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BLAKE VS. BLAKE.
Ninth Say of the Trial in the
Superior Court,
The Time Wholly Occupied In Hear
ing the Testimony of the
Plaintiff.
Barnum Blake's Recital of Matters
Which Came Under His ob
servation.
r Yesterday was the ninth day of tbe Blake case,
and the complainant, Barnum Blake, was on the
stand during the whole day. When the Coart
adjourned, at 6 o’clock in the afternoon, he was
being cross-examined by Mr. Dow. Not more
than one-third of the ground had been gone over,
and the (prospects are that he will occupy the
stand nearly all of to day. The crowd in the
Court was larger than ever. Mrs. Blake wept a
portion of the time, and was apparently much
affected at what her husband said.
TESTIMONY OF B.UIKUH BLAKE.
Barwum Blake, sworn: I am the complainant
in this suit; Mrs. Blake* tlie defendant, is my
wife. I will be 65 years of age me last day o!
this month. I was married to her at Fort Wash-
the latter part of July, 1851. Her name
was Christine Oleaon. Bhe was 19 years of age at
the time. I had resided, then, some two or three
years at Fort Washington, and lived there np to
December, 1566. 1 then went to live at Lake
Forest. I moved my family there, and lived
there one year. From there I moved to Winnet-
ka. That was in the latter part of December,
I£G7. I have oontlnned to reside at Winnetka
since. The defendant resided with me nntll the
Bth of June. 1870. We have had six children; five
are alive. Henry is dead. I was engaged in the
forwarding and commission business at Fort
Washington, when I was married. After leaving
there I was in the coal business for two years.
Since then I nave taken care of my property. I
have an interest in vessel property. I procured
a music and German teacher for my wife, and did
what 1 could to educate her. She studied by her
self until after the first child was born. Charles,
the first child, was bom three years and a few
months after our marriage. We removed to Win
netka in 3867. I know Thomas M. Thompson.
He resided then (1667) at the same place as now.
ITe is a married man, and was then. I think it
was two months after we arrived there that Mr.
Thompson and his wife called at our house. I
knew him before; was introduced to him at Fort
Washington. His first acquaintance with my
family was when he called. The visit was re
turned by Mrs. Blase and myself. The families
did not become intimate nntll some time after
wards. I do not recollect anything that
occurred up to August, 1663. I was
away from home about three
weeks in Wisconsin and Michigan. When I re
turned home my wife appeared cool, and her ac
tions were not as they had been. She did not
creet me cordially. Before that she was very
kind ; then she was cool. I said something to
her about it. I told her that I was told she had
been to Thompson's very often while I was
gone. She said she went there to get water;
that our water was too soft, and she dldnot like
it. I told her I would get a filter. Mra. Thomp
son was np to Lake Superior at the time, and I
told her is did not look right for her to go there
when he was alone. I was away a month in
1668. I afterwards went to Fort Washington ;
sometimes I staid three days and sometimes five
days. Mrs. Blake was home then. Nothing was
raid, but sbe appeared to be colder towards me.
1 heard nothing about Thompson, and nothing
was said until October. Then I went to Port
Washington. My business then obliged mo to
go there about once a month. I
remember Mrs. Blake asking me for ssc
to eet clothing for my daughter. I
cave her a check. She went to town the same
day. It is 16 miles from Winnetka to Chicago. I
made inquiries about her purchases. I asked
her what Kind of dresses she had purchased, and
she said she took them to a dressmaker's—Mrs.
Eosiman—and they would be done in three
weeks. I have never seen the dresses. Ido not
know whether my daughter required clothing
then. Mrs. Blake attended to that. Bhe got the
SSO in October, and I went away in November.
Mrs. Blake was at home when I reached there.
Bhe was sick. 1 did not see the dresses then.
Mrs. Blake was in bed, and remained there three
days or a week. She was well when 1 went
away. I was absent about a week. I first had
suspicion of Mrs. Blake and Mr. Thompson that
made me uneasy, after she was sick. That was
in tho first part of November. I spoke to her
about it tben, and before I left. The children
had told me about her going to Thomp
son's. When I spoke to her when she was
sick I do not recollect what she said. I told her
that I understood Thompson waited upon her
home at 9 o’clock at night, and that I did not
think it was right. I recollect her saying some
thing about my getting a divorce from her. It
was after Mr. Cutler was there—between August
and November—that she was sick. Mr. and Mrs.
Cutler were visiting ns, and one evening were
walking together. I assed my wife to walk with
me, but she wouldn't, and subsequently, in tholr
presence, told me she wished I would get a
divorce from her. Bhe told me that afterwards,
when alone. Once, while buggy-riding with my
son Walter, he said; “Mother likes Mr. Thomp
son better than yon.” My wife’s remark abent a
divorce surprised me. I felt bad about it, bat do
not recollect what reply I made. She said she
had no respect or love for me, and I told her I
hoped she would while my friends were present.
I took legal advice on the subject. I consulted
Mr. Barker, but did not then take any measures
to prove my suspicions, Mr. Barker laughed me
out of it, and said my wife was too smart
for that. I went to him again, and he advised
me to go to Fmkercon. He said he would fur
nish a man to go around and watch my wife
when the came to Town. The man watched her
three times, and Pinkerton told me my sus
picions were unfounded. I felt very happy. I
remember the Southern trip. That was In the
fall of lgC9. I did not leave home during tbs fall
ol 1868, except to go to Port Washington. We
went to Albany to meet the Cutlers, about
Christmas or in January. We were readya short
time before we started, and had a few words,
and she said she wouldn’t go. Ido not recollect
what the words were about. We mode friends
again, and she concluded to go. My object In
taking the trip was to “make things different.”
While in Albany we stopped at Cutler’s a few
days From there my wife and I went alone to
New York. We were to meet ths Cutlers at the
Metropolitan Hotel, and did so, about ten
days afterwards. Before that I went to Phil
adelphia to see my brother. Mra. Blake
was with me. We mrt the Cutlers
subsequently as arranged. Vhile in New York
we went around to see the sights. I purchased
ticke7b to the California Minstrels one day. My
son Edward was there at The time, on bis way to
New Haven. He la a son by my first wife. Mrs.
Blake refused to go if ha did. He and I went.
I urged her to go, but she said she would not.
She also raid she had had enough of the Min
strels. Bhe was well At tho time. We went to
the Opera House an*f Niblo’s Garden together.
This was before we went to Philadelphia, and
the Cutlers arrive*. I remember visiting the
Cooper Institute nth Mrs Blake. It was before
the Cutlers came There were aueient and mod
ern pictures bnag up in the Institute. There was
nopeiformaccE- I was on one side of the room and
I heard her laugh, and she said, '‘Come here.”
I went over, and ehe said, “ There is a picture of
Joseph and Potiphar'a wife.” She said it remind
ed her of what Mr. Thompson had said: “ That
thf re were not many Josephs in the world,
and—”
IWitnc/s would not repeat tire remainder of
whot febe. said ]
Witness continued: lire. Blake said lira.
Thompson was present when Thompson eaidit.
She Jala he said he wo aid not aot as Joseph
did. The statement roused mv suspicions again.
The Cutlers arrived after that, and we all re
mained in NV-w York afterwards for a few days.
I tola Mrs Blake that Thompson was not a fit
manforladirsto associate with. She made no
other reply than that Mrs. Thompson was pres
ent. She wasnoteohlod te me after the talk;
seemed to be cut of humor. One or two meals
she wrnld not go to the table with me. From
Kew York we went to Philadelphia. Nothing oc
curred there. Then we went to Baltimore.
Everytblrg was agreeable there. Next we went
to Washington. and flopped at Willard’s Hotel.
Mr. Cutler and I both knew a lira. Wellington.
I did not know she lived there until
Cutler told me of it on cur way. She worked for
me cncp. She came to the hotel and sent up her
card Hereon and daughter were with her. Mr
and Mrs Culler and myself and wife were all in
one room at the time. . Our roems were near to
gether. Mrs. Wellington came np and wanted to
know u we were going to the President’s recep
tion. Bho bad never seen Mrs. Blake before to
m; krow.cdKe. Mr. and Mrs Catler were ao
qnamte d with her. Either he or I Introduced her
to Mrs. Blske. Mrs. Wellington said the recep
tion was the last one, and that we had better go
to eee Jie style the people put on. I asked her
were on their heads, and my wife
Ppokoup and paid : <* Do you think tam a fool,
that I conot know what to wear?” .Mrs. Wel
lirgtun Etcyed a few minutes after that. Noth
ing wes said then about visiting her. I remem
ber Timing the Oanltol with Mrs. Blake and Mr.
an- Mrs. Cutler I could not state whether the
reception was before or after that. As near
as I can rrcollect, we took dinner at 5 o’clock on
uie reception afternoon. My wife was oat of
humor, and spoke up at table when I passed
i-ings to her, and said when she wanted any
2*k me for it. Those at the
tSStockL® 4 ?? r ~ a 7- After that, when in oar
acreoaldn 6 ? whlob was not ™ry
rSfirn- her I should not CO to there
t she would insult me.
made ifo aooln e s e Tt a S, ollt « her conduct, and she
mace no apology, it was dually that t
should go with Mrs. Catler and 1&. cltler with
ror wile, ana wo went In that way itwk. i>.r S
o’clock when we not back. While at the clnltJd
I undtriook to walk with my wife.imtßhowonic
not ko with me. I tried to pacify her.hntoonia
not. We visited the different departments, and
remained there until juvt be'ore they wore going
to light up. Mrs. Catler was sick, and
wanted to go home. I sail to my wife to com**,
bnt she sain she wanted to stay to sea the rotunda
lighted up. I aekf d her if she could fiad her way
heme, and she told me to take care of myself and
she would of herself. We then went out,—Mr.
and Mrs. Cutler and myself.—And Cutler asked
me what was the meaning of it. I told him I did
not know. He then went back after Mrs. Blake,
and Mrs. Cutler and I went ou to il ra. Welling
ton’s, where she got some things. When we got
to the hotel, I do not think - Mr. Catler and Mrs.
Blske hud reached there. From Washington we
went to Blchmond, and stayed there three or
four days. Nothing unpleasant occurred there.
We next went to Petersburg, and remained over
Sunday, and went to see the battle
grounds. Then we went to Charles
ton, and remained there two or
three days. Everything was all right there.
Frcm Charleston wo went to Savannah, and
thence to Jacksonville, where we stopped at a
hotel. We remained there about a week. When
we took the first meal, we were placed together
by the table. We sat there one or two days.
There was a Spaniard there, who sat at the head
of the table Mr. Cutler and myself got aoauaint
€d with him. and he said he owned a large lot of
land np the Bt. John’s River. We found out that
his title was not worth anything, nor he either.
Ido not know how my wife became acquainted
with him.—probably from seeing me talking to
him. She took a seat beside him at the table, and
I went np and sat alongside©! her. She sat there
all the time we remained In Jacksonville.
