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gt gMggxxrli g5mt8e girterg. gtmft 7, 1887. ewuld ebtara as-w in MTeka- west around to Dr. Seerlo kwMli i fiiiMi. ih mp throe bwvii iwir.

end! elavaot drove Mrs. faerie wild wit unavailing aaeeuoa. nUNUllii(OTWMM kept ap train eftar e'eioek. wkM Pr. Seert Mat ore tone bU- tlatotBO fMa DM of the pri et th St Oaorg Hotel, mm by thoea It Mi la substenea, commo- bjc4 to the wssehers.

IS ih follow: 4 BCH 8 f. If. Tte eoorfltln of Mr. Baeehe dm eat IhuH 4art the aay. He to to) a deeply eeme-ana state, free which be eeaeot be aroused u4 from wtleh wul probably Mf rally.

He he ssteuy, lis owe la asspsos steep, ana gjrrs a umu. fJIWI OX Mia poies irem P0 to 100. at aaa time for severs! boors It la- Isvmlias twa ar tare aaau seen mlaate, rat tela evening It hs rwialaaa regular aaa auto, herd sod lalL 1 be tarn para to re aaa nind frma (no IMV. aad at pceeeat stands at 100 V-the rBtrallee tnakr ttatl ta tha mia-Ito. Tba body and extremities ara equally arm.

Tha face la lashed and baa a somewhat livid bo Ha to sable ta apaak ar a wallow saythiag except aaMll auaatiUes of Uqalda. watch si est ha esatlonaly administered la prevent choking. Jmriog taa dsy ha haa baaa aadec taa Suaateat su-prrvUum at hia pbTlMn, wba will remain wltn him to-night, Ira. T. Heltnath an1 W.

A. Hem-stood, of New. York CltV.bav each visited him one la-flaf. tu litre scodleai adviser ara la full end aatlra accord aa taa aatara aaa inaauoa at taa dlc Ka present statue, tba medical measures to i nskryeo. aaa at ta tha progress of Oka eaaa li la their ouIuUmi that taa history of tha dsv COB- nnne uia opinio tncy Ite entertained rrom ins De al aalng, namely, thai raeovory ta aot la ba hoped lor i that tboagh the Infusion of blood lata Wm brala new atonped.

a fresh hemorrhage mar eeear at anr tlnta and sueedllv and liter thai thka to llkall that uta nasty baapaa, aa (ar aa praaaat Irnlleatlooa aaa ba traalad, aiul aboaM It aot owar. that hla Ufa mar ba iDaraa pat aararal day a haw Inn aapoada aa hla nxlnrnwa a4 atraaath of aoaatitauoa. ira. Hammoad aad Hainath will aot rata ra for eonanltattoa ualaaa aaat for aa thap hava tijrwuf tbainaalraa aa dMHa-Itif It aanaaaMiarp. Ma oaa arcapt htra.

IMiechar kiid bar rblUlrra art allowad to rlalt hla badaida. a farther baUatl will ba toaaad BBtll Monday moralaa. W. it. aKAULK.

M. 1. That waa tha Uat Tba fast that ao more hul-IftUaa warn to ba toaaad did not anatn to affect tha watobara, for tbay waited aUlL, and tbatr rlatl waa kait up Ion Into tbe night, light rain bejraa to tall, but tber lifted tbelr umbrellaa and dnflad iL. Notblog aaemed capable of drir-int tham from tbelr poat. Canr in tba venlng, at ahoot 9 :30 o'clock, tr.

Edward baecher, Mr. beecber'a brother, ar-rtTed at tba bonae and waa aoon followed by the Rar. Edward Bconile, Btamford. Mr. aon-ln-law.

There were than In taa bonae baaldea them, Mri. Sconile, Mr. Beecber, Vol Henry C. Krtarber. Major W.

0. Beecher, tbe thildran, and Major Pond. Dr. arla, Rlordan, Ida auraa, end tba eervhnta. Daring tba afternoon Major Pond, In Mr a.

Beaobar'B name, lent telegrams urging tbe Immedlata coming of fnanr otbnr relatlres, among whom were Will-lam Baanher. of Chicago Cbarlea Beaoher, of I'rnnaylTanla; Tboniaa Bneeber, of Kim Ira, N.Y.J the Her. George Heeoher, of Hlllabor-augh, Ohio, and Mlta ftcovlU. Mr. Berber's graodilaiigbter, at Wrllealey College.

Calla wore ntada at the bonae during the day by hand rod a of peraonal frienda, on whom the written warning not to ring the bell bad It effort, and thay altnply read the bulletin and made no effort to enter the bonae or to W-are tbelr card a. Among tboee, bowarer, who did In and who were reetrad by Beerber were Mayor Whltaer, ex-Mayor 8etb I-ow, Dearon R. V. Wblta, Dr. niteboork, Ir.

Uutcblnaon, H. II. Tan Ingen, John T. Howard, Auguatua Btorra, ClTll Serrlre rommlaatoner Andrew J. J'reat-nn, Dr.

T. lie WlttTalmage and dauchter, foL Wla-fata, Clair MrKrlway, Tbomaa U. Shearman, Oen. Cbriatensitn, John Foord, (len. Horatio Ing, and eereral memhers of I'lymoutb Cbiirrh.

Telegram and Inttrra of aympathy and condo-lenna addraaaed to ra. Heeoher were reonlTed during the day from California to Maine. Tueee Mrs. Bencher reoelred and read beraelf. Hhe aaJd that aa ret she conaldared that they ware la part aarred.

and waa dlmnollned to glre tbelr eontenta to the preaa. Moat of them. Major Pond aald, were from elnrgymen and from friend wbom Mr. and Mra. Heocber bad known lntl-Biataly for many years.

Praaldent Clereland talegrapbed a long meeaage of aympalhr, and Lyman Abbott and ez-Uor. William Claflln, of Maaaaebuaotu, ware alao among the number who thus eipreaaed tbelr feellnga. oui 0 o'olook until after ll rial to ra eon-ttnued to aome aad go. The aiream leaaened In rolume but tbe deep anxiety on tbe suaerer behalf waa aa great on tbe part of the lataatraggllngeallera aa of the earlier crowd. At a few uilnntea before 1 1 OtHoer Mo(oldrink, who rum alued on duty at the door during tbe Dlarbt, waa railed Into the bouse, given bla supper, and Informed tbat tbe family bad decided to retire for tbe night and tbat caller muat be so Informed.

In a few minutes tbe curtains were drawn at all tba wlndowa. and at 11:30 P. M. tha only lighted window waa tbe one faolng on (lark-atreet, from tbe room In whlob Mr. Beerber lay.

Mrs. Beerber was by bis aide. The others bad retired, but merely to lie down with tbelr oiothea on, ready for any amnion. Daring tbe evening a telegram waa reoetTed from a friend of Herbert Beet'her, at Portland, Oregon, stating tbat tba latter was on bis way to ran Franclsoo by sea and could not ba reached by telegram. At about 9 P.

M. the family were somewhat surprlaed, la view of the Information already reeolved, to get a tele- 8 ram direct from Herbert Beecber, dated at cattle, Washington Territory, and stating that be had reoelred tbe telegram sent htm, and bad started tor borne. It was stated tbat be would reaeh home la about Are days. TEARS IN PLYMOUTH CHURCH, There wen many vacant seats In Plym-' juth Church ratei-day and many tears. Tbe member of tbe ehurch were In a great majority, and nearly ail of them deserted their regular seaU and got as near to tba pulpit as was possible.

big bssket of calla 11 Ilea rested on tha platform under tbe pulpit. The Rar, Dr. Powell, tha Secretary of tba American Borne Missionary Society, sat In Mr. Beecbera acouatomed chair, and tbe Rev. B.

B. Balllday. Aaalataat Paator of the church, occupied a chair beside him. Dr. Powell prayed long and earneatly for the abeent Paator, and then Mr.

Halllday announced that the regular service would be omitted. His voice was broken by sob, and aeveral times he bad to atop to regain bla aelf-poaaeaaloa. The weeping of the ladlee oonld be plainly beard, and many of the older me a In the congregation bowed tbelr heads and erted aloud. Mr. Ualilttay said It seems to me fit to omit the regular aervtoe and aimply celebrate tbe holy communion.

I think your hearts will read-. liy respond to this change. To-night there will be a aervloe at prayer In tba lecture room. There are aeveral raaaona for this. It Is easier to speak to tha Master than to each other.

