Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 2, 1881, Page 16

This CHICAGO cE: SATURDAY, APRIL Ly —SIXTEEN PAG ——— THE STATE GAPITAL, Tho Senato’s Scine-Casting Yes- terday Results in a Light Haul, Advancement of the Chicago Po- lice and Fire Department Bill. Chester's Persistent Ohargo on tho House Committee Proves Par- tinlly Succossful, Favorable Action on the Scheme to Bonofit Hill, the Di- gest Man. 5" Mysterious and Unfathomable Gas- Meters to Receive an Official Overhauling. —_————_—. A Halt to Be Calied on Snide Jus- ties Practice in Cook County. Both Houses Adjourn to Wednesday to Give Mombers a Chance to Vote. \ Bomo Queer Stories: in Regard to the Grain-Inspeetion Deparimont of Chicago. Oberly Having Blabbed, Ho Must Now Stand Up to tho Back, Fodder or No Fodder. SENATE, BECOND BEADING. Speelat Diputeh to The Chicuas Tribune, Smuxerit.y, Ub, April 1L—The Senate convened af the usual hour, Senator White's bill abolishing Police and Fire Dopartinents in elties over 100,000 inhab- itants and estabilshing Boards of Police und Fire Commissioners was read a second tine, Senator Shaw opposed the further progress of the bill, It belonged to the class of spectal legiatation, the Supreme Court having vir tually decided that bills of this kind are un- constitutional, He thought the Committee on dudicjary should have n chance to con, sider the bill, and moved to refer it. ‘fhe motlon was lost, und the bill sent to third reading. A LIGUTNING TLOW. Senator Merritt's bill forbidding telegraph companies from charging over 25 cents tor ten-word messages within the Stite was taken up out of Its order, read a second tine, aid ordered to third reading. Senator Bent’s bill permitting township in- surnnee companies organized under the Inw of 1872 to inelude six townships Instend of four, asat present, was adynneed to third reading. Senator Clark’s new patentself-acting ditch Jaw was sent to third reading. Senator Needles’ amendment of the Fire-Tn- surance Inw deereasing the Hanility on notes proportionately ag profits increase wont to third reading. % Senator Mumer’s bill permitting Park Com- foners to increase tho tux for park pure went up a peg toward being a faw, It is reasonably sure to dle on third reading. Senator Munn's bill authorizing the pur- chase of 100 coples of Edward J. 11D D- nois State Digest was sent to the Commitice on Appropriutions, BE ASS! J AND LOOK PLEASANT. Senntor Fifer’s bil was read a sceond tne, It lhuits the power of the State Board of ¥quaitzation in taxing rallronds to the road- ded, not exceading ten feet in witth, giving Jueal authorities the power to tax all other roperty, Jthits the Alton Road at Lloom- Ineton especially. ‘A motion was nade by Senator White to refer tiie bill Lo the Railroad Commiltce, Senators Shaw and Fifer opposed the mo- tlon, saying there were milllons of dollars of ralltoad property escaping taxation in’ the State, ‘Chis bill would cafe: them all, Senator Needles elansed erty had all) been te have gone to the Revenue or Rathrand Com mittee. ‘These were the appropriate Com- tilitees for such bills, ‘She motlon to refer was lost and the bil! gent to third reading, . MORE POWER TO YE. Senator Artloy’s bHI fixing the salary of Aldermen Iu cities and villages at $3 per meeting, except jn cities of thy third class, where the ordinance-makers shall rgcelve $1,500 per anni, went lo third reading, Senator Clark's DIE permitthyg the vaca- tlon of decrees in certain chancery eases went to third rending. A House bill giving Alexander County aitditional term of Cirewlt Caurt bexinning the seeond Monday of May each year was passed. "The House hill giving White County annd. ditional term of Cireult Court in dune of euch year was pissed, ‘The Senate then ndjourned until Wednes- day afternoon nest. ILOUSE, WEST FUL THE WEARY. Spretal Disvateh to The Chicaga Tribune, SruNorieny, IL, April 1—There was 2 bare quorum, and any number of yneaut sents, In the House this morning, li spite of the fact that both branches of the General Gases had agreed by concurrent: resolu fon to adjourn during the day and te stay adjourned untll Wednesday afternoon next, But the ured legislators, wenrled and worn * by an abnormal expenditure of brain tissue, found ft necessary In some cases to get out of town by Jast night's trains, leaving the more conscientious members to make up the quorum and worry along with the business of hatching legislation until adjournment thme. * the railroad prope This bill should WINES! WINNING WAYS, Tho Conuunittes on Penitentaries, having listened to tho persuasive reasoning of the ev. Wines and Dr, Kilbourne, sent ina re port reconsidering thelr former action, and recommending the appropriation of $80,000 for wcriminal insane ward ut Chester, ‘The sume Committes reported in fivor of allow- ing Chester $200,000 for ordinary axpunses for two years; In favor of Phelps’ bill abol- ishing the Ife penalty, and fixhu: the maxt- mim term of finprisonment in the Peniten- tlary at forty years; and in favor of Plotke's DIN establishing w commission ta procure employment for discharged convicts, % ‘The Conunlttee on Appropriations awarded the Soldiers’ Orphans’ omen total appropri. ation of $85,000 to cover twa years, dackson- ville got $107,000 for expenses during the next two years, finprovements, ete, and $10,000 for the purchase of 160 neres‘of land. UNS, THE COMPILER ‘Tho Judlelury Comnilttes reported jn faver of Cowan's Dili to give TH, the digest mun, @ job at compiling the stututes, with au amendment cutting down the price por copy of whatis left after the Seeretury of State has distributed 6,000 coples for $4, to 83,50, ‘The weightler matters in the bil, uctualng the Idea of the scheme itself and thy generous appropriation asked for to carry It through,’ were left undisturbed, the Comuittea tur- aishing another instance of straints ata guat aud swallowing a cancel. "Lhe bili-writer was uot to be left out on the / Inst day hefaw the recess, anda quartet of fresh oferings was fired off, ATAND UP TO TIE RACK—FOR TIO YEANS, Olwln, of Crawford, if he desires one thing more than another, is anxious to prevent and puntsh desertion on the part of the hus- band in case of marriage consequent upon a proceeding ti bastardy. ‘The way he goes atitis by a bill deelaring that whoever be- Ing an unmarried man, against whom bastardy proceeding ts ponding, and who shall seek to compromise tie tnpleasantness by marrying the young woman bn tho ease, andshalt desert her withontlegal cause histite of the nast two yenrs, shall be gullty of a uilsdemeanor, and fined fvaty sum not ex eveding $599, or Imprisoned in jall not to ex- ceed six months, or both, ‘There fs « meagre erumb af comfort, however, to tho roving and roystering blades of the country In an additional clause which provides that the net shall not apply to any ense where no such child was begotten at the time of the commencement of the proceedings, QASMETER INSPECTORS. TMotke, of Cook, proposes to compel gas- meter manufacturers, or repalrers of gage meters, ns well na mis companies, dots bust- ness in the State to have one or more sworn meter and gas Inspectors, Certificates are to he &ranted by the Judge or Clerk of any Cir- cutt Court of record, or hy the County Clerk jn the county where the company docs bus!