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I I I I I II II I I III Ill I adaulred as lost after mrrfago. nlco aad Wrangler, fell to beating thelc mounts rigor Mill Jt I LI BY BOAT. EXCITING, ceded it of the arbitrary and Uiegltjmata.nas AT THE BEJilH, rwMpl development in vary maw paHloulsrs, and laying peolf emphail on what It had accomplished la bonal? of temperande and in behalf of humanfty! Moo OfNewyorfcMngasoiW, Mis. Sophie Moore nlsyed on the piano, Miss Jonnie E. Parks gave a recitation and tho progrsmmo was brought to a close with further muslo and singing.

Refreshments ware then served by a oommlttee appointed for that purpose, which reflected credit on itself by the exoellent mannorin which it attended to Its duties, It was nearly eloven o'clock before the gathering dispersed. It is intended to hold further celebrations during the week, and among othr things a monster demonstration at tbe Olormout avenue Itlnk on Sunday afternoon next is proposed, FRIDAY EVENING. JULY 22, 1881. Villa Paper biM lIio Largent Circulation oi anir Evening Paper Published in the United States. It value aa adyerlUlug medium In therefore np parent.

Taking the Baclt Track on tbe Canal Question. Two months ago the State Senate, acting in Mie interest of the railroads, voted agniiist permitting the people to determine at the ballot fcox whether they desired the canals to be free vt not. Free canals mean low freight rates, lo hold their grain trade the railroads will havo to lower their charges. Becauso of this they naturally oppoBod the proposition in question, as they oppose everything designed to loosen their cluteheB from the throat of industry. The vote in question, however, was exceptionally soRndalous since it was cast not only against a measure likely to increase the commerce of the State and lower the price of food but against allowing the people the right of all others which a popular form of government is established to secure.

The subject was brought up by Senator Forstcr in the form of a proposed amendment to tho constitution. Under the constitution as it stands at present there iunst be charges levied, for it is provided in Article Section that "hereafter the expenditures for ''collections, superintendence, ordinary and "extraordinary repairs on the canals "shall not exceed in Bny year their groBS receipts. Senator Forster's proposition is to have the people determine in due form whether, for Bevernl reasons, the time hns not to make the canals public highways austained at geiier.il expensg and as open to idl travelers as the Hudson Kiver. the Lakes and the waters of our bay aro. This was what a majority of the Senators voted should not fc.fl done.

For the information of those not familiar wifh the conditions under which amendments to the constitution may be xnajde, and as bringing out into still strougor Kght th ownership of the railroads over a Vgre'af part of the Legislature, it should explained that before we can prooeed to vote npbu a proposed amendment two successive Legislatures must agree to have it submitted, so that had this Legisla tare approved the resolution in question, and its successor done the me, two years must have before the matter could beJJeiii' with at the ballot box, a longth of time giving all the guarantee neoesaary that the public would be amply prepared, fay thought and discussion, to act maturely. he scandal of the refusal to let this course be taken is obvious enough. It was nothing less ihan a notification to all concerned that tho railroads had their hands on the authority of the State, and proposed to defend themselves from a possible determination two years hence favor of making a free chaunel between bur seaboard and the great lakes. It must also be remembered that this project did not emanate from any few brains, It had been thoroughly discussed by the newspapers of the State. The chief business men had urged it, pamphlets and books by the ton and official reports.by the mile had set forth the reasons for taking this stop while, apart from details, the humblest understanding was enabled to see the importance of action in this direction in view of the near completion of the Wellaud Canal, by means of which Lake Michigan will be much more acoeesible by water to the merchants of Montreal thnn it is to us.

To keep our trade with tho agriculturists of tho Northwest we must be able to carry their products as cheaply to the seaboard as the Canadians. Yesterday the Senate took the back track on this subject, or ratlter enough of the members did so to reverse the previous action. The storm raised by tho first vote was evidently much louder and deeper than had been anticipated. They see the anti monopoly cloud growing om nimously in the horizon, where they thought there was sign of only a little vapor. The meaning of yesterday's action is that our more skillful political mariners have made up their minds that when the tempest breaks upon them it will no be safe to have much corporation canvas spread.

The senators whose change of heart enabled the previous work to be undone were Messrs. Pitts and Fowler, remarkably adroit persons. The vote, as registered, ought to be preserved, as likely to shed light upon matters hereafter, for the reader may be assured that the men who voted nay yesterday are confirmed servants of the corporations against the people Yeas Hessre. Blrdsal, Bixby, Davenport, Eidman, I'orster, Fowler, iltioan, Jacob, Mills, Jlurtia, Pitta, Robertson, Sohroeder, fyecbucher, Stevens, Strahan, Williams, Window 18. Nays Messrs.

Baker, Braman, Halbert, Loomla, Lord, Madden, McCarthy, Rockwell, Sosslons, Wagner, Wonaovur, Woodin 12. Absent Messrs. Astor, Lynde 2. The Republicans are iu Konian and the Democrats are in Italic type. For this result credit is chiefly due to Senator Jacobs, who no doubt realized the importance to Brooklyn of unrestricted canals.

In the parliamentary contest whioh the motion to reconsider involved, he cleverly and successfully led the friends of the amendment. It yet remains for the Assembly to take action. If the vote be favorable there we shall have evidence that the retractions made yesterday were madeiu good faith. If, on the other pretexts be found for permitting the resolution to lie still born, we shall be strongly disposed to regard this as but another of the innnmorable attempts of the present Senate to" baniboozlo the public. In any event, the gentlemen who aro iu tbe employment ot Vandorbilt nud Crould may rest as sored that the days of calm weather for them Are over.

Tltc Ouio Temperance Party. Tho temperance men of Ohio have brought thour courage to the sticking point and nominated candidates for the State offices. This step is taken because on the one hand the Democrats make no pretense of favoring prohibition, and on the other the Republicans, who do make such pretense, are found culti tlrrg most zealously the favor of tho beer brewers and the German saloon keepers. That this move tbe temperance men will inensas respect for their cause is not at doubtful. Eespeot is always felt for men who know what they want, are prepared to stand by their colors and cannot be misled by any number of soft phrases.

If conscience is a word having any meaning, it is difficult to understand what other course than that of independent political action is open to men who subscribe to the following preamble Whereat, Tbe liquor traflie is going forward in tho 8tate of Ohio with increasing power, devastating our home, corrupting publio morals and controlling legislation and Whereaa, The two great political parties in Ohio have pot tdto their platform principles whioh, if carried out, Kill result in a still greater Insrease of the liquor traffio and of ita dreadful consequences therefore "What motives can be greater thao the protec tiou of homos from devastation, public morals from corruption, and the authority of govern. WDSe to talk Vf ft Onvourrtien there is 'no Oavour to produco, and aaequaw ro his energies if ho wore produolble. The throne is probably more firmly rooted in Italy than many Italians believe, having behind it all Piedmont all the respectables and all, the army but st, King Humbert has not yet the Dersonal hold of Victor Emanuel, and an appeal to the Deonle. supported by Garibaldi, might lead to a movement hardly distinguishable from civil war. It remains to enlarge the suffrage till it at least covers all householders, and to ward this the government, though with many tremors, Jt appears, is willing to toko a long step.

It is contended Dy many sincere patriots that an extensive suffrage in Italy would mean a suffrage at the disposal of tho clergy, that the peasantry and poorer citizens would be guided by the priests, and that legislative achievements of tho last importance, such as the anti Monastio laws, or even the very unity ot Italy itself, might be endangered by a clerical administration. There is no real danger, however, of the kind. The revolutionary party tho skeptical party in Italy have always an idea that the body of tho people will vote aB thoir priests bid them, quite for geting that their priests have never yet buc ooeded in making them go any way but thoir own. A people is like an individual in this that it cau trust itself, and onoe possessed of power it will not let it go again. It will follow its priests just as long as their counsel is acceptable, or is backed by its own conscience, and not ono step further.

We all see that every day in Ireland, and even in Belgium, whero on seoular matters the priesthood is constantly beaten, and the Italians are infinitely more "pagan" than either the Belgians or the Irish. The peasantry would no more vote against Italy uecause me Vatican wishes it than tho people of Ireland will convict Ribandmcn because the church utterly condemns all secret sooieties. Tho peasants are in a majority in Italy, as everywhere else on the continent, and it is in their unswevering the government must find new strength. If the Cabinet deals fairly with thorn iu the matter of taxation, and remedies the grievances they experience, the powor of the Vatican will be just what it is a great and sohd influence, ovorborna by other influences more pressing and more secular. At all events, Italy demands a gov ernment at onoe strong and free, and in a country torn by party feeling, a free and strong government cannot be based upon a narrow pays legal, as the Orleanista used to call it, or work through an executive never safe from week to week against a vote of censure.

Uncongenial Itlnrrlnifcs, When St. Paul said that "no man liveth to himself and none of us dieth to him "self he uttered a philosophical truth which is verified every instant in all the circumstances iu which one can be placed, as well as among "all sorts and conditions of mon." It is as true of little things as of great, if, indeed, there be auything little in the accidents of human life. Trifles light as air have tremendous issues. A plate of ice cream offered in homage to a woman's beauty may be the prelude of a tragedy in which thuuder rolls and lightning flashes, and murder stalks abroad with loaded pistol or sharpened knife. You tread on a man's too by accident upon the invisible soft corn that sends a thrill of anguish to his brain may depend tho retort courteous which flings you down the stoop, where you fall against an old apple woman, whose head is thereby broken by the curbstone, or leads to an acquaintance which brings yon happiness and fortune.