Besides there are many who cannot learn ot our Pastor's condition at the bouse, but they can have the latest IntaUlgaaoa by coming to this meeting. There ay ba soma who have not heard of his they, too, can be Informed this evening. Mr. Halllday' voice could hardly be heard, and ba wiped away hie tears before he said: My brethren. I hava but one message to aire rou.

Mr. Beecber' a condition la ao critical that bis physioiens give no hope, although no material change ha taken place within 84 hours. la making the regular announcements of the day Mr. Halllday said that the entertainment tor tbe benefit of tha Western Branch of the Boldlers' Home, at Leavenworth, which was to hava taken place to-night, bad been indefinitely postponed. It was for this home tbat Mr.

Beauber bad eased aid In tbe shape of books only a week ago and bad promised to contribute 5 volumes from his own library. In place of this entertainment a service of prayer will be held to-night In tba church parlors. All the athar entertainment and meetings of societies to occur during tbe coming week have beeapoet-poned. After the celebration of tbe communion and tbe admlaslon of eight new members to1 tbe tburcn, tbe congregation sang Mr. Bencher's favorite hymn.

Love divine all love excelling," to tbe muste ot Beecber' Then Mr. Halllday read a selection from Mr. Beecbers bank. "Vtoiurorttng printed in 1885. which read: When we hava passed through tha twilight of Ufa and our sun seems to be setting, let us call hark 1 As tbe congregation left tba church tba organist played I know that- my Redeemer livetb, from Handel' orasnrto.

tba Messiah. After tba service tbe members of tba church, the Truatees. and the Itaaeoas held a meeting In tba parlors of tha rhurcb, and appointed a committee to act tor them in case bf aeoeaeitr. The lecture room ot the ehurrh waa not large enough to contain the poor's "no flocked there last evening to lake part la tba special service of prayer which waa euhatituted for the regular evening service, Mr. Halllday and Prof.

Kua-. alter Raymond sat upon tbe platform, looking Into tha tares of aeveral hundred weeping men and women. Prof. Bajrmond read the byoin, beginning: 1 Ob. spirit freed from earth, kejeice, thy work to SoasT Then tha congregation sang Jesus, lover of toy souL after which Prof.

Raymond read a antler from Co. Beecber, la which be at ted that his tat bar a condition waa uacbaaawd. Ue is aoeoaacloos, continued the letter, and will probably reeaaia ao natil tba ml" As soon aa hi sob would permit Mr. Halllday prayed for strength and wisdom. What memories crowd pan aa," be said, here la this aid spot, where hie flgare waa ao familiar.

But to-night ba who baa bona for a marine shepherd of tbla Hock la aot with as. Ilia splee shall not ba beard again, but eur brother to not dead, aod will not die ao long as tbi shureh livra." Then another bruin waa sung aod Prof. Haymond read front tba Bible aad taa following extract from a letter written by Mr. Beecber: "I hop (od wiu hava aa Hack consideration toe ray weakness as te let ma drop down In arse. I bare aa fear o( dyings Is bvtag taa I trtghteas nia." Tbla to tba greatest Sorrow which could befall aa." aald Prof.

Kay mood. We sit here waiting, but la what spirit I Surely not one of sorrow and of tear. This Should be aa hoar ot taa pi ration aad of hope. That Is taa sailings ba would aortd you If ba re id. We bar walked wtU aa Apostle at uod who baa shew keavaa ta as.

Now he to to ro aa bo baa aa ansa prayed be aboaM. He to going as did tea dainty leaf ka talis us about la tba euUegao to Norwood." Tboee who bare gone before era ceiling hint, tboee wba have stood shoulder to shoulder with bias, taoea who hava romgbt aim. those Waa Caere allil" wOB Dc iu ward at Basebaft brstbst at tba dr lac maa. next prayed that those present should Taa sbowa tba goodness of God la this thing. Ha gave way T.

J. Til nay, waa aaldi It baa boon said tbat whoa Usury Ward Beecber died Plymouth Church would ba divMed. People aald tbat our love of him was Idolatry, but tba fruit of 40 years of snob a Ufa as bla will not ba tba dissolution of ail bs loved and worked ao bard to build. If ba could bear such predictions ba would say. 'Uo on.

I have begua tbe works go Mr. Beecber baa left us many things a great legacy. There haa aever been a quarrel lu Plymouth Cbnreh. There have been no dl rial oca and no dtovuteu. Cannot this ehurch prove that ba still lives and bla work survives I Buck a monument woo Id fit such a man." Another hymn preceded a few remarks by S.

V. White, who scouted tbe Idea tbat Mr. Beech-ers half eaatury of work bad aa more etability than human life, aod predicted tbat Plymouth Church would wllhaland tba storms ot auaay years. Thomas O. Shearman spoke more Intimately of Mr.

Bencher's Ufa than did any one elae. Snob simplicity and dignity of character be bad Barer soea la any other man. Wa live too ear Benrr Ward Beecber to appreciate him," be declared; Juat aa tbe Bwlaa do not appreciate their Alps. It belongs to future time to value him. It was only a few days ago tbat ba spoke to me about his autoblog raphy and asked my assistance on a certain pur-tloa of It Who will write it now, and wbenl Not for many years to come.

I warrant you. There to one fact in bis public life which should and will be written in tbe future, but more Important Is it that the behavior of this man In his family durinar bis great trouble shall be known. Many time have bis children told ue of it and I Barreled. Uod could not have chosen a more fitting time than this for Henry Ward Beecber to fall. He has reached tbe fullness of his faith.

He haa weathered arrest atorroa and hee-rpaesed safely through prosperity. He has fought a great fight aud bas lived to see bin foes numbered among bis greatest admirer. 1 bis Is tbe fiftieth year of his ministry, the fiftieth of his marriage, and the fortieth of hla work among us. This to Indeed much for which to be grateful." After Dr. Lyman Abbott bad prayed and another hymn bad been sung the service ended.

Tbe committee of five John T. Howard, Auguatua Storra. 8. V. White.

T. J. Tllney, and Roaaiter Raymond met after the aervice and decided tbat, if Mr. Beecber died, tbe old church bell would not be rung. SYMPATHY FROM THE PULPIT.

IK BROOKLYN. The Rev. Dr. Talmnge during the service at tbe Brooklyn Tabernacle yesterday morning spoke feelingly of Mr. Beecber.

Tbe congregation was much affected and handkerchief were placed at many eyes. While we are this morning before Thee," he said in the opening prayer, "our soul Is shadowed with grief because our brother Pastor of a sister church la dying. Ob, Lord, we thank Thee tbat Thou baat preserved him so long. Is it too much to axkThee to restore him!" Afterward Dr. Talniaae aald.

In part: "The brightness of tills hour Is Kliudowed with tbe sorrow of a Cbrlstiau church whose Pastor Is dying or dead. Though your politics snd your religion may have been dilli-rent, I think ws all acree In saying that wben llrnry Ward Beecber goes out of this life It will leave a vast vacuum In this city and in the land. For IS years wo have been friendly neighbor. Hi departure from life is to me a personal bereavement. He was the friend of tbe slave, the friend of the taxed, the friend of the laboring man, tba friend of the capitalist, the friend ot all.

It would hardly be merciful for us to pray too ardently for his detention here, since his physiolans say If be remains on earth It will be with Impaired Intellect Bo I have two wishes the one that be may have a painless departure into the good land which Uod haa provided for ail who love bim, wnere there are no tears and no death; and my other wish la tbat upon bis family and oliurch there may come tbe comfortinir grace of God." The Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, at the Lnfayette-Avenue Presbyterian Church, spoke at aouie length of Mr. Beecber's life. Although be and Mr.

Beecber had, he said, always held religion views that were widely different, vet thm fact waa well understood by tlieiu both and they had agreed to dlaagree. Through 40 and more year their private friendship bod remained unbroken. Mr. Cuyler spoke feelingly of the days when anti-slavery agitation was rife in the North, wnon he and Mr. Beocher had been brought into the closest contact, speaking time nnd again from the same platform for tbe sauie great cause.

He thought tbat perhaps he bad been with Mr. Beecber mure than any other preacher In Brooklyn. Of his worth and personality be spoke In glowing words. The prayers ot the church were asked for Mr. Beecber and hi family.

At Ht. Peter's Church, In State street, the Rev. Lindsay Parker asked his congreicatlon tore-member Mr. Beecber and his ramlly in tbelr prayers. After the service Mr.

Parker said that he rode home with Mr. Beecber from tbe recent high license meeting In Checkering Hall, and tbat on tnat occasion Mr. Beecber bad spoken quite freely of his death, saying that be was prepared for It whenever It might corns. In tbe Sands-Street Methodist Church the Rev. A.