- ness. ‘The etirions thing about the bith Is the power which It gives to. 8 company to revoke the certificate granted by a court “If sald in- speetor. should show any favor to the com- panies or persons in inspecting thelr grs- uceters.? Its tolerably safe te say that no gas or other company woull ever bounce 2 man for that reason. The only part of the bit whleh may be sald to be “real business * fy the section providing a pestalty for inspeet- Ing without being sworn, Every such violt- tion of tho act Js made a misdemeanor, pun- ishable by a fine of from $50 to $200, NLANGING MDOWELE, Tho same iawimaker proposes to help the Bureau of Labor Statistics acquire such Tn formation as it may desire, and for this pur- pose thinks that employers of every sort— corporations or persons—shoula he compelled to answer any and all of MeDowell’s aucs- tlong as fast ns they are propounded, ‘To that end the nforesaltl MeDowell is given the power to ndnunister onths and take testl mony, and the fellow who refuses to tell all he Knows Isto he brought up bya round turn and to. the tune of a fine of trom $5 to $20, Krom the concluding sectlon of the bitl, Tt would nypear that the Birean has not heen gelling all the stationery it wants during tho past two years. HEMOVING AN EYESONE, Pierson, of Greene, evidently believes the present State-House has existed us an eve sore Jong enotigh, anid wants an appropria. tion of $531,712 to complete the building and fmprove the grounds, provided a hunjority of nl the votes east at any general elec tion shall bein favorofit. ‘The job Is to be done by Commissioners, who are to “draw” at tho rate of Sha day for tha tlio actually en- ployed. In ease n majority of voters fail to approve the seteme, the question may be resubinitted at anv subsequent general ‘elec- tlon on the proclamation of the Governor, WANTS ’EM'TO COME INGH, Stowell, of Marshall, the intemperately- temperance man of the House, proposes to prohibit the issue of salvon-lieenses from and after the passage of lis DIL, untess the. ay plieant shill pay down “such sum of money, wot less than $500, ay shall be fixed by the authorities nuthorized to grant license by the laws of this State.”” JUSTICES OF THI PEACE, Parish, of Cook, called up nis bill to di- ylde Cook County Into two Justice-of-the- Penee Districts, one to consist of all that portion of Cook County fuside the City of Chicugo, and tho other of all that portlon ontslde the elty, ‘he bill was read a third tue, and its author brietly explained that it was Intended to reform the abuses In the ad- nuinistration of justice in Couk County by so dividing the county that a man living in Chi- eago wnst be sued in Chicago, tnd not dlrngged out. to sumvobseure place tive or ten alles away from home, to find, when he got there, that the case hid been decided agalnst him, As far ag the other countles li the State were coneerned, the dill would not af fect them in the feast, ench of them forming nlstriet by itself coextensive with the pres- ent county ine: Weber, of Cook, saw fit to renew his oppo- sition to the bil, but FOUND IT A LOSING GAME. A good muny members had come in since the House was first called to order, and 0 ood working mijorlty was now present. The bill was pub through, emergency clause and wh by a vote of yeus, 105; nays, 20. Keen, of Wayne, and Weber, of Cook, earned the dubious distinction of voting in tlie nega- tive. A Sennte bull providing for a sinking fund for Jogn! indebtedness was called buck from third reading, amended, and discussed for some thie, and finnlly lost te sight oma mo- tion by Hith, of MeLuan, to adjourn, ‘The iotion was lost by a vote of 63 to 25, and, a3 ust, the loudest-mouthed among the nega- tlves were the fellows who had their grip- sacks on thelrdesks and thelr overcoats on their backs ready to jutup for the noon-traln as soon as they had gone down on the record in good shape. Ono of these, the ministerlal Goodspeed, nade so apparent A BLUE of It that tho House broke Into a roar that he imust have heard even when he reached the itepot. farish, of Cook, Introduced a copy of senntor \vhite’s bill to abolish the Police and ‘g Department of eltivs of over 100,000 In- habitants anderente a Board of Polles and Vira Commissioners. Another abortive attempt was made to ad- Journ, and Yancey, of Macoupin, triedto per- pettate alittle sharp practice by eall Wy up iis motion to reconsider the vote by which Seuntor Needles’ annual assessment bill was reeallud to seeotd reading the other diay, Nhe Cook County Ineinbers, Who | propose to nt least amend the bil Te they don’t d ir, had nearly all started for home by this tlie, and the motion was shaply an attempt to enter a snap judgment on them, Carter, of Adis, protested against ft in the nane of fairness and decency, while the Rip) Van Winkle from | Pike County, “ullowed? that ifthe Cook County “fellers” Jind a DILL that was In danger they ought to have staid and looked after it, ‘Tho matter was diseussed at zreat length, untll chard: son, of Adis, moved tho previous question, IN AN UNFORTUNATE SOME the yens nnd nays were demanded, A call of the rofl showed no quorum voting, Herrington entered the usnal motion for a eal) of the Honse, and still no quortin voted, An attempt was uurde to send the Door keeper for ubsentecs, but It falied, ‘The members amused themselves for the next half-hour by throwing papers at one another, nutking and defeating motions to adjourn, and indulging thommselves zenerally In all the features of a lexislatlye clreus, Jou Mann perpetrated the only bit of real fun not unmixed with satire when he rose to a question of privilege, and. soleniniy asked to bu conducted by the Doorkeeper to the Treasnrer’s oive in order that hu might draw his pay,—ono of the yery highest privi- feges, he added, which tho members of tha Legislature enjoyed, ‘The House tool him up and granted, the request, Jy this time tha opponents af ud> journment had about worn themselves ott, and a motion to gull WHS pu and carried, The Howe aceordingly adjourned to meet noxt Wednesday afternoon ut 5 o'clock. NUNTING FOR PRAUD IN THE SHAPE OF RAILNOAD EXTORTION A DISCRIMINATION, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Sruxerueny, UL, April L—The MeWitl- Inmis Special Livestlention Comuittee got toxethur agaln this afternoon and lstened to. wcouple of witnesses from Paxton, Mh, in regard to ulleged extortions and diseriina- tion by the Mlnofs Central, ‘Phe euse ts ane of the bateh whlel have Inln on ite tn the Railroad and Warehouse Comuntssion offices for months, and the testimony was on a par