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1 5 i 2 THU PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER-WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 20; 1878. OOLLABRD. 8TREBT CLEANING. LOCAL SUMMARY.

GTMNINGS IN THE COURTS. Estate of David Farrell. Petition to answer argued. Estate of Jacob Gheen. Petition to refuse confirmation and vacate older of Bale argued.

Estate of John II. Schadewald. Petition and answer argued. Estate Of Ann Dillon. Exceptions toadjudl-cation argued.

1 THB EIDQWaY UBBA.BY. THH CAMDHN MYSTBBT. THB KAN WHO WOBB A CAPB AT THB FBRBT AIT AFFIDAVIT AS TO HIS IDENTITY. The following affidavit was yesterday received by the Bon. James M.

Scovel, of counsel for Mr. Hunter, and will be laid before Prosecuting Attorney Jenkins to day. It will be seen that it agrees with the statement made the other day that a gentleman would be found who would testify that he waa the man, and not Mr. Hunter, who interrogated the watchman at the ferry on the nlgbt of the murder: Camden County, Immanuel Pfeifer, of New Denmark, New Jersey, says that he is editor of the National Record, and postmaster of New Denmark, Gloucester county, New Jersey; that he well knows Thaddeus C. Throop, who resided fourteen years in Franklin township, in Gloucester county, and followed the business of real estate broker and dealer In real estate; that said Throrp Is, financially, la comfortable circumstances, and is a nephew of the late aver or Thrcop, of New York, and has a home with the family, who reside at No.

630 Berkley street, Camden; that for a week past Throop has been vIsMng his daughter In Madison county, N. that shortly after the arrest of Benjamin Hunter for murder deponent was in company with H. G. Lloyd, lumber dealer, of Clinton street, above Broadway, in Camden, and said T. C.

Throop; that during the conversation between Lloyd, Throop and deponent he, the said Thaddeus C. Throop, said that he was the man, and net Hunter, with a felt hat and a cape who went over in the Market street ferry boat about eight o'clock on the (evening of the said Wednesday, January 23, 1878; that said Throop had an engagement wUh C. T. Reed, tbe lawyer, on business, aud did not find him in bis office, and then went to tbe ferry boat at Market street, whl to his disappointment, bad just left tbe slip, and that Tnroop expressed his disgust at this fact and walkel up and down, smoking a segar, and Impatiently asked when the next boat went out, aod further, that he (Tnroop) was pacing up and down the deck of the boat smoking; that Mr. Llojd, who has seen Hunter since his imprisonment, says that after seeing him (Hunter) in A DAWAGKD COAL HIKE.

3fradlng tht 'Bsventis-A Witness Who Objaoted Being Mixtd by a Oron-Eiminer-i Orphans' Oonrt Omm. Thecaseof Joseph W. Freck vs. The Locust Stountaln Coal and Iron Company, error to Common Pleu, No. 2, wm argued In the Supreme Court yesterday.

This was an action of tree pus on the case brought by the Locust Mountain Coal and Iron Company ts. Freck, to I recorer for damagss caused to certain coal mines In Columbia county, demised by them to i Gofre 11 which the defendant, who worked the adjoining premises, had damaged by his Improper mining. The declaration in the case charged that the defendant had taken away large quantities of coal from the premises of i plaintiffs, and had subjected them to great ex pense In working said premises to prevent water from flowing Into other premises of the plain tiffs. There were two trials. In the first a verdict for rendered for the plaintiffs, and 'a new trial baring been obtained, a second ton diet was rendered In their faTor for 117,000 on October 13, 1875.

Under the lease from plaintiffs to Freck he was entitled to mine and take I away all coal in the south dipping vein In the vewralia basin. The toi'roversy In the present case arose from the lnterftnnce of mines worked on the north and south dtps of the mammoth vein near tbe synclinol axis. The workings of da- fendant extended beyond this axis ovsr on the north dipping veins, which were not include I In his lease. Tne defense was that the syocllnol I. t.ln.

1,1. 1 that defendant did his work In a mannar ap A 10 aigj uvu mi rr mj vwatiy wvwmunviB proved by the rules of skillful and sclent lis mining, and was consequently not liable. He also asserts that the landlord knew and a p. proved of the trespass; that he had the power and could have prevented it; that Jie accepted royalty ob the coal mine, and that this sans tloaed the taking. The assignments of error are numerous.

A number of them relied on being, In various forms, to the charge of the judge that the synclinol axis was the boundary fixing the defendant's rights In the premises, whether It was easy or difllcult of ascertainment If the defendant crossed It he was liable. It wm also charged that the act of well, ownerof an ndjofnlog colliery, In driving his gangway Into a breait of Centralis Colliery, through which the water course was the direct nstural consequence of the Improper act of de-' fendant, in working cross kthe synclinol axle. This la also assigned for error. Tne contention of the plaintiff In error that he cannot be held liable for what resulted from his mining In a workmanlike and skillful inner, as his lease stipulated, and that tbe landlords knew of his wnrklnin anil hv their allnrmA annrrVAl thnm He also claims that Gorrcll Co. were bound to change the course of their gangway to conform to his workings beyond tbe axis, and also that the action Is improperly brought In this county, as It was a IocaI action and should have been brought in the county where tbe land lay.