McLean prayed tbat the love and sympathy of Christ, deeper even than unconsciousness, mlcht come to Mr. Beeoher, and tbat his family might be upheld and oomtorted as they surrounded hit bedside. The Rev. R. a Psrdlngton.

In the Fleet-Btreet Methodist Church, commended Mr. Beeoher to God' care. All who had known him. be said, should bless Ood that be had been spared for so long and useful a life, and tor his great Intellect and power as a reformer. The Rev.

T. B. McCloud, at the Clinton-Avenue Congregational Church, spoke of tbe great amount of good tbat Mr. Beecber bad done, and prayed thai he might be delivered from pain. The Rev.

Dr. R. 8. Storrs, of the Church of tbe Pilgrims, referred to Mr. Beeoher In bis prayer yesterday when he asked the help of Ood for the sick In the congregation and the vicinity; may the Impending blow be averted and may tliey be spared to long life and usefulness." At Holy Trinity, on cllnton-street, the Rev.

Dr. Charles H. Hall nretnoed tbe service with an announcement of Sir. Beecber's affliction and the statemeut that be was still alive. During the long prayer Dr.

Hall inserted a special prayer lor tbe sick and dying. The Rev. George E. Reed, of the Hanson-Place Methodist Church, made special mention ot Mr. Beeoher in bis prayer, as did also the Rev.

J. Allen, ot tbe Hanson-Place Baptist Church. IN KEW-IOBK. At nearly all the Protestant churches in the elty except tbe Episcopalian and the Fourth-Avenue Pfeaby terian, of which the Rev. Howard Crosby, D.

la Pastor, references were made In tbe prayers to Mr. Beeoher. Dr. Crosby does not read the Sunday papers and he did not know of Mr. Beecber's Illness until he was Informed of It by a reporter ol Thb Times lust after his return to his residence after last evening's service.

He was astounded, and expressed great sorrow. He aald tbat while he and Mr. Beerber bad been at varianoe upon the slavery question, on all tbe other great questions of the laat 40 years they bad stood on the same Jilatform. Mr. Beecber's death would be a great osa, for he had wielded more power In tbe Nation than any man of bis day, and his vast Influence had been almost always for good.

As a friend and as a fellow-cttlaen he deeply mourned bis loss. The Rev. Robert Collyer, at tbe Church ot tbe Messiah, prayed that Mr. Beeoher might "be spared among us tor a little lonicer, in order tbat the world might bo stIU further benefited by his labors for the uplifting of humanity and tbe glorification of Almighty Ood." 4 toe West Presbyterian Church the Rev. John R.

rax ton In his prayer alluded to the stroke which the Almighty had given to the greatest ot the preacher ot Ood' word, the man who wa foremoat in the cause of humanity, the liberation of tbe slave, the comforting of the miserable, tbe enlightening of tbe ignorant, tbe suocorof the oppressed. Tha Rev. Dr. Thomas Armltage, of the Flfth-A venue Baptist Church, who has been an intimate friend of Mr. Beecber for 40 years, could not restrain his tears when he addressed his congregation from the pulpit yesterday morning.

Just before beginning his sermon. He said: "As we are holding these services, tha life of Henry Ward Beecber is ebbing away. Pur 39 years we have been fellow-Pastors. We were settled over our respective churches about the same time, and we have always been very Intimate, I have had uninterrupted confidence In his integrity. like ail men who have doue aa much thinking aa ounelvea upon the great and vital questions ot the day we have often reached different conclusion and have taken different views, but our firm affection for each other bas never diminished for a moment.

I shall foel his death as a very sad personal loss. But tbe greatest loss Is the country's. Mr. Beecber possessed unrivaled powers of eloquence, great originality of thought, a large grip, and broad views. He was tbe greatest preacher of his age.

I think hit name will go dowu to poo Verity a tha sTeatcat preacher of the nineteenth century. Knowing Mr. Beecber as I did, I eaa't conceive of any method of departure from tbla life whirh would have been so grateful to him aa this whkk ha bapnaued to him. I speak ot hliu as dead, for before the rise ot another sun I suppose be will have ceased ta breathe. If be bad beea able to choose his own manner of death be would have chosen to die at once, to lose consciousness in ths twinkling of an eye." The Rev.

William Lloyd. Pastor ot the Central Congregational Cbcroh, In bia prayer made aa eloquent reference to Mr. Beecber utter fearlessness of death, his one wish being: I hope, when the Lord sees tbat my life-work Is finished, tnat He will permit me ta pass away like a coa aaa exaenuou lis roree. At tbe Church ot tha LMvina Paterniti anu na enabled to renew hla priceless labors for KUgloa and humanity; If be muat die, then he he llm received Into tbe heavenly fold, where Joy to everlasting and sorrow never enters. Tba Rev.

Dr. Robert 8. MacArthar, at the CaV-rypUettwurch, Implored tbe divine Inter-cwsstoa fur ths eloqueat preacher at Us Ward at iod now lying striate by the bead ot death, a maa whose heart had always beaten tor the waiter at humanity. Faare Kstkedlat Episcopal rhurcb. tha Rot, ft McCheaney.

spoke at Mr. aetalBvrry work efthe unlTee! aaUtr at his illaathroay. tha oX bit tha Rer. Charto H. Eaton prayed that Mr.

Beecber, it were Ood will, might ba restored to health and taa taflneaeo of bid praarklBk. Be prayed far bit and hla afflicted family new gai lng tba Bight taern aroaaa nis oeaatae await ed1 bia Immortal aoui trot hla mortal body At the ICburea of tba Stranrer tba Raw. Dr. Charles M. Deems implored tba Divine blessing on aft.

Beecber and toe outpouring of Hla grace, a very present help In trouble, upon his wife and children. SORROW IX MANY PLACES. LoinxLx, March The Ear. Mr. Parker, at his Serrtca this evening, eulogized Mr.

Beecber. pathy of Be expressed the profoondest sym- hlmself and bla hearers with the affllct- ed Pastor! Be prayed for Mr. Beecber and for that they might be comforted by tbe tbat this servant was prepared for 'We mourn." be said, "yet we re- bis friends know Heaven. Joice In tour sadness. Why should we mourn when a traveler complete ma tourney when a rovaawr toavee the aea over which be baa wan- dered an rejoins bla kindred at homer Red BkNI, offered In ail the evantrelical churches here and at Long Branch to-day for dying Henry Ward Beeoher.

nr. ueecner was under engagement at Long Branch next month. to lecture PKBKflkn.L, N. March 6. When the new that Henry Ward Beeoher had been stricken lexr reached here evervbodv felt aad.

with apoelex lor Mr. Beecber bas for a good many year been one of themselves. lie owns a large bod highly cultivated farm of about 300 acre on Main-street, about a mile out of It was a familiar sight In the Bum- tbe vlilede. mer time to see him riding through the village in hia road wagon, sometimes alone and at members of his family. others i wlkh ALL OF ONE MIND.

HORSEMEN URGING THE IMPROVEMENT OF JEROME-ATEXUE. 'This! it neither fish nor flesh aairl a Jerome-sjVenue landlord yesterday, In a tone of disgust, is he looked out upon the sluah-covered sweep oi roaa ana up at the lowering sky. It fouL Thkt road Is not fit for sleighing and It's not fit to drive a wagon over. It's tbe slowest day wa have bad this year." And, ret there were fonr or firs alelvhi nnt and then seemed to elide over or thmnrh th slush without much effort on the part ot tbe There were a number of wagons, too, ntnat nf IK. rv A fk.t.

i wwa. v. .11 IU uou UlOll lAIOQ VU. UUU flillnn ki.t 1. A 1 Min ivuddu uraw rein over a fait horse, haa not often missed putting ruura oi vioue vase a ox a nunnay, was anal and aa wu1.nfiiMi1 k.a (m nn vw wvm.

mn uo Mm vu a warm siSnshlny day. "Damon and Pythias," who have been eouallv faithful in thdr atten tion a to (tbelr friend Judffe Smith for manv rears, ro led up to the lattefa door In a top buggy, ei ch wearing a silk hat. Tbe bate will have to I ironed to-day, for when they left for home tbe rain waa pelting down vigorously. ThbTmesU deserving ot like thanks with thoae wh ch have hn iImmmI tha n.an makes a blade of grass grow where It did not grow befSre. It bas started a new topic of conversation! at tha wavalda hnattlrl inil in tha piacee where the owners of good road horses oongregate.

