davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1877-05-09

DHEss GOODS, &c.
IN PAYS TO TRADE ON THE VEST S[DE,.
BARGAINS
Sprilg Dress Goods
CARSON,
PIRlE&C0.'S,
Madison and Peoria-sts.

TIE folloWing are only q few
among many special bargains that
are ,to,o being offered:
+. 100 pcs. doub1e-w1dth Frouoh'
Cashmeres, q choioo assortment OF
Spring Shades, at SO and 90 cts. per
yard; some Of thon worth s1.oo.
Fronoh A11-woo1 Caahmores, now
shades, AZ cts.
Matolasse All-wool 6uitinRa, so
cts. I'd and upwards.
Finest Frouoh Mate1asaes, extra
quality, 80 cts. bargain
Fronch Matolasses, choice pat
terms, 65 cts.
50 pcs. Casfmir d'Paris & French
TaHetas, all wool, so cts.
The now Seaside Grenadines, fash
tonable shades, 65 cts.
Arabian Costume 8u1tings, all
wool, &c cts.
Ga Fine All.wool French Cos-
tune Cloths. regular value 41.76,
tor s1.oo por I'd.
"a Fine French suittngs, very
choice, 6l.26; worth 42.oO.
o. Elegant quality English Luatros,
Fino limo Of Atwood Gray Twtlled
sutttngs and Fronch Do BeRes at
81 1-2 otB.
"A choice assortment OF Spring
! Novelties in Damascus, French
Stripes. Poplin Brooados, English
| 8orgoa, etc., In tho new tiuts aud
oolors of tho season, at IS cts.
A very handsome line Of Dross
Goods, consisting OF All-wool Beges,
Au-wool Camol's Hair, Basket
Cloths, Brocadod Stripes and pa-
| massos. Caspian Cloths, etc., at 30
cts. =
"A lsrgo assortment OF now Gray
Spring EldtingB at l3 Ia cts.
West End Dry Goods House,
Madison and Peoria-sts.
, 1877-05-09

ptQfAl.
Tu4 HEAD CLAIM.
There Wzs considerable debate 90 the tltl appIo-
prtAtinE -, DEB for payment Of the claim Of Henry
lead.
Mr. Dsyis said that the claim wss pteesssly OF
ths sort 70 meet Mhlch the United statna has paid
Ills etsts nearly s-AO. 4G0. Head Lad furnished
cavalry xquuasutA tor troops raI4cd BY ths Stats.
lnstcAa of heiaY paid hs had only received rertia.
eou}t under t4s elseum.talces. liz hid Kons oa
with hls CONTRACT under tho that tha dis
Wood aud other hixb ohc.aG indofssI ths claim.
Head was old sad poor. aud tho calu1 ought to b
paid -.
lions had Investigated ths claim aud found 1t was
ons that ought " bs paid.
HI. uerFun u.asle an elaborate argument In
favor Of tho ela!n,. and tie bill wa& u length
paved W y! ayes tu FL nops.
BAILEY.
Mr.. 6lttix4 htlt making It penal o&sasa 10 bleach
baslsy WAS passed By lis 4Jes u 8 naes, and tsnt
70 The SalAte.
80. Tn8 LAwIKRs' BILL.
Thu blu for tAs p11ehasa and dlstdbason uS re-
, 1877-04-22

AN EXHIBIT FOR THE LEG1SLATURE,
The Legislature of Illinois never forgets
that Cook County pays something over one
fifth Of the taxes for the support of the
State Government. This is always remem-
bered when there is question of voting
money to erect new buildings, endow new
institutions, duplicate State prisons, hos
pitals, asylums, normal schools, homes, and
all the other devices for expending money
and levying taxes. It is easy to erect an
eastern, and southern, and southeastern,
aud southwestern asylum OF hospital regard
less of cost, so long as Cook County alone
will pay one-dfth the bill for erecting and
furnishing the buildings and maintaining the
ever-growing expenses Of the institution.
This same Legislature, however, turns a
deaf ear to the appeals Of the people of all
parties in this county to give them the op-
portunity of defending themselves from the
open, confessed, and undisguised robbery
by the County Government. The objection
urged is, that Mr. GooDE11,, tho hired agent
of the men in Office, protests that if the men
now in Office have their terms shortened not
one of them will be re-electedl Appealing
from the Legislature, which is actuated By
spite or malice towards this city, to the peo-
pie Of the State, We submit the following
figures to show where this County Govern
ment is carrying the finances OF this county.
Look at the figures for the year Dec. i, 1876,
to Doc l, 1877;
, 1877-04-22

