Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1881, Page 12

12 THE COURIS. - The Testimony Ended in the ' Blodgett Case—Swisshelm vs, McCagg- Motion for & New Trial in tho Fir- man Case—The Detectives Make, a Blunder, . Two Marder Cases on Trint, with Exe cellent Jarors Selected In + Ne Each, Record of Jndgmenta, New Suits, vorce Oases, Oriminal Mat- + tera, Eto, MRS. BLODGETT’S CASE a ENDED. The evidence in tho case of Mrs, Blodgett against the managers af the Ol People's Home wos conchided yesteritay forenoon, About a dozen of’ tho inmates were examined nto tho conduct of tho Matron in tho home, and more especially in tho dining-room. Their evie dence all tendet to show that Mra, Shankland was kitid and considerate, aud nover used harsh Inngunge towards thom.’ None of thom heard her ent! them Inzy, or sas that Inzincas was 0 ain ngalust the Holy Ghost. Some of thom’sit thoy knew of no trouble in the Institution at ail. Mr. Tyler, the man who supplitd Mrs. Shank- NEARLY Jond with beer, aati, to the best of nis knowl" edge, there were nny six or dight cuses. sent to herintwo sours. tlis driver bod sworn pros viously that he deltvered twenty cnses. Mrs. Patten, an inmuta, teastilied , to seeing Mrs, Bigdgett use the bread-plute and put tho refuse trom her own plate on it, and heard her tefuse to allow the Matron to substitute unothor Pinte for it, Mrs. Blodgett, took tip the plate and sald to the Matron: You shan t have it,’ ileard Mra, Blodgett also refuse tu give up her key when askod for It. -Mrs. Parks, the Solicitor of the home, dented the statement of Misa Smith, an inmate; that she (Mrs. Parks) bad-salid to her In the courts root that It would be worse for her If sho should testify against the Matron. Mrs. Parks said sho spoke tu erin thecourt-room, but never thrent- , ened ber. Tt reply tou question by Mr. Thomns, she said Bhe received 25 per cent-of. the moneys abe collected for tho home. ‘Miss Olive King, an Inuitte, never heard Mrs. Sbankinnd abueo the inmates ar spenk harshiy tothem. Mr. Thomas inquired of tha witness if any one connected in any manner with tho homo hud spoken harshly orunkindly to herself. She ahswered inthe negative. Ho then asked hor Af Mr. SteCag@bad not, a day or two -ainco, ree fused to ullow ber to lenve tho court-ruont, ens ing if phe wanted a home to shelter her sho inuet remain and testify. She replied thut be bad not treated ber unkindly. = ate, MeCagg sald be told tho witness when sho asked permission to leave the court-room , that she bai better remain, Sho way not a witness Tor bis side, and wis brousbt there by the plaintift’s eotnsel, Tho institution which shel-— tered her was in‘ peri, and,, therefore, she bad better remain, ‘That was all he atid to Miss ‘ing. . Hig] o'clock the court adjonrnad, and at the afternuon sussion Judge sooth cummenced bis argument for the plaluelit, MRS. SWISSHELM LIFTS MER VOICE IN PRO> 5 ES’ Ney «To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Ciicago, Dee, f.-Your reporter dues: me @ ferlous wrong whon he suys that on the witness- stand, on oath, | spoke of the counsel for the rosecution jn the Blodgett case ns "a good- oaking man” This eburge of perjury t repel, and dumand its retraction. 1t was tha counsol for the defensc—Mr. MeCugg, the Adonis of tho court-room, the Conkling ut the Chlengo Bar— to whom [appiled that description, when it was necessary for me to designate hin, ng-the man who had advised the lady Managers ot the home that a eltizen of this State may be deprived of the control of the key of bor home, also uf ber entire means of living, without 4 hearing. and on more allegation of oltenses unknown to-law. Lso designated hun because | ald not know bis anmr, and beeuuse I wished to heap conls.of firo on bis handsome hed in roturn for the Ingo= lence with which he had spokon to mo there. li the court-room alinply becanse he knew me ne & friend of the 80-yenr-old worn he Is trylug to subordinate, While iistening to the testimony avhich he drew from his reverend colaborer in this manly und herouleun task, Lo nat but think of “THe Old Ladica’ Home" tn my native alty—an sostituuon manuged for: twolvo years by ladies who have nover thought of calling iu two men to gee that sume old woimnnn sweeps her roan and trents them with *dufecence and reapent," and I wondered if, in that orthatox vity. a Prenohor und tawser could bayd been found to Undertake such a mission—wonderod how tha inanngers would feel, diekoring for deference in return for services rendored to the poor, In that catubilshmnent the “defcronce and respect” comes from tho maqugers to the benelleirics, and n Matron who would-dare bu impertinent to one of. the ofd Jadies would bo dischurged at tho ‘rst mecting, ‘To be sure. tho ts nee parallel to that of the Oki Peap! Tomé of Chleago, for Pittsburg isanald city, and itgehnr- itiea are controlicd by women whose grand. fathers were more or loss prominont itt ita curly Distory—women who buve inherited wealth and high social position, and ene of whom could, therefore, nn more nuke a verdal or printed dee mand for flat froma dependent thin she could display diatnands Ing atreet-car, or toll a servant that abo was mistress, Among tho carly settlers of that city was Anthony Hectehn, Germin Baron, who brouebt hls fam! ie Pluto and fuinily pride with him; alae Gen. O' Harrab, un Irish gentleman, remarkable Yor his ptainness of apeech und slaipllelty of ‘life, Hila daughter ang belr. ss, u woman of large in- tellect, became the wife of Harmer Denny, who wasn prominent luwyor sod Motiberat Cone gress, When It war a great honorto be so. Mrs. Denny was so unnssuming that she was ‘more than ones mistaken for n farmer's wife in we clty to sell butter und ogea, Her lite wns lurge= Iy spent in works of benevolence, nod at for death she left millfons to herhelrs, Sho and Mra. Gen, Robinson, whoso husband was the first eaint bora west uf the Allegheny Mountalna, aud who inberited moat of tho grountion whioh'Alle- agbeny City stands, impressed thomselvos—rheir ebnracter—on the benevolent institutions of tho -olty, and, uniler that: impress, such in exbibl- ‘Hon as we now have in our Superior Conrt roou ig simply impoatibio. Tholr Old Ludles’ Home Iya Pace whero old Indica aro nt home,und tho fden of subjecting oneuf thom in thelr bone to inse- Jenco froma Matrdn ar cook could not ‘be ene Tertalned for a moment, No one ‘qteations tholrrightto complain, or ask for redress of rievnuces. | Any of thou I at perfect Iberty to write to any newspuper ory penton, and mako nny statement abe muy sco proper, or toget any one to writa for her, When compuro . thelr freedom of speech with tho trembling, sluvish terror which I found wmong the old women in the Chleago home, 1 am astounded tnat.n peoply so genvrons as those of the Garden City could for a day tolerate uch an cutrane committed {a the naine of sweat charity. On tho witness-atand, in the face of the world, the managers of this home confess to paring sentence without bearing on women of 8 years, for the crime of taking ton ut no nolgh- hor’a houso, and thera complulning of their treatment, and that sentence, pissed by benovos Jent ladies, was threo and six months deprivas von of all mena of ving, ‘Tho cuve is onu of the most surprisiiy that bas over comu to my know! avon divested of Mrs. Hlodgett's ax. Pulsion; but this brings up ov question whiel Inuat bo roforred to the outside world us atfect> ing its estimate of Chien: er f the tire-relief fund, $50,000 bas been Into that Homo. - Now, did the world inten establish w ec! td, shout be taught to keep house on the Brut. lo-uvenue plan and Ube (uatructions enforced by pains and penulties such a8 no court intlicis for vlony? Did the world contribute money that old women shoutd be compelled to subortinate all tholr ideas of thoir Jegnt rights and comfort to the will ot Lord Conkling-MeCugy? Tt aecina to me as if tho Munagors and ‘Trustees of that bome are sltoply insnne—crazod by the loug ax- ercise of nvsolite authority aver tho defense: fess. It Is time the boards wore ehanyed and that the present members should rest from their labora, JANE GHEY SWisdteLs, FIRMAN Vs. FIRMAN, - Judge Barnum was occupied alt day yester> Any In bearing 4 motion fora new trial In tho tivérce case of Helon Firman against Leroy i, Heaan, which was more amusing than the trial teelf, 5 Mr. Jackson, tho attornoy for the plaintit, sead an oftidavit of ouo Hillott ta the effect that one