edouurd Holmendan! and Loonldus IT. An- drowa osch commoncod nn actlon in trespuss uguinst tho Chlcayo City #allway Company, iy~ lug diuged ut F5,000 aplue Witliuim 8. Hart filed o petition agalnst W. M, Thau, us Bocrotiry, und John Van Hucsseling, us "Teeasyrer of tho Chleago FurnituresWorks o' AsdoClution, wikile for o mandumus to cowpel thews tunllow hiw to se¢ wad cauming the Hoeeretary's Trensurar's booka, Ile 1hinks there (3 something nked I the man- ngemaont of the Associntion: that It was riun at i lores of E3000) Inxt year, nnd that unnecesarlly fargo wasessments have heen mirde on the stock- haliles 11 s repeatedly naked ta he allmwid o funk oyer tio hooks 80 a8 to aee it the Cons Dany's afTals ould not be settled anicably and Hntisfactorily, but the defendanta refuse to ntlow Bim to exninine them, and he thor 'y PrayR for u mandanus to cotnpel thom to a L ity wisl A writ was [esied retarnable Saturday, John 1, Huwley hrought sult for 00 ngafnst Daniel R, Brant, Jotin M :Keone, who I8 enjoying n tempornrs rest in tho loekup an aome nknown chiarge, ted apetition for habeas enrplis to have hils ease exinmined into 5o us th diseover whether ho 18 legally held or vot, CRIMINAL coUnrer, Iattie Marshall, who has gained somn veputas tion as a boariting-house thief, pleaded guitty to lareeny and was remsnded to await tha appear- anea of hor mothor to glve her n good chaenctoer, There ave about u dozen cancs nyalnst her, and rame of the evidence was heard, which was cone clusive, and which sho did not deny the truth- Tulhess of, Tlmothy O'Connetl and Mnatthew Guyor pleaded gullty to driving uway o horse, and wero remanded, doseph Mudison wna tried for Inrceny and ac- quitted, © Franels Koerner pleaded wulity to Inreeny, and wus romanded, George Bulllyan, Jaime: Gray were tried for robbmy, Thay were found KuLlty of asawit, and sentence was suspended, ql::(”ll:.r e Evans wus triod for burglary and ne- o, The ulf af Gearge Marsh, Indleted for em- b ng from 1Hblaed, Spencer & Co., was do- clared Torfeited upon n' cull of hiscse wnd bis tuiling (o engwer. Hls bondsmen are Richura T, Hace and I, 13, Horton, Theadure Harels, formerly employed as u 11 in Thompson's restaurant on - Dearborn ety was tried for the Kiiling of ‘Thomas Cole on the nlezht of Due, B, Tho evidence showed thut on the eveniug of ‘the killlg the defendunt and the d g were at it salost, No, 167 Fourth ave hich o nuted Craps struck the prizoner over t and Kenney, and John howd with Apsttoon and knocl him dawn, he thomy of tho pros- cention was that upon” the detendunt’s Kettng up he fred his pistol, and the ball took olfect in Cole's baek, tending to his deatn, On the uther hand the defense mnintainel that two ahuts wera lired, und that Crllus fired the one which killed the decensed, The evidenco wis someswhnt confileting, expeelully 18 to whothor mure thun one shot was lired, nnd 1s to the rolus tive positiona of the defendant aud tho deneased nt tho thme of the Hrine, Tho case wus given to the )urj 0, and a vordict hud not been reached up o w lute hour, COUNTY COURT, Judge Loomis mude the following announce- nient yosterduy: A new trlul eatendur will bo madoup for the Avril tern, A, D, 1881, of the County Court, nnd on the regulur call of the anme all cases and uppenls not responded to by clther puriy which huve licen pending for a year or more, will bo dismlssed by the Court for want of prosceutlon,” The nitorieys for the Michiran Central Rnll- rond Compiny yesterday petitioneid tho Court o vemova