Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1881, Page 6

y i \ in seeuiny eR Bae HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, RAILROADS. Alleged Discrimination on the Part of the Canal Com- missioners, Why Shouldn't Sauce. for the Railroad Goose Be Sauce for the Canal Gander? Interesting Statistios Regarding the Vast Extent of Railroad Con- atruotion for 1881, Roading Mado a Profit This Year of Over Ton Million Dollars. Mooting in St, Louls of the Illinols Freight Agonts—No Ao- % tion. The Ratirond OMelats Cannot Keo Why the Canal Comminastonors Practices Misceiuutnation While the Rattroads Cannot. ‘Jt acems to miko a grent dtfforence to the Minols Stuta oMlcints,” satd w prominent rall- rond tannger to a'TninuNe represeiitative yee terduy, “whose ox Is gored. Now, whllo thoy fre making such strenuous efforts to prevent diserimtuation on the purt of the ruilronds and Will not allow them to make Jower rates from a forthor Mstanee than a nearer one, thoy lose Alyhtof the fact that just «ich diserlmination is openly practiced by the tate Canal Commis- dioners.’ Herel bave propured for you a Iittic table to show that the Canal Commiss{oucrs chorge lower rates between Jon Salle and Chie cago on what thoy call through business, whieh nieans business fro polnts on tho Mlinois River, where thoy have to meet ruflroad copys titfon, than they do on local business received at La sulle or polnts thts side of tt. Here tt it fvas prepared trom tho Canal Commlssfoners’ init, it shows the ennal 10lls shorirud by the Gini Comunisstoners on suet through and local Wuniness"s 3 /RSs/2 53 Fa Sa =k l2aFli os e EF 22 -| ra |P8El fe PRIEST: 73 er 1.000 Ibs, iy C eat Der: 1,000 Ibs. . why Ww heat. ‘per 3,000 tbs, Bis WH Big iw eves ease w ia Vreaned stone, por yare ot) Disnensiau stone, pet SUT, ao] 8] 2 Ribble ston 4164 1 ‘ow you wil peru a ntinued tha gen- Ucman, that on through business from polnts on the Hiinols River they charge from 25 te per cent less than on local biiaiiess received nt pulnts ‘on the eannl where there is na co inpetition, The ‘cunul tolls on lumber are stil more Verriminat. ing. The talls on lumber, Chidago to 1 sarin, tro 24 per cent less than the’ tolls frm Chleazo to Ottnwa. And the inmost, glaring Inconslstenuy 18, that the Canal Commissioners puy thle 2 poe otnt by rebute. Now dowt you think that wont Jy aduice for the zoosy ought to be woud sauce tor the gander?" Rallrond Construction tn 1881—Moro : filer of Roads Bullt This Year than Rvor Hotere, From advance slips furnished by the Rattway Aue, of this clty, tho following important facts regurding railway construction in 1881 aro gath- ereds "She yenr 1881 has been especially notable for the envrmous extent and. rapidity of railway construedon in the United Stites, Although It opuned with a very severe winter, and snow and frosts, protracted Into the spring, delayed the commenvoment of aperations in nlurgo purt at the country, and altonch ducing the summor and fall ratlway work In tho-West was retarduit by an uxeess of ruin and mud, still we ure able thus curly to present a table giving, we bolieve, n compuratively complete summary of tho nit her of separate tucsund the mfleaat truck netus nly Inid down in the yarlous ‘Blutes and” Terrl- torles vines “the Ist of Jantiuiry, 1881. AW tho month of December hus beon miusuntly mid te the northern half of the country, cunddoradlo track no doubt hing beon lid within tho lust Tew duys, uf which wo bave, as yet, rucelved nu report, [tis probable, also, that In some urbor fngex the last reports havo not shown tho entire umount n€ trick lald or“that will hare heen tld at tho end of this month. While, thorefure, the tyures which wo are now atic to Rive are tile iucomplete, and will buve to he supplemented Ina future urticly giving the reeurd of construction in detall, wo inny aly Mhatit hus been made up with yory gruat eure from numeroun suurees, railvay” inanagers, State Rullroad Commissioners. and other State ditleers coutributing their assistance, and tht it ig reasonably caniptate, for so eurly a pubiion= tion, Our thrutus show thut track bus bean lald on 268 different Ines—althaugh not by as inuny diferent compunies—and alrendy aggregates No less than Bt miles, bls is muen the largest mileage ever constructed in any ono year, hat for Inst bela given by Poor's Manual at 7.17 tiles, whieo fn turn wis Gur greater than the mileage ndded in any previous year oxceptin JB7, when ierencbed Ty infies, Allowing for returns ret ta bw received, we beileve It snfy to estimate shut the trick fnid: In tho United States [1 [83h will prove to buve been very little, If nny, loss shan 9,000 miles ‘Yho follawing 18 the table. ns far ns we aro rae ablo to complete ft, of new construction in = State tines, atten State, thes, Mite Alubatia. eT lew tinmpahires tte a 1) Notun a Enc ae en hnnn te} 3 4] Wuahin; Se 2 ‘rotwls, Te will bo sven that the Work of railway ox- temion bas been carried on hi furty-two states: ind Territories, the fei Greed In which no now track ts reportod lald belo Counectiont and Delnware, and the only ‘Territurica thus dia. anguished being Idaho, Indian ‘Vorrltory, and Uinb, witbough it fa probuble that a few iniles were Jald in the latter. ‘The remote possession at Alka of course doce not come Into this dateuury. Vuxus leads the country: tn respuct >t pally way, uuiling, paving suited fast yenr, by aur table, 41t alles, which ful ceturns will probably Iycreagse tu Loa or inore, Colorado Abpeurs to came uuxt With about 600 miles, of which no tees than ii are ollictally reported to ae os lnid by thut enterprising harcow-suge rill BAe GOnIDAH the Denver & Wo Grande, This company built during the yeur no less than ten Aisturent nes or portions of lined Towa comva aexe with nourly HOU imites, and Dukots and Obio Mso show thus far between 400 and 600 miles, Indiana, [iinols, New dextoo, ond. New York appenr to havowlded between Wt ang 400 miles, , the nurrow yize makes no faatyntiicant shows ny in tho list of rullway tailcage constructed in (est, OF the 258 diitercit Hues thud far roported abo bullt during the year, no Ieasthan forty> three, oF Bier TS por cont, wore of throvefort aniles, oF al Petty were Of that gage, ab eer baud “Hilnots Mrelghe Agents, Sr, Lowry, 3t0., Dec, .—Tho Illinais Raliway ' Frelght Association met here this muraing, rep resuntutives of alt tho Illuuls roads being pros- aut. After ennalderablu discusuton u comimittes wus uppolnted 10 urralige w tarif, and the moot. ‘By adjuurned to awalt the report of tho cum- nittee, 7 ‘tho committee, after consultation, reported w tho mcoting a resolution providing that, after Jan, 1, the Stato Commissioners’ rates aball be tha ranimunn rutes Jn all cases, and that spoolul tatosto manufacturers ang others which are ess Dua tho Cumuissloner® rates sball bo tage seled, provided that nothing in this resolution bull preveat twoor more ronds intoreated Jn the wun business pervoing, to yates, but ne roud shall uct independently of tho others, or without due notlcy but given ta ull othure' Interested, Four of tho roads operated 10 the btate wore Wot tupresented i tho meutiou, and, with w view of eecuring unaniuoeus autUD, the muatiys nde fourned tu meet in Jbiei q Journal tu meet uyaln at Ubleago, two weeks Tho Lute Monry ¢ Wentworth—Iits unoree ‘Tukew Place Suturday at 12:45 Me At tho request of many of the friends or the Jgto leary C. Wentworth who llvo out of town, \f bes been decided to postpone the fuucrul uutil 12:43 p, m. tomorrow, in order to give such par: {ios nn opportunity to pay tholr last tritutes of respect ta the Inmonted doad. Tho funoral servicca wit! be hold, as nunounced yesterday. At tho First Congrogational Church, corner of Ann and Washington strects, A special train of tha Chtenga & Northwestern Raliroad will leave tho Northwestern depot at 2:30 p,m, to convey the romains and tho mourners to Rosenitt Gomutery, where nil the Honored dust of Henry OU. Wentworth