with that already adduced In the other cases which the Comittee has been noshig ite, At the concluslon of the testhnony, Kop- resentative Youngblood, of Franktin, throws sort of bombshell Inte the cump by Informing the Committee thatif they did not proceed to investigate the Chicago Grain Inspection Departinent, as provided for In his amend- ment to the resolution creating the Com- mittee, ho should fire off uo resulttlon in the House next Mriday asking why they had NOT DONE THAT WHICH THEY WERE Al POINTED ‘TO DO. ; Gathering force and yehemencé as he went on, Mr. Youngblood observed that ho was prepared to show by men whose reputations coult not be auestloned that the grain In- spectlon al Chicago was an absolute robe bery. What he wanted the Comuilttee to do was to go to Chienga, of summon witnesses here, and tnvestigate the whole and, untess they did so before 10 proposed to see whether was any virtite fn the House ot not. verybody present, Republicans aud Dem- ernts, ab once asserted lls willingness to Zo ahead, and Mr. Youngblood was ealled upon to show his hand to the extent of naming one witness whom he wished to by called and esmuined, “Summon John WH. Oberly,” sald the gen: tleman from Franklin, “and Ef he doesn't disclose the most corrupt state of things In regard to the Chicngo grain-Inspection It will be because . RAS LIED TO ME.” Brad Durfee remarked that the genlleman hind antlelpated a resolution which he had Intended to offer, and which he now pro- duced, providing for an Investigation Into the gratu-inspeetion branch of thelr business, the first session to commence next Friday evening, with the Bloomington editor on the mek. "Pha resolution was apeedity adopted, and the Connnittee adjourned to meet at the thie indicated, when everything promises: that It will zetia now. and perhaps somewhat ox- tended lease of life. ‘After the Commities had adjourned, and Mr, Youngblood was indulging fn his usual temperance beverage,—lee-water, plalny—ho took ocension to remark that, unless Oberly stood up to the rack, fodder or no fodder, nnd substantiated all that he tind imparted to him some months ago, he should forthwith denounce the Bloomington quill-driver as A LINEAL DESCENDANT OF ANANIAS AND SAPPINIA, Just what those. confidential admissions were Mr, Youngblood refufed to state, but they are believed to have a very intlnate connection with a story telegraphed ‘Te Trmuxe nbout two months ago, Oberly was on the grout at that thne, and on one ocension, In consequence of a temporary disposition to talle more than was his wont, Js suld to have repeated several gauzy yarns in relation to alleged abuses of oiticial power fi eonnection with the Inspetton De- partment, One of thesy storles was that a certain brother-Comusissioner had ap. proached him during the last campaign and broached a proposition to withdraw 510,000 trom the Chicago graln-lnspection, office and deposit it in Sam Jones’ bank and lon tt out on the strength of a personal and wnseenred note of a very high aud now very ainbitlous Biante oillegey who was fustat that tine sald 0 be + IN NEED OF A LITTLE ODD CIANGE for eampaign funds, ‘lhe virtuous Oberly, of course, wouldn't have it, ant was there- upon informed, as he tells it, by the nfore- said brother” Commissioner that the offe wag only a bial, wy ways, that of cours Oberly would never take “hho up. and the proposition was inerely made to please some pady else, It is needless to state that this pretty tale has been denied from beginning toend. Oberly is also reported to have sidd that men were carried on the inspection ptysrolls for months. after they had heen . reported tu the Governor as boing engaged in gigantic schemes to blackmail the grain men of the entire North- west. Itissafe to say that this, too, will be met by a cordial invitation te Oberly to PRODUCE 113 FACTS OR 0 ASILONE. It is somewhat strange that Mr. Young- blood, who has a room nt the Leland, ne: door to where the MeWilliams' Committeg has been ineeting of Inte, has het himself in until now. ‘The Committee originally ine tended to go to Chicazo, and went as far as to set the day, ‘The livestigation In the Senate Railroad Commmitteo, however, fully covere the same — ground, and tha visit, «fo Chicago was therefore postponed, Had there been noth. ing more to Investigate thin tho eharges brought befere the Senate Commit- tecs, It is hardly probable, ns things turned out, that they ever would have gone, for the reason that no iuvestlzation could be more thorough than that conducted on the Senate side, and todo the same work over again would merely have subjected the Com- inittee to the eriticlsin that they wero ch- deavoring to prolong thelr official existence, Butnow, when & Democrat of the stealehtest seet presents charges, Indefinit though they are, against A SET OF REPUBLICAN OFFICEHOLDERS 1N CHICAGO, and calls upon a brother Democrat,who has enjoyed a fat position and a goad salary un- der a Republican Adimintstration for years, to do the swearing, the Repudlican members Of the Committee at least propose to give this self-constituted presecutlngattoriey. all the rope he wants. Whether he and his wit- ness WHI hang themselves remains to le sven. Various theorles are rife ag to the ineaning of this sudden ontburst of pitriot- Isov_on the part of Mr, Youngblood. Ong faction Inststs that Ober! is In possession of facts damaging to the Grain Lispection De- part of Chleant which hes willing to dis- ¢lose under hilgh pressure, ‘This is the Youngblood statement, pure and shuple, * Oberly himself, through tho columns of the Bloomington Bladder, has more than once of tite Inthnated that he knew something ubou CERTAIN UNDUE INFLUENCES alleged to have been oxerted during the Inte Senate investigation, and that an investiga tlon of the Senate Investigators themsclyes would not be ont of order, On the other hand, Tt is Insisted that Oberly: bas been enught bhatt, with no pair In his hand, as an Egypttan remarked to-day, and having, thrown mud ali over every- vody, abused his _ fellow-Democrats nnd’ Republleans alike, that) he must now come to the front and dis eloso the faets, If amy there be, which inspired hin in, his assaults upon hls friends and foes, but particularly iis, pollt- feat triends, In other words, lils editorials will be read to him, and he will be entled upon te show his hand and take his mec. che, A.story as ethereal as n fairy tale abtalng credence in this connection. As this yarn goes, a cortain raltroad magnate who iils a Presidential ohalr in Chleago entna to this city before Robertson's contirmation for tho purpose of protestlag ngalnst changes in the rates of hls road ordered by the Bourd of Rallway Connutssloners. ‘Fliese arbitrary requirements were, hesald, tn ylolation of A PRIVATE UNDERSTANDING WITIL THE BOATD, Ho was then interrogated as to tha wnder- standing referred to, “Ln response he coolly praduved a letter from his pocket and read about