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15,191. NEW-YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, PAGES. PRICE TITREE CENTS. WAS IT AN ELECTRIC SHOCK? A WOMAN PARALYZED IN A STREET CAR. IHB MOTIVE FOWER WAS ELECTRICITY-HEP rilTSICIAN 6AYS THIS CAUSED HEP TKO CR LE.

Mrs. Lizzie Ffiffer, the young wife of Henry Puffer, a laborer, living at No. 61 Brooklyn, E. experienced on Friday lost a feel? ing somewhat resembling that which will be pro? duced by the new method of capital punishment. She went that afternoon to see a friend at Union racecourse, and in returning travelled by one of the cars running on thc Brooklyn and Jamaica Electric Railway.

While passing the second toll-rate at. 7 :40 p. m. she heard two loud reports, a light shot in at thc window and she felt as if she had been set on fire Thc electric light in the car wont out, and she with the other passengers She beard the engineer enll to the conductor to put the overhead wire into its phee and not to touch the pulley, or something to that effects and in a min? ute or two they were told that all was right and they re-entered the car. Mrs.

Puffer resumed her seat again but the same symptoms as before returned, more violent? ly and this time she became unconscious. She was carried into a house close by and regained con? sciousness at 10 o'clock. When visited by aTj-ilv une reporter last night she was extrc nervous, became alarmed ar the least anil appeared to have suffered severely by the shock. She tntifly lost tho use of tho left arm and left lag which arc benumbed. Her hus? band said he went to Mr.

Styles, the owner of the railway about the matter, but got no satis? faction, the latter maintaining that Mrs. Puffer had hy8ter.es or paralysis. Dr. Radloff, of No. Lynch-sL, Brooklyn, who was next seen by the reporter, said: I have known and treated Mrs.

Iflffer for years. She is an honest woman sub? ject neither to hysteria nor paralysis. I was called to sec her on Friday night at IS o'clock from Miller's drug store, where she came off the car. I found her paralyzed on the left side, nervous, excited so much that the least noise irritated her. I prescribed for her and visited her several times since.

She is under the inlluence of an electric shock, nothing else. She is suffering from creeping pains all over the left side, from thc hoad downward. The left leg, from the knee downward, will, I think, bc rendered permanently useless, while the left arm will never be what it wiis. She was also slightly burned on the left forefinger, lt would seem to me tint the electric current lost some of its force, or she would cer tainly have been killed." AS EX-REBEL IS THE GKASD ARMY. INDIGNATION IN BROOKLYN AT THE ACTION OF GKOKliT RICARD POST.

A storm of Indignation swept through the Grand Army circles of Brooklyn ye terday, when lt became known that an ex-Confederate had been admitted to the membership of the George Rlcavd Post, No. 302. The person who has thus been admitted ls John I'. Fhorrer, Assistant District-Attorney of Brooklyn. Tho commander of this post Erskluc II.

Dickey, at pres? ent vice-president of the Board of Education. Ile ls well-known Democrat and has as an Paf Hayes, a notorious Democratic) politician. There are other Democrats who are members of the Post who are of the same stamp as those who schemed for Mr. I land's little mp ou a vote-catching expedition to this city and Brooklyn on Decoration Day. first principle of the formation of the Grand Army hat been Insulted by the admission of Mr.

Shorter to the Ricard said an Indignant and somewhat excited Individual last evening. "One ot the first niles ls that no man can become a member of this organization against whom the charge of trea 6on can be honestly made, as lt can against all the Confederate Thi- ls a part of the plot that was sprung on us licfore the 1 proration Day obser? The Democratic crowd that ls trying to make the Grand Army an adjunct to the Democratic machine will find that they have got more ttian they can ban? di" If they beep this thing up much Mr. Shorter enlisted in the Confederate army from Ms native state, Cwrgia, and Wilnsl in the seelee until the OtaM of the war, when he came to Brooklyn. and has been known la Brooklyn politics for somo time. It is likely that there will be a lively time at the meeting of the Memorial Committee (if Brooklyn on Bafcutttay night, when tie- matter Will bo biought to tho attention of Um post has on its own account organized a bruich knewe as jiiti- of whom lubscrlp tlons for charitable par poses are Mimd.

Mr. Shorter cave 910 to this fund and a membership ticket WU his reward. TUE SEA limn OS THE GEORGES XASKS. Boston, June sea serpent has been seen heading for the New-England coast by thc ofllcers of the steamship Venetian, of the I.oland Hue, which arrived In port to-day. About 7 o'( lo ok Mon? day evening the Venetian was oft the lort hem edge of the Georges Banks, some two hundred miles cast of Boston.

The nea was smooth and Captain Trant and First Officer Muir wrro on the bridge watching two fishing vessels not far away, when the latter's atten? tion was attracted to a moving body about or flOO feet to the northward of the steamship. Bringing his glass to bear, he saw what he believes to be the sea serpent. Captain Trant also saw the serpent. Mr. Muir said to a reporter: "I saw a large round body that showed Just above the surface.

I brought the long glass to bear and distinctly saw a rough, icaly skin that could have belonged to nothing else than a sea serpent. I called the captain's attention and be saw lt also, but while he was reaching for the double glass to see better the serpent sank out of sight, we both saw bim plainly, an 1 saw about thirty or forty lees of tho body. The head and tail were under water." FAJLVRE OF AS OLD CALIFOKS1A FIRM. San Francisco, June Son propri? etors of the Empire Foundry, one of the oldest firms on the Pacific Coast, have ruadc an assignment. The liabilities aro not stated, but I are estimated at assets at The falluro is due to low bids on work.

Many are now on hand. FATALLY IS.1VRED BY A GAS EXFLOtBOX. Shamokin, Juno explosion of gas took place In the Neilson shaft of the Red Ash tunnel this afternoon, by which George Sohmack was fatally Injured, and Michael Kelly and Karin Karlns serlou-ly burned and Injured. Throe others, names are unknown, were also seriously burned. The cause of the explosion ls unknown.