Ever since it urged the necessity or improving jerome-avenue, the road goers hal'A nAj trrtlntr wl.K V. their shoalders, like a ehlp. The only drawback ia tbat no) one ran be found who has any dealre to knock it off. There la a perfect unanimity of opinion among them on the subject, and even the ovneli of real estate on the avenue are beginning to wake up to the knowledge that tne improvement win be a good thing for mem. some enthusiasts say that In a few years JeJotue-aveuue will be lined from Macomb's Dam Bridge to Jerome Park with the resideuceb of wealthy people who will be crowded 4ut of Filth-avenue and its tributaries by bualnss and tenement bouses, snd that the surrounding territory will be covered with the houses of) well-to-do business men who desire fresh air and plenty of it, Jerome-avenue, they say.

will be naturally the central thoroughfare for the northern part of the city, and. taken in ronnectluki with the Harlem Railroad and the Blith-avefaue elevated, will render access to the business art of New-York easy and rapid. A reason whloh disposes the owners of property on the upper end of the avenue to favor the improvement is the necessity for a more perfect seweragelsystem, an outlet for which can only be found in Cromwell Creek. Above Case's this creek to nb longer useful for anything except to carry off the drainage from the high lands on either side of It, and this purpose could be better accomplished by a large sewer through the middle ofithe improved avenue. In straightening the a4enue.lt would be necessary to nil in a long sectibn of tbe hollow In which the creek lies, front Case's to Judge Smith's hill The filling ofithe rest of the gully would soon follow and much valuable land, which is now useless, would be redeemed for building purposes.

This straightening ot the avenue across the Cromwell Creek hollow, would set Judge fJmlth back front the roadway several hundred feet, and take a generous slice off of Mr. Case's house, but they ire oltlsens ot publlo spirit, and say that they JwIU be satisfied to suffer their Inconveniences' If only a good dirt driving road can be obtained for the horsemen of New-York. It seems pretty cettaln. however, that they would gain much more than they would lose. Tbe matter has been talked over by nearly all of the horfeemen and they all favor It.

They believe thai tbe resolution offered by Alderman Mooney ia the Board of Aldermen a few days sfter the Suggestion was made In The Times will pass that body soon, and that the Park Commissioners will proceed at onoe under the powers which tbtey now have and under the enlarged pSwers which it is being sought to give them by the Legislature, to lay out, construct, and widen roads In the Twenty-tklrd and Twenty-fourth Wards, hen it If finally determined to make the Improvement they will urge the Park Commissioners to enrfage the services of Seth Griffin, who ha charge of the Providence race track, and whose experience in roadmaklng is. In their opinion, Unsurpassed by that of any other man in the country. One of the advocates of the scheme wrote to him a short time ego, asking him if he would come to tbe city to take charge of the wofk it It should be desired. He replied that he wpuld. ASS ATT IT ED BT VRVSKKS KOVOBS.

A man covered with blood and en gaped In smashl lg the windows of a liquor saloon on Market-st -eet. In Peterson, waa arrested at 1 o'clock yc sterday morning. Tbe man's head was bleeding rom a terrible wound. He gave his name as ustave Qlaser, and said he was 'U years old aud ted with his parents on Van Wlnkle-ave- 11 a Ua a .1 IL .4 tha feat uuv. UO tut BUB Uiri.

BWltl OT fM 1 fin imtS VU.h drinking fi mo x-Biersou uyers. He had been eavily during the day and evening. 2 Mnti 1 nlkt V. A Metween from the Kirand-Essex-street tunnel under the trie nam ray, he met two other drunken men, and direci ly got Into a quarrel with them, about what he id not know. One of the men picked up a pavl ng stone and brought it down with great tore 5 upon bis bead.

He was knocked unconscious On recovering he staggered around til 1 tha. fnl iftaa aa.4 ba 1 Beifrhborhoixl were eoTered with bis blood. He smashed In the windows to ttrot attention. This man wm iant th kAdni.i found thai bis skull had been crushed In. The nrMtf nr tpntoH 17 wliAMU a A.

7" uvurj, rum me in jured mad was more romfortable last aiffht. but hs-raft avaa! liftla hnn A ki. TOtNQ SMITH STILL BILB1TT. The condition of George Condit Smith, the yonag mi suffering who Ue In tbe New-York HosnitaJ from tbe wound which be received so mysteriously in Madison-sua are Wednesdav night, wa wholly unchanged yesterday. Kotb- lng is r4t aa younat -1- Ul MBAliatl as, inlth obstinately refuses to divulge the kno bellefred wm- 9uujvi wiuca no 'ed to nnawu ui, uii4.

Barnes. the Patersoa girl whose band- sill vtrvikakat VAU i a some face aome rrje -ted suitor to attack her favored lover. waa aeen wwnmy. enc saiu that she bad never been euratfea to waiter Cam the Yale arrAftt atll) stlliasaWt IIAnt tsUaaB athlete. wflioae i Saturday made such a stir.

He had. she ad- turned. psiid her much attention a year or two never went so far aa an engagement. aa-o, but II be waa and they were going to spend the Winter at washing t4u. FJtTJfD BT A STBAtTOKR.

The bofly of the young man who com- nutted sufcide on Saturday by taking laudanum Harlem. Third-avenue and One at tbe Hotel HundreH fnd Fifteenth-street, was identified at the Moreue ny an unsnown man yeaterday aa Ham B. rVhuyler. The atranrer ob- tnat of tained a he told rairia al permit from Dr. Herroid.

hfim ithkt Pt-huyler waa an ex-convtct. and tha Son nf Carried parents. The family at 1 .930 Lextngton- avenue, with whom Bchuyler tmarded ror a abort but aay nao, anew notouiaT or nia History. tnat he waa flighty and aubject to fanct- atreaks. The i stranker ne naa do eeitieu employment.

tid an undertaker $13 to bury then dlsaPDeared. Na one also an- Bchurler and 1 peered to blaim the body. PISSOITAL iyTELZIGXXCS. CoL P. Tiawlnl the Hotel a Juds-e Dn-el.

of Buffalo, lu at tbe Murray CoL Ctiarles 11 uukl Taylor. of the Boston Ctobcto the torla Hotel. Ex-Corigre fornia, to at thaBtT Jamea-Hotei Con grekstnan TllOITItsJal Vf Tth-aiA a 9 tai sylvan ia sachusetta hata i Uoffataa rai'rcarniaUTM, ana Wiea aa are at the Hoffman ni yat-Qeft. Philip H. Sheridan .,) pi a C.

Keilogi niacocs, Strait, of Millard, Ta.WL?1' "Bd M-Cougreaaman a venae Hotai, a. xarea tau 'itU- mental NEW LIFE IN OLD TOWNS A TYPE OF THE NEW SOUTHS PBOQEESSIVENESS. tJPBUIXDIHO PROJECTS WELCOMED AJTD HELPED OPPOKTUHTTIES FOB THE FARMER IX DIXIE. Decatur, March 1. While doing full honor to Montgomery and Mobile and Annle-ton as well developed cltiee tbat feel and show forth in Alabama the inspiration ot tbe new South' spirit, while chronicling tbe rattling rush Of Birmingham Into wealth and consequence, while pointing out, as well, the bubbles tbat sheer speculation blows, and paper towns that have Importance only on gaudy land syndicate maps there still remains the need to do Justice to what, after all, I take to be the most significant, because tbe most characteristic, of all real and asserted progress and prosperity tbat shows in Alabama; the new faith that old towns hava found In themselves, tbe new spirit that animate to the building up of villages tbat have slept till now In dreary laoonaequeno tba century through.

And there are illustrations on Illustrations available to make this cheerful exhibition. For every fraud that I have found In the South and I do not believe that this corre-spondenoe may be charged with trying to gloss over any one of them I have found a dosen examples tbat challenge admiration and demand Indorsement. The good far outweighs tbe bad. To the man of capital who wants to make money tbe South offers opportunities In plenty; to tbe man ot small means, If he be but content to work heartily, the chance Is opened for profit and for prosperity; but where thereto merit. Just aa where there ia none, this is gospel tbat needs aver to be attended: you are no Investor you are a gambler and are gambling recklessly wben you put money anywhere without knowledge of its security through a personal investigation or the counsel of a trusted agent.

There are reputable business men In New-York, as there are in tbe Booth, easily found, who have expended a good deal ot time In investigating Southern advantages and resources, and advice from such sources (where they have a home reputation to maintain and are not professional boomers) Is a safe guide; you will trust others at a risk. With so much impressed, let us see something of tbe methods that the awakened old towns depend on to put their fortunes forward. A good long list may be written of towns here that seem to have the promise in them ot marked development and growth soon to be realized. From tbat list, and with prejudice to none other. I take one as an example this town of Decatur, where I am dating my letter.