of the jurors, William Headiaw, hud during ‘he trialof the caxo been seen in clogy conyers jation with a D,W. Marshall, chat on the last lay of tho trial, and after the caso tind been pies to the iu'y; ae latter went over to the herman Huuse for dinuer. White there Mur- shall came In and banded 4 package to Bends uu, which the fatter sininediutely wilpped into. ile pocket, ‘Then the altiduvits of (1, Gill, Fr Jintth, James Frank, wud others were oferdd ¢ how that Heudiun was a polltied) bummer,’ ue in the Thirgeanth Ward, but it appeared: Dat the aitiunts aad Headlum belonged to dit- Jereut factions, and the Judge thought Ute was ,oo abor’ to be wasted In Unraveling the quire tele of tho ward, and excluded ali the uildayits, Sir. Jackson .tben produced some voluminous it w vcborts of Vinkerton'y detectives to show thut Ar. Mursball wasn native Hetatal, 9 Babi seen a reporter un Tug TibuNe. and wllerwards sbitzed to leave Silwaukes on account of have ug wore Wives thun the law allows, ‘This made asinetbing of 4 case uzuiust Hendlum and Mur iball. but It was quickly blown to tha winds by de parties themselves. Mr. Heudlum, whe wuled to (hostand, explitued, and bis testhmany’ wus corrmbrated by two when the jury retired he, would be pullyed to waked bis friend fearing atay out all Marshall to bring thew a pac! oo! in which olf women, all aver of cards to while awny tho tlm 80, and handed them to Headiam while he wos At dinner, Headlam qlse wave bis opinion in not very Nuttering terms of Gill, Smith: & Company, and produced a xpeech and koma other docu. mente whieh be eitimed showed ty tholr trae Lebaraeter, Agnity however, Aho Judge de- clined to hear the ehapter on the dirt of ward holities, and the documents went bick Into tho Whtueas’ packot, . ° Mr. D. Wr Marshall was then called to tho stand, and corroborated tho statementsof Hende Inm astuthe carts. Ho denied attempting, or even wishing, to brlbe Headiam. On crosaoxs amination ho sald ho was born in New York City, and had never been st reporter, or Hye in Bristol, Englands was nt present vonnecter) with the Pocket Raflway Uulde; and realded in C 1, s eo dude here interrupted, and said it was evident tho Sapper Nguro of the witness woul not correspond with tho burly forin of the ex- reporter, his namesake, and that tho detective reports related to another man. This put an abrupt terminntion to the eruss-examinntion, ‘The urgument will bo resutned this morning. 3 z TWO MURDER CASEs Seventy men were examined ns to thelr quail- fleations before twelve jurors were secured to try John Stannars, Indleted . for tho’ murder of Lizzie Cleveland, his mistress, whom he shot Ang. 1, 1381, ‘The pane) ta composed of Charles HL. Parker, ~— Kinzie streat; George I, Palmor, Enwlewoud; Churtes Osborn, No, 74 Currolt avenye; Willian Colll4, No. 40 Dearborp street; Dreyer, —~ Washington rtreet; Samuel Parllament, No. 08 South Water street; Thomas Wiggins, No, 42 Uulon streets C, fl Ibn Be Watish aven 4.,W. Albro, No. Salle street: M, Cuarlos June, No. iu Wabash. avenues Skelbn, jNo. 2u8' Clark | atrect. re cution” chillenzed thirteen uf the seventy, tho - defense eighteen, and twenty-seven wore excused for cause, The opening stntements wera Tage and threo wiitiesses. for the proscention were exninined during the afternoon, George N. Houghtuthig, who know allabout the shooting wt tho time it occurred, aud Who made gotue damiuriyg statements wirding Stronors, but whose memory was vory defective atthe time nf the grand jury Investi« gation, will be examingd thls morning, and sume Tacy testimony is louked for. A jury was ured Inthe ense of Capt. Ben Eyster, who ison tril before Judge Tutey for the nlleed murder of John Schumucher, with out exhunsting the panel—an unusual thin, ue tu the firet-cluss character of the me All of thom bad read about the killing, yet the opinions they bad formed could be rembved by evidence, Ouse man who waa excused, I, tb. Foye, uf No, 212 Monroe strect, sald ho used to bu opposed to capitul punistinent, but oad changed hla views slave Gulteau shot President Gartield, When tho court ndjourned for dinner the twelve wero allowed to separate—anothor unusual thing—it never having been duac bee fore in a murder case In Conk County, Tholr names are as follows: D. L. McLean A. HH. Briggs, H.C. Hannnh, Peter Sebuttler, Albert A. Munger, James Walker, Samuel Parker, W, Kirk, J. P. Sharp, A. Paplin, anid, Be Rel hurt. Scnumuacher, it wit ve remembered, was a huckman, and was ‘shot during 0 quarrol with Eyater In an alley. on the North Site where thelr barng were Jocated. Tho ace: on 35,00 bul, but wag indicted for mur- der, nnd Assistant Btates-Attorhey ‘Thomeoa Btated In his opening that tae prosecution would show’ that Eyster killed Schumacher without JusteBeution; ‘that he enid, "—— Nix y "wont into the hose, got his revolver, and returning to the burn shut the deceased, This Indicates that auine new evidence has been dis- Mr. Augustus Van Buren, who repre- sents Eyster, sitid thero was no euch testlinony betore tno Coroner's Jury or the court ut tho tine the havens corpus ippiledtion was heard, and that if such a threat was sworn to the wit- nesses would commit perjpry. Tho defense will Rhow that Sebunacher, while drunk and wild, attacked Kyater with a pltenfork, and wus shot dn gelt-efense. ‘Two or three duys will be re- quired to gota verdict. ‘The cusu attmets vory Uitte attention, FEDERAL COURT BUSINESS. William Kruexer, indicted fur selling or ro- moving matches from his factory without stamp: ang them, wags tried yesterday befose Judge Blodgett, found guilty, and sentonced to pay a Mine of $25 und costs. Edward Renaud was convicted of assaulting a lettor-carrler named setnings Inst Christmas mornlug ata sniooy on the corner of Indiana , and Sangamon streets. : Goorge Huinmond was found guilty of forging tho Bigature ton money-order, aud food 3260 and costs, Neul Louls Chouinard, a letter-carrior, was’ trled on a obargo of stealing totters contalning money trom letter-boxus, His lawser inade a strong plea for him, and: the prisoier tad his vie ant ubout hulf a dozen children In court to elp aut. Judge Blodgett will hear tho following cases taday: JohnH. Franklin, charged with meuitiug monpy-order blunts; Abert Michelson au: Michaol Gavelle, indicted ‘for interfering with Specint Deputy Murshula at the Juxt cleotion; and Thownus Hickle, Indicted for perjury, DIVORCES, Cornelia Kolly Med a bitt yesterday against. her busband, John J. Kelley, nsising for -n dle vorco on tho ground of cruelty and drankonness, Maury. A.‘ Scott uskedt for a decree ogulnst thon Scott, on tho churgo of repeated erttel- ty. Sho was murrted fu April, 138, and ever slice, she alleges, he bas Improved every occ lon to strike und Kick her, throwing Innivea and forks at ber, kuoeking her dawn with enucepans, or driving bor out of the house. t Anthony Belimun eemplains that his wite Mary left bim nbuut three yenrs ago without ony renson, and he thinks he ought not ta he compelled to support ber, even if siu.should wish tortura, —* : Kiehurd Stono nsks for a decres against Mary Stong un the ground of hubltunl drunkenness, And Horry MeDouald tromAnna MeDonuld ‘on the ground of desertion, 5 Judge Durnum yesterday granted a diyorce to. Ann: Murphy front Joseph SM. Murphy, on tho wruunt of drunkenness, + COUNTY couRT, Tn tho caso of tho West Pork .Commisslonera vs. the owners of property iu the southwest port of the elty which it hus been aought to condemn for boulevard purposes—tu connect tho South and West Side park systems—Judge Loomis yeas terdny sustaliod the demurrer ta the petitionon tho ground, us act forth chorein, that tho Park Comuilsstoners bad no powor under the Constl- tution and Jaw to condemn property for sucty purposed. Tho land sought to be condomned was tt strip 459 feet wide running from Douging Park to the Jillnols & Michigan Connl, whieh was Wanted to build uw boulevard tu connect the South and West Park boulevard ystems, and the = prococdinaa commencol vader Seo. 12 of tho Park act of sth du deciding tho crse, tho Court hetd that the proceedings should have been browne in the name, of tho corpdrnte nuthorities of ; Weat Chicuuo, and not of the Park Commision: ord,and that the avetion in tho statutes relied upon by the petivonors was pteatiy. an Interpo- Iudon, which was neratived ty tho proceding Kecdons, Notlee of an nppeal. to tho Appotlate Court was at once givon,.and the petitioners wero