The force of the explosion vm terrible. The mine ls owned by Eaugdon i Co. The damage to it is not great. JiAVDESED EY JUD L1QV0R. Asbury Park, Juno 20 Murray, a negro employed at Monmouth Park, was on a twos last night with John Holme-, the colored coachman of Dr.

Hughes, a leading physician. They became frantl" from the effects of poor rum, and had a fight In lark st. Holmes proving himself to be the man, when Murray drew a heavy revolver and shot him through the "thigh. Holmes nearly bled to death. THB VS10S TLLl.dRAVH COXVASY.

Albany, June capital slock of the Union Telegraph Company was to-day lncreaM-d from to $200,000. It ls proposed to extend tho llnoc of the company from North Adams to Boston, and to Portland, Burlington. and Plattsburg, Iff. V. The trustees of the company aro Henry Bus soil, Edward J.

Slattery, Henry L. Smith. C. E. Arnold and Edgar Cottrell.

BX ALL SOLACE FOR THE STRASDED SISGKRS Baltimore, Juue Grau's comic opera company, which has boen singing here for ten days, has collapsed, and Grau has disappeared, rte wm at the theatre Monday night, hut failed to appeir when the salaries were to be paid. QOM and E. Stone were the Joint proprietors. Stone engaged most af the company. The Utter part of last week he went to Brooklyn with 9200 to pay off another Grau rondo company In that city.

Stone returned last Dight, and stated that ho was no longer connected smb. Gran. He told tho stranded singers that they truuld revolve their ino nov. KBW-YORKBRS UoSORED IS THE WEST. Wooster, Ohio, June 20 Wooster Cnl Tenlty to-day the degree of Doctor of Divinity was oaaferred upon the Rev.

J. 6. Ramsey, of New-York, and that of Doctor of Laws nipou tho Uer. C. of N.

Y. FOUR HUN DB ltD LIVES LOST. DISASTER TO FRFACH FISITERMEN. TniRTT TEASELS WRICK ED IN CARES OF T1IK ICELAND COAST. London, June accounts of the gales which have occurred on the coant of Iceland Inst month show that 400 French fishermen were drowned, thirty vessels having been wrecked.

WILLIAM NOT SO WARLIKE. niS PEACEFUL REPLY TO PRESIDENT CARNOT'S MESSAGE OP CONDOLENCE, nenin, June William has telegraphed to President Carnot, of France, thanking him for his message of condolence on the death of Emperor Fred? erick and expressing the hope that tho good relations now existing between France and Germany may con? tinue. The "Vosslsche Zeltung'' that the Emperor In declaring amnesty will adhere to thc terms of his father's proclamation remitting sentences In force at the date of his accession. The Posf declares that there ls no foundation for the Idea that a chango will bo made In the Orman policy adverse to Russia. "French fears," lt says, are also baseless.

The moon ls more likely to visit the earth titan the German Emperor to dream cf at? taching France only to carn laurels. Cermany wishes nothing from Prance but to be let alone. As soon as the Erench seo this conditions will exist for per peace and friendship. At the same tlmo the tone of the Emperor's pioclamailons may well servo tn remind elements unfriendly to Cormany, whether In the East or In tho West. In a manner perhaps not agreeable to them, of the Hohenzollern way of waging war, and make elev to them that any unjust attack upon Germany will meet the fate of the French attack of The Emperor will wield his sword like his glorious ancestors, but only In defenoo of the Father? land agaitst unjust attacks." Festh.

June Poster Lloyd" thinks Emperor proclamation much resembles tho programme of Pastor Stocker. The Uorernmeot las Issued a circular regulating the sdle of wheat on lae Produce Exchange ami lix In g. the normal weight of rye at a scale of seventy-two kilos per hectolitre. In-toad of seventy kilos, as at Tho circular refers to quality and weight for future delivery and comes Into force on October 1. Dooling! aro forbidden In rve for future de? livery.

The circular has caused excitement on tho Exchange. The Kreuz Zeltung" says that Empress Victoria, under the will of Emperor Frederick, Inherits the C'harlottonbnrg astle and the palace In Berlin occu? pied by tho late Emperor when he was Crown Prince BALFOUR WILL NOT RESIGN. London, Juno tho House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Balfour referred to tho rumor that he was about to resign the Chief Secretaryship for Ire? land as one of those ridiculous fictions which are periodically circulated by a section of tho Irish press. JOHN DILLON'S SENTENCE CONFIRMED.

Dublin, Juno appeal of John Dillon from his sentence to six months' Imprisonment for viola? tion of tho Crimes Act was heard to-day and sentenco confirmed. Thomas Joseph Condon, Member of tho nouse of Commons, who was Imprisoned in tho Cork Jail for offences under tho Crimes Act, was released to day. Mr. Dillon was taken to Dundalk Jail and oned. On tho route to the prison he was heartily cheered.

An was presented to Mr. Dillon, signed by 150 meniliois of the House of Commons, resenting the policy of sending him to unmerited Im? prisonment and expressing the hope that his sojourn In prison wou'd be mads less bitter by the knowledge ihat sympathy for him ls not confined to Ireland. TnE REPORT OF STANLEY'S MEATH. London, June from Zanzibar state that no news has boen received ibero In confirmation of the report of Henry M. Stanley's death.

Tho report Ls discredited there. PRESBYTERIANS ONT PROHIBITION. Halifax. N. June following resolution was passed hy the General Assembly of the Presby? terian Church today: This Assembly declares that lt ls ita conviction that the general traffic In Intoxicating liquors ls contrary to the.