halt of It, whieh went to show that an arrangmment had been effected by the terms the railroad fn question wits not to fered with ao far ns that Bowrd was concerned, ‘The reading of a portion of the inlssive brought the two Commissioners pres- ent. to thelr fect in an instant, und they forthwith Informed the reelplent of the let- ter that thoy were maklng no arrangements whth any one, and that ho must be the vle- thn of misplaced confidence, In conclusion, they sat down on the Chicago raiiroad man, nnd in the most emphaths manner denounced the supposed writer, with whom it is suid that Oberly Is duthinately acquualnted, Be all this na it may, Ht would apnoar that Oberly has put his foot In dt—has been a little too brash, in other words,—and must answer to his outraged friends for the fun he tus been: having with them In the Bladder, CRUMBS. NON-ENFORCEMENT HARTISON, Speelat Miapatch to The Chicage Tribune Spriavint.y, UL, April 1—The rapidity with whieh Senutor White's BIL to abolish the Fire and Vollee Departuents in cities of over 100,000 Inhabitants, and substitute State Boards of Fire and Potlce Commissioners, has beon advanced to third reading in the Senate Isa sufticiont indication of the pre- yailing sentient in that body that oven the Police Board system would bo vustly prefer- able ta Non-Enfurcement Harrison's admin- istration of the Jaw in cage Chicaxo should by Intlicted with him for another term. ‘The introduction of the biilin tho House to-«lay by Parish, of Cool, 's shuply anothor spoke in the wheel whieh will ride over and crush to tho carth the Justrument responsible for THE AMAMELESS CONDUCT OF THINGS under Non-Enforcement Harrison's adminis- tratlon of the lawin Chicago. Inthe ndw tmprebable oyent of Harrison's redlection,— atleast It fs so regarded in this fatitude,— there fy no doubt whatever that the bill will be pushed in both Houses and become a law in Uine to set a salutary check on te career of crime which, under the non-enforcement of Harrison, has stalked abroad tun c which should he the pride of | the State, Nothing very defini “has been heard In regard ~ to. the probable attitude of Carter's “peelors’? Tn the ap. pronching election, but. the provalllng iu pression Is that they will sce the polut, keep their hands off, rennin strietly neutral, ane stow the election to preceed without bitime ilation on behalt of their **1oss.’” THK EXODUS whieh sot in tast night and was renewed to- day was econetuded to-night, For the next four or five days tha town Will by ehielly res markablo for its dearth of statesinen, aud ita sleepy inhabitants will give themselves ip to their own nfairs, unlampered by tho thought that anybody cares what they doe. ‘Tho State "Printer will set. ltis presses flying, ant the crop of newty-printed bills which will greet the law-ninkers of tho sec~ ond House on their retara will bo something immense, ‘The Legislature will be closed for nearly a week, but, ff tho perennial bill- writer rises to the full hight of the opportu nity,—and he generally does,—the capacious hoppers will be CHOKED WITH ANOTITER POWERFUL GRIST of new attompts to tinker, the “atatoats” and reguinte all manner of things by the tine the Speaker's gavel descends nuain in the Jlouse andthe Presidentot ty Senile frowns that body inte Into {ty customary deeorun, ‘The people will breathe r ditring the he furim, anc. the pay will rum on all the same, ‘Keng, the farmer Will have to settle the bits, but they would have to do that any wity, whether the Iawmak ‘e mnalcing mis chief forthe State generally, or, ag most of then -propose to do, merely nelle for fae days Inctheir small political worlds at OTIC, THE CAVE OF ADELSBERG. An Underground Wonder of Southern Austvin-The Wetrd Imagery of Its Maze of Dark Gallerlen—Magtc Chante bers of the Subterranean Worli— Stalnetites of Unequaled Splendor and Caverns of Untsnown Depth, SNNA, March 1.—-At Inst Lintve letsure to deserlbe, so fur as any description Is posst- ble, my gilmpse of the solitary natural won- der which Southern Austria can boast—vlz + the stalaetite cave of Adelsberg. A night- mare of Milan Cathedral turned upside down, ora glance at Gustave Doré’s gtiostly yision of tha "frozen circle” of the Inferno, would convey a clearer iden of It than whole pages of high-flown word-patnting, Though it possesses neither tho mighty expanse of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, nor the del- leate beauty of: the Bue Grotto at Capri, every part of It Is fled with a stern and gloomy grander whieh is indeseribably in- pressive, As carly as your first starting from "Trieste the enchantinent begins. Curve nfter curve you whid your way Into the heart of the lonely mountains; up, up, as if sealing the very sky, till after an hour of ceaseless movement you look down to find yourself still close above tho town, as if spell-bound, At length wo pass thestation ot St. Peter's, pasted like 9 postage-sthmp on the face of & huge Black precipice, rattle down into a quiet Httle Rip Vau Winkle kind of valley, and halt at 0 tiny red-roofed village of the genuine German type, which seems to have walked bodily out of one of Moritz Retzseh’s wonderful etehings. ‘hig Is the Village of Adelsberg, and just above It rises the “ Adols-Berie’” (noble’s mountain) Itself, crowned with the ruins of its anclent castle, from whieh, iu the grim days when might was right, some brawny robber-Baron, equally proud of fils ignorance of the alfavet and his power of swilling wine by tha pall- full, was wont to sally forth and murder any: quiet {udustrious folk who were base enough to exist within reach, after tho fashion of those “good old thies” which some people ave so fond of rezretting. Just belind the elbow of the castle rock & narrow yalley, or rather gorge, strikes off Into the mountalns, ending suddenly in a towering mass of gray elif. Inthe face of this cliff yawns a huge black tunnel, from whicl a foaming torrent comes plunglog dn a series of frantic Joaps, as if flyin hentl- long from the terrors of the subterranean world to the choery light ot day, ‘Ths tun- nel is the entrance of tho famous grotto itself, aud tho torrent that issues from It 1s oe, Poik, the rlyer which has hollowed It out. Jn tho presence of this splendid freak of nature it ls somewhat disenchuntiig to find that the whole thing has been reduced to a system, and that you are confronted by 2 neat little wooden bureau, where dt courteous old gentleman meets you with an inquiry as to “Which kind of Hitmination you wish to order.” Seelng your puzzled look, he pro- ceeds to explain that when any visitor wishes to make the tour of this tnderground innze Itls the custom to light inp for his especial bencilt, the cost of the iumination bdelng regulated according to his cholew of bine’ Hehts, stearine candles, or ordinary tallow “dips.” You selvet the second as happy medium, and haying reectved the oll gentlemma’s assurance that ‘all shall be rendy