allowed thirty diya In which to perfect (t, Un the cuso of tho Finbilty Hank va, Tho City of Chicago, 1n action brought tu recover nn xs cess Ot taxed paid tho | ity’ revert years ago, Judgment for $87" wis .ens tered tur” plunuif, The history of the, sult “appears to be thitt i 1877 the bunk was uevossod $1,500 for pordanal prop- erty, wud that the County Bourd iu revising the dsaussment ralged It to 2,000, In’ deulding tho ease It was hold tint the the orlgintt asscastuont aut Leow inade prior ta the fourth’ Monday fu ting, and that {tt was the duty of the ‘Town Mord to revise it, and that it having falied to ato 80, the County Now bad no rizht to olther rulse or lower the ussessuiont, Wolds 1t bad buon mnade after tho thy mentioned, The case of + the Uuton National Hank vs. Loula Huck, dee vided py the Supreme Court a few yours ngo, in Which the sanie question was involved, wad cited to sustain the vlow tuken,” bit, uotwithstand. tug, & notice of appeal wos taken, Tho Canadian Bunk © of “Commerce, tho Rtute Bovine Instiputtons (ho Gernuaus Ainercan Bank of Chicago, and the Hydo & Leather Hunk buys slinilar sulte ponding for vurlous amounts, and thoy have ull agreed to ablito tho devision in tho above cuse i the upper. court, . _CRIMINAL court, William Catdwéll sud John Butler, who wero Arrested In thle clty by Shorlif Holand, of Wyan- adotte County, Mo, for robbery there,.and who tried to wetout ona babeas corpus, bit were re- tuunded, left In company with Shoritt Roland for Kansas Clty yeatorday morning. Jutlor Fol4, Chlof- Bailiff Severin, and sevoral other ollicers went to Jallet yesterday with thes following persons, who will remain there for tho time stated unless pardoited: Willan Jordon, Mfteen years; Jerry Mulligan and Henry Wob; ber, ten years cach; Mebacl Dix, seven yours; ry Jubuson, six yours; Charles HMurris, Johny Grady,. aud Hert turphy, fave senra cued ‘Dbowias iyi, two years; F. D. Langhllu, Charl pulleys fobn Hanson, and Jobn Gody, one year ‘Au overcont belonging to Tleut, Shay, who Was preacnt us a witness, was stolen frum the Crlininal Court- ream ‘fucaduy, Iwas hung up nenr the osk of Rouuty-Clurk Doyle, and mist have been taken while he was attending w the stapling. of Jureca, There iwalwayan bard crowd In tho court, and somotines splitvons aro. currledatf, Vollodinen are present every day [1 cilzeu's clothes Woking ur thieves, and now and then yer the mun they wane, tho paly of men un trial drop iu to sce what wdone with Shun, pees ITEMS, Judge Blodgett will bavea petit Jury in the Unlted Btutes Cireult Court on second ‘ucsday in January, : ‘Tomorrow wilt be tho tast day of service to tho Docember tern of the Cireult Court, STATE COURTS.» Mary V, Belknap commenced a sult tn tres+ pats yesterduy agalost George W. Higgins, re Newhury, and {ra Dure! }» Inylow damages at $6,000, “August Magnusson brought sult to recover $2.00) damages of ‘Thomas Nenning. Willlain Miverar comiienced ate netion In tres- pane unaltias Taune Saris Kad the Clty of Chian- 0, laving damages nt $25,000, Avila Skinner aed John A. Seaman, and Willlum C. Kennedy for $1,000, Mary dXochler ‘commenced 9 aut of $10,009 Anauges against tho City of Chicago. : ' TUE CALA ‘ Jupar DrumMoxv—In chambers. | Jupar Weovurrr—Call of eriminal ‘calendar, No ensy on trial, .UupGn GAnyAssista Judge Anthony. No case on trint, $ . JovAF NtIT—No first call, Trinl- call Nos, AGH, A743, 470, ATE 4,758, No. 4,603, Peuplu vs. Okt People's tome, on triat, JUNDOR WitttaMson—Assists Judo Smith. No, 4,08, Derg vs. Chiengo & Enatern Llnojs Rastroad Company,‘on trial. AUDA ANTHONY—055, 055, 640 to 067, (8 to O70, » OF%, G80, G2 to 035, 638, B80, OO to ON, O90 to Git, 700, No, 4,315, Fard va, Jotingon, on trial AUDOR CAtoONER—Set case No. 624, Cammings vs, Averitt, and calendar Ni 4andi, No vase on bearing. Hy JUDGE NOGEIE—No_ first call, ‘Urlal call 400, aie, TH Way TOA, THU, Tidy TTB, VTE, TEE. No. “it, cuxe on trial, f ADU MORAN—175, 185, 186, 187, 184, 180, 1002, 199, Whe 1h, 100, 197, HR, WW. No, 18, Chlengo: Furniture Company va. Mann, on trial, Sh eal eH, RL No, Sa, AUDA AWE =23, Carlson vs. Lindberg, on trial, + _ dung Hansun—Set cuse 381, Fonda va, Lows ch. Motion for new triat in Firinan divorce ense on beveling, * re Jtpus 'chey—-Motions from 9 to 10 a.m. in ila chancery room, Avods JAMESON—Murdor caso on trial, ToLEY—Murider case on trink * Jupan Loostis—tnsine cases fram 9 to 10%, Nos, 44, 0, SO, Shy 40!G, AT, Ae, AD, Gi, 18) at, Hh, Tob, fo, "210, 13) 1h, 223, Bay 195," 137, ‘ TJONGMENTS. Surenror Count—Jopoe Gany—Minnie Kusto va. Take Shore & Michigan Southern Rallrond Company; verdict, $0,000, and motion for new trink—Henjamin Grossman ys. Willard N. Deus ner, $080,71.—J, C. Thomson vs. Edwin Walkery SHLM—Incob Welss vs, Abner C. Lounts, S718, H. Swett vt al, va. Jane Moss, $479.00, —Hridget Fox ot ol. v3, Elizabeth Tang, branes Lang, and Henrys Abrabatns; tinding. dened chaumaes fy and mation for new'trhl, JUbOR SmiTH—O. FB, Fuller et itl va. Louis Lambewu and Adolph Golschinidt, £w17.— i W, Pelt vs. Be He Talbott, $406,88.—Franklin MacVeuxh et nb va, Alonzo W, Sweet, stk Ue Sune vs. James Luthrop, St6.04.—Hanillton Harris vs. Ilebard = M. Hovley, Jose Butebelder vg, Burtley Cumpbell, 24: olin Gh, Botenschitz va. Edwin Walker, $3.05, | ‘¥—Charles Stein et al. vs. 3. F, AOE, 5 JubaK WinttasKon—O. 1. Maun, use, ote, vs Aaron Schwab and George Llch, $43, . Cineurr Cout—lunie Koakis—David B. Dent v8. Michael and Jobaona Evang; verdict Junar Mouan-—Edgar Sanders vs. John wW. Tyoper, 8218.08. ne Juvon HAwes—Thomas Rurford vs, Thoma Dowling; verdict 22,100.20, and motion for new trin—Andrew Juckson ys. Samuel J. Coyne and Joseph Kenney, $75, ° 2 OTTAWA APPELLATE, Sveetat Disputeh to The Chteaoo Tribune. Orrawa, Ill, Dee. 7.—The following ‘proceed- Snge wera hud In tho Appellate Court today; No, 107. Peck ve. Coaitteld Conl Company, for use; motion by appellee to allirm judgment un- der mandate of Supreno Court. Nou. W3, Haley vs. Gull, cte,s motion by np- Pellant to puss cause until No. 705 (s disposed of. No. 782. De Long va. Gies; motion py appelland for extension of time to dle briefs, ne No, 18h Kapp vs. Melss; motion by appellant , for extension af Une, No, 801, Tinlligs ys. Sinith et ni; motton by Appellant fur oxtunsion of time to file abstriata anu briefs. No. ww, Bordon vs. Allon; same, No. B10. Bowen vs. Wils game. No, 707, Powell vs. Allon; mation allowed tinie in which to ilo abstracts and briefs extended tun n'a, f ‘Tho examination of students was completed todny, from the fact that the eines is only com posed of sixteun, und heretofore ft hua heen about thirty. It seuma that tho students wero notaware of a chingo In tho timo of huldiag tho sessions of the Appellate Court, ATLANTA'S EXPOSITION. Donial of tho Story of Crootcedness in Connection with Scerctury Wick-« man. iy es “ Spectat Diepateh to The Chleago Tribune. ‘A, Ga, Dec. 7—Tho arrival of Ine containing the Rpeolut reiutive to the inyestigution at Jon W. Iteckmun, Secretary of tho Cotton Expusltion, created quite a ripple hore In certain circics, aud had tho effect of culling a special meeting of the Executive Com: mittoo yesterday afternoon, nt which resolu- tions were. adapted to tho cifect that the dis- patch to Tne Cniwusxt having references to the Investigation of that otflcor had nu foundation {u fuct. A member of the coinmittee who was Present at tho mecting; Upon being questioned by your correspondent, anid that charges of a gruve character wero preferred, which embud- fed falsttleation and generat crookedneas, and that 1 vommittce of threo mombers hid ox- amined’ = inte | thom and = exunerated: Hickman = from all tho. charges ex~ vept that of unrelvanesa, und hud ndopted Uns pesulirdon with w view of. busbing the mats tor ip. ‘The Executive Committee consisted of twenty-nine menibers, only cight af whom wero Presene Ae tho inveting. Une of thoav waa Hick suatty Lhe Enrty Undue tudictmeut, and uyother was Viroctor-General Kimball, woo nnd taken avtlye Blupa to stop the investigation by calling: pon embers of the Investization Commit Jn person. Tho Information given io tne fh Uispiteh was procured from in nuthoritative souree, Who today rentirined what find boon ant, A prominent member sthted that tho in- yostiration wie Kept from the public for four Cit tt woutl tnjuca the Exposition, in all nrobabhity this nitulr would hive been forever: kept in tho dark but for the infurmation given