Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1881, Page 13

' 4 ‘ ~ THE RAILROAD: THE. CHICAGO. TRIBUNE: - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 188I—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 1S A Falling Off in the Volume of ~- East-Bound Freights. he Reduced. Bates Do Not Stimulate Shipments to the Bast, Asoma) Report of the Directors of the St. Paul, Hinneapstis & Haniioba, ghe Recent Heary tHeditetion in East Bound Fretzht Bates Hans Not Siimu- Jated Shipmeats—4 Decr-ase in Ship- ments During the Past Weel. ‘The anticipations that the heavy reductions in east-bound grain and provision rates would greatly stimulate sbipments bave not been realized. Not only has there been no increase jnthe sbinments of those articles during tho st week, Dut, strange as it may seein, there has actually been 2 falling of in shipments. Grain gbipments during the past wees have fallen of from %.195 tons to 2,47 tous, ana provision shipments from 15.62 tons to 14,024 tons. It ras got suppused that the five-cent reduction in grain rates would much affect xrain shipments, ‘put on provisions, where the redaction. 13 10 cents 100, a largo inerease was anticipated. Nearly all the’ provisions going Hust are for European consumpuon;. there “is 00 demand for grain there at our present prices. The prices of grain in Europe gre so much lower than bere that uo matter how larze the reduction in rail rates it canuot “possibly aGect shipments. That the extraordi- narily low rates did not bave the effect of in- creasing shipments of provisions is woat sur- prises most rasiruad men. The princival object fo making the late reduction in rates was to stimulate the shipments, because the railroads cannot atford to send their vars East empty, and the only east-buund freight there was uny good ebance to get Was provisiu! Unly Uo reasons can be given for the strunge phenomenon that reduction in rates did not -timalate sPwents, and these sre, first, that {he price of provisions in the Enst are lower than bere, and the Eustern people: have enough to get aloag wiinsut additional krge sup- plies from the West; secund, soine of the roads) buve no... doubt “been take provisions frum the larsze shipp2rs for some time past. at as low nites as the reduced rates now are, and consequenuy the lute reduction bas but little effect. A 15-cent rate ou provis- jonsiscertainly extraordinurily low, and tat sbipments are bebt at this fure shows that it is raposeible for the railroads to muke pence and eslabtish nicher and uniterm rates at rms time, for if they should take such action shipments to the Eust Would cease almost entirely, and he railroads cannot afford to send their cars Extst empty.” If west-bound business was light the railroads could probubly better afford to fet their cars stand iale fn the yards thun take business at upprotitable rates, but west-bound business is very heavy. Ov account of the low passenger fares to New Yors and other Eastern seaouard cities many of tbe Western denlers who heretofore hougnt, their guods uc Chicayy went Est this fall and made cheir purchases there, and these goods areé now eoming West. To Dring these yuods here the teunh tines need all the cars they can get, and as fast as they are unloaded beré they have to be returned. There- fore tne railroads cau’ well aiford to take east- bound business at almost auy rate, for the cars have to go back anyway, and it costs almost 2s much to take them back empty as foaded. Itis stated. unat even now some of the roads are-cuttine under the rates established lst week. The principal ‘competition is on pro- visions, no special edforts beug made to reduce grain trailic, as none can be bundled except such asis wanted by ocean sleamerz, which is needed for ballast. ‘The Pennsylvania Ruilroad claims that, while it meets the mites made by otber ineson provisions, It takes grain only at the old rates, This probably accounts for the fact that mst of the grin shipped during the past week went. by the two Vanaer- Dilt lines and the Grand Trunk. The fact that the Baltimore & Qhio. which, under the pooling arrangement, was allowed neurly the saine per- centage as the Grand Trunk. carried during the past week but 2 per cent of the east-bound business from this city, wale the Grand Trunk carr.ed 4 fraction over 12 per cent, would show that the Grand Trunk and otber roads bave given better terms to shippers than the Balti- amore & Ohio, which was the first one to an- nounce the luterelucnon in provision rates. The roads leadmy enst from St. Louts are sald 10 be _still worse off than those running exste) irom Chica. Nearly all the export grain from that point gocs by the Mississippi. River barge lines. It ig reported that a day or twoxgoa ebntract was made by one of tne barge lines for rain atsi cents per bushel from St. Luuts to Liverpool, and of course there {3 no all-rail line ‘that can compete against such a rate. ‘The total umount of grain, flour, and provis- ions sbipped by the six lines leading East trom ths city lon the week ending Dec. 17 aounted to 43,809 rons, azainst 48.957 tons for the week + previous’ a decrense of 5.06 tons. 2 ‘The following statement shows the amount of flour; grain, and ‘provisions carried by the various roads leadme East from this city during ‘the past week: Grain, | Prorixions} tansof | tonsof 2,070 tbs. | 2,000lbs. Total tons. Flour, ris. Mich. Cen’). #5 2497 ‘Luke Store. 50a 2487 | Fort Wayne 4s) 362 Pan andl « Tou 4 BEO. .... 965 “5 Grd Trank 4230 1267) ‘Total... Ex 14,64] 43.889 The percentages were: Michigan Central, 30; Lake Shore, 21.10: Fart Wayne, 18.90; Pan-Hun- die, 17.40; Baltimore & Onlo, 2; Grand Trunk, St. Paul & Manitoba. Special Dispatch ta The Chicago Tribune, §r. Pact, Dec. 17.—The annual report of the Bt, Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railruad Com- pany fur the year endinz June 30, IsSL, was to- day received by W. BR. Marshall, State Railroud Commissioner. To following are extracts trom ft: Bonded debt, tot#l, 818.107.700; total amount of stock paid up and debt, $33,107,700: amount of ~ Stock aud debt per mile “of roud, $58,186; tot.2? ‘cust’ of construction and equipment, $58,823,- 36263; avernge of cost of rond per mile, $- 3 total length of main line and branches, $67 wiles: number of mises iron rail. 54 m= . Der of mites steel rail, 24; number of stationsjn Minuesota, 15; numoer of competins points in Minnesota, 5; "miles run by passenger trains during the year, 3 miles by freight and mixed trains durmg the year, 1.6¢2,45: total Milenre, 6.$:9,01; bizhest rate of speed allowed mail'and-accommocanon trains, wenty-tive tothirty-five mites per bours bichest nite of Speed allowed to [reizht trains, twelve to cignt- een miles per hour; averave rate per mile for Joel passene-rs dur tug the year, 3.23 cents. Number of passengers carrted during the year, Siu; total passener mileage or passengers . Carried one mile, 25, SH: average distance iaveled by exch pussenger forty-seven miles; Sarnings during the vear, freight, $2,691 ,772.54; nzers, S819,0.50; mails. $4 EXDress,, 18.51: miscellaneous, $40,721.41; revenue fur the Northern Pucine Railway from the line from St, Paul ty Sauk Rup.ds, $47,000.98; total receipts and revenue for the year, entire line. S.5W.- SLE. The earniuxs in Minnesota’ were 9 8-53 _ Per ‘cent of tne. earning of the entire | line. “Hatio ofp: freight earnings were as 1 ‘to “329. The average gross carntnys per mile (7u2 miles) of track Operated. exctusive of sidings, were $5.271-87; av- ssenuer to . aT0s< earnings per mile (702 iniles) of track Operated exch: ve of sid.ngs, $2,784.56; average Ret exrnings per train miles, $113; total operat~ expences, of the entire cent of the earnings. $1,545 ating expenses per mile. $ aime expenses per train pet Of earnings over operating expenses, $195.48 constructing aeccant for the year. 830. ium to operating fapenses, averege pric vlan are sie, $5.5) ne, being 47.50 per y average oper= average apers for otfered averaze price at which lands have been sold or Sontracted during the y acres sold for ean during the year. 1,584.08: acres contracted “tobe sold during the year, 5.197.022: total amount OF cush recvived from sales. contracts, forfeited we Slumpage, ete. ’ isaluaitit interest on Puymenis ‘received vy tbe eumpuny, $2R.810.00, There were vbirty-1wo uccidents furine the veur, in which three passengers were filled and tifteen wounded, twelve emptoyés ere killed and six wouaded, four other persuns and one wounded. : Erle’s Fast ‘Train. +. Roeclal Dispatch ta The Chicago Tribune, *New Yous. Dec. 1.—The New York. Lake Erle & Westeru Itailroad Company. will tomor- Yow begin the carryinz of Chicazo passenzers in the fast train, which leaves bere atGp.m. Tuls train bas not heretotore run over the West- t70 Division of the road, having been known us the fast St. Louis Express, connection being made at Butfalo for the’ West. It will now run Salamanca. also arriving there atSa.m. It Teach Manstield, V., ut 6 p.m. aad Chicago S16 Sine Chie fae Tl oC i wo time, ia the “Erie & Chicagy i.iug,” making tho principal intecme- diate stops. Resides Ss Besides a Pultnian butel conch. a ‘ faZcouch ‘will be run through from New York cago without change. A Croxstug. -_. Spectal Disvatch to The Chicaco Tribune, Cedar Rarips, Ta. Dee. 17.