In one hour,” retire to bexulle the thne with a substantial linch at the one tin whieh tho little hamlet possesses, while your” sinock-frocked misslonnriss are carrylng thelr stearing Hgitinto the dark places of the earth. Your first step within the great archway of the rock tunnel brings you at once into a new work. You, find youself beneath a> natural dome of vast hight and cnorimots ex- tent, sinid the black fmimensity of which a few lights twinkle faintly here and there, Shruwiite Into shadowy and spectral re ok the mighty arches, and binek, massive pil- jors. tid damp, aiistening walls of this great cathedral of Nature, Just below you the furlong river gous tearing and foaming down Its dark, narrow channel on tts way to the outer world, while above stair aftr stalr of rock-cut steps winds slantwiso up the free of the cl, melting at length Inte the utter darkness ‘that fills tho depths boyond, ‘This sudden change from the brightness of noonday to the blackness of everlasting night, from the cheery bustle of village lite to the silence and Joneliness of tis tre- inenduus sepulehre, has in ft something Inde- serlbably weird and unearthly, while tho hot low roar of thu Styginn stremn below, the ghostly gllinmer ot tts half-seen waters, the indghity voit of the sunless cavern, which lgaks all the vaster for these Uny specks of Ueht which -stragele In vali tralnst the gloom of this shadow of death, nll combine fo overwhelm one with a sense of measure. Jess power and yastiess, before whieh tho boldest man feels helpless as a new-born f But my guide, a hard-headed Ger- man of an eminently practical turnof mind, las no, tine to waste upon such fan- tastes. ‘To him this world of gloom and terror is merely « fimniliar place of bust- hess, where he hus tu xo through a cortaln quantity of work, and to receive a certain aunt of money for it, Shouting a lusty Kom init mir, Herr!” ho flourishes over his head a kind of pltehfork with a candle in enel prong, suggestive of the thining tridents carried by the demons ina Christinas panto- nilme, and leads the way gallantly up the breakneek stale above described. And then, for more than mt hour to come, all the wonders of the nether world—woenders sur- peveing the welrdest hnaginings of Virgil or Jante—unrojl themselves before me. in end: less range. Mile after mite we march slung alin Literminable galleries, through the dead sllence of which our steps echo with unnat ural loudness, while the Hite ring of palo Nuht that encircles us, hemmed in on every side by the blackness of oa dark- ness which muy be felt, gives us tho look of two wizards prowllng through a burlatvault at imidnight by the pleas at anenchanted taper, And, dn truth, there fs an aspect of onchantment upon ath that our light reveals, On every slide of us, from walls, and roof, and fluor, start out ut each step, only to vanish aguin Instantly, all the fou! I funtustes of an arehitectire iMere wild and wonderful than that which the haunted founder of Cologne Cathedral saw in bis fevered vision, Carved battlements, wide-mouthed gurgoyles, slender Moorlsh columus, sculptured cupltals, grim, low- browei trehes, fretted roofs, sombre Gothic gateways, intertwined —spirads, massive pillars festooned with cypress or palm leave: tombelike crypis, vaulted galleries, gran cathedral-like domes, colossal chandeliers of cold white stone, glittering diamond-like with countless drops of water, follow each other without order and without end, ‘To these succeed other and wildur freaks of natural sculptures, Heads of men und boasts, fantastically intertwined, grin hid eously at us through =the subter- ranean twilight. ‘Tigers thrust for- ward thelr gapimg jaws, Serpents rise wenuelngly from “the floor In glean Ing cous. Shadowy monsters, with grisly half-luman faces, seem to Rush and glbber at us frow thelr gloomy nooks, Huge, black, distorted aris, issuing from dark rock-clefts, clutel at us as we poss. Ghastly faces, pet- rifie yan nt ug from tha damp, slimy floor, seeming te writhe themselves Into fresh convilslons 13 the fitfal Hight falls upon them, "Tho effect ofall this phantasmagorla of farfous life, without motion or sound, frozen ns tt werd in the very light of its fren and shut up forever in this dark, silent prison deep down beneath tho earth, Is beyond the payer of words to deseribe, Suddenly a broad glare of light dazzles our eyes, nnd we emerge from these gloomy entite combs por a surcious chamber, smooth) paved and well-lizhted, on one side of whieh sakind of stand suggestive of a band of music, who on the other appears a large hooth, whleh, though now closed and bolted, Is unmistakably a retreshment bars My guiae grins fram ear to ear at my Jook of amazement, and proceeds to explain that this spaco hag been cleared for a danetiy- oor, And that these subtermmean balls are ag well attended and quite as merry upper earth, “When the Emperor was here lust yeur,” hia continued, “we liad as many people here ng the place would hold, and wo lighted It with colored amps, and huni wreaths and gitt hangings all round, and lad the military band over from the town, and a Jot of alticers in grand untforins, tl the plies looked Just like one of those falry palnees In Grimms starles.” | My worthy pilot caps tha effeet of all this Information by pointing with an alrof triumph toa lowe-wheeled: track standing upon iron rails— veritable subters ranean franeear, with a raitroad of its owt on tho further side of the underground: ball- room, and informing me intone of undis- gulsed exultation that they lave now more than two niles of line ald down, and that lnilies whose st lis not equal to making the tour of the eavern on foot are trundted through it upon these. novel conveyanecs, lke baggage wheeled ina hand-cart Leaving the ballroom, we turn suddenly off te the left and move tpward along a steep, narrow ledge, over the low hind-rail of while we lool: down Intoa fathorless gulf of black ness, suchas Dante and Virgil gazed into from the winding path which traversed the aine eireles of the Inferno, Far down inthe eternal darkness we enn hear the ghostly drip of unseen water, falling, falling for- ever, and building up lich © by Inch, through countless ages, new portions of this great temple of the night, All at once the dim ight of our eandle is eclipsed as any upon the by a brigifter’ gleam, and a vust white mings, seetlugly suspended in anld-alr, starts suddenly out of the gloum, glittering, twink Ing, sparkling lke a thousand stars in one, It fsa monster sulactite, at least forty feet In length by more than twenty In thickness, ig shapo fs thatof a gigantic enr-drop, the Upper. part being pure white, while the countless drops of, water which hang trembling from the clustering spires of the lower portion sparkle into one large rainbow ag the Ught falls upon them, Mliiging far Into the depth of the Sv erlang night a blaze of many-colored splendor, How many thou- sands of years