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that if the Government means to interfere in PROHIBITION. THE ALDERMEN. 100TH DAY. CURRENT EVERTS. Iaaao B.

Butts, the oldest Boston printer And publisher, died on Sunday night, aged 89 years. Three steamshipa landed 708 immigrants ir00kIpiaajKgIe want and misery. Thoy missed an opportunity to be enlightened upon a subject whioh deeply affects the mass of their feUowmen and to whioh Messrs. Gould and Vanderbilt have given less study perhaps than to any other gave "a kiss for a blow," and its Executive Committee nnanlmously resolved to recognka the official action of the opposition tracks in ruling off horses, owners and jockeya, and to rotme to allow them to ran at Brighton Beaoh in spite of tho fact that such aotion on their part waB not reciprooated elsewhere, But it had ft good effect with the public It showed that tha Brighton Beaoh people meant business. The association employed Messrs.

J. J. Burke and W. Ryan both thorough horsemen and honorable gentlemenas judges of the races. The services of Mr.

3. F. Caldwell were secured for tho all important and delicate duties of starter a position which no man in the oountry was equally qualified to fill. There were mistakes made, but they were not many. There were two or three grand "kicks," but, taken all together, the public was satisfied, and the attendance on no day of the one hundred fell below the point of profit.

When the number of days used and the number of raoes run are taken into consideration, as compared with the.num ber of days and. races on any other track in the country, the causes for dissatisfaction disappear almost entirely, and the attempted or successful frauds, if any, or the circumstances attending any of the raoes that might be suspicious appear insignifioant in the contrast. One hundred days of successful racing on one track in one year The thing is unparalleled. It is nearly double the number of days of the Johnny OaWwoK); Murphy year old bar geld ing Woodcraft, 111 tJaed Woodbine, 111 lbs. (Tigue); J.

Boss' 4 year old bay colt AlexlB, Lever Alix, 108 lbs. (Hafierty, carried 113 W. O. Daly's i year old bay filly Kitty Clark, Glanelg Paris Belle, 105 lbi. lba.

(Haggerty); Bryson's 3 year old bay goldiug Kite, Virgil Grecian Bend, 91 lbs. (Garrieon); a. B. Walter's 3 year old bay gelding Cromwell, King Alfonso Qplekatep', 92 lbs. (Walker), and L.

Brnoe'e 3 year old bay filly Jersey Maid, Hew York fepny 72 lbs. (Braig). Pools Jerioy Maid $50. Odette tiO, Kitty Olark $35, OromweU $30, the field $30. When the flag fell to a fair start Kite waa in front by a abort measure, Odetto second, Cromwell third, Odette went right out and mads the pass, leading on the back stretch with OromweU second, Kite, taken In hand now third, and Jersey Maid, Woodcraft and Kitty Clark next in order.

Odette led into the atretoh. Kttty Clark moved up two pegs at tbs ball mile, and at tbe stables still further improved her position. At the threo quarter post Odette led by a length, Cromwell second, a length before Jersey Maid, Bhe ahead before Kite, who was running freely and working toward the front, while Odette, Cromwell and Jersey Maid were In Sounding into tha stretch Kite ran up to even with Odette, Cromwell third. Odette had had too much, and tho whip did not revive ber, although she was uo worse off than Cromwell or Jersey Maid, tbo four bting well together. Kite came on and won without punishment by half a lengtb, Cromwell second, a length before Odette third, she ahead in front of Jersey Maid fourth, the others in order of finish being Kitty Olark, Woodcraft and Alexis.

Tims, 1: 28. Mutnals, $81 70. LITTLE CALDWELL'S LAST VICTOBT ON AMAZON. Beoond Baoe Pnrse $200, of whioh $50 to eeoond horse the winner to bs sold at auction horses entered to be sold for $800 to carry 90 lbs, without regard ago or with a lbs. additional for eaoh hundred dollars up to $500 and 1 lb.

additional thereafter; distance seven furlongs starters, W. O. Daly's i year old ohestnut filly tirldesake, Bonnie Scot laud Moselle, $700, 97 lbs. (Haggerty) J. MoMahon's 5 year old brown gelding Amazon Asteroid MIbb Morgan, $000, 00 lba.

(Johnny CaldweU); Acker man 6 year old brown gelding Nimblefoot, Waverly Molly Cad, $000, 96 lba. (Barrett oarrlod 98 lbs.) J. Bodegap's 4 year old ohestnut colt Bed Fox, Hurrah, doni by Hevolver, $1,000, 100 lbs. (Hurl burt), and L. C.

Bruea's 4 year old bay gelding Polanca, LeTor irioronce Wallace, $1,600, 105 lbs. (O'Hara). Pools, Amazon, tiOO; Brideeake, $100; Nimblefoot, $75; Red Fox, $55; l'alanca, $35. Nimblefoot skipped away slightly in ront when tha colors were dipped to an uuexceptlonu ble send oil, Bridecake second, Amazon third, Red Fox fourth, Palansa last. Half a furlong tnrthor on Amazon was in front, Brldecako seoond, Bed Fox third.

On tbs back stretch Patauca ran up to Bad Fox in third placo. Amazon went on aud was not headed. At tha three quarter post Nimblefoot had collared Bridecake for second place, but could not get up to the leader. Amazon won easllly by one and a half lengths, Nimblefoot second ten lengths before Brtdeoake third, Palanoa fourth, Bod Fox last. Time, Mutuals, $7.85.

The winner not sold. OHAELES KEMPLAND'S BA0B. Thibd Bade Purse $200, of which $50 to aeoond horse welter weights tho winner to be Bold at auo lion horses entered to be sold for $1,500 to carry weight for age allowances down to $300 dlatauca one mile starters, Magonta, stableB' 3 year old bay gelding Charley Kemplaad, Hiawatha Queen of Scots, $1,000, 115 lbs. (J. Drlscoll, carried 110 lbs.) Dr.

Hurd's 3 year old bay gelding The Judge, King Alfonso Oruolfix, $300, 102 lbs. (Johnny Caldwell) A. Boll's 3 year old bay oolt It. Monne, Harry Bassett Jenny $1,500, 123 lbs. (Edwards) G.

B. Bryson's 8 year old bay gelding Kite, Virgil Greotan Bend, $300, 102 lbs. (Garrison), and P. Duffy'a 6 year old brown gelding Buster, Chilllcothe Klllioklnnlck, $500, 143 lbs. (Oallaban).

Pools The Judge, $120 B. Monne. $85 BuBter, $55 Charley Eempland, $50 Kite, $30. Charley Kempland was in front by a bead when tbe flag foil, The Judge, Buster, Kite and E. Monne following in order, but all bunched.

Tho Judge had effected a substantial lead at tho quarter post and kept It to tbo half mile, Kempland and B. Moane close together and fighting for eeoond plaoe. At the head of the stables The Judge stopped, having again broken a blood vessel in the head. Charley Kempland then took tbo lead, and after a hard struggle with B. Moune earns to the post winner by two lengths, R.

Monne second, a head before Kite third, Buster fourth. Time, Mutuals J18.05. No bid Tor tho winner. THAT IN AND OUT BUNNEB, JIM MO COW AH. Fourth Raoe Purse $200, of whieh $50 to aeoond horse lor all ages dlstanco one mile and a quarter starters, W.

O. DBly'a 4 year old chestnut gelding Jim McGowan, War Danoe, dam by Solferiuo, 105 lbs, (Haazerty); Graham'B 5 year old chestnut gelding Hatadon, King Lear Bedowa. Ill lbs. (Walker), and Dawson's 3 year old bay filly Vexation, Jainoa Vixen, 02 lbs. (Garrison).

Pools Haledon $100, Jim McQowan and Veiatiou eaoh. McGowan as usual behaved badly at the post and when the trio got off was in front, Vexation second. Haledon took second place at tho atauCt. ThBra was no ohanRs after this. Jim McQowan won tho last race of the season by eight lengths, Haledon second eight lengths befere Vexation, last and pulled up.

Time, 2:18. Mutuals, $12.30. OPPOSING Atf INTERMEDIATE SOHOOL. any way, every day of delay will render the work more difficult. Mr.

Nomn Green, president of the Western Union, indicates this, without meaning to do so, in a recent report "The same rate of increase," he says, for the next five years will produce gross revenues of thirty one and a half millions, and net profitB of sixteen millions per an "num. But as the growth of the company has bean in an increasing ratio each five years "showing a larger percentage of inoreasa than the preceding five years ws may rea sonably expeot a still greater ratio of growth, and, thereforo, even larger figures for the year ending in 1887 than those above presented, enormous as they now appear." Wa have no doubt whatever of the correctness of Mr. Green's forecast if tho company be permitted to go on, as it has been going, unchecked. Every month sees something done to make electricity mora indispensable to the work of sooiety. At no very remote day the whole business correspondence of the country and much of ft purely personal nature will be done by it.

The uowb papers have even now oeased to depend upon the mail for the transmission of current news, and before very long latter writing, except of a descriptive character, will be wholly discontinued. In this domain, Emerson's romark is strikingly true, "Events are in the saddle and "ride mankind." The telegraph is neither a luxury nor a speoial accommodation, it is ft prime necessity, and will soon be indispensable to the great body of our people. With this much before ua it is certainly among the gravest of questions what is to be done to secure to the public telegraphic service upon reasonable terms. Upon the subject of the proposed remedies the Eaolf, will submit its views in another article for to day, we oontont ourselves with laying the evidence, so to speak, before the jury. Ooort for You ns; Oovornor Paulson.

Tho Governor elect of Pennsylvania will commend himself to increased favor among a great many people by the decision he has reached not to have any display attending his inauguration. In declining tho escort of a military company known as the State Feno ibles, the young Governor says I have always cutartalned profound conviction that a filnple anil undemonstrative inauguration of public oflleers was niost Jn accordance with tho spirit of republican Institutions. Tbore Is no roiison that I can Bee why the mere taking of an oath by the oltiien oalled by the people to execute a public trust should be made tho occasion for scenes of pageantry and demonstration. To my mind tho Bolenmees of the act is warred hy (ho intrusion of such neoiiless and inopportune displiy. Thn sooner wo return to simplicity and democratic good these mutt'ro the better better for She people end belter for the oEBcara.

Eeside, I am roaulutely determined that, so far an I can control tho nutter, ray Inauguration as Governor shall not cost the people of Pennsylvania one dollar. Why ehould It They derirc no benefit from euoh scenes and the, money spent thereon is wasted. There is good sense and good Democracy in this. There has bcon too much display at Inaugurations and on occasions like to them. JeSerson, after his return from representing his country abroad, was surprised and mortified by the length to which tho public servants of the time had gono in aping the ceremonialB of the monarchical governments of Europe.

Ho resolved to do his part to bring about a return to the simplicity that became a government in which tho people are sovereign. Before his time the President delivered his annual massage to Congress iu person, and the document was modeled after the fashion then, and still, maintained in England. The President went to the placo at which Congress was in session in great state and with a groat parade, just as her majesty of England now does when sho opens Parliament" as it is oalled in person. According to tradition, when Jefferpon delivered his first message to Congress he rode horseback to the building in which Congress mot, tied his his horse to a fonoe, handed a written document to the clerk of Congress and then re tnrned to his home. This written document was Jefferson's first message to Congress, and a nobla state paper it is, too.

