Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1881, Page 11

1HE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1881—SIX' @ecovery of the Beourities Bupposed to Have Boen Btolen from Capt. Bhepard’s Safo. Rates to De Firmly Maintained and Cargo Rates Cut nnd Slashods * gall lsoouraging Advicos Conoerning the Too o and Navigation Prospeocta on % Loko Huron §irst Chicago Cloarances—Capl, Whiltaker’s Inventlons—Local Joltings and Gen« oral Notes, * SIEPARD'S TREASURE FOUND. On Wednusdny Bufalo deteotives succoeded In finding tho sacuritics belonging to tho Into Capt. Orson Shepard, of Tonawnnda. Thoy sourched tho Shepard residenco: from cellur to gatrot In tho most thorough mabner, but with 1o success whatever until thelr attentlon was casunlly di- rectod to two Httle drawora which had bolonged in tho safo and which lay cmpty on the floor fn ono of tho rooms. Tho cusng In thosafo in which thoso littlo ddrawers had fitted hea beon brokon away fi tho vain sonrch; thoy had been cast nsido as worthloss, and may bo would pavo found tholr way into tho atove -had they Inln nbout much lowger. Tho fronts of these drawers wero wolnut, the sides ot pine. Tho officers chanced to notico that tho bottom of ono was of a kind of wood differont from its other parts, and that it scomed rathor unusually thick. On coxamining it moro closely it was found movablo, sliding in mrooves, Tha bottom of tho othor drawcr was similar, and it noted in like nan ner, iTho littlo bonnds were pullod out. and thon tho and discovery wis mndo, Ench Lottom had E:cn sawed lnnfinmlumlly from the back nlmost 1o tho front, and tho thin sccrot chambers thus mada each contnined twvo papors,which wers ot tirely Jost to sight wheu the hottoms swore slippod back to tiioir places. The four papurs wera stock cortiflentos, one of ten shares of Now York Central, rty shares of Michigan Contrnl,and twoof 100shnres ench of Itock laland, - Atpar tho valuc of theso cortificates is $:,000, Hut tho presentquotations mnko thom worth not Joss than &E3,000, o first m?urt that - tho missing stocks nmouutad to &6L.000 proves to have been an exngromtion. The total nmount of the property, including @ fow notos, eash In Lank, and the family residence, will fout up to nenrly or quito $10.000. When Birs, Shopard waa fnformed of the "‘{’%M"f,f’n sho nxglnl{nng' \rlrl':x eyea: i . e is terriblo susponso; aud to think that [ should be suspected of stealing the money: {hat belongerl to mo, or at most & good portion ought to butong to mc, {8 too much, I thank tho rd that I nm cxanerated from tho awful sus- iolon,* Ciarissn Strong's face bomned with oy, 18 aho remarked to her mothor: 0 inather, thoy won't suspeot ina any more now, and I am #0 glnd, and they won't soid nny more: dolua'!_lvcs o watch us, and wo will all bo happy again. —— . lleved from t| HULL AND CARGO RIATES. A gontlomnn cornected with tho-marino in- suranco busincss, who has just arrived horo from Now York and Boston, is nuthority for tho statement that all of the leading Insurance companies havo entered into & compact to sus- tain the hull rutes rocontly printed in Tnny PrIpUNRE, and will Instruct agonts that devidtions fromtho tariff will fovolve thelr diamiasal from service. Tho ngents horo have not yet rocetved any such waralog, although it may como at any timo now. Apparently no furthor offorts will bo made to seoure hurmony of aotion and unlformity in enrgo rates, and cutting and stushing will bo In .order ns horetofure. Awple ovi denco of n de- “termination to cut rates In order to securo busi- | ness {s alforded n the case of tho schooner Munzanlila, which has just comploted n earwo of curn for Sontreal vin Kingston. Thae shippor mnde arrapgemonts witu o prominont fustre nnce aowency to cover u portion of tho corgo until * it renches its destination at $125 ‘per $10, and immedintely theroe after sccured o rato for a 86,000 risk in the Traders’ ut M cents nor $100, with an oxprossion of willingness to assuine tho entiro risk aux this figure. Under tho cliguimstances the ngeacy first contrncted with bud to reduce thoir note to correspond In order to keop-tholr rate from falling into tho bands of the ‘Traders’. Tho' ‘manngors of the latter Compnny are underatood +tn be vory pronouncud in thelr detormination to ! make war ‘;3"“ tho agoncies which bavo keoreto- foro socured the lfon'asharo of tho cargo busi- css, and n lively cotlllon may thorefore bo Jookod for, Ak ICE AND NAVIGATION. Icotwenty-clght Inches thick was broken in Ogden's 8lip yesterdny afternoon by the tug Commbddore, aftor the tug Constitution hud falled, for th¢ purpose of transforring tho scticoner Glad Tidings to Twelfth atreot. Twoof tho grow of tho tug A. Mosher came infrom tho Water-Worksa Crib yesterday fore- noon over tho fce, They attempted to rotura ln tho afternoon,but could nat, a8 the feo hud soft- cned somewhnt during tho doy in a TmArrow channel noar the shore, through which Luo; broko sevoral timea befora abandoning tho of- | ort, Tho men will .niake unother cfort to reach the Crib and tug early this morning. Cupt. J, 8. Dunham yesterdny recolved i lottor from W, L. Churchill, Wwho hus had chargu of tho schoonor Lottlo Wolf all winter, dnted Alpemu, April 8, which reports the {co in Thuader Luy to ‘'bo still twenty-elght inchos thick, and givea it ay the gonoral supposition at Alpena that Lake Huron {s frozen entirely opposit that point, ¥r, cnurghlll adds: * Weathor us cold s in mid- winter, 1. don't think you wiil bo ablo to get Kll:\l'r"vnllel out of here before tho middlo of Thig Ironclad steamor Amorican aglo, which - {s making regulne tripa through the ico botween Bandusky aud tho Istands, on Wednesday mudo the teip from Middle Istand to Balinst laland * through fco from nino to sixteen lnches thick, o distauco of six“miles, Iu six hours and twonty minutes. The fee in Bandusky Hay ranges from « fourto ten inchea in thicknees, = e feo on_ Lako 8t. Cluir broko up Thursday and n gront deal passod down Dotrolt Rivor. TIE FIRST CLEARANCES, The first cléarances of the scuson woro issucd from tho Chloago Custom-liouse yestorday, They were two in number—viz: Schooner Dawn, for Aunapao, light, nnd schaonor O. K. Nims, for Liuftalo, with 50,000 bushols of corp, Tho Captaln of tho Xims ovidently mount ta lot no oie got #bead of him on tho record, oven though his Yousel mmmlm compolled to_remuin bore until the middie thy if e Sreaite of May walllug for the oponing of CAPT, WIIITTAKER'S INVENTIONS, ADotroit Fres Pressreportor recently intor- Viewed Capt, Iarry Whittakor, who has ate talned his 80th yeur, and obtalned from him the !n‘l‘l;rw}nz statement: ofton hear It safd that paddio-whecl stonms }mm Bavo beon {wmproved tipon the Western akes during * tho Jast fifteeu yours, Tho faots frowell kuown to old commerclal and stenwe boat men. It fa history that I designed and ’ulln tho Orst arobed uppor cabln ovor known, lg: tha stemucer A, 1), Patchin, in tho winter of 1 . _The dunensiona of that cabin woror r‘"nh.mluul: Lreadth, 14 feet: and hight, 14 dMni. with forty fwmlly statorooms, ‘huvi ‘Su lo bieds, with single berth over them, an orough voutilntion. Tind I putented those Ime ar!l\emeclw 48 1 ought to havo donu, thoso who w'onn:,hm would have to pay mo royaity or do * Upta1818 thoro waa not atonmboat'on tho :tnwn_lnkn- or rivors {n this country that had Ora than two famnily rootos; und élich us they Pa wore |ll-vontilated. ‘The finlsh of tho 'T(chln 8 cabins wus whito aud dimask trimmed th kold, with wirrors in_ouch door, trlmmed with gold, ny 10 this day. mproves yloand Lenuty u s :m:nu In the pnf»uflm. ower hnve boen mado fflflnt tho application ot the scrow propelicr in PiReo of tho puddic-whoel, o In the winter of 1857, at my restlonce In i ualo, [ destgnod and drauxbicd the throo-tlor prer cabln with n vertical cress-soction, coi- dr muE all of my favontions. 