Decatur was one of the Southern towns that first felt tbe Impulse of improvement and progress. The measure of her advance was not great, but It was an advance for all that. Bare natural advantages were hers; her position in New-England would bave made her a Yankee metropolis. Here cross lines of the two most lmportaut railway systems touching Tennessee and Alabama; right against her flow the strong water of the Tennessee Klver. Her situation is hiirh, her climate inviting; bealthfulness Is natural.

Virgin forests line the river banks, offering timber as a staple or as fuel for factories; farms fertile and broad press closely up to the town's borders, and the mineral reiitons of Alabama and Tennessee are within a reach tbat requires little effort. But out of all this advantage for inheritance Decatur through years made nothing for herself; the accretion that comes to every old town in a farming territory enlarged her somewhat a year ago she bad a population possibly of 1,900 or to-day she can easily count 2.f0; they who have large interests in her predict tbat 5,000 will be here before this yesr is out and plans that practical business men are laying and baaing Investments on look to a population of 25,000 speedily. Mo Illustrative is this of what is going on In other almost all the other small towns of Alabama that I take it to be well worth description' aud consideration. Some talk wa heard some time ago suggesting that a big moneyed syndloate waa preparing to make Decatur the ground of Its enterprise. Two months ago the Uinta materialized, and it was announced that tho publlo would have tbe chance to subscribe to the capital stock of the Decatur Land Improvement and Furnace Company.

Tbe result waa phenomenal. On the day that the first shares were Issued the entire capital was subscribed tor. and $1,000,000 or more of subscriptions In excess had to be declined. One more evidence was offered thus that tbe Pouth's natural advantage are recognized aa so rich and rare that their development needs only to be undertaken to attract coworkers in abundance. Seven and a halt millions represents the face value of the company's stock, but there was a ground floor' of 20 cents on the dollar, or, to be plain, four-fifths of the capital to water, and that Is the only feature of all I've seen at Decatur tbat I cannot fully and unreservedly indorse.

There may be nothing Tioloua ot Itself in the water policy; it is the rule that right at the start baa governed almost every recent Southern capitalization it may not be hurtful, may not be misleading, it may even, as is claimed lu Its behalf, be helpful attracting attention. Still, though, the old-fashioned scheme that counted a dollar a dollar, that required a dollar to buy a dollar's wortb, and never gave to one dollar the seeming power of fire or twenty tbat scheme, old-fashioned as It is. does seem to prosy folks to have merit in It. Let me couple tbat statement though with this: while in some quarters I've found stock watering a net for gullibility, the bait for gudgeon, 1 do not believe tbat it has bad motives buck of it here. Decatur has men ot wealth devoted to her.

Major Eugene C. Gordon, at the head ot her new enterprise. Is the brother of Gov. Gordon, of Georgia, and was one of the boy heroes of the Confederacy thrilling tales are recounted of bis rallantry; he feared nothing, be dared everything. War wiped out the Gordon family fortune; be has been a worker from the day of Appomattox, a worker of such force and such genius that he is now counted as rich as ever bis wealthy planter father was; every penny of all he possesses he bas made In' the new South, made in helping make the new South, for be rank as one of the new Pouth's pioneers.

Two New-Yorkers are alliod closely with Major GordonJudge H. G. Mond and Dr. W. K.

Forest. Dr. Forest wa till lately one of the leading physicians of New-York City, practicing in the Washington-square district He has become an enthusiast on the new South, as has also Judge Bond, whom New-Yorkers know through bis connection with tbe Klugs County Elevated Railway and other enterprises of consequence. udge Bond bad to do with the early history of Denver and has become manager here. Other Directors are business men of Alabama and Georgia who stand high In their respective communities.

The townspeople showed their baptism into the new faith by meeting the syndicate over naif way; tbe company owns 6,000 acres in and close about Decatur and bas 50,000 acres of mineral lands close st hand; none ot this property cost excessively most of it waa obtained at prices that ruled Just after the war, and much was practically given outright There was something substantial in this sort of a welcome that showed the old town's spirit Progress has been made in the two months that work bas been underway. A score of new establishments are already promised or are in sight. Including extensive Plants for making orude alcohol out of wood that at tbe same time produces ttrst quality charcoal, (a project that Just now attracting a good deal of attention In the South, and preparing to use large capital.) cjiarcoal Iron furnaces, coke iron furnace with 300 tons dally capacity, brick factories, saw mills and furniture factories, machine shops, edee tool works a factory for agricultural implements, a cotton compress plant and cotton mills, two tanneries, and a shoe factory. Over $3,000,000 of outside capital, it Is averred by those Interested, bas been attracted here since New dear's iwben the projected shops and factories ready to go to work l.OOO or 1.0O0 men will have to be added to tbe local population to keep the business going. The land company bas welcomed the new-comers uniformly by making them irtfts of land on which to settle and by subscribing generously of money to their capital.

This largely has been tbe attraction, indeed. With a policy of this sort pushed energetically, growth ot course will not bait, and In growth Is the profit of the land cotn-VUiI' "iV" haPPT fr Decatur, aud such as Decatur, that helps of this kind were found. This to a boom that la legitimate. There may be a measure of speculation in It, but this is to be said Even were the land company syndicate to desert the town when these new Industries are under way, tbe town would be sale and in tbe way to lasting prosperity, tor Decatur is no mere paper town aa some land company proven jr are not so many miles away she baa a foundation; the land company, Its maps, and its prospectus, are uot all that there 1 to her. She has she (re is the opportunity to develop and make tbe moat of thetui ah f.

cnerclal communication with the outaide world now, with a river on one side and two railroads on the other, while other Important railways are building toward her. ruch, briefly, to Decatur, a representative town V. ln There are others J' quote ber so much for herself as toaho her aa a ty pa. The thing that mark progress In her are seen elsewhere, too; ot nearly every old community in the State to tbe aaine story to be written. In tbe measure of natural advantage, ln the extent of plana undertaken, ln the degree of progress already made.

titlerencea that are material and marked, but ambition and rlear-slghted purpose are universal aad too earnest to ba mtotakeaT ior Alalma to trove toe gooO. the hitherto naanspeoted good, the good too vaat for estimation, is time. I ro-vilfi kindlT 'e'tr re.ter.lav from a Tlta gentleman who has larga interests iDJJ State. He thanked rlT1i' unvaruiehed truth about serin; that tooitrh boomer tnlcht be reseutfnl iovesters. they who hava Investment aa well ih.r I piuinnv I trill picture Hn adUed Uka: we who have iabaiua'a kuat IrMurosM ta naw aw aot want tfe wadowot need) aey'glooa vr oooming aawa as ta ainuag Birmingham real estate ageata, Taa mailt to there beyond dispute, aad ba who eaxtztet wait for taa development ot tUr.

but wants ail la aaa day. had beet step aside. oaa wait." And tbii onoument i ve rouaa all over taa new sMuto, The Southern maa la eonaerv alive whenever ha Is a maa of any consequence. Understanding tbla, let ua sea with what results recent activity la Alabama bas beea attended. Three-fourths of Alabama's Industrial growth ha enasa la taa last halt dosea year; her mining and manufacturing hava attained ta proportions of consequence since tbe laat census was taken.

Tba extent of mineral resourea bora baa been already mads plain In this correspondence, A doaea years ago 49,889 tons af eoai were mined la Alabama; last year taa output amounted to 2,800,000 tons, aa increase of 6.500 percent. Coke making ln Alabama become successful only eight years age; In 1840 there were about 500 coke ovens operated In tbe State, and they were still somewhat experimental, their output being 60.000 ton; last year 180 ovens were at work, and tha production waa S6O.0OO tons. Ten years ago, for tbe 13 months of 1876. 25,000 tons of pig iron represented tba entire output of Alabama furnaces ln 18SO tbla had slowly grown to 77,000 tons, and It required two mors years for tha production to rise to 100,000 tons. Last year 284.OO0 tons were made, a gain In 10 years equal to 1.780 per cent At tha beginning of this year the 18S6 rata of produetloa was much increased if all the urnacea that ara projected ba built aa aoon aa promised tbe State's pig Iron output for 1887 will be over double that ot last year.

Annlston is to hare 2 new furnaces. Gadsden 2. Florence. Sheffield, and Decatur 8 each, Caiera. Greensborous-h, Tuscaloosa, Tailed aga, and Jacksonville each 1, not countin new plants and enlargements promised at Birmingham.