pers, to whom aid and medical attendance
ought to be extended during the three or
four weeks Of q mothers confinement. It is
proper and necessary that special ward
should be established in the County Hospital
Tor women in confinement who can
not otherwise be properly cared for.
From what we have heard we should
say that twenty or thirty beds should
be reserved for this purpose, even if it is
necessary to crowd out some of the loafers,
and dead-beats, and mazades inagsnaires
whom hon-Pudd1er McIAuau1N Tin charge
of the County Hospital) is said to carry
along at the expense Of the county. It is
not humanity alone, but the prevention OF
the too common crimes OF abortion and in
fanticide, which exacts this provision for un-
fortunate and Impoverished women who are
about to give birth to children.
, 1877-04-22

The County Hospital has been built and
furnished at cost Of more than $500, 1000,
we believe, aud yet, as far as We can learn,
there has been no special provision made
for '* lying-in ward" There is no charity
in large city which is so necessary and
humane is tie care Of women during child
BIRTH who laave not the mems for properly
caring for themselves. The Womau's Hos
p1tal in tins city "a private charity has more
demands upon it Of this nature than its re-
sources can meet; the Foundlings' Home
(another private charity takes infants that
are condded to it by SHINING or unfortunate
mothers, but can give the mothers no care in
bringing forth their children. Yet the
misery that is entailed in homeless,
abandoned, and neglected childbirth is be-
yond the comprehension Of those who have
not been called upon to give it special OBJ
servation. It is not alone the women who
have sinned (though charity may not consign
them to desperation, want, and Peril), but
there is many and many case where an
honest mother, whose husband is dead, i'll,
or out of employment, must go through the
most trying ordeal Of woman's life With
out proper medical attendance, OF care, or
nourishment. There are families that are
not paupers, and not willing to become pau
, 1877-04-22

The lato S. S. JONES, in his spiritual es-
tate, seems to be aevoting himself to diotat-
ing weekly letters to his late paper, the
Relgio-P Philosophical .]our7aaI It seems to
lib that this ethereal, disembodied, intangi-
bic spirit, who should be playing lis harp,
must have great deal Of leisure on his
hands, to be occupying himself with the aa-
vertising prospects of his late paper, devils
ing means to run mp its circulation, and
hunting subscribers who nrs in arrears. Or is
the spirit Of Mr.. JONES misrepresented? Is
it not possible TINT his original messages, in
their percolation through the upper atmos-
phcres, nehuln, star-mazes, milky ways,
mediums: centre-tables, cabinets, and Other
things, suffer q sea-change into something
rich aud strange? II it.be not so, it strikes
US that the present managers Of the R.-P. J.
are throwing great deal Of work upon the
inmaterial shoulders Of the intangible spirit
Of the late editor.
, 1877-04-22

