Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1881, Page 4

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F APTER, NO. 1b RAM whirty-xeventh-st. and Cotuge Grove: Convoecution Thurday evening, evclock.. special Comniunteation ‘MM. degrees at bo zB special and sen Gas Gomtuntans ‘A tull attendance fs requested. Visuiine compnic welcome. GEO. C'FRY, IL P. M. HARRIS, Secretary. CORINTHIAN CHAPTE auented to be preswnt_ rt PRIN’ “IWM. ML. STANTON, Seeretai vel MD rev nm of the in ih is requested tbat all members Pe onder ; INO. 6. CLUETT. Secretary. GANGIELD LODGE, NO. ow, A. F. & A. tar Commut tion ‘T evening resent We Ml ia, "hall, corner West Mndisun ‘and itubes-sts. “Attract~ ers requested tO be present. Visit TP. 230 Sha G. A, DOUGLAS, See's. ors welcome. CHEVALIER BAYA! -A stated Concla: oF wii be ‘nut day, Nore Ji, at p,m. Visiting Kathie weleome. ‘of . Commander. ae Co FENIY C. MANNEY, Recorder. D. C, CREGIEN-LODGE, NO. w.A. F. & A, M— Regular Comtaunication Wednesday evening, Nov. % at seid oclock abury: for werk. Visiting Brethren ly invited. By order o! eet ed JAMES KEATS, W. AL JOHN GINOCHIO, Secrerari CHICAGO CHAPTER, No._1% Iwenty-second-st. Special evening for work on the Mars Ly panions welcome. By order of M. R.A. Mi—Hall 144 ‘ocation, Wednesday ‘siting Com- AL SMITH, Secretary. ASTILAR LODGE, > meeting an thele hail, Slanroe-st. ing, Nov. & at 7:30 o'clock, for wi: invited. C.HL CRA; CHICAGO COUNCIL OF PRINCEs OF JERUSA- LEAL, A.A., Scotch Rite Masons—Rezt ‘Thursday evening next. iy order uf the 87. P. a ‘ED GOODALE, Grand Secretary. APOLLO COMMANDERY, DRILL, CORPS—Mem- ders ure notified to uppear ior driti Mundus evening, at 8 o'clock sharp. sy Order of the Captain, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1sS1. Tne Washington Evening Star does not Shink much of Judge Folger as a civil-serv- ce reformer. It says that on one occasion, while a Board of Examiners was in New York, when-promotions in the civil service were regulated by examination, he expressed himself as opposed tosuch a method. He iid not believe, he said, in “promotién by tule of three”; held that the examinations did not amount to anything, and intimated that they ought to be discontinued. Cor. Wartsoy B. Surry, Clerk of the Unit- 2d States Court at Omaha, was found dead in his office yesterday morning, having been shot dead by some unknown assasin. Col. Smith was a strong temperance man, had waken un active part in enforcing the hian li- sensejlaw,and the Sunday closing law, and had whus Incurred the enmity of the liquor znen. He had recéived a number of letters threat- ening him with death if he persisted in his dpposition to the liquor traffic, and it is thought that he was murderea because he did not heed the threats. The murder has taused great indignation among. the respect- able people of Omaha and throughout Ne- braska, where Col. Smith was well and. fa- vorably known. ALL the star-route organs insist that sAttorney-General MacVeagh has “aban- doned ” the star-route cases. But in what sense can he be said to have “abandoned” ~ cases that he has solemnly confided to the Jaw-officers of the Government. and the President of the United States? Is that the kind of “abandonment * which calis for severe censure? Possibly Mr. MacVeagh hoped and believed that the Administration would have brains eneugh and nerve enough to prosecute public robbers without his assist- ance. The. assumption that there is nv man ieft in the Government service who has the courage or the disposition to prosecute the star-route thieves sinee MacVeagh has left it is an insult to the whole Adwinistration from the President down. We have not s0 low an opinion of the Integrity, of the Government at Washington as the siar-route organs seem to have. Tne schooner Golden Fleece, which left San Francisco on the ISth of July with Lieut. Ray and a signal service party to establish a meteorological station at Point Barrow, re- turned yesterday. The Captain reports that on the 7th ult. he spoke a whaling bark in Behring’s Sea, and ascertained that in the latter part of September the bark had met the United Siates steamer Togers in the Arctic Ocean. Capt. Berry, of the Rogers, reported that he had then circumnavigated Wrangell Land, had made a landing at several points, but utterly failed to find any trace of the Jean- nette. Capt. Berry said that he would prob- ably winter on Wrangell Land or on the Siberian qoast. His cruise had, up to Sep- tember, been without regult, except that he had established that Wrangell Land was an island. The Golden Fleece left Lieut. Ray Bnd party at Ovglalamie, hve miles west of Point Barrow, on-the 17th of September. At the ume the schouner Jeft- an observatory had been constructed. The imatives were quite friendly. ‘It was i.teut. Ray’s intention to begin the explora- Uob-of the Valley of the Copper Mine early in the spring. with a view .to ascertaining whether the-Copper Mine and Yuton Rivers are not connected.. Licut. Ray’s party. pur- pose making their way to Kotzebue Sotnd when the exploration of the Copper Mine Valley is completed. e Oxe A. Stein, a Polish Jew, met Mrs. ‘Geering, a widow, at Cedar Rapids, Ia., about a year ago, and made proposals of ‘marringe. He was accepted, and. the pair went to live at Iowa City, where they were soon found by Mrs. Stein’s fathet and ‘mother. ‘They did not Jive happily. ' His mother-in-law did not like Stein, ard Mrs. Stein’ soon ceased to like him. se became reckless. The wife sued for 2 divorce, which was granted Fri- day. Stein becavie ‘infuriated, visited ‘his: former wife’s house yesterday, stabbed her to death, and slashed his mother-in-law’s throat with a knife, inflicting what may turn out to be a fatal wound. The murderer dropped dead soon after, from the effects of poison, it is supposed, Tue New York Times, in commenting upon the witer scarcity in that city, thinks that water is rapidly disappearing, and in searching for the manner-of its exit decides that it is sinking into the Interior of the earth, If the New-Yorkers lived in ‘the West they would come to a different ,de- cision, Water is not disappearing here, but on the other hand is, appearing altogether 1oo rapidly on the surface for comfort. The trouble with them is that they fancy what has happened in New York happensevery- where else, and that because their aqueduct has run-iow water is scarce all over the country. There is no danger that New- { Yorkers will die of thirst if. they take the