1 caused the { Rughts to be copled, and sonie tima ufor that ].hut thow an pxbibitlon at the Amerivan lastls © Fulr {n Now York City, As they woro 1ok t, xuid the People’s Lino of North River 2 b throuich Capt, Bt. John, caught theni up n built the threo-tier upper cybin stesmer "un Michimond, Up to that time their cabing Nere interior to” aur tirst cabins on the oldast Jul:uulmnu on the Wastern lokes. Tho Bt foun and Deow of the sume line rnlloV.le. ny sbravoments beiog adooted in ench cusd: Tho mtflmurl Frovideuco mnd. Hirlstol of tho Full jiver Lino woro Lullt after the samo draughts, imeYery purticular, and thoso wora spoedily fals e Uy the Bionington and Providence luc{. £ 0 threo drat numoed of theso Eastorn ';md boon called the foating palaces o MATTERS AT LUDINGTON, > At Ludington the schoonor Conneaut has been ecalkod, the schoonor K. P, Hoyoo has rocoivod &now malnmnst and general _ropalrs, und the .;rxo 3ars hus beon convered Into a full fore- d-0ft schovucr, Tho conversion of the Mabs !\'unlmd & hew malomast aud a bowsprit. , '“hu threo-and-aft schooner Moroury which ummcuo_d from the beach near Pontwater last o n has'beon thoroughly rebulls from bottom 'mgd.k With new spars.and much naw outst, - The ;fi;:gy lhl Tooq a8 au entiroly now veasel. *.Metoury bolongs to lno uu'fuku Tug = Company, who will oxpond fully $7,600 Lo put her in llnl-clnsuhnlzn. Tho stenm-barga Colin: Camphell has recolved a new mainmast., . Tho schoonor Tdn M. Hlevens hns reeolved Intgo ropniles, and repales aro now to bo mado upon tha tug Margaret. One ol tho .largo scows rocontly dascribod In Tipn TRINUNE hos been lounchoil. 8ho draws only twenty-four inclies of iwater light, Bho hna ralls four and one-bulf teot high, Tho bridio Ataples aro fastenod nt tho aldes of the hull, nt tho lieht draught Hne, - Thoso acowa will hive vesaol - eabins for accommuilation of n crow, andan oxporionced Captain will be ptaced on citgh, with ono or two moen to nasist him, Tho crafts will be in every respect? tho 8ntno us sonw- schwonors, except that thoy do not carry spars, The shooner Oneldn will reccive now spars, and tho sehnoner Lilllo Pratt gencral repnlss, ine cluding cautking. . A CORRECTION, Capts, Hobort Brown, Arthur Atkins, and Oslor yosterday statod to tho roporter of Tie TRINUNE that that portion of tho skotoh of tho onreer of the Inte Capt, Orson 8hopard rolating to tho firat foro-and-aft schooner on tho lnke was wrong {n two Important partleniars, Capt. Bhepard, thay ngree, Introduced tho fore-and-nfe Tigr, bt it wig upan n standing-keel vessol bulit by hitn at Ashtatiuin ir? 1844 nawned tho Windom. and hnviok n careying eapavity of not over 1,004 bushels, She wna tho:Inrgest snll versol on the lnkes thon, While Capt, Bhopard commanded tho Windom she carrica no topmnsts, hut tho were afterward supplicd by now ownors, Tothis extont, theroforo, tho skctch printed in yestors doy's Enanus will stand corrocted, . LAKE FREIGII'TS, 'Tho schoonar deorge Barber is to carry 500,000 feotof lumber from Muskegon to Milwaukeo, Tormd private. , A Milwaukea schooner hns been chartored to carry aenrgo of codar ties frem Ahnapeo to Chicago at six cents ench, ‘Tho schooner J. H, SBtevons hus been oharterad to oarry n cargo of greon woud from Foscora Pler to Milwnukeo for $:L60 For cord, A Toronta vossel firin has beon offered G0conts atonon {ron-ore from Hollovillo to Falrhaven. It was not taken. ¥ £ NEW TUG FOR I'RANKFORT, QGoorgo i, Notter, the Duffalo bullder, ex- peots to huvo the new tug which ho 18 constrict- Ing for Frankfort, Mich., partics, compieted In nliout two waeks. Bho will sall for that port ns soon ns navigation opeus, Sho Is soventy-five feot long, sixteon foet boam, and nine feet depth of hold. Tho engines are vighteen by twenty- tivo, and bollor thirteen feet long and six fuot oight lnches sholl. ' Sh Is to be tsed for towin (AT wrouHIDg PUFOSCB, AN 18 YCTy DOWert Bho wus orlginally conteacted tor by L. D. Fortior, nnd gold ta Capt. J. Penfold and others for $11,850, STURGEON BAY LIGUTS. ‘The work of building o lighthouse nt tha ond of tha barbor pler nt thos Liako Mlchigan on- tranco of tho Sturgoon Buy Canal will bo carried forward witt tho othior improvemonts, [The Qovormiont appronrintion of $23,000 for the lighthouso and lights will bo exponded ns fol- lowa: ‘Twolve thousand dollars will ba*npplied 10 tho harbor lighthouse und tho balance of $1.00 In_two runge llwhis—one on Dunlap's Polnt and ono on Sherwood's Point, MANITOWOC CONTRIBUTES. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. MAN1TOWOC, Wis, ADril 8.—bfcssrs. Hunson & Beove, of this place, havo contracted with O, 'W. Elphleke, of Chicago, to bulld n threc-nnd- aft schooner of tho following dlmunslona: Length of keel, 185 feet: breadth . of bemm, 33 feot; depth of hold, 13! feot. Vessel to becom- ploted Oct. 16,1881, 8ho will carry nbout 44,000 busthels of wheat, and & Intended for the gran trade. Ilnnson & Ecove have carned nn onvin- Ule reputation ns ship-bullders, having lnunched from tholr yard soma of tho best and stanchest vessels that over florted on the line of lukes,— among which muy be mentioned tho Guido Plister, Alleo Richurds, i, C. Albrecht, T, IH, Howland, Falmouth, H. 3. Scove, Bortlo Chiking, Grangor, and _athors. They also rabullt the United Btates rovenue cutter Androw Johnson Inst year iu such “a thorough, oxcellent, and workmanlike manner us to win the hivhost pralse from the Governmoent Inspectors. Rand & Burger ara nlso n flrm that ara sccand to nune.in the line of shipbuilding. They have commenced, within tho list fow duys, to get qut frames fora new three-and-aft schoonor for o be of gho following dimonsions: y twont$-nine and ono-hnlf feot bonm, and nine and” one-half feot hold, Tha vessol 18 futended for the markot, but untl soil will bo put futo the lumber trado. . Mombers of the Menomince Hurgu-Line Company woro here to-tiy, muking o contract with thom for anothar bargo to be of tho samo slze, a8 tha ono now on tho stocks at thelr yard, to-wit: 160 feot long, twelva feet hold, and thirty fect beam; earrying capacity 700,000 feot of Jumber. This will make tho fifth or pixth .bargo of : tho same or near tho ‘anmo 8izo that thoy hitvo bLullt for that company within tho past fow years, Tho burge now on tho stooks is all Ainishod ready to be launched ag soan na tho fee goes vut of thariver, ‘Tho small schooner in Hanson & Bcove's yard, built for Paul Nolson, vf Muuitowoo, {8 nlso rendy to bo lnunched. A channel 8 befug cut through tho fco to lot the Guido Plister fnto tho. dry-dock, whora tho work of repaicing hor will be commouced at opce. 4 All dangor of a flood scems now tp bo at an end, The hugo bunks of enow hnve gradunlly disappoared, until now thoy are noarly gone, n;dtm riter 08 yot hns not been minturinlly ot od. The _harhor {8 clear of fce for saveral rods bo- yond Muin ulllwv. bridgo, but nhovo there it ro-+ inuins quitosolid yot, Nearly all the vessels luld up _horo nro Mtting out, and two—tho Muriner and Buccess—have made round trips to Milwau- keo with wood, uno change In command hns been reported Intoly, Tha schoonvr Allco Richards will bo leIIm](l’hls yeur by Capt, Lors Aliarson, instead of by Capt. D. W, Barnes, a8 for several yeurs nat e e _LAKES ERIE AND IIURON. Speelal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, * KinasToN, Ont., April 8.