to the pubile by your special correspondent, VOSCAMP, THE MURDERER. Mis Cuno ‘Callod for Trini at Kalamus 200, Mich/, on a Change of Venue. ~ Sveciat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Kavasazoo, Mich, Deo, —Tho trial af. tha murder case of Lumburtus Voseump was begun itt tho Ciroult Court here thia uftbrnoon, ‘Tho defense is insanity, Lhe caso was removed from Ottawa County under a chango of vouuo to tig county. Voscamp murdered one Lyman HL. Cady, of Ottawa County, Inat spring, beeauso Cudy, for’'whom he was workimg, would not gettle with him and pay bin what he asked, Tho murder was W most atrocious one,, and done §n tha presence of Cady’s fumily, and, du spite, of tholr carnest appoals ugd olforia to stay’ him, he shot tim after’ ho was ilrendy fatally wounded and down. Voscamp, twill be romombercd, was visited by a mob At Grand Haven sume thine agoy bute owing tu tho ellcieney of the Storill's wife, Wey were foled. Tho chahge of venue wis granted on that nue count, ‘Lhe attorneys ure al work getting pho jury, and ive adjourned till morning to vom- Dlele 1he fish, - Fhe euuysel for progeoution sre Ucorga: W. McBride, Provecnting Attorney of Ottawa County, asaluted by Frank EB. Knuppen, Prosecutiug Attorney of Kulumuzvoa County, and senator Furr, of Grand Haven. Counsel for defense tire George 2, stewart, of Grand Haven, usaisted by Sherwood & Btownet, of this plice. Alurge number of witnesses are subpunied, tue the chee will tuke soyural days. CAUGHT AT. LAST, Arrest of Three Boys for n Recent safer Mobvery tn Missouri, Spectat Dispatch to The Carcago Tribune. 87, dosnt, Ma, Dec. L—A fow weeks uo the sate at Muitland Station, on the Chicago, Bure Ungton & Quincy, was opened and some 8700 or OW ubstricted, The exte was entered by te cumblngtion baying beew given away, For u Uae it seemed no cluw asto who the guilty: purtles were couid be diseuvored, but deteupives went 16 work, and thrend by thread tho. atfalr ‘became unraveled, aod lust night a Deputy United States Marsh urrested threo boys, or youn men, residents of Sluttland,” who wero lodged in jull ut Uregon, “Holt County, fhe named) of the youths ure J. Curalius}i, Horbert stevens, and Nell Wauk, all puputur ud prominent young wen, Charley Teach, ie station agent, was peeatly denaured, and barely ceeuped being arrested; but bis Previous honest record guyed bim, aud bo wave ‘ibe detechve pica ussitunce, Parshall wie Jiol's clerk and Uperator, and by and Lose had the gute oumbination, Mewides the mune: there were number of valunble artic papers, ete, thkon frum tho safe, It la aasd thas. & good dealof cvidenvy exlets ayalist the threo boys nowde Jall, a ‘A SUIT FOR MALPRACTICE, Soecial Misvateh to The Chicuoo Tribune Quincy, Hi, Dee. 7.—The Jury in tho malprace tley sult of Prot, Mall agalnat De. Sumuel Heury brouyat tua seglod verdict lust clgbt, Ieisune slerstool it piven nbout &1,000 to Prot. Hull. Notice of uppoul was wiven, and tae November terms of court then adjouracd, after a continue ous desaion of tour weeks, ——aa Carter's Little Liver.Puls must not be con founded with common cathartic or. purgative pilly, as thyy ure eotirely untike them iu every: Suspect, One trial will prove their superiority, ARREARS OF PENSIONS. A Concise History of the Plun- dering Scheme. ay How the Washington Penston Agonts Got in Their Work. Their Ingenious Manner of Manufact- wring False. Public Sentiment, Passing a’ Bi Before Learning What Its Results Would Be. Commissioner Bentley's Dismissal—$236,- + 000,000 Wanted This Year, Aly Telegraph to New York Tribune: ‘ WASHINGTON, 11.C., Dec. 4.-Sinco Commise sloner Dudley's estimato that it would require $235,000,Wu0 to pay the remutulng claims for are rears of pensions was published in the Tribune a fow days ago, the origin of and responsibility for tho Arrears-of-Pensions bUL bave been thy subject of universul discussion and inquiey, Nonrly oyery newspaper of Iniluence in tho country bns expressud indignation that tho bill ssuould baye been allowed to pass, and it. has even been argued that it woulkll bu botter oven how to repoal the measure than to pry out tho chormous sums which it calls for, Commission or Dudiey hing been nestled, as If he was ro- sponsible for tho measure, und os if the publi- cudion,of unpalutable truths was reprehensible, Cungrossmen In Washington have been’ seeking some pretext bebind which they could take shelter when questioned regarding thelr own action, and several havo suid thot they wero tilsted by statuments which they were given to understand Commissionor Bentley hud made, THE RESPONSIMILITY for the Arronra bil must be shared between the ring of pension-cluim rurents and Congress—tho former fur the conception of the Job and the latter for lending itself to tho scheme without tuking pains to ascertain the facta in regard tu: the mesure, Tho matter will undoubted|y be mado the subject of discussion nt the coming session of Congress, and the history of the Ar rears bill and tho meustres related to It should bo talrly known, Tho program of the claim agents was comprehensive, und thelr plans wero swell Infd and skittfully carried ont. ‘The annual nay ments for pensions fora a few years previous to the passage of tho Arronrs bit! were between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000, ‘and thoy wore on tho (lecrease. With tho lupse of a few more years all'tho penston-claims would bay been fted and tho clitm agents’ occupation gone. ‘Thos determined upon three thitigs, which were at- tempted, and in all of which thoy haya been suc- cessful. Thoy proposed, first, in plain wards, to get Congress to pny a baydsome premium to ap> pilcnnts for pensions jn order to: swell the bual- ness of the claim agents; second, to prevent tho adoption of tho mensures for the protection of tho Government recommended by the Commis- stoner of Pensions; and, third, to sectre the dis- nilesatof Commissioner Bentley, who bad proved att abstacle in thoir path. Tho Arreara bIW belng prepnrdd, REPRESENTATIVE RICH, OF O1T0, was tho first tu Introduce Jt, bis measure was referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions: .Of tho Forty-fourth Congress, and was nev reported buck. Tha clam nents prepared thousands‘of petitions, which were sent through tho country, t6c-aiguatures, and when sind wero sont to Congressmon, by whom -thoy were. presented, cuusing it to apperr that theré was a wide-spread. demand for the passnge of the monsure. Advertisingshects, publighod by firms of claim agents here, with bigh-sounding titles, and purporting to baye for thelr sole funtion the dofenso and promotion of tho interests of tho soldjers and suitors, wore Alle with glowing cittogies of tho-monsure and tho zon it was to accomplish, with denuneiue tions of tho mansnres introduced for the reor- ganization of the Pension Oftlee, and with bitter altse of tha Commissioner of Penstons as tho enemy of soldiers and sullors. A DI substan- thily ike Git introduced by Mr, Hico wag in- troduced at the next session of Congress, nod was Ukowlso referrest to tho Committee an Ine valld Pensions, ‘Chis bill sharod the fate of its pred sur inse farasthe action of the vom mitted was concerned; but tho cluim agents were not thus to bo dutoated, Un Juup ly, 1878, : REPRESENTATIVE HASKELY, OF KANSAS, moved that the vommittee be discharged from the further consideration of the bili, nnd’ that tho rules bo suapended and tho dill pusacd. ‘Two or threo inambers who attempted to say somes thing were told that debate was not. tia ordur, nud tho bill was thug brought tua vote and passed, without receiving any consideration y the House, and, us far as can be seen from tua reoord, Without conslderntion oven by the committee, Tho bill reuched the Senate Cain mittee on tho sanic'day, and was reported ba! und passed by the Sennte an Jun. 16, 187. The debate in the Senta consumed several hours, and $8 chiolly remerknable for tho fet that ne one seems to bave taken the pains to ascertain from the tisval souree of information wont the possiblities of the bill were. Senator Inyalls, who reported the bill from tha comunitteo, ap- Peured to havo all the Informiudon extunt upon tho aubject. . ‘The following 1a ae QuoTEn Fro TE RECOND: Mr, Salsuury—Isboult ike the Chairman of the Committee .on Pensions to indicate tous sonething us to tho umount of money which WH be required to pay the pensions here pro- Net for, Wo ought not to vote bilndly.on this tmutter, Mr. Ingalls—Mr. Prealdent: In 1876, whena similar mensure was pending tefore tho Senate, 1 addressed 4 communication to the Comm: sloner of Peuslons and asked bla for infor. Hon io regard to the amount which wauld be ree quired to nuke the bill operative. 