proper means to get water. How did New York live when ithad no aqueduct at all? Iris stated that the “German party”? at St Petersburg, acting on iustructions from} Berlin, maneuvered to prevent an interview between the Czar and the Emreror of Aus- iria, Itis furcher stated that the interview ; between the- Emperor of Austria and the { King of lialy was brought about by the good otlices of Germany, If these statements can be -relied on, itis evidence that Bismarck | meditutes or has already concluded a new triple alliance consisting of Germany, Aus- tia, and Italy. And this triple alliance is much more feasible and mueh more likely to last than that foreshadowed in the European dispatches sometime ago, and which, it was men said, would consist of Austria, Germany, and Russia, When the inevitable dismemberment of Turkey comes, it would be hard to keep the. Austrian and Russian frum quarreling about the parts which each is to take. : Tue Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, of this. city, inva letter to Mr. Scoville, Guiteau’s coun- sel, says that the assasin in entitled toa fair trial, which “the cannot have without able counsel,” and adds that it would. be a dis- grace to the American bar and the Aurerican judiciary if pnblie prejudice should prevent him from having a fair trial. Mr. Arnold cannot believe that there is a ‘member of his noble \ profession in the country “who would be so cowardly and selfish as to refuse to defend Guiteau because he feared that an hhonest, taithful, earnest defense would | bring upon him the abuse of the press.”. Mr. Arnold also thinks that if Gen. Garfield were alive today, and were appealed to- under similar cireumstance to those under which Mr. Scoville appealed to Afr. Arnold, Gen. Garfield would not hesitate a moment. His professional chivalry would urge him. to do alin his power to secure for the accused a fair trial, Mr. Arnold cannot assist in Gui- teau’s defense, owing to other engagemienis. AxpourT $1,500,000 foreign specie arrived during the past week, but the rate for foreign exchange advanced at the close, so that there was uo profit in importing gold. In our for- eign trade, exports continue to fall off while imports iticrease.” During the last thonth re- vorted (September) the imports of the whole country were $2,409,000 above those ofa year ago, whilé the exports were.S8,S00,060 less. The New York banks have strengthened their position by a further contraction of credits to stock-gamblers, and by a gain of $2,700,000 in specie, sp that on the average forthe week they held abuut 34,700,009 more reserve than the law requires. Navigation has about élosed, very Ilttle grain has gone forward for some time, the Chicago prices being too high for profitable exportation. The | Season of fow freights is now over. The rail- roads ate putling up their charges since the lakes ahd canal cease to compete with them, and those holding grain on speculation for an indefinit rise are “stuck,’? as they richly deserve to be for tieir stupid and perverse foliy ‘Tue senior spoils concern pretends that it is extremely anxious to see the star-route robbers brought to justice. It adopts, in ef- feet, the watchword of an- ex-President of the United States, “Let no guilty iman es- cape.” . But as the watchword did not in the former instance prevent a good many guilty men from escaping, lt may not prove to be more eflicacious. now. There is, in fact, a widespread impression that in criminal trials “watchwords” are played out. ‘The pro- fessions uf a sincere wish for the success of spoils organ will be liberally discounted by. those who remember that through all the vi tudes of its checkered and not too reputabfe existence it has been the constant apologist for official rascality aud jobbery of of the whisky ring- to its apology for Bel- knapism, Babeockism, and all the other dis- reputabie isms of iSt}76, was bufa single Step, and if it is not now in secret sympathy with Dorsey, Brady, antl the rest of the “wang” it will give the lie to its whole pre- vious record. Mr. Tromas C. CLaiuin has proposed, in communication printed in the coluinns of Tux TRIBUNE yesterday, a system for regis- tering voters which is vastly superior to the system now in vogue. Lie would have blank books printed in the style which the follow- ing model will illustrate: ELECTION RETURNS. 3 3 at Name. Strect dnd No. ~ | Brown, +-+|No.— Wabash-uy, Town, = Wabueh-at. A] Grown, 1D NO. — Prairie-w' aruadurin, K. U.fNu, Jromles, G, V. X £1 3rompton, . “= Hemoved. D=Deceased. V—Vowd. In other words, Mir. Clarke proposes that a Permanent record of voters shall be kept in every precinct, instead of making out new lists for -every election, as the practice is at the proposed. system.‘alung with the requirement that no person be allowed to vote unless registered previous to the eleo- Aton, would certainly save much time and an- noyance at the polls, and go far tawards pro- tecting the ballot-box against frauds. The work involved in the preparation of the yot- ing-lists would be much less than itis now, ‘wheh. several copies thereof are made? and S mistakes are frequent. -‘These permanent the star-route prosecutions on the part ot the { every hue and deseription. " Froin itsdefense | igsioners? be very much more protection against fraud than there is now, and at the same time the lawful voters would be saved. the. time and trouble now required to attend the work of registration. The plan is worthy of consid- eration by the Citizens’ Assutiation, with. a view to securing the necessary legislation for its adoption, — Axuse of Mr. MacVeagh for retiring, not from the star-route cases, but from the Ad- ministration of President Arthur—for this is the .gravamen of his offense—js usually coupled with mysterious hints of awtni dis- closures about to be made. Newspapers that indulge.in this line of arguinent do_not ver celve that they are grossly inconsistent. - If there are further disclosures to be made, the retireinent of Mr. MucVeagh will be entirely excusable, ashe could not be expected to stay in the Cabinet for an indefinit period to discover new criminals as well as_to punish old ones, .The Administration «may be trusted to take care of the.good work which has been so well begun and is left to it as.a sacred legacy by President Gar- field, Meanwhile the orxans should cease their innuendoes and bring on their bears, if they-have any. They will not be able to sat- isfy public expectation for any length of tine