in the justice of osao,,s
for in that case it would be a no. eaa
ference to them whether born a,;'.t =, sad*
whom they hate by nature, should ee.s ,a'e
birthrisht or not. They would r,s..a aa i
in the same light Us other atistocrs.a *a
would spun and avoid men in tss;:: NJ
dition, and, if anything, thsy von15 a.
enjoy his. enforced reduction to H.. .As''
condition. There is but ons other sr ,a.. ~
bic hypothesis, It is that the lowest Is.se. AZ
Of English society believe on1oy tos
Of their kind,-the Mapping buteh.s " o. q
adventurous tramp, the Australian hn,h..s' ' u
who all but grnsped . title and Iss
mains, and berely failed Of IMPOSING @ H.; u u
upon the aristocracy. The spirit ot ths 80 :
letariat would rejoice in seeing sroh ~
take his seat in the House Of Lords ,ns,s
mob with the Bishops. They could -. ~ =
enthusiasm over m issue Of tha: kind o9 ny
sneaking sort Of sentiment which ~. .s
,frauduleatly elevate ignorance ind dsnn.:
to position of wealth and distipcto, !.
it is sentiment whichwe believe is no. ~ i.
eether alien to q class Of England,a no,., y"
ton which as Jet is little above II. -. -
creation The comnnnistic tepdenc, ;:
England is not superior to this ieeI;n. ~ =
we can think of no other that acconn,,
the continued and mysterious zeal ,h.t:
shown in ORToN's behalf,
, 1877-04-22

One of the evils of the old Chicago police
system was the wnnt Of authority to dis
charge m officer for misconduct. When n
discharge was made the officer petitioned
the Circuit Court, and, before tho removal
was final, that Court had, with all its other
business, to try the case The result was in
subordination and lack of discipline This
was done away with eventually, and the
power has been exercised pretty freely, since
Mayor HEATH entered Office, Of discharging
the drunkards, the dead beats, loafers, and in
efficient men on the force. So long US po-.
hoemen were appointed by Aldermen aud pro-
tected by them, it was impossible to have
either discipline or efficiency in the depart
ment- There is room, however, for further
wedding out. Many Of the men have come
down from the old days when each police
man was sort of INV unto himself, was the
oracle Of saloons, knew and was boon CON-
panion with the ''boys," and had personal
and easy familiarity with the discroditab1e
classes. These men do not like the change
to strict responsibility and hard work. They
miss the protecting arm Of the q Alderman"
and they regard the power to remove them
, 1877-04-22

The Irish Home-Rulers have at last caught
the English Parliament on the hip. They
are i'll weak minority Of about GO men,
bers, and there is q considerable faction in
their number who may be classed as Irrecon-
cilnbles. They have never been able to get
herring, there is not the remotest posi-
bility that they ever will, and yet they per-
sistently strive for it, and will listen to no
compromise. Hitherto they have tried vnri-
GUS plans to accomplish their purpose Of
setting up an Irish Parliament OF Kilkenny
cats among them Fenianism, invective and
personal abuse, arguments and motions i'll
the House Of Commons, but all Of them
have failed. They have now resorted to sys-
tematic obstruction Of business, in which
they are aided by the absence Of any rules
for cutting off debate. As in our own SEN
ate, there is no previous question and no
way Of suppressing an obstructionist except
by coughs, howls, and cat-calls, which of
course are impotent in case the OBJ
structionist is lusty and tenacious. In
this respect The English Parliament
is like one OF our Democratic Con-
ventions. The Home-Rulers, having dis
covered their advantage in talking against
time, are making good use Of it. Although
the House is SO overwhelmed with work that
it would find occupation if it sat the year
round, every time Government bill comes
up, the Home-Rulers nro On hand with long
string OF amendments. Then they take
the Blue-Books and commence reading from
them, whether the matter read is pertinent
to the bill or not. As soon as one tires,
another takes up the strain, and SO cn, to the
infinite disgust of the other members who
are busily seeking ways and means for
breaking down the obstruction. It could be
efectually done by the previous question,
cutting of debate. .but .the Times argues
TINT privileges should not be sacrificed be-
cause some members choose to abuse them,
and appeals to the good sense Of the Irish
themselves to check the evil, noti-
flying them that the very worst why Of inhu-
encing the House OF Commons is by at
tempting to intimidate it, and informing
them them that "those know little of the
House who think that it will allow itself to
be bullied into submission"
, 1877-04-22

