, 1877-10-21

operations and aftcr-treatment; aud also 10
meet to limited extent tile wants OF strangers
coming to the city aud placing themselves M III
charge OF members Of the college Faculty. Ihe
Trcasurcr's report was Us follows: Total rc-
ccipts for the year, s., 1855; total dlsourse-
ment, $2,459,1l, cash on hand, S3d.14. 1ne
Board has done good work in the year past,
and has much reason to be encouraged los t"c
future.
No paper is at the present season complete
unless it rejoiccs in the possession o. III y"nr
u]ished farmers wife, who during the past yea,
has ploughcd SO many acres Of ground, raisc4
so 1napy calves bv hand, spun so MANY hanks VI
yarn without glasses in four different la1isuaS,
giyen birth to pair Of twenty-tnrec pounu
twins, done the Washing n,na anu and iehrt: thres
hired men, and bossed the ~. DoIcas Gus.
Society every other Monday. But now
superficial are these accomplishments, now
slight is the amount IT work thus accomplished.
when compared with the achievements o. atc, "a,
woman that TIE TRIBUNE begs to confer
Immortality upon. Daring the past year
the womau-sle is only % by the Mlchigan
Southern Depot clock-has painted htr nus
bands black eve twice; told duns he WAS 1lot ~
when he was 267 times; turned her ola lunIxs S,is
thence new fashionable suit that made every
woman within three blocks turn apple-ereen1
with envy and wonder how that snu1rnoseo
thing could afford to 90 tralpslng founu ~. ~ - -
$50 suit; done her own honsework' never ~. 1 =
hen set its impious foot upon her 1ront,yala
patch; made all the clothes for three chllaFeni
started seventeen scandals and explodcu lout
{about herself; driven the pastor OF hcr cnute!4
10 resign after q Greco-Roman contest Win ~
deacons; kept up the thread OF eoni'Gcteol ns,t ~
seycnty-seyen continued stories III SIX u,ue1eut
weekly papers, and formed sixteen nle-lons
friendships, besides eleven cnulltlcs that onlt
leath eau terminate. Next!
They have been engaged since carly IN thc
Centennial year. She proposed to hifn, 1hen II
would be good and patriotic time to pe ulat-
ried on the 9Th OF July, precisely at tae uSGne
when the midnight clock tolled the completion
OF the first century uf the American Rcpuollc,
each with an American flag IN each hand, but ne
convinced her that it would be better to wall
till September, when the weather Woulu nc
cooker, and they could go on honeymoon ex-
rufSiou to Philadelphia, and there see the
treasures Of the science, art, and industry that
the world Ind poured into the bounteous zap u
the American eagle. She said that would ue
nice but when September came ne Was TOO ous1-
" occupied III waiting to near rom tne oeto et'r
ber elections, and III saving the country After
the election was over, then came the
excitement over tile Electoral Commission
upsettiug all previous arrangements, anu uii-
settling. business, but rs he Kissed ncr soou-
night on the evening Of the 5th OF March he
said, .'Thank Heaven. Louisa, The long agony
is at last over With the settlement oi this uls-
pute public confidence will be revived: the crisis
will walk oil on its ear; capital ~hi nv" ~
from the pauper nations ot Europe, anu tne
commercial gouse will hang high So soon as
business rcyiycs, then, Louisa, then anu
he squeezed the words he would not SPEAK.