Let none of us complain of having no influence in tho world. We can be frightful examples if we can be nothing else. We have the sublime and inherent power of making our follow creatures' blood run cold even when we cannot warm the cockles of their heart. Let no man despise himself so long as he has the godlike power of making himself even a laughing stock to his contemporaries. In nothing are these remarks so finely illustrated as in marriage.

It is brimming over with vicissitudes. The man may be a very good fellow, but totally unsuited to his cava sposa. His bosom friend may be a very bad iellow, but precisely Buiteu to ner. Many a man entertains his wife's affinity as an unpleasant angel unawares, and is not conscious of it until he finds his two pair back deserted and his chest warmer and traveliug wrapper gone. Pott, had yon known How false ahe'd hare grown When you heard tho marriagt bulla tinkle, You'd have dona then, I vow, What you oannot help now, Aud hare handed ber over to Winkle.

If this melancholy subject is "full of wise "saws" it is not less replete with "modern instances." Every man you meet is a oase in point to you, and you to him. Everybody is a peripatetic philosopher and embodies the most solutory precepts as ho boars the label, "A caution to others," writ large upon tie tablet of Ids brow or back. We thus beoome benefactors to our species and do a vast amount of good iu spite of our best efforts to tho contrary. We speak of a man as being only a private person, in contradistinction to a public man. But there is no such thing as a private person or a private family.

Everybody, at least in America, is a public character whether they know it or not. You have only to seek retirement in the' fastnescss of some rocky mountain with somebody else's money in your pocket to find this out. The first morning you look out upon the side of the "rocky protuberance" you will find a flaming handbill describing you from head to foot, even to the wart upon your nose and the freckles on the small of your back, which yon thought had been only observed by your wife. If you are a farmer, and in addition to 'a Ht tie farm well tilled" aro the supposed agriculturist of "a little wife well drilled," be sure she does not march you out on parade before the world, while you are scratching your innocent head over your short cut potato crop. While you are bounded mentally and morally by kidney beans on tho ono side and mangel wurzel on the other, take heed lest through her whom you have chosen to preside over your vegetable diet you do not make an appearance whioh is not "truly rural." The divorce case of Amanda King against Joseph J.

King, which was reported in tho Eagle of yesterday, and which has ended in the lady's obtaining a release a vinculo matrimonii, was remarkable in the fact that the lady's returning to hor father's house, through a feeling of unfitness for hor agricultural husband, was the cause of the deserted vegetarian going astray with more appreciative feminine companions in disreputable localities, information of which being kindly conveyed to the wife, through some mutualfriend, enabled her to unhitch herself altogether from the farmer's wagon. But the chief moral of the story lies in tho original selection. Amanda had been used to town life on Flatbush Joseph had been brought up on turnips in Jamaica. What compatibility of temper could thore be between a couple who looked at the weather, the ono only as propitious or otherwise to his cabbages', the other as favorable to a new dress or a delightful evening party The female participle could not participate in the joys of her partner of the soil, nor could the latter elevate himself to her ethereal standard. Ho was "of tho earth, "earthy," as tho solace ho sought whon she went home to her "pa" clealy proved.

Now, here is material enough for a three volume novel. The town belie was unsuited by her antecedents for the "odora vis" of the pigsty aud the kennel. Too often does tho young man from the country select a wife from the town bred, boarding sohool misses, who provo as unsuited to him as Rebecca Sharp to Rawdon Crawley. Tho late Mrs. Amanda King had too much self respect to be unfaithful, so she merely retired gracefully, and would have let her farmer's boy', alone if he had confined his attention to his fields and stable.

But the farmer, when too late, found that he had a soul beyond turnips, and his newly discovered esthetics reveled in the dance, the song and the ohampagno of sympathetic, though not rural, beauties. After nil, the men who in the selection of a wifo discard romance altogether and look for the solid qualities of mind, temper, porson and "bringing np," have no need to fear comparison in the long run with thoso who marry for love. The lattor marry in haste and re pent at leisure tho former take a deal of leisure to make up thoir mind and fix their choice, but whon the contract is made and the bargain bought, they' don't so of ton find that the goods when taken home and looked at by the light of the home fireside are not the stuff thoy wore warrantod. There is ub muoh ouaiy wim wmp. xuia iuub uivoisiuu cuuuuueu all the way to the throe quarters, Klng'Dutohman, un der Quantrell'a guidance, kept perfectly cool, but con tinued steadily to forge ahead.

Turning Into ths straight Haggorty drew the lash andBellona rallied for a moment and lapped the leader at tbe grand stand. Ths Dutchman's momentum, however, was too great and his bottom too deep for the chestnut the favor it came home first by thrs lengths, Bellona second, Wrangler third' but ten length away, Eunice fourth and Wrangler last. Tha time was 1:58, and Mutuals paid on Dutchman $8.05. Wrangler's Jockey mad a claim of foul against Haggerty, but it was not allowed. THE STBIPM 0HA8S.

The list raoe was a steeplechase over the short course, for a purse of $250, of whioh $50, to second horse. There came to the post W. Lakeland's b. g. Strychnine, years, Nolan, rider, 120 Murphy ch.

g. Tout, 5 years, Drake, rider, 118 W. O. Daly's m. Kate Long, 4 year, Verplank, rider, lis W.

A. Eogeman's b. in. Miss Molloy, 5 yeara, Riley, rider. and Woods Sc b.

m. Bergu 5 years. Brown, rider, 110 lbs. In tho auction pools Miss Molloy and Stryehuino sold even un at $80 each, Tout $25, Kato Long $15 and Bergu W. $10.

The race waa ono of the moat exoittng steeplechases of th season. The purse, was not, it is true, oonceded to Miaa Molloy, although she was in greater demand than Stryehnlne. But when the horse had bnoo gotten away, and Engeman's maro bad achieved suoh a great lead aa she had at the third hurdle, then to leave hsr gait as she did and be beaten out by both Strychnin and Kate Long, waa provocative of a big revulsion of feeling on both sides. To tho baokera of Stryohntn it was like finding money whioh had been oaat into the sea. To Miss Molloy's friends it was certainly turned into despair.

Miss Molloy took tha lead at the start and showed at first the leader In a runaway race. At the first hurdle she had six lengths to her oredlt and was going; along free and easy. Tout was second and Katy Long third, a length between them, Strychnine lying baok fourth and Bergu wher she was from start to finish and that is, last. At tha second hurdlo Miss Molloy had eight lengths to her credit. At the fourth Jump there was no change of importance Everybody of course held his breath the bay daugbl tor of Pat Molloy gracefully cleared the great water Jump, tho place where everybody expeoted to sea horso and Jockey break thoir respective nooks.

Miss Molloy had five lengths the best of it at this loap and the others followed iu their order. And the fifth, sixth, sevontb, eighth, and last Jumps wore taken as though it was tho game of "follow my lea'ier" Instead of a hurdle raoe on which thousands of dollars wora at stake. At the last Jump the mare had but a length and a half and tho bay gelding was evidently about to challenge hor. Would she respoud? A bun of anxious excitement made ths grand stand vibrato like an elevatod railroad station on the approaoh of a train. Ths horses turn into tha track.

There ore no moro leaps to be made, only a clear half mile run on tho flat. Strychnine has ber now. Iu a dozen jumps he moves up and collars her, and heads her, leads her now by a neok, now by a half length. A hundred voices shout: "Riley is whipping 1 Riley is whipping 1" Riley was using the gad, and freely, aud the Bteel could be seen flashing around by tho stables. Miss Molloy wa beaten ther waa no disguising that fact.

She had made the pace through ths fiold and over the obstacles too warm for herself, and sho bad nothing left for the last three furlongs of the run. Yet she struggled gamely on. Sttyahnine had something left, but not too muoh. At the three quarter pole he led her by a length. But somebody else had something to say about plaoes.

Whose colors were they iu th sunlight gleaming just behind Molloy 7 Th dust and tho light from the low sun in the west bid the desired answer from the expectant crowd, but presently there was a cry "Kate Long oomes up and Daly's soarlet and green were visible, aa Verplank called on Kate for a last effort. It was a grand finish, Stryohnine had a length to spare as ho went undor the wire followed by Kato Long seoond and leading Miss Molloy third by half a length, Tout forth and Btrgu W. last. Tbe tlmo was 2:49 and Mutuals paid $10.75. This closed one of the bast day's sport of tbe season.

Tbe officers of the day were Colonel Chas. Stone, J. Hoclegap and A. Batfersby. THE BACINO TO MORROW.

There will be five races to morrow. A mils and a quarter race welter weights, all ages, for a purse of $200, of which $50 to second horse a race for a purao of $200 for horses whioh have not run as good as first or eccond, distance one mile and a quarter a selling race one mllo and a half, selling allowances, for a purse of $200, of whioh $50 to second horse; a race nine furlongs, all ages, same.purso, and a handicap hurdle race, one mil and a half, over six burdlos, for a purse of $250. TOE GREAT ROCKAWAY HOTEL. Judge Wentbrook'H Deciulon on th ReceivershipGeneral James XV. Hunted Appointed Reasons for tlie Removal of John A.