I spoke to her about changing her
seat, and she said the Spaniard was an intelli
gent man. and she intended to sit there. She
talked to him nearly all the time. I a-ked her to
go walking one afternoon* bnt she related, Mrs,
Catitewßß tick, aafl Mr. Gutter and I went
together. When about a block or two away from
the hotel, we looked-baok and saw Mrs. Blake
walking np and down the veranda with the
Spaniard. We were gone about an hoar or an
hour and a half, and upon my return I did not
find Mrs. Blake. I knocked at our room door,
and could not get in. Mrs Blake had the key.
At tea, I told her I had been hunting for her, and
ahe eald ehe was in the room. One evening I
went to the Post Oflioe to get my letters, and was
absent about half an hour. It was Bor 9 o’clock
when 1 got back. I looked all around for my
wife, but could not find her. She was in the
ladles* parlor when i went away, I went
to my room ana rapped at the door, bat there
was no answer. I sat up to between 9 and ie
o’clock, when I went to bed. One of the waiters,
1 think, opened the door. Mrs Blake was not in
the room. After I got In bedf (I was not asleep),
fome one rapped at the door. It was Mrs. Blake
She rapped live inmates before I let her in. I
told her it looked bad. She said she had been
taking a little walk; with whom she did not saV
I told her it looked bad for her to walk out will
a stranger. After I bad purchased tickets to eo
up the St. John’s Elver, sue became an?rv. and
said she would not go—that I could go alone I
told her I would not go if ehe did not, and she
concluded to go, and we went.
The Court then adjourned until 2 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Upon reassembling, the examination of Mr.
Blahe -was continued by Mr. Hervey. He said:
We started np the Bt. John’s River, and were
SSI.SfSJftS W6€ * or We remained at
the end of the route about half a flay. I can’t
teu whether It was going np or coming down
when the Captain placed me at the head of the
table, it was my place to pass the things aronnd.
I handed the butter to Mrs. Blake.and she struck
my hand, calling me a fool, and saying if she
wanted anything she would help herselx. Her
conduct attracted attention- I remember arrlv*
mg at Green Cove Springs. I stayed there two
days. A boat came along, and the Captain told
me he was going down to Jacksonville and was
coming right back. Mrs. Blake had received a
letter from Mrs. Thompson, la which It was stat
ed that Arthur, my son, was sick. I got on the
boat to go to Jacksonville to get letters. I told
Mr. Cutter to tell my wife of It. When I left the
hotel with him I had no idea of going away. I
went to Jacksonville and got a letter stating that
Arthur was better. The boat did not go back to
Green Cove, and I remained in Jacksonville, and
the party joined me there. Mrs. Blake told me
that Cutler had delivered my message. Sae was
not angry. We teok the boat to Savannah, and
then the cars. We separated between Savannah
and Macon. It waa the intention lot us to go and
return together. Mr. Cutler told melt was not
pleasant to travel together. Where we parted, at
the junction, we took dinner, and my wife avoid
ed me and went forward and got in the oars
Mr. and Mrs. Cutler wont to the window and
bowed. Their parting did not seem to me as la
dles usually part. My wife and I went to Macon
and staid two nights and one day. At the table
my wife sent back what was brought her by the
waiters. She said the food was not cooked right.
Several couples at the table noticed her talking. I
I told her not to talk so loud, and sbe told me to j
mind my business. The next morning Tasked
her to take a ride, and sbe said “No. take some
one else with yon.” I went by myself, and called
on a frit nd. After tea I went np to our room,
and It was locked. I found Mrs. Blake in
tbe parlor talking with a gentleman and his niece
from Boston. I talked with Mrs. Blake abont the
difficulties, and she felt very bad. She wanted
to know why I left her alone all day. I told her
It was because of her treatment of me in the
morning. She was sorry and very penitent and
we made friends. We then went home to Win
netka. I told her I thought her conduct to
ward me was caused by Thompson. She talked
altogether abont Mrs. Thompson. I spoke to her
abont going there so much, and she accused me
of being jealons. I told her I was, and she prom
ised not to go there any more. When we reached
home she conducted herself well. Up to the time
I went to Lake Superior nothing occurred. Whan
I went away she asked me to leave the family
ticket, as she might want to go to Chicago. Upon
my return, she did cot appear as be
bore. She locked the door of her room.
At times she treated me cordially, and at
times rot. I asked her why she locked the door,
and she said she did not like me, or something
like that. She appeared to be well. In the lat
ter part of August I went to St. Paul and differ
ent places in Minnesota, and was gone about two
weeks. Things at home were about the same. I
do not recollect how the door was then. While I
wes away my children Informed me of aohange
in her conduct toward Thompson. I tuli her
that she had been there frequently, and asked
her if she did not remember tne Macon promise.
She said she went to see Mrs. Thompson, and
would go when sbe pleased; that if I did not
like her company X could stay away. Sometimes
she was angry, and sometimes 1 was. Whoul
was at home she did not go to Thompson’s very
often. I went away nearly ©very month. I went
to New Yorkin December. Thompson left for the
East a few days before I did, and had
net returned when I did. He returned
snottiv after I did. I got back some time
after New Year’s. I waa absent soma two or
three weeks. Before I went to New York I had
received an Intimation about Mrs. Blake and Mr.
Thompson. It was a letter,:afidressed to Captain
Blake. I did not recognize the signature. I
went to Mr. Barker and told him what I had re
ceived. Mr. Keefer, when at my house, in 1870,
copied the letter. The original was left on the
table, and I think it was torn np. I searched for
it, but could sot find it. I examined the copy,
and have it In my pooket. [Letter produced ]
Mr. Dow did not think an anonymous letter
should be received.
The Coart said that, under no circumstances,
could it be admissible.
Mr. Smith aald they did not propose to prove
anything; by it. it waa competent to show that
Blake received a warning letter.
The Court excluded it. and Mr. Smith saved
the point.
Witness continued: After receiving the inti
mation, I went to Mr. Barker the next day, and
showed him tne letter. He laughed at me, and
said I had been fooled before ; that anonymous
letters did not amonnt to anything, and tbat that
did not. Mrs. Blake’s action daring October
amazed me, and I went to Barker again, and he
said what he did before —to attend to my busi
ness. Idldnotwanthimto get a detective, but
a man on whose word reliance could be placed.
Barker told me a day or two after that he had a
man wbo wonld.attend to it, and would know
after he had watohed her once or twice whether
anything was amiss. This man waa Gleason. I
was introduced to him in Barker’s office. That
was in October. On the 28th of April, 1870, 1 waa
first informed of what Mr. Gleason had
discovered. Alter I had made myself
familiar with Gleason’s document I had a con
sultation. and in consequence of it I ceased to co
habit with her and have not done so since. [A
diagram waa here submitted to the witness.!
This is a oorreet plan of the ground float of my
house. | witness then explained the plan to the
jury.] The door to the library is about three
fett from the foot of the stairs. [Another dia
gram shown wlthess. | This is a plan of the sec
ond floor ol my house. The door to the boys’
room does not lead into the main hall, but into
a little hall. "When I went to Port Washington
I was absent generally three or five days. I
think Mrs. Blake came to Chicago thirty-four
times In six months. Between the time Gleason
was employed to look after Mrs. Blake and the
time she left the house I had frequently spoken
toier about going to Thompson’s. I noticed her
looking cut of the window towards
Thompson’s and asked her what are
yon looking after,“ Thompson 1 She told me to
mind my business. Sometimes she said she
liked Mrs. Thompson better than anybody In
Wlnnetka, and sheSwould go there when she
pleased. I told her it did not look well to be go
ing there so much; that the neighbors talked
abont it. She celled me a fool several times.
Occasionally she seemed absorbed In sometblag,
and would not speak to me. Her conduct kept
growing worse, and waa worse in May. We had
conversations abont Thompson coming to our
house. I told her one day that I had heard
Thompson was there, and she said he came in a
moment ana got the paper. I said Charley told
me he remained half an hour, and she said it was
a lie. One day little Jolla said: “Mother, you
like Mr. Thompson; yon drove me out of the
parlor.” She called her a lying little tattler, I
think, and said Thompson stayed only a few mo
ments. I objected to Thompsons coming to our
house so often, and to her going there, telling her
that she coo Id not attend to her business. I told
her Julia was almost naked, and wanted clothes;
she said she would make them np when she got
ready. There was plenty of cloth In the house.
She often asked me to go to the Thompsons. I
told her I did not like them and would not go,
and she said she would go herself. One day I
came to the north door—nnusual for me—and
saw Mr. and Mrs. Thompson and Mrs Blake eat
ing dinner. 1 came home that day on the 2 o’clock
train. I Intended to have come on tbe 4 o’clock
train. She seemed very red, and Mr. Thompson
did not look altogether right. I ate a few month-
Inis, end then went np stairs. After changing
my coat, I came down- and went into the yard
where the boys were. Charley told me—
Mr Hervey. Nevermind.
Witness continued: I saw Mr. and Mrs. Thomp
son and my wife going out of the gate afterward.
After they had gone I went into tbe parlor, and
found a pillow on each sofa, and a mahogany
chair; the chair was not usually there. Some time
in the winter, on Sunday, I waa reading a
in the parlor, when the door-beli rang. My wife
went to the door, and Mr. and Mrs. Thompson
came In, Mrs. Blake said: “ Mrs. Thompson has
come np to play for you.” My wife went back
with Thompson, to help him off with his coat, I
suppose. They came into the room presently and
I did sot speak to him. He said he did not feel
very well, and said he would go home and lay
down. My wife said “ No, I will get you a pillow
and yon can lay down on the sofa.” He would
not do so. Dinner was ready then, bat my wife
got her shawl and went down to Thompson’s.
Alter she had been there ten minutes, I
saw her and Thompson come ont. He
had his coat off, and put it on in the street. I
told the girls to put the dinner on the table, but
they said Mrs . Blake had ordered them not to
put it on until Mr. Thompson came back. They
came hack, and I told her that I wanted this
thing stopped. I remember the day when Hem
ingway preached. My wife went to church in
the morning with Thompson. Mrs. Thompson
followed them. She told me Hemingway waa g:-
ing to preach, and I told her I liked him and
would go. I took Johnny with me and went.
The other boys were playing In the snow-bank.