The question, 'Does Cancellation concil-
ate?" seems to have found o satisfactory
answer in the proceedings Of the rival Legis-
1atures in New Orleans yesterday. Gov.
PACKARD applied through the Commission
to Gov. NICHOLS for money to pay his en,~
ployes, and the latter Governor responded
by placing his contingent fund Of
$4,000 at the disposal of the for
mer Governor A number Of PAcKARD
legislators went over to NICHOLS, and q
number Of NICHOLS legislators resigned
gracefully to mike room for them. As
fitting wind-up, gold-headed cane was pre-
sented by white Democrat to u black Re-
publican, with appropriate remarks and
fitting response, and it is only left for :ons
Governor Of Louisiana to say to the other
Governor of Louisiana, '1t is q long time
betYeen-"
, 1877-04-22
BURYING OUR DEAD,

It is always delicate matter to write of
the last sad ceremonies over the dead. or to
regard them either with curiosity or criti-
cis1n. Sometimes they assume a form, how
ever, that warrants it and in the obseonies
of the late Mrs. STILES her bcreaved hus-
band 60 far departed from the common
usnges Of society as to make tue event of
public importance, aud it is already publicly
discussed. There are those not knowing
Gen. STILES who may be shocked at tile nb-
sence OF any distinctively religious services
, on this occasion those who do know him.
however, and recognize his oarnestness, con-
sistcncy, and conscientiousness, will never
doubt that he acted upon sincere convic-
tions, with the highest respect for the
opinions Of others, aud with no intention of
challenging the memorial observances abovo
the dcad which have obtained in modern
times among religious people, and above all
things that man Of lis retiring disposition
did not seek to make the occasion q matter
Of public notoriety.
Nevertheless, his marked departure from
conventionality will create more or less dis
cussion, SO that there is some warrant in
searching for the incongruity of this
funernl. It was not in the reading Of Mrs.
BnowS1HG's solemn "Do Profundis." Il
was not in the music. Mrs. STILES herself
was q musician, and it seems to Us it was
appropriate that her memory and her life
should hnvo been recalled in the tender
strains Of the moonlight sonata, and that
thp last 5no1 .hy f0r tho 1ovn5 ,u,. .1u,,
have been said in BE1HovEs's touching
!" Farewell" every note of which is full Of
tears and sad beauty. There was nothing
inappropriate in Gen. STILES delivering 9
brief address. If my person is competent
to pay tribute to the memory of q dead
wife, it is the husband who has walked hand
in hand with her through all the pleasant and
mournful scenes Of Life, who has been her
nearest friend, who is cognizant of her vir-
, 1877-04-22

for inef6ciency as despohsm. They have,
therefore, got up q bill, which has been in
ttoduced in the Legislature by Mr. K1o1-
nAssA, and referred to the Committee on
g. Fees and Salaries" amending the General
Incorporation act SO far as it relates to
Chicago, giving to every man discharged
from the police force Of this city the right
of appeal to the Circuit Court, where, after
petitions and answers, md the hearing Of tes-
timony pro and con, and arguments, and
other proceedings, the Court is TO decide the
case according to justice and equity. If this
were new thing there might be some room
for consideration. But it is an old proceed
ing, which for many years worked
constant trouble and annoyance. It required
the City Government to keep man con-
stantly in court attending to police trials,
and to hearing witnesses as to efficiency and
general conduct Of officers. When the
Mayor and Superintendent have knowledge
TINT the service viii be promoted by the re-
moyal of an officer, and therefore discharge
him, that should be sufficient 70 compel the
Mayor to 60 into court and defend his con-
duct every time q policeman is discharged,
will be an into}erable nuisance, Us well as an
injury to the force. We trust this bill
will not pass. It is bill. to protect
the loafers, drunkards, lazy, idle, brutal, and
dead-bcat officers who are still on the force,
from the thorough wedding out aud reforma-
tion which the new City Government will
soon put in operation. It is an effort to re-
sist reform. Ten good, sober, active, and
vigorous men ore worth twenty Of the old
style. To clean out the whole force, re-
tanning and appointing only those equal to
the standard Of thorough efficiency, will be :.
equivalent in the value of the force to an ad-
dition Of one-tLird of the number removed.
The desperation of the struggle against all
reform in municipal government is shown in
this attempt to amend the city charter to
prevent removals in the police force.
, 1877-04-22
THE TICHBORNE MYSTERY.