—A special from. Emmettsbury tonight says the war between _- tee Milwaukee & St.Paul and the. Burlington, in Hapids & Northern Railways was caused = pe cuer learing wp the Intter’s crossing Mycteit Wack, was terminated today by the the Bi ‘ukee & St. Paul withdrawing ano allowing furlmgton, Cedar Hapids & Northern to re- Cran crossing. ‘Tne injunction suits in the + ‘“eult Court at Aigona and the Supreme Court at Des Moines { bi fellers can't xet enougn to live on at.§ { month. ile, $1.01: excess | » Justice i Messrs. Aaskells’ attorney: | iy protuble ttt be would buve reudered Judg- were both decided in favor of # Burlington, Codar Rapids & Northern ompany. e on, Northern trom extending fight uae eamies & Three Rivers and Constantine, * Svevsus *nsvaten wo The Chicaco Tribune, Ecknarr, Ind, Dec. 17.—This city Is to have another raitroad in the near future, the Grand ‘Trung Lite baying decided, so we understand, To extend its track here through Constantine and Three Rivers along the St. Jo Valley.. This meuns another boum here. - , nation, 5 Cotumorr, 0.; Dec. 17.—S. M. Felton Jr., Gen- eral Superintendent of the Pan-Hunile and Lit- tle Sttagut Roads, bas resigned to accept the po- sition Of General Mauser of the No i New England Koad, veginniug Jan. LY yers® Miscellaneous Items, : Bereafter the station at the junction of the main ine of the Louisville, New Atvany & Chi- cuge and the Chicago, & Indianapolis Air-Line D.vision, formerly knoWn ag Bradford, will be called Monon. Mr. Geotfrey O'Hara, Assistant Secretary of the Wabusb, and private secretary to Vice- President A. L. Hopkins, whu bas been in this city durmg the lust few’ days op business con- nected with mig road, left for New York yester- day afternova. The condition of Mr. Henry C. Wentworth, late General Passenzer and Ticket Agentofthe Michigan Central, woo bas been lying at coe Pount of death in this city for the fast few days, waS reported to be su.newhat better yesterday, but he is still ina precarious enndidon. It 18 hoped that he will rally and lis hte be spared to tus tamily aud his many friends for’ many years to.come. Mr. John MacLeod, General Superintendent of the Lonisville, New Albany & Chicizo [talt- way Company, bus just sued the followimg eir- cular: “This company oxving acquired pos- session uf that poruon of the Coleayo & Ind an- apohs Air Line Railway from Delual two Muy- nard Juncdon, Ind., inclusive, will, from’ aod after this dute, operate the same us its Coicazo & Indianupous Aur Line Division, but, for the present, train service will only extend from Delpui to Lowell, Inctusive.” Several of the members of the Western Trunk Line Passenger Assocation beld a covfereuce with Mr. James Re Wood, General Passenger Agent ot the Pennsylvania Rattrond, at Com- in.ssioner Dixon's ollice yesterday, regarding the contiict between the Eastern und Western trunk lines about the inmigraut business. Beyond an informal wits, auth ng of importan done, Mr. Wood, as ts well Known, fs ‘the only General Pussenver Agent of aa Eustern trunk line who stvod vy the Western a sociation from the be- sinnaig, ind save it pis full support. For this reason Mr, Wood is very popular with the West- ern General Passenger Agents. Mr. A. L. Stokes, for some time past General Eastero Avent of the Oregon ttallway & Navi- gation Company in this city, has Leen intrusted with the pusidon of General Eastern Agent of tho Northern Pacitic, which gus just been va- cuted -by Mr, W. C. Andrusf{woo assumes tho posicion_ of General Eustern 'Pussenger Agent of the Care Milwaukee ,& St. Paul at New York. The cunsol:\dauon ofthe General Eust ern Agence of the Oregon Uallway & Naviga- tion Company and the Northern Pavitie Rall- road is aw as both eempanies are vir- tuatly under the Same munzgement and owned by the saine parties. and one is simply an ex- teusion of the ther. Mr. Stokes is eminently Qualified for the responsible duties of the pusi- tion, bemg. a wun of experience, ability, and greut enerzy. A te ON A STRIKE, The Night Messengers of the Western Unton CLetezraph Alittle strike occurred Inst evening at the Western Gnion Telegraph Ollie, when the night messenger-boss refused to zo ft work. These lads range from 17 to 2 yeurs of age, and they gu to wore every night at o'clock, and remaia all nigbt until 7:00 in the morning. Sunday even- ings they go to work at 6 and feave off ut 7:3) in the morniwg. For this long service they get $13 per month. The boys now demand $% per month, which includes pay of 8 a day for Sup- days. ‘The nignt messenver-voys who struck last evening ate fourteen in number, and are led by John i, axed 2 yeurs, and Michael Kiroy, aged 2u. "These lads are, a8 a class, aboye ordinary intelli ‘They are wlert and qu is and sutne-of them, very often after midnigh' ave to walk out to Hyde Park, Englewood, Calvary, or Oakwouds Cemetery. Waue THe TinguNe reporter was in the Western Union Otlice at 11 o'clock lust niht a message bad to be gent out to Furty-eigath street, and one of the | day bors at work wus sent out with it, He will get out there. at about L? o'clock,” said Mr. Joseph Qu.n. who bas caarge of the delivery. ~ He cau ride vut to Thirty-fourth street and @ buliuce of the way, wuuch 13 a0 small Ss. Itis hard work. We sent a boy to Ouxwoods Cemetery the other nizht. ‘They are abrave lot asa rule." Ou the merits of the strike Mr. Quin refused to tlk. Bat the boys stated to Tae ‘fuisexe revresentatve unt, as a chi thes could not Jive upon what they were getting. It cust then, where they bad nu aomes, all they got for board. and washing. “We're out in Wet, cold, and eheat.”” said one of the boss. where and at all times. Don’ iL LO #0 TO LONeYards and to 5 We ain't got any funny busta ain't ny wild borges ot Tarlury what a” Nuccepon can ride bareback on us. We wantto live. No you know we've Itdon’t buy our grub, and. “don't you kuow, Jt costs us S350 a month “for washing. What's yer going: to do? Be a slave to the maim cus? Think we're suckers? No, sir. They toid us they'd raise our pay last month, but when pay-day came round they gave us the finger. Finelot of stiffs those duffers that rides in barouchés and bus two niggers ona seat. They don't cure bow bard we wor! We ain't oo cbildren, we ain’L Commish! Did yer say Commish? Never gota copper on that racket In my life, We bring in the bluke’s auswer what we -deliver the message to, but bet yer life we don’t get a extra. cent -for’ it, But who ‘Say, young feller, whut péper yer on? £2 that's runt. Give usa square deal, and don't yer turn us over too bard.” = Mr. Quin heard of the proposed strike abou ten minutes befure it occurred, and wus there- for prepares, he having Kept of a portion of the day force of tnes-euger-voys. Shortly after the strike the boys raised quite a noise in front of the office, and the patrol-wagon from the Central Stution was called, and two of them arrested. But their olfen-e was not very heinous, and they wall not be prusceuted. THE COLLECTION SHARPS. Persons Garnisheed Shoutd Insist’ on The r Keen and Mileage—it Would Not “Be Extrn Haz.rdous tor @thers to Punch the Sharps. In an article published in yesterday's paper recounting the experience of a reporter who went out to Blue Istand fur the purpose of sce~ ing bow Chieasoans who were dragged out there to auswer very shy claims were treated, mea- on was made or the fact that Huskell Brus., against. whom garnishee process had been brought, refused to go out until they bad re~ ceived trom the Colistable the $1 and five cents mileage allowed them by law: that that fact bad been indorsed by them upen tne summons, and that Swett & Bates, their counsel, had written to the Blue Island Justice hetore whoin the'suit Was Drouzbt, notifying bim that their client should not show up there until the luw bad been couiplied with in this respect. Ju whut ne. suid un this subject, after reading the letter and messaze of Swett & Bates, the Blue Island Justice lett the inference to be drawn that .f tne suminons bed been returned he would have entered up judgment agai inem, notwithstanding the fact taat they bad demand~ ed and tailed te receive their witness fees and mileage. There can be litte duubt that the It that the mntjesty aad dignity of the as represented by Qimseit, pad teen and “insulted by the letter of and yet it 1s seurce- law, us | vutraged ment sgniust the defenaunts. us by, sv doing oe jd become fable to imperchment, and might Derepance be draged trum the'beneb and cast futo jail ftke » common law-breaker. The [ust ameddment tu the Garnishment law, in force duiy 1, lstl. specifically provides that, in all cases, the person or persons fur whose use a zur- nisnee summons 1s issued stutll advance, Carougt the Constabie or other ollicer serving the same. to. the person or persons xo summoned xs £2 nishee or zurnishees, the sum of $1 for each per- sen 0 surmmoned, und, in addion, ive cents per mile for