Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 4, 1881, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: | THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1881I—TEN PAGES. to be submitted the Bourbons, who were in tha mnjority, fearing that ft was 0 great popular move- nent which tulght sweep them away if thoy refused, somewhat reluctantly consented, thus, for the first tine fn the history of poll- {les In this country, prosenting the spectacie of a teclotal incasure passed by a Deno- eyatle Legistatura amt Demoerntic lenders {aking the stump for the stippresston of whisky. As tho menstre fs a’ Demecrntic one, hegrues are opposed to it, and a gdod many white Democrats have jolned then. ‘The white ehurelies are {1 favor of tho Co- erefon DIL, ant leading politicians are divid- ed In their -votrse, so that party Hnes are badly broken up. What the result may bo ft 1s Impossible to foretell, but if the Prohibl- Uonists should win there will be a Demo- eratle victory agninst whisty for the first {ils country,—1 vielory whieh Northorn Detoerats will flud some dificulty in understand! Joining, which, owing tho Connell to repeal tho fire ordinance, did fot have vn frame dullding on ft. But for thls vavant space, which theso Aldermen wanted covered with pine, the flames would have swept stralght Usrough to Lincoln Park, As ft was, only four frame dwelling: houses mut two pine thantufacturing estab- lishinents were wiped oul. | ‘Sho conflagration wns, however, of stifl- elont Ghnenstons te HMlustrate the posstbill- ties hia district where the wooden struct- ures.are numerous enough to furnish food fora fire onco fairly begun and fanned by tho hot August breeze from the southwest The three Aldermen have tad the guod fort une of having thelr pollcy of a wooden-bullt city soon tested, ‘Ihe fire of yesterday will Serve as n,sovere warning agalust tho eree- tlon of any permanent and substantial butld- ing Improvements fn neighborhoods where thore are wooden tenements In abundance. ‘Chese two wards are Unreatened with cons fiagrations at ny moment, and beenise ot this fact Uhore ign perpetual prohtvition of brick structures, and tho permanent sib- stantial improvement of the ward Is delayed Noman would build rows of brick dwellings or stores, go long us they must be surrounded by inflammavie build- Ingsof wood, ‘hese threo Aldermen ‘have been laboring for months to have tho Inmits Inwhieh frame buildings may bo erected enlarged so ay to include great ulstricts, "The tire yesterday wns « commentary on tha stupidity as well as perl] of adopting any How many more such fires will it lake to satisfy them that the sooner ping tenements and barns give way to bulld- ings with brick walls the more rapid will ba the permanent improvement of the wards and the greater the rise In value of all the property there the. fallure of Tho negro promenading on Twelfth street whh an abandoned woman says he shot to defend himself, inthe shanty on Uebecca strect say thoy were defending their domicile. are flimsy pretexts Invented ns a screen ugalnst the ponalttes of thelr crimes, ‘Tnoro isu Inw prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons, but tt Is not enforced, No doubt itaenforeement in a largo city Is next to finpossible so lungad the wullmtted free sale of revalvers fg permitted. But why should sueh tratle Powder mitgazines are tot allowed whera thelr HY MAIL-IN APVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID, Iinlty edition, one year. 12.0 arts OF 8 FOAr, per Mont a Ent 0 mad rlaay, wor yen! ay Weanesuayy go oui . cL EDINION—POSTPAID: mmantifactire pecimen coploa sent free. Givo Jfost-Onico addres {n full, including County Remittances may bo made olther hy draft, express, Post-OMica order, or in realstorad fetter, at our risk. {PO CITY BUBSCRIBRUS. Daily, delivered, Sunday excapted, 25 cents por week. Daily, delivered, Sunday included, 30 conte per weeks THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, " Corner Madison and fearborn-stsn Uhicaga, 11. ghanteal purposes, ant henees an essontint manufacture entitled te the protection of the But almost the sole tse of the revolver $s to kil, and to kill tlegally, ‘Tho revolver fs to-day, in this country, the chief instrument of erime, amt it hardly serves nny useful purpose whatovor, and yeb its manufacture and its sale are wholly unre stricted, In every unshop there {4 « huge atavk of revolvers; in every pawnshop scores of tho murderous weapons are displayed, ready to the hand of the suicide and the assns- ‘The man who makes and the man who sulls the revolycr has a right to know, and does know, that whenever he parts with hits Entereibat the Post-Ofiee at Chteaa My as Secowte | pny graye charge is made by the San Franelseo Chronicle that stavery exists In Hawall, Human beings are not bought anal soll, but under the terms “vontrret” and “upprenticeship? slavery extsty, and the peon, apprentice, or slave, of whatever color he may happen to-be, has no means of es eapo nnd no remedy against cruelty and op- pression. ‘hoe victiins of the system aro emigrants brotight to the ishuids by the Gov- ernment from the South Sen islands, Payal, Sweden, and Norway, to work: the sugar plantations, ‘They are transferred to plant- ors after the manner of chattels, In consider ation of tho pryyient of passage money, tho Hospital tax, and other fevs, whieh aro sub- sequently deducted from their wages, There ave on all the plantatiots no tess Urn 30,000 of these serfs, whe are presided over by over- seers Who hive no other form of qrgumant or discipting than the lash. ‘hey are treat ed fn the most Inhuman manner, and dented redress, whatever muy be their grievances, ye from the tslands is impossible, as not ong of then can leave without the con- xent of the authorities, King Kulakaua ts nowln England Junketing with te Royal family, and it is stated is trying to sell the elreumstanecs United States would havo tho right to Inter fere with any conveyatce of them to a foreign power, ‘Lhe horrible condition of the work- ing-classes Is now a still tnore cogent reason why Uhis country wil Interfere with the sale of Kulakaun's property, at least until it has. had some plain words with his about reform. Ing the condition of things. —_ Fortho bonoft of nurpatrans who dosiro.to sand finglo coptes of THe THMUNE through the wall, wo slvarherewith the transient rto of postage: and postponed. Eleht and Twelve Paco Pape: Blzteon Vago Mapor.s.. eek ae TRIBUNE BUANCIL OFFICES. Hn CHICAGA TRIBUNE has osiablished branch ‘ofkees for the recolpt uf subscriptions and ndvertieu- iments ns follows: NEW YORK—Roont 2 7ytbune Building. FT. Stc+ WDEN, Manner. SGOW, Hentland—Atlan's Amarican Nows Agency. 