UNITED STATES COURTS. Plt Inn Im V.A r.t k. TTI.4 Oaf.fl mm 1WO JUIJ I HID ban VI bilO UUbD3 TO Salomon rendered a sealed verdict for I the United States, wblca forfeits to the govern ment i(o oozes oi sugars, iuu in a uoi. Cooper VVHsey and Saras Page, woo were arrested at Thirteen tb and Callow hill streets on January 19, by United States Detective Drum- A I IUUUU, HU Ul Wiivw IUUUI norg IMUUU DUUUbDr- i making them, ycsteidy pleaded guilty to making and passing counterfeit coin. DEFBATJDIKO TIIB BEVBNCB.

i The attention of the court was occupied yes- I I today by the esse of tbe United States vs. I I Catharine Frants, a segar dealer, of Harrlsburg, who was charted with having unlawfully In her I toisesslon segar boxes from which the segars had been used, and upon which tbe revenue stamps had not been dcstrojel. Also with re- celvlng such boxes from other persons with la 's tent to aerraua toe govern inont. The testimony In this case shows the minuer in Which the government loses much of the re-, i venue from manufactured tobacce. Tbe prlacl-, pal witness for the government, and tbe person from whom It received its first information, was William Schott, a segar manufacturer of Mil-lersburg, Dauphin county, who test I fled to i havlngaold her segars, and ihat, on asubsequent visit, he saw the same boxes with other sugars In them.

On charging the woman with It ahe i told him to hush up," and that she had filled those boxes five or six times; that aha offered to sell him some of the empty boxes, and proralted to save him some as she had just sold 'M to I aiother party I This witness was pretty sharply cross exam-' Inrd by Counselor Ilunn, but kept his temper, though he confessed himself very much mixed up by the counselor's questions. The witness was a German, and like other naturalized for-i elgners, frtquently made allusions to this being nnntifi Aft Wm w.a sin til. VA Rev. Edwin B. Raffensnerger, of 'this city, Is to deliver his lecture on "Braddock's Rout' at Scottdale, on Friday evening, February 23.

James Dougherty, residing at No. 1919 Carpenter street, wm thrown from a horse at Seventeenth and Lombard streets and sustaluel severe Injuries about the head. The treat fire in New York on Sunday even ing involves Philadelphia insurance companies only to a wary trilling extent. The Franklin had a risk of $2600 and the Fire Association of $2000. Dr.

Hugo Engel, who was connected, several years since, with the German dally press of this city, has been elected lecturer at the Jefferson Medical College. He will ocean the chair of electro therapeutics. Several bales of casslmeres. shipped bv Mr. this city; and consigned to Detroit, were thrown from a train on the Pennsylvania railroad on Thursday by thieves.

The goods were recovered and sent back to this city. Yesterday afternoon the prayer meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was held In the assembly room of the Board of Publication, No. 1334 Chestnut street. Addresses were delivered by Mrs. Dr.

House, of Slam, and others. The new building of the Kensington National Bank, at Frankford road and Glrard avenue, will be open for public inspection to day and tomorrow. Business will be commenced In the structure on Saturday. The whole cost of the building was $40,000. The American Pulpit Publishing Company has In press its second number.

It publishes this month the able and eloquent sermon of Rev. Dr. H. W. Warren, pastor of the M.

E. Church, corner of Broad and Arch streets. The subject of the discourse is "Heaven." Jeremiah Conver, aged twenty-five years, who swsllowed an overdose of laudanum wnfle lab icing under a uniponr aberration of mind, died m'nday at the Pennsylvania Hospital. Deceased redded at No. 1830 Kar s'reet.

He to tie poison while at the Wlosor House, at a jjomoara Dr. Levin D. Dter, of Butlmore, has had his name siricken from the registry of tbe Health. Department as a prao'iclng phvslclan beeiuse ha is a graduate of the Eclectic Medical College of this Bute. He has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus, however, and the case will be settled soon.

Subscriptions to the stock of the Elkton and Delaware Junction Mlddleton) Railroad are Deing received in Baltimore. The road is twelve miles lorg. It will be a connection between tbe Philadelphia, Wll mine-ton and Baltimore and laware railroads, shortening- the distance to Baltimore thlrty-ote miles. Aro'ber sale of unclaimed and forfel'el Cen-tenrial exhibits took place yesterday, and n-fisted of chins, glassware, cbalra, napkins, sideboards, boobs, water colors, The fixtures of the Restaurant Trots Freres Provencaux were also disposed of. The sale attracted a large number of persons and the bidding was quite lively.

Tbe Germantown Horticultural Society at Its monthly meeting tbe otber evening awarded premiums as follows: Foliage plauts, first premium to William Jitmlson, gardener to George L. Harrison; specimen plant in bloom, first premium to Jobn Whalen, gardener to Mrs. K. Wilson; second premium to Daniel Curtln; spe clmen foliage plant, first premium to William Jamison; carnations, first premium to Jobn burton; primulas, first premium to John Whalen; cyclamens, first premium to Edwin Lonsdale; second premium to Miller Hayes; cinerarias, special premium to Miller 4 Hayes; celery, first premium to Thomas Hannlng, gardener to H. J.

