, 1872-12-29

divines, lnwyere, physicians. &C., OF Chicago.
with 3 corresponding proportion OF beautiful
were OF the choicest and most elaborate charac-
ter, aud the entire affair was an eminent success
An astronomical gentleman rushed breathless-
II into the city department of TIE TRIBUNE
yesterday morning. smoking cigar Of question:
able merit, and wished it to be stated in the col
them in alum and water. He adds that the
alum might be omitted, and alcohol substituted
with sugar, and that tho mixture thus formed
should be taken internally. Everybody knows
who he is now.
At $3.50 o'clock last evening, the two-story
brick building, No. Il Union street, took fire,
and All alarm was sounded from Box 275. The
building is owned by the city and occupied
lodging-house for the destitute and benighted.
The Superintendent happened to be out, and
the inmates. anxious to be warm. heated the
furnace until it ignited the building. The loss
was given, the fire having again broken out. It
WAS soon subdued, however.
The Peoples Omnibus and Baggage Company,
in other Tor>-s the ''Z. !. P. Co." have put up q
notice in their buses requesting the holders OF
their red tickets to return and exchange them
for their new issue at their Office, corner OF
Wabash avenue and Twenty-6rst street. Tho
old red tickets have boen counterfeitod, and
were coming in at the rate OF dozen or two 3
day. AS the drivers could not distinguish the
genuine from the bogus tickets when in the bog,
the Company arc obliged to adopt this course to
protect themselves from ye-.v small though
contemplate swindle.
4 correspondent inquiries what has become Of
tho Newsboys' Home which We had before the
fire. and also what ia being done With the Sl2, 900
given to the Home by the Relief and Aid So
ciety. He mentions rendezvous for abandoned
characters on Adams street, near the bridge,
and it is evident that he does not allude to the
Times office, for he says that twothirdB of the
Inmates are newsboy5, bootblacks, street ped
dlers, and the lks. Prevention is better than
cure, he maintains; and if We expect to prevent
tho rising generation of boys from becoming
thieves, some place must be provided whore they
can cat a1,>i sleep without being brought in con-
tact with the scum Of humanity; in other words.
the Newsboys' aud Dootblacks' Home should be
re-establshcd.
dragged its slow length along in the Chicago
Courts for several years. has at last come to an
end. One by one the recalcitrant companies
we're forced to pay the policies after the law had
wr1lng the money from them. The litigation
had it's origin in d fire which occurred in the
spring Of 1867, when the store of Mr.. Huch-
berger, on Lake street, WAS destroyed. He held
policies in Eastern end Western companies, but
it 30 CHANGED that an insurance agent got into
the burning store before the proprietor arrived,
refusal to pay the losses, amounting to
over $50000 WAS greatly assisted. Suit WIS
brought in the United States and State Courts,
to compe! the payment Of NIr. Huchberger's
rightful claims, and he was successful in every
case, though tho delay and expense attending
the proceedings we're something fearful: The
Home, Of New York, being beaten in the Federal
Court in Chicago, carried the case to the Su:
preme Court in Washington. The latter tribunal
through Chief Justice Chase, has just affirmed
the decision Of the Court below awarding per
cent interest and 10 per cent damages on the
amount Of the policy, 5000, which has nov
reached the sum OF $4,000.