the Western: Tadlunn faliroad Com- pany’s condemnutlon case to the United States Clreult Court, The petition was hased wpon the nsunt statuthey groutds, nud was dented, Flig petitioners will now g te Jidre Drummond und ek kil to ussusne jurisdicilon, TROBATE COUR'T In tho matter of the estate of Ellzabeth A, Hill, decensed, dettors of ndminlstration woro fssued 1o Bdward A, Glbbs under bond for £hL000, In tho matter of the cstatoof Andrens F. Schimldt letters of ndminlstration were lssuod to Willtam F. Schinldt under bond for £3,000. In thho mutter of the vstate of Thomns J. Condon, minor, letters uf guardiinship of thoe estute wer lssued to James F. Condun, under buod for #5K. In tho matter of the estato of Eliza A. Dudley, devenser], letters: testamontury were fasued to Jumes 13, Dudley, under bond for $2,000, In the muttér of the estate nf Charlotto Schmldt, deconsed, letlers testumentury were «Ilkll;l to Willam F. Schldt, under bond for In tho mattor of tho estute of Seymour Wil fnms, decesed, lelters testimentary were sted to Wiillam 13, Andrews, under bond for $0,00. TIIE CALL. Junar Dnossosn=Petition for review InState Insurance Compuny cuse. - Junae BLonarrr—No court. APPRLLATE Count—Opinions and motions at 100, . o Junae GAny—i(dto 40, Condemnntion cases Nog, 1,410, Chicago & Western Indiana Ralirond 'rutzior, and 3854, Sume VA Ony, Trinl call uko ve. ingh Judgn Gary, No. Northwestern Rull- Company ve, sll]ll on telal Ju MEOS—, Chiengo & , on trid, w—No enll shoan, on hearing. JUDAE GABNNEN—] Wakemnn, on hearing, JuneE Roozns—iiii, i3 to 3824, inclusive. No case on triul. JUBGE ANTHO call lu(.‘ g No. 2%, Roth vs, 0. 0. Nu, W, Markoo vs. -No prellminary call, Trinl r 'l I'. i, Hily 437, 45, 445, v 4 Junar Tutey—iE, 3, M, 35, No. 30, Grahun v8. Garley, on henrlni. Junag Barsuy—No call, Motlen for injune- ton in Traders’ Iusurance Compuny va. Farwell o hearng, 00 cues No, 88l Nos, |2 260, 1,50, 120, 21, 1,900, 1,201, JUDGES - MORAN AND TIAWEN— 015, 080, 1,070, 1,073, 1074, 1,0, 1,085, 1,096, 1,047, 1,008, 1,000, 108, 1,109, alndd 1,110, JUDGMENTS, Burenton Coulr—CoNvessioNs—Charles Fra- zlor et ul, va. B, Himiiton 1leot, S0, Junag Ssr Supplee Steam Eugine Com- pany va, B, bulttco, 05500, Cicmnr Count — Junar Roars — Adolph Juset et ab, v, 1% Walther; vordict, 106,57, und motion for now teinl. JUiKie ANTHONY=Joseph W, Taft vs. Joseph Slasminski, § e ———— SUNNY .ITALY, To the Editor of The Ghicago Tribune. CnicAan, Murch 28.—~In your ksue of this moralng ¥ou tmve o enustlo und eritical urtlele hended * Sunny 1), in which you do great InJustice tosumoe good cltlzens. The mecting you rolor towns enlled to tuke proper netion in Toterones to an unwarmnted duposition of o saered trast fund, by somo of the membemut a formor mectuyr, There was under the eireum- Blunees necessnrily somo feeling, indeed exclito- ment; but tho gencral decorum compared most favorably with that usuaily exblblted in loeal purty eonventions. 1 thisyou will ngeres with mo, 1 wasy moember of yestorduy's meotig, and there werp lsn prosont miuy rouders und putrons of THE PRIUSE. Your “ponnnt stand* and “ hand-orgun " thrast was doubiless deemed yery witty by your reporter, it 18 not and will not” b B0 regarded by nany othors, who aro sl (rlum{;‘ of e PRIBUNE. A8 Ttalins wo had by coliperntion, sneepedod in getting to- gotber what wo catled n > Funernl fund,” out of which u decent burlul 18 nlways seenved to nny of our_countrymen who dlo i poverty. How nany TN PUUPCES has our conutey beon