1 received tram bin a statumont, which was printed us nilscellancons doguinoht No, Kt tha flrat aose sion of the Forty-fourth’ Congross, whet vives sin-detull, u8 far ns itoould be ascertained fram tho records of, tha Penuion Ollice, the amount that would be friend ty pay the arrears both of invalids and depundents in unch yerr since tho adoption of Seo, 4,7 of the Navised Statutes, Tdo not know that It-will be necessary to read speeintly annual umounts, but up to the Ist of auauary, 3670, the = Conunissioner reports uit thors were 1044 invaild cases, to which tho Hmitation of the section applic, and the estiinated amouncof arregra at that tine Was S,G,775, Phe mimber ofwiduws and due venienta was 4,145, Tho amount required to pay the arrohra of those would be Sabx7 ses, Waking 2 total at chat Ung of SEA17,10, Poere have been three yours since that date, and, of courde, J can only cetimate whi amount would bo required alnco: this compilition was mide; bot, taklug tho estimate for 1874 ns an avernye, my Judgment would by tat to this sum sbould -bo added not loss thin $5,000,000 for chins since: uttowed, to which tho Umitution wow applin, OF courda, these eatimimtes tre very largely in the nature of surmises, because wo cannot tell until tho bill is put peactleally in operation ex: uotly what will We required, dir. Conkting—Muking In all bow much bus tho Benatoe hug lt thore? . Mr. Ingulla—Making $1 all up to tho Ist of January, 1st, tho sum of $13,417,100, and that, 1 ehould “Judue, woul nerenacd by not fess Than 85,000,000 wp to the Ist uf January, I Ar, Conkling—Whicb tnulzes about $10,000,000? Mr inaulis—t whould: judgo somowboro trom. $38,000,000 to 20,000, 0ud tn Found. numbers, Qe will amount to twouty thea that sum.) tor the bill was passed and while (t wna acitt UNDE Ct IDERATION WY THE PRESID ND. CABINET, “tho Triline’s diapatches sunonced that further examinotionahowed that larger amount than that first songunced would bo required to meet ite provisions. On tho next day It was divetesed in the Cabinet, and Secretary Shermun tald ola ussoulates that Ie would require an exponditure Of Slavuuuuy, At the noxt Cabluct meeting, hel on the Sth of January, Seerctary Sebure read a Icttor from Commiasioner aes saying: that the bill would require an immediate: vo: pendliuse Of $3,000,000, tu be followed by target y Increnged animal requisidons to curry” out Ht } peaviatons, and that since ite passive the wuins ber af lutters asking for blank 1 iptcauians, tor fourfold. tho’ income of then only pensiona hud inereasod Sherman ernment was miet current expenses and — Interoat on tho public dobt, and that the Arrears vill would cnuse a vory bepyy drain upon the ‘treads. ury, Which could not Ge met oxcopt by thy sale of bonder or the levying of new tuxea, Other members of the Cabfnet auld they thoight tho pesseneepe bil ajready been nore generous to tts pensloners thun nny other on the face of the aneibs that it bul already provided fur thuso soldlers wha bod been disbled by reason of service, luring the tino the disability continued, a thee it was not called upon te do wore, ‘Thoy suit phat thery were thousunds oF Instances Of, pers boluy ably te cura a livelihood for yenra ufier thote discharge from the urmy, re- innining during all the thie substantially nhles bodied. Patter ton or titteen year bud elapsed ine became didubled and could trace (hour dis- ablfity to wounds of diseane contracted whole jn the ibllitury service, then they were penslons able under extas nue luwa, but the wew Jaw would peuston them for all tie (dae when thoy were without disability. Notwltastundl: ond argiinedts the bul wae ei Lier the erieura ce swindle bud been in ope eravat only ute monti, whon those who yotud: dort PEGAN TO DECOVER WHAT THEY ITAD DONE, on Feb. 25 Fe ctor Law ila, when loteoduy og an Smpndment o a Peuslon-Appropriution bill for Secretary tne Gove sulictont utd theas facts THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, .1881I—TWELVE PAGES. effecting nrodistricting of thacountry withaneye to guarding the punsion-roils_ by a how moilo of taking testimony pon pension appliicatian, s+ tonlabed tho Senate, by enyings " Duriuz tho present pene, under jo operition of tho Ar- rears-of- Pensions wet, more thin $00,001,000 Is to Doexponded” It this conacetion, with a do- lous aleiness tho Sonntor from Kansas added: “The ponston aystum is one of very great mage nitude, Since thia Guyernment was Inaugurated more than $600,(kx),000 has been paid out in pene etons.” The was challenged by Senators Gordon and Withors as to tho siguificanec of his amond- ment, Senator Withers sald: * tnimedintely after the passage of tho Arrears-of-Penslons Dit the avalancty of applications that wos nt once precipitated upon the Pension Murenu tne dleated an indispensable necessity for sane ehunye in the mode of investigating and adjitdl> enting them." While this subject of rearramnr. Ing # eystem only a month old was pending, tho Commissioner of Pensions, Mr. Buntley, enmno beford the committee, and stated that 20 percent of the ‘Petatns thon being piid wore tratidte lent, Senator Howo, fi commenting on tho statement, mentioned as within bis own Knowl enue the case of 4 pension azent who obtained 280,000 upon clalma presented in the names of widows of olflvers whu had died unmarried.) TUK NEXT STEP In tho history of this remarkable Jegisintion was the pussiuge of the appropriation tu ineet the first demands under the Arronra bill, At nt tempt was made in tho Sennto tu have the meas. Ure migantled tho * Sixty Surgeon bit” utteehed to the Appropriation bill, It provided fur a por sonal exnmination by w phystelan and ‘lawyer, on the part of the Government, of overy npplte ennt, fora pension, Ht hud been recommended by the Commissiongr of Pensions and the Secre~ tary of the Interior tn aevoral eiecessive ninual reports, aud bad the unanimous support of tho Sennte Committee ou Voustons, It wits proposed Kon amendment. and defented, “Semtor Chandler supported the meusure In a powerful speech, and anid, among other things, that. tha Secretary of the Interior bud stated tint tho proposed plan would, If adopted, anve millions a coro Ag $25,000,000 or $30,000,000 thenunnually expundod, in the‘debate upon the appropriation itaclf Mr. ‘Thurnian sald: When that Arrears of Ponsions bill was under consideration, if my enradid int lecelve ma, tho Chulrmin of tho cominittce read 1 communica don from the Commissioner of Pensions about Kyenroid. I think It wae in anawer to a queae tlon put by sone Sonator here as’ to how tnuch that would tuke ontof the ‘Treasury, and that statement, 1 Thened aright, was that it would tke about $18,000,000, 6. . The very next thing after the passage of the bill that | beard was that tho Commissioner of Pensions required $4.000,000 for the present fecal yenr, and thirty oad million doliars for the’ next tseal year, und there Js no telling. whore It is to end. And ive fre told iv somne quarters that it will take €0,- OW), Oi—same say 200,000,000, nad Bome sy $100,+ CnOW—oUt OF ho ‘Treasury, Linust auy that {¢ thutt 1s so there wie a erlevous crror somewhere sence the Arrears of Pensions bill was .conald- ered, . THE SURGEON BIL belng defeated ag an amendment, came up carly in Febrnary ns nt indopondent measure, and Was discussed during several duys. Senator Withora, who was in charge of it, wis wenk and ineficient; Gen. Logan, who took the lead In Opposing it, wits positive and nyeressivo. Sons ator Kirkwood, SOHNE of tho bill, raid inn speech thnt be bad recently received a letter trom an ayilow th his State beseechtur bin in Plulntive terms not to support tho ‘measure, slice tf it passycd sho would not bo tivle to meet the necessury expenses of proseonting ber claim for u pension, He had repiled, assuring tha writer that she was mistaken, inusmuch us tho DILL was designed to nil bor. He threw. tho Iet- ter Into bis waste-hasket, and took up bla Tribe une In whieh bo found a Washiugtou iispater duseribing the metheds of the pension- vlaim agents, and ha noticed, among othe er devives thatSthay fad sent out priced dyatts ot letters which were to be caplet by pension-olaim ngenta, and sent by niall to Sonu- tore