—~A Inrgo steam-barge, with a barge In tow, prsecd down ufout 5 o'clock this evening, . 3 The Peleo Jaland mail arrived bere yestorduy by smnll bont.. Tho carrlers roport fce for about shirco miles from the north shove of tho lsland, tho rest of tho pasengo belng clonr, Tho steamor City of Dresden will try to make Teleo Island to-night. Tho Dresdon will make iv: ulie trips botweon Windsor and Peloe siand, v ‘Thero I8 o Ino in sight from here, Wind cast and vory Hght, Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune. Covciesren, Ont., April 8,—Thushoro steamor: City of Dresden pusscil down this afternoon, %l:rl Ithn burge Cormorunt and consort Charles all. ‘Tho lnko I8 freo of icona far as can bo scon, Wiud blowing fresh from northonst, Navigne gcn mny Lo cousidered fuirly open at this ondof ko Krio, ; £ nflpl:lul Dispatch to.The Chicabo Tribune. . Pput CoLuOnLNE, Ont., April .—No wuter I8 te ‘bo feen off this harbor yet. Tho weathor was mildor to-da; tipecial Diepateh to Ths Chicago Tridune. Kinocanving, April 8.~Tho tce outsido this burbor {s moving south, and from all-uppear- unces navigution will open eurlier thun ‘ox- pected, Vessel-mon have commonced fitting oil} the schooners lying hore. . u Now rango llghthouso, which shows a red :lnnn Hyght, will be reudy for the opening of nuv- gu! tion. i Special Dispaleh to The Chicaco Tribune, BARNIA, Ont., April 8,—=Tho warim weathor and northwost winds broku tho fuo bridie at the foot of Lako Huron this morning. jleavy flolds huve bunruunlngul n,. Bomo of tho cakus grounded In twenty-fi ‘cot of water. About sixty feot of the rull and oth- or’ putts o the Aunken schoon- or Bweothenrt camo iato the river, o Bpectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, MILWAUKHE, Wis., April 8.—Capt, Donnis Bulli- van, of the schouner Moonlight, wvrites trom Barnia that, under tho nost favorablo clroume ,stances, nAvigation: cannot opon there beforo lhnlnofnln;:‘ . . P ' FROM MILWAUKED. Bpsciat Dispateh to Uhs Chicago Tribune, MILWAUKRE, WI April 8=Tho schoonor _Oneljda is itting out, and will procecd to Luding- ton, whero sho will put In n now foremnst and mn&nmnlt beforo roturuing with a cargo of slabs, ;. + The tug welcome arrlved buok from the cast -hm':I llDT!I:l’ with ltlxm l:llwo‘nur Aunna Marin, Tho vessol I8 Inden with wood, ties, and e iorpoet nat Bearikos s, L0d pouts, takan Bchrigloy will bo I d tve t ‘o naw steam-bargo J, Il launched to-morrow utternoon, ‘Tho stonm-bargo . G, Poters ¢hine ontof dry- dock to-duy, sad to-morrow wilt take on a quantity of frolght and leavo for Manlsteo, —_— - WELLAND OANAL. 8pecial Dipateh to Tha Chicago Tribune, Br. CATIAINES, Out., April 8,—~Tho Suporln= tondent of tho Welland Canal bas givon notlco that the feedor will bo shut off at’ Allunsburg to-morrow (Saturday) at noon, but tha- wator wiil not be drawn out of tho lovols whero there }-loolurmmu dgys yot. SN - CUT TIHROUGH BY ICE, Bpectal Diapateh to TM CAKae Tribuss MILWAUKER, Wis., April 8,—(t is reported that the schooner MNub Hoy becamg cut. through hy foo and ‘sought tho Sturkeou Bay Caual for ropains, . i L NAVIGATION AT 8T, JOSEPH, Bpecial Dispateh to The Ohicagy Triduns. 8r. Joszes, Mioh,; April 8—Ths first marice arrival of the season oocourred to-day, The ‘schooner Annle Thotine came In with & cargo of lumber from South Haven, Tho ico ls moving nway from this shore, and the harbor entranco I8 ontirely unobstructed, Capt. linrnea went out to-day to attempt tho raleaso of the leo-bound fishing-tug Angler, but Yound tho ito prcked firmly around ber for n hl’"l“ distance, #nd was unable to render any s alstnnce. . FROM TIIE STRALTS, Hpeclat Dirpateh to Tha Chicaon. Tribune, CREnoYaAN, Mioh., Aprll A.—Northeast wind to-dny, freahs woathor mild and pleasant, Clear and cold to-nikht, with Ught northweat wind, LOCAL JOTIINGS, A northenst wind atiil holds the leo firmiy at tho end of tho lnko. ‘Tho propeller Ocanto romnins at Milwaukeo, vatlontly walting foran opportunity to reach this port, Tho domnnd for vesse! proporty has fallen ot mnterinlly within the past week. ' Mighnel Coughlin hnas quit engineering and is now selling inspirators for the firniof Falrbanks & Morso. ¥ Yesterday tho schooner Mnggle Thotnpson ond tig Asa Ransom eame out of Miller Drothors’ ald _ dry-dock, olr places wero }ukenmby tho schoonor Awerton and tug Jd. O, gram, 2 'ha tug Commodors yestorday towed tho Cnnadinn grafne-ladon schooner Manzanilia to moorings neas Clark stroet bridge. On Thursduy oflicial Insprction of the tug Red Jncket wis mudo, Yestorndany tho bollers of :E.fic‘t‘g“‘ Loule Dole and L, B. Johnson wero n- A The stoam canal-bont 13, J, Moore and tug Charies Nelson have taken tho place .of tho schoonor Guslne and tug M, Bhields in the Chi- o, Cumymnr‘u Wust Blido (lr{-tlunk. ho now Inland Lloyds Marine register will bo out nbout the Ioth inst, 0. I', Flint, oslef clerk of tho Inte Capt, E. P Darr, succeeds to the munnyoment, or rather suporintendence, of the Aitun Insurance Com- any, with bendquartors nt Bualo ns . heroto- fore, Capt. W, M, Hounds bas roturncd from Thitfalo, to assume the pusition in the Compa- iykn(cmglay occupled by the lute Capt. Charlos ", Moroy. . GENERAL NOTES. Tho Mil¥aukea 8hipynard Company will launch Canfield & 'Co's new stesm-borge Jobn 11 Betirlpley on Saturday. . Tho Cnnadlan Underwriters’ report shows for 1880 the following business: Premiims recolved, £118,357; losses incurred, $125,604; pald for losses, 77,600, D, F. Kelly, of Philadelphin, takes the plnco of Engineor Pulisfor on tho revenue cutter Mans hattan, Mr, Palsifer has Loen transferred ton station on tho North Cnrolinn conat. ‘The Shoboygun Ule-suying crow will consiat of the followlng men: Capt. Olo Grob, Henry (iroh, Charles Lamphear, Johu Frolmuth, Tom Olson, Gono Oeurge, and Matt Kusson, 'Thero will bo two tore added to tho crow. Milwaukeo Hishorinen nre nlnklnfi up wreekngo from tho sunken propelior 8t. Albans, fiftcon nilas noribenst of that port. St. Clalr and Detrolt River towing promises to be equally hs finud If not much bettor than Inst enson, wind will likely Lo much cheaper, - ‘Tho stesuner City of Dresden, of tho Windsor & Luko Store Line, 18 muking rlcflulnr trips ho- hvgn.m \\{mduor. Lolehiestor, ngsville; and amington. Edward Gray, of Port Durwell, Ont., Intends bullding a sohoonor of 15,000 bushels capacity, Messrs. Scolleld & Co,' of Sturgeon Dy, buve lmrclmsud the schooner Peorin, on the reef at Jalloy’s Huarbor, paying tho rum of £600 for tho crift, Tho firm g wlse purchased for §100 the lumber on bonrd, which 18 worth £1,000, Lastsenson the schooner Cornelin Amsden left Buifalo March 18, and the stenm bieygo W. 4. Graves, with her consort George W. Aduing, arrived March 19, Bay City business men bave been notified by 1L I, Chamberlnln, ot Clevelund, that n line of steamers wilt durlng tho cumu?; Aunson lonve that port woekly and tri-woekly . for Dotroit, 8t, Clale, Marine Clty, Port Iuron, Sand Deuoh, Port Austin, Bay Clty, Oscodn, Alpenn, Ches boygan, Mnckindg, 8t Ienace, and Greon Bny, west, and Port Dalhousie, Toronto, Kingstoii, !)rnluk\'lllo. Prescott, Montreal, and Quebee, east. Tho report that the schooner Rob oy is to carey n cargo of wood to Milwnukeo,on