has this wonderful prisin been growing to perfection, drop by drop, and yet it }s only one out of the infintt num ber Which stood thls strange labyrinth for miles upon miles. Indeed, it Is more than probable that the most mugniticent secrets of the Adelsberg Grotto nre still unseen by line mat oye; for it was a mere chance which betrayed the hollowness of the rol wt the ond of the first gallery, and tempted the dis coverers to break through it into the world of wonders beyond. From the subliing to the ridiculous, as usual, there Is but ono step. All in & moment we plunge right ini the most pertect counterfelt of om rene war haneand-beef shop, with all its nrecessories complete. Huge succulent haw rich sides of streaky bacon, pendent ni Inces of unctuous satisages, b ey ruddy, sub- stantial rounds of corned beef, surround us onmavery side. What A naguilicent penance ffor some gormanizing. Franciscan friar, convicted of having eaten tesh during Lent, tobe shut up here for a day or two in the nidst of all these visionary duintles, whose: stony surface would defy hls teeth while their delusive richness attracted ils eyest The next instant tha seene changes again, and we are standing amid the fluted columns of anancient temple, whose mngsive roof bends over us ina perfect grove uf splendid natural earving, such a3 ne sculptoron sari, could linitate. Over a recess fn the far end of it hangs a spotless white curtain with deep crimson bord forty-tive feeb in length, So transpnrent fs It that the Hght of the cnndie can be phunly seen Unrongh the thickest part, and it requires: the evidence of netttal touch te assure me that this marvelous tapestry Js really stone like the rest. From behind it, as if the lastof the muses. still Hagered here uns comes asoftstraln of mmusie, falnt and sweet as an Aollan harp; but It is only the echo of, ottr tread, reverbe- rated from the hollow within, ‘And now, from the depths of this tremen- doug solitude, we burst all ut once into what appenrs at first sight a scenaoft busy and pebulgts Ife. inn wide amplithentre of irregular shane cluster toxctherseveral scores of human figures, In stich deceptively per- fect attidudes of fe aud motion that at the first. glimpse [t is absolutely Impossible ta realize that they are nothing more than statues. ‘Turbaunel Arabs, hooded monks, helmeted men-at-arms, yelled tndles with, trailing dresses, durk-robed counellors, aud rlehiy-attired lackeys crowd arownd thomas: sive throne that projects from the rock above them, upon whieh Itnecds Jittle strotch of Taney to Inge some glint monarch of the elder workd inall his terrors, But right in the midst of the obscuulousthrong rises from the earth a colossal hand Carger by far thin many of the surrounding figures), with the forefinger poluting solely upward, as Lf to remind these fawn irtlers af Wim be- fore whom the mightiest Kings of carth are as nothing. A But the most startitng talileauot all is still tocome. One stride through tho mnugnifl- cent siiteway that opens before us, and wo pas nt once Into tho sternest solltudes of the Polar Sea, Huge lee columns shoot up toa measureless higheon every side, fusing theme selves at length in the spectral gloom over- head. Ice grottoes, pillnred, vaulted, fret. ted, sculptured Into every extravagnice of fantastic architecture, riso around usin all thelr chill and tifeless boauty, flied with the damp and suniess coldness of the grave, Vasteaverns, curtained with mighty pend ants of solld feo, yawn, tomb-like, on every side, Ice. temples, glittering In all) the splendor ot an adornment which the wtnost efforts of lnuman skill can but feebly initiate, blaze before tig as tho tight catches thom, In one ralnbow of emeralds, sapphires, ribles, diamonds, ike ‘the enchanted paliees ot Arabian legend. Stender streams, freez- ing as they fall, hung veils of sliver giuze over the mysteries of this sanctuary of eternal silence. And that nothing nay bo wanting to complete this wonderful pan: orama, we suddenly espy beneath the eontral arch a shadowy mass Int which the gleam of our guide's candle reveals the next moment tho huge unwieldy body, short, massive Junbs, sharp, arrow muzzle, and snitll, etn ning, cruel oyes of the polar bear, Nor@locs tlis lifeless: palnee Inck inhabitants of Its own kind, Allaleng elther side of the black tunnel-tike cavern Inte whieh. the river dis- appears, and which, ng the guide tells mo in a ghostly whisper, no one has ever yet dared to penetrate, start suddenly out of the gloom along tne of Unearthly figures, tall, white, spectral, swathed in shrouds of fee, yet still retaining just suficlent Nkeness to the human form to make them doubly ghastly, ‘There they stand, dead sentinels at the gate of death, defending nguinst man’s presuinp- tron what the eye of man must never ses, Sueh a spectacio is a itting ellmax to this Tong march through the world of shadows, and it Is not without a seerct feeling of rellet that we attongth turn away from it, and bog to rejrace our steps toward the upper alr, ——— MINING, Cuarraxooaa, ‘Tenn, April 1L.gA mining compuny from Kentucky, whic® recently leased tho Locke County (Rast ‘Tennesseo) gold mines on Wolf Creck, has begun the construction of buildings and apparatus nee- essary to suecessful gold digging, ‘fhe gen- tleumen comprising the Company manifest confidence In the success of the undertakiig, and hove gone to work In good carnest. 'Vhore bs no question of the presence of gold in that vielnity, but In what quantity the ex-. perlinent alone can tell, MILWAUKEE, April ,—Dlspatehes received to-day from San Juan country state that in Hed Cloud ming a velu of silver ore tive feet through had been struck. Angus Smith and William Young, of Milwaukee, ure the principal owners. ———__- ARCHAOLOGICAL, LEAVENWouti, Kus. April 1,—The Leav- enworth Standard will to-day publish an account of one of the most remarkable and interesting archwological discoveries over made in the West, Iris tho sight of an on- client fortification, supposed to have been built by a purty’of Spaniards who. yisited this region some 300 years uge, ‘Tho fort is ong high point of land on the banks of the Missourt liver ten miles south of Leaven- worth City. Jt covers an area of ubout twen- ty ueres, and consists of the evident remains of redoubts, bastions, and riile-pits, ng ds covery excites great Interest throughout thy a IE COUR Trouble Among the Mombers of an Italian Benevolent So- ciety. A Donatton of $4.00 to a Catholic Chureh that Is to Be Con- tested, Businoss Firms Sued by the Proprie- : tors of a Patent Elevator x Brake. Tho Enrly-Storey Caso Ended by 9 Vere let for $500 In Favor of tho Plaintl! Mr, E. M. Haines Roplies Pointedly to the Insinuntions of Re- coiver Turpin, AN ITALIAN QUARREL ADIN was fled gesterday In the Clreutt Court by A. Capron G. Cella, B.A, Corvini, A. eppeto, and It. Valentine ngainst Jolin Garabaldl, G. By Cuneo, G. I Lagumorsino, Antonio Aritty, Angelo