Word of God and the spirit of Christian religion; (hit, total prohibition would be dir- meet efTootlvo form of tem? perance legislation, and that it ls in the highest degree ex? pedient that tho State should pass an efficient liquor law. TheiefeU. UM AwMj urges upon all members of Mic Church to use all legitimate means to secure such legis? lation. ATHLETICS A HARVARD. THE OVERSEERS ACCEPT IN THE MAIN THE VOTES OF THE FACULTY.

Boston. June no adjourned meeting of the Board Of Overseers of Han ard Cofloge was held to-day. It was voted to co nour In the action of tho president ard as follows: Appointing Fred? erick C. Shattuck as proftSSOt of clinical medicine; A. Keener as Story professor of law; J.

O. tireen as professor of otology V. H. Baker, professor of gynecology; Frederick I. Knight, clinical professor of laryngology; Clarence J.

Blake, professor of otol e.gy; Ceorge D. Moore, pioctor; Moiris H. Morgan, tutor In Creek. A tribute to the memory of tho Ki v. James Freeman Clarke was adopted.

A series of res? olutions on the death of Robert Dickson Smith, was also unanimously adopted. The report of the president and fellows on the snlv ject of athletics was then discussed at length, lt was voted to consent to the votes of the college faculty on the subject of athletics, except voto two, which stales that the committee of the faculty on athletics shall have full power on all mattel's relating to athletics and athletic contests. A resolution from the alumni of the Lawrence Sci? entific School, that In thc government of a all departments should be was consid? ered and not adopted. AGAISST RECKLESS DRIVERS. AN ORDINANCE PROPOSED-BET THE DRIVERS ARE STILL AT THEIR WORK.

A plan ls maturing, the object of which is to get fast drivers under some sort of control. Mayor's Marshal Byrnes lg putting Into shape an ordinance for submission to Common Council which will require drivers of all kinds of vehicles to take out licenses. The fee will be a small one, but where drivers aro known to be reckless or incompetent, the UOOMS ran bo refused, and lt run be rc vokod upon evidence of recklessness or incapacity on the part of thc holder. It ls believed that buch an ordinance will meet with little opposition from any quarter and lt ls to result in some protecti-m tn polk Si finis Mary Hock, a woman over sixty years old, run over on Tuesday by a hack driven by Henry Lefkowitz, of No. 140 at Henry and Scammel sts.

Tho woman sustained a compound fracture nf the left leg. She was taken to the OooiOfOOOI HospflOl, and the driver was held tn IkS BSSOS Market Police Court yesterday io await the result of her Injuries. William Kana, of Ne. Ml who ran his cart over sn old woman named Johanna Murphy, at Thlrd ave. and on Monday, causing her death, was held by Coroner Levy yesterday in $1,000 to answor a charge of erliidnal negligence.

Marcus Friedman, ago thirty-seven, of No. 1.500 Sec who ran over George- SIOHMaaMs, ugo six, of No. East at and thc Eastern on Tuesday, wa- lc ld lu by Justice While st the Vorkville Pulic.o Court yesterday. LAVSCJllSG A SEW STEAM YACHT. Tho steam yacht Joan, built by John Muinm, South Brooklyn, for JsSBM nw bk.

war- laum heil yesterday. A laroo party of friends of tko owner new pn sent, among whom were tho Misses Turnbull, Mrs. S. Vernon Mann, Miss Agata Adams, Miss Lillie Smcdberg, Miss Mann, S. Vernon Mann, J.

L. Asplnwall, George Sherwin and the Messrs. James Edward S. and William B. Rnwlck, sons of the owner.

Her dimensions sro Length all, IOU feet, load water line, 90 feet; beam, 17.0 feet; hold, ll draught. Go" (OSS, Shs ls heavy weather going cruiser, and has an enplno of OOO horse-power; two high-pressure cylinders, 10x12 Inches; two low-pressure evllnters, 20x12 Inches, and ls built of oak and hack with reOow ptoS planking sud deck, and will be Jliiiei.od insids in polished oak and ash. A DESI AL FROM TUE REY. BE DAT. Newburg, Juno letter from the Rev.

Dr. J. R- Hay, who ls visiting down East, says (nat tho statemeni that ho has accepted a call to his old church In Kew-York, st. Paul's, at salary, ls premature. He has not yet accepted any of the numerous calls extendod, which include one from Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, this city, of which ho is now pastor.

rOlSOSlSG HER rUlTjiBElt i-VP HF.kSF.LF. Pittsburgh, June 20., Mrs. Josephine Marck, living in a tenement house In Sycamore st. All-ghcny City, administered strychnine to her three iMfioj, Mary, Helen and Ellen, agos seven, thieu and four yews rcs poe'I ve ly, and then swallowed a Urge doso of the deadly posKw herself. All died.

The mottvo for the deed ls supposed lo hsvo been anger Mr. Ma irk had ordered a boarder from the houee whom be suspected of criminal lutiuiacy with his wife. THREE MEN BURIED ALIVE. QUICKLY SMOTHERED LN A TRENCH. EVERVBODT CONNECTED WITH THE WORK HASTENS TO DISCLAIM ALL RESPONSIBILITY.

Penth overtook three workmen suddenly in a trench at Thirty-second-st. and Fourth-ave. yes? terday afternoon, and a fourth man who waa buried with them had a narrow escape. Con? tractors Hobby and Mnrronc have had men nt work several weeks laying pipe for the Standard Gus Company in Thirty-second-st Their contract ir for work extending from First-ave. to Sevcnth nve.