by indulging m the harmless mummery of insinuation and darkly hinting at all sorts of startling revelations ‘shortly to be made” but never forthcomin: i Ow1na’to sharp practices by individuals of both parties there exists at present very great ill feeling between the native. sill mer- chants and. producers of Japan and the foreign dealers resident in that country. The foreign merchants, who are mostly English, German, and Itvian, had been in the habit of taking silk from the Japanese dealers, keeping it in their storehouses for a con- siderable time without payment, and return- ing it If it did not suit ihem. -On the other hand, soine of the small Japanese deers were in the habit of putting other stuffs than silk into their packages, which they suld tu the foreign merchants. Now the better class of Japanese dealers have formed a silk com- pany, and this company refuses to sell to the foreigners except fur cash, and after inspec- tion in the company’s storehouses. eigners refuse to buy. The United States Mimster hus tried to settle the difficulty, but without avail. ‘The silk trade of Japan is at astandstill, The foreigners abuse the Jap- anese, and the Japanese are beginning to dislike the foreigners so- much that serious complications may arise at any time, Tue auxiliary young persons who part their hair in the middle have recommended Mr. Fred Sommer for efection to the Coun- ty Board for the singular reason that “he owns two hardware shops.” This nay pos- sibly seem to the general public an in- sufficient testimonial of virtue. They may remember that Garvey, one of the chief bene- ficiaries of the Tweed ring, owned one or more plumbing-sbops, and Ingersoll, another | of the participants in the frauds, several furniture shops. The fact that Fred Som- mer deals in “hardware may or may not be important; but it is certainly not so signifi- cant as the circumstance thai, when 2 mem- ber of the Common Council, his vote was unitormly east in favor of the tax-eaters and against retrenchment or reform. Mr. Tom Nelson owns one or more paint-shops, and has had several good contracts from the county, but we should hardly think of rec- ommending him for election to the board for this reason alone. On the whole we are in- clined to believe that the most conspicuous dealers in ** hardware” in this campaign are the auxiliary young persons who have at- tempted to palm otf Mr. Fred. Sommer as deserving of the votes of guod citizens irre- spective of. party. ‘Tue apathy of Republican voters with ref- erence to the present campaign is very Uis- eouraging. Semeofthe men who can be most surely depended upon on ordinary oc- casions profess no. interest. in this election. ‘They reason in this way: Judge Gary has received a renomination at the hands of both parties; the Clerkship of the Criminal Court is an unimportant oftice; and there are only five Commissioners to fight for. 1f the Dem- ocrats should elect them all,” say these apathetic yoters, ‘they would only have a third of the Board, which is now sulidly Re- publican, and 2 vigorous minority is a healthy check upon a majority.” The error in. this reasoning lies in the fact that it assumes party lines always to be stri¢tly drawn in the County Board. Such i3 not the experience of the past.. There are already-2 majority and a minority in the | board—a majority of trustworthy members and a small minority that is “uncertain, coy, aud hard to please.” If five Democrats should be elected they would on!y need to win over three of the present members to havea majority on other tian party. ques- tious. We do not -know where these three members could be found, but it is the opin- jon of those who ought to know that Com- uiissionor Dave Clark, if he should be asked to do so, might point out the men, Somer perverse and stupid Republicans are saying “ What differency doesit make which party wins the election in Cook County next Tuesday? The Republicans will still have ten Commissioners after they throw away five seats, and who knows butthe five Demo- erats may all be honest Commissioners 2” Have these Republicans sosoon forgotten the nisconduet, extravagance, and robbery com- mitted by the last Democratic Board of Com- Take the case of the County Clerk's oflice during the time Lieb ran it under the direction of the Democratic Board, and compare it for the same length of time under Klokke, Republican. Under Demo- cratic management in 187 the earnings amounted to , and the expenses were: Pay-rdils * lneidentals. Crerk’s sulary. Tota! Earnings .. Expenses over earnings. Under Republican mana earnings amounted to, peuses iveré: Pu ement in 1889 the 803, and the ex- Net yearly suving under a Republican Cierk, . 78,002 Take the County Agent as another test case: Cost under Democratic! Under Republican man- managements i Ce ‘agement. - Amount saved by Repubtiem 302353 Take the County. Poor-House ‘as another illustratiou of the relative economy of the tivo parties in'managing public business and consuming taxes: es Under Repwhlicar. man- ayemen:. management, 47,818] 1878, 37, Cost under Democratic St Total. $520,792) ‘lists could be readily revised - previous to every election, and by increasing the number of voting pretifcts and thereby reducing the number of voters on each list, there would i Total....0... Total three Fears Democratic, ‘Total three Sears Republican... Amount saved by Republicans .. ....3156.003 Don’t these figures ‘furnish sufficient rea- ‘The for- | sons why Republicans should go to the polls next Tuesday and elect their ticket? And should not respectable Democratic taxpayers help them elect it Tue New York tWortd prints 4 lorg tetter from Litna which, as the editor is the brother of-the United States Minister to Peru, may not unreasonably pe Jooked upon as‘ in- Mspired from high official quarters.” ‘The letter brings the intelligence tha’ the Gov- ernment’ of Pierola nas diséelved into its original elements and left not. 2 wrack be- hind, while ‘that of Calderon, having been “dispersed” by a Chilian military~ edict, has been similtaneously recognized and | established in the rich Provinceof Arequipa, which is to Peru, ax Virginja used to be to the United States, “the mother of Presi- dents.” Calderon ‘is an honored native of Arequipa. “ His proclamation: in that: province gives his Government a home and a basis from which to treat with the Chilian au- thorities. To that extent the action of Min- ister Hurlbut in recognizing Calderon and refusing to treat with Pierola