Ever Bince the President's message is forwarded to Congress iu writing, and all ihe forms observed are followed when the President's secretary appears at tho door of tho Senate or tho Housa, and, catching the eye of the presiding officer, makes tho simple announcement "A message from tho President." After ho delivers tho document, he retires, and the reading of the message awaits ths pleasure of tho body to which it is addressed. The display attending tho inauguration of our Presidents has been carried to such an excess that the occasion wsembles the coronation of ft ruler by divine right. A return to the simplicity of tha former days of the republic will be a welcome reform, and it is sure to be followed by other reforms of a still more substantial kind. The Kttciutf season at KriKbton Ileacli. The Brighton Beach Kaclng Association yesterday closed the season with tho one huudviith day's racing, having commenced on Decoration day, May 30, kept the sport up continuously when the weather permitted, or when racing days did not conflict with tliosa of Shoopshead Bay and Jeronio Park.

Th' attendance at the beach yesU rday is re pci lod as having been very large, many ladies clad in fura being present. Much rogrit was expressed that the managers were compelled to close up. This they were obliged to do, not for want of patronage, but because there were not horses enough in condition to run to keep up the racing, and because it is impossible to run ou frozen ground. In fact, judging from the crowd reported to be iu attendance yesterday, tho association might have kept up the racing until January but for tho drawbacks referred to. The season, it is evident, has been one of uninterrupted success for the association.

During the 0119 huudted days four hundred and sevonty odd races have been run over tho track, and considerably over 100,000 has been distributed among the owners of race horses in the shape of added money. Prosperity to the race track has induced prosperity among its sur rouudings. The association has supported a small army of employes; tho Brighton Beach and adjacent hotels have thrived and the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Kail road has coined money out of the passenger traffic it would not have had but for tho racing, and which made it very profitable to run its trains thus into the last, of November. Ths success of the association this year has, doubtless, been due to the persistent efforts of its managers to inspire confidence in tho public that tho racing would be in every reupeot honest. It does uot require much drilling aud discipline to induce people to like horse contests.

It is a sort of second nature, this lovo of the thoroughbred and this passion for thoroughbred performances, Convince people that races are squarely conducted, and they will patrouize them generously. During the first throe seasons of tho existence of the track it labored under great disadvantages. Being iu the vicinity of other tracks which were managed by associations, and it being then solely run aud owned by one man, a feeling of distrust was industriously fostered in regard to it by the parties interested in the assoiiatiou tracks and by toadies who sought favor by opposing all rivalry and opposition to them. Uuscrupulou8 horsemen gathered together from all parts of the country, took advantage of the inexperience of the owner of the track, aud jobs wers "put up," some of them successful, others detected and exposed, but all industriously made use of by enemies to injure tho Brighton track. Mr.

Eugeman went right aheaei, however, determined to live down all opposition. This ho hud largely succeeded in doing last year. At the beginning of this season the management was somewhat changed, a regular association being formed with Mr. Kobert Kobinson president, Mr. Engeman becoming treasurer and manager, assisted by an executive committoe of gentlemen experienced in horse racing, among them the well known Charles J.

Foster, editor of the New Yoiic Sjwtsmaii. A vigorous enforcement of tho Maryland Jockey Clab rules, uuder which with some modifications the associa tion raced, was made from the beginning of the new departure. Owners caught in questionable practices and jockeys detected in pulling to lose were mercilessly ruled from tho track. A.nd here opposition again manifested itself in a manner quite unworthy of the high toned gentlemon who decried Brighton Beach in the interests of honest racing. With the exception of the Maryland Jockey Club near at home, and some of the more distant associations, the action "of the Brighton Beach Association was not recognized, and rascals shipped from Brighton Beach for swindling were in come instances allowed to rim their, horses on soma, of tha: opposition tracks.

But ifiw Brighton Beaoh Association yesterday at Caatls Garden. The logs rafted this season in Michigan will aggregate about 825,000 feet. Es Governor Joel Parker, one of the Supreme Court Judges of Now Jersey, is lying dangerously 111 at hts home in Freehold. The four story brick chair bottom factory of J. A.Hara, at Nos.

208 and 208 East Forty first Btreet, New York, was destroyed by fire last evening, caueiug a loss of property valued at $64,000. Judge John Stewart, for four terms judge of Fulton County, died at his home in Johnstown, N. 7., on Sunday night, aged G2 years. He was president of the FlrBt National Bank of Johustown. Mr, Edward Jones, a brother of Mr.

George Jones, of th6 A'eu York Timta, died yosterday at his residence In Roobsater at tho ago of 70 years. He bad been a resident of Rochester for half a coutury. Timothy Abbott, president of the Mechanics' National Bank ot Trtnton, N. died thero yesterday in hla 74th year. He was much respected and esteemed.

The strike among the piano makera is at end. Tbo Mosars. Stelnway havo notified tbe twenty eight men who ara considered to be the ones principally responsible for the continuance of the Btrlke that they mast leave the premises thoy now occupy. There was no improvement in Mr, Thur low Weed's condition yesterday aud It waB evident last night that he was growing weaker. A consultation of pbysloians waa hald yosterday aud another will be held to day.

Sergeant Franois Fitzgerald, of the Twelfth Preclnot, New York, lost his wife last Summer, and grief and sickness weakened his mlud. Yesterday it was reported that he had disappeared, and Superintendent Jvalllng, by a general alarm, directed that a search be made for htm. Six hundred theatevgoes from Point Pleasant and surrounding towns lu New Jersey, came ou a spscial train containing thirteen cars last evening to New York, to see Mrs. Langtry play "Rosalind" in "As you like It," Two'speolal trains on the elevated road took tbe pleasure ssekera to the theater. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio Ballroad was held yesterday in Baltimore.

The fifty sixth auuua! report was submitted. It Bbows that the aggregate earnings, working expenses and not results of the malu stem and all branohea for the flaoal year were as follows Earnings, $18,875.72 expanses, $10,910,113,65 ut oaruingB, $7,454,662.07. The profit and loss aocount buows an lucrease for the past yoar of $1,018,078.23. Tommy Loeman, a cash boy of 14 yearB, in the employ ot Jordan tc Marsh, Boston, has fallen belr to aeveral million dollars. Ha and his younger brother and sister Inherit from a grand uncle in Australia more than $4,000,000, which is to bs dlYidod among them.

The lad's father died in Juue last, and the three children have lived with an aunt In Boston slnco that time. They are to be plaeed in a Catbollo sohool in St. John for two years, and then will go out to their grand unole in Melbourne, Australia. A large number of tho importers and jobbers in China and Japan teas iu Now York, whose trade has been considerably injured by the auction sales of large shipments of bare signed an agroameut uot to attend to or countenance tea sales at auction in the future The auotlon trade has resulted In tbo depression of prices until they are now lower than ever before The crop lu China aud Japan is short this year by 5,000,000 pounds and tbe importers are assnred that prloes will soon go up. Tho smallpox has broken out at Chattanooga, and tho postmaster at that place yesterday telegraphed for permission to occupy tho United States barracks, which the oity government has purobased.

The buildings stand on Goverumeut ground and aro at present occupied by the Superintendent of tbo National Cemetery and Mrs. Melutyre, widow of Lieutenant Molntyre, Tho elty government intend removing the buildings and using them as a hospital, but cannot dn so in time to provido for tho smallpox patients accumulating there. Tbe request was douled because of the ocoupauoy of the building by tho parsons named. The Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association met at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, last night, and adopted a plan for perpetuating tbo custom of taking op collections on tbe last Saturday and Sunday of the year by meaus of auxiliary societies, representative of every trade and occupation under a common constitution and bylaws.

The association represents hospitals of all sects but the Boman Catholic Church, and tbe management of ono hospital representing that faith has now applied for admission. Last year $44,000 was collected, and a largo inoresBe is looked lor tbis yoBr, Coroner Merkle, of New York, yesterday held the inquest in tbe case of John Leo, tho stage carpenter who lost his life at the Park Theater (Ire on October SO, and Henry Clerk, who died in tho Now York Hospital from injuries reoolved by jumping from tho window whije trying to escape. The jury found a verdict that they met their doata at the Park Theater fire, and censured tho Inspector of Buildings aud the Fire Commissioners for neglect of duty In not con demoiiig the proscenium walls of the theater, which wero of a woodon partition and should have bean of brick or fireproof motanal. They rocommondod immediate Inspection of all othor placet of public amusement. Workmen engaged in breaking np and carting away the vaults, archss and foundations of the old Post Office building, in Nassau Btreet, New York, yss terday discovered a human skeleton.

Near the bones was found a coffiu plate with the inscription "Peter Kemble, died 19tu November, ISIS, aged 26 years." The body was found on top of the vaults aud ouly two and a half feet under ground. It waB given in charge of tho couimittea from the old Dutch church, whoh was appointed to watch the demolition of tho building and to presorvo articles found of htstorio interest. It was thought that the remains might possibly be thoso ot an unole of Mr. Petor ICoixiblo, of tbo firm of Pauliln ft Komblo, of No. 30 Broadway.

Mr. Kemble had an unole of that name, and will investigate tbo matter. Chief Engineer Melville continued his account of the search for Captalu DeLong and his party, before the Jeannotte Board of Inquiry, yosterday, in Washington. He stated that when he reaohed North Buluu he was badly frostbitten and had to be oarried into a hut. The natives then gave him a gun and three papers which they had found in one of DeLoug's oaches.

Tho papers gave an account of the captoin's wondoriugs, and one of them, dated October 1, said the party was not iu want, and that ell oould travel with the exception of one man. Tho Winter spaut at Yakutsk was described and the experleucos of the second aearoh expedition which started iu January wero giveu. Tho weather was said to be vory cold and Ibo snow so deep that Bovoral reindeer wore lost in the effort to drag tho supplies through the snow drifts, The Supreme Court of Penusylvania rendered a decision in fsvor of tbe Standard Oil Company of Ohio yostorday which ends tho long line of litigation that has ensued between tho Commonwealth and tho company ooncorulng taxes sDd ponaltlel olalmod to be due the State by the lattor. The Stase Treasurer and Auditor General of Pounsylvanla, over a year ago startod an account against tbo company amounting to $3,145,451.64, alleged to be due by the company for taxes and penaltioa. The matter was taken Into tho courts and after muob lltigotton a decision in favor of tha Commonwealth for taioa duo was rendered amounting to $31,801.

Interest, penalties, Ice, swelled the amount to $33,277,9. From tho decision of tho lower court giving judgment tor this sum, both the Commouwealth and tuo oil company appealed to tho Supremo Court, the frriner up in tho grouud that all of their amendod'clalm saj due, and the latter upon the olaim that they were unt liable for interest or pBnalttes, no sufBoient demand belugmade upon them. The Supreme Court favors tho company upon both appeals, Franoesea Eobestla, an Italian romaa, aged 23 was shot yesterday and instantly killed at No. 00 Baxtor street, by her reputed cousin, Giuseppe Pallelta, a atone mason, who shot himself in the head and Inflicted a fatal wouud, Her hnsband, a middle aged Kalian, and two children livo at No. 61 Muluorry street, and bor married relations were pleasant.