Riee Prospects of OpeniUr tlae Hotel. The decision of Judge Westbrook, which haa been looked for with considerable anxiety, in tho matter of the recelrerahlp of ths Itockaway Beach Improvement Company (limited), the corporation by whom the great hotel at tho wostern end of Bockaway Beach ia owned, was handed down yesterday. The hotel has been In readiness for business all Summer, and the general expectation has boon that tho rendering nf Judga Wostbrook'a decision would doubtless the mean of throwing its doors open for the reception of guests. THB DBOBIOK. Judga Wostbrook'a deolslon throws some light upon the oondition of affairs in connection with the receivership of th's great enterprise, and the people have the benefit of this ventilation of affairs.

The following Is the decision John A. Bice was made the rooelvor of the abor named dofendant, au Insolvent corporation, on tho 2nd day of August, 1880. By a resolution of the Legislature of this State, passod February 20, 1881, the Attor neyGoneral was directed to investigate the affalra of the recelrorshlp. In pursnanos of suoh resolution he instituted a proceeding in this judicial district, under obapter 537 of the Lawa of 1880, entitled "An Act in relation to receivers of insolvent corporations." The proceeding is under section 3 of auch act, whioh declares: "If at any time the Attorney General shall have i cason to believe that the interest of the creditors, policyholders, depositors or other beueflciaries Intel ested in the propor and speedy distribution of the assets of such insolvent corporation will be Bubserved thereby, he may make a motion in the Supreme Court, at a spoolal term thoreof, in tha Third Judicial District, or in the judicial district in which aueh Insolvent corporation Is lonatod, for an order removing such reoelver, or to compel him to account, or for such other br additional order or orders as to ths court may seem proper to facilitate the oloalng up of the affairs of suoh receivership." The original application was heard on the Tth day of May, 1831, and sb the affidavits were quite oonfiiotlng, a reference was ordered to Mr, B. E.

MoCafferty, of tbo City of New York, to report the fact and evidence to tbe court. The report and evidence was submitted to the court at a special term held at the City of Albany on the last Tuesday in Jun, 1881, and the Attorney General Insists upon the removal of the receiver upon the following facts, whioh are found by the reforee, and in regard to whioh there is no dispute First Without any order of the court fixing bis fees, as required by soctlon 3,320 of the code, the receiver bas paid to himBOlf for commissions the sum of $18,722.81. Second Snch payment was made by certificates issued to himself, whioh were reoeived and taken at the rate of oighty cents on the dollar, while workmen aud oreditors were compelled to receive them at their face. Third Tbe amount of Bald sum of $18,722.81 ia made an bv chsreine the full sum of five per cent, noon all debts paid by certificate of reoelver, and upon all oer tinoates issuea. Fourth Without any authority whatsoever tbe re ceiver paid to himself the sum of $13,880.63 by issuing' to himself a certificate for that sum, the alleged Justl cation for which was a claim for services as manager of tbe hotel property, and which service was performed while ho was acting as reoelver, thus making a sum total taken by the receiver for services, without any authority whatever, of and yet tho trust bad existed only about nine months.

Fifth ue has aiso norrowea upon receiver osrtin cates of S. a. Wheoler the earn of $10,000 and the further sum of $2,160 pledging receiver's certificates to the amount of $3,220 in excess of th sum borrowsd, for wniou ne naa no oraor oi ub oours. Th foregoing facts are conceded, ss has been before said, and upon them tho Attorney General has asked for tho removal of the reoelver. The simple question which the application presents is: Whsn a reoelver, without any authority, has improperly taken over $47,000 of truBt funds, should he be removed? This question admits of only one answer and that is an em phatlo affirmative.

It Is true that commission would hare been allowed to tha receiver, bat they were not due until allowed, and tha attempt to surrender upon the hearing before the referee the certificate for $13,680.63, issued to himself without authority, for wages alleged to bs due to him aa manager, is only a confession of. an Improper act done, and doea not condone the offense; Moltnor can it be overlooked Ibat th receiver has paid himself by certificates at the rate of eighty cents on the dollar, while laborers and meohanics were compelled to accept the same at par. Such a transaction needs no comment, and of Itself wonld justify a removal. An order must be entered removing Mr. Bio and appointing another in his stead.

Some doubt has existed In my mind as to whether any order should now be made passing the receiver's accounts and fixing his commissions. I have concluded that none should now be made except for a change of. the receivership. The proceeding waa not initiated to paBS and Battle the accounts, but was oommenoed under a special statute for his removal. The parties interested in the trust hava not been heard, and the attorney general haa only gone so far as to elicit faots sufficient to justify his application.

The' reoelver' aooounts sbonld be stifled and passed when his successor shall have had an opportunity to Investigate the same fully. Tbe tranaaetiona involved aeveral hundrod thousand dollars, In regard to which tbe attorney general knew nothing, and In whioh he had no power to represent th parties interested. ACTION OF THB NSW EEOBIVEE. Immediately on receiving tbe order of the court confirming his appointment as reoelver General Husted, accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Charles J. Everett, who ha had entire charge of tha proceedings looking toward the removal of Mr.

Rioo Mr. Ransom, ot th firm of Arthur Ransom Knevais, and Mr. Charles Leland, of ths Delavan House, Albany, wont down to Bookaway and entered Into possession of the property. Colonel Moore, the custodian of tho property under Beeelver Bice, was served with a oopy of tho order of the oourt, and immediately recognising the mandate, turned over the keys of the property to Genoral Husted, who Immediately reappointed him oustodlan, and devoted the balaneo of the day to going over the hotel and becoming familiar with it details, Mr. Kioe was not present, and it is understood haa not been at the hotel for a long time.

Mr. Everett, acting for the Attorney General, yesterday, served upon Mr. Bice's attorneys a certified oopy of the order removing Ur. Bice and appointing General Husted, It is tbe purpose of the new receiver to have an lnvontory of the property, personal and real, made at onoe, and at an oarly day Invite the (realtors to meet him on tbe property that is in the hotel for consultation In regard to the future, and the best means of preserving tbe property and making It fruitful and profitable to the owners. It Is his Idea that part of the hotel, if not the whole of it, might yet be opened to the publio during this season, and it 1 not at all improbable that this will be done.

General Husted gave bonds in the sum ot (50,000, Senators Maddan and Bixby beoomlug his sureties. ACCIDBKT TO A FICHIC PAETY. On Wednesday afternoon Mr. H. Downer, of College' took' his wif and ohildren On a plonlo.

lira, Manalt aoeompanled them. They drove to Bayalde, where they stopped In the cool shad of woodB for lunch. Mr. Downer fed the horse at tho same time, removing th headstall. The family remained In the wagon.

The horse was stung, either by a bee or a blue fly, and ran wy. Mr. Downer oould rerclis no control over him, tho headstall being off and the llnes'uselese. Tho carriage waa upaet atid the parties thrown out, They were all more or los Injured, but Mrs, Downer was in jured the taosli bolug severely brulsedl Mayor Graoy.oM?ew York, haa received au appeal for help to the sufferers of the late Quba five, Many a wToman has wedded a man for, whom she felt no warmer sentiment than respect, whoso heart has been softened toward him by gentleness roughly shown and generosity uncon soious of and a. strong arm.

and true heart in the hour of siokness and sorrow, and who has found after some years of companion. ship that he is a part and tho most essen tial part of her inner life. But Amanda was only three weeks in discovering that her rural swain was no more to her than a bean stalk or a cabbage head. "Not for Joseph" could she immolate her wholo future happiness on an altar of garden stuff. But why did aha not find this out before she took him, hobnails, smock frock and corduroy breeches included, "for bettor, for worse, for richer, for "poorer, in siokness and health, Hill death us "do part." Amanda has not only wasted three weeks of her young and slender waisted existenoe, but she has driven the discarded farmer into "sowing wild oats." We say nothing of her wedding trousseau, for that will do again next and trust many times more, for our sympathy is always on the female side, and her Latin partioipial name assures ub that she will form many future conoords or agreements, and govern many masculine substantives in the possessive case.

Singular Case of Suicide A rather singular case of suicide is reported from Indiana, which differs from ordinary cases not 60 much in the means adopted for ending life as in the circumstances attending the case. The caroer that was voluntarily closed was that of a woman who with tho unfamiliar weapon of a barber, namely, a razor, succoeded in almost cutting her head from her body. The motive assigned for this extra ordinary act was mortification. According to the reports Mrs. Avery was a woman of good character, and extremely sonsitive.

Village gossip, which is one of tho crudest and most unsparing, as well as the most stupid of society's enomies, began to take liberties with her good name, and in her desperation sho killed herself. Trivial as the cause was, however, the deed is fairly accounted for by circumstances in her history. Her father, on his way from England to this country jumped into the Atlantic and was drowned, and when the steamer landed at the dock her mothor, taking her in her arms jumped into the river and ended her life. Mrs. Avery, who was then, presumably, little more than an infant, was saved.

If suicide is in any number of cases a mania the unfortunate woman may readily be believed to have inherited it. If notj the case furnishes a remarkable illustration of the force of example, which is peculiarly observable in relation to suicide. It explains why at certain times in a given locality few people take their own lives, while at others a suicidal epidemic seems to prevail. lalnnd and Infant Mortality. With the return of Summer is observed both in New York and Brooklyn a more or less rapid riso in the mortality statistics.