But, alas! the strikes intersencu. auu there was
another .postponemcnt; anu Whei lne u4he,
cpcts between capital and labor had beeN au-
iustcd the procrastinating patriot proposed TO
wait ,ill Ohio mad yiyen its verdict upon tue
Presidents policy. The other evening lne5
were sitting together, IS they have sat
fur several hundred evenings 6ack'
and he said, Loniss, did you Eead y, lnH r e tRls r
Piled eagerly; iii is iayoritc paper ana 5' Is
delivered Ut our residence daily BY carrier 1or ~
cents week, including Sunday edition.. Anu
did yol1 read in it an extract from the Carlisle
Ky, .Nereury, headed Fifty Years Ensaseu-a
Woman's Love Requited Alter AL Engagement
Of Half Century! How blessed and holy
such betrothal must be-. fifty years OF happy,
hoDcfu|ncss: twelve aud half Prcsldcntial
terms Of sitting on the same chair, aud looking
forward to the meltuous chiminGs of the mar
rage bells. Do you. not, adored OF my soul,
think that that would be life any woman who
knows what true love is might ardentlMy T. covet,
desire, long TOR, ana sigh after!" Then nc
naused. overcome bE the carnestness Of
bis pleading, while his greatt: lastsonS 1'sy,'s
syes beamed upon s,otsiE nf1 and tbolshte aeht
fully, sbut that it would be, if she didn't hap
ncn to have slowed away in ner desk 1;o letters
IRON her fellow, on which any jury would give
her sc, ,OG0 damages without leaving tue box =
was moments silence, when he replied.
| "Louisa, I called tonight to ask ~nen you
| would hx the happy day that will make yoc
mine in name as you are mine in nature. -, Nay
| blush not, my own, but name the oay; 1ues
| day week. she taltered, her eyes filled Will
hanpy tears. 20, rapture!" he exclaimed, u:
his Jaw fell. "Hopest Indian, Theodore;' sllt
| said. bet your boots, LOUISA" he replied u
scntentious1y. No cards. No postpouenent OF
account Of weather.
has not been what might be called seriously
dan,agel by the storm, yet the effect Of the rail
| and waves is ptaiuly visible in man,
places. South Of the ''bie pier" til
injury is very little, for the Roadway is tter'
| Sheltered bv substantial brcakwatcr, owe
which the sea has not been high enough to rol
| with destructive force. The foot-patn Oh tn'
lake side ot the drive has been somewhat "lshe'
| out, the most at any one polut bclu9 ABOUT ~
tect III length. The loundatlon u tnc maik
sur and beaten up against thu walk. have cause
tIc destruction. North of the ''bag pier" tn
indrutations are no, SO numerous, au.
tnougn they | are tne ef atbcrs. more can .sF0I
1ena,red at the expense oi little trouble aud MOI
Is. The lcepest OF these incisions docs not II
dent tue road to one-qnarter its width, and ttlt
| r,,y he counted upon the fingers Oh one nam
At the bases u1 tue SllolL Piete- "HieH .at~ ~
1ncrous along the shore, there are small was
outs caused by the waves .lashing along II
sides of the piers, and cxerting al their force
| ono point. 1t is not remarkable iact that I!
| | nlores where the shore is unprotected should
| th,. mi ost injured, nor that where the road u
! hec1, facet with stone the damage is imperccpi
THE UNIVERSITY.
DR., ". Everts has been elected Chance11t
! Of tile Chicago University, wee Or. Burrcugh
who, it will be remembered, resigned tic uos
tiuu last summer, expressing the intention
5 be absent year or two in Europe. Accordi1
9 to Ill accounts, the University now seen
:. par pa oil oil its debts. including TIL
! celebrated mortgage to the Union Mutual Lii
X Insurance Company, than It has been for son
e years. 1t will be remembered that the pl1
II adopted last summer provided for the gradu
r. paving of OF the debt, aud, as part of til
/ plan, two financial agents were to be appointed
e one at the East aud the other a. the West
u to work among the churches and secure co
~ tributions to 70 towards placing the finances
y this noble institution on new and fayorab
e footing DR.. Eyc1ts, As Chancellor, fills the po
u tion Of FINANCIAL agent for the West. He is
be present ut the State Baptist Pastoral Unit
r this week, at Springfield, partly for the purpo
70 above MENTIONED
r. NEW POSTAL CARS.
r. The Chicago, Milwaukee j. st. Paul Ra
# road have Just completed new mail {
J. for use on their road, in which sc
], eral highly-lmportant Improvements, sl1np
e. fying the work and saving labt
Il hare been introduced. The car WAS construct
:, in Milwaukee by Ar. Bailey, Master Mecha1
,e Of the road, frou. plans furnished by Capt. J.
Is White, Superintendent of the railway Ill
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