Few minerala are found anywhere elae in tbe country that are not found also In Alabama. She markets 2.100 barrels of lime par day; one county has Just uncovered big and rich asphalt bed; two counties offer asbestus ln abnndanee, tin Id ln two counties, copper ts found In Ave counties, lead is abundant, granite and paving stone and fine marble are all over tha Statu, sandstone and slate, soapstone and emery abound, phosphi are widely scattered, sine, kaolin, and Sre elays are readily found. Cleburne, Talladega, Coosa, Chilton, and Fayette Counties all hava gold more or less accessible. The mineral seeker cannot well go amiss. Northwestern lumbermen are beglninf to invade the forest that yet cover a third of Alabama, for tbe Statu Is scarcely richer in minerals than she Is in wood.

Northern and Western capital bave found Investment in timber lands largely. Mobile, already a lumber shipping port of consequence, may safely look to the doubling of this part of her commerce speedily. It Is estimated by recognized authorities that Alabama has 19,891,000,000 feet of first-class marketable timber now standing. Twelve thousand aero are covered by the famed long-leaf pine, and 5.000 feet to the acre is a low estimate of tbe lumber to be cut therefrom. Oak.

cypress, gum, hickory, walnut, all abound. Eighty million cypres shingles ara annually made around Mobile; 250,000,000 feet of sawed pine formed part of Alabama's export trade last year. In 1880 the product turned out by Alabama saw mills wa valued at last year It approached And tbe factory using wood for its raw material, maklog furniture, machinery, and tbe like, become frequenter day by day. Tbat shows the new South. But after ail, though not much stress Is anywhere laid upon it agriculture is the hope and the ground for Alabama's prosperity.

Signs begin to show of a broadening out in this direction. Cotton bas been till very lately largely tbe monopolist of all the State's cultivated soil. There was little thrift in such a policy. A bad crop Impoverished tbe Bute. All prosperity hnng on one peg.

Of old, when there was slave labor, the failure nf a season's crop was not so telling. Negro property alone, cotton or no cotton, was a good 20 or 23 per cent Investment And so the South ln that time went carelessly on, caring nothing for economical methods, or methods of safety even, ln her agriculture. I And grew poorer, but it mattered little. The planter owned bis thousands of acres. When his cotton field no longer would yield bis overseer gave it over to weeds and brush, and ordered bis negroes to clear up" more acres of forest for a new cotton tract So went the process regularly; forest cut down for field and field given up to forest And why not! Slaves should not be allowed to Idle.

Tbe man who preached diversified crape in this part of the South In that halcyon time was but a tempter of scorn. Diversification might be well enough for Yankees on measly little narrow farms; here there was no need to worry about resting tbe soil or enriching it; acres were too plenty for tbat The war changed the layout Free labor bad to be considered. It was no longer mo Inconsiderable a thing to clear new fields when old ones save out Farming had to be learned anew if farming were to be successful, so tbe landowner discovered more or less qulcgir. Many a one, unwilling or unable to take that learning, paid the penalty and saw hi property go Into a new ownership. An Illustration In this direction was given me the other day by Mr.

B. Knox, of Talledega, one of the clear-beaded, progressive young lawyers of the State. One of the largest plantations In Talledega or an adjacent county waa particularly profitable before tbe war, when 200 or 800 slaves were ln its quarter, and when peaee came the old owner tried to go on as of old, expecting to be able to recoup by handsome crops what he bad lost by tbe extinction of property in slaves. He lost money tbe first year and the second year every year; cotton waa hla sole standby: his method were thoae of aforetime; he still trusted all to his overseer; he vet neglected tbe enrichment Of hia soil The end waa tbat factors' mortgages soon covered the old plantation over. Hla son stepped into the breach.

A ttype of the new Southron was the son. He was not tied to the old traditions; he had not been too proud to learn; Northern notions were no scarecrow to him. Nor was be afraid of work. He rode the plantation himself; the overseer stepped back. Cotton was no longer allowed to eover and Impoverish every acre; grain aad fruit and vegetables and live stock were to be seen in his different fields.

To-day that plantation is free from debt, and tbe old planter, living with his son, discusses a bank account thatls fat enough to warrant tbe banishment of every financial care from life. This ease Is not Isolated; from many sources I have beard similar stories, showing not only what the South's need in agriculture Is, but showing too tbat the South herself ln the persons of her go-ahead young men sees this need and works to meet it And here is the chance for the Northerner. It does not cost much to get a farm in Alabama. Land can be bought outright for less than similarly productive land can be rented North. This territory, that adapted to agriculture, is rich and fertile beyond what the average farmer dreams ot in many parts ot New-England.

Practically, every crop can be well raised here. Here certainly, rather than to most of tbe new, undeveloped West, Is where the I in ml grant can better go. If tHllng the soil Is his aim. The average climate ta superior, tbe land is readier to give a crop, the crop grown to nearer a market What I say in this particular Is by no means Intended for application merely within tbe State lines of Alabama. In Tennessee, In Georgia, in parts of Mississippi, in much of Louisiana, up in tba Carolina, and ln Virginia, in all the old Sonth.or ln a large part rather of ail the old South, Is the same thing true.

I have spent some time in the Tennessee River Valley. Some Northern farmers are scattered through the fertile district Around Florence and Sheffield and Decatur particularly I've had the opportunity to learn something of the chances for the Northern farmer coming South to settle, and what I've discovered about the towns named I am assured Is applicable through the entire valley. I dined with a score or more of Alabama farmers during a recent State agricultural convention at Montgomery. They were no mossbacks; they talked progressively. They said, every one of them, that Immigrants would be welcomed here now as never before; there will be no intrusion in his coming; he needn't bring his shotgun to protect his political opinions, for politics is not the only naUve product any more.

He can get I rrtce the North would sound ridiculous. Land cleared and tbat has been for years nnder cultivation ia open to purchasers, for old plantations of from 500 to 5.000 acres each are being cut up Into small farms as fast as buyers ask It: and virgin forests, too. await the new-comer who chooses rather to make that sort of a start Fine ttmlier lands close beside the Tennessee River banks can be bought now for from $5 to $10 an acre. The wood cut down and marketed will repay the Investment Cleared land can he had for $lO and '0 an acre. I see but one drawback here: railways are multiplying and wherever the railrdad whistle echoes the land speculator abounds; my only fear to that this style of middlemen will ere long Intrude and put market value up so high aa to prohibit immigration.

He'll bave au uncommonly troublesome time of it in this direction, however; not in one day. nor in one year either, will It be possible to gobble tbla vast domain of fertility awaiting the wideawake farmer here. What Alabama needs-what the whole South broad-gauged immtgratlou bureau. If the agricultural opportunities of the Mouth were known aa they should be known there Is many a district whose population would double speedily. An evldenoe of Alabama's prosperity that I remember to have seen quoted In Tun New-onu Ttueb some time ago.

and which Pve heard repeated here with expressions of satisfaction, appears In tbe fact that every penny of tax levied in tbe State last year was collected, save only the insignificant sum of $50. What Northern State did so well 1 And see these oiB-clelngitrea of progress: Assessed value In tha 9139.000.000; la 1886 they reach $192,000,000. My friend, whose letter I've quoted, atruck the key note fairly for every Alabama Interest wben he said: "We can wait Tbe basis for growth to here. Nothing short ot a miracle can halt It Now let ua see something et Georgia, H. A.

JfJL TRAYSXM 0K01TIX8 WSAKSR. Passengers of the steamship Trinidad, which arrived yesterday from Bermuda, report that the condition of William Trsvers baa not materially changed. Be waa quite comfortable, however. Thursday last, when the steamer iled. He did not appear to suffer greatly fmta hia disease, twit although he euntlaued to rally speedily from hla occasional spells ot exhaustion, he seetuedto be gradually becoming weaker! Hi physicians still deeliaed to aay whether or aot iW entertained any hopes of bia recovery.

HEAVING 8 NEW: PLAS. PORT MCHktOJtTJ TO WW MASS A GREAT ros Bcsnrus. sTTTU PET PKIA, Iferoh 6. Tha PhUaisi-pala ftatos to-serrow win aay that taa ataaaga-aant of tba Beading Railroad Uorupaay Saturday decided to equtp Immediately taa yards aad wharves at tha company at Part BtehsooaA for enlarged uaefurnea tad Baka them a Tast entrepot for taa coal aad freight aparattoaa af that oosnpaay. At pros sat eUy aoal to kaadtoal at taa Port Bicbmoad wharves, am ploying abawt fLCOO men, but the new aaajwtaeat has daotdad to make this aa important point af dlatrtbutloa for freight of all kind a.