Thc pipe is more than a foot in diameter and is laid more than six feet, below thc surface. At. noon yesterday the pipe had boen In id across Fourth-ave. and the deep trench extended wost of the avenue past the Purk Avenue Hotel. Several lengths of pipe had been lowered into the trench, nnd at 2 p.

m. four workmen were in the bottom of thc trench making the tight with lead when the embankment caved in and covered them. Patrick Cox, John Lonahan and a man named Potter wen- buried deeply under tho load of sand and gravel, and were suffocated. Domin? ick Casey, of No. 245 Water Urooklvn, man? aged to keep his head out of the.

dirt nnd he got, out of the trench without help. The accident happened in tho Nineteenth Pre? cinct, but. Captain liva" nnd several oilier police? men of the Twenty-find. Precinct got there soon after tho' alarm was given and they went to work to dig thc men out They first found the body of Cox. A call for an ambulance had been sent out and rt surgeon from llellovue Hospital went to work over the body in the hope of bringing the.

mau back to life. For more than an hour policemen tabbed the man's limbs ami moved his arms up and down in thc effort to start the blood in motion by nrti licial respiration, but the task was hopeless. Meanwhile thc bodies of Lcnahun and Potter had been dug out and carried into a livery stable. As thc last body mi being raised out of thc trench there was another fall of earth, burying thc legs of several policemen up to the knees. Cox lived at Ouo-hundred-and-third-st.

and and Lena han's homo was Thirty-fourth-st, near FirM-avo. Both were young men. Potter went to work for the contractors on Tuesday and they did not know where he lived. D. Hobby, one of the contractors, was in the lower part of thc city nt the time of the accident.

His imrtner, Mnrronc, became frightened and div appealed while the bodies were dug out. Joseph Hobby, a brother of Contractor Hobby, was timekeeiier. nnd was watching the men nt work. He said the accident probably was caused by quicksand which had escaped notice. Captain Ryan said thnt he thought there had been neglect on thc tairt of the cont rac Some of the work? men said that the brno's wore removed hy tho workmen to let the pipes into thc trench, more easily and that Uh timbers Lad ii rt been set liable when tlic four men went to work to tighten flic of the pipe.

John M. Haggorty, an inspector in the employ of thc gas company, and Georgo Bonssceim, an inspector in thc employ of the city, were present at. thc time of thc accident. Both declared that they were not responsible for Ihe failure to make the trench a safe place for mon to work in. GESERAL S11F.UWAS RFCOTERISG.

Washington, Juno The following bulletin, ls snerl at 0 o'clock last night and signed by the army physicians, shows General Sheridan's condition through tho day: ls very little to be said about fieneral Sheri? dan's Illness for tbe last twenty-four hours- No un? favorable symptoms have appeared and hn is ap. parenMy progressing by steady though almost Im? perceptible, degrees toward convalescence. THE FIRE RECORD. DANBURY'S DISAJfTROER FIRE. Danbury, June gangs of men have been at work for two days, clearing the streets in the burned district.

Several safes have been re? moved. Tho Roblen Company's safe, of Herring's make, was opened this afternoon and tho eoutents taken out In perfect order. LOSSES TN VARIOER PLACES TJtlca, N. Juno 20? Fire. Johnstown, Fulton County, this morning doss toyed William Loepp's akin mill.

Tho loss ls fully Insured. Danbury, June The from conflagration aro found to already reach (140.000, with other. flem. Tho track of Ibo Oro covers over twenty acres. Iroac W.

Ives loses on buildings snd machinery Insurance S10.000, J. T. listen, dealer, bad about feet of lumber Sj -strove 1, bOSUs she-is and oth -r buildings; nearly ls? ISnOt. I'YOOO. H.

A. Helen ft lmn founders, estimate their between and f3.1,0O0; Insurance, $10,000. 0. II. IfSOhU'l elevator and many of grain were Mimed and djmr.ued by water.

Tho loss ls nsarly efl.OOO. There are eight others whose are from $3,000 to $5,000. rittshurg, Juna situation st Dobsto ls unchanged. Appeals for old for tho by tho fire are roe, Ung with a gOBOroei lOspSBOO, and provisions aro arriving In large Kew of thc SBflMBH know what to do. Many people will leave the town, but the majority will remain.

Tho homeless have fount shelter with their more fortunato friends, lu the rink building and In tents at tbs Fair Canajoharle, N. Juno Topp's leather dresplng mills, at Johnstown, were destroyed by Aro this muming. Loss about $50,000. MADE A VICTIM BY COSFIDESCE MZS. New-Hertford, June 20 Thomas Cook, an aged citizen of this place, and father of representative Cook, was victimized out of about $5,000 worth of bonds to-day by confidence men.

Cook was met. by a man representing himself to bo the son of a well-known citizen, who Interested Cook in a book he was publishing, and said that If (wk would put $5,000 Into the scheme, both non would reap a har? vest Cook took from tho bank flvo Pondi and went to tiic boarding-place of tho stranger. Where tho bonds were taken from him, and the thieves escape I. The bondi stolen are these: Flint and Pero Marquette Railroad Company sixes, numbered and -El, f.r tlfiOO each Orepm Hallway and Navigation Com lirny sixes, numbers 1.4-">8 ami M32, for each Kansas l'acllic Consolidated sixes, number for 11 IX OLD AST) TRVSTET) Elf PLO IE TUT. TTITEF.

Sunbury, June Linden, of Pink erlon's detective force, has arrested Express Agent Huber, of tah city, for stealing 189,600 from thf Adams Bxptou Company. August 20, 1866. The money was shipped from Philadelphia to shamokln to pay tho employes of the Mineral Mining I onipany. 'lhere was ijm.OOO In gold the remainder being dour up In packages of cl.OOO each. The money was found last night In Huber's bOOSO, behind the parlor mantel.

Eleven thousand dollars waa missing, and What was left had DOt boen tahoe from the original packages. Huber, who was In Philadelphia, ant an old employe of the company and was highly rt'Si-ccted lu thu city. co.vncrED of oombtuucy. Ealtlmore, June -jo njamln Hpandauer. who figured as a witness fur the I eminent In thc Surratt case, ami who, daring Hie few years, hm been in a number of scrapes, was before thc Criminal Court to-day on a charge of conspiracy.