called on to bury [ tho Inst v yeurse “Wo usk sunply 10 bu fulrly und genteelly treated in your paper. tuspectfully, JOus DAGNADO. e e— — 10, i A United Statos Judgo Workiug for the Carporation Wasptxaros, 1. C. af the New York Sun: Thore nre cortain facty which are notorions here In Washington uud which auehit to bo unlversally understood fnndl purts of thy country. Oue of the most persietent and aetivo mdvo- cates of Stanloy Matthowa §s Jingo Stephon J, Field, of Californin, who oosupied i plines on tho Huneh of the Supremo Court, und who was i ond denl taiked of lust year us 4 bossiblo nom- ueo of tho Demsocriey for Presidont, Judgo Fleld do It his businest to go smong Lemoerntlo ators nnd urga the cans tirmation of Matthows, otfuringe bis own pledios untl suvaneen that Matthows woulid ho eon- servative on the Heneh, sud thiat ho woalil bu in full sympatny with his (Folt's) viows on Southorn questons, and queations of governs ment gonerailys tmilewd, this Interforenco hag becomo fndecont, Judie Field hlmsolt 18 tho most pronounesd Purtlsan_ of corporations in tha Court, und nis KON B0 Tar I thut drection ns 1o provoke eouts ment, und moro than comient, o publie men wha e worthy of the highest constderas tion, Tt hus boon well understomd, snd, indeed, Judio Ficid Wimself haa dechad, thas, §F he hod peen nomlnited for Presldent, ho wouhl huve hud tho bearty suppart uf the wroat Paolilo Ruit- runds nnd ull tholr combioations, Tliess nre fuetd which, 1 think, ought to boe kuown olsuwhero us thoy aro knowa horo, Yours respecttully, OREGON. ——— A Funious Glutton Doad, KiNawTON, N, Y., Muren H.—The * Kinilerhook Glutton” wdend, Ho was found unconscions fnon yard at Valatlo, Columbin County, un Wednesdy, 1118 uams was Atexundor Grant aud pverybudy nlong the Hudson River know ol him und Bis romurkublo appotito. Ho woold out e lumf ug unything eatuvlo remined heforo bim. 3t binilegod that ut ono wittng o has eaten twunly poumls of solids ana deonk gullon of milk und eolfee, Five pounds uf boef siewk wuro regurdcd x:‘, hint w4 but un uppetizor, aud unless sucts side-dishos s W half peek of potatoes, i whole bolied cubbago, w bly plo, wnd a comploto ru.mum wory provided miso ke sisted that ho had only Junebed. A Corone ju:y decided thut Gruut's douth wad duo to up- oploxy. March 25.—To lh? Editor RELIGIOUS. The Methodist Ministers Disouss the Political Situation, And Unlte In Condemulng the Present Clty Government. Annual Meeling of the Congregation ol Unily Church—A Good Showing. The Baptists and Preshyterians Hold Thelr Usual Weekly Meetinga. TIHE METIHODISTS, Tho Hev. W, €. Wilting prestded nt tho “meat- Ing of Methodist minlsters yesterday morning, aud the Itev. James Sumker led in tho devo- tlonul exereises, ‘The early part of tho meating was tuken np with the diseusslon of the meritd of i ministors’ manual, or gulde, which had been brought thers fur Inspection Ly the author, tho ftov. M. . Hawes, of Hloomington. A eommits tea compnsed of the Rev, Messrs. Patton, Will- Inmson, and Pope waa appolnted to study the work, and they, later in tho evenluy, recome mended its general uso, The Hev, N, 0, Freoman rend nn interesting paper on * The Mission of Sufferlog,” and the piper wus afterwards brietly discussed by the Rev, Mosses, Hattield, Parkhurst, Zimmerinan, and Lincharier, Just us the weoting was about to ndjourn, tho Rev, Dr, Ehettield walked to the front und enbled the altention of those present to tho fuut that n very tmportunt election wis nbout to tnka plies {n