Tho returns published in tho Eaoms yesterday show that during the week which has just ended the death rate rose considerably above that of the preceding week, and, when compared with corresponding weeks for last yoar and the year before, an increase was still remarked. This is the more noteworthy bo cause the temperature of the week was appreciably lower than for the samo period last year. It will be observed however that the most prolific cause of death was bowel troubles. Among adults there were twenty four deaths from diarrhea and 159 from cholera infantum, showing that tha increased mortality prevailed more especially among children. The lesson conveyed in this cannot be mistaken.

No less than 141 of the total number occurred in tenement houses, and consequently it may bo inferred that of the victims at 2ea6t 70 per cent, were children of poor the dreadful atmosphere tonement. The obvious people living in of the orowded plan is to strengthen the little ones by sending them to Coney Island and tone up their systems by Oi day's healthy play on the beach. Most parents can afford to take one child with them on Mr. Culver's road at the reasonable figure of fifteen oents, during certain hours, while at othors the maximum fare ib twenty five oents for the round trip. It is true that some parents oannot afford even this, and it is inouinbent upon the charitable to contribute their mites to saving tha ohildren of these unfortunates.

Mr. Culver has always aoted with the noblest liberality, but it is not fair that he should be allowed to bear the entire burden alone. With suoh a sanitarium within easy reach this infant mortality is a reproach. The intelligence of the death of Billy the Kid is followed by Rome accounts of the character, mode of life and bloody adventures of the noted desperado that surpass anything in tho dime novel series. 'He is represented to havo been as generous as he was daring, and to have possessed other traits that negative the presumption of his total depravity.

He dressed like a Spanish grandee, and when equipped for a raid, presented a very striking and picturesque figure. The story of his life is full of incident calculated to oaptivato the youthful imagination, and it would not be contrary to experience if the average Amerioan boy who reads the thrilling narrative should feel a strong impulse to pitch his school books out of the window and go West to revive in his own career the glories of Billy the Kid. The offer of the' syndicate formed by General Butler and General Pryor for the purchase of tho entire Sprague estate has been rejeoted by the Committee of Creditors, and a prolonged litigation is likely to be the result. The terms proposed wouldhave been equivalent to the payment of thirty oents on the dollar, and the price whioh some of the propsrty sold at auotion yesterday brought indioates the impossibility of obtaining anything like the ao tual value in view of impending legal proceedings. What with costs, counsel fees and other expenses incident to the progress of such a case through the courts, the creditors may eventually regret their declination of the offer made by the syndicate.

At any rate the prospect must be an exceedingly gratifying one to the lawyers. Colonel Fred. A. Conkling, at a reoent meeting of the Anti Monopoly League, in Now York, thus paid his respects to Senator Sessions I knew tble man, Sessions, when I was a member ot the Legislature. He lobbied for the network of street railroads which coven thla city, and no obarter wai granted in which he did not gat a ahara la the plunder.

These words are actionable, and the author of them is a responsible man. Will Senator Sessions' jealousy of his good name induce him to bring a suit for Blander against Colonel Conkling Lapham's senatorship is still an affair of "tho sweet by and by." Like Maobeth ho soliloquizes: "If it were done when 'tis done, "'twere well it were done quickly." But while, like another distinguished charaoter, he may be ready to cry out Speak not of hope, 'Tla but a canker 'mid our baffled there is still reason to believe that when certain thrify stalwarts have had their scruples disposed of, he will be duly installed as the successor of Conkling' and find himself hailed as one of the master minds of the age. A man was drowned at Long Branch yesterday In full sight of three hundred bathers, who were unable to render him any assistance. He had been swimming out a considerable distance into tbe ocean, and was exhausted before he could reach shore. The number of suoh cases does not seem to make any.

serious impression upon tho foolhardy and reoklesa. A law prohibiting sea bathing beyond certain limits is the only remedy possible. There is one effect of the hot weather in P.aris which the cable dispatohes do not men. tion and that is the extra demand for American drinks. Since the year of the great exposition, 1867, they have steadily increased in popular ity, and to day the gay capital renders re quent and unchallenged homage to the insidious and seduotive mixed beverages of the great republic.

The career of Ginx's Baby threatens to be repeated in tho oase of the little St. Louis waif, Genevieve Frances MoGovern. She is nobody's child, she is anybody's child charitable associations deplore her fate, learned judges disouss the question what to do with her, the authorities are all in. a muddle about the matter and the only thing clear is that for the time boiag the State must give her shelter and supply hor pap andparegorip. of capital.

So long as a few men have it in their power to control the market rates 01 a leading, staple, suoh' gambling must bo ex peoted. The Proelden The Official bulletin from Wssllinst0" m'," morning represents the President The disoharge perm tlie passage or a uu, fore carried before A p.ece is hteraUy punched out. A mixture of wool and cotton Roods was yesterday found in the pus, whiou will probably be followed by more to day. With this irritating substance removed tho wound will be in a better condition man evor for healing, and as the process has already, begun internally it will not be long, probably, before It is carried on the entire length of tho orifice. The present condition of the patient is entirely normal.

Moreover, the amount of food now given him is in excess of that required to merely sustain life Tho difference is being Btored away a renewal of strength. In other respects the President is steadily improviug. He is not yet allowed to see anybody but members of his family, though ho has expressed a wish to talk business with the Cabinet. Everything favors tho belief that this wish will shortly be gratified, Speculation In Food. It cau afford little satisfaction to tho purchaser of a loaf of broad, when called upon to pay an additional price for it, that tho rise is due to a conspiracy formed by scoundrels, so long as no law exists which prohibits scoundrels from conspiring to raise it to their advautage.

Unscrupulous and desperate men bout upon making heaps of money are not to bo deterred merely by the reflection that the rest of tho world is to be the sufferer, or that wherever they and their deeds are known they will be denouncod as enemies of socioty. Something more than this is needed which will prevent oonspiraoy and protect the public. Such a conspiracy on a gigantic scale is now in successful operation in Chicago. Operators who were interested in grain yesterday when thoy went on 'Change were excited by the news that unfavorable crop reports had forced the market up to an extraordinary pitch. When they came to view the situation and their chances of meeting obligations, they found that an immense corner in grain of all kind, had boen made, and that wheat, corn, tiats were all locked up.

Looking around for deals in which to oven up they were startled by the discovery that pork, lard and. indeed, every staplo of the market was cornered by a clique, who now control the food of the continent and are forcing prices up to a tremendous figure. Iu plain Auglo Saxon, a few men have laid their bauds upon the fruit of the soil and hold it. They demand a ransom from the world at large like any ordinary Sicilian brigand. All this is done under the cover of law.

There is nothing on the statute book to prevent it, aud common law takes no cognizance of it. Nevertheless, upon the broad basis of right and wrong, judged by any code of ethics whatever, this wholesale corner of the world's food supply is a gigantic crime. In France anything that interferes with the food suppTy is made a legal orime punishable with most serious penalties. Here, the courts have endeavored to suppress corners, but without success. It is evidently a case which publio opinion can best affect.

Gambling in produce is certainly no more morally defensible than gambling in chips. It is even more reprehensible, since it diverts the food supply from its natural channels. Public opinion has endeavored to check gambling with apparatus by law, and has failed just as it has been unable to prevent gambling in grain and pork. But it has decided to expel from reputable society, the professional gambler. He is an outcast whoso disrepnte forces him beyond the pale of association with his followmen.

He is driven to enjoy himself in the society of men of his own stamp and of women who are not recoguized. The gambler is very properly put on a footing with the women of his acquaintance, set apart in a little, wretched aud abominable world of their own. By adopting such a course toward the food gamblers the public reprobation of their conduct woidd be best expressed. As an observant tourist remarked to one of the leading stock gamblers of the country "You fellows, by "devices which no gentleman would stoop to, succeed in amassing large sums "of money with which you try and "buy your way deoent society. It "speaks ill for the character of American "society that yon sometimes partially suc "ceed." The criticism was made by a foreigner and is just, If robbers find their level in jails, tho banditti of the Corn Exchange ought at all events to be made to feel that their methods are heartily reprobated by tho respectable classes.

If these corners merely ruined the persons engaged in grain and other varieties of food gambling nobody would care. That they should be made bankrupt evon to swell the plunder of sharper witted rogues is rather desirable, so long as society takes care that the latter cannot gild their roguery into a counterfeit of respectability. They belong radically to the family of gamblers, which society has excluded as the Israelites of old did the lepers, and should receive no more consideration than their ostracized brethren simply because they do more harm to humanity. When one of them owns a horse, purchased by the pangs aud tears of orphans crying for bread, and with that horse wins a famous race, the evont is hailed rather bya renewal of public, execration than by national congratulations. So let it be with every circumstance iu the lives of men everywhere, whose abundant wealth has been wrung from the feeble and helpless.

This is literally the caso with every man who makes a corner in food. If he oan not be imprisoned or executed as a publio enemy, according to law, lot his enjoyment and his triumphs be celebrated, if at nil, only by his kindred malefactors, not by his victims. Tlie Italian JFranclHwe. Acoording to recent telegrapio dispatches, tho Italian Government will very soon be compelled to try the very important and, as some suppose, very dangerous experiment of a large reduction of the suffrage. It is now excessively high, the qualification being the payment of direct taxes to the amount of seven dollars a year, and the limited constituency sends up representatives who tend to divide into groups led by individual leaders, who are intent, first of all, on making themselves and their groups felt in public affairs.