eaen and every mile. of necesssury travel to and from the office of the Juste of the Peace issuing the summons, or before whom the ese is ured. Business-men and employés generally subject io the annoyances of the horde of mupu- civus vollection-men that infest the city sbould prot by the example set by Haskeli Bros. and ENTIRELY IGNORE ANY GARNISI summons uniess the Constable serving.the sum- ‘mons advance the fees they are entitied tu un- der the law. For the benelit of many intended victitys of the collection agents, it Is Here s.ated that every person served with garnisoee sum- mons is enticed to demund and receive trom the Constable fur acceptmg service to gu to Wil- metie 32.40; to Blue Island, $2.60: to Dolton, $270: aud to Lemont, $3.50. If the Constable Fetuse to advance the money he should be re- quired to note the demand u9on-the back af the Summons belore it is returned to the Justice. ‘This provision of the law, if lived up to, will putan end, In great part;to’ gurnispment pro- ceedings. |Most of them, a5 appeared very plainly from: the lst of cases run over by abe re- porter at Blue Island, were utterly without jus- Bee. ‘They were brought simply tor te purpose of fa employers either 10 disiniss their em ployés in urder to get rid of the unoorance of Frese suits, or compel them to force their h red men to. pay these claims, frequently unjust ones. Now, since most of them are speculative Claims. the collection agents will not tase kind- ly to this idea of advancing: $2.40. in one case, Sea0in another, and $350 io anorner, with tbe ikelihood of getting moths back for “We go every: | tt. “These agents know very “well ‘that the cluims are unjust; that if the-maa who is garnished is paid the $1 and his mileage. be |s very apt to go down to Blue Island, or whatever polat ne ig summoned to appear at, und prove: thut the claim is bogus, and then the'agent is’ out just the amount he bas. advanced. So all. that Is necessary to put a pretty elfective stop to garnishment proceedings is for the person summoned to demand bis money, and, if ‘it 13 refused bim, tosee that the fact 1s indorsed on the summons. but this dubs not apply to the army of other cases. whére men are sued direct, und are com- pelled to leave the pity and their business for the purpose’ of “foing to suburban. towns. The Supreme Court, in its. wisdom. suw fit to declare - void the® law’ which puta stop to this thing, and the collection agents bave becun their nefarious work again with great vigor. ‘They have been sturving ¢ver since the Ist of July, and are \FENOCIOUS AFTER MEAT. Unfortunately, there fs no ‘legat_ way in which these feltows can be checked, and one misfor- tune of this is that, since there is ao legal reme- dy, the time must come wnen some muscular individual who bus been tortured and bedeviled by these collection agents will turn apnn one of them—Spencer, or Cottle, or some other one— and pound hiny' within an ineh of bis life. Any- thing of this sort is greatly to be regretted. Te is in violation of the law, which forbids 1 man taking the redress of” grievances‘into bis own bands, but the tempers ‘of men are “hasty, thelr pnssions arc excited, and, after they have “been repeatedly summoned to £0 out to Blue Island, or Wilmette, or, Dolton to pay bills which they Know they do not owe, they are very apt, in sone unguarded mowent, when the devil is at rbeir elbow. to let bis prompting’ wet the bettor of them, and to thrust both their tists with great violence into the tue of the col- lection agent who bus been annoyme them. And another agga vating featuapot the cuse fs that it would be fmpossiblé to tind’n jury who would convict anybody tor doing this Mlezal net, for any man thus ‘yielding to the Evil One, and breaking tho law of his country by pounding a elaim agent, would be immedintely uequitted oo the ground of emotional insanity or some of those otber subterfuges which lawyers or a wrong public sentiment bave devised for tho purpose of . EVADING THE PROVISIONS of the law. So it might: be as well, perbaps, for. collection agents to sec that they sue only weak, undersized, timid people, or to cultivate their awn muscle in order that they may be ready to resist assault of uanore burly debtor, oe gee eee THROUGH THE HEAD.‘ Fatal Ending ot 2 Disgusting Case of Miscezenation—“ Blue-Blark Mollie Seads a Bullet Thro igh the Skull of Amos Metfort,Mer Divorced White Husband. Amos Meffert, a. white man, was sbat and in- stantly killed by bis former wife, Alice B. Mef- fert, a colored woman, in front of Hnssett's saloon at No. 421 South Clark street yesterday afternoon at 4° o'clock. Readers of ‘THe Taipvse will _ remember’ having seen a . paragraph = in yesterday's. issue relating to the quarrel between these two pea- ple, and Mrs. Melfert’s arrest and bearing be- fore Justice Hammer, in which she was peld to keep the peace, and released upon furnishing $000 surety. Her arrest wns caused by Meffert. who Cluimed thut be had ovtained a diverce from her before Judge Barnum, and that she was constantly dogging bim and threwrenms to Kill him. Yesterduy afternoun they met ror the- tirst time after . the ne in- Justice Hammer's office, the encounter taking place ut the uorthea-t corner of Clark and Polk streets. Metfert tried to avoid her, but sac was determined to have ber say. She upbriided pint for baving left ber, and gone to associating with a Fourth avenue bariot’ numed Pleasant, and freely expressed her opinion as to wnat kind of a aman” he was. Mettert evidently dis- liked this sort of tak, for he told her to go. away and not: follow bun. Leaving. ber on the corner, he went into Has- set's saloon. When he came out she met Bim at the dvor, drew a revolver. and “ SHOT. INIM THROUGH THE HEAD, causing: bts almost instantaneous death. After the shooting she walked over to the Hurrjson Street Station, entered. und, throwing her pistol upon Stutionkeeper Kipley’s desk, reinarked: i ee take that. Ihave just killed my hus- and."” She was put down-stairs and ollicers sent out to investigate. Upon arriving at the scene of the rourder, they found that Oiticer James Stun- ley bud ulready taken the body to the morgue, where it will remain till the Coroner holds un in- quest. Bord of the parties connected witb the bomi~ cide bear unsavory reputitions, belong to tne sory lowest cluss of residents in’ Cheyenne, wid are well Known to the pulice, Melfert it is said, has served his time as a burglar ut Joliet. while bis wife, who Is Known as Alice Beady, * Blue-Black Mollie,” and Mollie Anns. is deseribed as the toughest sort of u colory: prostitute.. She was seen in ber cell Inst night by a Tainuse reporter, and told a brief talc, to the effect that be bad abused ber yesterday, that he had haif-Killed ber on a number of casions, and that he threatened to shoot her yes- terdas if she persisted in following bim up. Sbe said she bud been drinking previwus to me row, and that she felt. sorry for what she bud done. Her “soul troubled her.” she suid, and she didn't want. to do anything but lie there upon the floor and * mourn.” in this luchrymose operation when tbe reporter Jefther. The inquest will probably be held to- morrow morning. THE LAND-LEAGUERS. Another Meeting tn Kent? Movemer A a mass-meeting of Irish Fourth ‘Ward was beld last eveuug in Armory Hall on Indiana avenue, near Twenty-ninth street, There were’ about 300 persons in at- tendunce. The mecting was called to order by Mr. H. J. Maguire, who read the following list of permanent ollicers: 7 Chairman, the Hon. Thomas A. Moran; Vice- Presidents, the Rev. P. W. Riordan, Bernhard Callaghad, M. Cudduby, Jobn Trainor, M. Dunne, Richurd O'Connell, Jono Cudduby, Joon Mad- dox, Jobn Wood, Ubaries Walsh. John 0 Jobn Forsythe. Joha Muner, Col. Joba C. Burke, Peter Canis, owen Murray. P. RK. ven, M. Hayes, Jobn J. Divyer, P. Cleary. P. pie, James Burnett, and Phillip Muber. Seeretaries, M. L. Lyneb and Jobn Markey: Treasurer, Dennis O'Connell. Judge Moran delivered a brief address, in which he stated that the mecting hud been.called to help alonr the movement toward securing contribuuons to the anti-cvercion fund. Present met not as Irishmen but as Aimer citizens, taking wa interest in tho atfairs of their" oppressed ~ relatives liv ug the Fatherland. -{t was [ur toils purpase and no other that Irish ineetings were beld. would try wo turn the trish movement bere into a political movement was no fe.cud of Ireland. The movement was simply one 1 the interest of Irish tenants who had resolved to pay no rent until by. that means they bad brourbt we rape- cious landlord to terms. ‘The speuker then introduced Thomas Power O'Connor. M, P., of Galway, Ireland. Mr. O'Con~ nor, in a speech of two hours’ duration, reviewed the lund question in all its bearings.’ In ret ence to te * ao-reat™ manifesto, ne said it was Ble intelligible, and could not be miscun- strued. SUSPENSION OF RENT was the last weapon lett in the bands of the Irish people..and it was an honor to them that they were so determined in their purpose to make use of it. ‘The speaker ten en- deavored to establish an unalozy between Ireland now and the Ainer:ean States at the time of the Revoludon. The wirehword of the Americans was “No representation, no tux- ation’; that of the Irish, “No Const.tudian, no rent.” ‘If usked why the [rish people did not re- fuse to pay the Britisn Government taxes in- stend of refusing to buy rent, be would answer that coercion wax demanded und secured by She was engaged : Ald of the “No: tizens of the | in: Whoever ; Insb landlords, and the tenants were thing | oppression from the “very fountain head by refusing to pay the landlords their rent, Su’ pension of renthad wiready bud the elfect of alarming the Gixdstune Governinent. Four- fifths of the peasants refused to uw into the Lund Courts tor a setttewent. Tne tritish com- mon people eympathized — with them, and British aristocrats were” compelled to. recognize this. growing feeling — ag} home, Even the Queen bad contributed to the fund for distressed tenunts. § The Gladstone Government was upon the brink of defeat, und with Its downfull came the end of oppression in fretand. Judie Moran then culled for subscriptions to the fund, and.in the course of an hour the sum of $850 was raised, the priveipal contributors | being Michagl und Jubn Cuddaby. wne each gave $150: Courles Waist. $50; Richard Sanders, $90: Owen ‘Traynor, $25! Robert Cassidy, $25: Andrew Callahan, $2 avout fifty otuers subscribed sums rang.ng from = to 220, Judve Moran returned thanks for the iiberat response, and aunounced that the total amount pyised In the Fourth Wurd up to date excoeded “After remarks by W.J. Hynes and. Jobn F, Finerty, aud sinzing by Messrs. Jobnson and Flint, the meeting adjourned. ; i ” SOUTH SIDE BUGLARS, Burglars have been baving a resular.pienicin the extreme southern end of the city during the Past week or ten days. Residences on Langley and Luke avenues bave been made speci objects of attack, Me. A. H. Pickering, of the Cuion Stock-Yards bus been one of the deaviest losers by these operatings. His homie at No. 316 Duke avenue was successfully despoited of about $100 worth of wutgnes. chuins,. bracelets, dresses, aod other — articles. of » jewelry und” weurmg apparel. So fur “as. is known no Clow has -beea obtained us. to the identity of the thieves, whose work i 3 Relguborhood must have “netted them” from ‘Siu to 35.000 worth or plunder. The police are busily engaged io looking for the men andthe property. 4 . A. T. Stewort's Old Store. The terge marbie buliaita tha uf it WAS -O} us the retail, and subsequently the wholesale score of A. T. Stewart & Co. is offered for gale or teuse. turtin Boylan, | ' Plans for Its Permanent Home at the it covers nearly an Acre. extending on che’ exst sideyof Broadway. trom Reade to Chambers street, tt has been unoccupied for a few sears, since the wholesule deparquent was moved to” the Ninth stree: store [rSdimensions are 16L feet front and 233 feet.deep. The price asked for the property is $2.00J.0v), und the rent $150,- Oa verr. Itis on the site of tne old Washing- ton Hotel. A SMALL-POX SCARE, How a Newspaper Office Was Shaken Up by a Practical Joke. There .was an intense commotion in the Office of a morning neWspaper Friday night: It grew out of a case of supvosititious small” pox. The office in “question rejoices in whe acquisition of a messenger-boy, whose hours of duty are those devoted to steep by houest people, journalists excepted. The. “cub,” as he is technically called, is a boy who erstwhile was engaged in polishing calfskin Shine ’em up, mister, only a nick.” Beinz somewhutt inditferent To the moral effects of. the proverb that * clexntiness is uext to godtiness tne “cub” displayed on the night in quescon a rash on bis arms which attracted nut only bis own butthe attention of one of the stutf en- gaged in the telegraph departinent. He bemz naturally of a - timfd nature, and having read a& good” deal on the subject of the prevailing endemic. became somewnat anxious, und, boing ignorant of the symptoms of varioloid, and’ kindred ailments, took the “cub” by the ear and presented him to anotner of the stulf for examination, The litter being an enthusiastic fand-leaguer, and there- fore linble to-an immense amount of spon- taneity, diugnosed the cuse and pronounced ita totully depraved example of * yellow card.” As he bud frequently boasted of baving been twice infected with the diseuse. bis diagnosis was re- gurded us authuritive by nis less fortunate co- Iuborers, who bud not enjoyed the peculiar blessing of a slege of Isolition. "The marine re- porter, who was figuring up the possibility of a Behisitu- pia being mistaken fora cuthead: and between caiculauors Was swapping ties. on base-ball rungs with. the night editor, at once concluded that the “cub” should depart bence and report himself at the Healta Ovfice for ad- judicauon. ‘The youngster was accord nyely red out and told to. go to the City-Hall, For a Jer the elevator was cunning, und he took the cage as the easiest’ Means of reaching’ the street.. The boy. however, was wiser thao he was siven credit for. * He had no ambition to seek the outer air, and con- cluded to find a bunk in the clevator, The marine reporter, who by this time bad solved the problem of squaring a inurlinspike in the binmuicle. suddenty tavught that it would be well ff somebody shoald Make 2 trip to the Heaith Office und ascertain if tbe“ cub” showed up. The zang dre#’ cuts to sce who should go, and the marine reporter won the prize, The Suund-Leaguer laughed with fiendish joy. He had been there twice and knew ull about it. The muting tnan starred duwa-stairs, and. on muké mg un inspecuon of the elevator, discovere the “cub” doubled up like un apimated jack- yy the ear ahd march him wor knife. ‘To seize bim to the City-Halt was the “work of but a few mnutes. The Health Oitice was shut up. The policeman in charve sug- wested that the south be locked up for tbe isnt in the rootn devoted to the snnil-pox patients. ‘The boy demurred uno protested that he bad been Vaccinated but a few days before, and it wasn't altogetner a fair shake. ‘Dr. De Wolt was communicated with hy telepnone, and informed as to the kid's condition, ‘as diagnosed by the marine reporter, whose. knowledge of suiall-pux was not us extensive as hig infor- miition ou ratiines and buwsprits. The Voctor pronounced the symptoms a3 INDICATING AN INTERESTING CASE, and the boy again kicked. He was then told to godown on Randolph street and iuterview a doctor. He stopped not on the order of bis go- ing, but started off a3 if he had been tired out ofa gun ‘The vo-fent patriot azain Inuched with glee and gibed the other fellows who bidn’t bad It. ‘The telegraph editor suggested ta the night ed- itor thut if ‘Thomas Aquinas bad ever bad the small-pox be didn’t say auythinz about it, which the night editor concfrred in; but ut tue ‘same time the latrer thogwht, that a piciure of the small-pox, not id crayon, but in color, with a breadth of tone after the atilian lazzaronl or Chinese laundry school, would be a good thing to_bave bung up ta some | promment window on Stato street. It would give ignorant people unable to diagnose the dis- ease an opportunity to study its pecular char- acteristics. ‘ And agin the revolutionary gentleman from Guiway wreathed his fuce with stniles. The boy iu the meantime bud not allowed sto grow under bis feet. He climbed to the fourth floor of some building near the coruer of State and Randolph and fouud the red light of a “tunion-curer.” Any y ort in 4 storm: was good enough for the * cub,” und after arous nx trom his slumbers the * physlemn whose s:nds of life had ngarly run out," prescted bimself and bis arms Bor examimation. = * * Nury suntll-pox,” said: the M.D. “Go home, ake a litte boneset; (en or u dose of sult en ticket sayin’ 1 aint got no small- | the boy. “Alt right,” said the venerable Esculapins, @ out the certificate, casually “Two dollars.” ‘The buy not being & onnk cashier and dot bay- ing a jimmy wherewith to apen a. bunk at that ite uur complatied that bis purse was collapsed, und berged the doctor to give bim the paper on -spico. This was refused and the buy returned ta the oltice. ‘The marme ed.ior had by this time come to the conciusion that » little disinfecting was nec- essary. He purchased a POUND OF CARBOLIC ACID and a grossof old-fastiuned sulphur matches. With ‘these he returned to the ollice. And aguin'the descendant of a long line of Celtic Rings grinned over tne practical joke be hud perpetrated. ‘The marine editor took the boy and mopped his bead aud arms with the carbolic. acid. Then he burned the taxtebes in one congiomenite ™ ‘ot Satistied with this, be applied the avid to his owrf bunds and bead. As be took the acid just as be is in the babit of taking bis Michigin cocktall—without any diludon—and it was of extra strengtn, It wag nut lous before he expe- rienced # stiuging and blistering sensation. which wus fur from pleasant. To use bis own words, he felt’ as if red-hot trons were being driven through bim. ‘The telexraph editor insisted the boy shauid be Bred, and bis axsist- ant, woo bad braved death on a bundred batile-nelds, concurred. A