Williams, Esq asparagus, special premium to Daniel Curtin; hand bouquet ana bridal bouquet, nrst premium for eacu to Edwin Lonsdale; table desltm, first premium to Miller Haves; basket of flowers, first premium to Miller Hayes; second premium to William Jamison; special premium to John Burton; special premium to John F. Turner for new hand weeder. IN BANKRUPTCY. THB CRBDITOBS OF A. H.

ROBINSON, LIQUOR, MERCHANT. The following is a list of the creditors of A. H. Robinson, liquor merchant, No. 1114 Market street, who has been adjudged a bankrupt.

Ex- cept where otherwise stated the creditors belong to tbis city C-editort. Anumn'i. James Craig, Fifteenth and Pine $787-00 Edw. Armstrong, Twelfth and South streets 500 ou J. A.

Beaver, IS o. 12U6 Columbia na Tiiomas E. Arnold do. sw AdDerty street, New York 241-46 Illinois Distilling Company, Chicago, III. 620-10 James Levy lo.

33 Sycamore street, Cincinnati, unto iuvi-o Kentucky Distilling Company, No. 17 West Main ttreet. LoumviUe. Ky 686-89 Dougherty Hons, iso. 1131 North Front Birect oit-w Freiberg Si Workman, Noa.

28 and SO Main street. Cincinnati. Ubio 840-70 Madcnx, Hobart 107 and 113 East reim sirtei. unio. oojki A Uuckenbeimer ft Pltuburg 87J-71 ttftorite Whneley, No 107 Walnut 2O0 0O Willow Kun Distilling Onmi any, Nos.

8 and 9 Public landing, Cincinnati, Ohio 1252 3S Thomas W. Derouse, No. 204 south Front street 2U82 A. Gallagher Son, o. 200 North Second Btreet 399-51 Adams Cr Frontstreet, New York 06-88 Ka (tr Hro 77 Water street.New York 41 ho William Haeller, Abbottstown, Pa 47-76 Bod ine, Thomas Wllliamsport, N.

9 00 Harmony Building and Loan Association (pecured by mortgage) 1800-00 William Udell, Fifty-fourth and Pasohal streets 235-00 3. M. Megarge (secured by ground rent), No. 1427 North Sixteenth street 2060 00 City taxes 72 00 F. T.

Kahter, No. 1318 Market street 3500 00 Zacbarlah Slmson, No. 1828 North Seventh street 850-00 Water rents 12 0O S. S. Caven.

agent Ulrard estate (rent of store No. 1114 Market street) 650 00 No. 143 North Broad street 22 00 Death of Dir. Henry Thomas. Mr.

Henry Thomas died at his rwidenee on Logan Equare on Monday, in the forty eighth year of bis age. The cause of his death waa Bripht's disease. Mr. Thomas was a Welshman -by birth, having emigrated to this city wtitla quite young. His first employment was in the coal mines of Schuylkill county, from which ho gradually rose, step by step, from a miners' clerk to general manager, and subsequently lessee of mines and owner of large traces of coal land.

He removed to Harrlsburg about fifteen years ago, where he invested largely In real estate, and was Identified with a number of leading manufacturing establishments, i Hovpttat Items The following persons were yesterday admit! ted Into the Pennsjlvanla Hospital James N. Gllleo, thirty eight years old, living at No. 1525 Ludlow street, rliht arm broken by a roll cf ell cloth falling on it. Peter Hiekey, six years living at No 526 Fltzwater street, left arm dh-loctted by being pulltd by another boy. William Harmer, thirteen years old, living at No.

1332 Pine street, left hand fractured by fall-. ing from a platform. Albert O. Goodman, twenty-four years old, right band fingers cut off by shears In a tin manufactory on Cherry street, near Fourth. Fop Fina IX.

The services at the Cathedral in requiem of the late Pontiff, Pius IX, will take place to-morrow and will be very imposing. The Most Rev. Archbishop Wood will be present, and the pane-eyrie will bs delivered by the Right Rev. P. N.

Lynch, D. bishop of Charleston. Cook's "HmnALiim" Oatars rtoAMrrnsj ear Catarrh, Asthma, Bronohitis, Neuralgia and all throat and bead trouble THB BOOUS FIBM 8WINDLB ABBB9T OT A MAS OOBTNEOTBD WITH IT CAUGHT IN TBI ACT OF SELLINO THB GOODS. Detective Weyl ytotarday made an arrest In a case which ha has almost fruitlessly been work-log in for the past fix months. This is the bogus firm swindle, some account of which has appeared in bar columns at different times within the period named.