Chicayo, Farn city that pretended 1o be of tho Chrlstinn Kitd, 1t preented wore wlekedness than any other in tho country, 1ts luws were not enforced, and a chanee in its ndunnist tion was necessiry, Hundreds of Loys from 13 18 yenrs of uge were unhlustngly and withe ont fer o fterrérencediily visiting gninbling. nluons, and dons ot prostitagion. Tho Mreat vices of tho ety were Iluurlahlmi under miseale, The reverenid gentlemun wonk not tell his firethren how to vote, but he wonld Bugieest that thoy sl breach nsermon pertinent W the questlon fext Sumlny Dr, Willinmson nsked what nssurance had been obtained that 4F the adininlstration was etmnged u better state of things might ho ox- beeted, e, of courde, knew that they could not be worse, Dr. Purkhurst safd that 4 too positive e sumes woull prove bl thing, A Squurs light had been mde I 187, when the saloons were opetly elullenged, und the candidate who hind declured ugalnst tho suloon was defentud by BAH vores, Dr, Huttleld slvo snld that o too rield demunt from the temperanes people would only wil the other side. Lots of suloonkeepers emild found who were really of tho luw-ud-opder clings to a gredt extent, und they would voto for a candidite who would be lkely (o renovate tho 3atoon business, and abollsh gamdling wd pro<tituton as much as - posable, Thoy ohe eeted to nenndudate whose etreugth it the :‘HIL\! rested o great deal with thieves und binck- N UNITY CILURCIT. The annunl meeting of the eonpregntion of Unity Chureh wns held n the lecture-room of e chureh tuat eventng, HL 1L Taompson, Prese fdent of tho Hoard of ‘I'mistees, wus (o tho chaly, Tho report of the Bonrd of Teustees wus tho first business, and it was of the wost hopeful and encournglie chantoter, It reviewed tho history of tho churel lor tho pust yeur, refer- ring 10 the stute of depression which bad pre- villed owing to the absenca of n regular pustor, and, comng down 1o tho ealllng of tho Kev. Gewrge C, Miln, of Brooklyn, sald: “Mr. Miln took formal possession of the church, if nat af the pulplt, ns pustor, on the 1210 duy of sanuney Just, und we rocord with plensure what eatinot bave eseapod your notlee— thut attendance upon the Sunday serviees hus been steadily fuereasing, und that s lirge Interested congregutlon h 4ty th story ul nehcery, hopeful, manly, y wo<pel, Due PUSLOF'S POWOE 08 b prencher, his ceadiiess 1o Torwani the Interests of the church vutside tho Pt and - the hewrtiness with which lus ad- vinces huve been mot by il el pocially Dby the younz men’ of the churet, give huppy augury 1hut our barbding wild soon b tound vt oo lurge tor [t contents, and thut Unity Ci will htve resummt her place i i tiest-clals po erin the communlty., The renting uf over thirty DEWR and purth of pewd withln the piat twa months nitords wood evidence of our heatthy re- covery und sollil growth, ‘Their limiuclil report showerd tho recelets for (ho yout to uave been ELo0), of which 20,153 bl been feo paw ronts, Thn dlauraomenct e 73 g e counted for, however, nsn part of tho annu expenses, broper, Boside the necesdnvy ex- penkes the report showed that thers hug b disbuped on account uf charity S48, of which L85 had been given tha Thied Unitarinn Chureh toward (13 debt; $1,25 to the Lurmbee street Tndustrud Sehool: i $iw0 Lor tho reliof of tho froedmen in Kinsud. ‘The availuble resomrees of the church belong- 10K o the pust year were estinmted at €560, and the Hubliities duo_ und wnpudd, tnelnding the £1.000 ubove referred to, wory S18E, which lof 1 lttuneo