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opportunity to-day, and it should be taken ad-
vantage Of by every citizen.


Everything.
The Employment Bureau of the Ladies' Chris
tlan Union opens at in The morning, and st 1:30
in the afternoon.
Governor Hendricks, OF Indiana, will speak in
this city on Tuesday evening next. The place
will be hereafter announced.
meeting of Liberals Of the Sixth Ward, will
be held at No. 415 Archer avenue tlis evening"
to elect officers of the ward organization.
Mr. Robert M. Campbell, of Monmouth. ILL.,, is
about to take up his residence in this city. He
| Leaves behind him q vacancy in the City Council
Of Monmouth
| The Rev. 4. P. Meade has resigned the pas
torship Of the kankakee Methodist Church to
become Secretary Of the Chicago Branch of the
Seaman's Friend Society.
The laying Of the cornerstone OF the Fire
Monument at Central Park will not take place
to-day. Due notice Of the event will be given
as soon as the arrangements are perfected.
The annual meeting Of the Chicago Chapter OF
the American Institute Of Architects will hold
its annual session at a East Van Buren, street,
beginning at 7'30 tomorrow evening.
Candidates for the position Of teachers in the
county schools should brush up at once: as there
Will be an examination on Saturday, beginning at
q. H., at the Office OF County Superintendent
Lane, No. 1873 West Adams street.
The Rev. Chas. R. Cheney returned from his
/! tour in Europe last evening The vestry Of
Christ Church and 3 large number OF the con-
gregation went to meet him On the Michigan
Central Railroad, and the church is to be decora-
ted in anticipation OF his appearance in the pull
! pit next Sunday.
A meeting Of the Executive Committee Of
the Illinois Women's Suffrage Association WAS
called to meet yesterday afternoon at No. 400
Michigan avenue. There being no quorum
present, the committee adjourned to meet at
the same place On the second Tuesday Of No
Vember.
Mrs. Magnusson Jewett has been presented
by her pupils and friends, comprising many
prominent ladies' OF the city, with q grand
Knabe piano, and returns her heartfelt thinks
for that musical token Of their esteem.
The hyde Park News is the Christian name Of
q saucy little craft just launched on the uncer-
tain journalistic ocean. It is tastefnlly ngged
about our rising suburb It is given away for
three cents number, and will be issued weekly
by Nr. 8. n. Downs.
John McQuillen, q drunken sailor, fell into
the river near Hough's elevator, yesterday FORE
noon, and would have been drowned but for the
timely arrival Of Officers Dwyer and Crogan,
who heard his cries for assistance. When taken
to the dock, he WAS a thoroughly sobered indi-
vidual. He ia one Of the crew Of the schooner
Clara Parker.
Officer Charles Perry, policeman Of long ex-
perience. has been removed from the position Of
6tation-heeper at the Archer ayenue snb-station,
and appointed to watch over hacks and other
public conveyances. The drivers Of those ye-
hicles are rather troublesome class Of people,
disposed to take advantage Of the unwary, and
need inst such man as Perry to keep them in
order.
now in this city, Masking preliminary arrange
ments with the Dearborn Observatory for tele-
graphic time signals with the surveying parties
who are now engaged in fixing the boundary
LnI~ l~+n nuxLsr
territory in the neighborhoodof Of Manitoba. They
will also determine the meridian lines that
bound Manitoba on the east and west.
An excursion train on the Chicago, Burling-
ton. l. Quincy Railroad will leave the Union De
pot st II o'clock tomorrow morning for Gregg
station, where the operations OF the Excelsior
Brick Works E!4 be inspected. A party Of gen
tlemen from Philadelphia are expected to go,
and persons interested in the manufacture Of
brick are invited.
Superintendent Washburn received donation
Of SO for the benefit Of the widow and children
Of Officer O'Meara yesterday. It was accom-
panied By letter from the donor, Frank Nor
gan, convict in the Illinois Penitentiary, and
came in the form Of a Warden's draft on the
Traders National Bank. Frank says in his let,
ter that he had no object in view when making
The donation but to relieve the distressed family
of q me1itorious public servant.
Professor James e Murdoch win give select
readings from Shakespeare, Dickens, and the
modern poets. on the 18th instant, at the Michi~
gan Avenue Baptist Church, and on the 18th at
the Union Park Congregational Church. The
entertainments will be for the benefit OF the
FoundIings' Home-a very helpless portion ct
humanity deserving OF encouragement and sup
port, which can bestbe given them by large at
tendance, and corresponding receipts at the
readings.
ATT o'clock, yesterday morning, the body of
IN Old man named Carl Benke Who se had been
in the North Branch, at Fo1 j. How
ards dock. It was taken to his late residence,
where an inquest was held, resulting in q ver-
Of age. There we're no marks upon the body
that would lead to the supposition that he met
his death in any other way than by accident.
The Sunday Times ornithorpyncus was cap-
tured in the woods near Wilmette, four miles
north Of Evanston, and brought to the latter
place yesterday noon. He turned out to be moth
ing more than very harmless idiot, about fifty
Years Of age, from Ashford, near Fond du Lnc,
Wisconsin, which place he left about three weeks
ago, in company with his wife, for Chicago he
fed from there through fear Of being h4ed, to
Asylum. So ends the Times great sensation.
The alarm from Bog 274, at half-past 10 o'clock
yesterday forenoon, VAS caused by the breaking
out Of fire in the barn at the rear of No. 652
West Washington street.. owned by Dr.. ". a.
Burk. The building WAS damaged to the extent
Of $500; no insurance. The fire communicated
to the barns at the rear Of Nos. 648 and $50,
owned by George T. Burroughs, causing loss
Of $4,000; insured in the Continental Com
pany. The fire was caused by boys who we're
playing with matches in DR.. Burk's barn.
The New York wholesale jewelry firm Of
Samuel Eichberg d c., whose travelling agent,
Of watches On Saturday morning, last, while
stopping at the Hess House on Third avenue,