She had been to the Unitarian Church with
Thompson in the morning. AJter I bad reached
the chinch, Ida and Augusta came in. Julia waa
at Bassett’s. No other child except Arthur waa
in tbe house; he was 4or 5 years old. Be
fore I went to ohoroh the door in the
green-house was open. .1 waited abont
half an hour In church for
Mr. Hemingway, He didn’t come, and I went
home. 1 waa absent in all about an hour. The
t iris remained in the church. While going home
Thompson going across the street toward
I found the boys still playing in the
tn t>To "L 611 . 1 sot into the house my wife came
fnnrAr.pJ” l of the stairs, and asked me why I had
“dnot<.o™| oe ?T tly -. 1 “la her Mr. Htmiogway
down, im,S* r *«°ewas red and her hair
the door ah™ tlEht to fi!? Kr .een honii S ana fo ° n 3
etked her \vhv,,.Twite came down and I
ehe thnttt*S?h?t ,hS"hiwrS“ n eh^S; Bh ? B ,? id
tnrbher: thatiheCijft" ¥ °l 4 not d ’ 8 ‘
pUlow on the eota. Aolntnr» , There was a
eft on the Beta was i n ai tllac 1 had
The eofa cover -was Bcmewhut place
noticed eome spots or erav6lon t it m ßB 6a {, ana 1
it off. and eat downed the epow
where the paper was, and she said r
came and got it; she cam he etald onTy five or
ten minun-a at tbe door talking to her
the 3d and Bth of May, mo. I was & Port wS?
ington. I left on the 8d and got home on the ath
Walter slept with me from the 28th of Aoril nnVn
the time Mrs. Blake left. I providedfor m 2
Blake’s personal wants, and to Julia’s wants to
the amount of $1,600 the year before she left
fibs spoke a number of times about getting a
Bible, atd we went to Grigp’a store and picked
one ont. I paid SSO for it I saw it; my wlf«
picked it out. One was sent home: it was not
tbe one I paid for, but a sio Bible. My wife had
tbe Bible and some other books at home. I can’t
tell what the books were.
Cross examined: by Mr. Dow. The Bible wan
bought when Griggs waa In the Blroh block • I
esn’t teU what year It was; can’t tell what time
of the year either. Ido not recollect whether it
wes a photograph Bible or not. I did not reje-u
it became it wa< not a photograph Bible. I did
cot select the $lO Bible. I paid for tbe Bible sb
pioked out. The change was made without my
knowledge or consent. I had lived at Port
Washington between two and three years before
I married Mrs. Blake. I had been married be*
fore; my first wife is living.
pie Court did not think the testimony was ad
missible. There was no issue on the subject in
the pleadings.
WlTnets continued: Edward Blake Is a son by
my first wife.
pie Court decided to admit the testimony.
Witness continued: My first wife is still living
mg in Fort Washington. I obtained a divorce
from hep in the spring of 1851. I think in March;
the day* I cannot recollect. The divorce was
obtained at tbe Court in Port Washington. I
charged her with adultery. IDncnmenthanded to
witness). I can’t tell when I filed the bill. I
can’t tell by the paper; my eyes are poor and the
light is bad. It might have been about the 28th
of March, 18C1, I was not very long before I got
my decree. It must have been on tbe 15th of
April. In the last of July, I married Mrs. Blake
My first wife weut to Albany, N. Y., a week
afterward, with a clerk of mine. William H.
Hamsey was the man I charged her with com
mitting adultery with. He was afterward Bank
Comptroller in Wisconsin, and I signed his bond
for SIOO,OOO I have spoken to him since 1851, bat
have not been on friendly terms with him. I
think I signed his bond in 1864; it was not in
1861 to tbe best of my recollection. I have four
children living by my first wife. They continued
to live with me until my oldest boy, George,
died. They lived in Port Washington with me.
George died In the fall of 1857. I think I
got acquainted with Thompson first on the
cars. I do not recollect whether I was intro
duced or not. In December I took np my resi
dence In Wlnnetka. I do not recollect telling Mrs.
Thcmpsonthat she oonld have my horse and bag
gy while we were on oar Southern trip. I know
Mrs. Blake said she could. I wanted Mrs.Bassett
to take'charge of the house and children, but
Mrs Blake wanted Mrs. Thompson to do so. I
brought home some oranges from the South.
I do cot recollect taking some to the Thompsons.
I might have done so. The child was well when
I got home. Ido not recollect of the Thompsons
coming to onr house, or we goingthere. I might
have invited them to come to our house. I went
back and forth two or three times to Thompson’s
after I got back from the South, at the request of
my wife—after Gleeson wasset to watch. I think
I dranksome whiskey and champagne there once.
I think in tbe spring of 18691 went tuereas much
as my wife. I never objected to her going any
place that I thought was proper. I am not
much of a visitor myself. One of my ob
jects in going South was to remove Mrs.
Blake from the Inlluenceof Thompson. I brought
back seme canes and gave one to Mr. Thompson,
one to Mr. Bassett, and my other neighbors. My
daughter Jolla went to Thompson’s to play with
Grade, Mr. Thompson’s niece. She staid there
all night sometimes. Grade stopped at onr
house all night. That was In the summer of 1869.
In the fall X objected to her going there. I can’t
tell when I was in Thompson’s house the last
time. There were suspicious circumstances in
April, 1870, but nothing criminal. We had a
party, but I did not invite Mr. Thompson to
come. Mrs. Blake sent out the Invitations. I
did not address one to Thompson. I would not
swear that I did not. I may have invited Mrs.
Thompson to come np and wait on the table. If
I did my wife requested me to do so.
The Court then adjourned until 10 o’clock this
morning.
NINTH WARD LIBERALS.
Ijarge and Enthusiastic Meeting of Gree
ley Republicans and Democrats—lnter*
eating Speeches by Prominent Gentle*
men—Proposed Organization of a Ninth
Ward Greeley Club*
The Greeley and Koemer meeting held last
evening In the Ninth Ward, on the corner of Blue
Island avenue and Twelfth street, was a tremen
dous affair. The large hall was crowded to suffo
cation. Mr. Naohtman called the meeting to or
der, and nominated John Bendelbach for Presi
dent, Mr.’ E. A. Koenig was eleoted Secretary,
Mr. Bendelbach, upon taking the chair, said he
had lived in this country since his eighth year,
had always been a Democrat, but was now heart
and soul in this movement, which is a party of
the people to save the country.
Patrick Feeney was called upon to make a
speech. He said he approved very much of this
movement. He was heart and soul forKoerner
uud Greeley. When such men as Trumbull, Sum
ner, Sohnrg. and others, shake hands with the
Democracy and say let ns break down corrnp
cion, he was in with them. Greeley has always
been a workingman and the workingman’s
friend, and therefore workingmen most necessa
rily vote for him.'
Mr. Stoner, the next speaker, said he was not
ashamed to be wedded to the Greeley oanse.
There was no necessity of parry now. We had
arrived at & point where all Issues which had di
vided ns wore disposed of. What was the use of
fighting old issues over again t We must
now join together to drive this corrupt
Administration from power. All the Depart
ments were corrupt, bat Grant was the most cor
rupt of aIL
Mr. Lewis, the next speaker, said he had
always been a Republican, but was now for
Grteley and Koerner, because Grant and his Ad
ministration were a miserable failure, and,
therefore, there must be a change. Peace. Be
trenohment, and Reform was our motto, and
Greeley was tho man to carryout these precepts.
He was the exponent of universal peace. The
Grantltes laughed when Greeley was nominated,
but the laugh was now on the other side of the
month. He continued at great length, and was
frequently applauded.
General Lleb was next Introduced as a Ger
man speaker, but Mr. Leib said he came for the
purpose of conveying his ideas to as many as
possible; and, as there were so many Americans
and Irish present, he would rather address them
in English. He said the battle had began, and
the ticket was in the field, and we mast go to
VrOrknowin earnest. This movement and the
People’s movement were identical. Ho had
taken a prominent part in the People’s move
ment. and was proud of it. At that time the
Circuit Clerk was receiving some SBO,OOO, and the
clerk of the County Court some S3O 020 per an
num, and that money was need as a corruption
fund to elect instruments of the ring; but these
were curtailed by the Constitutional
Convention then eleoted, which drafted our ex
cellent Constitution, the very safeguard against
corporations. Formerly there were more ollioe
seekers than red dogs in this city: but where are
they now ? This movement was only a continua
tion of the great movement then begun. He hadpre
dieted in 1669 that the ball wonld keep on rolling,
and in 1872 wonld sweep every State m the Union
from Maine to California. He was called unfaith
ful to his party by such men as Logan, bat he
was only unfaithful to General Grant himself.
He was abetter Republican than Logan, for Logan
bad furnished men to the South when the Be
hellion begun, and never denied It. and only be
came a Union man when a Generalship was
offered him. Such men denoonoa ua now as
traitors and renegades.
Emil Dletsob made some very amusing remarks.
A great deal was said about Horace Greeley. It
Is said that he was the least of two evils, it re
minded him of two men who had to ohoose be
tween two women, a call and a small one, and he
took little one as the least of the two evils. Bat
that little woman turned out to be a very good
wife, and so will Horace Greeley make a very
good President. In that strain he continued for
some time amid great applause.
QEx-Alderman Comlekey followed next, and made
a powerful speech, telling those present that
these were qneer times, the queerest he had ever
seen. Party feeling had been laid aside by the
people for the people’s good and the oflioe-seek
er’e consternation. He praised Senators Sahnrz
and Sumner as the two noblest statesmen of Che
day, as the originators of this great movement.
They had seen the danger ahead,
and warned their party, but they
were always hooted and yelled at by
the Administration Senators. He said the money
received for arms to the French was now nsad
to corrupt politics in North Carolina. The
Grantltes were telling the people that the war
was not yet over, the negroes wonld be enslaved,
tnerewonld be oholera and the small-pox if Gree
ley is eleoted; bat, thank God, the war was
over, and the South was ready to join hands
across the bloody chasm. Grant had dis
graced this country, not only here but in Eu
rope, where his brother-in-law Cramer had been
seen drank in the streets. San Domingo was
only a real estate speculation to get a larger cor
ruption fund. We did not want a President who
yearly packs np his horses and bull paps, and
visits Long Branch for races and dog fights, and
who makes Long Branch the seat of Govern
ment. The true men -In the Bennblloan and
Democratioparty must work together to change
that. If Grant is eleoted for another four years,
the prediction made some time ago wonld become
true, and Grant, in company withhir, brothers-in
law and oonsins, would make this country a first
class monarchy, with Ulysses the First as its
Emperor.
After several more speeches, the meeting ad
journed.
THE LAW COURTS.
Salt for a Forfelinre of the Chicago City
Hallway C'empaay’t Franchise on Indi
ana Arenac—Other Legal Proceedings*
CIRCUIT COURT.
CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY,
The information, in the nature of a quo war
ranto, filed by Allan C. Story against the Chicago
City Railway Company, again came before the
Court (Judge Williams) yesterday. This pro
ceeding was commenced on the 25th day of July,
1870. The information, as filed, was general. It
charged that the company was usurping the
franchises exercised by it, and Mr. Story signed
himself Acting Attorney General. The proceed
ing looted to a forfeiture of the franchises of the
company on Indiana avenue, Eighteenth street,
and several other thoroughfares. The plaintiff
replied to the pleas, and, upon demurrer being
filed, there was a bearing, which terminated by
a deolflon largely in favor of the company. The
acting official amended, stating that, as to Indi
ana avenue, the company had not complied with
the ordinance authorizing the construction
of the railway, by procuring the consent
of the owners of two-thirds of the
property on the line of the road, nor
had they completed the track within the time
allowed. The Company again rejoined, alleging
that it did receive and possess the consent of
the required number of property-owners on In
diana avenue, between Twenty-seoond street
and tbe then city limits. As to the limitation of
time in whloh to construct the road or way, it
setup an ordinance of Aug. 23,1864, extending
the tune for the laying of tho track, which ordi
nance. being daly accepted by the Company for
a good consideration, became an Inviolable con
tract and an ordinance modifying those whloh
had preceded it of November 13,1871, whioh, be
ing dnly approved, was accepted by the de
fendant company in May, 1672, by whloh the
city waived any claim to forfeiture, or rather gave
to the company the old and extended franchise.
The argument for tbe people is that the oity
acted in ita lata ordinances without authority.
No decision.
JUDGMENTS.
Yesterday being default day. several judg
ments were rendered. They were generally for
small amounts. Among them were, however:
Rf>yal Reed v. Jostah A. Temple; $1,146.66.
Gustave Lindquist v. Ann Molntyre; 11,142.21.
INSURANCE—LAMAR.
Actions of assnmpslt were commenced against
the Lamar Insurance Company, of Chicago, by
Hugh Watt; demaud, $4,000, also for $3,000.
. CITY CASE.
. An action on the case was commenced by Will
iam McLain against the City o£ Chicago; dam
ages laid at $7,000.
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT.
_ TAXING COSTS.
Oourt (Judge Blodgett) was engaged yes
teroay morning in pie hearing of a motion to re-
I he tul A°l Hehman Baldwin, the as
slgnee, which resulted from the bankruptcy of
Baker, Ludlngton & Co. No result was arrived at.
_ _ BIGELOW BLOCK. tt °“ rrivou “ u
t>j ‘, * Winston, as the agent and attorney of the
Sl e iai w a i? d HeHavea folks’ interest in. the Blge
petit ionJtoS be allowed
filfl agreed upon commission, 2J per oent on
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1872.
11.250.000. the price agreed to be paid by the Sec
retary of the Treasury. As exhibits, the claim
ant shows a series of letters commencing with hla
employment, at a stipulated prloe, and the con
summation of the proceedings.
SUPERIOR COURT.
CASE.
An action on the oase was commenced by John
Cunningham against John T. Noble ana Francis
B. Little, the damages being laid at $5.000.
ASSUMPSIT.
Assumpsit was commenced by Francis Ed
wards against George DeClerq, the demand be
ing for $5,0.0.
GAMES AND PASTIMES.
The Proposed Resurrection el the Active
Base Rail Club—Dow the IHninals Oot
Their Beresge Oat of the Athletics—
TnifJYoic*.
BASE BALL.
PROPOSED REVIVAL OF THE ACTIVE CLUB.
A meeting of persons in favor of reorganizing
the Active Base Bali Club from the remnants of
defunct amateur nines was held at No. 61 Canal
street last evening. The attendance was limited
to a dozen, the majority of whom were players.
After an informal talk on the subject of base ball,
a temporary organization was formed by the ap
pointment of Messrs. Merrick and Elliott, Chair
man and Secretary respectively, it was an
nounced that Sawyer, of the Rockford Olub,oonld
be engaged to play permanently with
the Active’. Tae following list of
players whose services, it was expected, could
safely be counted upon, was made ont, Lapham,
Barstow, Tom Foley, Atwater, Brannook, Sager,
Sawyer, Dean, W. Foley, Hodes, Gillespie, Lowe,
and Edwards. Messrs. Tanner, Brannook, and
Lapham were appointed a Committee to inter
view them, and find out what they were willing
to do. The same Committee was also authorized
to confer with the managers of the base ball
park, corner of Twenty-third and State street*,
and ascertain what arrangements can be made
for playing games with amateur and professional
oinbs. it was decided to get the members of the
nine together on next Saturday afternoon, and
play them against a picked nine on the LalUn
street grounds. The meeting then adjourned un
til next Monday evening, when a permanent or
ganization will be formed.
THE REVENGE OF THE MUTUALS
In beating the Athletics,of Philadelphia, on Mon
day last by a score of 8 to o,ls thus described in
the New York World :
When it is taken into consideration also that
each of the clubs had won one game of the pres
ent eerie. It was not at all surprising to find so
large tnd anxious a crowd assembled to witness
tbe present game. It was generally expected
tnat the crowd would bo tbe largest one of the
season, but snob did not prove to be the ease.and
those who were not present will regret It. as
they could not possibly wish to see a liner game,
nor one Inwhloh the result was so totallyunex-
SISII2 - i« a 5i a f, t 5 e , M 5 tnalß Baonla have been Ohl
oagoed In Philadelphia was not a matter of very
Sf^i? p i ie i e I P u * *“» the Athletics, the
moat powerful batsmen In the country, should
play a game ot nine innings and not make a sln
gle run was almost beyond the possibility ol be
ef. Booh, however. Is tne fortune ot war, and
me Mutuals were gloriously avenged lor their
overwhelming defeat In Philadelphia. To attempt
to give an accurate description of the scene
dnrlng the progress and at the conclusion of the
game would houseless. In the earlier part ot the
game there was almost an exaot repetition of the
features In the first game of the senes, the only
difference being that at the end of thefftthln
ning tbe Mutes yesterday bad scored two runs,
while in the first game they had only scored
one. The sixth inning, in whioh
the Philadelphians had scored two
xnng in the first game, having passed without
their scoring, the New York crowd became ex
cited and somewhat Jubilant-venturing—almost
breaUl though—to hint at the possi
bility of the game finishing up with a score of 2
611 e vent was scouted altogether.
Wait till the Athletics get to their favorite sev
enth Inning, and you will see them hit Cum
mings,” was the general remark. The favorite
seventh inning came and went, and the Athletics
made no sign, bat the Mutuals did; for they
scored and earned two runs. The eighth inning
passed amid almost breathless excitement,
and still the Athletics could not “ knock the
socks oft the ball,” while the Mutuals increased
their score by another earned run. The
excitement was now almost bayou* control N**'
a sound was heard as the Xmth inning
SgS e Sk!Sf w tSf homo
leva 6 <C ° P to th“Stu{LfiSI 8
crept 111 88 01086 68 h6 dared and
watched Ws every movement, prepared to spring
upon the ball as a cat would on a mouse with
which she.had been playing, but MoGeary had
evidently received his orders to “slog” the ball
and slog it he did, driving it with euon force that
Fulmer oonld hardly hold It. He did manage,
however, to hold it, and before MoGeary oonld
reach his first the ball was In Start’s hands. A
loudj cheer, which lasted only for a moment
though, greeted this line play. Mack then
walked up to the home plate and let
drive, but McMullen, who was playing in
fine form, took the ball on the fly, low do wn, and
another short, sharp cheer announced that the
second Philadelphian had gone to his account.
Again all Woo £IiU. the people appearing almost
afraid to breathe, so overwhelming w»a
only persons whol appeared calm
and indiflerent being the Mutual players them
selves. Little Cuthbort now walked up to the
fciSSl I fe«i? tf i a 5S?i? aWl, * one yftin attempt to
hit the ball, be did hie a sort of fair foul, which
Boyd went for and stopped beautifully, but he
either threw it just a shade too low or “ Joe” was
too anxious. In any case the latter did not hold
it, and a groan of disappointment was forced
from the eager and watchful spectators as Cuthv
held his base. Everyone was afraid the Mates
might become exoited and demoralized, and
It appeared as if such was about to happen, as
when Mcßride made a fine base hit to left field
McMullen juggled the ball for an instant and
Cuthbcrt pushed for his third. Mao, however
ccolnssa and good judgment not to throw
the ball hard to Boyd, although ho might have
caught Outhbert, but sent it In easily, it now
appeared a certainty the Athletics would get the
much coveted run, more especially as Meyerle.
the leviathan batsman and pet of the Quaker
City, went to the baf. He had a strike called
uponhim, then a ball was called, and then (Jam
mings sent a low shooter over the plate which
almost escaped the plucky and agile Hicks: but
he froze to it, ana well It was he <fid, ap two runs
must have been made by the Athletics. The
? it# pQttin * lllß whole strength
into the blow, but it spun np into the air as* if
11 . . w £re going oat of sight: Mc-
Mullen, however, kept his ere
on it, and waving his hands over his head? in
wjft tulght have proved a premature triumph,
watched its downward descent and froze to It as
T he excitement and enthusiasm
which had been so long kept in subjection now
broke forth in the wildest cheering, waving of
handkerchiefs and hand-shaking. The crowd
broke into the field, and seemed inclined to oarrv
the victors in triumph to the Club House, but
the game was not over, and so the field had to
be cleared. But little interest was taken In the
last inning of the Mutes, although they scored
three inns, two of which were earned •
the Athletics, the champion nine*
had been Chicagoed, and that was happiness
enough for one day. The game was certainly a
splendid exhibition, and a deal of money must
have changed hands on the result, odds of 100 to
50 being freely laid on the Atheletioa by large
numbers of New Yorkers as well as Philadel
phians. Eggler, Boyd, Hatfield, Fulmer, and
Start all played well, and Hloks deserves the
greatest credit for the pluck and sound j udg
meat he displayed in hla play behind the bat. A
single slip by him would have dashed the cud of
victory from the Mutes, but he was “ true to the
last.” Cummings well deserved his title of “The
Little Wonder,” so true and so well judged was
bis pitching. Of the Atheletioa MoGeary, Anson
and Mejerle played well. The following is a
summary ot the game :
Brooklyn, e. 2>., July 13,1872 —Third game of the
championship scries hetvreen the Mutuals and tha
Athletics, of Philadelphia. (The llrst game -was won
by the Mutuals with a sc ore of 3 to 2, and the second
won by the Athletics, by a score of 19 to 0),
ATHLETIC. R lU. P. A MUTUAL. R 1R 1» A
Cuthbert, I. f... 0 oio Eggler.c. t 2 3Vo
Mcßride, p 0 10 0 Hatfield, 2 b 1 344
Meyerle,rt..— 0 0 3 0 Start,lb 0 0 13 0
Malone. 0 0 0 3 1 Bechtel, r, f..... 1 Von
Fisler, 2 b 0 0 2 2 Hicks, 3 1 V
Treacy, 1. f. 0 12 0 Boyd, 3 b 2 0 1 4
Aneon, 3 b 0 14 1 MoMnllon, 1. f... 0 0 3 0
McGeaiy, s. s—o 10 G Fulmer, a. s 1 214
• Mack, lb 0 112 2 Cummings,p.„. 0 003
Totals 0527 X 2 Totals Taunu
RUNS SCORED, ' °
Xnnh»gs- 323456789
Athletic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—o
Mutual 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 o ,■>
Buns Earned—Athletic. 0; Mutual, 6 0
Umpire—W. R. Ferguson. Atlantic Club.