propsition to give the youth two bits to secure w lodging in a cheap binel was gcurnfully’ rejected, on the ground that his moral convictions would not permit bim to wantonly infect a lotof people whom be did not know. If be med the stnull-pox, be would stay with those who knew him. He was finally fired into the camposition roon «1 ugwin the exile of Erin laughed at the artistic blotches produced by the cirbulic acid ‘on the marine editor's urai and also on the fluor. ‘The foreman of the composition room and he wos informed .of the - situation, was viven. a carbulic acid bath. So were several of the .compositors. The tloor was sprinkled with the ucid, and the fumes were sburp esiourh to cut the hindie olf a safe-duor. The foreman took. his dose beroi ally,and, after be felt it workiny, bervic took bimself to the bydrunt and: tried to wash it otf. Anotber victim undertook to relieve bis agony by vaptism with kerosene. He fell enrly in the engagement and retired to hishome. ‘The telegruph editor denounced the boy aud all his works, und trusted thatpo yellow card would be required at bis house during the next week, And still the- excitement grew, and all the while the paragraph writer, who bad been strus- | gling with an item about’ Parnel!’s incarcera- Bon, chuckled to himself, He koew it wasn't smut The ib" was finally fired out. He went to the House of David and reluted the events of the myebt to an admiring xudience of hackmea and rounders, He was treated. with cukes, ale, and cigars. Lust night he was at work again, and the victiins of the Joke were wondering when the new cuticle would replace that woich bad beea burned off by tne tull-atrength carbobe sch ‘Oncetmore the patriot smiled, and’ said. “ It's a cyld duy when there’s no fun in & smuall-pox i fe.” ; * (‘THE UNION CLUB. rs ‘ ‘Moutnwest Corner of Dearborn Avew sand Washington Place-A Ma: vent Club-House—Buildins Opera= | tous t+ Commence in the Spring. The Building Committee of the Union Club, consisting of Peter L. Yor, A. H. Burley, and Volney C. Turner, reported lust evening in favor of the plan submitted by # Boston architect, Mr. Henry Ives Cobb, 2 brother of the Treasurer of the club. Mr. Cobb isa young man, and at pres- ent bas an ofliee on Devonshire street. Bustos, but It fs bis intention tu come te Coicuzo to live and here practice bis profession in associauen wah Mr. Frost. The Directory adopted bis plan unanimousty. The lot oi” which the club-house Is to be erected, us is known, bas been bought and paid for. It1s the Turner lot on: the southwest cor- ner of Dearborn avenue 2nd Washington place, baving # frontage of 137 feet on the rormer. and tyson the latter. The building will be -clzoty~ tive feet square und fronatoo Washington Park. ‘The style is Elizabetban—gable roof, turreis ut the corners, projecting windows, etc, the front elevution being very handsome. in the basement Will be the heating apparatus, kitenen, servants’ sleeping-rooms, store-rvoms, luundrs, ete. Ou the tirst Hour, to the left of tae broud entrance, will be a reception-room, 2 par- lor 24x43, with projecting windows, and x colfec- room 23x28, and on the ‘right -a-reading-room: 21x23, and a pillinrd-room 31x38, with a iurge buy window. Between the cuffee-room ‘ang the bill- furd-coom will be a pantry und wine-roum; and elsewhere a cout-ruom and lavator On the second tloor will be a large. library, a dining- room 2x5). the Directors’ room, 21x83, and one large aud one small eard-room. On the third floor will be rach TEN SUITES OF SLEEPING-ROOMS- parlor and chamber—cach having a bath- Lot great interest. being, = 7 room, grate, and all the ‘other - veniences.: rm ‘ emer Sor 3 iba eat Seor isto be finished with oak and ‘mabugany, the libra: ith, black-w: the third oor with nine. atgub-ana ° Two kinds of material arésuggested—brown ston+ nag pressed, brick with brown-stone trim- “mings. Which will be adopted is uncertain. One will cost $69,000 and ‘the other 53000, ac- cording to-the figures of u Boston contractor, who says he will do the work bere for those. amounts. The estimated cost of, the club-bonse was 350,000. and $71,840 was,puid Tor the lot But the club.bas un abundance uf money, twoventte- men having taken $73.00 of the $60.00" bunds issued.. As these draw 5 per cent interest, the rental would be $4.000, two-thirds of which will be abtaimed from the sleeping-rooms. Buildiug operations will commence in the spring. Meanwhile, there may be some changes in the arrangement, of rooms, as there is talk of putting a bowling-ulley inthe basement. The lease of the prégent elub-bouse expires May 1, but the Directors bope to_ renew tt and remain until the new house is compluted—about a year from now. DEVILS OF THE SEA. Capture In Newfounidtand of a Monster Ociwpus—Victor Mivro's Marvelous Fictions Verified by Fact. St. Johns (Newfound.and) Correspondence New York Hera ‘The devil-fish, or gigantic cuttle-sh, is by far the most conspicueus and -interesting form umong the cephalopada of Narth America. it isonty within the ,past decade of -yeurs that science hus ceased to regard this pelazic mon- ster asthe merest of myths. During the past few years, however, at least three undoubted specimens of ché devil-tish bave been captured by fishermen on the coust of Newfoundland, and oneaimost complete representative of the ily of che gigantic calamary was recently 2hown In New York, - In Aprit, 1874, Prof. Kent, of the British Museum, wrote anvelaborute arti- cle for the London Seience Review, in which the history of the uctual devil-tish, as found in New- foundland waters, is brietly summarized as tol- lows: Within the lust few months a considerable sensation bas been caused tbroughuut thescien- title world bv the report from Newfoundiana of a gigantic cephalopod lately encounteréd by. two tishermen in the neighborhood of Concep- Hon Bay, a tentacle of the same, nineteen feet in length, being secured for the St. Jobns Museum. The story of this adventure, ag toid by the Rev. Sr. Harvey, to whom we are also indebted tor the steps tuken to preserve this re- markuble tentacle, may be stated thus. HORRIBLE ENCOUNTER ON THE WATER. On Oct. 26, 1873; while two fishermen from St. Johos were plying thoir vocation off the east- ern end of Great Belle Isle, Concepdon Bay, they deser ed at u short distanve trom them a. dark, shupeless muss floating in the watee. Con- cluding that it wus a bale of oods, possibly a portion of the cargo of sume wrecked vessel, the men rode up to it, aaticipating x valuable prize, and one of them struck the object with his bout-hook, . In an instant the dark mass be- came antinated, and, opening out like a buge umbrella, displayed to view a puir of prominent ghustly green eyes of enormous size, which glured at theta with appurent ferocity, its buze, parrot-like beak ut the same time opening in a savare and threatening manner, .Tnoo men were go territted by the horrible apparition that tor a’ moment they were-unudle to stir, and ‘before they could recover their pres- ence of mind suilictently to escape the monster, now but a few feet from the boat, shut out from urvucd it severul long arms of corpse- like tleshiness, and grappling for the bout souzht to envelope it In their livid folds. Two of these reached the boat, und in consequence of its great fength one of them went .compietely over and beyond it. At tots mument one of the men, by name Theopnidus Pivot, fortunately recovered trom his fright, wid seizing a butcher thut up- pened to be uo bourd suecucaed by a desperate edort in severing botb these arms. On ttndinz itself wounded tne aunnal moved off backward, atthe same time darkenwg the water with its inky emissions, aud presently became lost to syot beneath tne eurfuce of the waves. The amputated xrins which were lett in the bout us tropies ot the terrible encounter were brought to St Jobuy, ane through the energy of Mr. Harvey the lonwer one wus secured for the museum, the Shurter of the two bavins been unfortunately destroyed beture its vulue was kuown. ‘The sitive gentleman, who was the tirst to examine ang deser.ve tois severed find, found that it measured ov less toun nineteen feet. A lurge porcion (some six feet) bud been: destruyed Ue- fore the urm wus reseuco, aud the tisbermen being of opinion tuat at feust ten feet more were attuched to the monster's body the total lengih ayust have been little short of forty fee ‘Yne description of the hinb by the Rev. Mr. Hurvey cut.rely bears out bisawh opinion that at wus) one of the two longer arms or tentacula of a huge calumury, aud is tuus given: It gieasured nineteen feet, is of a pale pink color, entirely cartilaginous, tourb and phunt us "leather, and very stron A ig but three and’ cue-balf iucbes io circumference, except towurd the extremity, where it broudens ike un our to six inches und then tapers to a pretty tine poiut. ‘The under. surface of the extremity is covered with suck- era to the very point. At tbe extreme eud there isa cluster.of smuil suckers. with tine, sbarp teeth rovud their edves and baving a membrane Stretched across euch; of these there are about seventy. Then come wwo rowsof very lurge suckers, the movable disc of euch one anda quarter inches in diameter, the cartuhiginous ring not bemg denticulated, Th are twen- ty-lour in number. After these there ts nuother group of Suckers with denuculsted edges. 