3! Rentiolt-nt, —* LONDON, Eng—Ameriean to lead to the conunission of a bloody crime, likely to lead to the breaking of the law, likely to cause Indescribable grief, wretched- jess, and sorrow, z Governments have « right to abatogiul- sances, nt right to protect the physical health of tho public, a right to avert probable erimes by a summary removal of the predis- posing enuges. Why should not the author!- es abato Lo nuisance of the revolver? It entses more infsery, moro crime, more re- inorse, than anyother one concomitant of civilization, . Lt is at war with civilization. It dofents tho grent nln ofeivilization, whieh Is the entire abolition of savagery. much out of place in a civilized community as the tomahawk of tho Indlan, Fexchango, 419 Birand, Madieon atroat, between tate ond hooting exhibition of the Inst fow days, while alfording sume evidence of the ability of the particlyants In the matter of shooting pigeons, was nevertheless aut ex- hibition of wantén cruelty, all the more dis- creditable beenuse wholly unnecessary for any purpose, At the shooting on ‘Tuesduy tho destruction was equal to 2,800 birds, and yesterday probably to 2,000 more, or In round numbers 5,000 plzeons were slaughtored, and ‘The pigeons killed wero The shouting at a Nving objevt sprung from n trap afforded no better evidence (if ns good) of the skill of the marksman than would have been frnished by shooting at as many glass balls, and there- fore tho selection of 5,000 Ilving animals was awanton pleco of cruelty, for which thoro Is no apology or excise. Such on oxhibition did not offer even the weak excuse of “sport!?; the poor birds were captured and kept in coops, and thon sprung froma trap and shot down. Instead of being entled “sport, it was nothing short of unmanly, unfeeling, disgraceful. cruelty. Ata“ meating ” of this sumocharacter held somo tineago in New York: no less than 20,000 pigeons were thus craclly and barba- rousty destroyed, ‘The whole business {s ono repulsive to every sentiment of humanity, nud forolgn to every principle of sportsman ship. ‘Tho poor wnlmals are not given any chance for thelr Hyes, but are brutatly shot down us they aro started from the trap, ‘The elub ulght Inerense thelr scores If they would tle a string to tha leg of ench bird, which would provont Ita falling outsido of tho bounds, and, while the killing might bo grenter, the brutality of the slnughtercr would !n.no wiso bo Increased, If thore is not sontimentailsm enostgh to fn- induce the members of these clubs to abandon this kind of sport, ten public opinion should bo Invoketl against the wanton cruelty of these wholesale slaughters, gamln fing become ashamed of throwing stones ab birds and robbing nests; and it is Hootey's Thentre. Raneniph erect. betweon Clark and La Salt Engagement of Janos U'Newl, “The Dantchoss.’ Grand Opera-Mouse. Clark atrect. opposlt now Court-House. Olympte Theatre. Clark sirent, between Lake sud Mangolph. “Un- ele Tom's Cabin.” ——_ THE QUESTION OF ALIMONY, A recent deciston of the Supreme Court of this Stato touching the question of alimony will be of Interest to those married people “who dre’ so loosely or uncongentally bound together that the severance of the matrino- nial fetters is contemplated or nctually ae- complished. Judging from the large smum-4 ber of «ivorces which aredatly granted in our courts, a respectable percentage of the community will consult this decision with eagerness, and, while It will bo distasteful to tho ona sex, tho other will regard It as n tri- tunph. of legal acumen, and, like Shylock, will welcome isecond Dantol come to Judg- Expoattion Mutlding. Michigan avenue, opposit Adams stroot. ‘Thomas for what purpo: ummer Nizht Concerts. useless for food. White-Rtocking Maselall Parks Charnplonship Hase-Batl Gauma—Butalo va. C cagu—this afternuon ato: TTIOMAS J. TURNER LODGE, No, 40), A. F& Ay M.—Mated Communication Thurs 4. iit. Tnportant work, Allien ‘Tue fatal disease known as the “Siberian plague, It is annonnced, hag appeared in several Provinces ot the Russian Empire, and luis nltaecked huinan. Inhabitants as well sheep, and other animats near St. Petersburg. he disease Is not ono that Is epldemfe except among aniiials, and, necording to medien! historians, Is tdentieal with the plague from which the Egyptians cattle suffered In the the of Pha- rao, The ravages of the disease are caus- alarm In) England, more than 100,060 bales of wool nro shipped to England annually from these districts, and tho “wool-sorters’ disease,” which has heen very prevalent, aud fatal in Yorkshire, is known to be Identical ,with this plague, ‘The London Phnes says tint “It hing its origin: th a low parasitle -organism, which, Into the blood of a ving anhunal, often develops so, rpidiy and with such iniinieat effect on the life stream that death ensues even within a fow hours. ‘The organism itaclf—tha batter cauthraels, as it 1s nained—soon dies upon its removal, from living blood or other media favoruble to Its nutrition, but ils spore or germ muy, in ordinary elreumstianees, retain vifatlty and power of development for an Ine defnit Hime; and thus it happens, doubtless, that fleeees and Ides of diseased aniinals re- tain tho potaon, and that the latter, gaining neeess to the Dicod of n Tiving animal, un- folds anow Its full activity.” the disease Is mostly confined to animals, but ns it lings produced moro or Jess fnitallty among the wool-sorters, the English Govern- ment Is about to (nko measures to reguiito the Importation of fleeces, W. M. STANTON, Soeretary. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1881. as horses, cattly, The cnse brought before the Supreme Court was that of a diyoreed woman, who halimarried again, and sought 4o lave tho alimony which had been adjudged against the first husband continued to her though sho had taken «second to hor bed and board, who was presumably capable of supporting her, The ungallant Judge Scott thus deliv- ered the opinion of the Court: ‘Tronting allmony us tho equivalent of tht ob- Nation for support whieh arises in favor of tho mmrriage cortract, aud which ts tost when that contract fs anoullod by the decree, sho obtains tho kame obligation for: supportby akecond tnarringe. 