Time of Game—l hour and 25 minutes.
HOME MATTERS,
In two hours, at the base ball park, the Blue
Stockings had pnt in is tallies whiie the Aurora
Ponies were scoring 9.
—The Red Stockings of this olty stand ready
to play for the Northwestern championship with
any olnb whose members are under 18 years of
age.
—The Nevadas hasten to record two notable
victories—the first over the Comets “by 4 runs •”
and the Live Oaks by a score of 27 to 9. ’
THE TURF,
LONGFELLOW’S DOWNFALL.
A Saratoga special says: Poor Longfellow, in
bis stable this evening, presents the picture of
misery. There Is a complete circle out from the
centre of his hoof, extending around the coronet
ring to his heel. His middle tendon, to-night, is
three times the natural size. It appears that he
broke the ehoe-plate on one of his hind
feet at the half-mile pole, when he was
lapping Bassett, and out his fore foot with
it. No doubt exists in the minds of experienced
turfmen that he is completely broken down, and
will never appear in public again. Uncle Har
per is completely overcome. He walks about
with sorrowful looks. It Is to bo regretted that
the question of superiority has not been decided
for Longfellow to-night 1s as much if not more a
hero than Bassett.
THE SARATOGA RACES.
Saratoga, July 17.—The first race for a purse
of five hundred dollars, one mile, won by Alarm *
time, 1:433- Second race, one and a half miles 1
won by Alice Hunt; time, 2;40J. Tnird race*
two miles, won by Tubman; time, 3;39i,
HORSE NOTES.
Entries for the Canadian Derby will close on
the first day of September next. The race win
be run at Barrie in 3873.
—A purse of $lOO is offered by the Earlville
(111.) Association, for their meeting in August,
fer a walking race, dash of one mile, open to all
horses.
—The celebrated Canadian horse, Rathowen,
the winner of the Dominion Plate, at Whitby,
twoyearsago. is doing duly as a carthorse In
the City of Toronto.
—Colonel Amasa Sprague is making many ma
terial improvements on the Narragausett Park
Course, in Providence. There will be a meeting
in the fall, when large inducements will be of
fered.
—The yearling colt by Klngef Trumps, onto!
Amethyst by Touchstone, purchased for Mr.
Belie out in England, at Mr. Blenkirou’s sale, is
picture* by tlls s^ Li f c 118 koing a perfect
—The following persons and horses, who were
suspended by the National Park. Kalamazoo,
Mich., for non-payment of entrance, having
made payment of the same, have been rein
stated: E. Gray, Chicago, 111, and his oh. g.
King s Excuse; Thomas El wood, Cleveland, O ,
and his b. m. Evelina; and John MoKee, Green
ville, Pa., and his br. g. William.
_ the RACKS AT CLEVELAND.
Cleveland, O. July 17.—The second annua
meeting of the Cleveland Club came off to-day.
Tbe track was still rather heavy from the rains,
which rendered a postponement of yesterday’s
1 aces necessary, but by dragging it over it was
much improved, and toward the latter part of
the after noon it was in good condition. About
3,500 people witnessed the races.
The first race was for horses that had never
beaten three minutes, purse $l,OOO, best three lu
five: $6OO to first horse, S3GO to second, atuLstoo
o third. Thirteen her sea entered. The raoe
was won in three straight heats by Thomas L.
Young, owned by Beigier, of Cincinnati. Time.
2:30,2*27,2:30. The second money was won by
Grace, of Youngstown; third, by EUlck, of Cam
bridge City, Ind.,
The second race for horses that
have never beaten 2-27, best three
in five; purse $1,750: $6OO to first. $4OO
to second, and $250 to third horse. Nine horses
entered. The first heat was won by Bed Cloud,
In 2:28), the second was taken by Sleepy John
in 2:29, after which Rosalind took two straight
heats in 2:29 and 2:26. Tne last two heats were
trotted after the other races were finished, and
at the time of calling the next heat it had become
so dark that the finishing of the raoe had to be
postponed until to-morrow. There is almost no
question butj what Rosalind will win it without
trouble.
The third race, running,three-quarters of a mile
heats; purse, $l6O to first horse, $lOO to second,
and $5O to third: ten entries. Regent, of Cincin
nati, won the race in two straight heats. Time,
1:23) and 1:22- Second money was won by Daugh
ter, of Glenville, and third by Sallie Newton, of
Kentucky.
The raoes did not close till 8 o’clock.
ATHLETIC SPORTS. -
BT. Joseph, Mo., July 17.—Diunle and Fleming,
Scotch athletes, gave an exhibition to day at the
Fair Grounds. A large number of spectators
were present, and many persons competed for
the prizes offered by the Bt. Joseph Athletic Club.
A St. Joseph boy, named Cook, took the first prize
in the contest of running, jumping, vaulting,
andhnrdle racing. Dlnnie and Fleming secured
the prizes in ell contests of strength. The exhi
bition closed with an old man’s raoe, in whloh ex
eherlff Finer, ex-Congressman, General Craig,
Internal Revenue Collector Ransom, and other
premie ent citizens competed. Sheriff Finer took
the first prize, beating by a length, his closest
competitor. General Craig took the second prize.
REID & SHERWIN.
The Firm Not Aware That They Can be Inter
fered With by the Board of Health—Their
Contract With the City—The City Scavengers
Accused of Emptying Their Carte Into Og
den Slip*
Mr. Joe Bherwin, of the firm of Reid & Bher
win, was called upon yesterday, to ascertain
what he proposed’doing about the resolution of
the Board of Health, revoking their permit to
carry on a slaughtering and rendering establish
ment near Ogden Slip. He stated that they had
not received official notice, so far, but even if
they had, he did not know how It could Interfere
with their business. In 1865 they made a con
tract with the city, by which they had permis
sion to nm their establishment, provided they
afforded facilities for butchers to do their slaugh
tering, and that contract would not expire, by
limitation, until 1876. He charged that the com
plaints made against their establishment
were inspired by hostility to their firm.
He denied that the establishment was
a nuisance, whatever the slip might be, and
farther, that the slip was not a nuisance on ac
count of their establishment. The cause of the
stench, whenever it existed, was that the city
scavengers damped night soil and dead animals
into the slip, and In hot weather the putrefied
mass fermented. Visitors, curious on the sub
ject, could see nine or ten dead dogs floating on
the surface at almost any time. The attention
of the Health Officer had been called more than
once to the action of the scavengers. Mr. Bher
win Invited the pnbllo to visit their establish
ment any day ana inspect it, saying that In point
of cleanliness it defied competition. They ren
dered in the day time, and did no work at
night.
Speaking of the Stock Yards, Mr. Sherwin said
that the South Branch into which the refuse is
discharged, Is to day “a living mass of reptiles.”
and in a year from now the diluvium will be per
ceptible all over the city. The ouly proper place
in his opinion for slaughter-houses and render
ing establishments Is on the banks of the cans’
which would carry the offal away from the Csitv
on a voyage down the Illinois River. 1
AMUSEMENTS.
Thftthiwi lß THIRI> CONCERT.
Ane wurn concert of the French Band, given OR
-- douth Side last evening, showed no abate
ment in the popnlarityot that splendid musical
organization. The Michigan Avenue Baptist
[ Church was tilled, only a few seats in the
transepts being vacant. The audience was
superior, as regards fashion and culture, to
thatgatbered at either of the preceding concerts,
and fell no whit behind them in enthusiasm. The
new programme was in average excellence as
good as the first, although it had no numbers
equal, everything considered, to the andante
from “Lohengrin,” and the overture from “ Wil
liam iTeU. M It began with the “Salutation to
America,” a fine, delicate, and skilfully-varied
composition of Amhroise Thomas, which the or
chestra of Theodore Thomas has made pleasantly
familiar to the Western public. The chief
effects were by combined instruments, soloists
haying no special prominence, The second num
ber was a solo for hate upon memos T£Tl fid *?v
Demerseman, played by M. £lie. The instru
ment need was apparently of silver, keyed upon
a pitch higher than that to whloh wo are accus
tomed, the variety of instruments of the clarinet
kind making one of ordinary pitch unnecessary.
The effects attemptedjwere principally of a quiet,
subdued and plaintive nature, mere trills, runs,
and chromatic passages, although plainly within
the capacity of the player, being avoided. The
applause was load and long continued, but did
not snooeed in winning a repetition. A fantasie
from “ Faust,” embodying the principal melodies
of the opera, effectively arranged, was received
with much favor. It began* with a
solemn andante, played by the Instru
ments of the lower register, and ran through
a wide range of brilliant melody and rich, deep
harmonies, with the most exquisite gradations
of dynamic coloring. The liuest effects, how
ever,—where all was excellent,—were those of
combined Instrumentations some of the unisons
having extraordinary power and smoothness.
The only solo of particular prominence
was a plaintive melody played by the
cornet, which seemed like a golden thread
woven into the web of mazy instrumentation.
This, with a similar fantasie from “ Luola,” in
cluding its saddest ana most charming arias, and
the overture to “ Zampa,” were the pieces de re
sistance of the evening. A cornet solo also
adorned the fantasie from “ Lucia." Several
passages la unison, and one or two magnificent
bursts of thoronghly harmonic sound,won univer
sal admiration, and brought down upon
the performers a furious storm of oheera. The
vocal numbers upon the programme included
only the well-known trio from “ Attlla.” sung by
Miss Goodall, Mr. Bhultze, and Signor Farlni, and
“ The Marseillaise.” with the usual accompani
ments. The trio was the most satisfactory oper
atic selection thus far attempted, bat failed to
elicit very decided signs of approval. Tne piano
was not called into requisition, Mr. Falk play
ing the single accompaniment required upon the
organ.
To allow the pnbllo to make a more extended
acquaintance with the repertory of the band, the
programme of the concert to be given to-night,
at the Union Park Congregational Churoh, has
been considerably changed. The numbers are all
excellent, as will be seen by the list, which is here
given|in loll:
1. Overture to " Oberon,” .Weber
2, Solo do Flute. Demerseman
„ „ 4 By M. Slle.
J* Si n J ta ?. I t^ l F^ nst * M Gounod
4. Trio—“AttUa.” Verdi
Miss Annie Goodall, Mr. Shultzo, and Signor Farinl.
5. Invitation ala Valso .Webar
6. Solo de Cornet—“ La Cascade.” a rhun
„ _ By M. Sylveatre.