wilt fmt n inst reali Pies, A tnoeting of all tho passenger agents in his city wns held sestoniay afternvon vt the Pirie ottice for the piirpuso nf taking steps to pay” ‘An Upproprinte trite to tho memory of the de= censod, Acummittes of ive was appointed to procuro an appropriate floral conteluution, anid Mnother meeting wil bo held at tha same piace thts afternuon to receive the report of tho com smtttes wad take stich othor notion as ta daonted necessary. ‘Tho General Ticket and Passenger Agents of tho Various railroads centering In thle olty will hold a meeting ats p. a today. at Com- intasfonor Dixon's office, in tho Rand-MeNalis building, to take appropriate and sultabie nction regarding Mr. Wentwortn's death, and to innko el ae for attonding tho funeral in a oly. New Month to Columbnr, 0. by the South Shore Fretght Line, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Trivmunes ChyvEtann, O. Deo, 2A contract was algned today by: which tho South Shoro Freight Line will aeauro au entrance to Columtns by tho route aitopted. Freteabt will bo transferred from tho Now York, Peunsylvanin & Oblo nt Morion tothe Columbus, Hacking Valley & To- fedo, reaching Columbus by tho Intter Hine. It fg uncerstoud that tho route was adopted inninly through the Intuenca and tn constderntion of, tho lusinesa of tha Scioto Valley, whieh erosees tho Columbus, Hooking Valley & ‘Toleda about ton miles blow Columbus, a thourniigament mado tho South Shore Line business guthoresd together by the Soloto Valloy will by trinsforred toane Cohimbua, Hovking Valley & ‘Loledy at this junction, and not in the. City of Columbus, This arrangemont presunts advintuges .to both railway vompanios, and insures to the South: Rages Rrotgae Lina tho assistance of tho cloto Mr. Gowont Pinnapecrnta, Deo. 2.—-In the Common Plens Court toduy hearing wits hed upon a bil inequity, ted by the SicCalmonts against tho Philudeiphia & Roading Raliroad Company, praying for the appointment of Muster to tako supervision and control of tho election 1u Jan. unry noxt. Franklin 2. Gowen presented i ptr tttlon praying that he wight he allowed to come ius ndefendunt, on tho ground that the pres- ant sult 14 collusive, tho object being merely to deluy vtection to protect the term of ollico uf the present manngyoient. Tho word * collusive” aens atricken from tho peticon, and “Gowen wis admitted us defendant, Argutnont Saturday. Toledo, Delphos & Burlington Appotuts inentn, Speetat Disvateh to’ The Chicago Tribune. TOLEDO, O. Dec. 2.—Although no official an- nouncament of tho fact nus wa yet een mnde, it is definitly acttlod that Mr. A. W. Johnson, formerly of (ho Pan- Handle, but more recently ofa Colortdy railroad, is to succeed Mr. W. J. Sherman asChlof Engihoorof tho Toledo, Detphos & Burlington Mullroad, Another ununnounced nonointinent is that of Bic, Re i. Jones ta be Siperlutundent of the Dayton & Southeastern Division in place of Mr. J, 8. Weller, recontly resigneil. -My. Jones 1s an ld ralirond mnt, huvlug unexperience dating buck many yearg, He was recently of tho Cincinnatl Southern. Both of tho uppolatments will take effect Jun. 1, A. HL Wood Links His Fortunes with tho Chesapeake & Ohtu. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Ricumunn, Va., Deo, 20.—Mr. A. 1, Wood, Sus pertntentent of the Chicago Division of tho Wabnsh, 8t. Louls & Pacitic ond, bas beon np- pointed Assistant Gonoral Manugor of the Chesapeake & Oblo Ustlroad, the appointment hike efeet Jun, 1. He will bave much to do with tho Westurn connections of the rond, but his beadquartors will be here. A Mail Car on the Fast Weateiound ‘Train Apectat Disvatch to Tha Chicago Tribunt. CenvELanp, 0. Doc. 20.—The Post-Olllee De- partment hag about concluded, « contract by which a all car shall be attached to thu fast west-bount truin over tha Now York Centrat and Luko Shore Ratlways. According to tho arrangement the postal car will mike Its first trip on Jan. 2. Reading's Proilts, PRITADELPHIA, Deo. 20.—Tho total proft of the Philadelphin & Neading Kattroud Company and the Cont & Iron Company for the year ended Navy, 00 was $10,341,390, @ yain over tho previous year of $1,107,804. Deducting from this profit all, obligauons, the surplus for tho ycar ls $18),250, numin of 81,903.22 over too. provious year, OF ‘this surplus $142,688 gues’ to tho credit uf the rutlrond company, und $40,087 tu the Coul & Iron Company. ==, Short Route to Baston. Troy, N.Y, Dee, 29,—Engincers are aurvoying o route for a rallroud froot Dunby, Vt. toa polnt opposit ‘Ticonderoga, on Luke Champtatu, which will bu brldged, and fram Ticonderoga to Sackett's Harbor, which, with western and onst- ern conneetions, Willindko tho distance between Colonye and Boston 160 miles less than by any oxisting route. E; Ceniral Paciile Rallrond of Utah, SAur Lake, Utab, Dec. 20,—Tho Incorporation papers of tho Contral Pavia Rallroad of Uruh have beon Axod. It fs 110 mites of the proposed now Ine from Corinne, Utah, to Yankton, Dak. ‘Yuo Crockors and W. NH. Huntington aro among tho Incurporuton, Miscelancous Item, Genernl-Trattic-3tanuger Recve, of the Chicago & Grand ‘Crunk Kallwas, returned yesterday from Port Huron, He tates that be will bring: his clerksdown to Chicago tho eurly part of next week, % Last evoning the Union Iron & Steol Works shipped sevcnty-one cat-louda of steel rails to the Northern Puclily country. Thoy are tho last uf tho 800 car-londs (10,000 tons) contracted for by the Northorn Pucitis Company. * ‘Mr. W, 8. Aloxander, General’ Frefgit Agont ofthe St. Paul, Minneapoila & Manitoba lull. we gives notice of tho appolutment of Mr. b, F, Ktinbalt ag Assistant General Freight Agent of his road, with hoadquartors at 8t, Paul, Frealdent Albert Keop, General-SManuger Mar- vin Hughitt, Genernl-Superintondent: J. 2, aayng, und othor uilictals of tha Chicaya & Northwestern Rallway ninde @ trip of inspection yesterday Over thole naw Stadisun line trom Mil- Wnukoo to Mudisun. Sr. Witllam E, Fitch, late Claltn Agent of the Chleiyo & Northwestern, hus recuived tho up. spulntinene of Auaatant Suporintendent af tho ladtwun Llvision of the Chicaxo& Northwestern, with headquarters at Madisun, Wis, ‘Tho ap polutinont takes ovfeot Jun, 1. ‘Tho pasvonger conductors on tho Rock Island Itoad haye buon Instructed by Gencrut Superine tondent Kimball to roport by telegraph to dt. BL, Verbryck, Muater Carbullder, whoever thelr curs whcouple on the road fram dufvetlye draw Dara, giving the number of the cur, | Tho Danville & St, Louis Railroad Company ita mindy to tho Farnior® Loan & Truat Company: of New York a mortgage for 88,000,0N, payable In gold coin with interest ALO per cont’ per wie num, ‘The security given ts ail tho property of evory deser/ptiun belonging to the company, Mr. Benjainln J, Glitord, Vrosidunt of tho Cloveland & Marietta Rullrond, gives notice of the uppolutinent.of Bir. FB. Ogden as Auditor at ty suminany, yiou BK. E. Krouthotfer, roe Ho will discharge signed. the duties of that otice in addition to these of Genorat Freight and 'ekut Agunt, OnNioint announcement is made of the appolnt- moutot Mr D, H. McCoy ua Assistant Supurine dentont of the Wiscondu, Milwaukee, and Northwestorn Union Divisions of tho Chicago & Northwestorn, View James MeCabe, resigned, Mr, MeCoy's nppointinentinkesottecr June], and div altics will be inthe Wella atreet passongor slution In thisuity. hs Excoltenoy Jushio Yoatida Kiyant cs yoy Extrjtordinary aod Minister Plenipotentiary: arrivod ah to the United slates from Chicago yestorduy from. W: his way to Japan on a six months’ leave af abyence, and fd uccompanicd by bis wite, four children, and threo servants, The party arrivud by the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, and Gee tho West by the Chicago, Burlington & CVs it fa reported that Mr. William Irving, for some years pust Purchasing Agent of tho Chir cago, Hurllugton & Quinc$ Hullroad, intends to revign bis position Jun. J. itis stated that Mr, Irvitug tutends