Lavezzl, Stefino Cassola, Austin Moritt, and Sastenues Moretti, to prevent them froin Approprinttyg $100 of a trust fund. Complutne ants suy that they are members of a voluntary asgoolation known na the "Cassa del Fondi dio Funeral,” tho solo object of whieh fs by volun- tary contributions to accumulate a fyi for ave uring ducent Christinn burialte any of thelr countrymen who dio iu -poverty ‘in Cook County, On the Ith? of March Inet, Gurlbaltl, the President af the Association, togethor with the Scerotury, G. 3. Lagomorsino, and Cunce and othors,formed thomselves into at consmiittes umtsent out iw elrenlar toa fow of tho memburs of the Assoeiton, culling a meet- ing for the ostensible purpose of electing now olllwers tnd having a statement rendered of the finaneis! condition of the Soclety, ‘The come atuints ore also members of a Trotestant ‘oulety known as the * Unione o Featettanza, and wishing to nttend a+ session of the latter to ‘be neld at tho very hour of the called mecting thoy contented thomselves with gending 0 protest to Gavabaldt asking hin to defer any: action until they could be present, Tho Gare bald purty, howaver, met, redlucted Cineo ‘Treastrerand then pa: o tone Tabla cuthole cl here. Compluinnnts, on tere hearlng of this, sent 0 efreulur to all the members of tho Ageuclution culling a mecting to ve held Saturday, Maret 27, in Greenetaum’s Hall, At that meeting those present showud that thoy strongly «disilked the project of diverting $0 froin tho Faneral Fund toglve It to a Catholic chureh, and complains tos were appoloted a comuittys to tike Buch steps ity might be necesrury to prevent tho teso- hitlon of donation from being carried out, In puUrsinnes oO AUCH Appointment they fled the present DHL und nssert that tho Funernt Fund above mentioned waa trast: fund which could not bediverted froin tho use to which It wits get apart. ‘Chat the pretended ace tion of tho defendants. In passing a donation to give $4100 to a chureh was beyond their power and vold, und should not be carricd out. They therefore ask for an injuuction to prevent tho Treagnrer, Cuneo, trom paying the nancy overs that If it hns been pai, the priests Morint and Morettl, who received it, nay bo compelled to rephy it; nud that, if necessary, a Rucolver may he appoluted to tiko charge of the books aud funds of tho Association, TILE OTIS BRAKE, ‘Tho Smith, Begys & Ranken MuchIne Company yesterday fled four bills In the United States Cireutt Court ngatnst C. W. & E. Pardridgo, J. V. Farwell & Co., Gnxe ros, & Co. and C. B. Blair & Co, to prevent thon from: using a patent brake. The eomplalmants any that on Oct. 18, 1864, Charles L. Otis procured n patent for an improvement in brakes of holsting apparntus, On Muy 16 following Otls obtained a (patent for an fmprovemont in steant-hofst- Ing apprtratuy, and complainants have sluice bought the oxclusive rizht to use those two pat- ents In the Stites of Wisconsin, Minnesatn, [tll- nols, fowa, Indinun, Missourl, Arkansas, Loulst- ana, Nebraska, Kansas, Toxas, and Mississippi, u Montanu, the elt. 1 sy and all 0 Ter fes of Ciueiinati, O. counties In Tonnesseo and Ki y which border on tho Misslasipp! River. ‘The valldity of theso patents was contested In 188, and Judge Treat dellyered av decision oldie ‘thoi to be valli. It $8 charged that the dorentlants haye been unlawfully ual holeting machines or elo- yutors Involving. these patents, and complains fnisavk for an induction to provent a furchor uso of thom, and for un nucounting of profits. THE EARLY-STOREY TRIAL. The Ubel suitof Allco Early, now Mrs. 8im- mons, ngalnst Wilbur F. Storey, whieh wis 0:1 trint Thursday before Judge Rogers, was ended yesterday morning. Tho cage went tothe jury about 3 o'elod! puradiy afternoon, and yestor- day morning thoy returned a verdlet in fuyor of tho plaluttt, fixing the damages at tho sum of $500, Tho engo, it wlll bo remembered, was tried some thres years no, and resulted Ina verdict for $1400 “In favor of Miss. Barly, which, after two hearings, was reversed in tho Supreme Court, on tho ground of noneadmis- sion of certain ev ec, and wns Bent buck for another trial After the verdict was rend, i Motlon for now trial was mide by plalnthit's counsel, whieh wilt probably be argued Saturday: next. [tis underatood that on tho first: ballot the Jury stuod: Guilty, 43 not guilty, 8. Of the four, ono assessed ‘the dumages at $25,000, ani the other three at, $5,000, Tho verdict wus regarded as a Victory for tho defendant, PROBATE COURT. In the mattor of the estate of Charics 8 Win- ter ut ul, mlnory, letters of guardianship of the estuto were fasued to Ellon 3. Winter, under bond for $5,000, In the mutter of the estate of Henry Rettfors, deccased, letters of administration wero issued to Willlaty Mudiucy, ander bond for €24K0), In tho matter uf the estate of Mary Jb, Fair. bairn, et nl, minors, letters of guardianship of tho estate ware issued to ‘Thomas H, Mond, une dor bond far $3,000. —__ CRIMINAL COURT, James Powers was found gullty of robbery, and given one yenr In tho Ponttontlary. dames Dolly and Jumes Leonard vlented guilty to Inreony, and wero glvon alx months tieh in the House of Correction, ‘Phomus Carrigan plended gallty to Inreeny, cri wae given eighteen inonths f the Ponltun> tines. dtimes Morrlssoy was sent to tho Houso of Cor- roction for six months for larceny. John Jones, convicted of bursiury somo days ngo aud ylvon twelve yenrs In tho Pouttentiury, was granted a now trinl, whereupon he cntered A ploy of guilty and was sentenced to four youre, HAINES LO TURPIN, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Crtcaue, April L—In Tie PRinuny of to-day Tnotice an abstract of the answer of Virglnlus A. Turpin, Revolver of the estate of the Fidelity Savings Bunk, to tho potition of soveral eredit- ors praying for tho removal of sald Turpin os euch Recelver on account of alleged fraud und tufamanagement of sald estate; in which ho tnkva oceneion to assert that * this wholo uttuck on him fg inutigated by E. W. Haines, who ts largely indebted to tho bank," ete, This hae been tho standing plen of this man atevery timo he bas been called to account for bia mls- deals In regard to thls estate. Tf tho creditors will accept thls plea as Bullicient for the losses tt appenra thoy have sustuined fron miswan- agement, itis not for me to complasie ‘The tacts Ape diat Chold the obligation of eald bank for $24,000, with a irye amount of accrued Interest, ‘Tho bank also owes mo on nnothor trausuetion $21,0U0, und 16 further indettud to me ina large sum for profesional sorvices, Something over threo yours ago, on leave of Court, Leommenced suit ugninat sald Itecolverto recover the amount due nu from the bang whieh Thuve ever since Leen aillgently proscauting: puting the vexutious delays of sald Turpin, amd which tg stl undetermin jt 18 tre that pin thereafter conunencer noylny me by jouia susts, the subject of whic was all ems brneed in my