7. Overture—'‘Zampa,”,,, .Harold
8. La Marseillaise. -tieroia
To give all the people of the city an opportuni
ty to hear this inimitable band under the moat
favorable circumstances, It has been decided to
give two concerts in the open air on Friday and
Saturday evenings. The first will be at the base
ball ground on the South Side; the
second at Green’s Garden, corner of
Ada and Madison streets. M. Panins
claims that it la only at these concerts that he
can give the finest effects, the walls of suoh
buildings as the churches in which he has played
having rendered it thus far impossible. The price
of admission has been fixed at a reasonable fig
ure and will give general satisfaction.
Atthe conclusion of the concert last evening.
Mayor Media was serenaded at hla residence.
«o. 723 Michigan avenue, by the fuU
band. The numbers played amounted
almost to a concert programme, and were enjoy
ed, not only by a select party in-doore, but by a
highly appreciative crowd outside. The band
first gave in the open air “ Hail Columbia,” and
‘•The Maiseillalae.” and afterward, within, the
“Anna Polka,” with a beautiful cornet solo.
“ 5? 1 ® Beautiful Blue Danube,” and an aria from
“ Eylsn,” with exquisite variations for the flute.
Cake end ehampngoe ended a very mild and
agreeable civic occasion. J
ACADEMY Of MUSIC.
Miss Kate Fisher and her fiery untamed horse' J
“Wonder” have been doing Maz?ppa at the ]
Academy since Monday xo moderate audiences. ]
considering the eomewhat unique character of <
the performances. The attraction is, of coarse, ]
the lady strapped on the baok of the steed, as- .
cendlng and Descending mountains, leaping from
crag to crag like live thunder, bounding over
precipices, metaphorically, of course. The horse J
does very well, and runs up and down '
«a ** he . were in the habit i
of it. Hla precious burden is olad in costume 1
that must be quite comfortable this warm 1
weather. That was Byron’s fault, however. <
This part of the programme is unusual and cor- ,
respondingly attractive. Miss Fisher rides bet- ,
ter than ehe acts, though she is not without'
power in some of the scenes. The scenery i
is well arranged, hut the batcle which *
concludes the piece is no great s
shakes of a battle after all. The play i
is marred by the interpolation of phases entirely <
unnecessary, unwarranted, and malapropos. <
There is no reason, for instance, why the name
of that useful piece of masonry at Henry, which ,
helps navigation on the Illinois Elver, should be *
taken in vain and used as an adjective. It is not 6
in the text. Mr. Maynard makes a tolerable 6
Khan for a man not born in Tartary. Miss Brad- i
shaw took the part of Olinska. The piece will £
remain on the boards during the week. i
THE CITY IM BRIEF.
The Construction ol School Buildings*
The Building Committee of the Board of Eda
cation, consisting of Messrs. Sheldon, Wilee, and
Calkins, held a conference with the Board of
Public Works yesterday, and matters pertaining
to the erection of new school buildings were free*
17 talked over. The subject of heating apparatus
received mnoh attention, the general conclusion
being that all existing modes of heating are
faulty and unsatisfactory, in that they fall to
combine both heating and ventilation. An effort
will be made to improve upon this feature. The
Building Committee submitted a suggestion that
in future they shall have charge of the erection
cf new school buildings, relieving the Board of
Public Works of that duty. The latter are only
too well pleased with the plan, which will proba
bly be carried into effect.
everything*
A special meeting of the Managers of the Home
ot the Friendless will be held to-morrow morning
at 10 o'clock
—The boy Schultz, who was a an-a truck on San* i
dB7» at Wright's Grove, died yesterday, at hla
come No. km Milwaukee avenue.
—Shortly after to o'clock, last evening, a kero
sene lamp exploded In the tenement house No,
191 West Lake street. The damage was slight.
, —By reference to the list of real estate trans
rers, it will be seen teat the number is very
large—in fact, the largest of any day since the
“Mr. J. w. McCnllagh, one of the proprietors
of uie Kansas City Journal, arrived In this city
yesterday. He will be remembered In connec
tion with the Chicago Bepttblican. of which he
was once the publisher.
—Thegambling house, No. 22 Hadleou street,
was raided upon by a squad of police, under Ser
geant Johnson, last evening. A rnau named
Snowies, who claims to be the keener, and four
teen inmates were arrested.
—D. P. Milligan, John Loohe, George J. Pep
pers, of Huntington, 0., George Paul, of Akron,
O,and A. Q- Campbell, of Valparaiso, led,a
Committee having In charge the project for ex
tending the Erie Hallway to this city, are stop
ping at the Barnes House.
—The thousandth anniversary of the Kingdom
of Norway win be celebrated to-day by a grand
picnic at Haas’ Park, by services in the church
oftheßev. Mr. Krognoes, corner of Milwaukee
avenue and Sangamon street, at 10-o'clock this
morning, and at 8 p. m. by a banquet at the
Barnes House, to which Captain EndreT. Thor
eon has invited many prominent gentlemen.
—A Bohemian lad named Frank Allafel, whose
parents reside at No. 33 String street, was run
over by a freight oar and instantly killed, about
3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, on the Chicago
and Bt. Louis Railroad track, near the Union
Elevator. He slipped from the iron step of the
car, upon which he jumped while it was In mo
tion, and fell under the wheels. His remains
were taken home.
—About noon yesterday a laborer named
Welch assaulted a man named William Quirk, on
Madison street, Just west of Clark street. It ap
pears that they became involved in a quarrel,
dm ing which Quirk was kicked in the scomaoh
and face. His injuries, it is said, are likely to
prove fatal. Weloh was arrested last evening by
Sergeant O'Donnell, and locked up in the Harri
son Streot Station.
—Mose Bassett a hostler in the employ of the
“ Z. I. P." Omnibus Company, was before Justice
Banyon, yesterday, charged with cruelty to ani
mals. It was proved that he was in the habit of
teasing horses to that extent that they would
klok and bite him, and that he would then tie
ropes upon their tongues, and almost pull that
member out by the roots. He was finedsso and
costs.
—For building the return wall and filling the
intersections on West Chicago avenue, from Mil
waukee avenue to Beuben street, the following
bids were yesterday received by the Board of
Pnbllo Works : Bay & Whitney, curb walls, tiC 60
Ser cord; filling, is cents par yard. James
lowry, walls, $l6; filling, 40 cents. P. C. Mc-
Donald, walls. $l7; filling, 35) cents. Thomas
Biley, walls. $l7; filling, 40 cents. No contract
was awarded.
—The prominent arrivalf'Ut the Tremont House
yesterday were as follows: John Templeton,
England ; John D. Rankin, Bt. Louis ; Colonel B.
Plumb, Btreatcr; D. W. Cliff, Nashville, Tenn.;
John Oloohwood, New Orleans; H. D. Moody,
Miss: C. T. Harvey, F.J. Arthur, E. E. Thorne.
New York; Nat. T. Messer, SanFranoisoo; James
O. Noyes, New Orleans ; John Gould and family,
Cincinnati; J. G. Crocker, San Francisco; N. M.
Livingstone, Ontario.
—The range of yesterday’s temperature was as
follows, observations having been taken by E.
de Yongh, Optician, under the Sherman|Houae,
every half-hour : at 7.50 a,m., 74 degrees; 8 a.m.,
76; 830 a.m., 77 ; 9 a.m., 78: 9.30 Am., 82; 10 a.m„
79; 10.30 a.m., 79; 11 a.m., 80; 11.30 am., 81; 12
m., 81; 12.30 p.m., 80; 1 p.m., 79: 1.30 p.m., 79;
2p.rn., 80; 2.80 p.m., 79; 3 p.m., 79; 3.30 p.m., 78;
4 p.m , 77; 4.30 p.m., 76 ; 6 p m., 76 ; 0.30 p. m.,
75; 6 p m.. 75, in the shade.
—A daring attempt to commit burglary was
made on Tneeday night, about 11 o’clock, at No.
ISO North Clark street. Three thieves attempted
to crawl through a transom over the back door,
but were disturbed by Dr. Bohields, who slept in
side. He called out “Who Is there!” and was
Sewered with a pistol ball, which passed by his
. head, and entered the front door. The burglars
then retired. The Doctor believes he can iden
tify one or two of them.
—Coroner Stephens held the following inquests
yesterday: At No 268 Maxwell street, on the
foody of John J. Ford, aged 13 years, whloh was
found floating in the lake on Tuesday afternoon ;
verdiot, accidental drowning, At the County
Hospital, on the body of William Oblolf, aged 26
years, who fell from a building at the comer of
State and Harrison streets, on Tuesday, receiving
terrible Injuries; verdict, accidental death.
ceased was a German and a single man.
—C. G. Svensen, who left Jersey City by the
evening train on Juno 21 last, to come to Chicago
by the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail
road, has not einoe been heard of, although his
baggage arrived in dne time. Ho was aflK
small in stature, dark hair, inclined to curl ; Sun
whiskers, lighter in color than the hair • blue
eyes, and spoke broken English. At the time he
Wore a black alpaooa coat, black pants, black
vegr. and a yellow straw hat. Information re
gardii:.? him will be gratefully received by O. W.
R. wiminereteds, of this city.
Carl Zerrahn
Will lead the chorus of the National Normal Mu
sical Institute, at the Chicago University, in the
following programme, till August 15: Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday evenings, at 8. the new
oratorio of Eli; Tuesday and Thursday after
noons, at i, seleciioZ“ IT?!? Mendelssohn’s four
- —figs and the “ Messiah,” Nothing equal
in the way of chorus-singing has ever been heard
In Chicago. The public are Invited, either as
audience or performers. Tickets for the whole
course, $6; single admissions, 25 ols, to be had at
v* e E*‘ I £? r ® lt r t ! « George F. Boot & Sons’,
No. 750 Wabash avenue.
Lemons and. Oranges.
The trade will do well to remember that 11, M.
Curtis, Ko. IC7 Twelfth street. Is filling all orders
with choice lemons, repacked, at $l3 per box,
and oranges at SJ. Give him a call. Xou are
sure to get your money’s worth.
The “ Rendering » lYalaanee,
To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune:
Sm: The attention of the Beard of Health
is respectfully called to the manner of dis
posing of the offal from the slaughtering es
tablishments in and near Bridgeport. If the
Health Officer of that locality, or the San
itary Superintendent, would spend one day,
or one week if necessary, at any one of those
houses, it would soon be demonstrated where
the great cause of “ evening stinks” exists.
He would find that the offal is permitted to
accumulate and lie in piles as it comes
from the tanks, until it becomes a
putrid mass. He would also discover that a
large portion of it is consumed under the
boilers for the purpose of generating steam,
and the gases arising from this rotten mat
ter passes out of the smoke-stack, and set
tles down upon the southern part of the city,
to the annoyance of every citizen.