to quit railroading and sturt in business on his awa account. It ik ala re- ported that Mr, i, HB. Maxwell, Stationor of tho Caleago, Burlington & Quiney, will resign Jan. L tor the aume reason tha} moves Mr, Irving to take thut step. . A careload of blastiog-powder arrived over tho Luke Shore & Blichigun Suuthorn Houd from, Cluveland yosterduy. It iW willed for ,Dillun, Montang ait the Union Pacitie Road, ang hs tu be weed ta bingting the Northern Puciite tunnel, near Uugte, Muutana. The trelybton the puw> der roth Chleugo tn bution #340 per bundren, amounting to $1,000 fur the curefoad, It was Renders ale at Oi ht eat M1 inion Pacitic, The fret {rum Cloveland was W cents per nunared eet ‘Thu Dissourl Paoltic jwout with tere ane Hounciug the opening of Its now liple Tine to California througn ‘fexas Jan. 1. ‘The tine suns pver the Mivgour} Pacitie, of lrou Mountain, the Texus & Pucitic. and the Southern Racine, Strough coaches aud slovpers wil be yun through with but ove change, at Dewing, N, 3. it 4s understood that the Atchison, Tupek & Bante nd tho Gould Southwestern tines ti agreed upon uniform rates to compoting paints. East-hound Crolght rates are completely de- mondized. Ahough the rnitronds eim that they hot Liking provisions and geuite at 1oss than 136 conta per 100 pounds, Chicago te Naw York, yet it in positivoly assorted that somo of tho roads havo been taklug such business at v6 low n rite as 10 cents per 100 pounds, At Mil watkee, grain and provisions are openly cone {rncterl for nt 1035 cents per 10) pounds to Now York. The Ponusylyania and Baltimore & Ohio Hallronds clatm to follow the ottor rounds only on revisions, but will nut contriet gral at less ban tha 20-vent basis. CRIMINAL CALENDAR. Tho Georgia Crop of Christmas Killings Not All Gathered Yot—A Long Array of Miscelancous Mindecds, Speclat Dispatch to The Chteagd Tribune, ATLANTA, Ga, Dee, 20,—Christmas killings tro sti comiog tn, At Hnwkinaviilo yesterday Htijah Whitehead was shot and Instantly killed by Lurnor Sutton, Tho dlifenlty xrow over a gine of enrds, Aftor tha killing Nosh White end, brothor of decessad, cut Sutton twice, in- tloting painful f not fatal wounds. : In Meriwethor County Monday Inst Jim Stepp and John MoDonough had a dtiticulty, whieh terminated In Stepp stabbing McDonough in tho Ureast, inuking a wound which tho attending physiciny constdors fatal. Speclal Dispatch to The Chteago Tribune. Gexeva, IIL, Dee. 20.—The two burglars are rested for breaking tito Koveral stores nt Bata vin recently, on n hearing in Chicano, have been ronunded for triat in the Kane County Ciroult Vourt, Thoy will bo tried here In Febeunry. ‘oMBSTONE, Colo, Doc. a. Doputy: nited= Marstoul Garp was Ored upon while cross~ ne, hstroct Inst nieht by three men armed with shotguns, ‘The assusins were concunlad in an Uunilaished bullding, ang excaped In the dark= ness, Ninetcon shot etrivk Earp, intiicting dun~ gerous, perhaps mortal, wounds. Tho uvenult 1g tindoutitediy an olttxroweh of the recent hant with the cowboys, in which Eurp wus engaged. ‘Tho qung have ance threatened the ives of Earp and bis supporters. Tho citizens aru greatly excited, Inontox, O., Deo, 23.—Herman Erlloh was are rested today on the steamer Jory Osborne at Cittiotsburg, ut tho Instance ut Geyernment: Tnepeotor Williams, of Atlanta, Ui, charged with complleity with W.H. Howard, « cleck in the Foxit departmont of the aAtinuta Post+ Ollice, in robbing vatuable lottora, ‘The story 18 that Howard took fetters to Eriich’s bakery, op- posit the post-olliee, whore Inn back room thoy stenmed ind opened thom and dividad tho con- tonts. Un tho arrest of Hownrd, Erlich fled here, where bu formerly lived. .—Fal Noting, the negro: 18, Tent, De amurderer, who with sixteen others recently. ey= caped front the Hurnindo (Mies) Jali, was) shot and killed carly this noratny by Chtof of Pottve W.C. Davis. Nulins, with three others, were making for tho Arkansas shore when luterceptud by Chict Davis, who had with bia Capts, Hackett wet fHuver, niso of tho policy force. Who Nelms was commanacd to halt he showed fight and drew down his gun to shoot, but it missed ire, Thy Ublef thon fired tho fatal shot. Nelms and his party were well armed with ahot-guns and pistols. “His companions wore ouptured and lodged in the stutlon-bouse, Sr, Louis, Mo. Deo. .—Tho records of tho Coronor's vilive of this city shows that, thirty- six bamicides and elehty-two suicides. wero coinmitted during tho past year. Of ali the sul eldes twenty-seven persons used firearms nso means of felf-destruction, nincteen polson, talriegu, rowning, thictcen hanging, and ton VER, Hanirsuuna, Dec, 20.—A_ fuaitive thief named Ituth teed four shots at Constable Ring- ter, of Lebanan, All tho bullets lodged in somo pupersin tha roast pocket of tho Constable. another Constatle shot down Ruth, and ho fs probubly fatally wounded. Spectat Dientteh to The Chicago Tribune, Toston, Yee, 29. ro Itultans wore firrosted today, ono ut Billerica and the other tn Buston, fora murdor ut the North Bnd nat suminer. One night Mr. Romipxton C. Downing, of Lyan, was found unconscious on North streot, with iis skull frnetured. He died noxt moraing. ‘The police soon discovered a companion who wana with Downtng, and from bln it was learned that Downlng had been followed up North street by unknown men und asatilted, toy compuniay. having run away for fonr of his life. After tho: police batt uscertuined who the assailants were seutren wus made for then, but they could ‘not be tonne, bnving tofe tho city. Both men were fully committed on the churgo of murder, kK 2.—Herman Welsing, ox- 3 County, has deen Inittoted by tho grand jury for embezzlement of county funds, ‘Ten thousand dollurs is the amount snid to have been embezzlod by htm when Trous- urer of the county, GORE, Tho Bloody Crimo at tho Town in Olio —Guiteau’s Examples” Gone, O., Dec. 29.—Morgun Lichurds has con- feased tho mucdor of Mea. ‘Terrill, bls. mather’s sister, and suys it was done on accuunt of qu old grudge. The murdered woman's son, Willlam, (sunderolng a ife sentence in the Oblo Pent tentiary fur che murder of thraa pordons four yenrsoyo. Mr, Terrill died of yriof for his son’s erlmo two yours ago. Thore is 0 thoors that Richards shot his uunt to prevent hor revealing what ehe kaew nbout others fmplleated in her xon's crime. Hichards Iso young town, and has taken unusual interest In tho Guitenu trial, purtioulusly whut Guitenu says, A few daysaxo hy bought « rovolver, romuirking it way tha samo Rind that Gultent used. From thls it [8 supe posed he did the murder for notoriety, There Is sUNL talk af dynebing hint. Gane, O., Dee. sth—-The qutharitios placed a gurl about the house of Mrs. Terrell, Who was ussasinated last night, to prevent tho oblitera- tlon of the tracks of tho: itasasin, Assvon a5 duylight caine thoy Cound the trucks aud traced. tho wsvasin to the residence of Mr, srnotd, a fariner, and arrested Morgan Hlchards, onc of Arnoid’s furmebands, o¥ tho criminal, He was acned with arevalver, with one emoty cham- ber. Ho resisted urrost, but waa overpowered; placed Ina wagon, and driven rapidly to Logan ta Jul, barely baci ping a lynching party that tried tu bead him otf, No motive for the erline has beon devolopes i ——— ILLINOIS COAL. Mapld Mucreaso In tho Output of Sanga- mon County, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. ‘sriusayiELp, I, Deo. 29.