's st- far to the titst and ubout fifty fn auaiber. Along: the under surfuce about tory more small suck~ ers are distributed at intervals, bemg in all about ISU suckers on the arin. THL LOUY BAY SPECIMEN. Scarcely bud the news of this remarkable ad- venture and acquisition reached England and tbe Lunted States than intelience wus received | from the same source—numely: from the Rev, Mr. Harvey—unat a secund x.gantc cuttle-nsb, little inferior to the one just described, bud beet taken tn a net by Wuree fishermen in Lovy Buy, some three n.les frum St.Juons, The forarida- Die arms baying becume entangled in the turds of the net the creature's power of resistance was alust cumpietely unnibilated: it nevertheless required the efforts of al) the meu to vom pletely overcome {t, and it was not before they bad shceceded in severing the monster's: bead trom its body that they were xble ‘to tke son of their prize. The entire budy euttiestish was brought to St. Johns, and photugrapus were mude of it, ‘and steps tawen to preserve the whole. The boay of this specimen measures cizht feet im fength, with a grth of tive feet. the two longest tentacles twenty-four feet, and the. e ebt shorter urms each six tect ip Jeuzth. The formidable, burny, purrot-like balk fg-the size of man’ ,and the membranous sockets of the promipent cyes zaye n diuncter of four inches. The deseriplun and tigures published of this satupte leave au doubt that it isu smaller indwwiduas of the same species of which a sinzle tentucle omy wus secured a few weeks previous- ly, 31, nowever, surpasses the larger ove in im- portance, since through it wo are fur the Grst ime piuced in fuil possession of the entire structure of one of these ovenn monsters. lo the work ot Prof. A. E. Verrill, of New Haven, entitled * North Ainericun Cephalopoda.” there ig enumerated a cumplety lst ot wil autnenti- Cntea specimens of. the devil-fisb, whether fragmentary or approuching completeness, that have cuulieuged the utteacion of auturahsts wwn to our lutest specumen. In October, Asvt, — Cupt. Campbell, master of | the Gloucester schooner B.D. Haskins found one arge devil Geb Houting Dtelesly on the water in the neighborhood of the Grand Bunks. He took iton buard, and, unfortunately for the intere: of science, determined to convert it into The wuin Vudy Ot ths mnopster was estimated to be bfteeu Feet in leuzth, and the short arms, which were considerably backed wa mutilited, ranged from eight to ten teet in length. The bea is in possession of. the smithsunian Insti- tute at Washington, D.C. At Coombe’s Cove a living specimen was found ia very sbullow water, but was destroyed by the fishermen. Some fragments of it, bowever, were | res- cued, whiten {ndicated ‘its propurtous pretty cieurly. It must bave exceeded forty feer in length. 1t3 main body was about ten teer and itg short arms between six ane seven feet. Prof. Kent informs ug that there is in the Brit- ish Museuma gigantic limb of onu of these monsters meusuring mine feet in length. “Being,” be says,” “clothed with suckers througaout, its length proves to be .one of the elgbt shorter arms, So that the two tentacula in the same proportion would have reuched to a Jengib of tbirty fect, which, joined to the fitteen or twenty uduitional feet, whieh were 20 doubt represented by the body of the anionl, we arrive ata lengin of little less than sixty feet. or, in fact, the exact proportions of the monster frst encountered in Corcepuion Bay. ‘The suckers on this arm wre much more thickly Set than im either Of the Newfoundiund ex~ amples already described. and are given by Prof. Kent w follows: “There is u double row from one extremity to lhe other, and euch row contains from 145 to _ 150, ora tutal of just 3W suckers to the whole arm. Inthe example from Logy bay one uri, six feet long, 13 estimated to have lw of these suckers. ‘This supports an. opinion atready ex- sed that, if of the sstne species, the ari in the sh Museum was considerably longer before it was subjected to the contracting iutluences of the spints in which it is now immersed.” THE CATALINA DEVIL FISH. Prof. Verrill descrities this buwe fish as a near- ly perfect specien of u targe squid. . “It was cust usbore after a severe: ule" at Catalina, drinity Bay, in Newfuundiand, on Sept. 24, 187. Tt was living when found. it was exhibited tor two or three days ut St. Jonns. and subse- quently’ was carried in brine | to New York. where it was purchased by Rerche & Beotner for the New York Aquarium. There I hud an opportunity to examine it guun after ite arrival. [um also indebted to the roprietors of the aquariuin for some uf the jvose suckers. Other suckers were sent to mo from Newfoundland by the Rev. Mr. Harvey. Although somewbat mutilated, and’ cot in & Goud siute of preservation when received, It is pr Brit without doubt, the - | Inrmest and best -peciain Ver posery tthe Catalina specimen, when fresh, was 9.5 feet from Up Of tall vo Gu~n wt tune, Greuuicreuce 5 bods. 7 feet: circumference of bend. 4 feet; length of tentacular urms, 70 feet; lensth of Jarzest sessile arms, 11 teet; circumference at base’of arms, 17 inches; elreumference of tent- acular arms, 5 inches; ‘at- thelr expanded por- on. 8 inches; length of.upper mundible, 525 inches; diameter of large suckers, 1 inch: di- ameter of ese openings, 3 inches.” At Hemmer Cove. an’ the southwest arm fo Green Buy, a large devil fish was driven ashoro y during «storm. The Kev. Mr. Hurvey recoived Prompt information of it, but before the mu- chinery be bad put in motion to secure it bad taken etfect it was almost completely devoured and destroyed by foxes and wild seu fowl The only part of this ish secured was a piece of tha pen about ane foot in length. ‘The date of the stranding of the oninal was the 24th of No- vember, 186. . At Smith's Sound, in Trinity Bay, auother fine speciinen of our devil tish ran ashore in Ii. One of the inbabitants of the locality, Mr. John Duifut, who found it, thus de- scribes it ina letter written to the Rev. Mr. Harvey: “On Nov. 21, early in the morning, a ‘big squid’ was seen on the bench at Lance Cove, still alive and struggting desperntely to escape. It hud been borne in by a spring tide and a bigh Inshore wind. In {ts struggies to et off ft plowed up a trench or furrow about thirty feet long und of consider- able depth by meuns of the stream of witter that it cdected with sreat force trom its syphon. When the tide receded it died.” The body wus about eleven feet in length and the lung, tentac- | ular arms measured thirty-three feet. ‘The Sessile arms were about twelve feet. This tine specimen was completely last. It was eut up in Pieces by the “inhabitants of the place and was washed out tosen by the tide. Mr. tlarvey ulso had nfurmatiog of another.very large. decapul “cust ashore in October, 1s<7, in the hottomn of Trinity Buy. 1Uwageut upand dsed for manure, No portions are known to. bave been preserved and no meusuremeuts were wiven. | FIGHTING A “SEA DEVIL.” "i ‘This sample and its mode of capture are de- scribed bv Mr. Harvey in the following terms: On the Za day of November, 1878, Stephen. Sherring, a -sbermaa. residing in’ ‘Tminvle Tivkle, Was out ina boat with ‘two other men. Not far .from the shore they observed some bulky object, and supposing it mizbt_ be purt of. a wreck they rowed towned it, and to theic bor- ror found themselves close tov buze fish bavme large, glass; 'e3, Which Was. king desperate efforts to escape and churning ‘the water into fonm by the motion of {ts immense arms and tail. It wus agrouud, and the tide was ebbiuz. From the funnei at uie back of its bead ic was ejecting large volumes of water, tors being fig method “of moying backward, “the force of the stream,; by the: reaction of the sur- ruunding medium, driving it in the required di- rection, At times the witer from the syphon was as bluck a3 ink. Finding the monster pir- tially disubled, the fishermen plucked up cunr- ageund ventured near enough tv throw the grapnel of their bout, the sharp dukes of whic! having barbed points, sunk inte the sott bois ‘To the grupnel they bad attached a stout rove, which they bad curried usbore and tied to a tree s0 ats to prevent the fish from going ont With the ude. It was a bavpy thougnt, for the devil Usb found hinself eifectuaily moored to the shore. Es struggles were terrific as. ne flung bis ten arms about in dying agony. ‘The fishermen took cure to keep ata respectful distance from the Jong tentacles, which ever und anon darted out, Fe great tongues, trom the central ‘mass. At length it became exhausted. and, as tho water receded, itexpired. The fishermen, a knowine no better. proceeded to couvert it into dox’s ment. It wags a splendid spectmeu—the largest yet taken—the body. measurme twenty feet from the beak to the extremity of the tuil. It was thus double te sizeof the