So far as can be leaned it was first tried on in this city by the parties now suspected about July last, when they, rented a place at No. 810 South Delaware avenue, and started business there as "shipping and general commloelon merchants." Under the firm name oi L. Johnson Co. they ordered goods of various kinds, their correspondence with other firms being carred on la faultless commercial style, under letter headings bearing the legend, Johnson Co." There is every reason to believe that the sharpers consul ed BradBtreet's Commercial Agency reports, and found there the name of Lawrence Johnson Co. Tated high, and with no other business address than "Philadelphia" given.

Dropping the full first name of the senior partner of that firm, the swindlers adopted the deceptive title of Johnson and by tbat means succeeded in getting hold of large shipments of goods, Including needles, vinegar, provi eions, wax, revolvers, air pistols, The boldness with which they operated can be best Judged from the fact that they ordered and handled thirteen hundred barrels of Koaendala cement from New VTorn. One merun.au. wao rtctlved an order from the swindlers sent to the Commercial Agency the inquiry "How are L. Johnson Co 310 S. Delaware aveaua," and received as a reply: "Good; sell them all you can," although baa the ageucy coajulttd its own record it, would have beau touud tnat mo such firm had any existence in tblscliy.

Tbe patties who had the cement em ployed counsel In this cly and attached elgnt hui dred barrels which were found waranouied on Dock street, but by the time the de.ecthes got at tbe case the rogues had fhd. Tujy were alterwards found operating on Sjuth Fjur.h street and elsewhere, but they always managed to elude arrest, their negotiations being exclusively by letters, making it extremely difficult to trace their Identity. The arrest made yesterday came about is this way: Mr. Edward F. Cofflm of Carr, Brown New bury port, being lu town oa Monday, was informed that goods from hla houte were being sold in this city lor about one-fourth their value.

He inquired about until he learned that a prominent dry goods house on Market street had made some of the purchases, and he at once visited the establishment. While he was there a man giving tne name of John Moran came in and offered a lot of combs for sale. Mr. Coffin recognized' the goods as havlig been shipped by his house to Taylor No. 917 Ridge avenue," in this city, and immediately withdrew to Fifth and Chestnut atreets, where he desired to swear out a warrant tor Moran's apprehension.

Detective Weyl, however, waited for no warrant, but hastened to tbe Market street store and there took Moran into custody. On his person were found a blackjack and some handbills relating to a prize-tight exhibition. He denied that he waa connected with the conspiracy which has been so successfully carried on in this city, and stated that the goods were given to him by a man named Welsh; but, as he could give no information as to Welsh's place of business, residence, that person is supposed to baa myth. The Taylor of No. 917 Ridge ave-' nur, was no doubt the latest name adopted by the sharpers who were previously at No.

47 North Ninth street. The nearlng of wan will take place this afternoon at the Central Station, and tbe arrest Is expected to lead to the discovery of others of the gang. THB COLLEGE OF PH ABM ACT. THB CONTBIBUTION TO TUB PARIS EXPOSITION. The fifth regular monthly meeting of the series of pharmaceutical meetings was held yes terday In the hall of the College of Pharmacy, No.

145 North Tenth street. The exhibit of American to be sant to the forthcoming Exposition in Paris by the College of Pharmacy was displayed. The various specimens of roots, barks, nuts and berries are contained about a hundred glass -covered cases labeled with both the scientific and common names. At the close of the exposition tbe arti cles will be presented to the College of Pharmacy of Paris. The chair was occupied by Professor Remington.

Included In the additions to tbe library during tbe past month are a number of books, once the property of John Redman Cote, A. and which were presented to the college by Taomas Powers, Esq. Tbe donation contains among other works a "Codex Medlcamentarius Pariensls, 1700," "Tha Universal Dlspensatoiy, London, 1747," "Dispensatory of the Royal College of PnysIcUns, 1760," "Radcllff's Practical Dlspensat.orv.1730," "Salmon's London Dippeneatory of 1670," tha "PbErmacopoela Ba eraanla, 1706," and souvj leventy-nve other tare books. 11 Professor Maisch also presented, op behalf of a gentleman who desired his name to be kept secret, a number of works on chemistry in the German language. Various specimens of dried plants and barks were also presented.

Mr. E. Gaillard read a paper on the formation of formic acid in the bodies of red ants, and describing tbe means necessary for collacUng it. It was stated In the subsequent discussion that formic acid Is much used by physicians in Germany, and ants are Included in the German dispensatories. Professor Maisch made some remarks on the formula for making bromide of Iodine.

The chairman announced the purchase of a balance, which, when loaded on each side with five hundred ounces, will show a deflection with an increase of half a grain. It is intended to nse this balance for the purpose of verifying apothecaries' weights. It can also be used for verifying graduated measures. A discussion took place on fixed oils in pharmacy. A flisk of the oil of eggs was shown, obtatned from tbe yolks of eggs by a simple process.

The society then adjourned. WHAT LAWYER TERRY SAY3. 11 WRITES CITY SOLICITOR WEST A LBTTBR. 1 City Solicitor West received yesterday the fol lowing letter from Lawyer Terry Pb iLADBLrm Feh. 19, 1878 William Nel-son West, Efq City Solicitor Dear Sir I have just delivered to the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, receiver, the bonds and coupons mentioned in the decree of the court, entered yesterday without prior notice to me, a copy whereof was served late in the afternoon.