n $i engagomont mode Inst fall proves to bo untrue, Bhu 18 out for wood on owners' nccount. n. 1847 ny high ns 60 conts freight wad puld on flour trom Cloveland to Buifalo, Dotrolt senmen threaton to get shovels and, cut rates on grain trimming 1f the regular trim- mers don't stop_stecring ubd handling lines on \'c:luols belug transforred to and from the ele= vators. A mistake {n erecting the tower and leg of tho now tarine elovator at Detrolt—tha tower lacking hllsllt and tho lew leagth—intorferes with tho unlondinyg of the echoanor D, T Balluy. ‘Thoe Detrolt Vesscl-Ow nors' Associntion hins u representation of thirty-one vessols, with a Custom-1onge tonnago of 14,000 tons, and 1 ear- rylog capncity of 25,000 tons. Iuch veasol- owngr In becoming n member signg un ngreo- mont to pay K nssossment of fivy conts por ton, Custom-House meusuremont, on the vosscl - property which {8 represented. by Wim, - - The schooner C. O. Barnes has hor gnils bent at rio, ‘Tho scows Mngnot and Loadstono havo. mndo olght trips thus fnr this senson between Dotrolt and Trenton in the stono trudo, Rlclnrd Powers, President of tho Chien, men’s Unfon, addressed tho Cloveland Thursday ovoning. A now foremust ia huln&- placed In thoschooner E. J. McVen, at Clovelnnd, The new stenni-barge Eseannbn, launchoed on Wednesday nt Glbraltnr, hns been towed to De- troit by tho stenm-bnrge Inter-Ocenn. Bhe will hnve twvo masts and onc holating spar, and her enbins will bo furnished shuilar to those of tho stenmship Hiawatha. e —— BRUTAL PARENTS. A Story of Sin and Misery from the South Side. Thomne Burns, 50 yenrs of axe, and his wife Ellun, 45 yoars of nge, were arrestod Thursday by Oflicor Wheadon nud O, L. Dudley, agent for the Nlinols Humano Hooloty, upon charges of cruclty ton'chlld nud drunken and dlgordoerly conduct, and tholr daughtor Julla, just over % years of nge, I8 also locked up n4 biing destitute of proper parentat aare. Tho urrost wus mudo nt tho instunce of soveral ten- anta of a lnrgo tonoment houso at No, 218 Wost Bea- ranch +| Adums strect, Tho Burns family lived in a aingly small room in thoe redr of tho house, which thoy rented furnished for §2 per week, ‘Thomns is n brieklayer h{ trade, und hus boen out of work’ nearly all-winter, and his wifo hns hoen compelied Lo go out washing and_lnboringe by tho duy whilo ho loafed at home, The child Julin hus beon compelied to go 1o tha rallrond= tracks in distant purts of tho olty to plok coal nua fireweod, a considerable portion of which wns sold o rafse money for whisky, Bprecs wero frequent, and somctimes when a tonnnt numed Gllder and his wife would = Join in _tho drunk tho premises beoano nlmost unboarnble by reuson of thelr nofsy and ob- sceno revelry, The Gllders nre lllnlbrllhl by tho County Agont, though both ure nblo to work for u Jiving It thoy wishud, Somo fow duys ago Rurns received somothing like 810 for u fow days' work, and the Gllders bappening to havo t fresh supply of provisions, tho two fumilles pooled thelr provisions ayd spent thelr cush for whisky, which wus got by littieJulla in a pop bottloat a chenp liguor storo at tho cornor of Jacksou and lalsted streots, Burns and bis wifa were quite drunk when arrested, and tholr child wag nearly starved, Bho was sharp unough, hawevoryto take her parents' part ugalust the polico, und denfed ever. having been nbused or beaten by thom, and —asderted tho uveople who cuused thelr arrest did so through eplte. 1ler toatimony on this point cau bo rofutod by tho ovidenco which tho respocths blo tonants of the housa will xive n court to- day, Durlug the coldost days of tho winter her futhor would kiok .hor out of doors, and | rly olud as sho wus, Aud “refuso’ o udmit ker - until sho broughit bim n pnil ot coal or an armful of firo- woud to kuur iin warm, In bis drunken rago ho would atriko hor with whatever eawmo Hret 1o hand, and governl tlings within the pust fow months ho has Leaten hor shumetully with n ropo, She used -to . tell thon W ho anee throw hoev upon stovo, - injuring hor o 3 it was not ‘thought sko would recover, mnthor bua beon guite unnatural ae tho father, and whilo drunk, last Christmns or thioronbouts, soulded Julin about” the legs by apliling a kottio of bollng wuter upon her, Fruquently before and slnco -sho has throwi the teakottlo at hor, and the wondler ¢ that tho givl hns vscaped distiguration and broken Hmbs g woll us sho b . ' TREE-PLANTING IN NEBRASKA, Speelal Currespandencs of ‘The Chicago Tribune, Lizcory, Nob, April 7.—1he Governor has set apart the third Wednesduy of this manth as the day for all Nebraskn to plant and set out trces, “I'liese occasions ocour once evory yenr, and ave called arbor days. The enstom—{for such It hns becomo—orlg- nated some years ago, when Nubraskn was Nitle more thau a_howilne wilderness, The fact thut the country wns almost treeless turned mony ?enplu agninst it, and tho enrly ‘Uovernors of the Stute struck upon this method of curing the evil. A duy was set apart for the genoral planting of trees, and the thiousands of groves scattered over the State, aud the fine growth of ornamental and ahudo trees In the oitles and towns, are ovi- donces of the great benefit tha anuual urbor- day has been to the . 'Lhis year it will ba observed as usual, and thousands of treps will be planted -on that duy, It 18 by this method that Nebruskn Is rapldly changlug from & prairie to a wooded country, e — SUDDEN DEATH AT ELGIN, Braiy; 1L, April 8.—Andrew J, Hines, aged 73 years, proprletor of the Kinball House, and an old and well-known ecltizen, died suddenly this morning o & congestive chlll, He was down town on busjuess halt: ou biour provious to Lls death, por bareel* |* THE COURTS. A Dangerous Locomotive to Have Around. Record of Judgments, New Buits, Oriminal Business, Etc. A INMGI-PRICED LOCOMOTIVE, The hearing of the Intervening petitlon in the foreclosura cnse of Secor & ‘I'racy vs. Tho Toledo, Peorin & Warsnw: Railrond Company, was yesterdny concluded before Judge Drwmmend. - This was a petition filed by Job Vonk, of Sheldon, Iroquols County, torecover the valuo of his mill and elevator destrayed by fira In May, 1879, e clalmed the fire wns “catsed by sparks from aswitch-engine at’ work near by, The Re- celver of the rond Inslsted that the fire orig- Inated from sparks from the burr-stones setting firo to tha flourdust, ‘Cho Judga held that - the - preponderanes of ovldence wns to the effect that the sparks enme from a locomotlve ‘drawing cars near by, "The next question was whether the en- ging was properly built and managed, and the Itecolyer had failed to show that Voak cinimed 317,000 for his_pronerty, but the Judge atlowed him only 811,000, the amount e had_pald for the infll and elevator two years befora 1L was- destroyed, ‘I'he Judge sald that it Vonk could prove, as he cou- tended, e had Improved the property after lie bought It, he would bo Inclined to allow for such lmproyements, ITEMS. Judge Drummond will not talke up any ntew business until ho nns disposed of some cages ho lias undor consideration, Judgo Blodgett will not bo In Court until tha middle or lnst of next week, ° The Grand Jury will bo fpaneled in the United States_District” Court Wednesdny, and If Judge Blodgett I8 not back in tine .I\ulfu Dyer will b down from Milwaukeo to give tho charge and do thie lonors of the occaslon. DIVORCES. i = I1. C, Miller filed o bill yesterday ngalnst his wife, Lotte Anne, charging her with de- - sertlon and nsking for nrescission