New York speciinen, anu live feet lonzer than .o¢ one taken wt Three Arms by William Budgeli. The clreumterenve of the body Is uur stuted, but one of ‘the arms measured thirty-five feet. This must have been x tentacte. The one taken at Three Arms by Wallin Budgetl, and reterred tin Mr. Hurvey’s fetter just cited, was fifteen feet in length from tail to beak. It was twelve feet in circumference ut the thickest part of the budy. One of tho shorturms ranged to 4 fenyth of sixteen feet. THE 187? SPECIMEN. ‘The account of the capture of this large devil fisb was. publisbed in. the Chronicle of this city Dee. 180), It took. the shape of a letter, from wnieb the following is un extract: Mr. Thomas Moores and several others saw something inuv- ing ubout jn the water not far from the ste. Getting into a bout they went alongside, when they were surprised to’ see-a monsirous squid. One of the men struck at it witb an oar, and it immediately struck out for the sbore, and went quite in upon the bench. The men then suc- ceeded in wetting a rupe around tt and hauled it in on shore. It measured thirty-eight feet alto- gether. ‘The body wusabout nine tcet In tengtb, ‘and two of its tentacles or borus were twenty- nine teet each, ‘There were eight other suniller horns and not'so long. The body was about six feet in circumference. When first seen by the writer it wus in the water and very much. dis- fizured, 23 one of the men had tuouxbtlesly, cut off the two longest tentacles, aad bad ripped the vody partly open, thereby completely spoiling the appearance of the creature.” Several other specimens of the devil tish, but allofa mutilated and fragmentary character, have during the past ten or tweive years come within aur notice in Newroundiand, Chief among those are the Bujus sample, twa short uring of wh.cb were recovered by Mr. Harvey, measuring eiht feet in length. and the Banquer- enu spec.men, consisting of the extreme end of the tentacultr arm, abuut cizhteen Inches to length, and completely denuded of its suckers. fhes wae taken by Capt. Celis. of the tisbing poner Marion, out of the stomach of the pre= jous tish known to vaturalists.a3 the Alcpi- dosqurus fervr, ‘The capture was sted In the autumn Of 1559, in north latitude 42 degrees 49 niinutes and jongitude 62 degrees 5¢ minutes west, olf the eoust of Nova Scatia. THE LAT! IMPORTANT CAPTURE. No fresh contribution of any note to the land preserves of North Aulericnn cepaalopoda pat offered itself sidce that dare until the appeur- ance of the Portugal Cove=pecimen of the great devi fish, which wus captured on the evening of the 10tb of Inst November. . This latest head- footed visitor to our shores is now on board the Cromwell steamship Canima, on its way to New York, in charge of Capt. Davies. A few bours after it bad been secured by some Portugal Cov tishermen received the following from Inspector Murphy, Chief of | the } Board of Public Works Department: ” This evening | measured a buge squid, or devil tish, that ran in close to the shure about noun today at Portusui Cove, und wus captured by two tish- ermen named Joseph Millar aud Robdert Picco. The length of the Uody {3 five feet and a bull; of the bend, one foot and a quarter: and the length to the extremity of the long teutu- cle is twenty-eigot feet. It is four feet and a shalf around the body,and the fnu-sbaped t is about fifteen inches wide.—Nov. 10, 188t.", On receipt of this nore [ immediately proceeded to Portugal Cove and fuund that the c.:ptors of the monsier fish bud brought it up salely from the sea una deposited it in one of their fishing stages. L succeeded In gettin pos- | session of it on tuirly reasonable terms und bad | itconveyed up to St. Jobns early next mornin. It did not suller much either in the early stages of hundime and getting Itun shore erin the tran- sit frotn Portugui Cove toSt. Jubnis. ‘The twn long | tentactesere the only portions of the monster that | hu utfered auy depreciation. Buttheseare the Teust valuable portions in the whole ecunomy of this decupod, whether to the student of analytic seienee or to the mere curious and casual ob- server of natural monstros ‘Tne whole muin body of the fish ang ity eight buge brachin, are wil intact, and, whut is of paramount im- portance either to sctentitic experts or to mere Curious dilettunti, the animal ig in a stute of fuultiess preservation. haviny been: carefully picked and Incused in ice witnin thirty-six hours after its cupture. A skillfully-exceuted purtrait.of this demontuc mosiusk was made by | Mir. B. Lyous, one af the paotugruphic artists of | this city. } NOVELTIES IN COOKERY. Some of the Latest Fresks of Fashion at the Dininz-Table. New York Sun. ‘The fashionable seuson in tbls city is open- ing with coukery that even Britlat-Savaria would have deigned to ext. Dinners and luncheons are the favorit form of entertaiu- ment. Modern furnisping and the bric-n-bruc munta make dancing difticult In the pariors of an ordinary city house. The oli-fasnioned “party” hasdisuppeared. Keceotions are voted tiresome, and nfternvon tea cumes too. eurly co attract many genttemmen, and sv lute that there is risk of spoiling the appetite for dinner. The ten is only 2 popiar way for the ladies to make culls, und is considered a perfunctory means of paying suciai debts. In the main things of dinner, the fillet and ronst, there is little chaoxe, but in minor things the caterer rules. To begin with oysters, five, not six, 18 now the fusnionuble number for bulf shellz,. At formal dinners It is the invari- able rule that ladies and gentlemen. should be ‘seated alternately, never allowing two Indies or two gentlemen to eit together, At dinners of eight, twelve, or sixteen bersous. thiscan be managed only by putting gentlemen at both endsof the table. Hostesses generally havea prejudice aginst giving up their cus:omary seat, forgetting the vld saying, * Where the Douglass sits, there 1s the head of. the table,” and avoid the awkward number. ‘ ‘A rather graceful tasbion, making an excuse for the necessity, 1s to serve two kinds of soup, one at each end of the table. A thick soup— terrapin, turtle, calves’. bead, or zumbo—Is pluced in a silver tureen before'the hist, aud ut the other end a clear soup, or bouilluu, in a glass: tureen, with a glass ludle.- The effect is very pretty, esvecially when the latter dish is thick and cut like a ru-e diamond. ‘i ‘Though no new rowst bus been discovered, a sens bie gravy spoon ba+ uppeared—targe, long- handled, with a silver knob ou the under side to preveut it slipping lose the plutter. ‘Alnong the entrées the reizaing ‘novelty Is a disn of marrow bones. This nas been tabooed since the duys of Taffy, the Dutcnmac. It ig not served, a8 in the olden time, oo toast, but the bones are’ brought to the table folded tna napkin. With them isa new queer- note }° giniths bave intreduced to meet the ttsh: ‘The marrow iseuten with a thin, plain crumpet, almost us plafo, bur uvt so brittle, as we Deut Geackers, Whe ure served -hot:witt salud. However, tue dish is so rich that. hee Lamb's roast pig. it is more talked of thun eaten. Anew. improvement ubon twenty blackbirds .ina pie is seen ina dish of plover. “A deep crust of masbed_ potato Is tilled with hot broiled plover or sape, and then hid- den ina grove of paraely sprigs and line white celery tovs. stuck into the potato. It comes to the table looking as green and fresh as 2 salad. But itiza pleasant surprise’ to Bad the sake is etill te come—chat you havestruck a fresh covey of birds. Reed b rd3 are sv much better broiled toun cooked in any other way that [t Is a pity to bake them, : : if any one is d-spused to offer up a sacrifice on the alter of decorative uct, the pretties 3 the season is a thavched Bouse full of birds, The dish seems very elaborate whea on the tuble, vut it is said to be easily prepared. The buttum and sides of adeep pie dis ure Lned with sina pieces of vermicelll, aid im cex- ularly us thutches are put on a ruof. {tls filled with birds covered with puif paste. and baked. When done it 13 turned it, the vermicelii un- dererust tormmg the ruof, und making a very xoud imitation “of straw’ thurches if weit Urowned. An urtistic cook cun improve «ne pwnins in windows und dvors with the gE wlamander ot smal! iran. For dessert there are vurious new fashions. Jellies ure tastefully servel in) the rina of fruits, hulves of oniniges, teuiuns, and baganas, she putp nuving buen Sertved “out curetuily without breeky. the skin. ‘Tho juices wre surest’ into gelatine, er calves'-fvot Jelly. ‘The esnds of the varinus fruits then are paczed ita deep dish, so they will retain an upright Pusitio. and form little cups te receive the Iiquit jelly. Exch fruit-skin ig ted with jelly, davored with its own juice, “und set uside yo Gol. When the jelly dus hardened tke edges ure trimmed with a sharp knife. Preaposes are tiled ‘with’ grated. pulp, o ly en u,b gelatine being ndded to atitfen tne pulp. Hananas are filled wita gutva, qunee, or peach jelly, A plitter filled with tuese Jeltied fruits, Valencia und Maudutia ornoges, red aud: yelluw banamas, lemons, and