She lived on Intimate relations with Giuseppe, who, It Is supposed, took ber Ilfo becauso she failod to carry out an agreement to rob her husband and elope with him. Giuseppe was a shiftless follow, who lived in a miserable room lu Baxter street, where tbe murder was committed. Tha husband waa told of tho tragody while at work In an excavation in Broadway. Ho weut home and found his apartmeut locked and his earnings, amounting to $155 and bis wife's Jewelry missing. Ho denied that the murderer was bis wife's cousin and oaid she mady hU acquaintance soms time ago In New York.

Belativca of the murdered woman took oharge of the body and will bury it. The money and Jowelry were not found on the body. Glutoppo, who was still alive when discovered, died last night in St. Vincent's Hospital EC0H01I1O QUESTI0N8. Those Whlcli can be Determined by tbo Federal Governments To the Editor of tha Brooklyn Bugle I notice with great pleasure your leading articles on tUe tariff which hav appoared since the success of tbe pooplo in the late elections.

As a veteran speaker and writer for over ony oae years, on free trade or tariffs for revenue only, I observe with pleasure tho calru statermin liko way you aro dlxcisslux how the Demorrslic party should act In the immediate future, I fltfr ri with you rb? first ibiui; in or.Ior is to cut down the oxpenses of tho Governmo.it, for you may do pond upon it, economy ought to thi Drat stop iu tbe reform of individuals os well as nations. You seem to think that tbe Excise taxes or what Is called tbe Internal rcveuuo should be swept away, agreeing with you that tho Exolss Is a hateful tax, I think it pbould be aboliehed, but not for some lime, and thluk Congress should pass a low setting the Internal revenue taxes nsMe to ho saored'y applied to paying oft the national debt, and when the letter objocl was arconiplljbsd, tbe exclso taxes to ha abolished. Koepiug on the cxclao taxes will also enabls you to olimlaate the protectivo element from the tariff, for Instance, tbo Import duty ou all kinds of foreign spirits is $2 per gallon, and the exouwduty Is only 90 ctnts per cation on home mada spirits; reduce tbe Import duty on forelgu spirits to 50 cents per Ballon and tbs excise duty on home spirits also to ,50 cents per gallon mib at one ftroke, you would eliminate tho protective clamant from that part of your tariff, and all tbo revenue raisud both by ibis Custom House and excise on pints would ao orim tr. tha rovenno. and no Indirect tax would he paid by consumers of spirits to me noma uisuner, in me shape of a bounty.

Other two objects will also be secured; fifty cents excise duty will lessen smuggling, increase aud not diminish tha revenue received from dietillors, and, secondly, instead ot importing at $2 duty pr gallon, only Bbont 1,409,00 gallons, paying $2,913,800 of duty. I have no doubt 10,000,000 gallons of spirits would be lmoorted, and ri fifty conts, import duty, would yield of revenue. Your proposition Is flrat rate of sweeping the tariff entirely the duties ou all row matarialsaspoclally on wool. Making tho import of coal aLd Iron ores free I also agree with you In. Peihsp you aro right in thinking for the present, if tie Untie on augar, uo and steel weie reduced, say, one third en tho'dutlos on iron and oae half on augar and steal it vould be sufil olsat as a buglaulng.

In conclusion, eomethlcg must be done soon, lei sen the taxei of the peoold, and prevent the iusrease of money lu tu Uoited Sittes Treasury, as our national bauk reserves re oo bw, I do uot aprebeud any danger as long as the (oiotga oxohangc 3 are In our power, as tbo Govaruiaeut, whlU tha latter Is tha oaso, having plenty of monsj! in Ihe Treasury, can easily assist the haai.fi bv bonds leaving more money on de posit; but ut', ex hangs turn against the country, wblofc is not indicated by our exports and lmnorti, then there nilRht be danger, as I consider our bar.RB are too extendod as lndliated by tho following ftvures. as I think a reserve of only 13 3 10 per cent, of cub to tbe immediate Uablltles of deposit and oiron laUon of the banks too BartU. Burnt Ku liOOtare hj MIs Frances E. Will aril. TemperaHCo Talk In Plymouth Chuicb.

Prohibition not a Blow at Personal Liberty Hr. Beecher Soys this Is a City or Grog Shops, uot of Churches. A large audience listenod attentively to what Miss Frances E. WUlard had to say about prohibition lu Plymouth Church last night. She spoke with clearness and rapidity, and was repeatedly Interrapted with applause.

The Eev, Mr. Phillips, of the Sumier fiekl Methodist Epissopal Church, took charge ol lbs preliminaries preceding the lecture. After a duet from Mr. aud Mrs. Stobblns, Mr.

Phillips said they had gathered together in response to a call which was ono of the noblest whioh humanity could answer to. He declared that thero were slgna Jn the air which the politician oould olose his eyeB to no longer. There were leaders la every more ment people who ran ahead and saw far Into the future people who were in a wor4 the leaders. Miss Frances E. WUlard was one of them, and he Introduced her with much pleasure.

MIbb Wlllard was received with applause. She described tbo temperance question as tbe question of tho hour. Moral Biiaslon and law were at work, and tho tomyerance cause was asking for the thought of the brain, tbe sympathy of the heart and the conviction ot tbe conscience. The movement in Ohio was not many years old, but it had already spread Itself, through the great circle whloh iuoluded almost everything in government. I want to speck to you of the work to.night, oontinuad Miss Wtllacd.

The tint thing to do is to arrest the thought, and it is best based upon the deductions of tho observation and experience. Lot me toll you how tho platform of total abstiuenee became so dear to us. Tbo temperance woman found it to bs a fight against terrible odds. We thought we would go up stream aud look at tho source oi the terrible Niagara cataract down which so ruanj bodies aro dashed. Away above the oataraot ws saw a strong bridge securely built and many people walking securely across it.

THE TOTAL ABSTINENCE BRIDGE. It was tbe total abstinence bridge. And we woro told that the people crossing It were thoBe who wero Bought for by lusuraneo companies, sought for by who wanted men to go to tbe North Polo, sought for when men were wantod to shoot at marks, or to bo the rowing ehampious of the world. Thero we saw the great temperance leaders, the great mon of the Church of Knglaud, 5,000 clergymen crosBiug while tho others were looking toward it favorably. Thank God for the total abstinence bridge, with Its yeomanry and Its princes.

Wubu we looked over Its high parapeta we thanked God tbey wero so high that no one could tumble over tbeni. Then we saw moderation bridgo. Bat wo found It narrow, over whioh only modern psychological Blondins could pass. It was a narrow, shaking pais, rickety and rocking, a bridge from which Byron fell, a bridge from whloh Boras stepped aside, and a bridgo which a pitiful prooession of pooU, wits and orators havo tried In vain to oross. The habits of to day are the bondage of to morrow.

We praise tho bridge up yonder because If all the druokards died to day a new erop would be recruited trom those who drink In moderation. On whioh bridge will you oross as a patriot and a Christian 7 Build a dyke across and never lot the product of the brewery and tho still cross it. Willard related an incident which occurred not long ago at a banquet in Chicago, the central figure of which was a young tunn who gave way to temptatiuu. The moral suasion side, continued Miss Wlllard. is uot all.

There oamo at Inst this Question Ought a government to legalize a saloon system wbliih can only prosper In proportion as Christianity fats Thia question i open to night open in Brooklyn, the City of Churches. There will ooniea time within twenty years when it will scarcely bo believed that such a question could ho sskod iu sober earnestness. Tho liquor and bear men of Ohio have combined aud buva oalled themselves the Porsonol Liberty League ot Liberty. That is a mouth filling epithot and that is all thero is In tholr oomp. But thoro Is a law oven of liberty.

There are limits to our liberty and there is law to it. You reslgued the right of locomotion when you canio In hare, aud you roalgned the right ot speaking out in meeting, Law, accordiug to my doflnittou, is sort of drawing ot a clrolo of PERSONAL LIBERTY just bo large around and far across as are consistent with tho number of ciroles that you must put Inside ot a given deflulte space. The little child has the liberty to plant Its fist violently in your face, but when It has growu to manhood it can't do anything of tho kind. There ts a law to liberty. Law Is for tho lawless, I feel sorry for tho saloon keepers.

They havo uot had proper bringing up. Laughter. They have had a auhoolmastor and thoy must havo Ihe law. Tho Government has a law for tbouo who wero not taught as much as for thoao who wore. You must be tho servant before you beoomo master.

Those who know least of laws are thoso who violate tbeni least. Tho edge of the personal liberty circle is a lr.w ihat neods rectifying. Tho Indian who relinquishes his forest frooilom aud comoa iuto tho presouco of our law will galu very muob more than he loBes. Let ub Invite him in as wo iuvito tho foreigner. We invite Hodb to coruo horo from Germany to accept our privileges and our bonefits, and we ask him in return what he la going to do for us.

Be answers that bo proposes to livo as he wants to, Bay what ho wuuts to and wear nhat ho wants go into any business ho wauts to. Nonsense. A man comes Into your city with Its best mayor Who has a soaring Eaqi under bis arm, ond Bays ho will give $500 iu lieu of a permit to sell opium. Will It be considered? Not for a moment. And ho canuot wear what he pleasos, nor livo in just suoh a house as he pleases, unless bo pleases to livo In such a bouse as the authorities will let him build.

Well, wo will not let him keep an opium den to llspose of ono poison, and why should wo allow him to sell poinon of Bnothor kind 7 Wo want to let In the fresh air and clear out our brain it if tiousecleanlug timo. It Is not a blow at porsonal prohibition in not that. What crlinos have been committed in tbo snored name of liberty. May we como up to the help of the liberty by whloh social pools all interests in one commou stock I MR. BEECHER SPEAKS.

Mr. Beecher brought tba meetiug to a close. He said If a mau oamn to you aud olfered yuu a thousaud dollars for tho privilege of distributing smallpox would you allow him (Laughler. When you give license to the liquor traffic you take a fee for affording an opportunity for the ruin of your children. I am not so BRnguine about immediato victory as my eloquent friend, but I would to God I wero wrong aud she wero right.

We ara not a elty of ohurches wo are a city of grop shops. DESTItOYED BY FIttE. Dr. Utrnndretli'M Cottnae at laocliawciy Burned A Servant Girl Badly Scor cliud. Early yosterday morning Dr.

Brandrolh's cottage at ltookaway was found to be In flames. When the discovery was made the fire had already gained sufficient headway to tender useless any attompt to stop Its progroBS, Ihe entire destruotlon of tho building being Inevitable. Dr. Bra nil roth aud his wlfo and one or two servants were In the cottage at the time, and ono of the girls escaped with little more than Ufa Itself. As it was, few or no valuables oould be savod, Dr.