I must express my regret that the suggestion made some time since by Mr. Sellers to Mr. Gendell that the bill of the city should be amended so that a receiver might be appointed, was not acceded to, and I might thereby have been enabled to do earlier what the court has just required. On Saturday last, when the bill as amended was presented in print for the first time, and was without a prayer for a I could not do more than consent to the continuance of the Injunction, but if a receiver had been asked for at that time it would also then have been acceded to, and this apparent antagonism relative to the custody of the securities avoided. Respectfully roars, ELinrt C.

Tut. IBB USUAL TBOUBLB OVBB TBI AWABD Of CONTRACTS A PROPOSITION TO BBCON3IDBB AM AWABD TO Till LOWB8T BIODBB XBQA-TIVBO. The Board of Health yesterday at lb) regular meeting opened proposals In the presence of the Finance Committee of Councils for the contract to clean tbe streets and collect the ashes in the Thirteenth comprises that section of the city ljlng between Vine and Poplar streets, Broad street and the river Schuylkill. The contract was awarded first at $4800, then for $5206, aealn for $6000, and lastly to J. A.

Oram for $0900, but was declined by him for reasons given In a letter which was read yesterday at tbe meeting. Htnry Davis, president of the Bjard of Health, presided. The bids upon twine opened were found to be as follows: Peter McKntce $9096 -00 Cburlca litte 8999 83 Michael Kixhter John b. White vow Mb-W John A. White 78sw 33 Samuel C.

Andress 8117-04 William G. Peterson 9324-00 Jianlel McNlchol 8400 00 Edward Uarman 8600-00 Atkinson TUOOOO Jobn WiirKns 7834 00 John H. I.ukenn 7500-87 Kiimuol Kllpatrlck 9J73-O0 William Peoples 7374 71 Daniel MoHrlde 8470 69 Henry J.Hableiton 7W00 Albert 74U8 00 Joseph U. Black 0400 00 Jaoolis Yoimk 8800 00 Henry B. Blckley imw ISsmuel Greer, Jr 7880 23 On motion of Dr.

Ashurst the board nntnl-moutly awarded the contrast to John B. White, the lowest bidder, at $0845 per annum, and the Finance Committee uaaulmously approved the award. President Davis said he did not beileve the contractor could do the work for tbe money, nor tbat he could collect the ashes at that price. Mr. Kneats took the same ground and argued tbat it was folly to aard the contract at such a price.

He thought Mr. White could not but fail In doing the work If given tha contract, and wanted to move a reconsideration of the vote by which tbe award was made. To this, however, objection was made that Mr. Koeass could not offer such a motion. Colonel Gray came Into the meeting at this Juncture, and, after a brief talk with Mr.

Kneass, offered the motion, adding that he desired the reference of all the bids to tne Street Cleaning Committee. Dr. Ashurst, Colonel Klnsey and Mr. Hirst all opposed the motion earnestly, argutn? that, Mr. White had come before the board regularly and had been awarded tbe contract in a proper manner, the board would stultify Itself by attempting to take it from him aealn even If that could be done, which, as they argued, could not, the power not bMng In the board.

After a lively debate Colonel Gray withdrew his motloa, remarking tbat it hud accomplished bis object in getting an expression from members. Mr. Hirst renewed the motion lor the purpose of having the board meet the les'lon by a square vote. Mr. Caven, who had come In during the latter part of the dlccusBion, said he was surprised at what he had heard from some members of tbe board (meaning Messrs.

Davis, Gray and Kueaee). They had been talking just the way that would discourage any responsible person for bidding for the contracts, and holding out inducements for high bidders. If a man was willing to take a contract of this kind at a low figure, a figure that he felt would compensate him, and bad pledged himself and sureties to carry it out In good Mth, he should be encouraged, not discouraged In looking over the list of bidders, he (Mr. Caven) found that between the highest and lowest bidders there but a difference of flvn or six hundred dollars. If tbe matter should be referred to the Street Cleaning Committee, and they should accept the bltibeat bidder hn would get only a few hundred dollars more than Mr.

White, and In a contract of $0000 that would be but a small margin. After some further discussion, Mr. Kneass referred to the former contracts that were awarded too low, and said the present one would have to be also abandoned, and Mr. Davis argued to the same purpose, using figures to shov that Mr. White could not clean the district for the price aeked for the work.

Mr. Caven asked him if the contract before had not been given to Mr. Peterson for Mr. Davis said It had. "Well, I eee," said Mr.

Caven, "that a Mr. Peterson now wants to do it for about $8000." "Oh, that's his brother, I suppose," said Mr. Davis. "Well, it's In the family," replied Mr. Caven.

Pendlrg a vote on tbe motion of Mr. Elrst, Mr. Mcaley asked for the reading of Mr. Oram's letter declining the former contract. While the Secretary was looking for It a vote was taken tnd result In yeas, nays, 8.