und Representatives, ‘Lhe junginre of tha. Iotter looked famillac, and he went to his waste- basket, picked aut tho fragmortts of tha widuw's letter, aud, enmpuring it with that printed iu tho ribunc, be foun them IDENTICAL IN LANGUAGE, Sonatar Saunders, an opponent of tho mens- Ure, whe bid not hurd tha romarks of Mr. Kirkwood, nude x speech, during which he rend a plulntivo letter from one of hla constituents hesceching him not: to support tho bill, It proved to he tho same letter. Senator Withors gut he bad recelyed forty of thom. Senator Burnsida satd: “1 tell you: that LP know, as well AS AMD Cay KNOW inythisg which bus not been demonstrated positively, wnt the great opposi- fon to this Dil has been brougnt about a tho eluim agents of thiscountry, . . . ‘hoy hive commanded iny attention; ono of them com. manded my attention tats very day, and made mo Hazen to hin tor half an hour." ‘Tho Reorganization bit was dofented, «The noxt and lust stop in tho progress of the schamo vd tO secure the removal,of Comuissioner ley, ‘Thtswas done by incessantly burping thulr advertising sheers upon hls ullezed se- verity upon tho adjudication of clating and by: circulating thougands of potiuons for the alg- intires of ex-sdldiors, praying for his removal, by which Incans 4 politica! presauro was brought 10 bear upon the President too strony ta bd re- sisted. ‘The cluim agents were, however, not succeseful in getting tho man of thelr choico into the position thus mide yacant, , . THE MOST UNIQUE FEATURE of this remarkublo setivino was tho bonatings which followed tho pussayo of tho Arrenra Ui, Mr. Rice, of Onlo, became! a cun- didata for Governor, aad based his cane didacy upon his .otforty In bebalt of tho suld- furs, olanning that tho Arrenra bill was hig handiwork, but the clin uzonts came in and establlahed their own right to tho credit of bay ing dovised tho measure and pussed it, The inmost nvtive of thom, not content with the legitl- mite advantages hls cluss wore certain tu su. cure, caused t2 bo printed and gent out by the thousuad tha tollowing: : "In recolteenon of the lubor of — for tho past threo yeard In conducting tho prosecution of the Arreurs of Penslons bill, wich hus re- aulted in alaw, L hereby.subscribo the sum of —— dollars towards 2 textimunial to hl, pay ablewhen Lrecolyo the urreurs of any pansions due Ant Signed) * — Address —, ‘ * ‘This wus uccomprnicd by circulars, signed by leading claim agents of Washington, bearing testimony to tho eficlenoey of the person numed in pressing (he mutter upon the attention of Congress and-in educating the press, We public, otate Legislatures, and other bodle THY PENSION-CLAIM. AGENTS fro comparatively fow fn number, and thoir proportion of tha money now appropriuted and to bo appropriated for tha payment of clans, tho origin or which Is traconble te the Arrears DUI, WI aggregate purlups %5,000,000, «A aingle cliim agent now bas 40,000 clilms pending bos Tore tho oflec, and his own feos wilt uuoUunt to ‘At lest $100,000 upon thon, These feos tire patt to the cluln agont by the Goyorninent ny fast ns tho clutiag are grunted, and the money cun be ug#urely counted up ad if it were alrendy dos posited in bank in tho ayent’s nume, | Tho amount of money which has gone and will go {niu the bands of people who huvo no legitinute vight ta pensions, by reason of tho fuilure of Congress to provide for the porsonal oxuninn- ton of clitinanté and thelr witncases, ne Urved by Commisaloncr Bulttey and Secretaries Caun- ler und Soburg, enauot be cathnuted. ' TOPEKA, KAS. A Kansas City That Is Growing Iap- & bye Speciat Correspondence of ‘The Chicago Tribune, Tovrea, Kas, Dec, 4—Your correspondent hna lutely yislted ‘Nopeka, the Cupital City of Kanau, and of all tho cities between tho Miv- sourt Kiver and tho ooky Mountains Topeka pow enjoys tho grentest ‘business boom. Tho elty throughout shows all the evidences of rapld xrowth and prosperity. Many fino and beauth ful realdences use being built, new churches, now business blocks, streets graded and im- proved, and finprovermonts genurally aro tuking: place which would. do credit to an castern town. ‘The Govornment 1s now, complotiug a custom- house und peat-ottico bilding ov Kansus ave- nue which’ will bu. credit to the clly; anda stock company composed of many of tho young and entorprising men of tho plice will next year bulld an opera-house, which, it 18 sald, will rival any building ot tbo kind weat of tho sissourt River, ‘Lopeku te tust becoming an importuat rullway centre, und several hines of rallivay are now building from tha Muasourt Hiver into Kansas with ‘'Topekn ag an objective point, ~The city uso. bas oa. bunanze in BAN ing hore the inain ollices and headquarters of the Atenison, ‘Sopeku & Sante F6 ltuliroad,, ‘This wide-uwuke and Vigurous corporation bina done nore than anything else to build up Tope: ku and tho surrounding countrys, aud has always lubored to eabuneo the materi wealth and gvoowth of Topaka, Woon, in 18it, thle callvay compnny tied -the enterprise to bulld westward Tram this portlon of the stato Into the entirely eit dees portion of Kansas and to the Colo- rudo Hue, Topeka fostered, encouraged, and ald- el the entorpriae, and go In reticn after many. yeurs the ruilroud company tapays opokn by eriuatsarntat aid dn buitding up the: finest clty of AOD. 1 : ‘Tho United States Cireult Court ts now In seas sion, with Judge MeCragy wpoii the bench. Vrominont Jawyera Craw all over tho State ure in ulleadunce, and muny cmlaent lawyers from other Statos ure provnt. Judge J. 2, Ushur, Keuretary of tho Intertor Depurtinent under Lincoln's Administragon.appeared {nan import> ant rallway guit toduy, » Pwo ox-Cablnet oliclula uppcared in tho suine lawsuit, one 8 tho Cuurt and the other we counsel, ' Your correspoadent hus received many: coms placenta on the “Oklahoma” letter whlch ap> peared in the Sun ef edition of Tin Tuuane, Japt, Payne is woll known bere, and tho project uf openiby thé Okiubomu ceded lands to settlo- qnunt 3 8 popular one in thid city, * Voliical mutters pore and over the State aro suet at prescut, though thero ig un wnderctire rentof excltement, The Congrersionul repre sentation will bo doubled, and next tullin place of three Congressmen Kansas will clect wis. OF cuurse rach county all over the State will pros sents fuvoritvon. Vom Hyan, now represents 1g thle district (ho Tolrd Kangas), -aliss to get buck, Lut the boys will * rustle” bln Kom 0. M. BENTLEY, ar - Eyes brighten, cheoks become rosy. musclea galo atrongth by using Urown's Iroa Litters, _ FRUITS AND TREES, Second Day's Session of the lllix nois State Horticultural . Society. A Disenssion on Apple-Malsiug, with a Good Word for the Rusatan Variety. a nd Dr, Warder's Interesting Paper on the Troes Beat Suited to tho West- orn Prairios, Proposed Nerole Treatment of he Cabbage-Worm { Evi Birds ond Frotts— dre borfeolture, Tho Mlnola State Horticultural Society and tho Horticultural Suclety of Nartheen Hilnols resumed thelr Joint session In Ciub-ltoom No, 4 Of the Grund Paci Hotel seaterday morniny, President ©, N. Dennis in the choir, A general discnesion was had about tho apple and grapo crop, und reports wero recolyed «fram many, quarters. The general report was that the crops: Und heen very short. Mr. Watrous, of es Moines, Ti, sald that the: Apples which would grow In Mitnols could be ratséd with equal stucevss in hisState. The hard winter of 1890-81, and tho heat and drouth of the sutniner bad © disnatrous cifeut on tho or- ebards, There. was only hall a crop of apptes, and very fow plums or eberries, Herries wero tt fale crop, except binckberrica, which were Ine dured by tho drouth, Nursery stock suifered by tho severe winter. Tho hent and dryness of the atmosphore, especially in Western Iuwa, wero moro trying than thor winters, Muny varle- thes of Russlan apples had been introduced, principnily from near St. Petersvurg and Mose cow, The speaker thought that crosses might be mate on this stock, which would give varioe tes that would stand alike severe culd aud great beat, The Stute Horticultural Society of Iowa wus trylng every means to Induvo tho planting of : . TRERS FOR AUETLTER NELTS, Inst season the grape orop was Juferlor both in quantity and quality, hall ana drouth duing much dumnage, Mr, Tuttle, of Wisconsin, had found some val- undle frulta nmong imported Rusalan stock, nud believed thoy would prove very good m ket ap Some good winter keepers nnd found 10 those Hussian Yaricties. 