Braudretb losing considerable jewelry and a largo sum of mousy. Tho girl alluded to was very severely burned, and ber removal to a hospital tn this oity wa rendered necessary. She was brought down ou a train yesterday morning. It was bitterly oold when the fire occurred, aud the Inmates of tbe cottage were compelled to seek hospitality of neighbors. CRCEIfT TO A DOUSE.

David Green, of No. 618 Herkimer Btreet, was fined ton dollars by Jnsttce Fisher yesterday, upon complaint of Officer Meeks, of Bergh's Society, for driving a lamo horso to a loaded coal cart. BUSINESS NOTICES. BALOH. TRIOE MANUKAOTUHKItS OP SEAL DOLMANS.

SEAL SACQUffiS, FUB LINJCD WKAP3, 4c, 4o. Nos. 870 AND 378 FULTON STREET. LARGEST STOOK, LOWEST PRIOBS 8P15CIAL NOTIOK. THtt AMKRIOAM DISTRICT TELEGRAPH COMPANY OP BUOOKLYto ANNOUNCE TO THKIR SUBSCRIBERS AND TH.1I PUBLIC That from and after DECEMBER 1, 18S2, tbo monthly rental of their DISTRICT INSTRUMENTS In private houses will bo reduced to ONE DOLLAR AND TWRNTY FIVB OBNTS.

Tbe usctiliar fostures of our system, Niuar polioe patrol, POLICE AND MESSENGER SERVICE, Are well known, and to which we shall ondeavor to give iucransed etiiuinuoy and nromutuess. Tho police force oonneotsd vritb this company Is uniformed. Tbo members are all aworn in by and subjeot to the rules and regulations of tho Department of Pottae of tho Oity of Brjoklyn. At an; time day. or moat subscribers oas avail themselves of their services by simply sending a POUOB oaix on their distriot instrument, which will be promptly answered.

HO BATTERY OS OBBMIOALB BEQUIBBD. A child cau use the initrument alter a fow moment's instruction. Other specialties of service, suoh as the doctor's CALL," "LIVERY STAUt.E OALL8," BXBEnvBO TUIATSB seats," Finn call," will be explainod at either of ttie district offices, 191 MOMTAOL'K bt, S21 Couiit bt. GOU and 1,076 Kulto.v st, and SO Fovara bt. E.

where nnplioation for instruments oan he made, which will be attended to in their order oj recoivod. NO CHARGE POR CONNECTION. THIt. AMERICAN DISTHIOT TELEGRAPH 00., BiEOUTIVE OFFICE, 101 MONTAGUE BT. THE PKIDB OP BR.OOK.Lrit.

07.0.VK lis nrottiost suburb Rightiun Athntiu avenue. fteve miles from City Hall. Twenty minutes bv steam from tlltitouBU avenue Depot. FAKK WEEKLY. 15 iniuutoa rapid trauslt trclns, May next.

"Tbs Hsi'Ikiii of Brooklru." than N. V. Harlera. Faouod hyitie ureat Atlantis. Ojo.it or ojshoru.

Purd Air No Malaria. Solenoid ln 1, ground. fiHnryjU'iingii. Noarto the f.tnions llshic? resorts oa J.itciioit Bjy. Cnnvoniool to tne beach, oburchss, schools aud Rtore3.

It, cloia proiimitr. Twenty minutes from Hunter" Point aud down, town N. Y. ferries Thirty roluatas to H. Y.

Oity.Qall, via Eat Rtver Bridge. Th Beat Saviugs.Bank a a bom ot your own. Ooaio and examAio Send postal lor map and navies. HITCHCODK 4 DENTON, (JHAMBKRS STREET, N. PARK PARK PARK PARK.

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BOOK. AND JOB PRINTING Of svsrv escrtcAiaa. st the BAGLB JOB PIUNTINU OtfrTlOM rtljri tor first slaaj wsrK. HCOTT A BOWNE'3 BOLUBLB BBBf is the food "par oxc 'dripeptio aa well as invalids and onildreo at excellence" for tha 'AraDCDtio aa wen as invalid ana oniiarso, as it u.vua if without oaniloff KU9 tem dutrw. Mil grocors.

Kot sI by dtVCffttte Brilliant Olosa of aa Unparalleled Baoing Season at Brighton Beaoh. A BIsr Midsummer Crowd to Witness the Four HsBdred and Soventy third Raee on the Track this Yar Some of tha Causes Whieb Hare Contributed 1o tho Success of tho Association A Few of the Statistics of the TearJohnny Caldwell's EiRhty flfth YIetory Trying to Tie the Great MoLauffhlln and Falllnj? Oaly by Aceldeat Kite Wins his First Bace and fays Sixteen for Ouo Ama eon, Charley Keniplaiid and Jim Mc 0owan Universal Disappointment Over the Wind Up, which was Kccotsftated by Lack of Horses Fit to Bun. A cloudless sky and weather temperate boyona oipecUtlon were tbe mettorologletl conditions of tlie one hnuarettt roolng dy of tlie eson and probably the last of the year at Brighton It wan EDgeman'8 all salfl. Aa far as Bunahlna and moderate weather are oonoerned, there vria luok la It, and has been tbe season through. One 'hundred dayi' raoing on ona track in one eeaton I something unparalleled in the annals ol racing homue9h.

To hare so many daya In which racing akould be possible involved favora from ficSle fortune. Without aome thing akin to deserving Rood fortune, however, perennial aerenlty of eky would not have availed to accomplish what has never before been witnessed on one race traok. In other words, the Brgatoa Beaoh Rsains Association have done something to merit success. The history of Air. William A.

Engemaa's connection with the development of Ceney Island is too well known to Brooklynltes to require rehearsal. He planted himself by tbe ocean befota the big hotels and the now prosperous railroad linea to tbe beach bad been projected, or eyen areamed of by any but fow far seeing persons. Ho staid there patiently for years. Ha built a road across the salt inarah so that people could drive there. Ho held on for a long time by the eyelids" ao to apeak.

He was there when the big developmen began, and be was a poworfnl factor in helping it along. Being himself a lover of "the sport of kinga," he carried out, ae early asjposslble, the nieanB of entertainment for tbe maaiss, Many wise mon thought him InBane when heirojaoted the Brighton Beach rase traok. They did not change their minds when tho first or the second season bed ended. During the first and second years of the traok there waa muob that could unjustly criticized. Designing persona took advantage of Inexperience, Confidence was abusod.

Enemies of all shades of selfish interest avallod themselves of what was unavoidable and the good name of the track was, with real injustice, brought Into question. But the man who bad the most to lose or. to make, Mr. Engeman, neither despaired nor long dOubtad of succosa. He grew wiser with time.

He never lost sight of the main object. He spent of his resources without etlnt to create facilities. He worked steadily to inspire publlo confidence. It took him three seasons to live down his enemies, single and confederated. The fourth season closod yesterday with its one hundreth raoing day.

And the like of it was never seen on any raoe traok iu the world before. It might be possible, under extraordinary circumstances to bring together at tha beaoh suoh a crowd as gathered there to witness tbe racing of THE ONE HUNDBEDTH DAY Or THE SEASON, but they would need to be unusual Indeed. Yesterday was the twentieth day of NoTember. Yet tha assom blago ol the people at the traok was such a no might expent to aee there in mid August. It was fully up to the best crowds ot the season, excepting only the en eral holidays.

It waa a eight to look at. Ladies were there in large force and enveloped iu furs. The betting aud the non betting representatives of the community were both there. The grand stand waB well filled the betting ring crowded. Yet tbe great racehorses of the year were not there and were net ex peotod to be there.

Only suoh uwJloero performers as Odette, Woodcraft, Alexis, Kitty Clark, Kite, Cromwell Jersey Maid who bad not won on the traok this year al. though often starting and Bridecake, Amazon, KlmWo foot, Bed Fox, Palauoa, Charley Kemplaud, The Judgo, K. Monne, Buster, Jim McGowan, Haledon and Vexation, who had run ao many times that they had hardly a leg to run on, were to afford the aport of tho one hun dredth day but the crowd was there, a magnificent crowd In numbers and quality, all the same, jnut aa though the great cracks of tha year were to try conclusions. It evinced two things confidence in the often times Impugned management and a thorough loro for horse racing. And when yesterday rumored that the one hun dredth day of the season would probably be the last, it was very amusing to see "the big kiok'' that took place.

There was an almost universal protest, aaiouuc tog to a howl of disapproval "What was heard on every side "Have they not adrortised on their fanoy programme right along, weatbor permitting Isn't this fins enough weather?" Aud a big pressure wall brought to bear on the management from all sides. Phil Dwyer, who, with many others doubted the wis dom of raoing during tbe Baltimore meeting, a tew weeks ago, waa made a sort of coniralttaa in chief to represent publlo opinion and to induce the manage ment to reconsider what was. found to. bo tho docis ion. He was supplemented and reinforced by a.

score of other prominent gentlemen. The iuauaRomeht did almost yield. But there was one Insuperable objection. There wers not stables of horsoB enough to make racing posslblo that Is, not horses euonghinoondltiou to ruu. To stop now was a necessity, although it was evident that the people would ooms out aud witness racing even though It snowed, aud.

old horses bad to wear cork shoes Instead of plates to stand ou the frozen ground. So, to the universal regret, it was deoided to race no more this year unless the weather aud traok should be favorable on Thanksgiving, which is hardly probable. Beside the elements of suocess found in Mr. jgo man's steadfast motive to furnlBh fair aud honest sport for the masses, there have been powerful though UNDEMONSTRATIVE AUXIIIAIUE8 at work. Superintendent Stillwell bee been inde fatigable lu bis sphere hie servtoes invaluable; Secretary McHowan vltrlollo temper and all has been Indispensable Starter Caldwell has given to the track what no race course ever had before, a combina tion of genius and experience, gaining for bimeolr withal the reputation of the "best starter in the world," and Clare, superintendent of the oouno, has labored day and night to make the track what it is believed to be, the best on the continent.

In fact the subordinate employes of the aaioolation have all been zealous and faithful. THE STATISTICS 07 THE Tlia OK and of tbe raoing of the year ean not be given bore in detail. The foUowlng; however, is worth reproduoiug. There hare been six meetings during the soason, each known by the mouth during which the racing occurred, giving one hundred days and four hundred and seventy three races in all, ThiB has given to the stable own era $106,150 in purses and added money, or about one ninth of all the money in pursoB and sums added to stakei distributed on all tbe race tratks of the country, a fact without parallel and the more remarkable when It la understood that the stakes at Brighton Bsaoh are, in comparison with the daya run, few In number, and the purses, compared with those of the big association tracks, email. Tbe following are the raoing days, races and distributed money ot each mouth.

Added mosey No. of days. 2fo. ofraoee. and diifbob.

June 11 55 j) 13.250 July 18 70 13,200 August ia 111 Suotambor 12 Ol 13.700 OctobBr 2t 83 19,650 November 17 US 18,830 Totals 100 7S 8105,180 WHO V7ERH THE PBINC1PAI. WINNERS. Tbe following are the owners who received the largest amounts: n. DaW 80.785 W. Lakeland 5,725 A.