of 416t be provided for, The re- port coneluded with it recommendition thut tho coustitution be amended 8o (it tho Frusiees shndl be cleeted for throe years, one to bo elevted ullllllullf‘. The Trensurer's report showed that ut tho comumeneemnent of the yenr thore wus on hand #223, und thut sutmeguent receins had swelled tho amount o 85,107, Tho disbursemonts hud been $8,050, lenvimg o Imlince of #47 o hand, ‘Lho Feport of the rotnry and ‘Treasuyer of tho Sunduy=school of thochirehshowel o muto- bership of 175, of whom elghteen wern teacbers and five offlcers. Tho average nttendunes hnd beon W5, the reeelpts #1848, und tho dishurse- ments &M, leaving a balance of $H40on hund, with no bllls unpald. The wint was mure tenchers. THE INDUSTHIAL GCHO0L, The Treasurer of the Industrinl Sehool, Mra, Whklnson, veported that wero wis - ob hand at the boginning of the year &L, to which hnd - been ndded l){ dub- seriptions and donations, £1,458, The ex- penses nad been beon $1.250, leaving o balance 12 on bund, OF the expensvs, $130 had been £570 for Mutron's snlury, #2455 for 2 it Matran's situry, 3100 forsehool expens or incidentaty, und $24 forconl, 'ho Seeretnry of the mimo Institution, NMra, Furnoss, submitted o longthy and highly luters oating Feport showing the working ol the school, It set forth thut the lodusteial Seboot 1 Been neeepted by the church o year ugo, Its chief ubn belng *to tealn glels o do- mestie servive, und to mako - them feel abso thut such servicy 18 thoroughly hunomble, Bowlng {8 udso tawent, and_rendug and writing and the common Buglish branches, to those who AP o0 youug 1o do anieh hosework, as well ns 10 80me older ones who have never been to the publieschools uud wro nshumed 1o go thero 1o begin. I this wiy, too, some ol tho youngest are enublod T enter tho pubie schvols whui old enough to do so, and e juadvaneo,—n grent #ihn to children wha cann huve but o very tow yeurs of sobiool-life.” From tns the report wont Ui to speak of tho pleasant foature the “lunches " bl proven, whd of - tho e ner workings of the schooli of the pienivs wrublo entertainments piven tho chils thu happy ents ju thy life ol the nd 1o return thanks for the many fuvors shown tho nunugenent by the Chleago City Raliwny Compnny, und tho itarost taken 11 tho sehool by the chuech, Thio report showed t ehlldron now on tho rolls of the kehnol wiss 25, and that tho averige attonds unien durlog the year had been b attendanee for uby one month atnd the highest 8, Thore i und hulies il glven twe rg, OVEF S0 BeW garments had been give out_on merits 180 ol garments kit been re- atred; 13 gnrments hud been given to the rdy; und 18 givls bud been placal in situs- 1. n ol In concluslon, tho report aska conslduration for il tature conmittees who may havechurge of the schoul, and - otier calliug ultenton to the fuet that it would bave bl to close tho bust yeur but for twospechal donutions, suys; = Witk B ixed neomo ud o comforiuble, convenient Inadlding, nrueh mware could bho accomplished, Stut{stics prove tha Importasico of reseiiing chils dren from tho street ata very enely nge. ‘That seents the only hove, gud even i we don't sea tho rosuit fnthls generation, it will show i the next, or in the thied or fourth, 11 thoy have bren sinkimg i orfmo and Hith foe gon- writions, srant them genvrations to i waln, W niust begin with the Jitlo ones, and such o waorl ay il Tudustelnl Sehool v doing muast do jod whewer wo [Ive 10 seo iLor not, It s the host work Thitt wo ins u chureh ean do, uud, siee