No ministry is permanently safe, for any two opponents can, by uniting, overthrow it, and no opposition will remain for any time quiet and critical, because in an hour, by an adroit combination, it may attain office. Moreover, the constituency, from causes which we cannot explain, but one of which is, we believe this that it is aware it has not physical force at its back, is restlessly sensitive as to the action of Italy in foreign affairs. It cannot endure to think that the world is inattentive to Italy. It wants the government to "manifest itself," and to do something or to acquire something, it does not very well kuow what. No accusation is so dangerous to an Italian Minister as want of success in foreign affairs, and the Cabinet is urged now to rescue Italia Irredenta, whioh includes Trieste that is a city unattainable without a dofeat of Austria aud Germany combined then to claim the valley of the Trent, then to intervene in Tunis, then to push forward in Abyssinia, aud finally to establish a protectorate in Albania.

How much suffering is our Italian peasant prepared to undergo, in ordor that the Principality of Albania may have Italian proclivities The question answers itself. He is not prepared to undergo any a.t all, and if his vote were final, the Government would be compelled to trust to diplomacy alone, and to abstain from in triguo. The alterations in suoh a situation, which has long been perooived, and is, in fact, permanent, aro an increase of the royal authority or an enlargement of the franchise till a vote in the chamber is morally equivalent to a declaration of the national wilL With Franoe, however, always iu full view, prosperous and orderly under a republio, an inoroaso of the royal authority is not possible, evon if the House of Savoy were willing to set aside the constitution, which is nottho Any overt attempt in that direction, would greatly. inoroaso the strength of the. Republioan party, and would lead to A.

Grreat Bathing Day at the Island. Japanese NlRht at Manhattan llMith A Grand Display of Fireworks. tho land breeze, which even at that blew in gentle puff aud failed to modify tho Intense heat, yesterday would have been a grand day at Coney Island. Thousands were glad to escape from th torrid temperature of the olty, hoping that an entlrelj different state of affairs might exist at the beach. They found, however, that the condition waa about tho same.

There was scarcely a ripple on the wide expanse of water, aud tbe waves mad by the incoming or retreating tido along th shore did. not resound aa loudly as usual. There. was a sottled calm which by no means met the wishes ot the visitors, who had beeu sweltering all day In tbe olty, and made a trip to tha nch with tho expectation of enjoying the cooling breeze which gonerally float In from th ocean; Than was a genoral determination to keep cooJ. and the re sult as that tbe number of bathers was almost ttnprav cedentod, although the number of inviting whlta caps were few and far between.

The water waa tn spienotta oondlUon so ar as its temperature was chill of a few days ago having entirely paassd away. The bathers enjoyed it to the utmost, many of them remaining in the surf for au hour or so. THE BBIGHTON BEACH IiATHINO PAVILION was taxed to the utmost to accommodate ths ruah of bathers, and there was scarcely a moment in tbo afternoon when there wero not over one hundred persons in the water. The platform in front of the pavilion, which is devoted to the use of plcnlo parties, and which, by the way, Is one of the coolest spots on the island, waa crowded with spectators who wero much amused by tha antics of the bathers. At tho Manhattan, the old plor.

Vandeveer's, Feltman's, and in fact wherever a batblna suit could be procured, there was an immense business done In this lino. Ton tboueand poople, or about one third of th number of visitors, indulged iu the luxury of a bath, yesterday. Bathing is attended with much more ealisfaolion tbia year than it haa ever bean beroro, much better accommodations for dressing belnc furnished than hlthcVto. The record of casualties also shows that thore is much leas risk, a ease of lose of Ufa being almost unknown. Thus twenty thousand peopto who visited the island yeaterday and did not take a dip kopt as cool aa possible undor the circumstances, but It was not until evoning, when a delightful breeze sprang up and the lively surroundings wero enough to dispell all unpleasant feeUngs, that they began to realiz that tho charm of Coney Island had not departed.

It waa a night of bsauty and fascination AT MANHATTAN BEACH, where the grounds were decked with the illuminating lamps, countless In number and bewildering la color. Around tbe hotel and here and there on the ground; Chinese lanterns were hung In an artistic manner and produced a most pleasing effect. The scene waa fairy like In the extreme, and an additional charm bein added in tho ehapo of fireworks of the Japanese type and musio ks only Gilmoro's fine band can render it, it is not to be wondered at that the spectators, who ware scattered in thousands over the vast Manhattan territory, were fascinated and dellghUd, lingering at tht charming spot till the last moment. Tha exhibition of Japanese fireworks was the third of the kind, and aU persons were invited to enter the inclosure where) it was given free of expense. Five or six thousand did so, but the pieces could bs seen quite a well by those outBlde.

The exhibition was given by the Hiray ama Japan Firework Company, and waa tho best of the kind, perhaps, ever seen in this country, The pro grame consisted of White Willows," Flags of all countries," Japanese fish, wreaths, figures of ladies, lottery," figures of insects, buds, shower and umbrella, aerial Japanese asteroids) aud kites, including figures of dragons, umbrellas, lanterns, eagles, etc, some of them fifteen feet in height. Many of too Japaneeo residents of this city and Now York were at the Manhattan, and justly considered that it was their right. Mr. Gilmore fully satlsfiod the musical expectations and tastes ot his vsst audience with the following pieces at Overture "Tannhaasor" lavotto Arditti urauu rejection ueiua ironi rucoen uporas" Verdi (Swedish Wedding March Sodermana Cornet solo ''Sk; Iluckfct Polktt" Mr. Walter Hmkeso.n.

Sylvester faut rx TorohliKht dinee. No 3 Turkish putrol (by request) KJmpsodie HonKroioe, No. 2 Cornet solo "How can I Leave The Is Ltazs Mendelssoha Air. VVALTEu March Militairo "Twenty second AT THB BBIGHTON. There was the same rush to the Brighton as usual.

Every train carried a large number of passengers, and the traffic to the beach by the Brighton Railroad did not cease till late In the evening. The hotel 1 notr almost ailed with permanent gueats, and In a few daya Mr. Breslin will find It difficult to supply sufficient aocommodations for the patrons of this doli'ghtful resort. The concert last nlgbt was fully up to the excellent standard of Sig. Couterno, as will bo seen by the following irogramme March "Salute to Brighton Beaeh" Overturn "Fra DiavoTf." Anber Paraphrase de Ooncart "Lorely" Cornet solo Levy.

part ir. Overture "L'ltaliana in Algeria" Walts "Mon Bovo" Cornet solo Levy. Seloction "IO Potit Due" Neewadba BossIiA Union "Berlin Horso Railroad" This evening the fourth grand pyrotechnic display of the season will be given by Messrs, Warden Ho. Mahon, and will include, among ths eat plsoesy J'lto Stars and Stripes," "Barber, Barber, Shava lhe 0, "The Water Mill at Work;" arid "The Twin Oixon delle." The West End was crowded with? visitors yesterday, and a rushing business was dono at th Hea Beach Palace, Feltman's Ocean Pavilion, Duffy's SL Niehcilai, Doyle A Stubarford'a Concourse Pavilion, the old fron pier and tho other favorito resorts on this part of that island. Tho Good Templars of Philadelphia and New York, to the number or over two thousand, had a'pleaaw ant reunion at Sea Beach Palace, and continued ths festivities up to a lata hour.

(J Eli If POST CAHP FIRE. Festivities in tlie Army Stylo at IiOfu ferts Park Yesterday. James H. Perry Post 89 G. A.

held ita second annual camp fire, yesterday afternoon ana evening. Tbe members and their friends began to gelher in the grounds at Leffert's Park, on Gat avenue oarly in the afternoon, and while away th time until eveulng set in by dancing to the muslcof Hiokey's) band or wandering about ths grounds. At the easterly end of the park the camp fire was burning and bean soup, spiced with pork, was boiling in a vast caldron. while at anothor fire the coffee was being prepared Ln true army style. During the afternoon the bugle ouud od a charge on tbe commissary department, and ther whole company obeyed the call with alacrity and ap peared to enjoy the "hardtack" and beau soup as much as if they had been the rarest delicaolss of tho' season, the novelty of the situation proving an appetizer to most ot those present, The company sat under th shade of the trees, on plain pine benches at th plainest kind of pine tables, and drank th coffee out of tin com and eat the soup from little tin dishes with a tin spoon.

and did It with a relish all because, as the veteran said "Thla was the style ln the army." They all seemed to appreciate the viands the more when It ws atated that they were prepared by an old army cook. Mr. Frank Thompson, who went out during the war with Company Forty eighth Bsglmest from Brooklyn. When the meal was ovr, the company returned ta the platform, and attar an Interval of reat, dancing was resumed. IN THB EVENING the exercises were of the same character as in the afternoon, but the company had Increased largely in numbers, and the scene was proportionally lively, there being delegations from Rankin Post, No.

10; Barbara 11; Mallory, No. 81; Dayton and Do. pont, Harry Lee, Mansfield and others. Among thosa present, not members of the post, wore Wm. R.