—Durlny tho past year Sayyamon County has inade rapid progress in tho development of its tconteflois, and the output In thls county is now tha largeat Iq tho State noxt to La Sullo County, whilo at the pros: ent rate of Invrease that county promi{scs tu bo loft behind within a year or two, There wero nine mines in operation In 187), tho to- tat produet boing 20) tong. Tn 1880 thore were 10,615,637 busholy, or over 465,000 tons, taken from ten mines, This yoar the tot! production will bo about 700,000 tons, worth on the averugo six vonte por bushol. ‘tno yoluoof tho cont product af Gprinatiett this year Is catimated nt $73,272, and that of tho on- tre county ut $1,00,000, In the ten Springtield Infned 1,065 porsons are employed and ire pald FA8U nunily. So many tiiprovements have ‘Deon mado tt the tatu! output of ths county for 1883 fs estimutcd nt 1,000,0W0 tons, ————— FIRE’ RECORD. Destruction nt La Granges A two-story frame bullding at Li Grange, tho renidenco of H. O, Moroy, was avstroyed by fro yesterday marning. Tho flames wore discovered isauiug from wa basemont window shortly sftor midnight, but owing to tho faulted, poaltion of the billie nothing could be done. The houan- hold furniture und persaual property were all sufuly removed. Tho fre origiunted from a stove in tho Lisoment, it whien tro bad been let un ucconnt of the dawp condition of tha walle, ‘Pho flunius wore communivuted to the five dud from thonca to tho uppor portion of the house, ‘Tho foas 1s ostininted at &.50.which Iaeuvered by a policy In the Coutinentat of Now Vive in a Sniokesiouse, .The still alarm to Engine Company No. dat 1:55 o'clock yenterduy morning was enitsol by a fire in August Huske's smoke-housy at the roar on 7d Webster avenue, Tho buliding and pigwiah voutents wore damaged to the extent of Jere THE ASHLAND TRAGEDY, ANegro Arrested for the Crime, but Is Genorally Thought to Be Invocent. AsILAND, Ky. Deo, 20.~Willls Hookaday, & colured barber, has becn arrested at Loulsa, Kya for the murder of the Gibbons oblidron and Miss ‘Phomus tust Friday ulzht. Ito was drunk last Monday, and talked 1a such a way ag to arouse suspicion, aud then suddenly disappeared. De- twetives do not believe Movkaday Is guilty, and will discourage attempts wt violence when he arrives, enn svou to have settied upon the theory thut Glubons was the murderer, and hy has drowned bimvell in the Oblo River, This theory Is bused partly on tho faut that a skit wis stolen up the Kunuwha iRiver before tho crime, and alngis tan was soen riding down tho river iu it, und slnog tho murter tho wkitt was Cound Houting empty down tho.river below fupianee A vowurd wit'be offered for Gibbons’ ee SILK-WORMS, Cuzrennk, Wyo., Deo, 22.—A second shipment this winter of silk-worm cyws passed through the elty today by the Paclile Mxpress—in wll 2a) packages, With the excojidon of 4 lot to the andor of Caviar & Co., of New York, and alot to Hy Suzreke, of Milan, the consigamont wus to pare ties nt Havro, France, and Parla, Cold weather bd ule, truueportauon make this a preferred XX SUSPENDED SENTENC More Developments in a Mine of Exceeding Great Rich= hess. Furthor Instances in Which Hardoned Criminals Havo “Played It” ‘on the Courts. The Vornictous Practice of Allowing Convicts to Go on Thole Owa Rocognizancos. Judge Tamoson's Explanation of tho Bonnie Hughes Osso~The Praotice in the Fedoral Courts, ATrinuxe roporter continual his tnvestiga- tions In tho rich Oeld of suapended sentences yesterday, und agaln found enso utter case tt which tho false repreauntauions of frends hid hoodwinked or provatled on tho ‘sentimental feolingw of Judges in tho Crininat Court until tho’ boneh from which putishinent for wroog- doing is supposnd te proceed was transformed intowsnort of Judiotat morcy-sant, from whieh hardoned criminals wero flung buck Upon a erime-cursed gummunity to continue tholr une Jawful depredations, Taking up tho Ust of sontoncces suspended by Sudge Moran, the first name uncountored (s that. of James Marsball, Ho was tho trusted col- lector of Sprague, Warner & -Urlswolt, but took to gambling and drinking, and onc weok {n Novembor, 1860, fulled to show up nt tho stote at all, tle kept on collecting all tho sine, bawever, aud was caught while attemptinz to collect a bil of $152, The firm suspocted thut ho was only nbout «400snort, but when questioned ho promptiy’ admitted that tho amount was ovaror $1,400. Yot on the very duy he waa found gullty—Jan, 17— BUCK INFLUENCE WA8 MtovaITT To DEAR upon tho Court that his seutoence was ordercd auapeniicd. Almost tho vory next nome fs that of ft, Due pont, ov Honry Dewant, as he was called. Ho entered the employ of Witloughby, Hflll & Co, and rose yriduully from the position of ulicht watehmnan at 86 por week to that of sulesman, Not sutistied with promotion, he stole every- Ung he could conveniontly carry off—tn fact, ho bad been stealing ever gince he went into their employ.. Ils prematurely gray hairs ond tho Inet that, somewharo or other in tho wie world, ho bad a mother who would surely dic if sho beard of bis fate, incited tho Court to exorelse hig Judfolut mercy in this onge also. Herning Meyer, 0 professional shoplifter, was caught Dee. 15, 1880, with goods which she shu had Just stolen from Jacob Adler's drs-gaods story on North Wells ‘strat. Notonty that. but articles wore found in her possession which hud been stolen froin the bouse by Durglurs only a few nights bofore. Herminn succeed soveral times prior to this in esenplog punishment by protending to bo balt-witted. ‘The euse of Samuel Manning had little init to recammond the culprll rey. He fell inte ovil ways, gambling Mncnided, and, in order to wot mopoy with which to “tuck tho tlyer,” Duratacized the roan of his friend, Edward A. Heaney, at No. 123 Wabash avenue, aud carried of 375 cush and n revolver. He played the pro- coads of his crimo open on the ave, and lost. THE GAME IK PLAYED IN COURT WAS MORE SUCCHSSFUT, as tbo record shows, {lua ho lost again, his sen= tence was threo years In thy penitentinry. Feb. 24, in tho samo court, septence was sus- Pended In the ense of Louis Sniith, colored, who Gnd been found gulity on two charges of Inr~ cons, Whitt could posits, fucite clemency In thls ense [tis indeod bari to any. Smith thto court Upon no less thin eight indictments for farceny, Hoe bad shown bimscif a very clover professional sncak-thiuf in tho way which he robbed revorul residences on to ave. nue amd in tha way which ho atolo n half-dozen overconts from the Mosely Schools Aug, 28 rollowing ho “was arrested cn Fourth avenue, ie be wis making his excapo from a house into which bo hed torced entrance. Ono of tho intuates, William Johnson by name, awoke to tind somebody ransacking his clothing, rng, aoringing tu his feet, gave the warm, gi marted In pursuit of the burglar. Hut bu went ho fucthor than tho buck dour, for the renson that whon bo ranched there tho refuyes turaud, and, taklug deliberate alm, eneccoded in plant- fog uw bullet in the woodwork only a few Jnchos above bis he (South was captured bes fore he had run very fap, and tho next day wag held Jn. $1,000 bail to tue Crhninal Court. T ense Hikely foll through in tho wrand Jury room, as nuthing hus since beén heard vf it, Himith, however, sa still on deck, as the follow- ing, which was written for the erininal columns of this morning's paper, will shows Doteotives Ender und Long, on duty at the Harrlsov Stroct Station, huve by fntulligent, patient work and commeniable porseverunce completed the chain of evidence In ut cose ugaiogt q notorious young colored burglar named Louis Sinith, and will doubtivas be able, unluss thore bu if JUDICIAL. INTERFERENCE, A to sond him to the penitentiary, whero ho just! belongs. The fucta ure these: Dev. 7 tho resl- donce of Mr. J. 4. Lyon, No, 402 Michigan ave. nue, was ontercd by a burglar or burginrs and despoiled of almost $400 worth of Jowelry and wenrlng apparcl. ‘Tho job was done tn tho duy- time bya young colored man, the survants sald, who bid ropresunted that he had been sent by Mr, Lyon to clean some barneases fn tho stuble, He was given a sponge and soup and a pull of hot water, Thon he asked for an old knife, wherowith to scrapo tho harucss. While tho servants woro busy suarching for such a knife 1 wad wanted the yout mun disuppearud., Tho developments showed must hive snavxed inte the house at that time, gathored his plunder, aud departed, A few days after that ucelirrence Smith was arrested on suspicion by Detective Ender, but was allowed his liberty