Tbe wharre aad yard are to be put Into hape a fast as men aod money oaa accomplish tba work. Ta accommodate the saw order of thing Improvements oa a grand scale aava beea planned and will be begua at onoe. The big shipyard buildings will ba eoa-verted lato a bosroed warehouse for tat atorege of merehaadtoe which, under tha new uaporture, will be received and shipped extensively tram Port Richmond. Ia addilioa to tata that will ba freight shads aad war boo ao of sufficient er Sielty to meet all the requirements of the Read-gs buainoea aad the moat approved facilities for band ling It Manager MeLaod estimates that tbe projected Improvements will coat aver 9200,000, but that a mueh larger sum will have to be expended la tha near future to meet the te creased demand upon the iteading at thispoiat Ha says: "Tba facilities for Shipping eoai at Part Richmond ara first elaaa, and tha busiaeaa ia that Una, whloh to grawlag eaonnoualy, la handled wttaoat diffleuJty by tba praaaat equip-menu, bnt what la needed is equal accommodation for merchandise and assorted freight. Vessels eomtug ta Port Richmond for eoai under tha new arrangement ean reeelve a complete cargo there and avoid tha delays aad expanse of loading at several points.

Tba eoranaoy caa handle all olassee at freight at Port Richmond to as great advantage aa It does eoaL aad I hava aa doubt shippers aad Teasel owners will be pleased with the change aad promptly avail themselves ot tbe advantage it will eflkird thorn, as a result I look for an Inoreaee of business there that will surprise people who ara not familiar with tha transportation Interests at whloh It is tha natural centra.1 The views ot General Manager kfoLeod ara u-doubtedlr those also of President Cortua aad tbe Reading Directory, and Port Richmond Is to become tha great ahlpplng point af taa Reading system. A large amount of business now transacted elsewhere will be concentrated there as soon as It san be accommodated. The Reading has mora ground room and harbor front at Port Richmond than it will be likely to need for many years, even if Its business continues to swell OPPOSING A REPEAL, THE MORRIS AXD ESSEX CHASTER UT DANGER. Trenton, N. Marh 6.

The bill to repeal the charter of tbe Morris and Xasez Railroad Is the most Important measure before Aha Legislature. Tbe fight over it is destined to ba a greater one than that which took place last year over the Staten Island Bride hllL Prom present appearance the Morris and Essex Company has no allies among tbe other railroad corporations in tha State. The Philadelphia and Reading Company is anxious to see the bill passco. 11 is saiu, wnne tne renasyivaala Company is neutral These corpora Uous sea no reason why the Morris and Essex Company should not be compelled to pay tbe same proportionate amount into the State Treasury that they pay themselves. The State's offer to give the Morris and Essex Compauy a new charter If it would throw up Its old one under the general railroad law naa now remained open about six months.

The new bill, which the Special Committee on Taxation drew, extends that same privilege Indefinitely. Should the bill to condemn the road and the amendatory Taxation bill pees-the Legislature tha Morns and Essex Road would still hava an opportunity to throw up Its Irrepealable charter, with its one-half of 1 per cent tax rata, aad take advantage of ths State's offer. Wbat reasons ean be urged tinder these circumstance for tba defeat of the bill It la hard to imagine. Ex-Go v. Bedle will try to explain why the corporation should not pay the same rate of taxation as tbe Pennsylvania and other road, but his main argument in opposition is that tha present lease wltb the Delaware and Lackawanna Company will be destroyed if the road be condemned and the stock depreciated In rain.

Mr. Corbln says tkat if the road voluntarily throws up its charter aad takes a aew one under the general railroad law tha Morris and Essex Company could escape both of the dlfflcultlea. ARMOUR B1ANDS FIRM. HE WILL MAKE NO ALLIANCE WITH THB COTTONSEED TRUST. Mr.

H. 0. Armour last evening confirmed the denial talegrapbed to Ths 71m as tram Chicago Saturday of the report tbat tho firm of Armour A Co. had formed aa elllaae ar compromise with ths American Cottonseed Oil Trust Company by which Armour waa to purchase the cottonseed oil aaed lath manufacture et lard from that monopoly. Hs added that Phil Armour had not area entered Into any negotiations looking to such an agreement, and denied emphatically that contradictory report bad beea sent out by his firm.

Hs said there waa bo statement of tbe status of affair to be teade further tban that already published ln Taa Times, The Armour side bad adopted but one 00 urea from the beginning, and that aimed at the establishment of mills to supply their own oil. From men interested In the American Cottonseed Oil Trust Company it waa learned last night that definite overtures bad been made to the Armour concern, offering oil at reasonable retee for a long time, but they would sav nothing ia regard to the success ot the move. They admitted that the opposition ot tbe Armours ws serious. The trust company had been formed as an absorbent affair, and Its artifice tea would be unsteady at low quotations so long as It was known that tbe Standard Oil Company was not Interested in the venture. Strenuous effort were made to secure the eo-opereUoa of the Standard Oil Company, and they were at least partially successful.

On the strength of this tbe certificates Immediately boomed into the sixties. The opposition of the Armours was entirely unlocked for, and It knocked tbe props from under the certificates. It was on th rumor of an alliance tbat tbey rose on Baturday from 49 to 63a. There is no longer any concealment of the fact tbat the trust company purposed to get a monopoly ot the lard production of tbe country and that its managers approached Phil Armour with an offer to buy out tbat branch of his establishments. It was the absorption of the refinery of N.

K. Fairbanks A Co. tbat roused Mr. Armour's attention to the fast that his business was In danger, aa the present output of lard contains fully 20 per cent of cottonseed oiL It Is known that Phil Armour is averse to entangling alliances, and bis scheme to build large cottonseed oil mills in the South ran no longer ba dismissed as a bluff. It ia a matured plan to fight the trust company with the strongest kind of competition.

P0S8IBLT A rORTUITB. Matthew B. Barrihger, a fireman attached to Truck No. 17, whose headquarters are at Third-avenue and On Hundred and Forty-tUird-etreet, bas received word from a lawyer in Chattanooga that his wife ia, with others, belr to 5,000 acres of mountain land ln Tennessee. Thaddeus Crook er.

of this city; Mrs. William Redsbaw, of Fourth-avenue and One Hundred and Tewenty sixth street; Mrs. Lavlnla Nye. of 345 Lexington-avenue, and Matthew Crooker, of Saa Franclsoo, have alao claim to the property, accord-lug to the lawyer. It seems that tbe land waa granted to a settler, who deeded It to Matthew A.

Crooker, of Buffalo, in 1837, and wh died la 1871. Tbe persons named are heirs of Mr. Crooker. Barringer proposes to ascertain tbe value of the land before commissioning the lawyer to go ahead and prove the title. All Diseases Of sb eruptive nature, such as Eetsma, tM-ysipsls.

Bolls, Carfeunatos, Puaptoa. aeratalau Beta, aav their Origin ia th Blood, aad any attempt ta remedy the eomplaiats without th ma of aa Alterative aad Stood Partner to worse than a sole. For a thoroughly rettobl medicine Iyer's Karsa Barilla has long beau regarded as the stead. aru, and by It continued uae diseases at ta blood ar gctaally CURED. Avar's 8arearUki resales Ue favorite ta Spite of all competitor." ago Aasrlsasoa.

Draggke, Beaver, Pa Ayars Karaaaarfil gives better satrntacttoa thaa sny other blood medietas I W. Whitman, IrrugrUt, Albany. lad. I am aUia( tare tino aa arask at Ayert Sarsa. Barilla this year as ever A.

Weetrklg, Dragglat, Larsy. IU. -Ayer modtetaa take taa lead la Kansas. Arsvs Sarsaparuia ta the Bteod ranter of ta A. Bsoasbrakar, Black Jack.