Bornham 5,275 B. Barnes pv P. Duffy. 4,120 H.J. Woodford 4,117 Actrerman A Co 3,752 H.

Welsh 2.702 J. Henry 2.500 J. MoMahon 2.1 IS M. J. Daly Z.IKU O.

2.003 i. Hodesap 1,650 j. uaiawou R. Shea MOO Wilson 4 Co. 1 1,000 Cahill i Co Williams Barnss 1.009 It is of interest to know that D.

Colalczi won the first raee, a three quarter dash with Laura and that W. O. Daly, who won the second race, a mile dash, with Haggerty up, beating a field of ten, also won tbe last race, with Jim McQowan, the same able aud reliable jODkoy, in tha saddle. THE BACINO TESTERDAr. Although the sun ahone brilliantly all day and the wind was not uncomfortably cutting, it Btemed lrnpoa aiWe daring the forenoon to prepare tbo track bo that noma could run.

The muddy ground had frozen so hard as to bear a man'a wolsor, but aa tbe Bun not up the loy hummocks melted, and the continued use of tho harrow brought the traok to a muddy oonslatenoy, and though dangerous, racing was possible. The handsome memorial programmes, of which acme three or four thousand had been printed, soon gave out, ana although costing aonaldorably more than the prioe of the every day raoing card, they were sold lor the usual price, ten eents, and before the flrat race were at a blgh premium. Kite captured the firtt race of the day, beating a field of bIx, and upsetting all calculations. Odette, with Johnny Caldwell up, waa farorite. It was known to atarter Caldwell that Johnny waB only two behind tho great Jockey, J.

McLaughlin, in the number of winning mounts. The record stood before tbe first race of yesterday aa follows MCLAUQHLIS. Total mounts. Firsts. 8econd.

iVl 3. CALDWELL. Total mounts. Firata. Seoonds.

203 81 13 48 The paternal heart yearned to have the brilliant young rider who bad had only the experience of this season tn tbe saddle, equal in number the victories of the great jeekey of the Dwyer stable. Might tbsra not hare been a temptation to let the youngster get away iu tbe lead 7 That in neither of the three racas Johnny rode be got off flrat oueht to alienee the few klckera who have asserted that young Caldwell in a majority of eases gets the bast of the send off. In tbe first race Odette got away aerond. In the second race Amazon, with Caldwell up and thia time a winner, got away third. In the third race he was on The Judge, also a favorite, and got away aacond, the starts being all good ones.

He waa on the high road to vlotory with Tho Judge, and now only one bahind Holiughlin in the number of winning mounts. But ha was fated not to Buocoed, The Judge again broke blood vesSM, having gone but half the course, and waa compelled to stop. During the afternoon the owners and trainers partook of an elegant lunch prepared by caterer 8. 3. Hill, of Naw York.

The detaita of tha last day, j3 in many respwta the most successful day the aeason, oUow KITH UPSETS Fibst HiCiPurae $200, ol which 450 to second hnMA tnr hnnu that him mn Mil won ftt BfUZh ton. Beaeh this year dlatauca three quarters of a rotlv BtiHera Joan Birmingham a year oiu uaeKe, si airy tiMiiii lut arunswu, mo. ZS.earula.t lMeetinsr of the Board. Tho Proposed Reruoral of tbe Bruff Rail way Obstruction Corporation CoorsoI Taylor Advising Against it istribut ingr aa Unused Fund Horo Money for the Tax Office and the Board of Audit. 1 Reflection Upon Controller Semler, Etc.

The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon, President Simon in the cbalr. The communication oi Commissioner Hopes lu reference to the proposed new water main In the Sastern Distriot (whloh was published In the KiOLE yesterday), waa read and referred to the Committoe on Water and Drainage. BRUIT EAILBOAD OBSTBrOTKMJg. Tha foUowlng was received from the Corporation Counsel: To the Honorable, the Common Council Oesiiemik Is reply to your communication in relation to the power of the Commissioner of Oity Works to cause the structure known aa tho Bruff Elevated Ballroad to be removed from tbe streets of th city, I beg leave to observe that an examination of tha various statutes relative to the subject discloses that that (hts company is the successor of a corporation known as the "Brooklyn Elevated Silent Safety Bail way," which was organized under obaptsr G8S of tha Laws of 1875. This statute named a particular route aud authorized your honorable body, iu conjunction with tho Mayor, to ''name such other streets and avenues as Bbould seem more suitable" for oarrylug out the objocts contemplated.

By various acts the time for completing the road and other conditions were modified, tho last art lolo of Chapter 338 of the Laws of 1881 extending the time to complete the road until May 1, 1883. I Bm not able to ascertain that the company is without authority to build the Btruoture as so far completed or that thoy have violated any condition of receiving tho franchise so essential as to work a forfeiture of their charter, and as ihe time within wbiou they were to oomplete the road has not yet expired I cannot find it within the exercise of prudent dealing on the part of tho city to undertake the summary removal of the structure. Bsslda tha ueosssary expenses of Its removal disastrous pecuniary responsibility might result to the oity It the company should determine to push the road to completion during the somlng Wlutei months. I find, too, that, although two injunctions have been sued out against tne oompauy, they hare both been dissolved in one case, that brought bv my predecessors for tha olty, by the Judge granting tbe writ In tho flrat instance and in the other (that of Patriok Jloran) upon appeal to tha General Term of the Supreme Court, the last decision being rendered as lata aa the 12th of September last past With so reoent a recognition by the courts of their existence as a corporation it would, in my judgment, be imprudent for the city to preoipltate upon itself by unauthorised interference with the road a conflict over the franchise. I am the mora constrained to take this of the matter from tbe fact that tbe road Is already in tbe hands of a reoeirsr and is, apparently, unable to respond to the many claims upon It, I have been led to examine with much care the legal status this corporation from a oonsolous ness that the presence Jof its unfinished structure in the streets, and especially in tbe narrow streets which are lined with houses, is source of grievous annoyance many citizens, and I have anxiously sought for some view of the matter whloh should afford roller to sucu property owners, sui tue matter, having been made tho direct subjeot of action by the Legislature, is placed beyond the control of your honorable body or the Commissioner of City Works, and I can see no meana of relief uutil the expiration of the time fixed by the statute.

Very respectfully, Johk A. Tayxob, O. The oommunloatlon was placed ou file, BREAKING UP AN KLEOTRIO LIGHT UND. Aid. LePine, who has been for a long time endeavoring to secure some eleotrio lights for the Thirteenth Ward, oficred a resolution distributing the fund as follows teeolied.

That the Controller of the Oity of Brooklyn be and hereby la directed to transfer the sum of $4 100 from tho amount heretofore set aside for ur nl'ehlng electrlo lights for the Thirteenth Ward to the aocount of the Douortment of Taxes also, the trauB ferfrom tbo electric light aceouut of Ihe Thirteenth Ward the sum of $3,050 for furnishing stovos, oilcloths, kc, for Justice NoehBr'B court room also, to transfer from tho aforesaid account the sum of J260 for altering cells, making alterations nnd furnishing Biores, for Justice Meeker's court room, and that the balance of the amount for furnishing eleotrio lights for the Tbirtneutu Ward be and tho Bams hereby 13 transferred to the contingent fund. Tbe resolution was adopted, Uut afterward Alderman Bslrd moveJ a reconsideration, sayiuj! that $749 mora than was uecGRXflry had bou trausferred to tbe collector, who had asked for only $3,351. Tho motion to reconsider was adopted, and then the resolution ameudod so as to give the collector $3,851 was readopted. TV7KNTY FIRST WARD FTBE LIMITS. A communication was received from residents and property ownorn iu the Twentv rlret Ward asking for an extension of the fire limits along DoKalb and Lafay atto avenues, from Bedford avenue to Nostrand avenue and from Nostrand avenue between Lafayette and Myrtle to Lewis avenue.

Referred to the Committee on Fire Department. OLOSIKG A PART OP EIGHTH AVENUE. The Law Committee reported a resolution in favor of dosing Eighth avonuo, from Twentieth to Twenty first street, as a publlo highway, that section of the avouuo being owned by tho Oreonwood Cemetery corporation. The resolution was adoptod. GRADING AND PAVING.

Aid. Mergle offered a resolution giving permission to tho property owners to grado and pavo, at tbeir own expense, Seymour street, from Kaymoud to Canton street. Adopted. A FBNOE IN A STREET. AM.

Sohmitt offored a resolution calling upon Com miEsioucr Hopes to explain next week by what authority a fence had beau erooteu aoroas MoKibbin street, east of Bushwiek avenue. CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS. Aid. Bslrd offered tho following resolutions. He said that at tbe meeting last week bu had etated ou tha authority of Controller Sinnler that there were uo unexpended baluucQB in the treasury from whloh transfers oould be mado, Ho had been told since that tho Controller has told others that there woro unexpendod balances.

In order that two clerks discharged by tho Board of Audit last week might be relnstatod and the work of that board bo carried on efficiently, he offered this resolution Hraolecd, That the Controller bo dlrooted to transfer from the surplus in the various salary atoounta to the credit of such departments as arc deficient. Jlcsolved, That tbe Controller be authorized to transfer from auy unexpended balances of previous yeara to auv account to meet deficiencies in provious yeors. Presidout Dimorrexpresaod the opinion that tho resolution did not oorer tbo ground intended by Aid. Baird. Tho resolution was laid on the table, and the Board adoptod another one ordering the transfer of $328 from tho contingent iund to meet a dollcionoy iu the salary account of lba Bonrd of Audit, Tho Uoivd referred to the Law Committee a resolution authorizing tha Corporation Counsel to sottlo in snob a manner as ho may deem for thn best interests of tho city tho cases against the city brought by Alfred J.

Cammeyor, Henry Orenezhech, Amy Palliu, A. Z. Lott. Georse C. Gonet, John E.

Bnrroll and George Sickles. These are suits brought to recover the amounts of awards for tbe Sackett Btreet Boulevard. A Bluiilnr nuit by H. W. Sage waB finally dooldod against the city, and was regarded as a test ease.

Heuoo this proposed settlement. The Board adjourned for a week. THE FKIESDS' REVIVAL. Gathorinir of tbo Qtiaucrs in tltn afar otto Avonue Muetirsjr House Preaching by Joltti norland, of Cnuada, 1Tckilerlay Tbo Frjonds' revival, begun on Sunday evening, in tno Friends' mooting house, corner of Lafayette and Washington avenueB, was oontinueft yesterday afternoon and evening under tho lead of John T. Dorlond, of Toronto, Canada, and Elwood Scott, of Falrmouut, Iudiana.

Mr. Dorland is Just twenty two years of age and of good build and presence. He has the Quakers smooth face and dark hair. He Is well known throughout tho Dominion, and during the Summer he conducted successful meotings tn North Carolina, Baltimore aud the Northern part of Now lork State. He will go back to Canada immediately after he completes his work Iu Brooklyn, and Mr, Scott will return to Indiana.

Mr. Dorland's friend and assistant is thirty three years of age, aud preaches an earnest and aensible sermon. He first mot Mr. Dorland about three yoars ago at tho annual meeting of Brlonde at Plokerlng, Ontario. The most successful meeting that the two gentleman ever conducted together was held in Canada a few woske ago.

