Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-01-28
Correspondence.
From the West.
CHICAGO. Jan. %, ISL

chilling blast freezes one INTO u huua iSiSi
If he dares venture from Madison St. to tn
. west side, and who for business or pleasur
would brave the sweep Of tine wind from LAX
} Michigan across the north side. That the win
ter has thus far been very mild and pleasan
all agree, and the poor of this great oversr"wl
city echo Amen. Hal it not been for this seem
ing interpositiou Of divine Providence the suf
fering and misery of the poor crowded out of en-
ployment by the panic must have been great
As it is all have gotten along comfortably we'll
.4pyropos of this conditions of the working clas'
comes the question raised three weeks ago
have We
LA Commune
among us? That we have had a semblance Of
the French institution none will deny. That il
for few hours assumed almost red republican
proportions residents Of Chicago are more than
half willing to admit. One day the cry Of
WORK on BREAD
was raised by certain class Of the working
population of this city, and instigated by few
hot-headcd brainless candidates for notoriety, a
mass meeting was held, resolutions were passed.
d" the world owes us living and we are bound
to have it," ETC., committee appointed, and
the committee backed by several thousand work.
m-n presented themselves before the city au-
thorities demanding work or bread This COM
mittee, led by one Hoffman, a man always ang-
Cling for rotoriety, were civily received by the
Mayor, and told that everything consistent
with the public good would be done for them.
Hoffman insisting all the Will that they came
not as beggars but men demanding their rights
claimed that the Relief and Aid Society
should turn over for their benefit the funds of the
Society, amounting to about S600,000 Being
informed that this could not be done, he there
upon threatened to tear the life out of that in
sttuton. and the next day a systematic raid
by way of applications for relief was made upon
them. The usual number of applications being
only about 400, was suddenly increased to
about 20o0 A more rigid inquiry into the
necessities of the several applicants being made
resulted in the discovery that a large number
of them were property holders and utterly I'M
worthy Of charitable aid, The whole affair WAS
n farce and is now defunct, while Hoffman med
itates upon the unthankfulness of mankind to-
wards its heroes
The threatened war cloud of workngmens
riot having been dispeel. the seething caldron
again brings up the m.tter Of the def,uting
treasurer and Honest Dave Gage appears in
new role. A special grand jury empanneled for
The purpose. composed of picked men, have
found two indictments against him one for per-
Jury in making false returns and one for en-
'ezzlcment. An accommodating States Attor-
,ey asks the culprits lawyers if they wish to
'rgue motions or questions touching the vail l.
ty or fomality of the indictments and all goes
merry. To-day those questions werO to be ar
,ued but the attorney for Gage asking for more
inc the hearing is postponed till next week.
Meanwhile the ex-trcasurer smiles bcnignantly
lp,n friends at the Grand Central
Society receives another shock and the Times
'cporters another harvest of scandal from the
appearance in court of one Mrs. Crosby, wife
# him of frosty Opera-house fame, asking
hat the decree of divorce from him be set aside
md declared null and void by reason of cert,n
Irregularities. Further investigation seems to
how that she WIS purity Of her own free will
o the divorce suit. The only reasonable con-
ecture as to her strange conduct seems to be
hat Crosby affairs have panned out better afler
he fire than she supposed they would, and now
he wants another grab not at the man but the
property.
While upon this matter of divorces am
roud to say that the fame of Chicago in that
ERECTION is fading fast Under recent rules Of !
curt, no divorce is granted except on oral tes-
mony in open court, and upon due proof The
hysters tried their game once or twice upon
Judge Gary but were brought up with u round
urn. No longer the soft plaintive tones of
oodrich request n reference of the case to I
laster to take testimony, or the beef-eating ,
ayne Fittz succeeds in devious ways; all must /;
e above board and correct or no divorce will
c granted.
Who shall say we have not improved when it
IN be said OF us no longer, g cars stop fifteen
inutos for refreshments and divorces"
1t is almost worth the cost of the fire to have \
lr legal augean stable 30 thoroughly purified b
CAD.