Mr. Gray voted no, but Mr. Kneaes refused to answer to tls name. During the vote Mr. Klnsey, In an undertone, remarked to Mr.

Kneaee, "Why don't vou stand up and vote as you tnlnk right "Well, I guess I can vote or not, if I think proper," was the reply. Mr. Oram's letter was then read. HestUed that, he threw up the contract because members of the Board of Health and Its Inspectors had gone to his sureties and poisoned their minds against him, making such disparaging statements to his sureties about the low prices at which he had taken the contract that the sureties had become alarmed and left him in the lurch. Mr.

Mealey stated that he asked for the reading of the letter because he had heard on the streets that soma members of the board and its officers had been throwing cold water on the the new bidders, and were doing all they could to discourage them, and when he came into the meeting to day he had heard similar expressions from the president and other members. He did not think it was right, and he desired a dlpclaimer from the board. Mr. Davis denied that there was any foundation for tbe charge, and asserted that the board had always been judicious and economical in expending money. Tbe motion to reconsider was voted down unanimously, Mr.

Knea not voting. Forgery and Larceny. Before Magistrate Slearne, of Frankford, on Monday, Thomas 1,. Evans, of that place, had a bearlcg on the charee of forgery and larceny. It srems a draft for $337 65 was sent to Thorn is R.

Evans, No 28 South Fourth street, by the Petersburg (Va. Bank, last January. It was Improperly directed Thomas B. Evans, which was the name of the accused, and It reached his hands. Finding It a windfall, by the advice of a frieid, he took the draft to the Second National Bank of Frarkford and had It cashed.

Mr. Thomas Evans falling to get bit money made tbe proper Investigation, and the Post Office Department placed the matter in the hands of Special Agent Charles B. Burnett, who, after some delay, succeeded In arresting the Frankford Evans. But $30 of the cash was secured, the rest having been spent by Evans. At the hearirg the facta as above given were sworn to, and the accused was committed in default of $2000 ball to answer tbe charge of larceny and forgery.

The 8econi National Bank has paid to Mr. Thomas R. Evans the $237 65 due him. Mercantile Library. At the annual election of the Mercantile Library Company, held yesterday, the following directors were elected to serve the ensuing year.

ra1oa If TVi-lni. Willi. n.kM. William H. Lambert, Alfred Moore, Alfred meuor ana uraig u.

Kitcnie. A CLAIMANT FOR A LIBOR BSTATI THB Of THB BUSH FAMILY. Robert Manners, a nephew of thelate Dr. ames Rush, and a resident of London, has filed a bill In equity In this city setllog forth tbat, Dr. Rush died without issue, and, not leaving a widow, father or mother behind him, therefore, he la the heir-at-law, and entitled to his proper share of all the estate and property of Dr.

Rush. The last will and codicil of Dr. Rush are declared as so uncertain as to be Incapable of any clear meaning, while it Is set forth that their execution would be contrary to sound morals and to religion, and would.be opposed to the policy of the law; that the Philadelphia Library Company have declined to accept, under the conditions of the wllL and codicils, and have no power to accept the devise, and, if It were otherwise, are incompetent in law to act trustees that tht provision for the foundation of the Rldgff ay Library in the contingency of a refusal of the library company to accept the devise cannot, be carried out, because It required the entire estate to be expendtd for a lot and building, and lift no funds whatever for the foundation of a library; tbat this provision be cause no one save Henry Williams Eiq, Is authorized to execute it, no provision being made for lis execution after his death; and that under the will works must be admitted to the library which Inculcate rebellion, treason, atheism, deism, materialism, or which uphold polygamy and socialism, and tbe library would become a fountain for tbe corruption of pure religion, sound morals and good order. It Is, therefore, claimed that the lot and building and the reoldue of tbe estate have become the property of Robert Manners and otber heirs at law, and a perpetual injunction Is asked to restrain Henry J. Williams, Eeq from ulng any of the real or personal estate In the foundation of a library.

Mr. Williams stated yesterday, when questioned In regard to this claim, that he wm not at all alarmed about it, and that at best it could only delay the operation of the will for two or three years Tbe following summary of the genealogy of the Rush family shows the ancestry of the claimant under this equity suit back to the year 1628: John Rush commanded a troop of horse In Cromwell's army. At the close of tbe civil war he married Sueannah Lucas, at Horton, In Oxfordshire, on the 8th of Jun, 1(148. He era-braced the principles of the Qntkers In I860, and came to Pennsylvania In 1083. with seven children, and settled la Bvberry, now the Twenty third Ward of Philadelphia.

In 1891 he acd his whole family became Keith! ins, and In 1607 most of them jilnid the Baptist Church. He died at berry In 1609. William Rush, the second child of John and Susannah, wa born July 21, 1053, and married in England Amelia He died at By-berry In 1688 They bad three children, of whom the second, Jimes Rath, married Kichel l'eart. James Rush died lu 1727, at a farm on Poquesslng creek. They had nine children, of whom the eldest, John, married Susan Harvey, a widow and daughter of Jusrpn 1111.