C.eorgc Bet bar, hts brother-in-law. charged him with ob.aloin* money on false pretences In collusion Edwin U. Davtft, a lawyer. Spendauer was found guilty unr) remanded for sentence. Davis will be tried on i similar charge.

Davis ls a politician aufl ex-member of the Legislature. A coir.uor MiJSZDD DI covet. Thomas O'Donnell, au. twenty, who been em ployed as a cow boy at a Wild West" show lu (itv, was Indicted recently for deceiving Deatrioi Rah arista, Whoa) hs bsd promised to marry. Wier bj Wau arraigned yesterday before Judge expressed his willingness to marry the younz woman As the dejendant's mother and thf young woman and her guardian all desired the mar rlago to take place, Judge Martino consented tc perform the The wedding took plaoo lu the office of Assistant District Attorney Davis In th? presence of several officials and court attendants.

charge against O'Donnell was dismissed. A SEW yjSIHTFU )OR The In. tfobSM bM Wlgasf th" pastor? ate Bf UH ll)st ahftfSt Church of fofsfhsj to accept a call to tho Warburuui Avenue Church of Yonkers. Dr. Hobart was graduated fiom Madison University In and fioin the IljoiUton Theological Seminary In His pastorates have all bean successful, sad als church eui loss bia with regrsb tm-4 tw SALE Oj.

"LEEP1S0 CABS. THE PULLMAN COMPANY'S NEW PLANT. THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO 8EBVICE PASSES INTO NEW HANDS. Baltimore, June 20 recent visit to Rainmore of QsatgS M. Tullman, president, and Gen eral Horace Porter, vice-president, of the Pullman Sleeping and I'alace Car Company, has resulted In the reported salo of the Ballimore and Ohio sleeping car service to tho Pullman Company.

The litigation be? tween tho Tullman company and the Baltimore and Ohio occupied tie attention af the courts for a long time. It ls reported that the price to bo paid for tho stock, franchise, of the Baltimore and Ohio is $1,250,000. President Spencer, of the Baltimore and Chlo, was asked If ho would confirm or deny the re? ported deal. I have absolutely nothing whatever to say about tho was his reply. The finance committee of tho Baltimore Ohio was In session yesterday and lt ls said that tho sale was discussed In all Its features.

Tho exceutlvo com? mittee also gave tho matter their attention. The price considered an exceptionally good ono. Tho company have eighty-fivo parlor and sleeping cars, too total valuo of which was estimated by a Baltimore Ohio orllclal af Tnls Investment has an animal dividend of 8 per cent. Tho average sari of a parlor car ls $0,000 and that of a sleeper Tho Mercantile Trust and Deposit Com? pany has a lpn upon tho property, but for what amount is not known. By tho salo of the express; I telegraph companies and by loans, Ihe Baltimore and Ohio Company has QOUootOd over $17,000,000 In Ihe laat year.

Ihe HfTflrinl of the parlor car enterprise ls In accordance willi the Baltimore and Ohio policy to contine lbsclf to legitimate railroad I monthly mooting today of the board of dlreetOM of tho Baltimore and ohio Ballway Company the sale nf tho emu na ri v's s'eep Ing-ear equipment ami the fraaehtsee pertaining thereto ti tho Pullman l'alaco (ar Company. Tho contra-t. t() lnn (1)r a period of twenty-five yeai-s, and the Eulinian Company agrees io finnish tho Baltimore and Ohio with all tbs sleeping and parlor car equipment, lt ra Ibo sale will be consum? mated on June 35. W. H.

Blackford was appointed a director In the pl ice of the late T. Harrison Garrett. The statement of the Ballimore and ohio for May shows that the oamlnifs were H.710,400; expenses net an Inrreaso of over 1007. For the eight months of tho present. Oessj year tho earnings were expenses net eanuogi 03,627,005, a do of a- compared with tho same mon'hs of tho previous yoar.

The plant consists of eighty-five, cars and a few patent rights which have boen hotly contested. Tho contract ls for twenty-five years, according to the usual form. The news of the transaction was con? firmed at tho olllce of tho Pullman Company. Tho price was uot mado known, howevor. and the rumor that lt was $1 250.000 was said to bo Incorrect.

An officer of the Pullman Company declared that he could not namo the price, bceauso lt depended on a settle? ment of a good many matters and the balance had not been struck. All suits on account of Infringement of patents were In the arrcement. The nego? tiations had been going on for a long time. Immediate possession was to be given. Thc salo completes thc plans of the syndicate which relieved tho Ballimore and Ohio Railroad from Its llnanclal embarrassment.

Tho express business was sold to the L'olted States Beynon, tho telegraph linea parsed Into the control of the Western Inion and now the Pullman Company has secured tho sleeping car sorvleo. Tho Baltimore and Ohio has been stripped of tho auxiliary departments, whloh were an expense rather than a source of Income, lt. will be conducted hs railroad company without entangling alliances and tho p'esent management is" considered to be ono of great ability. ROCK ISLANDS DIVIDEND. PRESIDENT CABLE BEPLIES TO ATTACKS ON TnE COMPANY.

The directors of the Chicano. Rock Island and PaclQo Railroad Company, at a meeting I Ol toni sj declared (', of 1 1-2 per cent pajable, as usual, on August 1. President Cable, who left tho elli' on his return to ChfCSgO la-t evening, was not Inclined to reply lo the charges printed In tho tSSOgnlBSfj organ Sf the bear faction. Ho denied In the most positive way that there bag booti any dissensions In tho board about, the rate of dividend, and said in his mild way: I stipposo that I know the soiree of tho latest attack on the company, but I cannot do better than treat lt with tho contempt lt deserves, Thero ls an epidemic against railroads In ihe West, and I do not expect a return to r'ason until after tho November Then ksataesj of politics will bs the controlling Influence. Tho crops, excepting wheat, are looking well everywhere In tho Wost and tho HOI pee tl for a goo; corn crop aro specially favorable.