Tha meeting of yosterday was very well attended. The congregation sang "All hall tbe power of Jesus' Name" and a hymn entitled "Saviour, Tby dying lovo Tbou gavcat mo." Prayer was offored by tha two evan ReliBtn aud aevenil of tho audience. Mr. Scott preached from the following text: "Aud grieve not tho Holy Spirit of Ood, whereby ye ara sealed unto the day of redemption. EpbeBinuB Tim revivalist euid that as a denomination of Christians tho Society of Friends bad done inoro to receive and obey the Holy Spirit'" voice than almost auy othor body.

In many jilacos they bad set themselves up as a kind of light, for othyr churches on this matter. The speaker bksaeu Ood': name that he belonged to a de liouiinarlon which believed iu the Holy Ghost, and he blessed it still more that bin denomination was ono that believed tn tho Holy Spirit, and lu a large measure had a prsotical experience of having rocelvod and bson led by tha Holy Spirit. Ho felt glad dor still that ho himself had enjoyed that exalted privilege. The tauiplo thai Solomon built was but a faint picture of tho dwnlilu plaoe of God. But these bodies ot ours ara tho temples for tho spirit of the Most High, aud this temple should bo kept puro aud uudefiled.

Tho text had reference uot to tho uDRodly, not to the world without, but to those who had been born of the spirit to those who received the Holy Spirit to thoso whose bodies had become the temples of the Holy Ghost. ood's own temples. There is another passage of Scripture which refors to the worldly and the ungodly, wherein Jesus said to the stiff necked aud iineironmeised in heart that they do always resist the Holy Ghost, As their fathers did, so did they. These people lie referred to were of a class of persons who claimed to be God's servants. They were those who did not see the spiritual truth, nnd this was the condition of a graat mass of the worid at tbe prosent time They are those people who are movod by outward and external influences, but thoy do uot hour the muslo of the gospel upon their eoule, nor the still small voice.

Their hearts and tars aro unelrcumciaod. Is it truo that tub Holy Ghost can bs grieved We know how wo feel when we aro grieved ourselves and most emphatically God can be grieved. Tbe apostle Bays that any kind of a sin will grieve God's spirit. A coldness toward our Heavenly Father, or toward the arace divine, will surely grieve God's Bpirit. Men still make a profession on tho Sabbath day of silting on exalted seab and in favored paws, but judging from the conversation that poises from their lips after they leave the churoh they cannot postess a drop of Christianity, and tbo spirit of God is most undoubtedly eneved.

It must grieve a woman's soul to see her husband's time all taken up with the business of tbe world, and there are husbands whoso wives never join them In prayer, who never try to rear the littlo ones for heaven. There is mora stealing done nowadays with the tongue thau with the hand. I would rather that a mau would steal my purse then my reputation. A more scantiness of Rraco in a Christian's heart grieves God's spirit, as does also UDtruthf ulneas. Time aro many people who make vows juet to be broken again.

Tbey ask a favor of God one day, but when the favor la bestowed they forget all about God when to morrow onmes. It a mlnlstor roa ilo promltes and failed to fulfill tliera. the nfioDla would soon lose confidence in his preaching and few would go to hear him. All his resolutions and covenant then would go for nothing. If we want tlie Ixird we mUBt have one loins girt about with truth so that wemay be loyal li Him aud loyal to ourselves, l'ou may be able to quench or kesp down tbo Holv Spirit within you to keep down tb flame that it shall not bo eeen, and when tho spirit's flame has boon crushed from the heart tie mateh of the Lord may uever rekicile it In tho evening tho attendance was laraer than at the afternoon service and both of tad ovaugellsts preached, nrayed and sane.

The meetings will continue till Sat will mVirn tn tha'i" uraay, wneu tue two homes. FOK 5TKALI3Q A TEAM ASP WAflOK. Thomas Reynolds, of No. 8S Driffield street, was arrested Sunday, charged with stealing a team of horses aud a wagon valued at $200 belonging to Mr. Gordon, of No.

76 Johuson street. Tho horses were in front of Mr. Gordon's houio at tha timo of tha alleged robbery and were found lu tho possession of tbe prisoner abort time af terwaxd, Justice Walsh held, Reynolds for examination. great topic that directly challenged their attention. The day may oomo when both will regret their indifference to the profound and humanitarian views of which Mr.

George is so eminent and so capable an exponent. Tbe Suit Against Mr. Boeeber Dismissed People who habitually give full oredenoe to stories unoomplimentary to eminent men and form their conclusions upon ex parte statements must regret their haste In regard to the suit brought by Mr. Samuel Wilkeson againBt Mr. Beeoher.

That aotion has shared the fate of the "Life of Christ" and been knooked higher than a kite by the plaintiff's own testimony. It was virtually thrown out of court, Mr. WLkeson not having substantiated a single claim of any of those made in his interest against Mr. Beeoher. The pastor of Plymouth was charged with having signed a contraot to write tho work under consideration of having pocketed $10,000 in advance and of receiving royalties upon such of the books as he had written, and of subsequently throwing up the matter in violation of the agreement, to tho pecuniary hurt of his publishers.

Indeed it was positively stated, though, no effort was made to prove It in court, that Mr. Beocher's failure to live up to an agreement with Ford Co. had caused them such heavy losses in money that tho firm became bankrupt, These were serious allegations, and were calculated to do injury to the pastor of Plymouth. Upon examination, according to law aud fairness, it now appears that, like a great many other injurious stories net afloat against Mr. Beecher, this one was devoid of foundation.

Eveu before any defense was set up, the complaint was found to be so defeotive, when compared with the evidence brought forward to support it, that Judge Barrett, after giving the plaintiff an opportunity to look through his papers to asoertain whether he had any more proofs to substantiate it, dismissed it yesterday, as ho foreshadowed he would last week. The facts were that Mr. Beecher did make the contract that he did receive the money that he did write the book so far as tha completion of Part I. was concerned that the publishers sold a great many copies and made a handsome profit over and above expenses that their bankruptcy had nothing to do with Mr. Beecber's failure that a new arrangement was made with Mr.

Beecher by the plaintiff iu 1873 which abrogated the original oontract, and that tho publishers, in place of urging him to complete the "Life of Christ," did on th other hand induce him to undertake a new and entirely different enterprise. Under suoh oir cumstaucss no other course was open to the court but to dismiss the case. However, if the upshot of the suit teaohes people to be careful about believing one side of a story which is calculated to affect the good name of an eminent citizen and silence envious and thoughtless tongues Mr. Beecher can well afford to forget the armoyanoo that this suit may have caused him in the reflection that it may protect himself and others in future. Municipal Hatters.

Commissioner Eopes submitted to the Aldermen yesterday estimates of what it will cost to lay a new water main from the Ridge wood Reservoir to the water front through the heart of the Eastern District. That an additional main is needed seems to be proved. The growth of population and the extension of manufactories have involved necessities for water greater than can be adequately met through tho present ohannel of distribution. It appears that in many parts of the district the water will not rise to the third floors of the houses, and this, of course, is a state of things which, in the absence of an additional supply, must grow worse with every new house ereoted. The Commissioner has had two routes surveyed, one by way of Cooper avenue and the other through Wyckoff avenue.

The cost by the former will, he estimates, bo $270,533.57, and by the latter whioh is ft difference of $17,059.12 in favor of Wyckoff avenue. This exhibit would seem to settle the question aa to the line but it does not, for Wyckoff avenue is outside the city limits, and would, perhaps, not as favorable in some other respects for the purposes of distribution as the more costly line. This is a point, however, upon which it will be safe for the Aldermen to be guided by the engineer of the department. It is hardly necessary to add that there is no objection to an improvement of this kind. On the contrary, there is objection to anything like unreasonable delay in carrying it out.

The city cannot afford to have any considerable neighborhood without all the water it needs. Moreover, the water supply is a source of revenue and under prudent management must continue to be so. The board referred the report to the Water and Drainage Committee. A communication was submitted by Corporation Counsel Taylor in reply to the question whether it is in the power of the Commissioner of City Works "to causa the struc "turo known as the Bruff Elevated Railroad "to bo removed from the streets of the city." The Counsel is of opinion that there is no such power in the city. The company, he says, has been given until May of next year to complete the road, and the courts have held this grant valid, or so fur as it has yet been passed upon.

Into the legal questions here involved it is not neoossary to go further at present than to say that, if the law is as the Corporation Counsel understands it, there in a world of difference between the law and common sense. The company is bankrupt and has been bo for years. It was fraudulent to begin with and collapsed like a pricked balloon. Its stock and bonds outstanding represent some eight million dollars of liabilities, and all tho property, there is to show for this is not on the most liberal estimate worth more than $800,000. There is not the remotest possibility of the road ever being completed.

This was made certain by the reoent decision of the Court of Appeals requiring the New York elevated loads to compensate property owners in full for the damage done them. The. Bruff Company is not in a position to compensate anybody for anything. Its stock on baud is valuable as so much junk, and as nothing else. That several of the streets of the oity should be defaced and blockaded by detaohed pieces of this enterprise and no redresB be available is a libel on the law.

If the present assignees of the" exploded combination are minded to make partial reparation for the wrong already done, as well as to make a merit of necessity, they will at an early day make a contract with some dealer in old iron and have him remove the parts of the strno ture now standing. By way of hurrying forward this relief wa trust the question of constructing some such line as Mr. Culver has proposed will soon be settled by the courts. With a decision providing for a practicable and solvent line the Bruff road would cease to be of interest, except ae a memory. The American nation might lose many a so called statesman and yet be unconscious of having experienced a serious loss, but the death of one such a man as Professor Henry Draper creates a vacancy that is lamented by the lovers of genius and knowledge throughout the world.

Kind hearted people whose sympathies are incline to go out toward the New Jersey horse with a parasitic worm in his eye, may console themselves by the thought that his sufferings are as nothing compared to those of the man with a Presidential bee in his bonnet. The Mayor's letter to the Board of Education in favor of the adoption of tho plan proposed by the special committee for the rearrangement of the sohool districts of the city, to the end that the accommodation of primary olasses may be increased, is to be commended. The only point at which the Eagle thinks itmight advantageously be modified is in the matter of School No. 7, which was built for grammar school purposes, and which stands in a neigh borhood that appears to have an abundance of primary accommodation now. So far as wa can see, the effect of the ohange proposed is this district would be to leave certain olaas rooms vacant, while to some extent diaorcfaniziuK a useful and prosperous sohool.

fab. this exception tho report ought, iu the Baqhi's Judgment, to be aaa pted. TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1882. rais Paper taas Mao l.arrjcm Oircalzi Uom of anr Evenlas Paper VablUfce In the linitatl States. Its rut so as as AdTortlsing Medium to tberrr ng strata e.

Tlie Govern mom and ttie Telegraph. At a reoeut meeting of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, Mr. F. B. Thur bor submitted a report in favor of having the Government purchase and control the tale graph lines of the country.