of the mar- rlage contracts \ Mary llealy asled for a decree of divorco against John Healy on the same ground. Juilge Tuley granted a divoree to Gno{fo C. Wilder from Gracs I Wilder on tho round of desertion, to Caroling Poters trom “rederick: Poters for cruiclty, and to Bel Belnnp from James M. Beluap for drunken- ness and cruelty. St UNITED STATES COURTS. A. 1L Androws & Co, flled o bili yesterdny agalnst Frank 1, June, Riehard T, Iiam- brook, and the Richard T. Ilambrook Manu- facturing Compnny to restrain them from in- fringing o patent for an fmprovement In school and hall seats, issucd May 21, 1870, to Francis W. Mallott, and. afterward nssigned to complainanis, nnd_to set askle letters: patent granted Jan. 1, 1878, to Frank 1\ Juna for a similar imorovement, ’ e STATE COURTS. George B. Mair ‘began s sult yesterday agalnst the Vacuum, Crenm Extractor Comi- pany and the Vacuum Cream Extractor Manufacturing Compnny, clalming $1,012.75. PROBATE COURT. L In tho cstate of Walter G, Wilson tlie will was pdinltted ‘on dedimus, and letters testa- mentary were Issued to: SarahJane Wilson. "thio estate Is valued at about $500, In the cstato of Annie R, Perlolat lottors of administration to collect were issued to Al- bert Stern, and hils bond . in the penal sum of 84,000 was approved, In the estate of John MeNally letters of administration were issued to "Dster Me- Nally, « The estate Is valued at about $3,000, In’the estate of Frederick S, Carr the will ‘was proven and admitted to probate, CRIMINAL COURT. Willlam Grahoaw, _n, newsboy, pleaded gullty to tho larceny.of - 86, and was dis- charged, with o’ lecture, on his own recog- nizance. i James Brown was tried for larceny and acquitted. 5 Frederick Grimm was tried for man- slaughter, 1Io was charged with driving a team over a littlo girl named Emma Douesh, at the corner of Argher avenue and Ilnlnes street, June 27, 187, from the ecffects of . which [she died, - Tho eane was glvon to the ury at a Inte hour, and a sealed verdiet will e returngd this morning, Danfel Mahonoy was found gulity of rob- hery, and gven tvo years aud ilve months in the Penltontiary. Augustus I’ayne was tried for robbery, found gullty, and given two years inthe Penitentinry, Benjamin® Clancy was trled’ for robbery and ncquitted. Alex, Dlerce was folind Eullty of Inrceny, and sentence was suspended, Matthew Agh, indicted in connectlon with the Clifton House jewelry robbery, fited o petition for a separate. trialy whicli will be horeafter, heard, * John Swith and John Morrlson were tried for highwny robbery, committed at the cor- ner ot Clark and Tolk streots in Tebrunry, ANTf-)[ONOFOL\' NOT PATERNAL- 18ML. 7Y the Editor of Tha Chicago Tridune. Curcaqo, April %—An “independent » paper of the 26th ult. contalns an elnborate cditorfal condemnlng Iaws for regulating rallrond tariffs, nnd the decisions of 'tho United States Supremo Court sustaining thom, upon the erroncous, supposition that tho doctring sanctlons Interference with strictly privpte business. Inasmuch as tho Nautlonal Anti-Monopoty Lengue has for its object the attainment and enforcement of reasonablo laws, bused on’ thoso declsions, aud the, ubove-mentioned newspaper declines to publlsh & roply to its arguments, permit me to brietly stato the caso: The doctrine in question 18 only applied to nspeclal clnss, such as common onrrlers or ownors of whatfs, ferrles, or bridges, ocoupn- tlons distingulshed by belng nffected with o public use well understood by those w ho undertake them, N The principle Is justifiod by centuries of experience, and the right of special fogula- tion by Government of this clnss was never denied; tho gnestlon |4 merely as to it ex- teut, and the possibility of Its abuse 18 no argument ngainst’ it4 rensonnblo oxorcise, Why should rallvonds demand exemption from regulation when tho amaller concorns (hneks, turnptke companles, ote,) have ale ways submitted to it? Rullroads have from the beginning been publls ighwaysin o im- “Ited senne, and, though the corporations have vested rights whicl courts will protect from destruction, whothor under the gulso ot rog- ulntion or otherwlse, the use and purposy aro publle, 'Thesy corporations uxemlm‘,lho power of taking lad by eminent domnin aws, well knowin that that power can never Do exerelsed vxeept for n public” use, They ., hut’lo s frunchise Intendod in lurgo wonsure to be oxerelsed for the publie Fuod the duo noerforimnnes of those franchises 'lwhfl: the conslderation of the puhilic grant.! &” hited Smtew‘?nmmoc«un An Vol, 10t Roports, page B Tnncase In 93 U, S, Reports the snwio Court beld that the Government could actu- al g‘v ngw the tricks, or authorlze the use by otiiers If expedient, (Sew nlso Mills on Bl nent Doy, § 14:) “As to the grain-vlevator ease' of Munu, which Is denouneed - the artlele, tho fact was not mentloned that the people, afior bit- ter experlence of the combinations for pur- voses of extortion which the ralironds mude with the olevators,—* virtual wmonopolles which stand In the very gatoway of the com- morce of the Northwest and take tolls,"— had enacted n constitutional - provision for the regulation of their rates, Munifestly they were affectod with a publie Intorest of e lll‘ghesb character, and It would bg strange if a Government which protects lts peopls from, extortious by hackmen could not restrain the rapuclty of men |Ilflll0ll o position, 25 The wonder fs that the shnple upplieation of the nbove elementury pringlples to rall- roads shoyld ralse such a stori of denuncia- tion In certain quarters where one would ex- poct regard for the public fntereat, So much for the right, If any of your s nyelor feniph onal oy s afactory, knowledge omandlug Its exorclse [ will petes thom to LN PAGES. 11 the notablo artlcles on_this subject in tha December Serihner and March Aflantic, A. 8, BrapLey, THE CALL TO-DAY, Junge Drunstioxb—In chambers, Junar Iroparrr—No court. ArprrrtaTe Counr—No court Junar. B Anr-—-3otions. Junar $M1Tit—Peromptory eall of motions for new trinl in term Nos, 2,704, 2,808, 2,812, 2,848, Junor WirLiAssox—>3otions, Junae JAMiRoN—Divorce cnaos, Jounan Ganrnaeit--Divorco cases, Jupar oaEis—Bubmitied cases, Junoe Monax—>Motions, Junor Tuner—Divorco cases. Jupar BArNUN—Divirve cases, Junae HAwrs—Nos. 22, 255, 240, 242, 21% 247, 252, 28, 270 to 274, and pusscd cases Nos, 127, 150, e AT -Nos. Li05, 1,100, 1,122, 1,060 1,00, £,19, and 1,030, ¢ 'I'ITE CALL MONDAY. Junaz Drussiosp—General businoss +Jupaz BLonGrrr—No court. Arrenuats Counr—00, 61, 62, 63, 61, No case on trial. . JUDGE GARY—400, 476, 477, 479, 481, 400, 500, 503 1o 510, 512, 613 to 510, No case on trlal. Jupag BsiTit—Preliminary call, 600 to 650, ine clusive, Trial call 2,500, 2,07, 3,014, 3,010, 8,024, 3,028, 1,030, 8,02, No case on trinl, Jupar WinLniAusoN—Assiats Judgo Gary, No, 2,417, Burnside ve. Zorcher, onjtrial. Ji Janrsox—Contested motions, Junie GARDNER—Contested motions. Junoe Roarns—gi, 397, 805 to 099, In- 70, clusive. No case o trinl, Junar MoraN—reliminnry call, (01 to 80, In- clusive, 'Trin call, 447, 453, {77, 479, 484, 487, 488, 490, and 491, No cuso on trial. Jubae Turey—Caontoested maotions. Jupar BAn<us—~Contested motions, JUDGMENTS, 8ursitior Counr—CoNrrssioNs—John Batd- win va. Margarot T, and Bamuel A, Holcomb, $892.—Louis lterlbrun va, Frank Walder, 840,60, Jepar Butrit—Lawrencs Hope-Works v Jobn W, Deldgrnn, $5%6.55. T, J, Martin, Jr., va Western Unlon Telegraph Compnny, Goorge Uedeli v8. Samuel Mycrs, 8i8.