1 blo that sho should have tha equivalent of tun obligation for, support by way of alimony from a former husband, und an obligation from a present husband for an adequatesupport ut tho YesTEnpAy ono of Redoath's graphic le fers from Ireland appeared In ‘Line TRimeNr, “and Uils morning another will be found, it discusses landlords, land agents, land courts, and land Iaborers ina vei structive inanuer, renable and in- ing considerable Junan MecCrany’s decision, that it bs witht the power of tha Courts to fix the inaximun rates of transportation, seems to be regarded by tho: Enstern press ns novel and dangerous, But It is strictly tn aline with the decisions of the Untied States Su- preme Court, itis a recognized principle of the common nw in-England. The building of raitroads through the oxerelse of tho right of emipent domatn is Justified on grounds of public utility and survice, How enn such utility and service be defented by the ‘arbl- {rary edicts of those who temporarily anjoy. tho privilege and exeretse Lt by public sutfer- nuce for the cominon goo! ‘That Is the whole logic of the case. * the wife out o! t is tnrensonn- As to tho abstract justice and cold common sonso of this decistun, thoro will be no dif- ference of ,oplulon.; among marricd men, who, peeuntarily, aro most interested {1 It, If women had all the rights of men, among them that of paying allmony, they would also heartily applaud it, but as thoy do not pay. atlmony of courao they will regurd it as 0 ns they do, not haye Even the street Coy. Fosren, of Obto, in his reeent specel" at Miyria, brought outeertaln facts which ‘should be of Interest to yoters in that State, + DE the efglity-elght counties in Olfo about Forty are Demoeratle, and In these there haye beon twenty-three defalentions of public of- ficers to three In all the Republican countles, Within a few woeks another defateation of 0 Demoerntle Treasurer has been reported In Stark County, which has had previous expe: rlence of the same kind, It {s within the knowledge of everybody who has studied the faety that defatentions have been most common awong Demoeratte ofllelats, Fed- eral, State, and municipal, from the tue of kaon down, «Absolutely and rel- atively there was more money*stolen from the peuple under Plores inder ull the succecdigg Administrations since the closo of the ¥ Tuny have had ntcorner Louis, in whieh soma extraordinary dovel- * opments have been male, of that elty makes tils most astounding Ing nt enged birds, and killing them That Is “sport” which can hardly claim respect. If these clubs wish to show their skill In marksmanship, let them purehinse glass balls and fire at them; thoy iay,not bo so-ensy to hit as the poor hutf- starved plgcons, but the scores for that reason would be moro creditable, and the exhibitions would bo free of the eruclty with which tho pigeon sinughtors are now made offensive. _———— . by thousands, why by the . exerelse of obtatning four or five divorces, they. might not liandsomely support themselves on allmonies from four or five ex-huabands. more exact men, however, who haye been released from the matrimonial vingulun, will argue in thelr merciless way that it is bad snough to haveto support thelr ex-wlyes, but If the latter marry again, then the other fellows ought ‘to support-them. Originally thoy only supported thelr wives, why should they now be called upon to support them nnd thelr now husbands? ‘'l'ake the Hllnols case, for instance. If wo romembor it rightly the divorced husband was paying $90 n month or $1,090 per annum fn alimony, ‘She married another innn shortly afterwards, whose jn- cume was $1,500, and the two fanctel that with tho addition of the first husband's all- niony, making $3,680, thoy could Myo very ‘Che first, husband argued, however, that if shy could Ive on $1,080 she could lve on $1,500; and let the second lus- band take enra of himself, for ho was not bound to support him, Consequently the Yory day sho was married he ceused pnying alimony, and tho Court supported him in his views of duty towards the othor fellow, Clearly Just us thls appears to men, 1b will appear Just aw clearly unjust to women, exe eopt that class so ably rupresentedl by Miss Anthony and others, who fn such a vague vouht nut conselentlously reeelve allivony ab al, as they claim equality with men, and lo tuke monay from: them would be. an ae- knowledgiment that they must be supportad by thom, and this in them whuld be tanta: mount to an aulnowledgment of Inferlorlly fo the ‘Tyrant Man. ‘There isn class of women, however, Who hayes no nonsense about thom as to rights, but-who make a business of marrlage; and there ara somo sordit cnongh to employ all its possibilities for enhanclug the menns of support. ‘his loss will find comfort in a statement from tho New York Nation bearing upon this volut, ‘The case was similar tu that of the Ainofs woman, but the New York woman was much more invirled, and evidently had t sharpor eyo for busineds, Colder-bloutied and re Muu tperense of wares in Now York City during the Inst three years has been very marked, and hing oxtended to all branches of trade, ‘ho brewerymen, bakors, enr-triv- ers, cigurmakers, longshoremen, sten firemen, men engaged In the building trades, nnd day hiborers have obtained considerable advanees olthor through strikes or-by means: of peaceful ngttation. In nearly all the build ing trades wages have fnerensed about 25 por cent. In 1878 briekluyors earned from Site $150 week. Notv they rvcelve from S18 to $44, aud in somo placos aro striking for $2. ‘The increase in three years has been i this trate nearly 40 por cent, ‘The New York Tribune his prepured the following table showing the advance of wagey In some of tho prinelial trades, Somoof tho Inborars, be- sides ai inereaso of pay, have obtalned a alight reduction of ilne, tho bakers having In this manner had thelr hours reduced from fourteen per day to twelve: REVOLVERS. Revolvors nre plenty thissumimoer, and they xo off? with neatness and dispatch, Mon- day was a field-day, so to spoak, In revolver practice, Sulouns were as tull of revolvers asan arsenal Is of muskets. John Stanner found, thres revolvers lying round loose in Ils mistress’ saloon, and he managed to kit the woman with ong shot