Johu and Susan Rush bad seven children, the fourth of whom, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a fitgnor of the Declarattnu of Independence, was born December 24, 1745, and died A prll 19, 1813. He mar-ried Julia, daughter ot Hie hard Stockton, of New Jersey. Benjamin and Julia. Rush, had ten children, of whom John died single.

Emilia married a Canadian gentleman named Cuthbert. Richard married Catharine Eliza Mutray; Susannah, Elizabeth, Mary, the mether of the present contestant of the will of James Rush. James married Phoebe Ann Rldgway. William, Barjamln, who died young, and Benjamin still living. It Is understood that if the decision of the SuDreme Court in tbe ca now pending is ad verse to the library company and that they are compelled to pay taxes on their real estate that they will not accept tne trust under tne will or Dr.

Rush. The only claim for taxes which the library company has been called on to resist is on the real estate at Fifth and Library streets, that Is the library building Itself. ACCOMMODATION FOB SHIPPING. A CONFERENCE HELD ON THB SUBJECT. An informal conference was recently held In this city between the representatives of the leading commercial Interests, at the office of F.

Dun-dcre, South Third street, to ascertain what was needed for the accommodation of the rapidly growing commerce of this port. Mr. Dundore is chairman of the tpecial committee on navigation of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, to which was referred a number of petWons that were presented to City Councils, asking that some action be taken for the purpose of Inducing Congress to make an adequate appropriation for dredging the Delaware river. Beside Mr. Dundore, there were present James A.

Wright, of the firm of Peter Wright Sons; Thomas M. Richards, of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Henry Wlnsor, William Rrockie, E. K. Stevenson, representing E. C.

Knight and Jamos M. Ferguson and William K. Tucker, ot tne Board or fort Wardens, the representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company being unable to be present. The object of the meeting wm explained by the chairman of the committee, who stated that he was authorized by' City Councils to ascertain what is required by the commercial Interests of the city, aa the members of Council feel It their duty to do everything to advanoe tbe interest of the city. There was a general Interchange of opinions, In which It wa stated that the Philadelphia and Reading Rtllroad Company are about to expend a lare Bum of money upon a grain elevator to be at Port Richmond, and tbat considerable dredging would be required to aceommndate tbe additional shipping.

A despatch has been rfctived by Mr. Dandore from Hon. Oharlee U'Nulll announcing tb.it, no acllon will be taken on the appropriation for the Delaware until the arrival of the committee from this city. The Kew Northwest The February number of the Xew Xorihnett, In addition to much Information about the Northern Pictilc Railroad and its prospecjs, contains an account of the methods employed and profits realized from wheat growing on a large scale as practiced In Dikota, which is very Interesting and cannot fall to attract attention. All Interested In the development of the Northwestern country, and the welfare and growth of Its railroad system, will find this little monthly of real practical use to them.

Published by Joseph Creamer, at No. 114 South Thlid street, Philadelphia, at fifty cents a year, Including premium map. Another Steanuhlp for Russia. The3ritUh steamship Wlckham, Capialn Ar-nott, is now lying at Willow Street wharf, where she will take on board fifteen locomotives manu- factured for the Russian Government by the Baldwin Company. The locomotives are all completed, and the work of flowing them will commence at once.

The vessel will touch at Plymouth, England, and then proceed to the port of Pillan on the Baltic the court house he (Lloyd) was not surprised tbat he should be taken for Benjamin Hcnter, as be resembled Hunter very closely; that Throop is of dark complexion and wears his whiskers all -around his face, aud Throop said that he was the only man dressed as described by Watson; and deponent lurther says that he has Just been 6honthe account in Tns Philadelphia Is QuiRER of last Saturday, 10 and the re porter's account is substantially accurate and correct in Its report of Throop'd appearance and statements, and that deponent firmly believes Throop was tbe man mistaken at the ferry for Hunter on the of the 261 of January last. ImMAXORL Pl'BIFFBR. Swore and subscribed at Camden, N. Febru ary ID, A. I), eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, before me.

James H. Carpenter. BlilCKS. LECTURE AT THE FRANKLIN BY PROP. PLINY CHASB.

Last evening Prof. Pliny E. Chase delivered the first lecture of his course at the Franklin Institute. His subject was the manufacture of bricks. The art of brlckmaking, said the lecturer, is as old as the oldest authentic history.

Some of the oldest Egyptian and American monuments were made of adobes or sun dried bricks, but burnt bricks were used in the Tower of Babel. In some of the Assyrian mounds the Interior is filled with unburnt bricks set In clay, with layers of reeds between every five or six courses, the exterior consisting of burnt bricks laid in bitumen or in lime mortar of exceeding toughness. Tbe stone of the Coliseum hs been less durable than the bricks of the oldest Roman sewers. baths and aqueducts The chemical action both in bricks and mortar consists mainly in the forma tion of alkaline silicates, some of which are exceedingly bard and exceedingly durable. The combination which is effected by burning is more speedy but less homogeneous than that wnicn results from tne lapse ot ages, nance, we often find that bricks have been entirely corroded while the mortar honeycomb remains with a strong hardness.