tho us nothinz could ba found agninst him. Afmost linmodintely after bis relouse vo- curred tho burgiary of * Billy” Bassett’s house, ‘0, LY Wabneh avenue. Again Sith was run in, and this thine ho was thorougbly identilied by aouft which be hud drapped in the house, and whieh corresponded in figuring and trade-marks with the shirt whivb the prisouer wore. Ne was arralgnod, found jubity, bold to, the Celminal Court, and, iu addition,was Hned 8100 for re. = S eluting nn officer and $25, for eirrytag conconted: weapons, Pending Criminnl Court, ho wi work for tho city. their work on tho igo discovered 10 See warkig before tho sent tu tho Bridowell to The dotcotives continucd Lyon case, and one wouk @ jpawoahon two dresses valued wl hese, they learned, Velonged to tha Lyon household, and, upon obtaining’ fram the puwnbroker nueseription of the depositor, concludod that Rmith wasthe pertonage, They brought bln in from the Beitowell, louked bim up ut the Are moury, and {ost Batininy night puc auother min inwitp him, ‘The “othor man” was ralessod Sunday and rearrested Mondus,, and in his poss session was founda stip of paper which Smith had intruated to hiskeeping— | * A TEMICTALE LIsT of all the goods taken from tho Lyon domlicile— and thero wus lonried thorofrom tat tho swag ud buon shipped ‘to. Siichigan City, and wits thesve tu ho sent to Smith's former home vt Crawfordayillo, in the sumo State... Detestive Lang went to stiensqun City, secured: tho prop. orty there—ubout $20. worthand returned yedterduy marning in time ww the examluation bofore Justice Wallnea, The outcome of tho beuring wis that Smith was bod to the Criminat Court in bonde of $1,000.. He fe 6 “tough” an sbrewd young nun, aud his fy him the making aaful wud Dold thief. THE LAST BUSPENBION. Darshan Loowls, who pleaded guitty of. burg- lary, nod bis suntenca suspended by ‘Jud Jameson, Loonis ta about 18, belongs tu a very good family, and thig was bia frat ulfense. Ho wot two thioves to rov bis benuiady,, and, when caught, told the police whe hie * pals" wore, ro~ deomod the Kouds from a pawnbrokor, wud ree ttored tho urticlua to the owner, Tho dudigy thought tha voy could be 'rofurtued,” and su be lot Bim go, ‘ ANOTHEM PANDONING DEVI A great muny people wero surprised that Judees Borat, fusiweon, Anthony, and Gurdner keomed to bo the only ones who. siwponded sens tencos by whojesale. It nppears, bowevor, that two other Judecu—Witianian and Nawes—bava practicntly suspended nearly us many, ulthough the recorda credit the former with only. one, and the Juttor with four, Thalr mothud of rolense fy to Jet» convict go on higown recognizance, would take several duys to dig outor thaduvkots the exact number ¢! huvo disiniasod in this way, but it Is understood that thelr total would nf be far bebind that of the sontences suapend- vd by thoir associates. JUDGE JAMESON ON THE IUGHES OABE, A TuwuNe roporter badatatk with Judge Junieaon yestorday about the Honule Hugh cag, ‘The Judge guid that nothing camy befor blin to show thut the boy wis bud. On the cone testify tn rs ‘ It was represonted to bint that Judge Tuley bad bald that the acntence ought tu bu suapended, wnd the cause was transferred from his docket for that purpose, Ue daiinusun) waa Hable to be dee velved. If he bad been in this instayee, bo wanted to kuow it, intimatiog tha! he would take wteps to pravent linposltion In the future. He was unxious to get at the fucts, but did not wunt police gossip, as be put ttle fuith In the statements of uillcers rexar obaracter, Itinizht be truo that Huybed wi a bad boy, but no ovidence had been produced before bin which showed it. He bud been ine dicted once, but the caso was dismissed ut tho sugycstion of Justice Wallace, the committig mugiatre ho wrote a letter ie Hiatt Attorney, saying that bo wis convinced that Hughes was entiroly innocent. As to auspondl tens, Hencrally, ho ant that where the offense charged was manifestly tho first one, and tho boy was uniter quod Ins Huonees and tkely to romain so, ne didu't hu Hove in senting him to Stato's Prison or tbo Iridewoll. If the power tu suspond was not it the Court, tho Luglaiature ought, at the enrilost opportunity, toxive it the powor. Ho had no hesitation in saying that, As to mon, they wore anmotimes rerormuble, but most of the eases tn. Avhieb bo had suspended sentence wore thuso oF buys and girls, THE PHACTICE IN TI FE ‘Tho Federal Courta hero aro nut in the habit of suspending xentences waste tits beat thoy aro often suxpended for th xed «tine, order to ive Maniehincs to get a pardon from the Preaktont. This Judge Blodgett sestarday sen~ toncod Lysander Tifany, the thievish letter-care flor, to ono yen in State's prison, but gave bln until the Iscot February next tunpply for 2 pire don on solicitation uf the prisoner’ egurngy. it seems as though Goverment, omployéa bad pare tleulnar facbities for getting otf ensy when caught, ‘Tittany, a trusted Government em- fos, had been watched for a lony tine, be hid heen complained of ropentedly. bis otfenso Was not dons on tho impulse of the momont or through want, for be has an interest nimereantile tirm bere. and yet ho only res ceived one yeur, while Charles Stewart for tho single offonve of taking a sottur nddrcasad to his own name, though not meant for bin, and cake Ing adrart it contained, waa sent to the pel» tentiney for three years, It. 1. Choulnard, ane othor fetter. rler who had buon in the bavit Sor at long time, ny was shown, of stoaling lottera and renioving the stamp, wie fot olf with one your, while EB. W, Gaskins, an assistant lettor~ currier, half-demonted by tho use of opin, butone uct, and urged to that by poy- om rived a like sentence, Only uo little while ago H. L. Andrews, convicted tinder pee favly nguravating clrcummetunecs oC a stinitie 4 oust, wht wenteneed to the usual onu Year's torm, but, basing been allowed alxty days’ grace, precured a pardon before be bad spent one day in the Stuto'a Prison, where he belongradt. ————— LARGE BRAINS AND SMALL. Maw tho Avorsge Huma Sizo HHeon Growing Lesy!—TMatters Who Mould) That i¢ Mas-Graveyard Testimony to Disxprove 'Rhin-Siulls Soven Centuries Old Smaller than Modern Onon Edinburg Seotaman, ‘Tho brain fs universally recognized ns the organ of niind, and the size of this organ is very generally taken ag an index of mental capacity. Bix bratns have como to be sug- gestive of great minds, white it isan une doubted fact that the possession of a brain whieh falls below n certain mininiwn stand. ard of weteht imphes idiocy on the part of its unfortunite possessor, M. Broea pinees the lowest limit of brah weight com- pativie with human fmelligence at thir- ty-xeven ounces in nintes and thirty-two In NAL COUNTER. S35. uO | females, the average brain-weight of Enuro- peans Delay nbout forty-ningounces. Wheth- er the possession of tnore than the average qtantity of brain implies the presence of more than average intelligence 13.0 question that has given-rige to much discussion. 