I Iho I1cHBonNE mystery is by no means
cleared up as yet. ARTHUR ORION, the
claimant, is in jai, and has seven more years
to serve; he is as comfortable ns invoIun-
tary servltude, an abnormally obese condi-
ton, and visitation Of boils will allow an
ordinary mortal-a very ordinary mortal
to be. Bnt tue mystery remains. We do
| not mean the mystery Of his bogus claim.
His trial exposed his imposture pretty con-
clusively, md left the bold and audacious
effort Of trying to secure title and estate
by decelving half blind old woman in her
dotage unrewarded by success hut properly
punished The real mystery, however, is
the constancy and devotion with which the
lower classes Of England still cling to this
common swindler, who, besides being a
sw1ndler, is low, ignorant, and brutal
fellow. Tho three years that Onros has
been in prison have not abated the zea1
OF the mass Of people who espoused
his Cause 1t was only the other dar
that 10000 men marched up to Parliament
to present petition for the claimants re-
Lease. Tho bastard son of CHARLES IL. with
hls gallant bearing, his martial valor, and the
religions zcal he invoked, had no such fol-
lowing as this vulgar Pretender. His coun-
sei' olsbarred md disgraced, is elected to
Parliament On the strength of his advocacy
OF ORION. A newspaper with large circu-
iat'on is run with no other stock in trada
Than oR7oS's profossed martyrtiom. More
than one borough in England would return
oR1oS members to Parliament, if his cause
were made the issue in the election. The
people |ho belieTe in him, swear by him,
agltate for him, may be counted by tens of
Thousands among the lowest classes Of En-
glish society.
1t IS still mystery that this fellows pre-
tensions should have taken SO strong a hold
upon the very people from among whom be
probably P took his origiu,-amcng the roughs,
the tFamps, the gin-drinkers, those who only |
"ork when compelled to, and then in the |
most repulsive avocations. The most nat |
rohe 7. Enslisbman can scarcely claim that
tn1s partlscnship comes from tho vaunted |
Saxon love for fair-play, since, if that were
the moving cause, ORros's partisans would |
De found to some extent among the better
ana more intelligent classes. It cannot be
satisfactorily explained On the theory that
these low-down people actually believe
, 1877-04-22
GAMBLING CLUBS.

In Paris, where the vigilance of the police
long since succeeded in breaking up the gam
bling hells, as they exist in the large cities
of this country, most Of the playing for
money is done at the clubs. Tor a time the
hclls were maintained under the auspices Of
women who kept open house or gave soirees
on certain evenings with q pretense Of re-
spectablity, assumed under the name OF a
deceased husband or protector, or by reason
Of the fashionable location of their resi-
dences but even these gilded traps for the
unwary have been closed of late years, we
believe. The Paris clubs afford now about
the only opportunity for gambling outside
Of card-playing in private houses but i'm
mense sums change hands over baccarat and
ringtet-un, under the auspices Of club
organizations and with an implied protec-
ton from the "Greeks " (as the French call
the cheats) which is altogether Elusive, as
frequent exposures have demonstrated.
The Chicago gamblers, we hear, hn7e been
studying the French system, and propose to
reorganize their gambling hells on tho Paris
ian style. The police have raided the
gamblers as vigorously as loosely-constructed
laws and technical Judicial interpretations
thereof would permit. These raids have
been so far successful as to prevent the
more respectable men, upon whom the
gamblers live, from visiting their resorts,
from fear of being surprised and taken to
the Armory. Tho gamblers cannot live
upon one another, and many of the estab-
lishments have been closed altogether
since the business men, clerks, and
outsiders have refused to visit
them. They have now conceived the
idea that the French system may bo adapted
to their purposes There is statute en-
abling the organization Of voluntary assooi-
atoms for business or pleasure, and we un-
derstand that between twenty or thirty
clubs have filad their certificates Of organizG-
ton at Springfield within short time, with
the alleged object Of * amusement and recre-
ation," which are intended to protect SO
many gambling nells. Such clubs might be
organized with membership at 81 and dues
of 10 cents q ycar,-any nominal sums
and tickets and privileges issued on demand
to such persons as are in the habit Of visit
inf gambling houses, and with the usual
club right Of introducing their friends. We
do not know the title Of these clubs,
but they might well be called "a
Club for Bracing' Young Men," or
"A Club for Fleeing Employers" or "a
Club for the Destruction Of Homes" or " 4
Club for the Support of Dead-Beats," or by
op,, o+La- +;+1o f}ot would desirnafa fha ren1
purpose of cheating, swindling, and robbing
men while fuddle1 with drink or dazzled by
the deep fascination of play.
The theory of the gamblers in organizing
these "clubs, which will be regularly incor- !
porated and probably comply with tho law
in every particular except in violating the |
statute against gaming, is that the police
viii have no authority, and will not be sus-
tained by the Courts in breaking in the doors !
, 1877-04-22