has been justi- fied by events. It is now evident that Hurl- burt went to Peru with instructions from Secretary Blaine to pursue “a spirited for- eign policy,” and that the Secretary was pre- ; vented by the sad events following the 2d of | July from keeping a constant watch on his Minister: The latter probably exceeded his j instructions, but the plan of protesting ener- Setically gainst the absolute absorption or destruction of Peruvian nationality was in cits main fentures wise and beiefieent, The | London Standard justified it in its issue of yesterday, and said in this connection: Consideriug the circumstances existing in South America, it would be simply offering a { premium for aggressive combinations if an- nexauon were recognized as a right of the more powerful, So far, therefore, Biaine bus ‘acted with a slgoe which ought to commend itself to tho world'at large. The Standard goes on to remonstrate against Blaine’s apparent purpose to make the Umitéd States,the sole arbiter in Ameri- can affairs; but this feature of his policy will be among his own countrymen no less popular than the other. His South Am ean action is likely to bring him as much credit as his note on the Panama Canal, which has been approved by the press and | public of the United States wholly without i distinetion of party and without foticeable dissent. ‘ HOW THe IRISH LAND LAW WORE3, Our dispatches from. day to day indicate that the new Irish Land law is working sinoothly and with ‘sati tion to the ten-- ants. ‘The Land Court, though erowded with business, there being already 13,000 ap- plications on file, is making its decisions in a manner that will soon reli¢ve it of the pres- ent rush, and not only this, but will ina year’s time restore perfect order_in Ireland, and make the tenant’s condition mor factory and prosperous than it in 200 years. The reductions in réntals al ready noied by the dispatches are of peculiar interest because they head the list and are in some sense a key to what will follow in all the other cases, and also be- cause they will unquestionably — fur- nish the grounds for a mutual bas upon which landlords and tenants will amicably adjust their rentals without going through the expensive processes of the Land Court. The court at Beifast nas given judg- ment in the cases of fifteen tenants on the small Crawford estate, the extent of which is i 48L acres. Prior to 1806 the annual rent was £430, ‘or $2,150; since 1866 it has been £610, or $8,200. The reduced rent fixed by the ¢ourt.: ‘is£172, or $2,360—a present reduction of £168, or $S40. Of the individual rents on the same estate, one reduced. from S610 to S44: one from $355 to $240, and another from $345 to $200. -The reductions range on the whole | estate from 25 to 24 per cent, or an average of 80 per cent, and the landlords are also re- quired to pay half the “cess” tax. The de- cisions made on the Tennent estate, on the same day, were equally sweeping, the pres- ent rentals of $530 being reduced to 3450, On the day these decisions were made! it was market-day, and Belfast was crowded with farmers, who were not stow in their e: j bressions of satisfaction. As the Court com- pels each side to pay the costs, and its redue- } tions are getreral and ina fixed proportion, there is no question that landlords and ten- ants will make a mutual agreement to save expense. The dispatches reportstill another agreement under the law which is still more interesting than the rent reductions, and this is the purchase of an-estate belonging to one William Ancketell by the tenants. The lat- ter met under the auspices of Mr. Givan, member of Parlitment, who advised them to ; purchase the estate on the basis of the exist- ing rent, The landlord. met the tenants cor- diaiy and offered to give them every facility to become their own landlords, and Mr. Givan (M. P.) offered to find the means for those who could not raise the one-fourth pur- chase money rather than that they should jose the opportuity to purchase. Under the Jaw, after the tenant has agreed to buy and the price has been fixed by the commission, the latter may advance three-fourths of the purchase money, which must ve repaid by | an annual sum for thirty-five years at5 per | cent,.the other one-fourth being due upon the security of the premises. At the end of the thirty-five yoars the holding will be the absulute property of the tenant, rent free, and the tenant is also at liberty to pay off the .sum as rapidly as possible, and thus shorten. the term of payment. Under these provisions one sale has already been madeand moremay be expected to follow, for the reduction of rentals now going on will correspondingly. reduce the selling price. 1f the court re- Guces rents one-third, the land will ‘sell for one-third less, and there will be numerous chances for the tenants to buy their holdings. by taking advantage of the peasani proprie- tary clauses of the bill. Iris one of the most cheering intlications of improvement in the condition of the tenants that the Land law, though it has been in- operation but a very short-time, is already beginning to afford im- mediate relief, That relief will inerease as time goes on and the tenants grow more fa- miliar with its workings. ‘Phe mission of the Land League Js rapidly drawing to a close. sneer THE CABLE S{REEI-RAILWAY. The work on the State street cable-rail- road has been retarded, by several causes. In the’ first place, the laying of the track, probably has proved to be a much more for- inidable operation’ than was supposed. In the next place, the conpany has encountered ; & very unusual amountof bad weather, in | which it was impossible to.prosecute the | work. And, in the third place, the laying of fas and water pipes, the building which has been going on, dnd the improvement of the street have all furnished obstacles. But’; considerable comvensation may be found in | the thurough manner in which the work is being done and the a&sured success that will fullow. Thé track, toad-bed, and foundation of the cable line have been put down to stay ! The cost of the entire plaut will not be less than three-quarters of a million dollars. ‘The. ; iron-work,, cement, and granit are of the ! most substantial arid enduring character. It i will not be necessary to do the job over ~ again, .and the additional time that has been taken” now to assure: durability | | will be a saving in the'end. When, in a few} weeks—probably .by.Christmas—cars shall é be running in abundance, without