from one of tha weapons, Tho Calilis, In a shanty on Ie- beeen street, nppent to have had but one re- volver, but they used It with great success, Alling a couple of polleemen with bullets from Its murderous muzzle, A negro out on npromonade on ‘Twelfth street had an old revolver, with whitch he killed one man and wounted anothor. Aweek ago two mon In buggies chased ench other up and down Michigan and Wa- Dash avenues, howllyg Uke lunatics and ox- ehnnging shots as hotly as if thoy had been Hghting Apaches In tha wilds of Arizona. It Is senrely overstating tha caso.to say that no ight passes without several shooting allrays In the City of Chicago, which Is heavily taxed to support w Government Snstitited to pre- seyvoarder and keep the pence, ‘hat this “% Nol preserve order—locs not keep tho peace--Is 9 palpable, undentable fact, Blood Hows every doy, and abnost always froma wound Inillcted by a revolyer- egnd Luelmnan than ‘In onts at St. ‘The Republican Another thing of which thoy (tho pain ig that cars huve been High aw 38,000 bushels Instend of 321,000, A bushel! of oats Is rated at 33 pounds, and the weight of 30,000 bushels of oats would bo 080,000 pounds, or 480 tors! Now, If the shorts at St. Louis have been abte to sell oats by the ecireloud, and then force -tho tongs to take 480 tons of the grain fn a ent load, then wo think the longs have a right to complain. In Chicago the crowding of 750 bushels of vats Into a cur is constdured yoott business, {1 view of the statistics of the “Immense growth? of tha St. Louls grain trade, It ought to boexplalned whether a“cnr-foud " and 30,000 bushels of ots are regarded at St. Louls as equivident ferns; nnd whether, In tho forthcoming report of the trade, ene enr-lond 13 to bo counted ns jolt bolding as ‘The revolver seams to be the dendly encmy |* of peace nud goud order, Why, thon, do we tolerate tho revolver? What has the revolver alone for mankiud that its orlmes should by condoned and excused ? and hammers, ; \ i t New Manvsuime, by virtue of its Purl- tanle privelples, Its rock-bound. suil, und its allstance from semptation aud worldly exelte- mount, ought {a Len conservatlys Stite In matrimontal matters, but the reverse Is the ease, Her divorce rate Is Inrger than that of any other New England State, Last your,with * g populution of 100,000 people, alia hal S41 cases of divorce, and {f she keepsan ut the present rate pf Increase In’n dozen yours from now every twenty-tifth ruarrled: palr will boulvoreedt from each other. ‘Lo -siel an oxtent has tho ovil grown that the religious denuminations of the Stato clr euluted a polltion to the Legisiature praylug for sméndment of the law, which hus thot ganda of algnatures, ‘This uppent wis re ferred to the Judiclury Committee, and leave wad glven to bring Ina bil, which was tone accordingly, on the basis of the pelition, tho petition liself belng based upon tho Mnssus chuscits legistation, At last agcounts, how- ever, tho Di was atill in the lands of tho Judielary Committee with no prospect of belong reported to tho House, ‘Tondd. to the despalr of tho situation, it 1s charged that the Legtslature will not pass the Dill unless they aro “geon,” ‘Thacheusustances do not indl- cate a very high standard of morality in the Grantt State, to say the least, ft Js. plain that ond ehisely, ant mallets could not be dispansed with merely beunuse Ib sometiines huppens that a erline Is committed with ono of these useful imple incnta, ‘They are essential to the prosecution of tho varlous handlerafts; thoy are nat well ndapted to killing, and seldom used for Uiat wieked purpose, But tho revolver is designed forno other purpose than killing, and there Is Beareoly uny creature except man that cannot bo more surely dispatched through some other aguncy than tliat of the revolyer, It follows ‘that the revolyor ts especially In- tended fox uso in killing human betags, 1t Isslngulay, to sey the least, that mililons of rovolvors are manufactured anuually to bo devoted to the use of King lumen beings, and to be devoted to that uso fn the lands of persons who have no right to kill Iman bolngs, If tha law required that convicted murderers should be shot to death with yovolyurs It would be quite proper for Gov- ernmont to authorize tho manufacture of a suNiclent umber of the wenpons for the uso of Sheritts in the execution of the law, . Hut {t is vory strange Indced that tho manu facturo und free sale of revolvers should, be permitled, when itis a notorious fact they are chieily: destined {o bo uscd: in bolnzs by persons who no right whutover to kill lo tho pay hus been raised in most fie stances, the cost of living has not increased quite in the samo rato, Broa Is sold for the samo price now asin 1578; bee! costs from two to foureents more pur pounds dairy products, potatoes, ten, coifee, ant sugur nro fees now ny and con! Inthe Eastern cllies Is considerably lower, ‘hora ts evidence that wages have bean forced up to the highest possibly noteli, aud mugl decline before they Duilding. kas been yery much retarded by the exorbitant demands of tho Invorers, and work on tho whole ts not so steady or ga well remunerated as it was 0 few months go, - ‘Tho dccleion was made by dtr, Justico Dou: ue BO! O, and goes ws far us Over atL ininthit in this 8 fe could aak, aise, who had been thrivo marriod and twice ing in ullinony fron tl ne S000 or mi or $40U0 is tu, sultiviont to wuppart third husband by comfort and idldnesst : Ony of tho cast-oit spoudes “row birt extromely an¢-aliod divorced, was gotti two husbands sor 1 of. thin y ane wnt aud ieclinod ‘ho Court hold, however, thut tho sibs did notdlaponge with tho alle deere on vac of the advance amin, widin tho nature of nur bushands, whicl ponuity 1a wellas in gquivatont, und’ not to atfectadt by any change of 0 vorco anys substuntiolly have broken your contract wit and must pay eo inuch tn dan broach, Looked at In this leh tho wite was revolving, iudependont of tho alle mony, & BUpport Crow W resMurrluge, wouled, it is 1 dofendunt than would from burowp oxertions, ‘Tho Winols woman ovidently would lave dono bottor had gho Hyed In Now York. fn point ot foet, that State ought to bu a Para «lise Jy the way ef; matrimonial investments, and a woman téjerably woll up in. the khowledgo of the marrying business need noyer como to want ¢) and divorces at the Jeast would provide her 9, comfortable Hyings; Three