1t is an undoubted fact that very high brain- welghts are occasionally found In people whose mental acquirements are certhinly not above the average. Out of 157 brain-welghts of adult Scotsmen, Dr. Peacock found that four, all- belonging to artisans, who, so far as could be learned, had not been distin- gulscd among thelr fellows by supertor In- tellectual endowment, welghed over sixty ounces each, while the heaviest brain on record—It weighed sixty-seven ounces—be- longed to bricklayer. Dr. Morris; who chronleled the case, was told that the man “hnd w good memory and was fond of polities, but-that he could neither read nor write.” Whatever his potentiniities mizht linve been, ‘itis evident,” says Dr. Morris, “that his actual nequirements were not grent.? ‘The nondeyelopment of superior imental power hn such eases may, however, be attributable not to Inck of capnelty for Jearning, but to the absence of the cond {tions necessary to its growth, Cortnin it ty, that. among the educated and intelllxent classes the ntimber of big brains is greater than with uneducated and tess Intelligent propio, Among the Iatter the proportion of brain- weights nbove fifty-five ounces hing beet as- certulned tu be only from 4to 0 percent, while the proportion among met whe have bean distinguished for grent intellectual ne~ quirements fs at Jenst 23 per cent. The bi eights of only twenty-tires such men are accurately known, und It is from these that the above proportion has been obtained. “With few exceptions, thosy wore ull _nbove the average enpacity of 40 ounces. First jn this respect cunies the cele. brated naturalist Cuvier with a bratn-welght of 684 ounces, followed by the famous Scot- othsh plystelan, Abercromby, and the poet Selutier, ench with 03, Goousir, the nuito- iulst, follows ut a considerable alstanes with 5734, Sir James Shupson with 54, and Ciint- wats with 53. ‘Phat stich men as Gladstone, Bright, ete. possess more than ‘the average brain-weight unmy be inferred from a state. ment Iately mae public of the size of lint worn by these and a nimber of othor NHving ar recently decunsed statesinen and littéras tours. Promising that what is known to tho trade as size 7 Is thatoft the nverage frend, with presumably forty-nine ounces of brain, and that 794 ts 0 size so Jarge us only to bu: mnade when specially ordered, it appears that outof fourteen persons whose hat sizes aro give , two (Lord Chelmsford and Dean Stanley) were below, while other two (Lord Benconstivld and the Prince of Wales) were exactly up to the nverage. Of the othors, Dickons, Setborne, and Beleht, requbred Tg 5 Enel Russell, 734; Lord, alacautiy Gladstone, and ‘Thaekeray, Tg; Lous PI hNlippe, 7, aud the Archbishop of York, 8 full. Of the 23 ‘distinguished men alrendy referred to whose brain-welghts are Known, four, ine eluding the Inte Prof, Wughes Bennett and Hermunn, the plillologist, are distinetly be- low the average, shawliuy, os Dr, Bastian points ont In a recent work, that “a well- constituted brain of small dimensions muy, be capable of doing mneh better work than Inany 8 larger organ whose luternal constl- tution iy, from one cause or other, defect- fve.? When there ls nu such defect, how- over, the big braln, there ts every reason to believe, confers an undoubted advantage on its owner, ki Such belng the cnse, ft is not surprisin that the-nasertion recently made that a sensi ble diminution had taken place of Into years inthe size of the heads of the male popula tlon of those Islands, and, consequently, of the brains—for in-health the brain always fills the skull—should have attracted atten- ton, ‘Lhe data upon whieh this startilag statement Is fuunded have been supplied by the most persistent, if not the most scientific, classy of henil-measiirers—tle hatters, whose evidence on the polut ls of the most clroune stantial kind. One merchant of large expe. rience states that of the slx sizes af hats beglauing at 2L inches, and Increasing by one-ttalé fich to 2534 Inches, he was in’ the habit thirty-five yeurs ago af buying for hig retiil trade in the following ratio, beginning nt 21 Inehes—viz.3 0, 13,4, 3, 1, while at, the present tio he is delliny hits'in the follow. ny ratlo—viz.: 4,4, 1, 1,0, In other words, where only one hat was required thirty-tive years age ator under 2037 inches, he now requires seven; and where formerly four of the two lurgest sizes were required, he how only needs (one. From numerous let. ters which have aypenrot in’ Nature the experience in this instanes would ap pear to be thatof the trade generally, One Manufacturer writes: “LE should say that Irends generally are two sizes Jess than at the thn (thirty:ta forty years ago) you refer to; R hond of more than twenty-fone inches clr- cuinfergnce 1s now quite wrarity, while wo ninke thousands of hate for heads with a cir. eomference of about twenty-one Inches.” The decrease, according to another manu- {neturor, ts ga general * that we de not make Dig-slzed bats for stock, but only aa ordored, and very few thon.” Chota slinilar diminu- tion has taken place In Scotiand ta the ex- porience of one of the principal hatters In lasow, ‘There eny be 10 rensonable doubt, there- fors, that out hats are, on the whale, amaller than they were. generation nga, Do smaller hats, Howoyer, in tls case imply diininished heads? Jt has been polnted out that the un- doubted diuhution iy probably to be ex- plained by a reference to change of fashion in the mode of Wweirlng both lat and bale. ‘Thirty years ago it was customary, ay the prints ‘of the Ume show, to wear the hat drawn well down aver the head—how furover niny be judued from the fact that it was ous. tomary, fn England at lewmit, to attach a plece of cloth to the under sidy of the brin at the back In orderte take the friction off the cout-collar. On the other haryt, the hair was worn thick and Jong, the present style of closucrauped hair betug In those days agso- clated with soldiers and prisoners. ‘These two cnuses together seom fulrly adequate to explain such decrease tn the sizo of huts ae has been noticed. If Inadequate, ascertain correspondents In Nature maintain, the only alternative fy to believe that ju tie course of g little mare than a quarter of a century the heads aud consequently the brains of our malo fe pulation huve sensibly duinished. That‘tuls iy ly the Just degree Luprobable “sophomore as he headed # mul rush on the 1881—TWELVE PAGES will be the opinion of over cent anthropological rselonee, Tn a progressive civilization, such as pre- vaily in this country aud throughout the grentor part.of Europe and America, thors f9 reagon to belleve that tho oraniat caprelty ot the populist is, on the whole, Increasing rather thin dlnintshing, Owing to the want of early observation, It ls dimentt to institnte compartyons between past and present. | At atudent of res neningt achigh, steep by; ground, ‘The piaco was by no nteang ad sirabls battie-grount. Te karbags cole lector lind used) the hil@h bank and the Ole hole below os on tmplig-ground: the ash-gatherer had, a8 usintl, Tere ashes fit the wrong plaice, wile any one having ald barrel loops, {heeans, tent) atqials. wind the Tike had considered the wide idle asa etn: ty of = heat more than ordinary. convente apportanity, however, hitely ocat red It |) Adkdod to this #lx Inches of sticky clny, a Hae whier was taken advantage of by ML | pool of aliimy water aud the adar of i ghia FOU. in eat the foundation of a now ractory antl n faint tea is hint of th nae building, a yault was opened containing re In whieh the Duwhell titans atrageled with i a intae mumber of human - skeletons, | ong another fortwo hours. ‘The hole was whose surroundings «proved them to | chosett by, force of elrcumstances, ‘Thy have lived not Inter thon the. twelfth | freshmen feullug .thomsulves: borne aw century. M. Broca found, the average ed | from the.campis and hardly able to ‘demot, pacity of 115of those twelfth century skulle | Ish the bow! ted the contest Mito the deepest to be 1,426 cuble eontimdtrea; while wnother surivs of skitlis—129 ht mumber—taken from © cemotery belonging to tho ofrly. years of the prusont contiirs, mmva an averiRe of thirty-six‘eublo contimdtres more. ‘The ay- erage Parisian skull would thus seem to Nave inerensed considerably ¢uring seven centuries of progressive civilization. ‘Thac this iterease has gong on slowly but suraly part of the milling zroutnd it the hope the igh bank word rave fn barrier To oat ther progress. ‘Tho tad aud garbage wag ankle deep, bué the tghters paused “not 9 moment. Kor two hours a writhing, titer Ing initss of nen atrumgled desperately ty asther, ‘Che bowl was in the centre, “anit Urinly clutched by three or four mtsewar follows ee no inore thin twlee brought inn progreased from Uarbarisnt to | into full view of the spectators, who hed elvillzation” ny be nferred ~— from | both banks. 