ThS granger railroads will have nigher rates goon, I think, and I good harvest will put an end to tho cutting of rates." A large stockholder ot the Book Island Company remarked Oat tho attack on the credit of the com 1 i' was Impotent became the ovnere were satisfied with tho present KfJlfOBg Allon lOUTB PENN'. Philadelphia. Juno 20 was reported to? day on Tlnrd-st. that work on th" South Penn, road would bo icstimed upon Andrew carnegie's return; that the members of the syndicate, with two exceptions, have subscribed, and that Mr. Twombley has taken COMMISSIONER ittl SAIL1? FOR EUROPE.

Commissioner Albert Fink sailed for Europe yester? day on the steamer Saalo to bo absent about three months. Ho will first go to Carlsbad and after I taking the baths ho will devote a great deal of time I to Journeying through Switzerland. In his absence Vice-president IL J. Hayden, of the Now-York Cen? tral, will act as Commissioner. MISCF.LLANEOCS BAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

'I i I lenora! passenger agents of the trunk lines will meet at Commissioner Fink's office tomorrow to discuss Immigrant mailors. The rates continue to be moro or li Irregatar by reason of tho Delaware, Lackv wanna and Western maintaining offieos outsldo of the Joint office hi tho Washington Building of the other lines, but lt ls hoped that some sal i sf ac tory bcttleinout can bo made. Tho Saturday half -holiday train on tho New-York, Ontario and Western Railway will begin for tho on saturday, leaving Jay st. at 1 p- m. and West Forty-sceond-st.

at 1:10 p- and running to Delhi. Calais, Juno (Hand Southern Railroad of New-Brunswick was to-day foreclosed and sold, and wm bid in bv Buseetl Sago and Ottos Talntor, In hi half of and for the bondholders, WI SrTOl.OOO. WORK AT TUE STATE OAUF. (Ants Camp, Peekfkm, Jana motto, "Work and Little Play," is being earrtod out successfully so hw, and the soldier boys are narking with rim, and I loy lose but little tuna The day has been very close, and a peat deal of suffering among tho men was felt. There was little or no brcejo, not even enough to stir the lenval ls the trees.

It was hard work for tho mon on guard mount, but they stood lt bravely. The drilling was done In easy stages. Ono of the sentinels, while on to-day at Post No. 1, thin! re? lief, raftered fanni 'he sun and was overcome by tho baal Been afternoon the School of In-tmrtlon ls well patronised, and many Of the men show their sn Orieoey rn tho study of cpton'B tactics. 4 PROBABLE- WVB-UVMDMBMM HELD.

Baghca, a Junkman, age fifty-nine, of Re. 007 We-! Btxtletlvst, eommitt.d by Justice White In theTorkvUlS Paika yesterday to await thc of Injuries Inflicted by him on his wife. Matilda, age sJxtv-S. von. on Monday night.

Accord? ing to tho complaint Hughes went home on Monday night. with his wife for SOSM tilvlal cause, kanakas' her down with his fist and then kicked her a snathes sf times, busking three of her ribs and In in a dying oarahtjan. NEW OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL MAMOX10 RITE New Haven, Juno today's session ol the sovereign Sanctuary of the UnitedI Statesi Boy al Masonic Rite, officers were elected snd Installed, ss sovereign Grand Master, General Darius Wilson, Massachusetts. Deputy Grand Master. A.

N. HUI, ohio Grand Representative, Hatha? way', Michigan. Junior Orand Representative, A. Rawson, ffsw-Tork Orator, D. Helier, Okla, Junior Orand Orator.

Hervey SWord, New rstt erato. Mtanoopl, Rhode island, Junior Warden, George W. low, New Haven, Conn. Grand Prolate, the Rev. Dr.

0. C. Wheeler. California. Assistant Grand Pre laSa th? nev L.

F- Cslhotin, Vermont. Grand Sec? retary Edwin" Baker. Rhode Island. Grand Treasurer. Dr.

J. IL Osgood, Massachusetts, i MR. BLAINE AND CHICAGO. REFUSING TO LEND AID TO BOOMS. A WARNING AGAINST BOGUS RUMOBS.

HAS HAD NO CORRESPONDENCE WITH ANT OF THE CANDIDATES. 8anU TOTflE TRIM SF.I fajSgeOjjMj 1858. Ru Tue Sew- Tork frtsniU. London, June Blaine asks me to say that all rumors in the United States pretending to (rive letters or dispatches from him or any of his party touching political topics of any kind may bc promptly discredited'unless signed by Mr. Blaine himself.

He has sent nothing whatever on thc Presidential question except his Florence and Paris letters, nnd has had no correspondence of any kind with any gentleman named In connection with thc Republican nomination. Mr. Bia ino is now on tho borders of Scotland pursuing his coaching tour. G. W.

S. HR. BLAINE REFUSING TO TALK, muss despatch. London, June G. Blaine, in an inter? view at Newcastle to-day, declined to state whether or not he would accept thc nomination for Presi? dent HEADY NOW FOR THE BALLOTING.

TER PERMANENT ORGANIZATION PLETKD. iUBINERS-LIKE CONDUCT OF TTIE PEBMANENT CHAIRMAN. M. M. ESTF.E-A BARKEN DIS PUTE OVER THE RL'LKS-MR.

DEftffPI CANDIDACY EXPLAINED BY HIM 6ELF-WHAT TDK FIRST BALr LOT IS LIKELY TO Chicago, Juno Tue Convention held two sessions to-day. It perfected its permanent or? ganization and sat in judgment over the contested election case. Whether this action has served to hasten an early adjournment is to be doubted. The Committee on Resolutions will not be pro pared to report the platform until to-morrow morning. The nominating speeches, the length of which the Convention did not see fit to limit, will certainly occupy an entire dar, and very likely more, so that an adjournment on Saturday is probably thc most that can bc hoped for.