would support hor handsomely, and' with four sho and the fifth husband noed-never work of allor do auything moro Inborlous than collect the monthly dividends from the four un- cireumslunces tn tho ALD. Mere, Young, and Meyor hada grand celebration yesterday in tho Vifteenth and ‘Thore was a juagniticunt blaze among the woodun structures on North avenue for the benalit of “poor mon,’ and these Aldormen were all prosomt, poluting out to thelr constituents tho superiority of pine fis n combustible over briek nud stone. ‘Their shite of the ease was trlunphautly made out, In the presence of the rolling fumes and Ine tolorable heat. Aud yet the fire was a com- parative failure, because the Council had not aulopted the polley ot these fire-bug Alder men, ‘Thera was a strong southwest wind, intense heat, and a plauing-mill in amos, Ordiuarily this ought to have swept twonty or thirty aeres of all thety wooden buildings, But these was u Ufty-tuet lub to vvereume a> pinin, no mare rolouse Bixteenth Wards, selmollarsupport derive a Tue polltical campaign iu North Citrolina bas taken a curlous shave. ‘The prohibition tuovement has appeared there, and (o-lay a vote will be taken upon the question, Un- doterred by the experiences of the North with F prohibition, tue question hay tuken the form of total absthuenco in drinking and total sup. pression of the quortrafllo by coerelou, ‘The udyocntes of prohibition last whiter made a démeud upon the Legislature fur a law killing hwnan Two marriages that a pouccablo citizen has a right to dofend himself; that if he ty attacked he way shoot the assailant in True. But how many of the shooting-afbays that are dully recorded are the results of hon. est altumpls ut selfdufeuse? Not vue in yp wean, whh — peisgual and ambitfous to compensation In other channels tlon of ‘Ties nmusn. fargo emigration of secure a competent {income without effort on her ewn part be- youd the slight expense attending success- Ive tronsseaus, the chanees for a handsome prof on the Javestinent are almost untinit- ed, and why it fs nol more genorally adopt vd, espeelally tn these tlmes when feminine fs go Ine considerable, we do not clearly sec. It may bo that the provisions of the law are not gen- erally underdond, and for this reason we give thom the benefit of the wide elrenta- Show thease a ppearnious wore from [Mtnols to New York In quest of alle montes, It Is cheerful. to know that the IMnofs statutes will so commend themsulyes to men In Now York who do not relish sup- firat acta of the new Commissioner, who as sumed alice on July 1, waa to restore Gon, E. A. Carman te the position of Chie! Clork, from which ho was removed by Le Du a ‘Tie Queen “cut” the Baroness Burdett- Coutts publicly at tho ute gardon party ut Marl Horauphglonsss Mr. Smaltoy tolls how it was one: ‘Tho Queon stool, as tuaual, with a vacant apace in front of hor: a space into which no mortal presumos to act foot without signal from hor Majesty. Ludy Burdett-Coutts wns avon ad- vanclig through the crowi—for crowd thera was—to the Inner hom of the outer clrole. with intent to pines herself benoalh the eyes of tha Queen, and eo sveure that recognition whieh woul’ eutitie her to approach the soverulga, oud give, ae he hoped, somo vislblo token to the world thiut sho wns once more In hor Maj. esty’s good graces. Alany yA tho Mnroness’ movement. Tho Queen saw it, and what her Majoaty did on seeing it was to turn bor itoynal Drok on tho Haroncss Nurdett-Contts and walk porting thelr mutelmontat successors that} smartly off to anather partyf the zrounds, tho tes of travel to and fro witl offset each other, and perlinps leave a balance In our favor, capecially in these times of cheap tranalt, sy Mn Hany I, Dawes has. provided a hot- weather tople for the thirsty Massachusetts editors by writing lwo Ietters on the subject An the first tetter he nivised that Congressmen, should refrain from making recommendations to oftice unless requested to do so by tho Exeeutive.a remedy which ns an antiseptic woutt be ridiculously Inadequate fo the sources of disease, In his second fetter Mr. Dawes advaneed oa step, of Clyil-Servlec reform, and nude the following proposition: I.ct tho commisstons of appointees, ao lonans, Tt, umnnate fram the President, but tet thelr selections be made, each by the man above hin, to whom ho tho Constitution and tho iw require igs rexponslbie for his work, “Cho 8 duretary, by tho President, tho head of tho Huroatt by tho Beerctary, Fee Ciel OF tho Division by the ni heal of the 1 id the clork in onch Division by tho chlet under And let each one know that his tenure of office 1s measured anty by his ability to return to. bis superior the iihoat pussivle results from, the charge tins committed to hh, The plainest business principles will then dictate te cach in his spture tho rules of Civil Service that must govern nll tila movements to tho, onl that tho Utmost eilleloney,* economy, and intexrity ate fainuble in the service required. at bis hauds muy renp for bin in turn security and perma. nenoy of place, ‘Tho comments of the neivspapers on this suggestion nre ng cirlous.as they aro yari- ous. Mr. Sehurz, who is something of an oxperlin this department, belicves that Mr. Dawes, though he has not gone to the root of the matter, has thrown n considerable tub to the whale. Others seem to be of the opluton that 1 divided responstbitity is ho responsibility, - All the Mnssachusotts Congressinen, with three exceptions, have boon Interviewed by tho Boston sdvertlacr, | and only two of them gave scordial assent to Mr. Dawes’ proposition, Ono yishes to have Vostmasters elected; anothor ts ox- tfemely concerned test each Congressman should not get his “sliare” of the olices: and -n third. desires to have 8 competitive board “run” by each Congress- inan to pgss upon the clalmsof applicants for ofilves alloted to the district. ‘The spoils ‘system will notbe broken up by homeopathic doses of Dawes, Io muy beat his breast and ery med culpa, as the New York Post shows hw has too much reason to do, but thts will 4 accomplish nothing. Ilow enn any reform which requires snerifices and imposes new and disagreeable ditties upon the President alone bo successful? Tho cotperation of Congress islmperatively demanded. It must uke the sinall appropriation required for Clyil-Service Board, and give the reform at lenst that degree of officin! recognition