, 1876-07-03
THE CITY.


GEN ERAI NEWS. !
The Rev A. r. kitttcdge will conduct the min
fsterial union meeting to-day noon at No. ISL
Madison street.
During the absence Of George N. High, Treas
urer OF the Moody and sankcy Building Fund, re
mlttences may be made to Charles Il. Case, No
130 La2a1le street.
! G. #. sheble, Frank Macdonald, ". a. New.
man, F. Il. Howe, ]. Good, L. B. Shultz, and
Alexander Roy, members Of the St. Louis In
st1rance baseball nine arc at the Grand Pacific.
The game With the Chicago insurance men Will
probably come off to-day.
Floods Hall, Hyde Park, was filed On satul-
day evening, and should be filled this evening,
to witness t Cinderella" by the children Of Miss
Holmes school. It was wonderful perform
sace- Children half price. 4 train will leave
Hyde Park for the city after the play.
Dennis Callahan, who keeps a saloon on the
corner Of West Water and Kinzie streets, denies
emphalcally that Frank Anderson, sailor,
was robbed in Ills house, and Mr.. Anderson
bears testimony likewise There must have
bccn some mistake made in reporting the oc-
curreoce, If there was one, to the police
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Mrs. Caroline
hloc, of No. t395 Brown street, while sitting in
the remote region Of her back yard, was shot in
the left shoulder by a young man named Gus
tuye krets: :Aaucr- It Is presumed he did not
know the lady was there, but nevertheless he
was arrested and locked up in the West Twelfth
Street Station.
The FIRST performance OF the spectacular cx-
trsEaganza 7'Bad D;c1cy'' takes place at the
Ade1phi this evening. The performance will be
prolonged Tonight ur the engagement Of extra
specisllics Until IL o'clock ID order to welcome
..Ac Centennial Fourth of July with the ''star-
rr1ax31t fra, r1.A ~ a%y[ro
holiday matinee tomorrow
have flowers in plenty and to spare, We would
say, help the poor conyalcscenIs in the Cook
County Hospital to enjoy the Centennial Fourth
by sending them few. The American Express
free, to-day ard tomorrow morning II addressed
to Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Ill.
Late Saturday night, while Burlington rail
road engine Was backing up a freight train ut
the corner Of Brown street and CaiIalport ave
nuc, six cars jumped tie traek and knocked the
1lagnan,s Lonse ut the crossing clean out OF
lime. The fag1nan, John Murphy, and his wife,
were asleep in the house at the time, hut foEtu-
nstely escaped with but few slight bruises.
4 boy 10 years Of agcwas accidentally drowned
Yesterday afternoon OF the pier at the foot OF
s;xtecntI, street, The body WAS recovered By
Officer James Keon, and Was taken to the
Morguc to await Identification: He was dressed
in a dark suit, with black snd white straw h:t
with blue ribbon, blue and gray striped stock
irgs, with CATERS, aud had also an open-faccd
silver watch with light gold chain and silver
coin .nd b:ass hatchet attached.
THE WRONGS OF IRELAND.
an apprccating but st.tal audience gathered
last night In Temperance Hall near thc corner
OF Clark and Huron streets, to listen to recital
Of 1rcland's wrongs BY Thomas Hastings, vino
True Path to Irish 1ndcpendencc." The Ho;i.
W. ". O'Briel, introduced the speaker as =
young man fresh from Ireland, his native heath
Seated upon the stage with :Ir. O'Brien IVES
Aid. Sweeney, and the audience was composed
IF tac flower cf Irish society Of this city.
Hlr. Hastings, . young man: spoke iur nearly
forty minutes with rapid and iinpassioned de-
livery and forcibly presented t4e causes Of Irish
Instructions anu the justice OF them. He
drew Impressive pictures and introduced in
structivc verses rcciting acts Of bravery On the
part of Irish patriots. The path by wLich 1rc-
land should become free, lie said was not 10 be
made iu the su1plication Of slaves, but In the
determination Of n,cn. Already too mucn force OF
spcccl. aud Thought had brcn exhausted in par
li.1nentary pleadlngs for q retractiun Of the op-
prcsslvc laws imposed by grasping England.
Now the time Lad come for force of arms, which
forrc alone made the British Empire shake.
TIC failure Of the strikes for liberty that hat
heretofore been made lay not il, the superiority
of EDgiald's might, but the lack Of union and
harmony in the ranks Of the seekers for freedom
The rebellion that had been matc had in a
measure brought England to feel the irresistible
force OF 1rishMen, aud the uprising OF this fcrce
would eventually make them free. 1rcland's
salvation lay only IN the concerted action OF the
Fenan Brotherhood; He propAe*ied that the
ell parts Of the world would take possession OF
the hills Of the Green Isle and by arms force
tic common cnc1ny-Englaad-to come to
terms
the Irish hea. with patrot!c fire 2nd asp pira-,
EiOn TO live aud die, il necessary. for their