Resolutions re commending this course were unanimously AmIaA fVn linnvfl lon ovinpftra that UUUl LTj Li ISJ I.U UVSM U. "il the Postmaster General will in hiB forthcoming annual report to Congress take similar ground. The gentlemon who are time disposed to devolve upon the Federal Government, these new and far reuching duties, justify their proposition by pointing to the experience of Great Britain, where th telegraph liaes are owned by the government, as contrasted with our own at the hands of the Goulds and Vanderbilt's of the period. The exhibits made of the results on the two sides of the Atlautio are well worthy of attention, oven by those who deem the oare worse than the disease. What is shown to a demonstration is that the people of the United States have beon compelled to pay most extortionate rates, and are still being so compelled, while the inhabitants of the British Isles have more than double the telegraphic facilities which the private companies gave them, and at a greatly reduced price.

In 1869, when the government bought up the lines, there were 2,488 offices and miles of line. In 1880 there were ",331 offices and 23,156 miles of line. All this increase of stock has been paid for out of the earnings of the lines, while at the same time $10,000,000 of interest money has been paid and the rates reduoed. Iu other words, the government has been enabled out of the profits to construct lines more extensive than those they purchased, as well as to cover the interest on the original investment. Had there been no government interference, there are nearly 20,000 miles of telegraph lino and nearly three thousand offices now the property of the British people that would have ben the property of a few individuals.

The story, however, is not by any means told when the statistics concerning the number of offices and the length of the common land lines are given. Tno business has incveasad nearly fivefold. In IS 6f there were 500,000 messages transmitted in 1880 there were 31,345,881. Iu 1809 there were 13!) miles of submarine cables in 1880 there were 707. At thn time the purchase was made there were 4,8 14 yards of pneumatic tube in operation two yours ago there were Meanwhile with this marvelous development of tho system the oharges, as has been indicated, iiRve beau greatly reduced so that now a message of twenty words, beside thi date, address and signaturs, can be I sent to any part of the kingdom for a shilling.

The effect of this ohauged condition of affairs upon the newspapers is very notioeable and highly suggestive, showing as it docs in the clearest way that to cheapen the telegraph service is in the broadest sense to diffuse intelligence. In 18(19 there were 173 newspapers in the United Kingdom served with telegraphic dispatches; in 1SS0 the number was 515, and within the same period tho average daily amount of news sent out from tho oentiv.l office has been iii ereasad from 6,000 to 25,000 words. In view of this exhibit it is not to be wondered at that there is a strong disposition to adopt the policy of government control horo, and the disposition is certainly not weakened by the record of that giant monopoly, the Western Union Company. The capital stock of the Western Union is now 80,000,000, upon which an annual dividend of six per cent, is paid. The company was organized in 1S58 with a capital oi $:85, 700.

If there has since the beginning uutil now been as much as $20, 000,000 advanced by tho stockholders, old and new, nothing iu the published accounts shows it. But to be liberal ws shall oonende that the company with all its appurtenances represents $20,000,000. This leaves just of bogus stock upon which the public are paying interest. In other words, the rates ure four times higher than they would be if no more was charged than would be necessary to pay interest on the capital actually invested. Very early in its career the Western Union bade goodby to fair dealing and staked its existence on the high art of extortion.

Thus we find that in 18GG its stock had boon increased from 700 to 32' 000, 000, of which, at least, $18,000,000 was confessedly water, and the remaining $3,322,000 was issued to buy up certain competing lines. That there was nothing in the condition of this company to justify this new issue appears in tho fact that the stock thus diluted did not command twenty five per cent, of its face valae in the market. What the managers were at was to lay a basis for overcharging the public iu the future. With the possibility of establishing a great monopoly, the managers, liko thoughtful men, put themselves in a position to plead, whan the day of complaint came, that a lower tariff than they had imposed would not yield profit to the stockholders, it being, of course, assumed that the Blupid public would uot discover the true inwardness of tho fraud. How tho policy of inflation thus happily entered upon has been followed up is thus described iu the report before us The nest s' was the purchase of the United States Computiy, ior v.iiicil purpose $7,:0,300 of htoek waa issued, mi i to bo live times the Hue value of ihe prop.v.

Next fume tun absorption of the American '1 1 If graph Company. The Block of this company ji alioo. lunch Inn had aa uat oi rue WeKr'j ami amatmic ii to I and jot 11, $1:1.100 of i Union stock wns iasn to secure pi)3er of riiut Tl.ii tiui 'jtock of this company up to about 41 Dull ll.i 1. iii the bonded debt fB.uuiuWO. Previous.

to iilo lil r.t pi I'rediuiiut ijrton, lc witti believed Hie policy of Ibis cumpai.y Tic to im a portion of it surplus finilnti to ami retire ItB uuoriuou.y vi inirtHi instead it" it an excuii lor nianilniir.l man riues; um, inn ue.nu ui President Oi i.m. usvr was iuunx ii. by the n.t rc.v, wiiii'h una been duiuiniuit in tho company, nt in lBT'J stook to Hie amount of nbmit Srti aa in tho tiva.sury at that time, vas pitn nled to the stockholders in n.lditlon to tbe After describing briefly the steps taken last year to take Gould with his Atlantic and Pacific Company aud the American Union into the pool, the report proceeds The American Union Company, wtioBe actual value. was about tluve iris, whm gelli( ivith tho Atlantic and A i Oompuuy t'ory ir.cntionod (also worth nl" three miUious), unit in the. consolidation the Aiiietiein Ouio.l vua put In kt nd the Atlantic and Paoific at while order to r.b ib in dividends the enormous oaniingB wuichthoy is Ibv.viiij irpon tbe public, H.i titer in creuie t'f Stl.Viiju.uiiO v.aa made under the piotcijee of Issuing prcs jut yurpi'irf earning pivt io.

i. lDioalnu ill St. Thin brnulit up lite ritpital Block of tbe Com Western Unltia Gtiiapany to (rand lots! of millions or dollars. Of course auch ftvidov.i'i'. of whu.the pi.blic v.

oul.l I Jn the ivoy of imtnodiiit'ily followed by a new ntrilic in the of a company, tho Mutual Untu i. Thirf company i uk rted nu a bain of $G0t)f0uD cipitwl, ttlch ua imtnudi itely increased to llt.tiOO without cot.i id.tution, at.d, as it Appcard friuii pioccdjn.s in court by untcei. bottler, tho dirootors ma a cotitract with a Cri dit Mobili con gtrnctlou iii'in iu vsliich they woro iuiorvuteil, by which $4 000.0011 oi.Ji aud about SU' ttoitli were guar tuteod for cotistrnciiuK linej and plant valuod'at FJ.O.iki.OjJ, and, naturally. thiu0 beins developed thus far. negotiations were op.me 1 ifli tlia controlling 'nt in tho Western Union Company for another coy.

olni and watering, bu: owiun to a faliino out" a i to tlie tflrms of the and to who isboKld cc itrol, this has not yet bficu eir.t. liUmtnatoJ, aud Ickh! proceediu wero begun which developed tin. Be very ititereut.utf facta. II should bo noted, too, that proceedings to test the legality of tho couBolldaticii of tli Wciteri! Union with tite Atlantic nd I'acifiJ ami American Union companies wore bosun by aggrieved ttccklioidors, aud Die Jateet decision of tho courts beon auainft fiucli legality but (bin la only a question us to utocltholders ribta, and it these re adjusted by ustreeruout or r.vipe, there in notb Inu to Rtaua in the way of this wholesale inmniutliui of burdem upon lUu public iu tbe. shape if fictitious Stock, which is Hindu the pretext for unduly tixini tbe pnbltc, and furnish a further meaun for rouecntrallna ihe wealth of tho country in the baud of a privileged claas.

JVith this narrative before him, the reader is inft position to form a clear enough judg me'nt on (lie nature of tho monopoly which at the present moment may bt said to control tho telegraph Hues of the United btates. There are Bniall companies hers and there not subiect to this central authority, but they nro trthn colossal combination under consideration. ftS tlStfcl UlUtS IU Wia mm. now controls miles of wire, it has 12,050 offices, 1ms some 80,000 names on its payroll, its receipts last year wore $17,114,165 i.j 7 1 7R d7f) Tii nature of UI1U yiuum us things the prospect of successful competition must grow less and less encouraging. There not tho remotest likelihood of any competitor i.

Jrt springing up itutu i rff thftB' this is reasonably certain to end in i' failure or absorb tion, for the whole weight of this continental can be used to (Srusb out'apj' merely local 'mV moreover, clearly understood I I last season, it is triple ana quadruple tue nambM' at any other track in the country. Mr. Eugeman has earned the prosperity whioh has at last come to his project. The Louisiana Jockey Club, one of the oldest and most prosperous and respeotable iu the coun try, has shown its appreciation of hm energy and skill by asking him to inaugurate Winter racing at the Crescent City. The sucoeBB of the Brighton Beach track has been heralded to the antipodes, and the next thing in order will be a substantial decline in tbe pretensions of some of the neighboring association trackB and the exhibition of a real purpose on their part to improve the blooded horse and exterminate some of the questionable practices of the turf by co operating with those who have already, single handed, done so much to accomplish these objects.

Professor Draper. The cause of soientifio study not only in this oountry but throughout the world has suffered severely during the year that is now drawing to a close. The death roll of the past twelve months has included many illustrious names, that of Mr. Darwin heading tire list, to be quickly followed by that of Professor Henry Draper the elder. Now within a few months Henry Draper the younger haB died suddenly after carving out for himself at a comparatively early age a record well worthy of the illustrious name he bore.

The decease of these two eminent men is a sad blow to the cause of science and to the millions of people who benefit by the tireless energy, the dazzling versatility and intelligent persistence of the thinking few. At the com paratively early age of 45 the younger Draper had already accomplished, mors than many men achieve in a long life, and the cause of hie death may truthfully be ascribed to his passionate pursuit of knowledge. He oaught a severe cold in the Rocky Mountains two months ago, whither together with other men of science he had gone to avail himself of the lighter atmosphere in the conduct of astronomical researches. This developed into pleurisy, which ended his life after four days of uninterrupted suffering. It does not often happen that genius is bequeathed from father to son, but in the ense of the Drapers the intellectual vigor of the parent waa reproduced iu the eon, who at a very early age launched out into scientific study and achieved results undreamed of by older and less exuberant minds with the same versatility and originality which marked the elder and made him at ouoe a distinguished physiologist, a brilliant writer, a profound authority upon the theory of light and its relations to the organ of sight, an impartial and accurate historian and one of the greatiat chemists of the century.

Such versatility showed a range of understanding which marked him as one of the ablest men who have lived in this country. It was said of a man who was his inferior in point of originality, Lord Brougham, that he had omnisoienoe for his hobby. In audacity and vigor the elder Draper was at least Brougham's equal, and it is even more remarkable that this wonderful comprehensiveness of intellect should have beon the great characteristic of his not less brilliant 6on. It is doubtful, indeed, whether in any domain of industry the work of tho parent was ever so perfectly carried out by his offspring, or whether a father so actually lived again in his son. A siugle instance will suffioe.