No other moulding material, continued Jfrofessor Uhaee, is so nearly fireproof as prick, and none possesses so many architectural advantages. The palmy age of Italian majolica was inaugurated by the terra cotta Luca de ma Robbla ap plied to the external decoration of palaces and cbuicbes. The ease with which cornices, curves, bevels, angles, heads, arches and circles can be moulded and manufactured, the varieties of color and effect which can be Introduced and the cheapness with which a satisfactory expression can be given to the most elaberate architec; tural designs give the brkkmaker an honorable rank among tbe artisans whose lab jrs are both useful and tcsthetlc. Tbe lecturer described the qualifications of a "perfect brick" and gave the details of manufacture both by hand and ma chinery, communicating much interesting historical Information. He illustrated his remarks by sptdmen bricks and diagrams and oy tern peril the clay and moulding bricks in tbe presence of the audience, which was a large and very appreciative one.

i Tha Seamen and Landamea'a Aid Society. Tbe fourth annual report of the Seamen and Landsmen's Aid Society has been presented. It states that most of the vessels la the Dataware during the year were supplied with papers, tracts and other reading matter. Tbe Eastourn Mariners' Library, at Front and Union streets, has been a great resort for sailors. One hundred and fifteen sailors have taken the pledge in this room, and many have joined Christian churches.

There have been given out 77,610 papers, 27,878 tracts, 8709 pamphlets, 938 books, 73 prayer books, 80 Bibles, 149 Testaments and 49 hymn books. During the year 2495 saflors have visited the reading room. The librarians have visited and supplied 1000 vessels. The Crazier Library, No. 923 South Front street, has succeeded In converting flltv persons.

Daring the year 18,853 papers, 15,150 tracts and 600 books have been distributed, and 580 vessels have been visited. 1 Lost and Found, Monday afternoon a well-dressed ladv complained at the office of the American District Telegraph Company, corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets, that she had lost a solitaire diamond ear ring, valued at one thousand dollars. According to her statement ehe was from New York and visiting in this city, wishing to return home the. same evening. She stated the houses she had visited and the lines of cars and tbe streets sbe had been on.

Several messengers were despatched upon the search, and in a frbort while Messenfer.Bjy Jobn Blakley, No. 133. returned with tbe mfxatnz article, and re. ctived as a reward $7 50. The jewelry was not misEed until the lady was opposite to the where she gave the notice oi ner lass.

The OeneaAs oi Plant. Yesterday Association Hall, Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, waa filled with a large and cultured audience to listen to the seventh lecture tha wcstina wk- hv Rav. Dr. Georcre Dana Boardman. Hla subject was the "Genesis of Hants." ine eientn lecture, ran aucoubj, will be on tne ueneeia oi tne iiamuunm.

The Dead Bodlea at Currituck, Mr. P. Collins, of the firm of Collins Brothers, left this city for Currttack beach yesterday. He will have the bodies buried there disinterred and brought to this city. ..1.1.

n. vv uig vabu uu would not state the length of bis Interview with the defendant, or whether tbe door, was shut, but, when asked If It was all day, he felt no restraint, and promptly replied, Lord; no 1" How did he know he was smoking I Why "because he wm always smoking." When pushed pretty hard on one point he turned upon his persecutor with the remark: "You are enough to confuse anybody, and I do not think It is lawful to mix a man up so." He knew be was not In the government detective service, "for how could he be and bs a segar manufacturer?" a conundrum which remained unanswered. He said he would take the liberty to prompt the counselor when the latter attributed to him an act of a government oflhlal. Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue Higey testified to having cautioned the defendant as far back aa 1873 that the must destroy the stamps on tbe broken boxes, and testified to bringing away from her place the boxes which he extlblted to the jury For the defense good character was shown, and witnesses were called to sho that the store was robbed the night before and tbe segars taken from the boxes fcund empty. The Jury evidently believed that the witness on whom the government principally relied was more mixed than he admitted himself to be, as they brought In a verdict of no guilty.

Carlos Pareta was next arraigned on the charge of manufacturing segars without giving the wqultlte bond. Deputy Collector Sehrelber testified to having eearcbid his room, at No 418 South Fifth street, and to finding about 3000 segars lying In piles and a quan'Hy of leaf to-; bacco. He also conversed with Pareta, who a Spaniard, and spsaks English bat slightly, and testified that Pareta admitted hiving made the irgars. Maxwell Stevenson, counsel for the defend- ant, called witnesses to tbe good character of the defendant, and argued that his client could neither understand nor epeik English suflhl-- cntly to have any conversation of tils reliable; furthermore, his room mate, who was a manu-t' fjcturtr, was not now to be found, and It was proble tbat the absentee manufactured the eegars. The Jury though otberwtu, and ren- dered a verdict of guilty.

Flaed 1100 and sen tenced to three months. OBFRANS' COCBT. -i Judget Banna, Athman and Ptwrou. Estate ot Jolly minors. Petition and answer submitted and petition Estate of Caroline Chanceller.

Exception! to 1 judication argued. kstate of Joseph and John Helnlng. Petition remove guardian argued..