cannot be funded There is no legal au-
thority to issue bonds ia which to fund this
debt, which must remnin, illegal as it is, q
disgrace to the county and source of great
future trouble. The constitutional limit OF
taxation is now reached for ordinary ex-
penses, and it cannot be exceeded BY new
iev1es to pay of this Illegal foating debt,
contracted III defiance of law and purely for
purposes of plunder and robbery.
We submit to the members of the Legisla-
ture TINT in view Of this exhibit they cannot
justify their refusal of the request Of the
people of all parties in this county to have
this Board of County Commissioners made
elective annually and by general ticket. 1t is
impossible to reform the Board, or to
take the control Of it out of the hands Of the
corrupt Ring, SO long as the members are
elected in single districts. The corruption
by this Board has become political power,
controlling nominating conventions. It is
to this county a moro direct government
than is the Legislature Of the State. The fact
that the Board can maintain, at the public
expense, its agents at Springfield to control
legislation and protect the members in their
places, shows with what tenacity and inter-
est these men hold to offices which, to honest
men having creditable mode of earning
living, would be trouble and vexation. We
ask the members Of the Legislature to e1-
anime this exhibit of the condition to which
the County Government has been reduced
during the first four months Of the year, and
say upon their consciences if the County
Board should be perpetuated in Office. against
the appeals and protests Of the whole people
of this county.
, 1877-04-22

Econs. 1ccupdn.s.
]. CHARTER OAK LIFE t1nsusauee Dept)
=. To RENT.
,. GCST1N WALLACE. J. 7. DALE.
4. DCEDER W3TCH-CASE MAN'F"G co.
s. ItOEB1NS l. APPLETON.
e. TO RENT.
:. HENRY LEEEEEn
3. war. c. DOW. a. J. DEowN. ". ROBBINS.
.. WRIGHT l. TYKlsELL.
1o cuAETE1: OAK LIFE {Loan Dcpt.}
His. TAIRCNILD NLACkMAN.
14"I5. JAMES MORGAN. L. ". BRIDGE.
16. 1IEN1;Y l.. S;ELYE. ". D. COOPER.
i. II. D. UAl:DlN.
1918 D. X. TEAESONS d co.
III TO RENT a.,
NJ .. L.. HASkIN i co. ;.
- ASSOCIATE EDITOR
~. EDiTN:-IN CHIEF.
~. MANAGING EDITOR.
~ ASSOCIATE: EDlT0l:a. =.
e. T.. e. EAE1.E-
-. ". !. BARNEY & CO
Is WILLIAM EEOSS.
~ H. F. S0:.Ci:OsS. L. A. MeELpOWSEY.
~. REDPATlI LIcEuM BUREAU.
ga COMMERCIAL EDITOR.
r.. ", ". DEXTER.
~. GEO. L. THATCHER. A. F. STEVENSON.
Is. NIGHT EDITOR.
ii. CITY EDITOR.
Offices in tho Building to rent by ". {. DoW,
Room T.