Mo Quire, John H. Clayton, Frederick G. Murphy, Edward Gannon, L. D. C.

Wood, George Aldridge, John Peter on, Benjamin Chapman. The pest was organized about three years ago, and ta now ln a thriving ondltion, Us membership being large and Its finances Bound, THB OFFICERS OF THB POST. The commander la Henry W. Hughes, and the other officers aro follows: S. V.

commander, Bernard D. Magoo; Jr. V. commander, John A. Beeves adjutant, George H.

Jao son; quartermaster, Henry A. Phillips surgeon, T7. B. Chase, M. chaplain, Moses G.

Young; offloerot day, William V. Bhaw officer of guard, Johu'DeLance; sergeant major, John Magulre; quartermaster sergeant, Bobert B. Keeler color bearer, John drum major, Michael Hainm. Board of Trustees Elieha V. Franois, Alfred New batt, Joseph Stanton, John H.

Clayton, W. Henry Harlin, M. D. Belief and Employment Committee William H. Butler, F.

George Bowden, William Moaaha JohnB. Bohaeffer, Thomas G. HaU. Delegates to State Encampment It. L'Homma dleu, Harry Dawson, John Firmbaob.

Alternates George Burton, J. P. H. rmlty, H. JK Strong, BOGUS CHECKS.

At three o'clook Wednesday afternoon at unknown boy delivered to Mr. P. J. Bohnolder.butcher, of No. 888 Myrtle avenue, a note purporting to slgusd by Mrs.

Eagan, ot Ne. 232 Clermont avenue, requesting him to caah a ehockjor $20, on th American Sxohange National Bank of New York, payable to Mrs. E. F. Wlls.

Mr. Schneider went to Mrs. Eagan, and found that ah knew nothing whateror about lh not and oheok. Bh (aid that the person who had signed her namo was a fraud. A similar note an oheok were presented ln the evening tb John Young, butoher, of No.

833 Myrtio avouuo'by a boy, namd Upward Driver, of No. 115 Wavsriy avenue. Driver said that he was told to offr the heck by a young man, a years ot age, whose nam he did no know, but who wore a blue ult and white trw ht. No trace of swindler has yet been found. SUNDAY EAULB.

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Tinnic AUD JOB PRINTING or description, at th EAGLE $QB, 'A Qtl'W rflQVB IOUiUUI lVj IU ufl VVM l. Accommodations Afforded Brooklyn Travelers of To day. Growth of the Passenger Traffic from Oar Own Piers The Means Affordea fdr Reaching; Various Points of Interest, There are various ways of estimating tha growth of a city, but for a city that is bordered by the ocean water, there probably no truer guide than tho number and olass of vessels whioh seek Its wharves, Estimated in that way, tbe advance of Brooklyn within tno few yeara last past, say not more than ten, will be een to have been rapid, steady and substantial, In saying this, no referenne is had now to the ocoan going ships and steamers which bring to ber warehouses along tha water front more than half the cargoes which are eatered as tbe oommerce of tho port. Those have ben already noticed in these columns. Bnt, it is in the InoreaBe of that local traffio, principally of passengers, In and about the harbor, and which ludieates ths movements of the dwellera in a city, that the advance of Brooklyn toward a metropolitan aotlvlty Is Been, and noting that, one can easily see that the dullness which once characterised Brooklyn as "tbe city of homos," the "sleeping place of tired New York," bas in a great measure departed.

Not that she has lost any of her attractions as a dwelling place, but only that in tho pro gress of the Improvements of civilization, she has de veloped a life of her own that needs no stimulant from her giant neighbor to show Its extent and activity. Going back a few yeara in memory, everyone will recall th difficulties of Intramural travel whioh few, onoe ensconced in the sweit breathing places of her streets and avenues shaded with graceful trees and cooled with a fresh air that gathered littlo or no impurities as it swept through the city, cared to onoounter. No matter where one wanted to go, either out of town, or to places within the limits of the harbor, a long journey to the water front was first necessary, and then a trip across the river to Now York, iu order to board tho boat which was to convey him to his destination. Now tho boats are at her doors, so to apeak, and the. advertising columns of the Eaole Buppy an index to the history of her advancement in this respect.

The steam roads of the laud to the sea are many, but not more easy of access or pleasant in thoir operation than the steam roads of tbo water to that and other places in the vioinity, aud the travel to and from the boats keeps the street cars busy and gives a life to the streets and avenues of the city unknown in timoa past. In fact, what is known as the Annex line has brought Brooklyn Itcs within easy reach of nearly all the steamboat lines that ply upon the North and East Rivers, so that there 1b no need for some of them to oomo here at all And for this reason, that line is, perhaps, tho most important, if not the most used of all the ACTUAL BBOOKX.YN LINES of steamboats of a local oharaeter. The Bristol and the Providence which run to Boston and tbe East are as near to Brooklyn, by this arrangement, as if they started from Jewell'e wharf, instead of from pier 28 North River, and tbe same may be said of the Newport and the Old Colony running to Newport and other Eastern points from the same pier, or of the Jteaniera Drew and St. John connecting us with Alba ny from Pier 41; tbo O. Vibbard and tho Albany, running to varloua points on tbo Hudaon, from Vestry aireet Pier, or the City of Cataklll and Escort for Cats kill, from the foot of Harrison street.

There are other lines of boats with whioh tbo Annex does not conneot, probably beosuse ths nsmber of Brooklynltes who travel by them is not appreciated though their adver tising in the Eaolb would indicate otherwise, or be causo they are within easy reach by tho forryboats and the New York interior lines of travel, as for lnstanoe, the Adelphi aonnecting with Norwaik and Danbury from Pier 22 E. the steamers which res from Pior 25, E. to New Haven and other points on the eastern board; the Rosedale from pier 39 E. to Bridgeport the Troy line from Pier N. and the Stonington line, from 38, N.

but doubtless some day not distant will see them too oonnected with Brooklyn either by some annex line or by au aotua! lauding at hor wharvos. This will oomo when they appreciate tbe demands of Brooklyn pooplo, as other lines now do. At present, if ono desires to go on one of Starin's Glen Island excursion steamers, he can reach it by crossing to Plor 18 North River, or at Broome street orid Thirty third treet, Bast Hirer, or if he would go to Long Branch by the Plymouth Rock oilier sister boat, the City of Richmond, or to West Point oh the Richard Stookton, he can reach any of them by the Annex line and so, as'atated, that one line represents a domestic steamboat travol on tho part of Brook lynltoB that not dreamed of ten yearB ago. But as the domaud for suoh conveniences inoreases, no doubt many more of these boats will make Brooklyn landings, as the Grand Ropublio and the Columbia for Coney Island and Bockaway do now, In addition to others al ready mentioned. On Sundays certain steamboats mske a Brooklyn landlug, as the Long Braneh, which runs to Newburgb, and tbe New Brunswick, for the same plaoo.

The former lands at the Brldgo dock and tho latter at Jewell's. The boats plying on the waters mentioned afTord a view of scenery which, In some cases, is as charming aa any in the world, and presents to the traveler many POIlfTS OF HISTORIC INTEREST. Jbetripto Coney Island by sea takes tbe excursionist past Governor's Island, whore Major General Hancock has his headquarters and whore all recruits for the United States army from tbia part of the State are transferred. Its forts command the harbor on all aides. a Bummer resiaence no prettior Bpot can be found.

Gibbet and Bedloe's Islands are seen to the near ths Jersey coast. The latter is under the supervision of the Government, and it was there that the pirate Hloks was hanged some yoars ago. After passing Red "Hook oint, on the Brooklyn shore, Gowanus Bay la entered. It is tbo plaoo of rendezvous for yacht olubB. At Us lower end is Bay Ridge, which is covered with beautiful villas.

On the right is Staten Island, on the lower part of which is Fort Wadsworth, tbe guns of which have a olean rango of the Narrows, a do also those of Fort Tompkins in the rear of it. Ail vessels from foreign ports are obliged to anchor at Quarantine, a small house near the forts, before entering the bay. On the Long Island bank oppoelte la Fort Hamilton, the strongest fort In the harbor, the guns of which sweep the Narrows and tho sea beyond. Fort Lafayette, now dismantled, stands in tbe ohannel between tbe two shores and is a favorite fishing ground. During the war many State prisonors were confined in It, and one Kelly, who set fire to a portion of New York City in that period, ex plated his offense by hanging within the prison walls.

Dix and Hoffman's Islands are next passed, and beyond is the headland and bar known as Sandy Hook. After passing Bath, Coney Island is reached. Starting from Fulton street in the other direction a pleasant sail up the East River is had. Tho first thing of note is Blaokwall's iBland, which divides the river into two channels, and the run np either side is full of intsrest, whether one looks at ths Island itself or tbe border of the mainland on the other ahoro. On the Rav enswood side (he land slopes down to the water, where it is bordered by a solid atone wall.

The grass is thick and deep green, and beautiful lawns peap out here and there among the trees, while handsome villas attract the oye. On tb New York shore th land Is high and reaches the water in a bold and rocky bluff. Passing through Hell Gate, Big Mill Rook is noticeable, in the center of whioh Is a splendid well of fresh water that comes from the depths far below the bottom of tbe salt water ehaunel, and passing eastward of Ward's and Randall's islsnds the Sound Is soon gained, and a fine view of that inland sea obtained. The objective point of exoursions is generally Glen Cove, Oriental Grove, Cold Spring Harbor or Glen leland, each of which has rpeolal attractions of its own. ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS.