48 u general rulg, they were moro free trom bilgut thin the ordinury Btock. Anothor detegnto sald that bight almost nl- ways attacked the rapldly-growluy trees, while the Kussinus were of siow growth, Mr, Duttle snid he hud na other kind of apples which oxculted the Rufssinns in woiybt of frult, while tho trees we re stout and in fine condition. The white or qolloy transparent was a guod beurer, Ho bad no doubt that amon tho Itus- alas would bo found atock that woutd last from early till Late, 4 Mr is Hert of Sangamon County, ailylsed covery farmer to plant applu-trees until tho Stute rulecd enough for its own consumption, He had imported many varieties from foreign countries, und {ntonded to keep on wherever bo found good stock. : ted. M. Pourson, of Madison County, raid if thoy wanted lone keepers thoy should go to Kentucky and Virainin tor thotn. Dr. A. Warder, of Ohio, presented along pa- er on the varieties of trees best suited to the Western prairies, Hoe belioved the ustublish- ment of A SCHOOL OF FORESTRY would be to the adyantaye of tha country. The, Government needed 2 corps of foresturs to Bue pervise and direct the mmuingoment of the nut uri forests atid the pubtle lands, while the great: rallrond corperntions were bexiiming to crente extenalyoe pluntavions that would require skilled minnugement, ‘Lhe spenker proceeded to discuss tho different varieties of oaks, and apuke titstof fhe white onk, found everywhere in tho timbered portions of the States eustof tha Missouri, und more rarely west of that river, ‘This tree grows in Vurlous sills, but prefers adry toot. Next in value camestho burr oak, which thrives best on a clayoy subsollain low situations, with abundant moisture, Jt grows rupidly, and forma a mites uifteent tree elthor for tho purkor the forest, ‘Tho wood is used forataves, butitaopen texture makes these inferlar to those made from white ouk, which should be selected for tigut coup- ernge. The yellow onk reaches Its fincat proportions on the bluifs and river bile, tind Hs timber is uf tho white-ont class, and valuable for many pure poses. The swamp white ouk ia found on tho margin of ponds throughout Uinol4. The post ouk ia cotmmen in Southern Iiinols, Missouri, and Towa, ond sdimotines attning considerable size, ‘Tho red or black oka are mostly found in the northern part of Lilnols and adjoining Suites, and affect dry and sandy soils, “‘Lhole woud. 1s rotdish, rather dotlclent in strength, aid .n0t durable when exposed to the weather. “It enn be used for dry coopernge, but not for casks ine tended to contaln liquids. “Tho tluck ont is a Btutely tree, and hus been more tumeus for its burk, used as u dye-atuif, thin for its timber, ‘ THE RED OAK fa a treo pf largo size and rapid growth, and is found trom the Athinue coast to. tho Western plains, and extends fur to tho north nnd south. ho bluok Jack has no special beauty, and 1408 little valtto except for fuct and Js found in Southern Minois, ‘Tho Spynish out 1a a closely niiliod species of southorn babltat, and atiatis hundsome prepares, It ig not suited to northern Intltudes: : oo Hickorles und walnuts have been condemned by some on necount of tholr slow growth 1a thptr carly yours, mnking hut ng many fuches in hight as poplurg imuko yards of Bpoune vrowth inthe sumu spucoof time. The black walnut fé ofgrent value us o timber tree, and. will with- stand tho climate of Iilinols., It loves x deep, Tich soil, and grows rapidly while yuung, but slowly thorenfter. It requires fram one to two venturies to produco the magnilleent logs now in so grout demand, and generations must olapso before the artiliclul forests can replico the natural growth, uf this tree, Tho white watnut, or bytternut, ts perfeatly bardy, and may be planted further to the north ward, but ly not Hkely to prove n valuable tree, Boas worthy of v place tn the plantation, thy blokortes ary all more or tess vadiuble, not only for the nuts furnished by soine specica, but becnugy of the toughness of the timbur, large abelt-burk forms THE NOBLEST TRE! and onoof great valuc, The pix-nut {sone of tho most handsome species, and mukes a ilio treo tor tho oinwn oor park, (Its tims bor {9 used for spokes, and bent wood, ‘Tho sholl-bark prefers Hat lands with clay sulle solla, und its wood Ig much used tn the arta. ‘bo pecun, found on the UWinols River and south ward to Toxns, alfects tho rich, deep sully of river bottoms, and, ike tho xbeltebirk, fare ilshes Valuable nuts, [ts timber Is not Av strong fg that of othoy specicn, + Maples are worthy of a lirgo share of tho Plunter's wttondun. Che suyde maple, ur rack Inuple, ta tho prince ofthis genus, It iy widely ditusod, but prefers rich «imestane salis— thosy that are onulurally walt” drained, ite growth In glow at first, but the fornt of Vis spreading, but compnut, bead, and tot benutifws vutuannl ‘tints render “it a favorit ue ang juwn tres. Tuo black maple ts Hy rich in styar-producig quulltics. ho red maplo extends from Canis to Georgla, and 4s always found near watur, is woll adapted for planting fn villagu streets, ‘Tho wuter or allver inuple and tho box-vliter are bonutiful spucios, but scarcely, titted for Northern Ilinols, ane aes is common in this tute, and loves adry soll, ‘The white and red elms produce yaluablo tims . ber and are benutiful'trees, Tho horso-chostnut will grow. in Northorn Iitnols, aud ita iwnagnitl- cent blossoms mako it A GENERAL PAVONIT. ‘ ‘The birches and vlders turive in northern lati- tudes, aud have not only bexuty, bue utility to recounnenn them, ‘Tho irches ‘have n very exe tensive runge, and tho wood and bark of innny apeeles nro of value. The Kuropean aldor grows by the banks of streams, and wakes gol shude-tree. ‘The beech is 9 nuble tree, and tbelyes best on clay subsoil. Le avounda th some parts of Indiana, but ia‘ reco in. Ulinuls, Sho white osh je in great demand for so tho manufacture of werioultural jnuchinery whore strenuth and Hirhtioxs ura ra- quired. It requires rich, deep soil, weil drained, Tho blue nab is un allied specled, and almost equally valuable. iv, Warder went on to review tho merits ot a nutnber of othor forest trees, niastly of South> ern hubltai, but occasionally found In tats State, Including the catulpa, persiinmon, Osage ornage, and othors. Ho considered poplurs aad willows yatunble, as the ptoncers of future prairie fore ests, from thelr hardiness and rapid growth aud thelr capacity to realist the waverse climatic cone ditions of tha'open plains. x Dr, Warder guvea remarkubly full exhibit of forvat botuny, showing leaves of elghty>threg apecics and Vurietics ot oalls, chietly Amerioan kinds. Fitton forme of burreapka were shown, many of thoi very distinct. A _elnasitication was tonde in two great groups—tho white auks aud the red of binck oaks. thess bong aula. subdivided accordiug to the sahapy of thelr jeuves. ' At this point tho Grate Sncioty adjourned un- tl2p.m., and the Northern Horticultural Sus oloty convened. President Minklur, of Oswego, madon few remarks, and Treasurer Woon: of dlarcoge, reported 89d recelyed und $40 &: pendous ‘The election of ollivers will bu hud tus thy AFTERNOON, Thero was ngood attenqunco at the afternoon scaston ul tug State Bociely, when the query. box was again attacked and the members eturted futo discuss the ditfercut varieties of buckles Derrles, Father Bryant, of Princeton, gave in bivadbesion ta the “blgb-blue” variety, and sooke tu jtefuvor, Tho ty camo next, andi weueral’ discussion way kad astu the practl ‘Tho, enbility of rnfsing fsa in Minos, Tint sald tho fenit wnuld notmey two degrees neers hntinin tho ieetiaston wit ticle mie tho leetever and knew at De false out doors, where thy ander coutd bo The next ¢ Nt fe of appte- hws reat feen to tientyelivn sears, would not pay no indn to cultivate: ' TA, Prestlent Watrois, of flown, mulberry had bee aitccesshuliy sn sing Lincoln, Neves and ws far north as Yat Bede 1. it wus tntredneed by the Mennonite D. ciime froin Xomthern Itussin and ees ho berry for allle-worm fond, sew tho mul. Proaident Donnla then’ rea dlrexs, congratutating the se prices received for thelr produc the fraiterop had heed a shure ay the drouth and. the damuse don 10 tho 4 grains by the chinch-buy, he re mutter ilup A MORE DIVERSIFIED SYSTNM OF cee : ‘tox PULTIV A, and greater attention to hortteu! th ture AHOULL he taken. to peeves Hire Gren ton of planta froin Inbectod aetrieta, ye would Kill Gif tho eatsbaye-wara inant ent tho growth of cubligce for tive years Meet try would: be AIL the better ar toric, Gat ensures, perhips of m compulvory enue would have tole taken to munpress qiultselet pests, Horticulture waa a Brudtallysextengect Beienve, nud depended tu arent extent ee pructiuill experienee, i Myer Mr euraon rea] © paper on « cintage.