we hive emerged from under our clond snd proved onr vighit 1o oug nisie, cunnot wo sligive what wo - cuti=monoy, thne, Jubor—and ko this (el buscinniing on Lavraboo stecetn power thut will bo Teit through gonerations, aud really Lo Unliy Ctiareh Industrind Sehools™” AN 0f this roports wers adopied, knad 1 vote of thunks wits temdered tho several alticinls, THF ECTION OF OFFICERY wns thon procecded with, und tho following wore ununimuusly selocte ‘Prusteed—| {eywood. W, E. §Furncss, aud Thomus 1. Hrown, Jr. Trennurer—L. A, Curton. Beervtury—Sumunl 8, Greeloy. + Furiess, from 4 conmitico ‘uppolntod ata formor moetiug to consiiles th matter of pro- vidung the Industriul Sebool with 4 penmunent butldlng, reported that u lot in tho vicinity of tho nresent sebuol sito woudd cost from $3008 ty $3,000, und that & brick bulldug, R, thres wtories und busement, would cost from 8,000 to F0.000, untd (hat tho buliding could be com- ploted winl furnished fur oceupancy forloss than F15,000. The connuittos rocommended that seiun o tuken by the church, wud (bat i the schiool wa to o tounded u committes bo appoiated to solicit subscrlptions. Tho report wus ubproved and the followluy wero uppointed 10 rulle the monvy 0 croct & {prmaneat butlding for tha schaok: Joal D' Tarvey, Gilbert C. Pryor, and Dr. 1. Ingals, Tho following were nppolnted 1o solicit aube :fi:v“:xl(mlllmrm'r':‘ Hm mrmmmro of |lh% church i ereetion of n proposed Unitarln church at Ann Arbot, .‘llch.:p’l'. 8. Watlln and J‘: 8, lirewer, An umemiment to tho constitution of the chureh providing for the olection of one I'eusten anminlly Instead of threo was submitted and Inld vver, The meeting then adjourued. THE PRESBYTERTANS. The Presbyterian elergy held their regular weekly mecting yesterday moralng In thele rooms In the Me Cormick Dlock, There was nn unusually large attemdnnco, tho room being crowded, The Rev. A.8, Oulitk presided, and the Itev. Dr. Murd of Riackburn Unlverity opened tho session with prayer. The ol liseussion on tho teimperancs question was thon resumed, Tir, Swizoly, who was tolhave rend o paper on the use of wine fn the 1libte, wis {1l and unable to attend, His pnper wns therefore read by Dre. Gray, Tlo took nbout the fmo ktand na that taken by previous epenkers, o diseussed prohibition, the pledge, and tho expediency uf probibitory netlon, coning o the m‘.‘f«" on thut soclety had a right to protect A warm dlscussion follawed which way partis clpnted in hy inost of those present. All ngroed as to tha genernl question, the only diferenco being ns to tho doteils of the work, Tho dis- 10N WAK 80 generit thilt the sesslnn was pro= ied for some time boyond the usual our, Next week the Hev, J, R, Trowbridee will fead the dizcussion on the 'Ixrr: pose netlon to make tha Syuods conform to the State Hnes, The week Tollowing (Boatuial meeting of_ tho Chleawo Presbyters will b held fu tho Fifth Presbyterion Chnrch, Dr, Patterssn was appolnted to rend another poper on tho prohiiition question, disenssing tho exnmule of Chirlst in reganl o tho se o wite, and 1lio argutacntative use to be male of this example. [ o TITE BAPTISTS, The weekly conference of llaptist minlsters assembled nt the Grand Pacllic yesterday foro- noon, D Hnlbert In the chudr, The Rev. Jumes Gooduan read a paper on *Tmagdnution tn Religlon,” It treated malnly of the represcatative taculty to which the torm Tmniination bid been applied, and this fuealty js seon - tho sublime productions of the poet, tho historiun, anid tho novehst, * hnagination