be- fore anything permanant ean be alfected, We shalsee when Congress nesembles how far tho lesson of the assasination has been taken to heart by public servants, and how many of the mombers are. prepared.to stand upon their morits as statesmen-nlone ant not upon thelr , ofice-broklng abilities as titles to popular confidence nul esteem. ue Churchman, which 1% of the High Church '‘Miplscopniian botlef, has thus far re- mained very reticent concerning tho cxse of tho Noy. Raward Cowloy for tho reason that thoy ld not consider it necessary to speak of tho dotugs of criminal courte. jow, however, that the Committee regulucty "appointed by tho Church hus handed in its scandalous white- woahing report, the Churciiman vlaita the work with [ts coysuro, and blames tho Committco fur not mnicing 1180 of all the power given it by the Church canane, snylog: ‘Tho progent condition of tho matter, thon, is that a clorwymnan fe still In good stan Church thourt ho hns served out 0s the Ponitontlary, and the Churet has not doter- mined by any court of her .own that tho finding of the elvil court was unjust. We are not bone speaking af, nor aro wo concerned with, Mr. Cowloy's guilt or Innoconvo, Tho simpto {uot is, that tho only court which hn tried bim hos fonnd him guilty of a holuous offense. Wo should rejoice, und #0 would every ohurchinan rejalce, If nuatbor court, an cecleslasticnl court, sbould tad now ovidence that would overbal- ance and set aside 485 finding of tho civil court. . Hut tho report Of the Camnilttce. had Bo fur deprived the Church of her opportunity to hold such a court, und of tho mitch-to-be-du- sired proof that one of her clergy hus sulforod Mn unjust sentence. She stands to-day In tho nttituide of shielding by ono of ber offices a inan whom t civilcourt has eondomucd, and whont no court of her own hag acquitted, Tho Churoh herself is on trial, und not any ono man. Tho mitt has been trigd and convicted. tho Church eannot prove bin to be tnnecont, then abo cannut iniocoutly allow bim longer to bold tho ‘nigh ofice of bor priesthood. If, ‘on tho othor bund, ah shall bo Ablo to prova his Innu- conee, sho Will bavo the huppinces of resculnit his reputation and hor own falr name. ———— A WasitnatTon dispatuh says: Vrof. ‘Milntor, Who wasisted Prof. Hell In bis exporimonts at tho President's bodsidu to day with tho Inditetion balance, Is tho frat slraitior who has sceu the paticnt alaco tho 4th of duly, Ne. knows Gen Guritehd personally, asked if ho recomulzed him thero was in bis mamner and a changed oxpreay favo ad though he would tot trust sbhmnse any what he thought, units, personal frionds, and phystctans seo htt xo many tines a day that they could not: notiew the marked chungos In his sppearanve as ono would who bis not sean hil since the day of tho hooting, Mr, Tulntor says bo luoke like uw yory lok wan, and no one who knows blin would vaso to contrast for himsoll she strong, rupee fonturea of Gen, Gartiotd in honlth, and his wan, Be. favo usit nppears now." Ho was wut only: ntervstod in the oxperinient,’ sald tho Pros fossor, "but when the wires dragged ovor bla lndy he had auspision that he was going to revolve a shovk, and asked for an explanation of the tnethod bufero it¢wns applied. 10 Bie noynnee was rumoved and {ho exporiment sat+ isfactorily eudod.” Another of tho attendants attho White House was prostrated by a malarial attauk to-duy, making soven in allt far incnpacitntod for duty, Stoward Cru has ooen tn bod for there ey be and bis at tho President's boils side has been taken by Dr. Hoynton, Boecreary Wirkwood {4 alse confined to bis houso by a ninlarial attaok, tontion uf the physicians tu move tho President from tho White House at tha enrilest possible omont, wid i reply, tou question us to wher hat would bo, sald, In the course of two or throo weeks." Ho dil net sy whure the Pregl. dout would bo taken to, due it was inferred from a tenark acehtontally dropped woulil bo to a versol fort sox voyage, syhich tho President yory much dusirod, oe A Wasiunaton dispatch states that * Laat year tho ‘sum of $20,000 was appropriated by Congress for boring un artesian woll in the arid lunds of Colorado, to sco If water vould bo ob- tuined Dy this moans, “Tho project was urged by Sountor Hill, of (hat Btate, bus bis iden was to have tho’ money expended under tho direction of tho Secretary of tho Interior, Tho bill fallod in the Senate, but was curriod In tho House, and inserted in tho appropriations for tho Agricult+ ural: Dopartwent, «Any man but Le Duo would baye consiited omincnt scientists about tha locution of tha prnposed well beforo spending tho money jntrusted to him, But ho, loaginiug thas he know .09 much about artesian wolls' as any scientist, posted. of to Colorado and located: bis woll near Fort Lyou. Tho approprintion’ hat boon all expended, the welt bas Leon bored 450 “foot, and not u drop of water has buen obtained, A furthor sppropriation of $10,000 ‘to ‘contliuo the experiment was made at tho lust scealon of tho Forty-sizth Congress, aud Commlaslonor - Loring, Saklngersralol ‘by the failure of le Due, bas employed Prof, U, A. Whito, of Greeloy, Colo,, and Prof, Samuct Aughoy, of Lincoln, Nov,, toexplora tho arid region and locato the proper place to eink tho well, and tho work at Port Lyon hus besa ordered sugpended until iuyse svativings Wnke thelr report, Ono of the whont he sorves, -of any seed he has yet sown. cronces on 10,000 cards, tlou to the study of this lttie-known branch of wore members of the enmo committee. Dr, Hise says that It isthe ine, . Pans Tho nct was undorstood to be public confirma- tion of the report that tho Queen was bitterly opposed to tha Maroneas’ marriage, and not dla- posed to forgive hor for tt. ————————— We rend In a London paper: “Now, that tho Melbourno International Ixhibition Is ovor. peoplo nro counting tho cost, and asking whother tho gatoo {8 worth the candice, Ag ncommorctal spoctilation, of coursa, itis not, fur no exhibl- Ditton siuce that suggested by Prince Alvort bas resulted in anything butloss, The Hxhibition of J8&l made n profit of £270,000, which was partly expontted In land upon which theSouth Konstog- ton buildings aro erceted. Tho Paris Exhibition of 1855 resulted Inn loss of £872,000; that of Lon- don in 1882 in n loss of 251,470; that of Paris in 1807 inn toss of 270,205; that of Vienna In 187% inn loas of nearly two million