* "Hound tite-arathing:tytay Okt Was Useless, and dat In Tiina eee! Was Yieh enough for arenards wihent tyne ‘He was opposed to tndiscriintante prong a hulnted out tho neavasity OF etretul cultigatet If gave fruit was to be ruised, po A roneral discursion followed on tie tam suibjeet, game valuable alggestions being st uate frult culture, s i ays ‘The report of the Committea on Stra wns presented by Mr. IK, Viekros, on sere) who sail that bticeess In strawberry’ ciliated pendert largely upon tho location uf themed, nnd tho propor seleetion of plants. The hed should Hot hu tog low ur devel, slits flttt riiria besuy preferable, lt shoud be enriches by tIniruydrdininare, Spring was tho pro Aline Tor pasting. pee Mr. O, 1s Galusha, of Mois, follawed on th sume vubsect, aud wave a detalied account it tho varieties of berries whien he had rated Some questions wero asked and unswered aint Henle cf cule lyarlan and methots of warker ng, after which tho meeting mijor U at evening. , i edotarmed ua » the Truitbeg hod ait ety Mee Hesnye tain tite hile nly’ ¢ me * Rventna t the ovening session several quest briotly dincusvods = Wount hrging vee ne Vent the vine-rot?” was answered on the ahem ative; but opinions difered ns to the oxtent of the strawherryyerop last year, some thinking It wis threesiifths and othors two-thirds below avertge. “Cun penrs be grafted on appiea” waa variously answered, but tho generat bellet was that such gratting wes not prutitutle, One gentleman who tad succeeded with a sweet Aue gust pear Was among those who held this view, “Prot, $. A. Forbus, of Norinut, waa on tho pro’ gram for n paper on © The Food of Ninoly Ards,” but ie subject wus “The Uraittulyg fel Butanees Wheel.” His“ materiat™ sas ob. tulned from three ditferent sittations—aq, orchard ravaged by the canker-srorm, an oat. fleld which the nemy-worm was devouring, xd a whentilctd where tho graund was well covered wih chtuch-buss, A turge part of his paper wus An answer to the question, "What were the birds doing to cheek und turn back tnose Irruptions Of Insect life?" In the orchard ntested by canker-worms, G1 per cent of the djrds and 60 per cent of tho gpecics were. found enting them; 40 per cent of tic. foot of all the irda taken together consisted of tho worms, They mude 40 per cent of tho foot of the robic, 23 per cent of tho brown thrush, per cent of tho bluebird, per cent of the ehickndece, dof the suntines- warbler, 35 por cent of the warbling virog, 100 per cent of the cedar bird, 6 per vent of tho rose-brensted grosaboul, 48 per cent of the Indigo bird, 60 per contof the black-throated binting, W per cent ot the orehard oriole, 4 percent of the king bird, & per cent of the rede weuddd woodpeckur, oud % per cent of the enekog, THE USEFULNESS OF TIE BLUERIND was very considerably {mpalred by their attacks on carnivorous beetles, whieh mate 15 per cent of their food. ‘besa beetles were proven ta uike nbout 16 por cent of thelr fvod from tho cunkereworms, Of the twenty Urds_ represent: dng twetvo species, shot where tho army-worut abounded, only two birds, a groasherk anda cuckoo, were found to have pat any tention to the pest, the worms nnking about h per cent of the food of the twenty birds. Fifteen repre+ TUMUSH AND sentutives of olght “species, abot amone tho ehineh-huga, had not * totebel theso Inscets at alt, but tho cattin, the brown thrush, and, tho imendow-lark tad been previottaly found’ enting thot tn small quantity, Iie eoucluded that there was a class of ontomological insurrections, sudden, wider aprend, Immense, and short-lived, apon which Uirds vould mnko but little Impresston, a3 4 whole, nithough they mize be clearly user! on the outskirte of tua region involved; and that there waa unother class, more baited in ares and numbers, afected ‘ttle or not at all by meteorological conditions, and, couscquently, fers abropt and lovger-lved, over whict birds bud. powertul, wthough not necessarily a controlling, hutluence. Te inbght sevm leva to the disercdit of the bids that they were focnd powerless to Nenit or reduce the perlodical oscil jattons of tre first clags, If ane remembered that, 48 these suemad dependent on generil changes of weather, and ns the weather was likely 0 continitel chungenbleness 10 tho end of tine, there seemed to be no possible means of ein troliing them now or hereafter, tnless by the herole measure of auspending the cultures which they endangered—thnt was, BURNING UP THE BARN TO KILG THEY ‘Tho lon, A, MH. Lawrence, of Ledurs, A Duperon & Northwestern Jowa aud Its Foi Culture!” Twolve yours ayo that portion of the State was practienlly trucleys, Failures followed tho firat attempts at planting on aecaunt of kek of knowledge of forestry, and thro ta ravages of Insects and tres, bat the Iortleult. ural Soolety made ttxelf felt, and, owing to itt iniluence atid nv ing of forcat trees and orchards mencad in earnest, At present the pluntlog fereat trees was entitled to an Hon of $100 on hls nssessin for ened acre forest: trees for u term ot ten sents, linnlted to IU acres on which the trees were grown und cultivated, In a few years town wold be cotnted umony the thickly wooded Sintes, , Sone talk ‘followed about thaber tn lilinols, and the necessity of asking the stature to tyke netfon on tho aubjeat in order toaverta tdinine. 3 The socloty then adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning. , THE STATE CAPITAL. Monthly Report of the Chict tn Tne spector and the Weekly Strte ment of the Grain Hegistrar-A New Corpor tlon, Sgectat Dispated to The Chicago Tribunts BentNorixnn, Ml, Dee. B—The report oF the Chief Inspectur of tho State Gratn Inspection Department bas boon submitted for the ants of Novembor to tho State Boar of Hallroad aa! Warehouse Commissioners, showing tho alloy ing figures: Pay-yoll Inanection Department S51; Vayeroll’ Registration Departmest $001.07; Pay-roll Commission on Appelt, 205 speolal servi SO te or sla total expenses, S7,75100; total car a 0W.1; amount oF collections, S831 eT port shows that Mp cars of grain and 64, : bushuls of grain reesived by luke it canal wero In-Inspocted, aud tho totut ont- ey apuetions were fH, 8l,559 busbold, Inspections om UiS cara were appealed to tho Bupervialug a Bpoctors, und they sustained tho inspections tho ‘I'ruek Inspectors on 61) curs, and ce fitty-alx eases, ‘Tho recommendation of 1 Chiof Inspector that. the oxpenses of ie Se paptinont be reduced by the dischirce of mn it spector and one helper wera, adopted va Dourd today, and those ollices wero Ont nbollshed, Tho weekly statoment of but inate Negiatrar showing'tho amount of each car rain in the public warchouses ut oe at tho cloae of bustiess Siturday, Deo. pier followa; Total number of bushels ete Whoat, 9,7 BAT Sly oata, 39 0, 359,408; burloy, Natouee of bust ts a Vn, HSU iN; COM. i Tyan Darley, BMgkh; total ‘sho lherenge duriug the work wi els ef ontd and 305 bushels ofr creawe wid 48,760 bushels of wheal, els of corn, ald 38,44 bushels ot rid total Iergase during the week amour 440 bushels, as anata Heurenst at) thy, muking a nec decrease of 1,218, i ed decrotar, of Stato today Neonsed We corporation of tho Hocktord Five eae Sona Fifawe Company, witha caplral shuet catapart ‘Voose fosmniys tho curporallon aret i M. Beazoc, Hears F. Pinto and A. 3) ———— A DEMENTED DOCTOR. nik Sprelat Dispyten ta ‘The Caicave Tri ae tio Decarun, ii, Dec, T—De PU. . (loft hiv home at 3 o’elook thls cane Nrlous state of mind, despite the ent A ays his wite, wandored about the county en fad Was flvat buurd of thls evening a3 PAN yr, peared at Quictey sixteen me Tal eis mh Pho Davtor jitd bie jek sel Sea eerie disuppeurunee bad beet eutlun yf tho day. i Hberal lutv, thy plant come ru" quis sont rade Is In the ste) Cow ee Tendun Worid. eA ° and Tho experiment of the Marri of Lee ry ii cuturing mip tho eetall eal OTN, don has been thik, Wt sue tee rei 7 Irlyi,, wonderfully suecesstll. 2% | been the deniand for cots: KUP i te id ot eddie san thas the: Duve bad to eungage othee ste to curry tbe coal jocnnannde st inpogsibly thug thie nga-Uirit largely chunged by the sue! dugut.