The elder Draper took the first photograph of the sun. The younger carried the science of which his father was the pioneer to its absolute perfection. His first great application of photography to astronomy was tho attainment of a portrait of the moon fifty inches in diameter, the largest ever made. Since then he has brought not only the stars but their spaotra within the kon of the student of astronomy has oarned the only medal ever given by the National Legislature as a reward of scientific achievmont for his wonderful in photographing the successive phases of the transit of Venus, aud has even succeeded in fastening upon his plates the photographs of the distant nebulas, thus making great Btrides in advanoe of all that had been done by his predecessors. His lovo of scientific pursuits was developed early in life, for at the University of Now York ho was soon noted for it.

He graduated in medicine in 1858 aud took a tour through Europe. A view of Lord Bosse's great reflecting telescope was the first impulse he received toward applying photography to celestial objects. On his return to thiB country he waB appointed to Bellevue Hospital, but medicine did not possess for him the fascination that other sciences exerted. He accepted, however, the ohair of Physiology in the Aca demto Department of the University in 18G0 and retained it until very recently. He was subsequently Professor of Physiology in the Medical Department aud its manager, but in 1873 he began to devote himstilf more particularly to photography both in relation to telescopy and microscopy.

He was tho first to obtain the full solar speo trum at ouce, and to preserve the spoctra of a large number of fixed stars. His name will always be remembered in the study of solar physics moreover by his demonstration of the existence of oxygen in the sun, which was theoretically behoved, but till his discovery was not supported. Astronomy proper occupied much of his time and his observatory was scarcely less interesting than his laboratory, in which at odd times he devoted himself to the study of electricity, availing himself of every new discovery and keeping even pace with the progress of the day. In one respect he differed from his illustrious father. His mind ran to the experimental and speculative studies and he wrote comparatively little.

What he did write, however, has proved exceedingly valuable. Had he lived as long as his father he would doubtless have turned his attention to tho literary side of science. To this remarkable family, which has still two living representatives in the field of science, brothers of Henry Draper, this country is very largely indebted for the advance it has made in what may be described as applied science. Indeed through the Drapers and a few others we have boon enabled to wipe out the reproach put upon us by a friendly eritio some thirty years ago, that we had not shown the least capacity for art or science. It is true that wo have not yet produced any large tri umphs of art, but we have at least developed an art spirit which must before long express itself.

Iu some departments of science, the speculative for instance, we are yet bomnd England, France and Germany, but in the applications of science wc are almost equally ahead. The development of steam machinery, of electricity as a motive and illuminating force and similar applications of science have put us fairly abreast of tho world's progress. We are now fairly started into speculation, and though we cannot but realize that a'prophet and the son of a prophet has been removed from the arena of this world's activities we may rest assured that the impulse given to the study of knowledge for its own sake by father and bou will not cease, but rather tend to increase. Neither Jay Gould nor Mr. Vanderbilt was present in the audience assembled at Gbicker ing Hall last evening to hear Mr.

Hajyry George's leature on the trtw onuses of human r. ttrifftn Oives fiflis Beawns tor Taking Ground Atralnst Mayor Low's Policy in Regard, io No. 7. A vigorous effort is to be made to inforce the policy of tho Mayor so far as primary schools aro conoarnei, ivbon tbe building now In course of erection upon York Btret Is completed. Two Btories of tho structure ore already above ground, and the work upon it will be fiulshod early in the coming year.

The advisability of tearing down tho old sohool was very seriously questioned, the rodistrlotiug committee among othor things Baying upon this poiut, Wo find our selves tearing down a substantial brick Bcbool building aud spending money enough In the erootiou of a building not needed to erect two buildings that are an absolute and crying Thia committee reports iu favor of making primary sohool out of the new building, aud upon thift proposition at tbe meeting of the Board of Education to day a very lively contest is likely to tako placo. Dr. Uiifflu, the ohnlrman of tho Local Committee, is of tho opinion that the arguments in favor of eoutlauinc No. 7 as a full fledged grammar school have nevar bean proporly presented oither to the publlo or the board. To an Eagle reporter he said this morning A PLEA FOB THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

"The truth is the district never bos had adequate or comfortable accommodations for any of Ha grades. Parents interested in the health of their children could not send them to tho old building because it was uu saio and becauso it was badly veutllatod and impor feclly boated. Iu 1876 It was condemned as unsafe by a commission ol exports appointed by the Common Counoll. "In Gaylor, now Commissioner ot Buildings, waa directed by the Mayor to Inspect the building and make a report to him respecting Its condition At the conclusion of hla inspection Coinaiis siouer Gaylor said 'The only way to repair this building Is to tear It down and erect a new one If you have the Ho only repeated that which ho raoommended six years before, and in the lntorim no repairs had beau made to tho building. Now as to the reosons why we should have a grammar school there.

Tho truth Is that there are now residing in the distriot more than enough children of school age to fill a much larger building than the one now being ereoted. It is olsimod by the Redisricting Committee that tho population will diminish beoauseof the advent of tho bridge. This Is simply not the case. Tho United States census of 1875 and tho State census of J830 show aa actual increase, and when the bridge is finished the distriot will beoonie more thiokly populated thau ever before. Thero aro childron of school age In tho district.

Of those some 1,500 attend parochial schools and about 1,050 go to No. 7. In no section of the olty do children attend school from tho beginning to the olose of school ago, but making a proper allowance in thiB dirtclion ond there still remains in the district about 2,500 children as a constituency for No. 7. Tho district AFFORDS MATERIAL for gramir classes suoh as oan be found In very few sections of the city.

As a matter of fact only throe districts in tho city will compare with it iu point of sshool population, and schoolB, whether jjrammir or primary, should bo iu tho center of populous diatriotp; in othor words, where the people are the schools should be. There aro exceptional reasonB why scholars residing iu tho distriot Hhould not be ooropelled to go to a distant sohool. It has beeu charged that tho neighborhood Is the Five Points or Baxter street auction of Brooklyn aud that, therefore, it was not the pUce for a grammar school. If true that Is juet tuo reason why Buch a school should be located there. Many of tbe children come from tenement houBea and not a few of them have to hurry homo to assist in the preparation of tlie noonday meal, or to carry their father'a dinner to his work place.

To send them further sway from bonir would be to praotically deprive them of school accommodatious.and in addition to that many of them are uot too hberully provided for in tbe matter of suoh clothing aB Is most needed during a esrero Winter. They oan hurry acroBB the stroet to school without heavy wranpiugs when they could not venture fifteen block away. If tho proposition of the Rodlstrlct ing Committee prevails some children will have to go as far as from tbe foot of Atlantio avenue to tbo cor ner of Concord and Adams atrosts. It is useless to multiply arguments. The fact is that if we have a full graded Bchool in York street it will be one of tho most useful and also ono of tbe best attended pcuools in Brooklyn.

The case has been misunderstood from tho start. Nowhere in tho oity is there auch an om phatle necessity for a grammar school, and now that provisions have been maae for one it would be simple wantonnnss uot to avail ourselves or thorn. Two hundred of our children go to No. 1, and hundreds of othsrs have kept away from No. 7, simply because 'of the want of proper accommodations.

Parochial achopi children will come into our grammar cIubsos after confirmation, and from tho natural sources In the district we will have a grammar department such as will compare favorably with that of any school in Brooklyn. There la absolutely nothing to ba gained, and everything to bs lost by redaeing tbs sohool to the intermediate grade." TBE PIIAIiAflX OLPB. Xlte First Reception of (be Soason ImBt Eveu IMS'. The Phalanx Club is a Ninth Ward Democrat ic olub. It was organised in January, 1BS0, and at tnat time it had about fifty active members.

Its headquarters wero then in Bergen street, near Vanderbilt avonue, but as the membership Inoroased new and larger con veniences had to be secured. No. 200 8t. Marks avenue was finally agreed upon, and this Is the headquarters of the club to day. The present clubhouse Is a three story and basement atruoture, and the only trouble with It is that It IB not large enough to accommodate the members.

The elub Is Democratic and social, and bos been the means of eementing the Democracy of the Ninth Ward into a closer uuity than it ever experienced before. The officers of the clnb aro Henry Hawkes, president; James J. Ityan, recording secretary; Patriot Oallagher, financial secretary, and Joseph M. Bokee, treasurer. The reoeption last night was tho first one of the soa son, aud to say that the olnb rooms were erowded would hardly express the condition or minus, ins house was literally overrun, all the Ninth Ward Democrats were on deck, and only abont half of thsm oould gain admission.

The president. Mr. Henry Hawkes, Bald that the reception was the nrst one oi we season, and aa he knew it would not be the last he hoped all the others would be equally successful. The Hon. William H.

Murtha was called upon for a speech, and be made a few remarks. He said that the elub was intended to bring together neighbor in tbo Ninth Ward, and be waa satisfied that it had succeeded. He prophsicd that a larger house would have to be taken to afford sufficiont accommodations for tho mem burs and tbeir friend, and as the olub in tbo space of one year bad grown from one huudred to two hundred and fifty active members, be had no doubt but that this would be accomplished. Several songs and rtoita tionB were given. Mr.

J. P. W. Cawthorno was tho pianist, Mr. J.

B. Snter reoited aud Patriok Lyons and Judge Courtney sang some excellent songs whioh drew forth a full ap'piause from tho gue3ta. Tho Underbill Quartet also rendered some vocal selections iu; as excellent manner and Mr. A. J.

Michaels sang three or four vocal solos whlth were louaiy applauded. There was a collation afterwards and the sosslon of the club did aot terminate until an early hour this morning. One of the features of tbe evening was an exhibition of pool playing given by Mr. Joseph Warren, lu which be literally astonished the "natives" with bis magnificent plBy. Among! those who wore present were: Hon.

William H. Murtna, Henry Hawkes, Supervisor McDonald, Alderman Daniel O'Connell, Judge Court nev, Judgo Kenna, Patrick Gelson, Sergeant Lamb, John MoAlliBter. Michael Gregory, Augnstns 8uow, Oharle Laivrenee, John G. Wheeler. Jamee Sherman, Peter Mcauire.

Patriok Oallagher, Patriok O'Neil, James Morrison, William Longblan, William Timothy Long, Nicholas Msatersou, James Le.iehao.. James Honkett, Michael CorcoraB, Martin Corcoran. John F. Dobson, John C. Smith, Sergeant John H.

Johnaoo, Dennis Dougherty, Philip Smith, Thcouu FarreUand many others. THE KRHBliE. The first Kemble reoeption of the season will take place in the Academy of Muslo to morrow evening. Tbe performance will be "Othello" by one of the most powerful amateur castB that has appeared on the Aoadamy stage. Members and thelt friends who bold tickets should bo in their seats bj eight o'clock promptly, or they may be detained in the lobby nnlil tbe first sxtia over, in whioh case they risk the forfeiture ot their seats.

The stago manager, having no Idea of furnishing breakfast for guests, has decided to ralsa the curtain punttually, and to get through with the play at a reasonable hour. Ths production of "Othello' by the Kemble la regarded la dramatic, circles "as tbo event of the loaaoo, and thmjmbars of (lie comyuvj desire a fair field and 09 fYQr, iaiiidi Idt, 1'.