original sult, Pho fuct Is, tho bank owes me a large sum of muney, whieb [f L live to the aye ustially allotted to a tnan of good hubits t oy iiet in thine to recover, bam, theres foro, n oreditor of this bank, and us such am tte torested fn common with other creditors as to tho management of Its assets: but, go far as tho proceeding for the remoyal of sald Recelyer 1a concerned, It43 proper thut I should gay that my nume not only docs not uppear in the ease, but L neither instigated it nor caused itto be inate tuted, nor have Thad any conference with the petitioning creditors on the subjects and tho charges of sald Turpin to the effect thut fam iiproperly meddling tn other people'é luwsults Ja without nny foundation whutever. Tut, cons ceding bid chirges ba this regard to be true, it is dijHeult to sve how that can be maddy to avall tn the case made against him for mismanngemont of thls estate, nor dogs tt serve to nccount for the lurge dutleit which appears ta exixy ta the assets of thia bunk, EOL Haines. ITEMS, ‘Tho Courts will all udJourn Tucsday, but the clerk's ollices with be opan as usuul. Judyo Mlodgett will probably not bo in court at all nuxt week, Judge Authony will go to the Criminal Court udve Sleran. Wedaesduy to rellove Judge Dyer wag in the clty foutonday. and sat with dudgo Drummond to hear tho pute vut caso of Singer Bocking-Coulr Cou pany against the Tohoy Manufacturing Com. pany. TH appenred, howeyor, that tho fearing Would wecupy several days, and Judge Druin: fond nett he abal anh enD ro the time at present oleae it. ‘Tho trial, therefore, wns postpon indednitly, poston ——— DIVORCES, Loulsn Becker Med a bil yesterday agains, her husband, Julius Neokor, waking for adlvorce an the ground of desertion, Iaoy Morrow asteed fora shinilardecreoagalne Willtan Morrow on nevount of hla cruelty und desertion, And Nelile Tatdwin wants to be retorsed from her obtications ta Nath W, dinkdivin, be huys dug left her very unevremontousty In 1870, STATE COURTS, Filiza A. Temply commenced n sult In treapaeg yesterday agiinat tho Chicago & Enstern Hiltioty Railway Company, the Chiengo & Grand Trunk Rallway Company, tho Chleago & Western Thal. ana Ratlroad Company, and tho Wabash & Pacitio Rullroad Company, to recover $10,000 damages for laying tracks and running traingon Wallacg street past. her premises, Mary €, Price began n entt for $10,000 damages Against the City of Chieaxo, James 2, Root broughe sult ngainat tho Clty of Stent to recover. $2,600 for legal services in 0. itonert 8. trespass. a Byes wt $2y) Perrinn commenced an action In it Henry 8. Austin, luying duine TUR CALL 'TO-DAY. duper Drtasosp- Firat National Bank duce Boonaerr—No court, dupar GAny—Motlons. Junor. Ssiti—Poremptory call of motlons for now trials In Nos, 2,098 and 2,708, Juvan WILGTAMBON—Motions, ‘unan JAMesoN—Divorce cases. Jupoe Gartpnen—Divorce casos. dupos Roaens—Mottons for new trial, toiho Celminal Goutt Mondays nn © Hole Jungs TuLky—Divoreo cises, BA At, 258, U7, 40, andi 20 ts 28015 ea, TIT CALL MONDAY. Jonge Drusmoxy—Motlon for new trial in Butler vs, Van Arman. Jupar Broparrr—No court. Jupor Gany—Motions only, No court Tuese day. Call Wednesday—i52, 458, 460, 403, 403, 475, ae 477, 170, £80, 481, 406, 600 to GW. No case on tein ¢ UDA SMITH Ne ‘ollimtnary call. ‘Trint call 2,000, 2,070, 2,070, 2,082, 2,001, No ease on trint. Jupan WinttaMson—Motlons, dupae Jampsox--Contestud motions, Apa GARpSER—Contosted motions. Jungs Rooens—vsh, 885, id, 387, 001,395, No extsy ou tril, Junay ANTHONY—A sot caso. No call of tho calendar, dupa: Tueny—Contested motions, dupng Barnust—Cont d motions. dupan Loowis—Nos, i, 118, S87, 1,849, Pact 1,018, 1,124, 1,178, 1,183, 1,200, 1208, 1,210, SUDUGMENTS. Surenron Count — Conresstons — Harry Byrne, use, ote, vs, George L. Murchle, $13.— Wiiltain 1..Smtth ya. Joun Yunker, $78.75, Cincurt Court—Jupan Roarns—Alico Early va. Wilbur B. Story; vordlot, $500, and motion for now trhul by plainth?.—Rushton Foster ys. Wile kon Sewing-Maching Company, §542,70.—H Denis ys. Same, $8ll. ne i es HOOSIER ENTERPRISE. As Shown by tho Organization of New Schemes—Tho National Marriage aud Dowry Aasuclation—A Narrow-Gauze Jeallroad—A Coal und Rallway Come pany—Eloectric Lightlng —-A Miniag Company. Spectal Dispatch to The Cheago Tribune, Inpranarouis, Ind, April 1.—Articles of assovintion were filed yesterday in the fnter- est of pure and undefiled religion, and to- day the Secretary of State received tho artictes of tho Natlonal Marriage and Dowry Association of Unton City, Its object being “to endow homes and give financial ald to young mon and women at tho commence: ment of married life, 10 encourage economy, turlft, and beneficial accumulations, to wake married life. tha end and aim of rich and poor alike, and to promote other charitable and beneflelat acts among its certificate holders.” It proposes to secumulate a fund for the mutual benellt of those who contribute to it, and from the con tributions. before anarriage «to ennble the Assoclation to bestow a dowry upon per sonsatimarringe. ‘Phe shares aro thirty, of $25 each, ‘The members are Sainuel KH. Bell, James B. Ross, C. W. Teree, Jr, Joseph I, Jackson, G, W. Plerce, Sr, and G. Reynolds, all of Union City, 'The ‘Verro Haute & Merom Ratlroad Com- pany filed artictes for the construction of a narrow-gauge road from ‘Terre Hnayte to Merom, Sultlvan County, 9 distance of thirty-five miles. ‘Phe Directors aro Menry 'T, Marper, ‘Thomas J. Cushman, Henry D. Shideler, David W. Latr, George W. Hanehett, Wiltlam M, Johnson, and Williaa E, Ward, all of Meron, ‘The Lndlany Coat & Rallway Company also filed its articles, If proposes to buttd a rail road from Terre Haute, through the Coun tles of Vigo, Clay, Owen, Monroe, Brown, and Bartholomew, to Columbus, In the fatter county, ndlstance of elghty miles, ‘The Di rectors are George W. Stanton, LN. Hudson, Charles Tales, 1 F. Clark, Arthur Hotnics, GP. Chapman, and A, D, Melitck, and. the enpital stoek 18 placed wt $1,500,000, Other articles were fled by the Electra Lighting and Gas-Heating and laminating Company of South Sond, with a capital stock of $59,000, and by the Superlor Gold, Silver and Copper Minhng Company, with a capital stuck of 000, It is composed of eltizens of Vanderburg County, and is formed for the working of mines In Grant County, New Mexico, —— To the reseuo with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar before the baby atrangles with croup. Pitg's Toothacho Urops etre In one minute, BAKING POWDER, Te Oe exe from Mrofessur diorefurda’ Acid Recommended by leading physicians. Makes Nghter biscult, caken, ete. and Ja healthler than ordinary Baking vows ‘And Phosph CTs Yivcans. Sold at a reasonable price. Tho Horsford Aimanag ava Cook book sent free. Rumford Chemical Worka, Proviaenco, R. E BED-LOUNGE, Woven Wire Bed Lounge, Upholstered in any style, Woven Wire Mattress Bed. 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