sterling; that of Philadelphin in 1870 in a toss of LK7,260; that. of Paria it 1878 in n loss of nearly a million storing; apd that of Bydnoy Inst year in'a loss of venrly a quarter of a million, exceeded by that Just closed nt Melbourne, which cost £i1,+ 000, ngainst only £50,000 of recolpts, No wonder ee practicn! Yankees gave up tholr * World's Fate," ——— in Paris is to be on alarge scale. | it will be bolt in the Palaco of Industry. Tho {mmonse bulld- ing will bo Ilghted by cloctricity at night—a systems will bo opernted togethor, so thatan ndmirable opportunity for comparisons wilt bo atforded. ‘Tho application of cleatricitty to the lighting of art galleries, thontres, dining-halls, -kiteheng, chambers, ote., will be scen fh dlffor- ent npartmonts, Thora witl bo otoutrical of mustenl instrumonts, flro-nlarms, annun- eiators, motors of many kinds, © yreat varicty of telephones, gnd a largo uumbor of aclentific und inadienl instruments in which electricity 18 used. Edleon will have two chambers exclu- sively for the exhibition of bie apparntus and fnvontions, and will bo In attondanco bimacif ag tho greatost tnarvol of all. —————____- Or Gen. Grant a Galenn letter to the Courier-Journal says that ho willin tho futuro mako New York hishome. The corresponient adds; “It has been sald that his travels nround tho world cost him $50,000, and that he came homo n much poorer munn than upon tho day he sailed upon his Journcy.. Le this ns it may, Gen, Grantis thought to bea very wealthy man by moat of bis ofd frionds In Galena, and should ho ilvo and keep his health tho time. will come around whon ho will not be ashamed to alt upon the fnanclal Inddor with tho proudest mill- jontires of the Ind. Mis Moxican railroad schemes. whilo yot in an undoveloped state, rant thinks productive of tho richest harvest: Mrs. Grant nro oxpected to roturn to Galona days hu will yo to Now Mexico,” ———————_—_-— Tn gist of tho recent report of the Com- mittee of Trustees of Dartmouth Collego, on the misundorstandings that (had arlson between President Bartlott nnd eértaln members of tho Faculty, was contained In tho following’ para- graphs With tho grouuda of diseatistaction oxpiainca, and with the President and Euouity aware of be more hope of 1 reconellintion botweon those partics, ‘fo this tho-Hourd should oxbort all pattics. If tt full, the Mourd will be Inn condi- ‘tion to delibornte and act with wisdom and de; cision. If it suecoed, the great reputation of the collage will go on brightening under tho enre of # President: and Faoulty of whose many excellonces avy colloge might bo well proud, Thisisa verdict of “Not guilty" av to tho Prealdeut, with the admonition, “Don't do it again." Cart, Honpex, who has recently removed") to Cineinnat! from Murletta, 0., dean in on-, thusinstic collector of spiders ever alnce his col- lego days. ‘In tho pursuit of this singular fancy ho bns collectgd nearly 25,000 specinions, em- bracing 4,000 spocles, from nli parts ofthe world. ‘Thoy re arranged in glass bottles, with tnbols wiving natne, collector, and locality, California furnished 6,000 spuc!mons, and Now. Fugland aa many more, One apeoies is roprosontod by 1038 apectnons, from all parisof the United States, showing how much olfect environment has in modifying form, Tho collection is supploment- ed by afultand complote catalog of: tho litora- tura of tho subject, comprising nbout 70,000 ref- ‘This valuable contribu. natural history he topos to complete and publish atanvarly gay, ————>$__— Morwoniss bos been making rapid prog ross in Goorgia of Inte, ‘Twa Mormon missions aries havo beon working industrioualy in Whits County for twelvo montha. The community is Javloted and inhabited by a densely Ignorant People. A Mormon organization ot thirteot to dixteon pooplo and aSunday-sohool of forty puplls have been establishod there. school is {n contomplation, The attontion of Adny- tho authorities bas boon directed to tho unlawe . ful propaganaa, and, if they fail to act, it Is bo- Noved the people of Northorn Goorgla will soon tako matters in tholr own hands, and drive tho * Blaord"” from the State. : —_——— ‘Tim Lou, Milton Sayler, Domocrat, of Ohio, in convorsation rocontly, sa{d of Honator- cloct Inpham; “do ly a man of undoubtod abil- ity, and In Congross showed himsolf to bo an In- tolligont, positive, and upright mombor of tho Lower House. Porsounlly ho. makes many frlonds, During tho South Carolina disputs wo Mr, Inpham tnalsted on going to tha bottom of uverything, agd proved himself a bard fighter fur tno mluority. There avo many Bonators veproscnting leading and Intluential States who do not possess ono titho of Mr. Laphat's abll< Itye ———— Naw Ontnans Is the only large elty In the Union that chugs to the antiquated dovico of a volunteos firo dopartinont. It. has boon.ree 4 talned moro for ‘political that for econumicat reusuns, At lust the Democrat bas plycked up¥} courage onough to adyooate a pald department, ‘Tho performances of tho New Orléatis “ yoluns tcors" who wero litely in this olty and dlis- tinguished thomeclycs by sitting down to a sup- peror “ banqhot'? In a bawdy-houto wer cot tajuly not of a nature to fnerease public contl- deuco In that branch of the municipal servico in tho Croscont City. # . ————————— | Bullato Commneretat Advertlecr says thas tho astward movemont of flour and grain fvom tho West throuzh Buffalo for.the month ot July, 1881, shows a decrease of 28,703 barrols tu the recotpts of Nour, and a deorense of 4,8%),- 443 bushels in tho recelpta of grajn, cstimating Hour as wheat, as compared with the same mouth last yoar. * pie —— Tum Olty of Lincoln, the countyreat of -Logun County, Iilinols,- aubtmitted a-pronoaltion tw tho yotors to {ssuo $75,000 of bonds to bulld waterworks, ‘Tho people voted it down, whore: upon a tumor of wealthy citisens of tho city motand onranized a joint stock company and aro going to bulla the works, . Senaton McDitt, of Iowa, in a recent lottor, eays of tho contest Jn. Virginia: “From what I know of its leader and tho polloy of the Liberal party in Virginia, 3 am satisfod that itis the hopo of the colored man and ai) othora who rasa ee govorament impartially adininte _——————— Tuy Philadelphin Press mentions, as an illustration of tho fatality attached to the Kead- Ing Railroad, that from Dec. 10, 187%, to. Nov. 3, 1880, ulghty-alx persone wore killed and 10) Ine jured by accidont