Ki Sa PTapoio By Dr. J. O. A Csv. Lswssl.

kCasa. CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS thfe evealax at 8047 TT Wlllians M. Jersey Cltr tba tadaseat has beea paaaed the taatiil The fourth number of tha Rio familv at! taekad with email pox, a tawr 1 raoiSrSir. resaared ta ilortVTsroUeV iramiuetlfeavunt Delegate from the National Bahart LcswWmeetat taa lfta-Aveaua HotoltB day at IO o'clock, to arraaga th eebedutor games for tba coming aaaaoa aad oWerbstoebeilauttera rMMr Capt. Robertson, of the Irig Artoa.

wTiieh arrived yesterday from HalifaxTrepiVuuS during tha vera Poter A. RarteoaTaToaaa VoirZn ftlU -erboar4 troaataWloal aaU yard aad waa lost i A conference on tenement house reform under tbe call of tne Sanitary Aid Sorlotrl be held tbiearealng at tha rJoairf'" r-jwjjti -Plaoe, It fa called solely for fcretog extetlag laws, aot ta proioteWw tos! Rabbi O. Gottheil win addrcea theXine, toeatk Century ciub to-morrow evening of toe America. Art Galleries, Y2J Twenty-tb Ird-stroet upon Woman's RlihtaTaA Woman' Wrong." A discussion la whkVr7 Julia Ward Howe and the Hon. Eiiba ksMd -participate Is to follow taa address.

ohn William a. Richard Brown, and Jams Wright, the pool sailer who wer errsted3 1 H. 3, and 5 Barclay-street Saturday, werebey for trial la fSOO each at th Tombs Police CotuJ yesterday. Mr. Oliver, their Uwyer.TaadaaB earnest effort to get back tbe $882 that waacans.

ured during tbe raid, but without ucesr Th steamship California arrived Tester, day from Hamburg after a stormy voyage -t Feb. 84 the steamer mat a rwleat gato. which began at southeast aad veered to aortC -west by way of aoutxu Tba aea ran ta a grsat height and tha Teasel rolled Joaatjuas water. The storm aoatES3 ChrleD. KeDogg, Organilnf SeerwUrr of the Charity CrganTsaUoa Sotuety, wiu d2 the stndeata of the Union Theological Beatar? la th Adams Memorial Chapol.

at PsTavaau a Boventiatb-atreet, this aiteraeoa at 4 ckiek. aa the principle and methods af the -Organisation af Charities. This la en ol ths course on social topics. Ex-Treasurer Jordan arrived at the Alb, marie Hotel on Friday, Intending to sail oa tha Gallia Saturday to 'perfect sreagemeau tj Europe for business Connections with Ue ae Wetern National Bank, of this city, la wbJcSke will be ae-ociated with Secretary Maxiaing. Im.

portent business, however, called- alia back ta p-VS7' NMl Joseph Bockman was about to put up a booth tor th distribution et food topooi til la to Battery Park at 8 o'clock Saturday ntokt" when Park Polloeman Patrick Nugent totert fered. Buckmaa ehowed a permit from tbe Board of Aldermen and another from tba Park Commissioner, but wben ba attempted 1 go oa with the erection of th booth Nugent aad kha arrested. At the First Precinct BteUoaHous the Sergeant decided that the arrest wa unjust liable and released tbe prisoner. A well dressed old gentleman, the ndnese of whoa ao was emphasised by the whiteness of bis hair and beard, called at PouTaHead! quarter yesterday afternoon ta ocnplaia thai at Elghty-thlrS-etreet and Nlo tJi avenueTmS on Sunday. The Informer said tbe poUcaot th Twenty-sixth Precinct had fooled' hi recent.

-ly. He had Carney's bartender arrested, and It was stipulated that ba should be to court wbea wa "Jmed. He reeolved no netie, '-d. the bartender waa discharged at tha Hartoaj Police Court He waa told to present tba oaoata Superintendent Murray. WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Junes Thompeon, a brakeman theNew York, New-Haven and Hartford Bailroed. la passing under ths First a venue bridge at Mount Vernon yesterday, was struck on th head and knocked from hla car. II was sent to hla borne. ln Harlem, la a very precarious condition. Ferdinand Ward will this morning be puk -to work in the dampening room of the laundry as Ma Muad.

wiaWk side by side. Unger Is in tbe hospital ufferlaa- from rheumatism. O'Neli received a box ol dainties on Saturday and a mattreasand oun. tity of bed clothing. Henry Longhlin fell between two barges at Peene slJock.

at Yon era yesterday. He waa pulled out and taken to tbe Riverside Hospital, but all efforts to resuscitate him proved useless. Loughlia was 33 years eld and unmarried. He was a graduate of Manhattan College and hadaerved eight year oa th municipal polio nbwSerszt. P.

Rafolvotfc, (rhe of th men who took tbe places ot the coal strikers at thetDelaware, Lacka wauna and Weatera eoai docks, la Jersey nd Ynn quarreled jrertor- 7J ttV loa "e-street, Jrsy City. Ll finally laid an artery in Bio's head opea with a eup, aad Ko almost bled to death before aaaiatanoa arrived. Ho wa sent ta tba Uty 9, Jyc Jvilr of Hudson County, died late Saturday night of consumption. He year ago, and was tuae J. an Alderman ln Jersey City before be became a citlaen.

Ho was afterward a Police Commto A Jersey City officer saw a woman with four little children tugging at her akirta wandering aimlessly around Exchange-place la tbe rain Saturday nbrht cho waa somewhat under tba Influence of liquor. A babe which ah carried waa ahoeles. and all presented a pitiable spee- Bb said sbe waa Mr. Patrick Murray andaUved la Brooklyn. Her husband bad turned ber out of door and sbe was In search af reia- U.TA JT c1tT- She wa sheltered for toe night at toe staUoa house.

TBE WIKTXB WHEAT CBOP. Chicago, March 6. The following crop sun mary will be printed la this week's Issue af the rarmeTi KtvUw: th Winter wheat bait Indicate that the crop la smergingfxom the Winter la better annuo than uot year. Th crop to aot aaoand from the reeolUug damage of torts and had woata- -et- and a till haa to pass through a critical period; till aa a whole the outlook must be regarded as more favorable than at the beginning ot March of last year. The oxtresnelr mild weather of tho tag daya af last work, loOowed by tho sold wsetaer.

caused some Injury In Illinois aad la Iadiaa -and in La Porte and Randolph Counties of Indiana, -Considerable wheat waa rosea aad killed. Twenty. three lUtnoto ecranttos this week report tho wheat -a bwking well, while ta Brows, Joanaosu aad White Counties injury to reported. Thirteen aoon- ties of Indiana make very isvorsbto returaa la Mlchlgaa and W'Ueoaata th outlook to reported sS very favorable. Nearly all tha Wisconsin holds bars had aa ample snow covering aloe laat November.

-Ths weather has beea unfavorable la Ohio, and sons inJuryt reported ln Champaign. Hen oca, aa aa Wert Counties, but all the other coua. ties reporting make favorable returns. Tbt -aeaaon la well advanced In lssoorl and Fprin plowing bas Soaimoaeod. Ia Botea, Beaten, Ckna tian, and Montgomery Counties oate are already being aown.

la Clinton, Knux, aad Uvtngstn Counties of Missouri the wheat ta reported aa look- lng poorly, bat the other county report are maiaiy of a favorable tenor. There la no change in the teno of the reports from Kanaaa. Fully one-half ot the counties report a very poor onUuok for wheat la Harper County not more than ono-hntr the averag crop predicted, while In Clay, Davis, Mitchell. Heuo, and Heck suaUea tha attoaUoa to aoor and tha crop to la a critical 000011100." A fire broke out at noon yesterday on tba third floor a tenement house at 117 Pourthav-eone, Brooklyn, and damage to the extent of we done before it wa exUnguisrd. Tbe suss covered by iaa-nranoo.

Have a Remedy That you may rely uaoa. It dee not pay ta try doubtful sxpsrimeote. Ay ex's ftorMBwrilJa ha stood the test for nearly half a century. It has ear-vlvod UU esaBBotttars. and to-day to aaJvereally allowed to ba ths beat specific for Weak boss.

Wear, a. Debility, Las af FuacUoaal Power, Lew Spirits, (oftea tha precursor of Insanity.) aad all those disorders of the miad aad Body a res lease by OVERWORK. Per moath I waa aSUeted with kervoas Proa traUow, Weakness, Laagaor, Ooasral Debility, aa Mental Dsrosstea. By ratifying my btood wttb Avar's Bars pan 11a I waa completely eared." Mr. Mary 8 teres.

144 SuaMk-at, Lowell. Mas. My daaghter was prostrated with Kervoas Do MUty. Avar's storsaaarUla restored her to hoaita." fTitsHtk W. Pratt, 414 Wsshlagtsa st, Bsotsa.

Bav. B. J. Cra has, of Backhanana. W.

Vsw aaysf "I Borer hod belter health ia my Ufa tea aloof aaing Avar's atoreenstrlU." rsaparilla, Bold by Druggists. Prtoe, $lt at sotttoa, fa..