'It wns nearly half past 12 before thc Convention was called to order. Many of tho scats in thc galleries at that time remained vacant. The dele? gates themselves were slow in coming in. Under the inspiring tune of Marching through Georgia," however, the audience was kept in good humor. Ex-Senator Platt, of New-York, was among thc first to arrive.

Shortly after he had taken his sMt, Mrs. U. S. Grant and tho wife of Fred. Grant passed by, almost unnoticed, and were es? corted to a seat in the rear of thc platform.

Mr. Depew was conspicu? ous only by his absence. Editor Shepard in a brand-new spring suit attracted universal attention. Murat Flalstcad sat among thc cor? respondents, carelessly leaning against a gigantic bust of General Logan, the man whom his neigh? bors kindly remind him he is accused of havine murdered. In vt box to the right of thc platform sat Walker Blaine.

Jehu Raker, whilom Minister to Venezuela, and recently much spoken of because of his savage attack in the House of Representa? tives on Breckin rid ge, of Kentucky, looked down upon the floor of the Convention from a wat in one of the side galleries, happy nnd innocent, like a boy that has for the first time been taken to thc circus. But, on the whole, there were fewer nota? bles in the audience to-day than there were yes? terday. Many people, no doubt, were kept away bv the heat, though tho hall was remarkably cool and thc atmosphere in it reasonably puns con? sidering that over seven thousand were breathing it. A notabl? improvement was thc re? moval of the flags from the floor of the hall, which have been used hitherto to indicate whore tho different State delegations were sitting. Their removal enabled not only the delegates them' elves to each other, but also afforded the audience a better view of the delegates.

Prayer by the Rev. Stephen A. Northrup, of Fort Wayne, formally sjpaajed thc proceed? ings. If thc Convention lasts long enough, each denomination will have had an opportunity to hoar one of its ministers. Yesterday it was IVsbyterian, to-day a Methodist.

It will be some? thing else to-morrow. PREMATURE EFFORTS TO ADJOURN. As in all lartje bodies of that kind, tho present Convention has its share nf the wily 15re'r Rabbit type of men. They imagine they are pulling wires, but they are not. They are only pulling their own noses and exhibiting themselves.

When the prayer wns ended, up jumped Mr. Ilamill, of Colorado, with a proposition to adjourn until 6 p. m. It was well understood that neither tho Plntform Committee nor Credentials Committee was ready to report. Thc Convention evidently did not think that 5,000 people gathered for tho purpose simply of hearing an Indiana clergyman, but to do some work besides and a chorus of voices shouted No." Mayor Boche, of Chicago, expressed thc hope Hint thc Committee on Permanent Organization would report in the course of tho day, and looked inquiringly in the direction where ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, the chairman of thc committee, sat.

That gentleman, however, did not move. Evidently he had not heard what Mr. Roche said. Some discussion as to whether a permanent organ? ization could bc effected before the Committee on Credentials had reported ensued, and finally Chair? man Thurston reminded thc Convention that two previous conventions had decided that they could. General Henderson, of Iowa, too, seemed to b- in favor of taking recess, probably with the idea of giving the Allison boom anothSf twenty-four hours in which to trow.

At any rate, ho was sf thc opinion that if th' Convention remained in session, nothing was in order except the nomination of candidates. Congressman Baync, of Pennsylvania, moved to proceed to thc per? manent organization of the Convention without further delay. There were several people talking nil at once, but out of the groat coufusiou the chairman managed to secure tho unanimous con? sent of tho Convention to listen to the report of its Committee on Permanent Organization. Governor Fora ker, as chairman of th-- committee, its finding. Morris M.

BotSS'l name, proposed as permanent chairman of the Conven? tion, was greeted with beatty applause and so was that of Ben." Butterworth, us one of the vice-presidents. It was not, however, until the name of Webster Flanagan, of Texas, was mah. that, the Convention broke out in au uproarious demonstration. The author of the famous phrase "What are we here blushed becomingly nnd tho audience again laughed. Ile evid-ruly construed the ovation as one paid to his extraor? dinary sense of discernment.

He didn't see any? thing humorous in it at any rate. The report, of course, was adapted unanimously. Governor Foraker, George B. Sloan, of New-York, and M. I).

Foley, of Nevada, were appointed to escort the new chairman to the platform. 14 You'll catch him over there in the California delegation," said Chairman Thurston to the mem? bers of the committee, who seemed for a moment as a loss where to lind the new chairman. Yank him out and bring him ndded in a breezy way one of the clerks surround? ing tho temporary chairman. APPEAKANCE OF THU PERMANENT CHAIRMAN As Mr. Eslco made his way toward the platform it was evident that he was a man not easily yanked" from anywhere.

A mau, say live feet ten in height, broad nicsiuxt XOaOUk with decision maraeu everj of his movements. His head is bald. His forehead is high, weU shaped end furrowed by wrinkles. A full, dark beard, sprinkled here and there with gray, hides the lowes portion of his face. Altogether it is a strong face, suggesting not sternness, but force and will power.

Mr. r.stee was greeted with applause as he cended the platform. In a short, sensible speech, devoid of unnecessary rhetoric and pyrotechnic flights of cheap oratory, he thanked the Conven? tion for the honor it had conferred upon him. His voice, his manner, his delivery, at once proved the wisdom of the choice. He spoke without notes, deliberately, yet not too slowly, with proper emphasis and with clearness, so that he could be heard in every part of thc hall with ease.

Every? body seemed thoroughly than can be said of the speech delivered yesterday by Mr. Thurston, ever since it was made, has been the subject of uncomplimentary criticisms by the friends of nearly every one of the candidates. It was not devoid of humor, either, and therefore was enjoyed, in addition to giving satisfaction on ac? count of its conservative common sense and strictly fuir tune. Throughout the proceedings which followed Mr. Estce showed himself to be a good-natured, firm and decisive chairman, a man about whom there need be no fear that he will, as some people seemed to think yesterday, slop over," or show partiality to any one of the candidates.