a jolt or j Jar, and at a rate of speed nearly double the old horse-car raté, allowing for the difference i in stoppages and delays, the people living in the South Division will be fully repaid for the inconvenlences, they have suffered dur- ing the past few montis, —_ . < di may reasonably be expected that this cable-line on State" street will: revolutionize the street-ear system not only in Chicago, but in every large city in the country. Fortu- : nately, State street. is so wide that the space occupied by the two tracks will in no wise inteffere with tlie other travel ‘on the street. ‘The arrangements for preventing a blockade ot cars in the business portion seems to be | perfect. The cars of.the cableline will run north.on State to Madison, there turn to Wabash, run hortli again to Lake, where they turn west to State, and: theit south .to Thirty-ninth street. “fhe run-will be con- tinuous, and there will be no - loss uf time by the turning of the cars, or by an accumulation of cars at the northern terminus of the road. Conse- aiféutly the couivany will be able to run as many ears. as the public demand may re- quire, and run them as fast.as considera tions of safety warrant. [he street-railway companies Inthe North and West Divisions, will be compelled, not merely by public sentiment, but by their own interests, to adopt the cablé system justassoon as it shall be in successful operation in the South Divis- fon, and then the La Salle and Washington tunnels will be brought into permanent and valuxble : Oue ot the greatest benefits to be expected from the South Side cable-line will be the re- moval of all necessity for any elevated rail- way schenié in this city, .The cable-line will furnish the public with just as much accom- modation as could be obtained from an elevated railway, minus the noise, smoke, and other conditions of elevated railways_| which render the streets uninhabitable where they -are erected. The cars run by cable can” be . stopped wherever and whenever. it is desired. Stoppage at every corner will probably be the rule, The time for starting is nil, and the tine for stop- ping very brief. ‘The stations on elevated roads are necessarily several blocks apart, and they are only reached after a laborious climbing of high stairways. The time on the eable-road will be about as fast as on an ele- vated railroad, after. allowing for the loss of time In reaching stations, climbing steps, and waiting for trains on the latter. ‘The locomo- tion will be safer and more comfortable, since it will be on the street-level, and over a road- way as solid as a rock. ‘The completion of the State street cable- road -will connect the southern residence portions of Chicago with the business district more closely than ever before. It will bé more convenient in the future for business- men to live on the avenues as tar south as | Thirty-ninth than it was a few years ago to live as far south as ‘Twelfth or Sixteenth street. The saving of time in making the journey between home and business, the comfort of riding ih spa- cious cars on a smooth roadway, and a*suf- ficient number of cars to furnish. seats for every one, will all beamong the results equal- ly possible under the cable system as with elevated railways, and the people of this city will never be cursed with the annoyances, disvomforts, and dangers inseparable from the fatter. THE SWiNDLE IN BUITER. ‘Lhe Legislature at the last session enacted certain law to prevent and punish the sale of adulterated articles of food, and also an act to punish the sale of any article as butter pot made from’ cream or milk unless the package containing such substance be con- spicuously labeled with the real or proper name of such article.” ° ‘The manufacture of “butterine” has now becume one. of considerable magnitude in. this city, several establishments for that purpose being now in operation in Chicago. Buiterine is manufeetured from lard, .as oleomargarine is ‘a manufacture from grease. ‘These preparations, of course, can be sold at a large difference in price as couipared with butter, but this very fact offers extraordinary inducements for wholesale and extensive swindling. ‘The price of butter’ depends on the crop of grass and the cost of feeding the dairy animals; the price of buitterine de- pends on the priceof lard. The manufacturer of butterine can aliow the retail grocera margin of 50 per cent petween the price of butter and “the price of butterine, and on every puund-of the latter which he sells as butter he makes & profit 160 per cent greater than he can make on the sale of apound of butter, We invite the attention of the pub- lie, especially of housekeepers, to the follow- ing article from the Chicago Grocers’ Bulle-" tin of Noy. 4, 1831: % The Dudletin ts indebted to a South Water strect friend fora copy of the fall circular of the Garden City Dairy Company, Chicago, an institution - presided over by one ‘of our most fumed mercantile citizens, and devoted to the qmauutucture of an article Whieh Is doing untold injury to one of the most Important of Aimeri- can industries, ‘The circular fs of sullivient “richness” to warrant its publication entire: ALL | CIRCULAR—GARDEN CITY Datry Com- A¥, 5! toi Watust avenue, Chicago, CHICAG, Iml—DEAS: We beg to storm you that we Mave resumed the muanufaccyure of outrerine, und feel cuntident that frum uur experience in che wanplaci~ ure of thisarticie it will meet your approval. We re ttully solicit your favors.” We would sugsest that for at jeast two wee orders should, ng mach a4 posed! me culined to avid packed, the weather a3 ‘Yet Leng rathe: favernble fur shipinentof rolls or prints! Beluw piense nnd quotation this date, Subject 10 Huctuativa of market. Kespeectuliv sours, GARDES CITY Datny CuMPANY. * DAIRY BUTTERINE, {0 t0 WD Ibs, soll pack 20 to BBs, sult preces Rolls, 1 16 te # Ibs ew biteked In-new en Rolls. Lap tos packed ta white 1010 (gross) cadd 3 enely, S83 per tek. Ns ted by the Garden City Dairy Company that It-is engaged ina strictly legitimate business, for the reason thitt its Inrd mixture is sold for What ft really is, and chaser. should be obtized to sail under false colors. xs in the cas¢ of butterine, If butterine is in itself an bonest article. und not ag inferior imnitution product, why not give ita distinct nomencia- ture?. ‘Tne desiynaauion of a tring with a tern: to which it is not entitied is cleurtyan xtemptat deception, nnd the bing so desigaated becomes: ‘The uppropriition of the terms "soli “rolts.” “Sprints,” ana especiully ry eumery,” IS clearly indicative of # purpose to.make wh imitation article seem respectible by conceiling it under the di ‘uvmenciature of the genuine.