upon It. oe ei) ——————— DAN Syipson has drummed at sixty an- nual parades of the Ancicut. and Houorablo Arullesy of Boston, and is Wyearagld. He qud Si Smith, the company's fifer, form t popular paintin Doodle.” Keveral years ayo a th quenthed his akin for a drunbeay Bimpson should play overy Fourth of J; ing, but his patriotic tdon hi figures tn tho ita Hot been really PERSONALS, vs a chilly day when two Not get tho best of tho girl's Weal Side Lyrte, Forty-seven now converts we ‘on profmtion in tho First Me bates Bloomington, last Sunday, Mr. Powers bogan to mak: President in his studio at f ittat Sir. Garfeld was shot. Jiles about the thie madeby enrrying doctors'to the President popular reerention with Ens lorence on the Mr. Bookwalter ts beginnin; upon with unfriendly oyes by He to. ‘Tho Democracy of a man who fa niways opsn to susplelon, George Francis ‘Irain sends nostal-cards dally to Gultenu, this fnot tho gonorn! feeling ist! oasnsin should he dealt with ae ‘Three bicyelists rove Inst w idonce, i, J, to Cape Ann, miles, in nino hours and {ift; fortunutely none of thom wi CAN Welle a lottey ero Injured by the . Most of these cases of “ cholera" occur In little cou: three old women anda bunch tutes tho Board of Health,—Dr, einnatt Commerctal, The young Austrian Archduke, Salvator, has written soveral vooks of ono of which bo his Mtustrated himself, Fort ately for tho peoplo of Austriu, a books {6 80 high as to.placo t reach of all but wenlthy porsons, In tho course of soma ‘Tn International Exhibition of Electricily | marks concerning a Genuine Asi ntry towns she philosoph! Pailndiphin tn Heal te recently married a young man sud her advent Juto tha matrimantal atar ing to Nvo with ber buaband, tho thing never boforo attempted there. Alltho | Philadelphia Preas remarks that young girls to be giddy and todo rash and fou {ah things. Thoy aro charmed by a mustache o fascluntod hy i tallor’s cuit. Opora-boxes ani drives in tho park quite turn thelr headshot is to say, tho heads of alddy-henied girts," tty’ very ovident that. our esteemed billlard-markers, cnmoras, planos, aud alt kinds'} will have to cut off bis mustacho We whiled In a bower of roses, My sweot young love and I, But lttte wo beaded tho Lowers Or the hours awift gliding by, Closu, close in tho rosonte shadow, ‘TUL Mp almost touched lip, And the warm young blood did surging go, Pulsing In overy tip. “Onweet my iove, thou falrest flower! With breath ke perfumed May; Thy mouth an opening fairy bower, Worse drentning Love doth stay, ‘Whon ho speaks in thy voico’s cadence, My soul is tranced In bliss— - Olovol that it wero for a hundred years ‘To bo wakened by thy klsal” —Pulse 2,732, temperature 13,407, Our esteomed but somewhat emaciated contemporary, Mr. Schurz, still contioues to dlifuso knowledga. concerning houschold mat ters to the readers of the Now York Post, asthe subjoined extracts from that paper will shor, ‘Tho Genoral and | {he information that it Is not necessary to knock tho entire ton from a stove ia orderto Inte In October, und after remaining here a fow | boil the week's washing fs alone worth the pre of subscription to tho Port: n the wash-boiler is put on tho siove tsteot {uo wolght of tle clothes, wn ‘To none old cotton garmonta with at rt will holp to souls hole jarger, and Imposstb! on. and in foct I think tho best, way to mir Diswolva tho starch If n title coll the real diiferencea botweon them, there muy | water: havo water bolting Iu the tea-kattle, and when mazsibewneit ft is thicl cooking tho starch neous; bing it silehth bit of sperm or ‘or clean, orof the starch burnit Ith black spocks, If prepared in tho water la nctually boiling when you pour ior the stareb your labor will have beon in valu. ———— PUBLIC OPINION. Now York Tribune: ‘The geueral tone of feeling in our cotonial neighbor (tho Domialoa of Canada] toward us is that of a young woud who thinks sho has reason to expect an offer ot marriage. Whothor welcome or not, he makes jal subject of thought and Disco whilo tho mimoxation of Canals [ch fs soldom mentioned inthe rpetuul allustonaad is a mattor w States, it is the subject of po dispute In the poorer country. Providence -(R. 1.) ’ournal (Rep): We bovo a hundred thousand or moro Federal offi holdurs; tho Prosidont, spedking roundly. ay points them all, under, and by virtuo of const tutlonal provislon; ho ia reaponsl cannot follove bim from this reap cannot of himself Intulligontly duty Involved,—it is not within on Icat and montal power. Tho man wi Prosident 18 ig? ir somothing bettor thao t! is not fit to bo President do this work patrlotically. Boston Journal (Rep. goncral feeling that the publlo paid assoon as possible without the industrial -intorests of tho country. certainly, Is the part of prudence. yond possibility that thle country may In such a contingent lo it tt wero bur ): Thore Is 9 very Jnvolyed in war, Government would not bo in rotracted atrize! bt of two billions up Thore {8 no bottor tho ia which i storm than when tho weathor fs p David A. Wells’ lettor to the Des Moines (In.) State Leader (Rop.): It bought a allk dress was stonp! oficial as she ‘wont ott of yards out.of overy ‘ten wore taken from hor and handed ove facturer at Paterson, N. J. butohor, buttor-maker, or ing n bushel of salt wero give to a Byracuso (N. throo-quartera of a bushel ad to have tho privilege or, If twenty ni facially pinntod, harves en to eleven Hosseme: ments cach and every your, thems to mike and gull atec! of tho country at from &0 tally Road ralis coul ig tes tail want bo could be dove opont, neoessary to al ed by a Treasury vos any one tbl maintained Louine cot a Congress tu repe Lt Now York Urine: 1€ tho Br Houso of Lords decide to throw out Irlzh Land bill, upots whic! ontire session hayo ben ex! ontiraly upon thelr own respo bo a wanton attempt to set at ue “whelming majority of 8 bly that bag raco! Me ig, wonstien’ 1810 with obstruct nots, they porsluta: of Itlsb [and rotor, cithor suitloe or oponty rojeutl tho repo ind)fferont in th actual owtiors of ouo-al vented the sul atod a torritor’ invariably oulisted owners aod against a oy fo yopont thulr tue! he Souttite to Bugiant the insauo folly o! yorgo ‘of androhy and h may not have fun I hus bia reputasion as and ho {6 not lkely to! Lords without ame! jes on two mutlol the Commons with one ormare don the very principl dust year’s uot. wud Inerey way Le