stives of “plaapple ist Very tempting dish. {tivoks a3 caouga i ungicuin nad worked’ a charm beneath the tam. bur orange sk.ny and banana, peebngs, and left thoze fubied apples of istkabar whieu" bud one-halt sweet and the other sour, or spread a fenst of that luscious fruit the Perstins cufl the “seed of the sun,” because it melts to Boney ta the mouth, - ‘The Intest fancy in ice-cream Is a single form, uot thege Lite tudividual molds in trum and flower shupes wh.ch have been iv fashion during two or three yeurs. One of the newest designa is sumething that can foat or swim in a sea of spun sugar; for instance, a sup with the bull nude of tutth friutti, and riggivg that melts away. befure your eyes—u very furtom of delight. A audurin cake, wade, with mandarin vranges und asweet orange teiny, is the litesé buon in fu:ty cake, end u mnimauth cream cake blted with Romun™ punch und covered with a sottrum icmg fa fate concession to teetotilers ubat must dehgat RK. B. fayes of Onw, Fancy cukes in crimped papers ure always ued: Dut, Nike many guod, tutugs and people, they are wut of fasion, Phites, not eake-baskets, with bno~ dies of Indy-tinzers and -otber long crumbles nud fumbles ted luosely m_separtte pyramids, nine or ten together, with satin ribuong, are the fushiva. Under the exxe is pineud = atce paper= napkin. These nupkins ure. ulmvat perfect imi- tations of vid ince of various kind. They come in gold, silver, und wuite paper. The otner duy the writer -suw a cuke that neituer rluboa nor hice papxin could adoro. ‘Lt was cut on toe table Uy while ber husband oppesit wus serving a Cupid of tesh-culured lee-creum, ‘The Cupid lovked su natural that it seemed al- most eainiburish to eat it. But after ane taste all the prejudice vanished, and however bud, Cupid may be said to be, these dishunted mem> bers were certamy xood. The cate was a wit termelon. The centre was made with pink sugur, with pig whole raisins counterfetiag ale must perfeetly the Sbiny black seeds ol the fruit. ‘Tho rind wus formed of u deticate white cuke. A pistache icing mude the green skin. It was both novel and xond: Itis predicted thet dinner favors are having their ist sexson. After being comfortably d.ned people du not care to curry away 0 week's supply of candy. The etrips of plush im che centre vf tables wre ulsy doomed. Plush does by it. 43 plenty of lass und til candelabra to tone it down. The bighly scoruted. china nuw so much used does nok nk so Well upon it as a plata white service. seems so suitable for a table covering: ite tinea cloth, und plush, ‘ao matter how carefully trunmed with smilaux, has no wtilRurlan excuse. for being tpon a table. Centre pieces for dinners in the new fusion ure sp low us not to Interrupt the view of auy purt of the table. At wedding break- fasts and receptions, Where every one stands, bik decorations are bsed. Made p.eces of cut dowers tre going by, [tig not cousouaat with the eternal tieaess of things te lord a table with the same Kud of tlowers that ludies wear at the bett. Besides towers: im tou ‘larce quantities Become oppressive ‘in the sweet- ness of thelr perfume. A pew departure was seco at some recent entertainments. A pan .of growing ferns, the “picleian tin vem enurely bidden in green, is more pleasantly suguestive than one buodred ced and Jollnw roses arrunged with ati regularity in a wicker basket. ‘To tnis nuvelty” utero can be guded pitcuer plants, blooming tulips, or aya cinths and oremias. Very tew of the latter can be obiaued ta New Yuri at tug price. The few fortunate people who secure them . for duners get them from private enn= servutocies. Mr. Erustus Corning, of Al- pany, is sald to have: the finest. collection in the country. Londén bas a better market fur such ruritles. and there orchids can be got- ten at uny time if one is disposed to pay the ex- truyagant prices asked for thea. A chariu wentre: ¢ Unat bus dect tittle used Is 2 bow! of crac! When accompanied by a pair of silver tonge, It is conveniently located for all to y themselves, if ice is desired in eban~ pusne or water. When used with gluss_candel- xbra_ tne rellection 13 quite brilliant. The cowl Should be-lnrge and deep, and oave a draining tray to receive the water as the ice melts. Dinner cards ure su useful that they will oot goon xv out of lasbion, The shops are full of them, and beautiful French. ones are coming. over, siugghd throuzh the custout-bouse 10 the folds of Furis gowns, Of a dozen recently used the owner suit ‘They cust almost as mnuch a3 2 dress.” A friend tovk | the luds’3 commission 'ast soring, and flied it during bis summer sauntorimrs- in for- eign studic. They were all round fans, of virious woods, the appropriate burk makliitg a decp border, or frame, around the edge. ‘The handles were covered with bricht satin ribbeng, fintsbed by a dainty bow. Each fan was painted Hts hw Y and signed by a well-known artst, and bore the uumne ot x guest. They suusxested the iavishness of Lucullus In ancient times, und fn modera that bonanza banquet in San Francisco lust win ter, where every Indy's dinner-card was # point luce Banakerchief. 4 x Hark quia sets of fin.e -b wisareareitef from the mouguny of the otd-figinoned Bohemian glasses. Bach bowl 13 diferent... Doyles etched In tndia ink to phice under Suger-buwis are in- teresting, The coneave bottoms of the Dowls Uriug ot, the designs effectively. uvy red. ambr, sapphire, turquoise blue, und a variety of white bowls ure ased. The colored enes are usunily placed before gentlemen, aud » white dow! belore ees lady. At tancheons tare variety is undesirable, but some ind. should be ganwn in the seteedon of di A recent tastefully served lunch the menu was very siinple. A howl! of bouillon, followed by a dish of fried smelt with mavonnulse exper snuce and plain potatoes, wide up the frst courges. Then extine Freeh coups piled in wiz- wa shape overt mound of erced peas, with patte croquets. ‘The fourta emurse Was a celery Sulnd und labster exops—a very pretty, thouga not very new. dish. [tis erally prepared. A lobster claw is tnserted in a Hattrened brown croquet. trimmed to regeible a imutten cbop. After that « frult flummers was served. ‘Tho course was quite classic. A Greek would have appreciated it. Ir would have given hin visions of Hybly and Hvimetius, and their luxuriant geowth of wild thyme. "Everyth mie wus remove'l rom the tuble except the ferns in the centre. A xlass jus. gome small gingses, und a plate of water crackers were brought in. The hostess poured out for cach xuest a tiny glass of twetheriin. Any one wuo had forgotten the old reputation of thls liquor and of what it was innde, would bave been en- libtened by, seeing the jug. [t looked tke a honeycomb." Through tho waxy looking cells bainied upon its surface the liquor appeared ike yellow nuney. On the stopper was a Dluck and gold bee. The caster, or tray, in which the jug stood wis of ghisy ito, covered with white clover and other heather towers, which give (ne delicate favor to Scotch and French bouey. Suen a tinule seems to claim fur Aumerica inen~ tien. amonz those nations whleb Shakespeare describes u3 “exquisite in their drinking.” ———— ‘The Di-coverer of Graut._ Philadelphia Preaa i Astriking feature of Mr. Forney's career in polities aud journalism was pis discovery of Gen. Grant us Presilentiul candidate. The sug- gestion wus Urst tude to Mr. Furney in the fait of 1867, just ufter nis return from Europe. where he nad been to visit the Paris Exposition of that year. by Chief-Justice Curtter. of the District of Colorado, und Senator ‘Thayer, of Nebrnska. Atver digesting the idea for a day or two it im- pressed Mr. Forney favorubty.and—but he cea tell the story In nis own stury: “ Lretired to my roomnson Capitol Hill and prepared the five- columo article which appeared io the Wash- ington Chronicle and the Paitadelpbia Preas of Nov. 7, its. After it was in type Senator Thayer and myself called upoa Jono A. Ruwiins, Chief of Gen. Grunts sta, and read-it to him. He instantly udvised that it should appeur the very next days but Lunswered that Gen. Grant was nota candi~ dute for President, and did not desire to be, and if E printed it without authority there was little doubt that. some superserviceable politician would cuil upon bim aod ask him tf he bad been made a cunaidate with his sanction. He will of course reply that be sever saw the article until it was in priot,- and so all your schemes to m1ko bim President will gang agley. ‘Then Rawilios took it in to Gen. Grant and stata a tong time, Whethe returned be said, Gen. Grant is quits pleased with your statement of bis political rrc~ ord, ad surprised that he proves ta be so souk a Republican.” Of course Grant. was predes- tined to ve President of the United States, but “there can be but Httie doubt that Jobn W. For- ney was one of the most potent instruaients fa the bands of the fate that shaped the civilcareer of the great Captain. Fourteen. Weber px nos wore sold on Mondsy OL 8 were wy THE urauen Dydd, end 233 looking bucket-shaped spoon, which the silver- | Wabash avenue buking four and . i i } 1