“ Dat cording to Weuster, Goutaing ‘no sugges anything that doesnot pertain to. the sign of milk mio vutter and cheese.’ of the term by vutterine manufacturers is, con- sequently, entirely without watrant,and uo- questionably fraudulent. The Chicago housekeeper who inquires at his grocery fur good butter will be furnished. by the salesman with two specimens, one called “ dairy” and the other “creamery,” and be told the prices therefor, the *‘creain- ery” calling for from three to five cents per. pound more than the other variety. The packages containing these descriptions‘ of butter are generally placed under the counter or so arranged that they cannot beexamined. Whenever the pfckage is not conspicuously displayed the inference is that the. *‘cream- ery” and the “dairy”’thus offered for,sale isbutterine.” Wherever butter is offered for sale there is_no occasion for hiding the package. ‘The law of the State imposes a: severe penalty for selling butterine unless the ‘package containing: it is:plainly and conspicuously labeled -“ butterine.”? No person will’ pay 49 cents yer pound for butterine knowingly, but the temptation to sell buiterine at the price of but- ter, is, there is too. much reason to fear, too strong for the morality of too many retail dealers. The uyerage profit of a re- ! 37 | the people’s pockets than of the people them- bene dues notin any sense defraud the pur- | a Lisinterested people muy, however, be | disposed to inquire why uw lesitininte business | tail dealer on pure butter is from three to five cents per pound; the average profit on a sale of butteriné is from 13° to 20 cents per puurid; hence the linménse trade now done in butteriié, sold ag butter. ale It is-not extravagant to assume that one- hulf the article soid as butter by the retailers of Chicago, at the full. and high prices of pure butter, iss butterine made from lard, which lard in turn ‘sells as lard at the ordi- nary prices. In other words, the same men who sell you butterine will sell! you the same compound under the name of lard; and the retail grocer who sells you out of one pack- j age “pure lard”? will sell you ‘the same article out of another package and exact from you for it the price of pure butter. ‘The only means of defense the house keeper has is to require that the grocer who | sells you butter shall place the package from which he serves it conspicuously before you. If the package is not labeled you take your chances of getting lard or butter; if. he sells you “butterins” fromapackage not thus labeled, or sells you- even a single pound thereot withunt furnishing with ita printed notice that the thing is “butterine” or lard, the law says heshall be fined from $t0 to $300, and imprisoned in jail from. ten to ninety days A HIGH-PRICED ARTIST, Mme. Adelina Patti, the prima donna, has returned to this-country, after an absence of twenty-two. years, and the first announce- menf which she makes to the American pub- lie, through her accredited businéss agent, is } thather services are worth now about twenty= | tvo.times what they were then. She is to give ten concerts in New York and thirty ; more in other. cities, two or three of which will be given’ in-Chicago early in the spring, and then in May she will return to Europe, hoping to take back-a small fortune with her. ‘The scale of prices for her concerts in Stein~ way.Hallisas follaws: Floor, first row, sec- ond to fifth row, facing stage (which are the } poorest seats in the housd for hearing), SLO— | showing that she expects to get this exorbi- ‘ tant price for seeing: rather than hearing her; | first balcony, side rows and rear recess, $5; i second balcony, first row, $4; second to fifth 1 row, 53; side rows and rear -recess (from t !-whieh nothing can be seen‘or heard), $2; and admission (the privilege of standing up), 32. } Is Adelina Patti’s singing worth this exor- : bitant price? No. .She has. been absent from this country twenty-two years; and, jas she was a young prima donna already | Singing“in opera when she went, it does not j. require a very involved sum in mathematics { toshow that the best part of her life has al- { ; Teady been consumed—that is, the best part | | of her professional life: She cannot any | longer be an artist in the freshness and : bloom or her career, however great she still ' may be, and the inference is obvious.that she { depends not alone upon her vocal attain- { ments, but also upov her European reputa~ { tion, to draw these immense prices from the ! poekets of curious Americans, ind upon the { weakness of Americans, which amounts al- {most toa. mania, for running after. well-advertised sensations, as was sig- | nally shown in the craze to see Sarah Bernhardt, who was only a talented artist, and was second to some Alerican actresses { in real ability. Again, itis to be remembered | that Mme. Patti is to appear in concert, not | i { H in opera. If the public were promised the opportunity to see her in her operatic roles, fat the head of a ‘strong troupe, with other | Prominent artists vlustered about her, there | j-might be some little defense for these exorbi- { tant prices, though even then there could be j no excuse for paying them. She comes here ; inconcert. She will sing at the most two songs in an evening, and perhaps in one concerted number, occupying fifteen or twenty minutes of her golden time, and for this condescension she proposes to charge more than three times. as much as we are charged to hear. grand opera performed by . troupes with five -or six artists’ of world-wide reputation. She has associated with herself a troupe composed of artists entirely unknown in this country, even by reputation, a trick often performed by first-class artists who désire to secure all the glory for themselves by ap- pearing with second-rate people who can be obtained very cheaply, thus inereasing the profits. : ‘ The truth is that Mme. Patti has come to this country simply to make money and to miake’just as-much of it as she can in the shortest space of time, just as Bernhardt did, only she has had. more audacity than any other artist in fixing the scale -of her prices. She cannot, return an equivalent for these prices, because she is not worth the money. We have no disposition to decry the fame of Mme. Patti or to belittle her reputation. -She is a great artist, and has been supreme in her position many years, but she is not worth the money, nor can she earn it, nor can any other artist, even on the operatic staze. Itis simply a gross imposition, and should be treated as such. Had she returned to this country:and { charged reasonable prices, she would un- questionably have received 2 welcome and patronage amounting to something like an | ovation, for the: American people feel that she belongs to them, and they are very proud of her position as an artist, but rapacity of this sort would indicate that she is fonder of j Selves, and that money rather than art is the object of her visit.’ Our dispatches indicate that-the people of New York City do not pro- pose to pay such prices and decmn them exor- bitant. ‘The people of every other city where she intends to sing should take the same view of them and make the same refusal. ba | A New Fashion. | When a woman loses her temper, as the Phrase is—that is to suy, when she gets as * mud asa Murch hare "~she invariably expresses re- gret that she is nota man. Of course it goes without saying that in expressing this desire { she has in mind an ideal tan. She does not wish ta be a “hod-carrier,” or a “chimney- sweep,” or a “stoker,”” ora *coal-mine! pickpocket,” ora “cowboy,” or a “bucket- | shop” speculator, or a “ cheap divorce” lawyer. j She means that she wants’ to wear trousers, and | wants to be President of a great railway cor- 4 poration, or arent constitutional iawyer, or a poet like Dante, Byron, Tennyson, or Longfel- | Jow, or an author Hke Hume, Macaulay, or | Dickens, or ais orator like Demosthenes, Burke, { Webster, or. Ingersoll, of a soldier like Napoleon’ or Wellington. She bas an impression that if trousers were once accorded her she would be sure to draw them on ina piace, and draw on | lenrning, wealth, and honors with them—that | they would involve a bark account, a retinue of { servants, troops of frienda, iuxury, refinement, \ | ease, power. : There isin ineradicable conviction in the fe- male mind that skirts are. an insurmountable obstacle to the advancement of the sex—thar-| they keep women away from the polis, the forum, the pulpit, the bank parlor, and rné stock ; exchunge; in a word,. that trousers. hold tho-{ world ia awe, sway the destinfes of nations, and : enable man to lord it over the buman race. | Hence the numerous and petiodiext cecurrence | of woman's etforts at what Is known as dress re- form. The philosophy of thee elforts, is ex- ceedingly cyrivus. On the subject-of trousers for the female sex, women, notwithstanding thelr intense unxiety to wear. them, are vers efutious. Regarding them a3 the key to fame, wealth, and: power, they cannot divest them- sel¥e3 of the impression that their adupnon.by- the'female sex will be resisted to the bitter end by the ‘masculine lords of creation. This secret fear bas paratyzed many.a dress-reform muve- ment. It explains the-utter fuilure of the Bloom-" er scheme. . The Bloomer was condemned by all cautious women a3 tod radical, a3 an “attempt so" 1 | consumer. is not good for the:n. cipitaten contest open and violent, whien it wis believed would result disastrously to the con- spirators. In obedience to this appretiension the Bloomer |-movement was discouraged and tinally: crushed, In is clnimed by thuse who hive made u study of tho, subject that Mrs. De. Maury Walker euntia- sued fo wear the Bloomer costume uz x Fuse to indicate the fuilure of the project and to dis- tract attention from other nents of 2 lesa Pronounce: character. Meintime ft was deters mined to try to secure by stratagem what tha leaders of troustrs movements were coavinéed movement wns inaugurated. It wus insisted oy the advocates of- this reform costume that the trousers priticiplo exists in the putl-bick: that or fusbion, which fus nothing to do with the poe tentiulity of the curment. In support of tn theory the one-logged ann who could not coa- venlently and does not-wear two-legged trons sers was cited, and the puint made that. with the aid of his one-legged trousers, he is 2bié to stale all the hights of fame, wealth, and power. ‘tho conclusion was beld to be ircesistibte that a gare ment which: contains the trousers principic, ag it wus insisted the’ pull-back does, would enable Wountn to secure all the power inherent ia trau- Sers without exciting @ feeling. of alarm in the masculine tind, Hut alas! this dae-spun, theory has not been Sustained by the facts of actual practical ex- perience. ‘Tho puil-back has been very elfect- ually tried. tt has been gradually contructed until it scarcely scryea to comfortably uecom- modute one leg, to say nothing of two; it bad been brought perfeetly to resemble n single misculine tropsers-leg; it bas been pulied back by all the appliances of the dressmaking urty until it ig alt back and uo front. But yeurs of experience furnishes no evidence that. the ine genious contrivaace coutains the trousers prin- ciple. It hag not produced nGould or a Vander- bilt, or a heroine of the Stuck Exchunsze. ‘the large bank accounts aro stitl stand. in we names of horrid man who wear the old-tasn- toned two-legged trousers. ‘There are yet ng constitunonal Inwyers addressing courts in pull- backs, no femule poets like Dante, or authurt like Macaulay, or orators like Burke, or soldiers like Nupoteon. On the contrary, the grass-wid+ ow inn puil-back isas proue to flirt and court eligible buch¢lors a3 ner predecessor in towing sttircs, and the muiden iucased in g pull-back of the circumference of 2 single trousers-leg sitnpers, and blushes, and drops her eyes under the too ardent gauze of the tyrant mun, quite after the old fashion. The single trousers-teg scheme isu total failure. If tho theory that man derives his supreiaey from bis trousers is true, itis amply demonstrated that tho putl- back does not cuntain the trousers principle. But the vigilance of woman is sieeplesa, “When she will she will.” Tho reform is to be prosecuted “by other and equally. deceptive methods. The reformers are convinced, not withstanding their own cited case of the one legxed ran, that the trousers. principle cannot be bagged, gv to spenk, in'the pull-back—in fuct, Ubat it resides in the two-legged garment. The Rew. movement hus its ornan in, London, En- gland. Edmund Yates writes about it in the World of that city. Lady Haberton is at the head of it, and it i3 referred to us buving siready issumed the dimensions of 2 secial eraze.” Gut this