—Francls Agnew ot al. va, Gustav A, lusse, verdlot $1,800, and motlon for new trinl, Crnguit CounT—Jupar MonAx—P, Cash et va. Jumns Crowley, £100.20,—C. U, Hoyt ot al. Ferdinund Brittachnelder, $100. 5 A COUNTY-SEAT WAR. Bpectal Duspateh to The Chicago Tribune Torkno, 0., April 8,—In the District Court, in session in this city, n decision was ren- dered to-day by Judge Barber, of Cleveland, JIn the case of Hoffman vs, Stewart, Clerk of Wood County, Involving the matter of the removal of the county seat of -Wood County from Bowling Green to Perrysburg, In 1875, Dby nct of tho Leglsinture, n vote was taken in the county on the question of the removal of the county sent to Perrysburg,: When this vote wans returned, tho Justices refused to count the vote of Perrysburg. allexing that thers were only sbout 1.500 voters {n the town, wlille tha poll hooks showed soma 000 votes as havine been cast. An applieation for n mandamus to compel the .Clerk to count this vote was then carrled up through the Court of Wood County to the Distriet Court, now In sesslon here. In con- clading his claborate opinion of ¥ ny, . Judge Barber huklt that the plaintifls lmsd ndegiate remedy for a grievance of this kind under the statute, and he would there- fore deny tho motion. What further sleps will be takon by the partles in the legal con- test hus not yet been developed, ' SUIT FOR DAMAGES. Bpecial Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, LAFAYETTE; Ind, April 6.—~Willinm C. Tnrter to-day began suit against the Louls- ville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad Come- pany, clniming damages in the sumn of £2,600 for.injuries atleged to have been received while rlding in n enboose nttached to defend- ant's traln, He alleges that* through care- Iesness on the part of the defendant’s em- ployés the car was thrown from the track, and Jje was injured to the extent nawed. KEOKUK, IA. Bpectal Dispatch to The Chicags Tribune, Kuokug, In, April S,—In the cnse of the State vs, Seth 1L Cralg, which, has been oc- ciipylng the nttentlon of the Cirenit Court for romo.weeks past, the nrguments for the de- fenso, made by Col, epburn, of Clarinda, “and Willtam Collicr, Esq., of this city, - wera concluded last evening, Mr. Colller spoke fivo hiours nnd Col. “Hepburn three. ‘The Hon, Galnsha Parsons, of Des Moines, 13 making:the closing argument for the State. Thu ense will go to the fury some time to- morrow afternoon, i ) SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. The Gullty Flee When No Man Pur- sucth—A Sad Talo'from Wilkesbarre, Pa & 'smm Dispateh to The Chicago Tyibune, Winkesunaune, Pa., April 8,—The ilttle Town of Ilartville, on the Susquehnnun, a few miles below thus city, ns well ns the Borough of Shickshinny, just opposit, was thrown Into n fover of excitement last even- ing by the sulclde of an Irlsh Inborer nafned Juck Freeman., Ho went to work at themines in Hartvillo on the 6th of this month, with & largo number of others, who were engaged In the opening of now colleries nt that puint, Freeman was not a miner, but was employed In hauling sand for tho cottages In process ‘of orection, Ile quit yesterday nfter- noon aboul 4 o'clock and went liome. After. entering his'house he sald to hiswife: * I am not golug to let them get any advantage over me, and Inm going to shoot myself.” 1i1s wife roplled, * Why. Jack, what is the matter with you? Are you crazy?’ 1lle answered, **Well, if I don’t shoot mysclf thoy wilt arrest me and hang me.” 1is Lhen went in gearch of his gun, which he found, aud with It walked Into his bedroom. It wans an old army musket, ond he procecded to load It with powder and shot, 1le then ant downnnd penned tho following Uncson nnleco of pnper, which he pinned upon his™ breast: “Ium not gullty of anything, but ean’t stand It.” Ilethen called threoof hischll- dren to him and kissed each one tenderly, the tears strenuiing . down hls chieeks ns he didso. Then he turned gently to his ywife, who stond by, sobblng, and mourning ns If lier heart would break, and kissed her, Tak- {ng the mnusket up ho walked out doors, 1le hud gous but o fow steps when he turned and nsked - whera “Willlo was (amother of the children). lle wns told that ho was In the brush near by, *1llo called the boy, and the little follow presently wmade his appearanes and enime running to- wards his father, 1le stopped and kissed the 1l, then returned to tha house and stat quletly in a cbalr, In the course of a few moments the mother dispatehed ong of tho chiliron to the spring for water, and a8 sho dld not bring enough, she went hor- self. Whila on hor way brek from the spring she heard the reportof a gun, and, running 10 the house, sho asked one of the boys whure his fathor wos, ‘The boy pointed to a bed- room and sald fie had gone in there, and told one of them to cloge the door and not como in, Tho poor wife tnstantly pnssed inlo the npartinent, and was horrified to find her hus- baaid Iyl upon the floor coversd with bload, The top of his head was blown off, and his brains and pleces of hils skull wora seuttored on tho walls and ecllings, Nelghibors woro at once summoned and aJury made up, Unon tho vxaminatlon fucts wero ellclted which }Aru\'cd that the suichde, it not a murdorer, ind some gullty thing welglitng upon' his conselence, * For a long thna past ho lins had wmaody spells; and the ‘preseico of somany new faces In Hareville worrled him, At first Lis wifo seemied disinclined to testlry, but sha finally startled the Jury with the re- e, * Well, he ds dogd now, and 1 date el Bho intlmated that sonio years ago her husband was Tmplicated In tho murder of a mup ot Janesville, Wis,, and he was nc- vused of huving o hand In !hrowlnf 2 an Into the Susquehannn fram the brlige that crosses Lhe river ut.this clty, It was further shown that Freemun always went armed with u_knifo revolver, Thers was n great affection ulnluui Dbetween his wife and fumily, aud it 18 thoug| ‘t by soms that tho former was moro willlng' that his death should unsuo nslt dld thanupon the fulmw-. which sho evidently thought might be his futo It he lived, * . One of Biaine's Jomiulscoucos. Whon Benator Disiao Judt soko o Hartford ho fell §n company, a short time bofore he was HotadoE Oha'or thocity papers and askodinis ,“‘f!‘ju‘é‘#‘bm Gen, Hawloy flud bimsole ,u‘;;u; L hEvly Was W b B very Lt 040 WD ol " holdur of stock or bonds tho paper, but probably, iike all men similarl; sllun!l,'rv,fi " ouny bimeelt frequontly oA rasacrl, Mr, Bintno added: “ Nodman can afford to bo in publie life and havo his namo at the head of n nowapaper. 1trledit. When Ifrst began my litioal careor in Maiua I was a candidato for hie Legislature. 1t wos in the Matno law time, when excltement on the temperance question waa rinning bigh, 1hnd two papers and was editing one. 1n the henat of the cunvass a liquor arvertisement was handed Into the business af- fice aud nppeared In_the paper, Of course [ knew nuthing of it Dut the next day that nd- vertisement was placarded nll over the City of Aupusta in large type, and over It In big letters | waA tho heading, *Jim Hinine’s Views on Tem- perancal” I caneluded that if I was going Into pulitics I conld not bo a succoss and stiil be an cditor, and my first step was to scll out the nowspapers atid Le Indepondent of thom.'’ "y A SCANDAL, RADWAY'S READY RELIEF DR. RADWAY’'S SARSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT, THE GREAT BLODD PURIFIER, Changes as Seen and Felt, ay they Daily Occur, Aft- The Postmaster of Daltimore Sued by a Female Employe of the Post«0Oflice =FProgress of the Sult. Bpecial Dispated to The Chicago Tridune. * BAvtistony, Aprll 8—In the lloward County Clreuit Court, at Elllcott City, Md., to-dny, tho 820,000 suit of Miss Munry A, Mur- ray, a former employé In the Baltinore Post- Oftice, ngainst Gen. Erastus B, Tyler, the Postmnsier of Baltimore City, wus brought to trinl, ‘Thecase Is full of lively inferest and sensatlonal to a high degree, oth par- tles hava a grent many synipathizers, and the court-room tvas crowded with persons from all over tho State, Tho plaintil Is repre- sented by Messrs, Chiarles J. Bonuparte and Ernst Riall, and the defendant by the ifon, W.. M. Merrick -and Henry Stockbridge, 1 his opening address to the jury, -Mr. Rtiall, for the plaintifl, statéd that, In the year 1877, the plalntifY -obtained o position in” the Balttimore Post-Oftico In the registering de- artnient, “A short time after she was there en, ‘Tyler mnde indecent proposals to her. On one occaslun le came to her and ngked for n certaln letter, There was 1o one in the oflive at the thne but the plaint!ff and he, She went to s safe to get the letter, andnsshe stouped down he put his haud to herbreast and then took holil of her hand .and pressed, It. In December, 1877, she cwns removerl to another departuient | which had stained windows, He there, one time, came to the roovin and, seizing holl of her, puslied her into a corner. After some diffl- culty she got relensed from his grasp, and ordered bl to leave the apartment, The cnse hns been tried before fiy the Court of Common Pleas of thiy elty, It was thert de- cided In favorof the plaintlff, but the de- fendant, making aftidnvit that e could not zet n fnir trinl here, the case was sent to th Circuit Court of Ilowara County. Mr. C. C. Fulton, proprietor of the Baltlmore Ameri- can, nanifests deep interest in the case, and perfean hns opened n subseription list 1o defray thy expenses of the plaintiff In the trinl, JMiss Murra) quite & pretty young woman, and Get, | ?'Iv.-r Is o man vver 60 years of age, and highly respected in the community, 2 KATE—KELLY. Two Great Powers In Onr Polltica— The High Moral Influences Which Control Great Ktateamen, Guth's Dlspatch to the Qineinnati Enquirer, New Yons, April s—=Tho two prevailing influences In the Unlted States at present are John Kelly and Kate Sprague, One-hnif of the political complications at Washington have arlsen ont of the respective perform- ances of these two notabilitics. Idon't spenk by any hearsay, but by Information, when I tell you that Kelly’s attnck on Bennett's private morals, and Conkling’s gratitudoe to Bennett for making no reference to Conk- ling’s morals, hnve produced the present conlition, affecting not only Judge Robert- son's confirmation to be Collector of the Port of New York, but whatever the New York Iexisiature Is doing. Kelly had the misfortune to lave one or two newspapers, and, tinding his political prposes crossed by Hennett's Leraid, he announced that ho would print the life of Bennett, and forthwith begun to issue n lot of old yarns, without much interest in thewm, with sensatlonal headlines, Bemiett went immediately to. see Conkling, and sald _he: %My paper has never mentioned Mrs, Sprague’s name during all these yenrs of the scandnl between you and her, Now, I want you to break up this deal hetween Uen. Arthur and John hellz':, the Custom-louse and Tammany Hall.” CTonkling’s scnsitlve- ness on the Sprague matter surpasses all his other sensibilitics, Like the ancient mariner, hie puts his giests on o stone and recites to them the appalling things that are publishoed agalnst the purest woman {n the world, who Is the daughter of the greatest man, ete, Ir, Bennett had not miscaleunlated the ef- fect of his appenl, and at once Conkling com- pelled what nre_enlled Tommany Revublie- uns'to abandon Kelly, Thelr repiesentatives in the City Council, Tn the closing hours of Mayor ‘Cooper’s adminlstration, voted with certain Taninany nen to contirm a string of appolntments, inmluz Bill Whitney, Allen ; Campbell, and Hubert O, Thompson at the | Iiend of the Cltr of New York, and retiring : Kelly personnllyand nearly all his appointees from_patronnge,: Kelly, lowevew, retreated inte 'Pammuny - Hall, got o vote of indorse- ment thera, aund has still sone expectations, .and alwnys the balnnce of power in this eity. But his tury at Conkling for golnz buck un | Iim dittor “the long series of bargains and | sules between their ruspective campy esceeds hig disiiko of Bennett, 1 .In the meantimo the new coalition between Anti-Kelly and Conkling 18 going on to such futuro watters ns ombarrss evon Bennett's lmm:r. Among the IHerald’s Instest sensn- lons is one about eleaning the streots of Now York, and they had nlrm\d‘y omblazoned the namos of the outragcous fellows who woull not give tho new Mayor (irace and his Gratz Donohue tho absolutes patronags of the city streets, when it was dlscovered that one, ron- son why the Antl-Tammnny members of tho Assembly were opposing Graco as the Clinin- plon - strect-cleatier was that thelr conlition with Conkling oxtended to an attempt to wmuke Bill Whitnoy.Governor of New York, and In that Interest to have the Whitney Democrats and Conkling lwguhllmus rep- dinto the recont Indorsement of Juwdgn Rot = ertson by thu Legisinture of the State, ‘Chus corruption, chicanery, and the vilest re- sults of }mrty barguins, and ‘other faction bargaing, have,growh out of the private mor- ols of Mr, Bennott and Mra, Bprague, . e —e— e TELEGRAPH MONOPOLY. A Stringont Bt to Prevent the Console 1dation of Competing Telegraph Lines Passcs the Pennaylvaniu Seunto. Ilanmisvuna, Pa., April 6.—Tho friends of tho bl providing for the eschoating of tho property of telograph companies by tho Btato In the cvent of tho consolldation of competing linos achieved an unoxpected victory in tho Souato to- day. Corporato Influonco had boen scerotly ot work the past few daye to compuss the defcat of tho act, Tho argumont was used nmong o couslderable numbier. of Scuntors friendly jo the Ponnsylvunia Railrond Compuny that that cor- poration wus opposed 1o tho muusure buosuso I8 tendonoy would be to prevent the Company from joining with ather rutlvoad compunles In forming & combluntion mlvrr-ph‘ lino to com- u:lu with the Westorn Unlon monopoly, 0 nntors particularly partial to the Uentiyl- yanin Cotnpuny gonorslly voted agninst this bill, but several persuns’ who bad intonded to vote with themn wore dissiaded from thelr pur- pusy by tho strong urgumients of the -ur;rmrwn of tho uot' and tho weuk redsoniug of its op- ponunts,- Tho LIl was passed mmlli; by vote Of 27 yeas 10 10 nuys, ono nora thun the numbor requived, [t provides that whon any telegraph corporution, telograph associution, or telegruph company, owning and controlling u telegruph lno In tho Biatu, sball consolifuto with nny othar telegruph vorporation, telegriph ussoeta- tlon, or telekruph company, ownlug snd cons trolliuge o couipetiig tolegrayih lin, the compot- fny telogeaph line and all 1 ty conuected therowith for the operution of the saino within this Stato shall be forfeitod to il beoowe the property of the Comumocnwenith. Whenover any suvth corporation, ¢ic. oOwne ing und controliiug & lno of telegruph shinll hold - con(rolilug Intorvst In the stouk or bonds of nuy other telegraph core porution, etc., owning i competiug e of tolu- #raph, or