4 n study of the —eranint — capnel- ‘Thore were dozens of human heads packed, thes’ of the yarléus human roces. "Lins, whilo tho braln eannelty of the Kuro. pean amounts to ninety-four guble liek is only ninety-one i the Bsqutiuntx, elplity- five In tho nearp, elglity-two in tho Austra- Hau, and seventy-seven in the Bushman, ‘These nre merely averages, and, sssuch, tlo not bring ont the important fret Intely no- tlead by Le Bon, that among tho lower races the Hinity of variation in the cranial capacity of tndividnals of the same sex are muclt Jess extended than tn the higher races. ‘Thug, among moter Parishins. ares ava small skulls vary by about 600 euble eentindtres, while negro skulls vary only by 204, and an- elent Exyptian by 353 cuble centludtres, Another finportant diferenes $n the cra. nial enpneity of the higher and lower races {5 vonnected with sex, and serves fo throw Nght upon the Influence of mental exurclso in Inereasing brain enpaeliy. According to Prof, Bischoff, of Munich, In a recently-pub- Nshed work, the ditference between the ayers nge brain welght of men and women is 10}g percent, Mach of this Is tiutoubtedly due to difference in stature, a tall person having, ‘crterts parlbts, 9 lieger brain Cut ane less in hight; partly, however, It Is attributable, there ean be tittle doubt, to inferior mental training. Among the lower, races, where the women have, not only charge of the offspring, but have-alsy to share, and that largely. in the husband's, - occtipie tous, the brain eapacity of the two sexes shows muelt less diiference. ‘Tho dlifersnce, according to Le Bon, between the average eamelty of the skulls of inale nnd female, Porlviuns iy almost double that found to ob+ taln between the skulls of tho tle Inhabitants of anelent 1 Uon, by giving increased (ty C8 to the male brain, lins, there Is coud reason to bellove, gradually produced that Increase of brain cupuelty. which now disttn- guishés the “clyilized — from the suv. fee races of mankind, Nowhere ‘hing this itifluence been more conspleuous thu in Chinn, Whose culture, If notof the most ad- yaneetl kind, ins the advantage over all others in the great length of thne it has en closely toxether, scores of waving vem and panting bodles, and thaé was all. ‘The rest was chaos, From one and of the gurbazo hole to Che other the men surged back and) forth, theby clothing, i many enses, torn to shreds, thelr faves bloody from serateles, anil thelr bodles discolored bymiutd and tiith, A daring but unsuecesstul effort was at ong tle made by a young Hercules to carry tho bowl wy the bauk, byt Just as he reached the top o little fellow, who had borne moro tian’ hia share of the brunt of the battle, veizet it nnd threw himself bod. ig on the heads of the crowd below. Many wbrave effort was made to earry the battle by storm, but the place lieing w natural trap. diseontraged all such attempts, Arotund and around the heaving winss struggled to nu avail, for at 1 o'cleck the battle wits enlled a draw, and the bow! given ever to the Presl. dent of the Souhouiote, Society, The sopho- mores had nvbleyed 8 negative victory, Lust year the bow! Was-ritshed sgalnst Bie stone Walls of the university and broken, the pees betng distributed: to the students as rophies. In yesturday’s battle no bones wera broken, altiuougl muny of the studunts. recelyed several lined knocks. _——————__—_ : IOWA. Political Matters in tho Kawkceye Sinte, Spectal Correspondence of ‘The Chicago Tribune. Des Motnes, la, Dec. 2.—There we a good many Republicans in Lown who do not like the appenranee of things at Washington, They are of the opinion that the Presiilent ought to be able to dvelde who he wants ln Als Cabinet to stay, after four months! deliv- eration. ‘There is n very general Impression that ho will have none of Gurfeld’s Cabinet aitur the 4th of next Mate. Ifsuch Is to be the fact, these Republicans sny they havea right to know It, and know ft before the 1st of January, as they have fmportant arrange nents contingent tvon that fact. funle and te ypt. Civil dured. ‘The Chinese are, as might have been | ‘Che contest for Speaker of tho House ap- expected, n big-bralned people: Indeed, tho | pears to haye narrowed down to Judge only stutistles of Chinese Urain-welghts | Struble, of ‘lama, and Jolin N, Irwin, of available show them to oxeced all other na- tlous inthis respect, Afew yeurs ago the brain-welghts of aloven adult’ male and of five female Chinese—tha chance yictiins of a reat typhoun at Hong Kong—were obtulned. Nexo belong, with one éxception, to the Coolie, or lowest grade of Chinese society, and yet the average brain-weilght of the males reached fifty and a half ounces, and thatof the females forty-five and one-half ounces. This is nu nverage not attained, so far us yet known, by any other nation, i¢ being fully six ounces above that of the average negro, one asd ons-lal€ outtees above the European, and one-half ounce above the average Scotch- man. ‘Chat elvilization has been the main eause of Increase in thesizeof the brain there ean be Mttle doubt ‘To admit, therefore, that the heads of the British peopio are now growing sinaller would be to confess that the resources of civillzation wero indeed ex- hausted, and that, as a people, wo had begun aretrograde Journey toward the barbarisia from which we orlgfnaily emerged BATTLE OF THE BOWL. Desporate Struggic Betsvoen the Sopho- mores and Frosfimen of the Univorst« ty of Ponnsylvanta—Tho Bowl Man Completely Nenuded. . Philadelphta Times, Dee. 24." “Elghty-fourt four! four! Elghty-four! The grounds In front of the. entrance ‘to | the University Chapel were crowded yeater- day morning when-the cry rang out on the cool air, It was. “bowl day” at the Uni- veralty. Nearly all tho students, dressed in canvas jackets and trousers that a milstlt clothing dealer would turn from in despair, stood around In class groups walting for the remaindor of thelr fellows to emerge from the chapel, bringing. the bow! and the bow! man, By a time-honored custom tho fresh- man student who stands lowest on tho honor -Hat!s made bowl-man, a. ceremony equal to the presentation of a leathor medal, ‘The sophomores provide the bow! and atrlve by all the muscular ability of thelr clnss, ro- Inforcect by the senfors, to place the unfortu- nate fellow falfly and squarely In the blz wooden dish, the freshmon, alded by the jun jors, endeavoring to prevent this and at the same thne to break the bowl. - When the stragglers from the chapel made thelr appearance with the bow! the war-ery of the sophomores was shouted forth by the clusy president, tho- '8!s, obedient to: tho ery, crowding together ina solld wall, Tho bawbinan, a heavy, niuscular follow, stopped. und gazecdeot the threatening array for a thos mentin silence, Whether ho had thoughts of n precipitate retreat by way of the nearest eorner will nover be Known, for just as he showed signs of hesitution the -'84 men, aguin utterme their war-cry, mide a rush mid seized hin, ‘Lhobow! was ready for hys reception, but the freshmen knew their duty. Alinost without a ound they hurled them- scives headlong ugalnst the solld wall of sophoniores. ‘The shock of 10 young wen, evenly matched and eager for the fray, throwing themselves agaiust one another, was not a slight one, and for % moment ie stronger men felt tho wild thrill of a battle with s worthy fou. It was but for a moment, however, for the next instant « desperate struggle buyau, “She sophomores, confident of tholr adyan- tage in having both the bowlLand its intended ovcupant, made heroulean efforts te con fete the work at once, and .with that object In view selzed the unfortunate young. mai by the pirtofl bis frame that came iirst to hand and pulled, Clothing gave Avey ant Was trampled under foot; nppeals for mercy were tuiheededs the crowd seemed animated by onu mad desire—to pull Olothing has not the consistency of enst-iron, and Wi der ordinary clroumstances will not with= stand: hard’ pulling, but’ when a hundred muscular fingers combine their powers tha