What offal is not burnt is hauled by teams
to any point that is convenient, and there
dumped, and left lay for rain and sun to
bring out the vilest stench that is possible
to produce. Even when the pretension is
made to bury it, the stench is abominable,
because of its only being partially done.
it Tfas for the protection of the citizens
that the Board of Health was created, and
it is a crying shame that this Board will sit
with folded arms and wait until the public
force them- from their masterly inactivity
to perform a simple duty. It is useless to
attempt an excuse of limited powers. If
they refer to the charter they will find the
most arbitrary powers that are possible for a
Board to possess; they will find that they
have power not only in the city limits, but
four miles beyond it. They have boasted of
their. powers. They have ample power, pub
lic sympathy, and assistance; and, in return
for this, the public discover that incompe
tent officials till the offices of thig important
Board.
The business of rendering must be done.
It cannot be done by the present method
withont offensive odors. Condense the
steam, consume the gases, bury the offal, it
nevertheless is a nuisance to the locality in
which it is carried on. If such-, be the case,
why not take some locality and devote it
exclusively to that business f There ought
to he concerted action by the renderingmen
and the Board of Health and Common Coun
cil, that will abate this terrible nuisance.
Chicago, Jnly 17. Citizen.
Female Lecturers.
TT T i e J9? trnm in Engtond, like that of the
United btatee, being overrun by female lec
inrers, the Saturday Review amuses itself by
* touching up ” five different classes of them
~aiid some of the descriptions will suit this
latitude. The Saturday says :
The very dress and appearance of the lady
lecturer nine times out of ten mark her pur
pose* One glides on to the platform as a
picturesque pre-Raffaelite “ studyher
drapery hanging in long stright folds over
her feet, her golden hair carded into a fazzy
aureole about her head, her whole costume a
capital model for an artist. She knows that
her get-up is effective, and that every
woman in the audience will envy her, while
many will try to copy her; and she knows;
too, that the men will admire her, and for
the sake of her beauty be leniently disposed,
or something more, to her logic. But if she
were to tell you the absolute truth, she
would confess that she regards lecturing
as the best advertisement for her beauty,
and that, if she were snub-nosed and a fright,
she would be far lees earnest about woman's
rights and wrongs than she is at present.
Only she does not tell the truth, and she acts
out her pretence to the last.
Another wears her hair cut short and part
ed on the side like a man; like a man, too.
she comes*squarely to the front; her brief
skirts, Japelled vest, uncompromising shirt
front and severe shirt collar, are her protest
against feminine vanities or the assistance
to be derived from personal enchantment.
She is of the kind which emulates men while
scorning them; and, like the famous mihis
ter who set hymns and psalms and spiritual
songs to dance music, on the nlea that he did
not see why the devil should” have all the
best tunes, she adopts in her habits and per
son the characteristics of the sex she effects
to despise and contemn.
A third is a mere fashionable lady be
flowered and bejewelled to the last extreme
of the mode. She puts her trust in “style”
and thinks herself safe from rude critical
handling if she shows herself got up as a
grande dame should be.
A fourth is a feminine, refined, spiritual
with floating locks streaming back from her
brow, and a certain kind of a Fra Angelico
look about her, suggestive of saints and ser
aphs, and really very pretty; while a fifth
9 °j hesitate to present herself a dowdy,
indifferent toi her personality as a woman,
and only wishful for the plaudits which fol
u on successful intellectual endeavor.
Her ambitioniis not to be a well-bred ladv.
or a beautiful piotnre, or even a semi-man,
but a talking creature of no sere at all, a lec
turernureand simple. But whatever the
me they take, what they are and how they
look is that whioh chiefly interests them*
and the kind of personality they display ii
not second in importance to the character
of the doctrines they advocate.
ILLINOIS.
Preparations for the Slate Fair*
Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune.
Ottawa, HI., July 17.— The entire State
Board of Agriculture visited this city to in
spect the preparations for the State Fair, of
which they expressed their unanimous ap-
E royal, as well as their admiration of the
andsome grounds. They say that a larger
gathering may he anticipated than has ever
been present at any State Fair.
Fatal Shooting Affray at IlllopolU*
Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune.
Springfield, 111., July-17.—A fatal shoot
ing afifay occurred in Hiiopolis, in this coun
ty, on Saturday, which resulted in the death
of George Randall. It seems that for some
days there had been a quarrel between a
young man of the name of Taylor Dicker*
son and Carlisle Control, which culminated
on Saturday in a regular riot in the village
of Hliopolis, between these two young fel
lows and their friends, who took part in the
not. The fight was quite severe, and
Dickerson ana his friends were badly hurt by
Cantrell and his friends, among whom was
a young fellow from Decatur, of the name
or George Kendall. Several attempts had
been made to arrest the rioters, but all the
officers were put at defiance, until towards
evening, when Dr. J. M. Birch, who had
also been engaged in dressing the wounds of
some of the wounded, was summoned
as one of a posse comitatua to
arrest young Kendall and others,
which he attempted to do, but was resisted,
and finally was obliged to fire on the rioters,
which he did, fatally wounding Georgo Ken
dall, and cutting off two fingers ofi'anothcr of
the rioters. Young Kendall died yesterday,
and Dr. Biroh has been arrested on a charge
of murder. Ills examination will take place
to-morrow. It is the general feeling of the
people that the Doctor was perfectly justi
fied in his action, as the young man killed
had made Hliopolis a perfect pandemonium
all the afternoon of Saturday.
WISCONSIN.
Resolutions of Respect—Condition of the
Crops—Rank Statement—Visitors.
Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune.
Madison, July 17.— The Supreme Court
was occupied to-day with proceedings in
memory of Hon. Charles Dunn, the first
Judge of that Court, who died some weeks
since. Hesolutions of the Bar of the Fifth
Clrcnit, where he resided, were presented,
with a sketch of his life, by Hon. Moses M.
Strong. The resolutions of the Supreme
Court were presented, with an eloquent
tribute to the deceased, by E. G. Ryan, Hon.
George B. Smith adding a few words, and
Jndge Cole, who knew the deceased well,
spoke for the Court.
News of the death of J. C. Cover, United
States Consul to Azores, long editor of the
Grant County Herald , is received here with
great regret.
The State Journal thus snms up the condi
tion of the crops in this immediate vicinity:
The hay crop is unusually large, especially
clover, and is well secured, live, a fuu
average crop. Winter wheat, of which there
is rather more than usual, and excellent
crop. Barley, a fair yield. Spring wheat
badly damaged by drouth, the chinch-bug,
and other enemies, and will give a light
yield. Oats, rather short and light. Pota
toes, generally doing well, though injured by
the bug in places, Com, promising well if
rain comes soon.
The semi-annualstatement of the eighteen
Wisconsin banks doigg business under the
is thus summarized: Capital,
®6 , 1C,4a0 \ circulation, $4,544 ; deposits. $5,-
410,660 ; specie, $31,483 ; cash items, $380,000;
public securities, $4,544.
A considerable number of summer visi
tors from St. Louis and other places are
stopping here. The first hop of the season
comes off at the Park Hotel oa the 20fch.
KISSOUBI.
The End of a Cralae,
17.—Julius Chambers* of
lftiune, who launched his
canoe Dolly Yard en m Lake Ifeaaca JolyS,
for the purpose of cruising down the Mis-
I. siaeippi Kxver, Strived nere to-day. The
9 cruise, as originally planned* terminated at
% IS 13 pOlDt » 311(1 has been highly satisfactory
7 throughout. The crew and craft take the
•- | teai ? €r for New Orleans Saturday, thence
for New York via Havana.
’• An excursion party, numbering some 300,
} arrived here to-night, over the St. Louis,
} Evansville, & Nashville Air Lino, the oo-
I caaion being the opening of the line through
t to Nashville, via Evansville and Henderson,
, Ky, The party is made up of promi
nent citizens of Nashville,
Hopkinsville and Trenton, and were met by
a Committee of St. Louisians, at Queen’s
Lake, 111., some thirty miles from here, and
* escorted to the city, and assigned quarters at
s the various hotels. Suitable entertainment
* will be proveded for them to-morow, and
3 they 'will probably return home at night.
The run from Nashville was made in twenty
four hours and a half.
Horrible Treatment of Boys iu Ibe Home
of Before,
Sx. Louis, July 17,—A preliminary and in- I
formal investigation of the alleged cruel I
, treatment of the inmates of the House of
Refuge was made by the Board of Man
agers, this afternoon. The information ob
tained showed that the cases re
ported by the Grand Jury were |
true, Bovs have not only been I
cruelly whipped, but confined in cells on
bread and water, forced to stand on a pose I
about six inches square on top, in the sun at
midday, without hat or shoes, and subjected
to other harsh punishments. A formal ex
amination will be made to-morrow, at which
sworn testimony will be taken.
Fatal Stabbing AiTray. I
Cleveland, 0., July 17. —About 7 o’clock I
this afternoon Marvin Meyers, a canal Cap
tain, while engaged m an altercation with
T. L. Dougherty, also a canaller, was stabbed
five times by the latter, and died in a few
minutes after. Dougherty was arrested, and
plead self-defence as his excuse.
Fire.
. Ogden, Utah, July 17.—The Junction eat
ing-house, Wells, Fargo &. Co.’s buildings I
and contents were consumed by fire this
noon. Loss unknown, but cannot fall short
of $lO,OOO.
The National Lincoln Honnments—Com
pletion of the Bronze Statue. {
From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, Julyii.
The bronze statue of Lincoln for the mon- I
ument to be erected over the remains at
Springfield. HI., is now receiving the last I
touches of the artist, Mr. S. Moaman, at the
Ames Works in Chicopee. The height of
the statue is eleven feet, anditrepreseuts I
Mr. Lincoln in citizens dress, standing at
rest, with his right-hand (stillgholding the
pen with which he has just signed the ;
Emancipation proclamation) resting upon i
the Homan ¥ fasces, over the I *
top of which is carelessly t
throw the American flag. Beside the fasces '
lies a laurel, wreath. The left hand is -
slightly extended, grasping a roll which <
gives liberty to three and a half million j
slaves. The head and face are faithful to \
the popular representations, and bronze 1
seems the most appropriate material to give <
expression to the massive forehead and :
meaning to every-wrinkle. The face has an i
air of gravity, and almost of solemnity, but t
still indicates a lofty satisfaction with the <
act just consummated. The monument on g
which this statue is to he placed was erected g
about a year ago in Oak Kidge Cemetery ]
Springfield, 111,, and consists of a base of I
Quincy granite, seventy-two and a half feet t
square, on the north end ot which is I
built, of the same height, a semi-circular 1
crypt, in which are deposited the remains of r
the martyr President. On tue south end is I
a similar addition, to housed as a memorial r
haU, the entire length being U9l-2 fMt Sid
rising 15 feet from grade. On the outer
edge is a balustrade, which is reached by
two ihghts of steps on each end of the G
square base, and landing on the top of the
crypt and the memorial hall. From the pat,
ire arises an obelisk 831-2 feet
Around this obelisk and on the summit af the t
mam base are four pedestals, one at oaeh t
coiner 13 12 feet high and connect- 1
ed by granite work with etch t
other, on which are to be o
groups of- statuary, representing a fi,„ c
fonr divisions of the service cay® n
airy, artillery infantry and TW s'
bonn d together with a chain of b
shields, representing all the Shs«.Tij.S s :
in the granite, ontsidoofwhiohii’ abroad ti
promenade upon the ton of «?a riliS r
taSarises m?tw pof the statuary pedes- P
;te « e s
the I-miteS .Panel containing n
the ehSoH ’ ,™ d yrththe left grasping
fo? gronnn nf «L. ollve - branob - The model!
rfseSlnt f n! tt a na ? y ot in bba hands
cnce * Lo s fe i n G-Mead, at Flor- L,
nonnfln T Th! tant ? Lln °oln weighs 4,100 m
nwami tw e c ? st ,°f stone-work will he $l3B- j c
the °l S® br °nzo $70,000. making m
PM ‘ of ‘he monument $200,550. The
OAn?™i £^ a A W ?F d , Batea , Li “® ol n’s, Attorney- „]
hv th^Pii!? d lfed by MoDonaldand ordered v
aCswSL o^^. 0 " 18 ’ WUI b3 Ca3t at tto «
“Rounding Up.”