fihullucxlmm by purchusyor othorwise uux other cowpoting 1n of telugraph, the stock and bunds so held und tho telograph line, to- Rather with al nchises 0 purchused or oth- vrwise ucqu ahull be forfolted to and bu- como the property of thoCommmonwealth, Auy of uny such telegraph cowmpuny who shnll huve been ‘oppused (o the consulldation with oreuletotho computing coum- pany, snd shall not bave asscutod thareto or we- quiesced thorein, shall bo vntitied to such pro rata share of tho prooceds of tho saly of the tolegraph proporty as hls houds shull boar to thy whole amount outstandiug; but in wocasoe to exceed tho par valuw of his bouds and acerued Iuterest thervon, No comvuting lines aro ul- lowad to purchuse any of tho esoheated prop- orty, Tho bill 18 Oxpacted to puss tho Houso by | alarga majority, H e —— ‘ranckises und propers t{oraford's Aoid Phospbata uots as & braiu aud nerve ‘@‘wl. {';d‘i- n:oznu:q‘nnuk Jnugln;n&‘uu‘x;ms ropared according to thiodiregtiond o! B KiiSwa brof, 5. N. Horutors _ er Using o Few Doses. Good splrits, disappeerance of weakues Innguor, meluncholy, Inoreaso and hardiness of ticzh and muscles, ote. £, Strength {ucreases, appetito improves, rols Ish for fuod, no more sour cructations of water brash, good digestion, calm and undisturbed -lne;;jlnwnkm frosh n(nd vlaurfius.h asies snppearance of otches, pimplesy the .um"l’.;'on clear n':’:?l heaitny: ll?n urina changed from its turbid and cloudy appenrunce to clear cherry or amber culor; Witer pisses freely from tho bladder through tho urcthra without pain or scaldizg: little or no sodlments n0 paln or woeukness, . 4. Marked diminution of quantity and froe queney of Involuntary weskening discharges (if atillcted {n that way), with cortainty of.per= moncut cure. Iucrensed strength exhibited in the secreting giands, and function brrmony re- stared to the several orgnns, B &, Yollow tingo on tho white of the oycs, and tho swarthy, saffron nppenrance of 0 8| changed to s clear, lively, and healthy color. . Those suffering from wonk or ulccrated lungs or tubercles will realiza at betefit in expectorating freoly the tough phlogin or mucus from the Jungs, air cells, bronch or windpipe, thront or bead: diminishing the frequoncy of cough: general incrense of aircngth throughout thg a{nttm: nlo})pumfl of night-sireats and 1] and Teelings of weakness urouid tho ankles, - legs, shoulders, ote.: cussation of cold an chills, sense of suffocation, burd bren!mnr and rumxylm of mnfih on lyluf down or aririog In he morning. All these distrcssing symptoms rrdunlly and surely dlsngpum‘. 3, A day after day tho BARSAPARILLIAN I8 taken new signs of returning healsh will appears 08 the blood liuproves in ‘;urlly and strongth disense will diminish, and all forcign and lmpurs deposits, nodes, (umnrs, cancors, bard lumos, otc, be resolved away, aad tho unsound mods sound and houlthy: ulcers, fever sores, chronio skin diseascs, grudually disappear. €, In casca whero the sveiom has been zall- vated, and Mercury, Quicksilver, CorroslveSube litnato huve accumulntod and become deposited in tho bones, jolnts, eto., causing caries of the vaiies, rickots, splnal curvatures, contartions, white IIEIIIT wvaricoso veins, ete., the SARs BAPARILLIAN will resolve nwny theso deposite &:ld ex%crmlnuu tho virus of tho disease from o Bystem. 0. If those who are taking these medicines for thy cure of Chronio, Scrofuious, or Byphilitia dlsennes, however sluw may be the cure, * feel better” and find tholr gencral health improving, thotr flesh and welgbt increusing, or even keep= ing its own, it 18 o sure aign that the cure is pro- grossing. In these disenses the patientcither geta bottor or worae,—the virus of tho diseaso is not Innctlve; If not arrested and driven from the bload, it will spread and continue to under- mine the constitution, As soon ne tho BARSA- PARILLIAN mukes tho patient **feal bettor,”™ every hour you will ‘fmw bettor and’ {ncrease in henlih, strength, and tlesh, - ‘The great powar of this remedy is In disenscs that threnten death, as in 5 CONSUMPTION of tho Lungs and Tuberculous Phthisls, Berofue IA-S)‘TMIOI Disonscs, Wasting, Degeneration, and Ulcerntion of the Kidneys, Diabetes, Stop= page of Water (Instantaneous rellef afforde where cathoters have been uscd, thus dolng away with the painful operntion of using these instruments, dissolving Btono in the Dladder, =nd in all cases of » Inflammation of the Blad= der and Kidneys. 1In chronfa cascs of Leucorrhees and Uterinr disnuses. Ono botile contains more of the activa princte les of Medicines than any other Proparation. R‘nkun in Teaspoonful doses,whileothors require five or 8lx times ns much, ONE DOLLAI PER BOTY! . . RADWAY'S READY . RELIEF QUBES'AND PREVENTS Byweatery, Diarrben, Cholers Morbus, Feves oad Agus Murumatism, Neuruiglo, Diphe therin, Influenzs, Sura 'Lhront, Dimenls Breathing, Bowe: Complaints, Loossnoss, isrrhes. Chulern Mortioa, ur yain(al due arxes (r0 buwals, are stopped in 1y or A min= wtas by taking Hrdway's leady loilef. No congers tion or \ntammation, o weakiots or iassiiude, Wi follow tho uae of tho 1t I WAS THE FIRST AND I8 THE ONLY PAIN REMEDY that justantly stops the most excruotating pains, allays Inflammations, and cures’ Congestions, whether of the Lunge, Btowmach, Howols, of other glands or orgnna, by one npplieation, * IN FHOM ONE TO TWENTY MINUTES. 0 mottor how violent or excruointis i uemutie, lled-ridden, Intirm, Crll'!!) ous, meml(lvn nrdxrmlrnmd with disuase may ;:ll.l‘:l;‘.‘%?’lg AY'S READY RELIEF wlll afford 118c, FLAMMATION OF THE RIDNEYS, N INFLAMMATION OF THIZ flh‘x\D"Bn‘ INPLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS., GESTION OF TIHL LUNGH, BORE THROAT, DIFFICULT BREATIING PALPITATION OF TilE ARART, mvenmaics, SR el fl{ADACllE TOOTHACHER, i RVOUSNESS, BLEEPLEISNESS, l NEURALGIA, HHEUMATINM, i COLD CIfILLS, AGUE CHILLS, CHILDLAINS, AND FROST BITES The application of the leady Rellef to the the :'r: ar diflicuity existy comfo Thirty to sixty .dropa in half a tumbler of water will in 8 few wminutes oure Uramps, Sprains, Sour Stomuch, Heartbury, Sick Huads sche, Dinrrhaa, Dysuntory, Colle, Wind n the Howels, and all Internnl Pains, Travelera should always carry a bottle ot Rade ‘way's Reudy Hellef with them, A fow dropsin water will tirovent sickness or palus fromchaonge ©f water, It {8 buotter than Fronch Drandy or Bitters 08 a sumulant. 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Purely vegotible, contatuing vo woroury, mins eral, or deletorious drugs. 0 Obacrva th followlis aymiptoms resulting from Disorders of the Digestive Orgaus: - Constipation, Inwurd Pllus, Fullness ot the Blood in_the Tead, Acldity of the Stamach, Nuusua, Hoartburn, Disguet of Food, Fullicss of weight in the Btomach, Sour Eructatlons, Blukiugs or Flutterfigps In tlio Pit of the Ktome aob, Swimming of the Head, Hurrled and DItk eult Bresthing, Fluttering of the ileart, Choking or Bultocating Seasutions wben in u _Lying poss ture, Dots or Wobs bofore the sight, Fover aud Dull Pain I the Head, Dellvienoy of Porspiras ton, yellownoss of tho Skin und’ Eycs, Pain in tho Blde, Chest, Limba, and sudden " Flusbos of Heat, Burniog in the Fleah, A wuw_doses of Hudway's Plls will froe the aystem from ull the above-named dlsorders. PRICE 5 CENTS PER BOX, SOLD BY DKUGGIST. Read “ FALSE AND TRUE.” Bead & lottor stamp 1 RADWAY & €Oy 0, 13 WARREN-5T., COR. CHURCH-ST., NEW [~ Jnformation worth & iy 1. 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