shoulid be kept 1indor propee control, He who DEFIIS Bls taney Lo wander through the piiity Astges of fpUre rovery ny nt teneth outline upnn tho inhuk's eanves some elantie wrong from which his soul rtd hiek with horrors Lt fnaniliarity with tho monstrous pletuee miny ehlvroform his consclence, and, like Nero, ho may beeome tho ageut of (ufm\(luv‘ abomina- tions, um trocities that will leave his nnine abhorred % The esayist sald that Innguage hnd nonde- QUILo teris t deseribe tho gailt of these who, By Interature or urt, wee corrupting (ho imagination of tho young. The strong arme oof tho Iuw rhonld bo In- voked to destroy the vilo pumphicts, books, and pietnres whosy ddissaminitlon 13 so pros Judicinl to the youthfat omelnton. Tho his- tory of religlous delinslons and superstitions is u trnful one, and foreibly llusteates tho per- alon nlman’s imunwination by sin. Modern Splritunltsm nifondy gumerous witnesses of tha danger of tun th tho Inizination and intradiug in whith have not piven promise or yielding any benctit to huminity. The pawer of imennntion wina needed Lo gustain Christinnd wmtd sho vicidltindes of this mortat It 1t wings thel® Tuith, snd by it thoy cun o and time, Waterman, Durtioe, Binean, nd ocioes kpoke brietly on the ' colnebling mnlnly with tho P thoreli. v, Dr. [fulbert sald ministors shonld ba In deseription of ficred things, and not fmagtnation get tho Letter of their Mr. Nurion, n Baptist misslonary In this city, wilose work < malnly eneeled on 1 the Coitnty Tlospital anl Hrllewnil, usked the prayes ot the Conforetiee for the suceess of his work. Tho It Wonl, of Beaver Dum, Wis, wild lutro the Confereance, Monday morning the reports from ed wili ho hesrd, und the election of oftl- ke placy POSTMASTER SQUABBLE. It Struecle Danvilie with the Eguinoes tinl; but Faded Like n Dr Speclat Correspondence of The Chieago Tritnine, DasvinL, Hl, Mareh 27.—Althoogh there are reported to be 15,00 oilices within tho gift of the Federal Governmont, nnd only 14,00 oflices within the range of the Postmnster-te It bienutally oecurs that 200,000 elr. mto a genernd seramblo for these 1 caneiva. 1"pont & fale uvgrawe thern aro. fwenty logul putriots who belleve themselves svlely fitted for hundilog letters gud patent-lnsido newspupers to the vhe pooe unfortnnate devil who gets tho honor. And when duly cotrmis- #loned nig troubles oniy beglo, fur at once spies are put upon his ineoming4 und ouegoing+ with thie object of teipping bim up and tireing him oot Forsevernl years Charlie Grewory, 1 man who may be suld to havo grown up In tha postal sery Lns been Postmuster here fn anvitle, Chartle Tourml tho offive In tho out- skirts of town i n tumble-down hullding, and erumped worse than it o, 10l, At hi3 own oxpense, he b It removy in thr' new Court-1lo: o e n compliment best Postmster fu Central Hlinols.™ # Pmpunt, red-hot, stulwart Republienn ns well, 1hut the fnevitable potition was sturted nsbors e nzo,—u petition I WVOF 0 TWo oF threy hungey patelots, It just ereeps out that the b s M. at Washington bis sdechiud 10 muke no o ut prosent.”” which menna that tho gons eral purblic will elup 1ts hands with joy, for what we want I8 4 post-office for the accomandation ol the ucurlu‘ Congressunin Gaunon, who Hives here,on bis retaen this week, oxpressed great surpriso that, wnknown to him, an efort bad heen unwle 0 stpersedo 8o efiolent an_offleinl 08 M, tiregory, Within the Duanville dehvery v 3 20,0 people, and sixteun daily ay mall tealns, itanging elose up to tha freo dellvery 1 o, aville 13 rted ot Washineton us next to Deeatur and superlor to Chumpnign, Puels, Mattoon, and Clinton. For thest roasons tho huslness eommuniiy 18 pers foctly eontent with M, Gregory, und will be glad o learsn that he 18 not to be disturbed, PUOCION, CREATING PUBLIC SENTI- MENT Obtalnlng Appeals for n Change Inthe Pension Oftlee, New York Trivune WARHINATON, Mureh 20.