contestis unequal Hence it was not long before the pauting bow!man stood among hfy cluasmates clothed in nothing more than the garb of nature and s palr of shoes. With a vigorously shouted “flooplnt hoopelat hoop-la! Penn-sylva-ne-yah!” the combat- ants dechired the firat contest over and pro- ceeded to convey the nuda bowlman to a siloon across the xtrect, To do this they formed a ring ubout hin as ashlold frou Leo; and tho strife among thelr friends waxes warm, Itis not impossible that tho Hon. Pintt Wicks, of Shelby County, will ‘trouble them a Ittle, should tha Northwest concentrate on him, as thoy are likely to do, Considerable bad humor hus dlready been engendered by the zeal of-injudiclous friends of candidates, and some of them hive gona 80 far ae to nttack those who having nothing deon adduced, that the farmer elasy must ba represented in the olvction of Speaker, for the reason that the committves of the Senate will bo made up against them, and they ‘ust, therefore, expect no tufluctice tn thelr {nvor from that body. ‘This is an imputation upon the Integrity and honesty of Licut- Goy., Manning, a3 unjust 23 It is wholly une warrantable, It fs algo ms aspersion upon the Senate, and upon the people who elected them, The President of the Senate must perforce make up his committees from thoge whom the people hava sent te the Seu- ate.” Ho lives In anngricultural conmunity, and has so Hved all fils fife. Ho was ratsed ona farm, and his apecstors werd fanuers. Ils business Interests nro all identiiied with farmers, No person who knows him, will say that he ls antngonistle to the aericult- ural classes, He fs a man of intatligenca and capability, and he will bring tu tl a degree of talent and breadth ¢ whieh linve not been hind for many years. is true that, when hy sas In the SLouse, hs favored the’repen! of tha Railroad ‘Tart Taw, but it was beeatiso he deemed ft tine practicable and injurious to the State, Ho sheld precisely the sane views as ald James F. Wilson, who now appenrs to bo the Granger's candidate for United States Senn for. "Mme has vindicated the position Mr Manning took; and, as cho result, the north. western part of the State, In which he re- sides, Is being gridtroned with railroads; whervas, under the Rallroad ‘Tariff law, thoy contd not even get the promise of » company to build s road there, with a bonus of several hundred thousand acres of Innd thrown in, Mr. Manning is a young man—the youngest who has held the place; but ho will bring more brains, energy, and vin into the Lieu tenant-Gayernur’s chair than lias been there in the past twenty years, Tho soldter-boys seem to be all throwing up thelr hats for Capt. EMt Hall, Deputy Warden of Fort Madison Penitentiary, for the suecessorship to Martin as Warden at Anamosa, Both ara admirably fitted for the piace. Mr, Martin has mnde n splendid ree- but the party ud recognized lis worth by giving hl three successive terms—suine- thing quity unnaiulin this State, “This fet fs urged strongly against him, as it 1s against a eandidute for any oflee in this Stute. Should hie fall to get it, that wilt be the only reason for It, ‘There ig a remarknble full in tho United Statea Senatorial atrife Juat now, Whether itis from na calm, settled conclusion of lexis- Jators-vlect, or whether they are keeping up avigoraus tituking and dome know whut to any, ig more than can be fountout, Ie you were to talk with Goy. Gear a few moments, you wall conclude the mutter was not a ‘oregone conclusion by a fargo nutjority; and, wore you to seo the men who coma and &, eeping the vacatt chairs warm in the Execntive Office, you milsht conclude it ly “Pho stil sow that drinks the swill.” it ty wits sure there will ben Ilvely contest In this matter, but not MNke that when Allison and Harinn were pitted against enct other, ‘That was a fleht which moveil things froin the foundation, and tho rankle of which endureth yet. is Shige E.R. Duflis has gone to Oskaloosa to hold court for Judge Cook while he cone fests forasent In Congress agalnat M, E. Cutts, As Judge Cook fing no probable hance of accuring the sent it looks as though hho wanted to loaf about Washington under pretense of nelatm tothooftice, and draw the salary ofa Congressman ns well ns Judge, - white he performs the dutlesof neither, He neglected hia judicial duties enough when he was trying to get vlected to. Congress. This new departure Is au outrage that Cons gress should rebuke nt once, Bat what will f Democrat not do when thoreiy even a ghost of a chance for utlice? -For State Printer, George F. Roberts, of Fort Dodge: Dick Clarkson, Frank M. S118, and John G, Blair, of Dus Moines; and Col. Egbert, of Davenport, aro understood to be {nthe fold, ‘fhe Indications are that Roberts now has the lent. It ts reported that he has ef to James F. Wilson and figures pines view. nT allied bi the at oe ee a een hig chances with thoseof Wlison, Should fresinmen, ‘rhe sophomores hind beon theat- | Ne Rot the Joby tt ts pretty well known that theking party, and bad not been succesaul, | Clarkson or Sills will da tha work, as tt ‘Tha second part of the contest, the at- fompe on the part of tho treshinen to brenk the bow], was then commenced In the unl. yersity campus, ‘The bawl had been apecial- ly prepared for tho purpose. It was about four inches thick and wade of many differ ent kinds of wood glued together and suaketl Jn ail for several dys. Kicking would not break It nor would the welzhit of inlfs dozen men have any offect. ‘Cho only price teal breaker was the slippery cobble-stone, ‘The alm of the sophomores was to get the bow! two squires away from the campus must be done ut tho Capital, and the bay will not remunerate any person to furnish the necessary muutorint to do it for one or oven two terns, ‘This fact hus hitherto been the controlling argument In the elvettion of State Printer, ‘The Legisiature prefers to haye the work done by peraons directly respansibla to theState, HAWKEYR. Imperial Bopublicants! Parla Correapondenee New Yurk Tritune, This rusxo for puluces among Kepuollean offe efale who havo had yery bumble beginnings ts B M, Challomel-Lacour, in France. fence, when tho victory would bo theirs, | uiscournging symptom Be Cee inde Should the contest wage intl! L o'clock with- weonee anieaeaio gontionan, wae ae od out advantage to elther sido the result would bea draw, “Elghty-four! Now!” yelled n stalwart bin at tho Frenoh Legition there, to lodge in & fut, lv inaisted on having w dotached bouge all to blinself, Whe purchase money cost W000 frunes and the furniture 75,000. Jn Ike manner tho new Minleter of Agriculture, D1. Doves, sake fara handsome oniclal residence. His Minny freshinan ronks. It wes bravely done, but the buneh of 783s could not be-dispersed, ‘wae attached to that of Commerce, Aa thoro 16 Again and again did they return to the | to ompty valuce ily ageved that a private mat: churze, unly to be beaten back, britsed aad ee eee ae tee ert yeutorduy, waked battered, Gradually the fight moved duwn | the Committers of Supplenientary “Credits the campus gronnd to the fence, and for the | sor 254,000 trance ta meet the expenses of the space of two or three minutes the freshinen | new Mintstry fora ycar from the tine of ite kept tho assaulters at bay, Yielding to the pressure the fence broke gnd the“ nihters rushed across Thirty-fourth street like sheep, Inaking a stand on a vacant lot just bayond the pavenent. ‘The ground slope gently toward the placo where ‘Thirty. THT stro’ should be, the ond of the desilne dronplng quite abruptly and brlugiog Up croution. SM. Devos’ iu a, provincial advocate, Ho practiced law in the Sown of Rezlors, aad ways say that he would nut kuow a boot root froma radish, {Hv ts rulsed to the Cabiuet, 9 tine private bouse wid clear sulary of 50,00 france per auoum, becoude ue was a member of the Conservative Lett and w mga, would not get ct the way of tho Prowldy ut sluisterial whatever to do with tt ‘The argument bas”