T _. From the at. Louis Bepubllcan.
.Late reports from Colorado state that the
losses of cattle in that Territory, during the
past unusually hard winter, are greater than
ever before. That is in Northern Colorado.
A good many inexperienced herdsmen had
f°8 a J?ed in tne business of stock-raising, and
the losses fall heaviest on them. They ap
pear to have started on the principle that
stock could take care of themselves, whilo
the owners followed a lazy* wandering life
i among the mounitrw. They have found out
their mistake, an. if they continue in the
business will doutless take better care of
their flocks and huts in the future.
The rate of cannot at present bo
computed. It is eiimated variously from
as low as two to as bgh as ten per cent of
the whole amount ofjtock. About the mid
dle of June there is w*nt is ter mod a ** round
up/ The cattle ore (riven into designated
districts, where the owners meet and claim
their stock. After tht“ round np, w every
owner knows how many > e ad he las lost.
Such a thing as clove* or tinothy, or
blue grass hay. is not known to the
stock-raisers in Colorado. £o grass is cul
tivated, but the native grast is verj nutri
tive, and there is generally a good supply of
it well cured into hay ai it stands.
This afiords good subsistence for cattUvrheo.
they can get it. Last winter the loavy
snows covered the whole surface for moxtha,
and there being no stored hay orothercat
tle provender, an unusually large number
of animals perished. In Southern Colorado
there was no snow, and the herds fared
better. Some railroad engineers, latelysor
veyiag on the north bank of the Platte,
found as many as two thousand carcassos of
cattle in one hundred and fifty miles of the
route. They lay, sometimes, eight or ten
together. The stock raisers are now talking
about storing up hay in the future, but it
may be years before they will have the same
need of it that was felt lost winter.
SENATORS STOCKTON AND BAY
ARD.
Their Support of Greeley.
LETTER FROM SENATOR STOCKTON.
Washington July ic.
To the Editor of the Newark (N, j.) Journal;
In common with all other observers, it was
plain to see, soon after Greeley’s nomination
at Cincinnati, that he would be the Demo
cratic nominee. After the action of the
Democracy of Indiana the result was cer
tain. But, having been elected to the Sen
ate of tbe United States as a Democrat, and
never having oast a vote for any one
but a Democrat, my convictioss were
clear from the first that it was my duty
to support a Democrat for the nomination.
The Convention at Trenton elected delegates
without any expression of opinion on the
subject. Lnder these circumstances I con
tinued to the end as I began, urging the del
egation to vote acoerding to their individual
convictions of duty, I voted always for a
Democrat. You will observe that the vote
of New Jersey was equally divided between
Mr. Bayard and Mr. Greeley, which repre
sented very correctly the supposed views of
the Convention which appointed the dele
gates, and probably the views of the Democ
racy of the State. Now, sir, since the high
court of the party has spoken, there can oa
no difference of opinion among Demo
crats. Party usage, as well as tha
higher consideration of patriotism*
will unite the Democrats of New Jersey as
one man on their nominee; and I doubt not
that New Jersey will cast her vote in that
Electoral College for Horace Greeley.
Until his nomination by tho Convention it
was my plain duty to oppose him and vote
for a Democrat—now it is my duty to the im
perilled liberty of my country; to the Con
stitution which I am bound to protect
against its violators; to individual liberty,
which has been destroyed by forced con
structions of the amendments to the Consti
tution; in the great fundamental doctrine
of local self-government, violated in all tha
States; to the freedom of elections; to the
supremacy of the civil over the military pow
er; to the cause of reform against the
universal corruption surrounding the pres
ent Administration—to use all honorable
means in my power to defeat the re-election
of General Grant, by securing the election
of Horace Greeley. I trust and believe that
those Democrats, like myself, who have ab
stained from any movement outside of the
party organization, will now unite as one •
man in this sacred duty, and show that tha
old Democratic party can still, as hereto
fore, make a sacrifice of all prejudice and
passion, and can join with all patriotic citi
zens in a determined effort to preserve ah
least such liberty as has besa left to us by
the usurpations of the Republican Congress
caucus and the military power. I am* -'irw
truly, yours, John Stockton,
LETTER FROM SENATOR BAVARD,
The following letter has been addressed by
Bayard to a friend in Delaware:
My Dear Sir : The peremptory orders <>f
my physicians compel me to obtain absolute
restand quiet, and for this reason I leave
tbe coimtry. My passage baa been engaged,
andlsbaUsadfor Europe on Saturday, the
loth instant. Although unfitted by my con
dition of health, I felt it to be my duty to go
to Baltimore as & delegate to the Conven
tion, and it is in relation to the action of
that body that I wiab % a few words with yon,
and, through you, to my other party friends
in Delaware, before I leave. I need not say
to you nor to them with what astonish
ment and disappointment I heard of the
nomination of Greeley and Browu
at Cincinnati, nor how steadily and openly
1 have at all times expressed myself m op
position to the adoption of that ticket by
the Democratic party at Baltimore. But
the resnlt has been accomplished, however
much against onr will and efforts, and it is
onr duty, calmly and steadily, to confront
the fact now presented to our eyes. If the
issues of the campaign were those only of
Revenue Reform, of Civil Service Reform,—
questions in which pecuniary loss or gain to
the public were involved,—l might be will
ing to take no port in tbe Presidential con
test, but allow the demoralizing course par
sued by Grant and his Administration to ba
continued four years longer, trusting that
the very extent and flagitious nature
of the notorious abuses would in themselves
eo instruct the people that they would recoil
from placing further trust in such hands.
* * * Bur, severe and painful though these
abuses and their consequences may be, they
weigh to me lightly compared to the destruc
tion of all the limitations upon power which
onr written Constitution of Government was
designed to create, and'which General Grant,
and thoee who assist him in administering
the Government, including the Radical ma
jorities in both houses of Congress, seem
either to totally disregard, or, as I have
sometimes thought, to take a scornful pleas
ure in trampling under foot.
It is utterly impossible for me, with the
scenes which I have witnessed in the Senate
or the United States rising before my eye,
not to feel the gravest apprehensions and
alarm at any prospect or suggestion of allow
ing the policy of Grant and his Administra
tion toward the Southern States and their
white inhabitants longer to continue, if any
honorable act of mine can attend to avert eo
great a calamity. * * * Now, whether I ap
prqye Mr. Greeley personally or no, whether
he had or not been the steady and violent op
ponent of the political principles and meas
ures which you and I nave been upholding
all onr lives, yet, if he has become, with or
against pur action or wishes, the moat likely
or practical means of restoring a better con
dition of feeling in the North toward the
bomb, andrestonng security and justice to
that oppressed region, I shonldfeel myself as
an American, without regard to the name of
party, hut without sacrifice of any convic
tion inrelation to my political principles,
compelled to assist in placing him in power.
Events as they now confront us were shaped
m opposition to our efforts, and as they ara
we are not responsible for them ; but we ara
responsible for our mode of dealing with
them now; and I hope our State Convention
will promptly and decidedly nominate an
electoral ticket in opposition to Grant and
»* ilson, and in favor of the only candidates
who, as matters now stand, can bo hopefully
expected to defeat them, —I mean Greeley
Brown, for whom I expect to vote on
the sth day of November next. I hope
to retnrn home by the middle
of September, with my * health
restored, and enabled to take part in the
political canvass. The subject to which
this letter relates has given me a great deal
of anxiety and distress, which I fiaow is
shared by thousands of true men of the
same political party in this State ; but I be
lieve that my decision is the right one, and
I.know that it is founded upon honest mo
tive. This only alternative to a whole or
half-way aid to Grant’s re-election maybe
bard for us to adopt, but 1 think it is our
duty, and so I trust will you and the entire
Democracy of Delaware. Your Friend, sin
cerely, T. F. Bayard.
WILMISGION, July U, 1872.
The Trent that John Catches In Lake
Tahoe.
From a San Francisco Paper.
A company of' Chinese have been engaged
the present season in catching mountain
trout from Lake Tahoe, and have supplied a
large proportion of the dainty fish brought
to this market. Lately, however, the profits
of second dealers have been rendered pre
carious, in consequence of the tendency of
mountain trout to feed on such innutritions
substances as scrap-iron. The railroad
spikes, rail-clamps, etc., found in the
stomaches of these fish are of modern pat
tern, precisely similar to those used on the
Central Pacific Hailroad, and as the trout do
not come ashore in pursuit of such diet, it is
presumed that the Chinese engaged in their
capture, know some explanation of the mys
tery. The fish sell at 35 cents per pound,
and it is not uncommon to find in some of
the specimens, pieces of iron weighing as
much as the flsli itself. Dealers in the city
are now compelled to make a careful inspec
tion of shipments from Lake Tahoe before
crediting them at current rates.
A Hacker-00* ef Cow*’ Toll**
From the Germantown (Pa.) Chronicle.
A diabolical scoundrel visits Summerville
occasionally and Indulges In an amusement;
more absurd and cruel than that lately fol
lowed by the vitriol thrower. The latter
only injured the garments of reasoning crea
tures. but this latter scoundrel indicts pain
and untold misery npon senseless animals.
Within the last two years the tails of four
cows have been cut ofl by the villain. Ayear
ago a cow belonging to Sir. James Deannent
lost her caudal -appendage, and on Monday
last one of Mr. John Dagney'a cows was sim
ilarly znntilated. Apart from the pain fol
lowing the operation the cow must suffer
great misery during the summer from the
loss of her principal weapon of defence
against dies. We suppose that nothing but
malice to the owner of the animals could in
duce any man to commit such a cruel and
senseless act, but whatever the motive, he
deserves the severest kind of punishment,
and a determined effort should be made to
ferret him out.