—The followlng ls & capy of i printed eirendur which I8 betng fent to penslon-clulm agents in all parts of thoe North. wBend In, within the next forty-eight hours after you rocelve this note, n poetiton to the 1ton, 8, 1. Kirkwood, Searotary of the Interlor, praying for tho appointient us Commisioner of Penstong of Gen, Jesso 11, Moore, of Tihinols, furmorly Cliniritin of tho Connitted on favaiid Pensians, who Is worthy und well gualitied to ull tho position, Aw n cluthire is now contemplated, pust for g ublo soldive who with do Justico (Hko by the soldier and the Government., Secure #ll tha Baties presdible 1wt enco () iho petitton, rlwond, and forward 18 eltber totho Hon, 8,0 K Heeretuayof tho Interior, or the ifo nlted Stntes Seanto, Washing reulne 15 nelthor dated nor slgned, but B uelgia i diselosed by tha taet that it s sont from Waslhmgton In envolope, i stamp ot Goorgo Buanecoft & Co. penston-cldm agents of i eity, 18 Hbstrtes 'mw uid by whan the **soldier sentindent ® rogard to penslon witterd 18 ereated,und tho methods sinployed 10 get ol of a fuitbful Come wmilssloner, wha s done what ki could to stop the linod of Wuek-pension. frauad thut huve boen Al ure belng perpetrated on_the dovernment through tho dishunest oiforts of the clutul ageuts, e — e A MATRINONIAL ROMANCE, Bpeelal Dispateh to The Chicugo Teibune, LAk Gexeva, Wis, Murch 23, ~Last summer thuro was here for tho greater part of the soason a younyg ludy from Nottinghuns, England, numed Mary Lawson, daughier of o wosithy Boglish gentteman, Her grandfuther owns a vl newr ber, und e stopped purt of the tina with her grandpmrents, and purt ut tho reellence of O, L Salle, 1 the lutior famidly thero 18 ukon ned Chieles, und between the two young pouplo thore sprang up i utinaoy which soot ended 1 an viggageinent, A ooplo of days bufore the depuriire of the youny lady und here peoplo for BEngland, tho youtuy couply went to 2Ik|lllrtl und wore privately arried,—the fnut pot hoeoialing known for soveral duys afior tha younyg fudy’s doparturo. A duy or two ako youuk La Sillo reeeived o eablogram calling Jan famediately to Fagland, walthor bu hud sturtod uttor hils young fuie beide, 5 ik ile Saliel ol B Safo from Body-Snatchers, Prresctt LArizonad Miner, Twonty milea south of Wickenbury, on the rouwt 1o Plunnx, thero 18 buried & Portukueso A grave 160 toet deep. Eleveo yoars ko thy subjeet of theso rumarks coucolved tho ldea of sligigling i woil unid strrtiue s station ut the point ubove mentloned. When the well was dowi 150 feor, und while digring uway with a vieorous willy bis usshitaut, u Moxican, fu loworing soue pules with whica to timbor the well, lot ong Pleeo fally k"h"m bl Instuntly. Iis body was nuever ramoyod, but nllowed to steop tn rauuo ur boneath the surfuce of “the carth. {n tho sopulehre bo bud binlt, Thme hus cuused tho well to vave i, Hutl now the remalng ure covs ered 10 u depth of forty yurds, wid tho Portus Kueso 18 probubly tho best buried wun fn Arie 2014, — e A wlllv}dm{ constinption muy be avolded by tha use of Hrles Huney of Horehound und Tur, Piko's Toutbucho Drupd cure (nvhy wmluate,