A SUPPLY OF ORNAMENTAL GAVELS. Mayor Roche presented thc Convention with a gold and silver gavel in behalf of the citizens of Chicago, remarking as he handed it to the chair? man that it was made not of gold only, but of cold and silver, the sound basis of the metallic currency of this assertion which was greeted with some applause, but which many peo? ple, for obvious reasons, considered somewhat ill timed, if not indeed in questionable taste. Another gavan made of a desk which once stood in a famous tannery in Galena, 111., thc home of General Grant, WM presented to the Convention by Delegate Works, of Blinois. The presentation was accompa? nied by a happy speech, in which Mr. Works alluded to thc gavel presented to the Convention yesterday by the Michigan delegation, and which Mr.

Ilorr said was destined to pound the life out of the Dcmocratio party. Mr. Works, in handing his gavel to the chairman, remarked that after having pounded the Democratic party to death we will tan its hide." This remark was of course received with shouts of laughter and ap? plause. It was the closing sentence of one of tho best speeches of ita kind ever delivered before a convention, and now that the Convention and ita presiding officer had been supplied with a sufficient number of ornamental gavels, Mr. Estec at once grabbed a common hickory gavel that evidently had done service many times before, and thc Con? vention proceeded once more to business.

It listened to and adopted the rules reported from ths Committee on Rules by its chairman, Congressman Bayne, of Pennsylvania. In the main they are the rules which have governed the action of former Republican Conventions. In reality there are only two changes: ono adopting thc rules of the House of Representatives, as far as they arc applicable for the purpose of the Convention, and discarding Cushing's Manual, and second, creating an execu? tive committee of thc. National Committee to con? sist of nine men, not necessarily members of the National Committee itself. As soon as the rules were adopted, Senator Hoar desired that particular rule which covers the elec? tion of alternates read once moro, Lat the manu? script had already bein sent to tho printers.

Thereupon a long and unprofitable discussion arose, Mr. Hoar taking the ground that a dolegate at-large should be represented wiien absent by any, one of the altcrnates-at-largc. Others were of tho opinion that such course would be setting a datsfOfOWS precedent Congressman Boutelle, of Maine, seemed disused to discuss it from a polit? ical point of view, and Congressman Bayne de elan that the old rule meant and had always been construed to mean practically what Mr. Hoar de? sired. There were a number of lesser delegates who took part in the discussion with a view of being seen and achieving, if possible, a national lunation, but they only befogged the question more than ever.

Alter an hour's wrangle thc rules reported by the Committee were adopted once more, and, to the astonishment of everybody, unanimously. It is worthy of mention that in the course of ths debate on the question Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, attempted to limit the speeches nominating Presi? dential candidates to fifteen minutes, and those of Vice-Presidential candidates to ten. Us didn't suc? ceed, however. A motion he made to effect this was overwhelmingly defeated.

A PROPER COMPLIMENT TO THE VETERANS. General Husted, of New-York, before the vent ion took a recess, secured what was really ita intention when it voted yesterday to admit Union veterans to thc hall, but which tiic committee, for want of definite instruction, was unable to do to to the deserving soldiers tickets to tend the sittings of the Convei.tic There was objection to this, on the ground that there wero no seats to assign, but General Husted carried the day, and the committee was instructed to find them. Lver since the Convention has met there havo been numbers of vacant seats in thc halL If uny one should them, tho veterans certainly, are entitled to consideration in thc first place. EXPECTING TUE FIRST BALLOT TO-DAY. Thc first ballot will bc had to-morrow.

Not nil the orator-, that ever presented candidates they, did not love, for the sake of hearing their own voices, will be able to hold the delegates back from it. Thc weather is too hot and tho anxiety, to see the fun begin is too keen. Mr. Dcpew's candidacy continues to be the central topic of tho hour, not because of any prospect, so far as the tigBS can be read, that it will be successful, but because it boars such an important relation to the entire situation. Thc whole of thc great New York delegation is tied up for at least a time in this way.

In the opening of the contest the influ? ence of the State will count for nothing, and manyi begin to fsar that New-York will find at the end that a candidate hus been named without her as? sistance. One section of thc New-York delegation, consisting largely of Dcpew's more immediate friends, is hopeful of his success, but no elf crt is being made te push his candidacy in the ordinary way. There are no Depew club parades, brass bauds or speeches, none of the novel adjuncts of a canvass of this kind. A FORECAST OF THE FIRST BALLOT. Tho largo number of careful observers still in.

Cline to the belief that the nomination lies be? tween Sherman and Harrison, with the ohancn rather iu favor of Harrison. With the situation confused and uncertain beyond the ni emu ti" of the oldest habitual dal gate, estimates of the first leen and can hardly be valuable, as there are so tunny candidates stuffed morely with sawdust. But some flu may bs sherman's foUewnrs will probably con tout if lu- ts ISO on tho first ballot; Depew will probably get ubout 100; Harnsou probably not quito so many, perhaps 90; Alger, 85; Graham, 75; Allison, SO; Ingalls. 34; Rusk, 22; Phelps, 1 and Hawley, 12. hen Missouri luis voted td present ex-Senator John B.

Henderson and givn him her 32 votes. Uno of the most interesting among the pooali booms is couceminc that, ot Mayos Filler. Charles Kmory Smith has been nursing hts boom with the wicked purpose of worrying Senator Quuy. He has not only scoured eighteen iu ino Pennsylvania delegation, but various friends outside have rallied around tho Filler bannar until now the Mayor or Philadelphia is to bo startled by receiving, perhaps, us many as thirty roten The Nebraska delegation talk of complimentine General John C. Fremont with their vote Then there will bo scattering votes for Blaine and othenT AM thor the first ballot will be a rtraSE kut xi wm to aUww.

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