Tito Anniversary Celebration at Evcr att Hall lias i Night. The Independent Order of Good Templnre waa founded in 1852. In Everott Hall last night about five hundred people gathered to celebrate that event, and to rejoloo la the growth and development of the organization. There were Good Templars of various degrees and different lodges, with their wives and ohildren; packed together like sardines in a box. Nearly ono thousand cards were issued inviting persons to gather In a hall which will not hold four hundred, and th result was a crowding aud Jostling and pushing which, on a hot Summer's night, did not flavor of the spirit of comfort and enjoyment.

People orowded tho aisles and sat on the steps loading to the platform they blocked up the entrance and even FORMED IN SOLID PHALANX on th stairs leading to tho hall. It was a good natured company, howover.and although nearly suffocated, It was content to undorgo the ordeal in behalf of the cause the triumph of whioh it was determined to celebrate. Gentlemen with red robes over their shoulders, and ladies, too, for that matter, popped up hero and there, while occasionally the eye of tho visitor rested upon an individual who shone forth In all the glory of golden Insignia, with heavy tassels and monograms, tho meaning of whioh the Initiated only could understand. Liberty Lodge, of this olty, was well represented, ss were also aeveral out of town organizations, that shared In the hospitalities of the ovening, Assemblyman A. S.

Draper, PAST OB AND OHtEF TEMPLAR, and one of the Conkling stalwarts in tho.Assembly.sent word to the effect that he could not attend the celebration, owing to. tho fact that the Legislature had not adjourned. It was exactly half past eight o'olock when the gathering was called to order by Mr. James L. Mltoheli, storetary of on of the local temperance and at that time tho following porson were tmong those present Rev.

Dr. Peck, of New York Grand Worthy Chief Templar Martin Jones, of Boohtster Dr. D. H. Mann, G.

Mrs. Parks, of New York; G. E. Melius, J. S.

Bryan, William H. Granger, Lemuel Peacock, Smith, H. Downing, TJeland, B. O. MUlor, A.

Q. McDonald, Walter Mandarine, James Wesoott, William E. Sheffield, B. Horn, Charles H. Kennedy, Woiley L.

Young, William War boy and others, After calling th assembly to order, Mr. Mltoheli explained thai th order of Good Templars was. formed 1852, aad that a jubilee, extending through the whole of the prssont week, was being hold in celebration of thatovenk The entertainment over whioh he had the honor to preside would oonslat of vocal and instrumental music, speeches and refreshments aa a wind up. As the young lady who would open Hie programme, Mr. Mitchell bad the pleasure of Introducing Miss Fosterof Irving Lodge, In tho Eastern Dis.

trtot Mlu Foster played on tbe piano and then prayer waa offered by Rev. Peek, of New, York. Miss Bollamy sang a temperance song In a manner whiatr showed that sho was the possessor of a voice of no mean oompass, and Miss Jennie B. Parks obliged with a reading. Tho andienoe thor.

oughly appreciated her and gave her an tncore, 10 wliloush responded. Grand Worthy Chief Templar Martin Jonas; of Rochester, on being Introduced gaveafow PEBSONAIi BESmtlSOENOEB. He recalled reoolleotlons Of the assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theater, in Washington, ana with it coupled the shooting of President Gordeld on the 2nd Instant Ho congratulated the ordor, the country and the whole oivlllzed world on the spoody recovery ot tha Chiof 'Magistrate ot tho and dosed by exprosBtng the wish that the Good Tamilian miatat be as aueceaatul In adVanelbs their cause In the utare as they had beon In the past. Atter reoitatlon by Mr. Parks, Dr.

D. H. Mann, D. fa. voted with a few remarks; traced ths history, of the, ordor during tno past tweatyTiin; ttgtlng Its' Yesterday 'a Racing at the Brighton Beach Track; A Marvelously Close Finish for Dodette ad New York Weekly Strychnlno'a Brilliant and Unexpected Defeat of Miss Molloy in the Steeplechnse GouTerneur, 61ft aid King Dutchman the Other Winners Five flood Baees and Every.

winy Lovely A Large Attendance The Baolnfr To morrow. There was a large and brilliant attendance at yoaterrtnjr's raoAB at the Brighton Biaoh Aaaoola. uuu iraca, uoney Island. The wealher waa all 11. 1 i coma oe uealred, it was neither too oool nor too warm.

Tho sun shona. somowhat fervidly, but the heat waa tempered by a delicious breeze, which blow from tho aonthweat. It aeemed aa though the rowdy element had entirely dieappoared from the track. Although there waa ono exetodlngly donbtf ul finish to all except the gentlemen whose bui nesa it to have thoir noaea over the wire, and although there were some aharp repulses and bitter dla appolntmonte in the rout of favorltea, bringing, in two Instances, anxioua thronga around the Judges' stand, not an unpleasant word wai heard, and gentlemen who ioat bore thoir loaaea like gentlemen. The betting at the auctions and mutuals waa lively enough, although, perhaps, not quite so rigorous as at the last day's raoing.

The orents to bo contested were fought out evidently on their merits, and the general expression, so far as hoard, waa of satisfaction at tho sport and confidence in the inanaor In which the track is man aged. There were five races during the afternoon, a raoe of a inlia and an eighth, whioh feu to uouverneur; a selling racs, one mile and a quarter, which Dodette captured in ono of the closest and most exciting finishes of the Benson a mile race for three year old maidens, whioh Gift took, but whioh was no gift to the winner a race of a mile and an eighth for all ages, won by King Dutchman, and a Btceplochase over the Bhort courae, which. Strycunino carried off when every body gave it up to Ulss Molloy, and whioh was the most Interesting jumping race of the Bummer meeting without exoeption. The following la the running in detail MILE AND AN EIGHTH. Nine furlongs was the distance of the first race.

All ages, purse $'200, entrance money $10, to go to second horse. Three good ones came to the starting post, namely W. Lakeland's b. o. Aleak Amont, 3 years, Buckden Magnolia, 80 lbs.

W. 0. Daly's oh. f. Bride cake, 3 years, Bonnie Scotland Moselle, 87 and L.

C. Chase's b. o. Gouvarneur, 3 years, Harry Basiott Pmny, 90 lbs. The bo ting started off in the auctions at $25 on Gouverneur to 115 for Bridecake and $10 for Aleck Ament before the start, however, the odds increased on the aon of Harry Uasaett to $23 against $10 on Bridecake and $5 on Aleok, and eventually to $25 on Gouverneur to $10 on the flld, and Gouverneur barred.

Bridecake $25, Aleck Ament $10. It was a very pretty race. The horaea started away from the ruriong pout after one attompt. Bridecake jumpod off in the lead, with Aleok Ament second. Gouverneut took it very quietly aud was not hurried at all.

Tho to were strung out at the stand, Aleck going up to flrit, there being three parts of a length between him and Bride, cake, Gouvernour a longth and a hall to tbe rear, Around tho turn Bridecake made I spurt and collared Aleok, but the horse Bhook her off again. She again went for him, howtvor, and fifty yards from tho quarter pole collareJ him and led bun by a length and a quarter at the quatter poto, Gouvarnenr still trailing now five lengths behind. Turning into the baok stretch the lilao aad blue begun to oloso up, and before one oould say Jck Bobinson more than fouror five times tho order of preoedenee was changed and Obaumatte had Gnuvorneur't nose, then neck and at last entire corporosity In front of the struggling pair. At the half mile, Gouvoraour had one good length the beat of it and Brldooake and Aleck were almost head and head. At tho head of the stables Aleck had drawn away from the chestnut filly, but the rival bay colt would not relinquish any the space he had acquired.

Bridecake again made a desperate struggle for second place at tho Ave furlongs and at the three quarters waa running head and head with Alook and Gouvornour had drawn away two lengths. The trio entered the head of the strotch just as ther passod the three quarters. Opposite the pool stand Drldecako and Aleck were both under tho whip aud the filly had had enough of it Gouverneur went under thi string a winner by a length aud a quarter, knuis down, Aleck Ament second aud Bridecake third, four lengths away. Time, 1:58. Mutual paid $7.

A MILE AND A QUARTER. A selling race, a mllo and a quarter, al! ages, selling allowances, purse $200, of which $50 loaocond bono, was the next matter to be settled, and tho contestants were M. Daly's b. m. Dodetto, 3 years, King Alfonzo Invercaulde, 78 W.

Mulkey's b. f. Topaey, 3 years, Tho 111 Caed Black Slave, 87 Ackrman Co. 'a b. g.

NImblefoot, 5 ycara, Waverly Mollie Cad, 90 F. M. Lilly's Bob Kiddle (lata Tripoli), War Dance Fly, 106 L. Hart's ch. g.

Captain Wragg, I years, War Call Soythian, 90 B. G. Irving'a ch. m. Mamie Fields, 8 year's, War Danoa Orphan Clirl, 108 and Wilson's en.

g. N. V. Weekly, 0 years, Australian Eollptie, 100 lbs. In the auctions Topsey sold favorite at $75; Mamie.