tlippant manner of treating the move ment undervalues it, disreurds its philosophy, There is little doubt that 1t [3.2 new move in the Interest of the grent conspiracy to oust mun froin his domiutou. The oew costume consists of trousers—two-legged” trousera—verys wide, witha deep Hounce at the extremity, covered ta she ankle with a skirt. In “n stro dows Bond street the other day, Mr. Yatce “uctually stumbied against two Indies. in the new garb.” Mr. Yates presumably was in a wieditative mood starmg down at the pavement else he could not buve detected the * new gurb,” since the trousers were covered to theankle bya skirt. Why should women wear trousers covered to the umkle with the old+ fashioned slirt, except tu secure the power of the trousers principle without betraying the design of overthrowing the reign of the tyrant mun? Obviously the new “dress-reform craze” isnota“ craze" at all, but a deep-tuid scheme, a lust desperate attempt to demonstrate, once for all, whether man rules find accures all the great prizes of life by virtue uf his trousers on his brain, i Lewis.C. Grover, ong of the Directors of the gutted Newark bunk, was interviewed the other day about Buldwin: - ai Waat is your opinion of Mr. Baldwin person- man pbysicalty, full of life and vigor. but ae- void either of intellectuality or sensibility. Ha never read a book. Inducted into business ia boyhood, fis brightness tuok the fancy of Presi- dent Joseph Halsey, who favored hitn and. bad him advanced from position to position. Ha had no eaucation. no socill qualities. He waa hot a financier in the usual ueceptation of that erm. ‘Twelve yeurs ago the Mutual Ltenetit wanted 4 cashier.” [thought Oscar Baldwin the must prumising young min in town wha would be likely to-be posted on the duily valuation ,of ‘securities. I apoxe and made tlie offer of the position. tle tuok me offer intu consideration... it was understoud that the mutter was to be private.’ Baldwin, how- ever, communicated our offer to President Hal- sey, and the result was that Mr. Buldwin re tained bis position in the Mechanics’ Bank with his salary largely. inereased. President Hulsey #aid at the time that the bark could not do with Tspoke of Mr, Baldwin's Inck of sensi- bility. At the meeting Sunduy night he never winced when the resolutions were pussed,to sus- ad, but there was cain in bis tace when Mr, Frelioghuysen waa writing down the third reso: lution—for bis-prosecution fur ruining the banic. Monday [wrotetor his resignation 3 Director of the instrance company, inclosing a resigna- tfon for bim to sign. He tore up the form 3eat him and returned a resiguation written by him- stif and dated Suturaay, The Boutt met yes- terday and elected Col. E. H. Wright as Director in his place.” ——————— Wry doesn’t the Sixte of Michigan give the 50.14 the forest-ttre sufferers stil! need to enable them to get thruugh the winier? Nobody pinin of such an expenditure of money only be tive tines as inucn as private. eltizer Exstern city nave already civen.—toston Heruid, Just so. ‘The Stute of Michizun. in view-of the assertion that 15,00) of its ‘agrienitural eltizens are in the grasp of a terrible calamity, should at once put its hands into its Treasury und fur- nish every doliar required to mitigate thair suf ferings. “Chis thing of standing on the corner and heggtoy while it i3 alleged that 15,u00 peuple of their State ure sturvwg and freezing 13_ not the right thing to. do. [¢ the people of the United States won't give enough, then the great Suite of Michigan should fucaish the requiced srelief.—Mdiana polis Sentinel. ‘wne people of the Northern cities and towns outside of Michigan have already donated more than half a miliion in money and goods to help the 1,100 or more farmer famities about Suzi- naw: but the farmers of Michigun have con- tributed searcely anything for the reltef of their- brother farmers, and the farmers of the other States have giyen nothing. ———— Tne intelligence of the average New York policeman is Welt illustrated by the following incident of the wuter-famine, related’ by. the Sun: . : A bootbiack in the lower part of Fulton street was Washing a citizen's shues with # bit of cloth.vetore shining them yesterday, when tha policeman on the beat eine strolling along, and seeing « stmull enn of water by the buy’s side, caluly knocked it over with bis tout. “What er 3’ doin'?” said the buy, snappishly. “TT use that water fur to wet me cloth. “Well, young feller,*we're previ 10 waste of Croton. No winder washin’ or strect sptinklin’ now, an’ I'm.told tostop tho flow of Croton whenever Ie Don’t you go luggin* any: more cans of ratdtabout.” “Do you save watek by spilling it in the street?" asked tho citizen whose shoes were being cleaned. “Besides, the trouble’s all vver now since the ruin’. + * May be it is and may beitisn't,” was “te caus tious reply. Fine obéyjn” my orders until L re- celve instructions not to.” : Mr. Saver Mot England, bas undertaken 2 tough job, to con- vince the Poiladeiphians that a bib tax on the He writes to them: “The marvel to mé is how your popula- on consents t be so tuxed in their daily ex- penditures as must be the result of your tari? system. I should hope,” bo’ adda, * that somo moditication of your turi:t might be secured"; out him. thit many of your manufactures do not need protection in'competition with England.” An exchange remarks: ~ i vaniuns that the coddling period of uur Nutioa- allife bas passed, ur ought bave passed, und that the perioa of Inrge and liberal competi- tion ‘Uf this couniry with others shuuid begin, be will actomplish 2 benevolent: work surpass ing in importance ull tne gencrous deeds which bave promoted hig wide reputation as u philag- thropist. Britich withit wry fuce nnd much ag.inst tho wrain.y Nothing but rhecertainty that 12,000 red- couts would commence their forward inarca on palpable in.design to wrest the: sceptre of gu- Premacy from mun that it would inevitably pPe- whip 2,50 British soidiers, but. 12,000 ruther oversized their little pile. Ou tne poiutou whicd could not be'rained Us foree, and the pull-back’ “Well” gaid Mr. Grover, the is'a well-fed - zY, M. P. for Bristol,. and further: "{ bive sven enough to satisfy me * If Mr. Morley can convince the Pennssl- muklng, trousérs with two legs isu mere custom - to him . yE Boers sizned the treaty. with the the ith of November brought thea to terms. Inthe previous scufie they ;had tnunaged to © we MEMOIRS smart meat i { 4 a ae ERS oe Pa iano ‘