Field 30; Dodetto, Kimblefoot and N. Y. Weekly $15 each, and the field $8. There ware four false starts at the quarter post Cap Ulu Wragg and NImblefoot were beik anxious to be off but there was always soino "on leMt the post. Now.lt waB the avortte.To'pseyaiSiol'lf ga Dodette, Then It was Captain was at last effected Captain Wragg vu caught napping and was left at the post.

He hurried np as best he could bat was oltber last or next to the last during the entire ra ce N.Y. Wookly got off on the lead followed closely by Mamie Fields, NImblefoot third, tlie rest, excepting Captain Wragg, in a bevy, and enveloped In no much dust aa to obscure their colors. The pioe was tolerably hot down theatretch, Dodette made a rapid push for leadership, and accomplished it at the water jump, extending it to three lengths at the judges' stand, NImblefoot going up to seoond place, Topsiy third, Bob Riddlo fourth, Mamie Fields fifth, N. Y. Weekly sixth, and Captain Wragg omt lengths behind.

At the turn Topsey eloiad upon Nimblefoot and took second place, and made bold push for first, decreasing Dodetta's lead by a length and a half. The bay mare was however going along easily under a pull. The positions of Iho others were not materially ohanged. Going around the seoond torn and entering the backatretch Dodette drew away ajood length in front. Around tho stables, Topsey mads her run, and at the three quarter pole looked a winner, having oollared Dodette and leading him by half a length.

Here a good deal of whipping and spurring waa to be observed. Eaoh horse wai taking a lively boating', axeeptlng only NImblefoot, who did not seem to care whether he had a place or not. As the hud of the stretch wad reaohed and the ruok got strakjhtenod out, Dodette made a grand rush and headed the lot. But N. Y.

Weekly waa not far off, and at the water jump McKee callod on tha oheituut gelding, who responded in grand style. Dodette, however, would not surrender, and tha pair flashed under the wire ilmpst nose and nnso. It looked like adead heat, and ananxlona orowd gathered around the judges' staud. Thtre was, howevor, not a sign of a demonstration until tie jockeys had weighed in and ths judges had hung out Dodatte's number as first. Then there was appUuse, Tho race was won by a throatlatch, New York Weekly seoond, Dodetta's Topiey a good third, Mamls Fields fourth, Bob Riddlo fifth, NImblefoot sixth, and Captala Wragg seventh.

Time, 2:11. Mutuals paid $17.90. It was one of tho' closest finishes of tha siason, between first and second. There was no bid for the wlnaer. MAIDEN IHItME YEAB OLDS.

A race of a mile for maiden three year olds, for a purse of $200, of which $50 to second horse, was the next event. It brought out a field of bIx, namely, W. J. Rogers' b. Lady Littleton, Littleton Lady Emmet; Hayes Co's.

br. f. Kilty Haglsr, Ohlllioothe by Australian; T. M. Fleming'a eh.

o. Dnole Andy, Harry Basiett Lona; W. 0. Daly's b. g.

Gift, Narragansott Slater to Vietta W. Jennings' b. g. Blaokmora, Ballan. keel Orphan Girl, andL.

Coombs' b.f. Jeannle, Lever Optima, Each carried 107 lbs. weight for age. In tha pools Blackmore sold for $50 Gift, $25 Undo Andy, $20; Kitty Hagler, $10, and the field, $11. There were four breakaways and i good start, with gift slightly in the lead, Blackmoro seoond and Joanute third.

Thoy all went around the turn like a cluster of fire files. At the quarter post Lady Littleton Inspired her backers with hope as she flashed to ths front and began to maka the pace very lively. Blackmore still kept aeoond plaoa and Jeannle third, Gift under a pull falling back to fourth. The Lady increased her lead on tha back stretch, making what looked like a runaway raoe, the others beginning to string out Ilk a rosary. At the half mile she was flva longthB ahead of Blaokmoro, who lad Gift by a leogth, tha latter taking third place from Jeannle fonrtb, Kitty Haglor 8f th, Dnola Andy his red, white and blue stripes in the rear.

At the three quarters the Lady had pumpd her wind oat, but she etill led around by ih stable. As the three quarter post was approached Ihere was a sudden transformation scene. With the auddenieis of a disoharge from a double gun the whole field eiosed np on Lady Littleton, and turning into th utretoh the scarlet colors of Daly were first visible. The roe we over. Gift was easily first, and came In, without a groat deal to spare it is true, but without application of either Whip or spur.

In fact, there was no whipping from first to last. It was a splrlteS race, esch courser seeming, to bo inspired with the spittt of 'Ui backers. Between tha pool box and the water jnmp 1U Kitty Hagler and Blackmoro pasted the Lady and the order of victorious preoadeneo waa Gift, wlnne; by half a length, Kitty Haglor lecond and lejiclipg PiioXmoro, by three lengths, Lady Littleton fourta, Dnole Andy fifth and Jeannle last. Time, litf. Mfatuals paid $21.80.

Hag gerty rode tha and vod a protty race from start to finish. MILS AND AN BIoilB HANDICAP. The fourth rao waa for a pjrse of t'iOO, of which $50 to seoond hone, for horsei tht had run and not won at Brighton Beaoh in 1881, all ages, one mile and an eighth. Five face tho man of the fag, namely, W. O.

Daly'i oh. Bellona, 3 yesrl. 111 Hseil Beatrioe, 80 Hiram Wood's b. aodai 4yars, Loehlel Broad fruit, J. Donohue, b.

Euntae, yeara, Vauxhall Kugenie, 95 M. West's b. Wrangler, 5 years, Wavorly Impudence, 90 and John Grayer'i b. King Dutchman, 5 years, Longfellow Little Girl, 98 lbs. Klng Dutchman brought $50, Bellona $15, field $18.

Six trial ware necessary to start the horses on their Journey. Xing Dntchnian'ijunjped. away in tha lead and ah'awed tha routi to the water Jump, wliaa'Qiiani trell put him ondor pull and the quintet; went tho Judges' stand all in a bunch, Bellona a neck If anything the best, of It; It nip and tuok all round the tur, to the quarter, when Bellona drew a length awiy from Hoda, the latter lapped, to saddle girth by'1 King Dntohman and Kanlea running latt on even terms. Around tho eaoond turn and Into tire! back stretch Bellona drow still further away, brit at Uha Ure furlong pole King Dutchman let out or two and want up to th leaders, Bellona having at th half mile but half a length tha bast of the Teutda Monarch, Wrangler third, Soda fourth and Xunlc but, At the hoad of the Btabloa King Dutchman ohallngod Bsllbaa (or th leadership and took it by a head and nook. Bellona still keeping in advinoo of tat rut of the ruck by two or tbreo IcUglln, Her the poo began to be qoo fervent, ana thereupon Oliver, Donohue andMOthai tht rider ot Bodaj Bu CURRENT EVENTS.

Ganeral who has been exceed ingly IU, is getting better. There were 1,709 Oaatlo Garden yesterday. emigrants landed at The National bonk notes received yesterday In Washington amounted to $107,000. Justice Clifford is dying at Portland, Maine. Hi physician said last night that be oould not survive but a few hours.

Professor John D. Ermentrout, one of the founders of the Keystone Normal School at Kutztown, died yesterday at Reading, of typhoid malarial fever. The Erie Railroad to day reduced its emigrant faros $1 to aU points west of Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. The fare to Chicago Is only $9.

The Pennsylvania Railroad made tha tame reduction. There were twenty five deaths from yellow fever in Havana during the week ending July 0, and sixteen the following week. Smallpox Is bad in that city also, The Jersey City Chief of Police has ordered his force to break up tho street moetlngs of the Salvation Army. The men composing this army have attracted noisy and disorderly crowds until citizens began to complain of them. John Hcanlon, a well known politician of Jersey City, died yesterday morning from injuries received by being struck by a locomotive on Wednesdayi while attempting to cross tbe Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at the Washington street crossing.

William S. Hudson, superintendent and managor of the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, died at Halodon, near Patorson, N. yesterday. Ho made a number of Important improvements in tbo construction of locomotive onginos. He was an Englishman by birth and was born in 1800.

The work of taking an inventory of the property of tbe Manhattan Elevated Railroad Company in New York is being pushed as rapidly as possible. Ex Judge Dillon, one of tho receivers, promises to give to the public as soon aa feasible all information possible on a subject of so much importance. The Rev. Father Jerome P. Nobriga, chaplain of St.

Yinosnt Hospital, died on Wednesday at tbe ago of 00 years. A solemn reqnlom mass for the repose of his soul waa sung this morning in 8t. Joseph's Church, New York, whore ho was for many years pastor. M. La Rue Harrison, Chief Post Office Inspector for the money ordor system of th United States has been appointed by tho Postmaster General a special commissioner to arrange the terms of a money order convention between the governments of this country and Jamaica.

He sailed for tbe latter place to day. Lord Colin Campbell and Miss Gertrude Blood were married yesterday at the Chapel Royal In the Savoy. Tho Princess Loulso and the Duke of Ar gyle were present. Miss Blood is tho daughter of Mr. Edward Blood, a gentleman of large wealth and high sooiol position in London.

Senator Hill, of Georgia, hag been successfully operated upon for a cancer In the mouth, and is likely to be permanently cured. Tbe cancar waa in the mucous membrane, and was induced, it is thought, by excessive smoking. Being accessible to the knife of the surgeon, it is less dangerous than it would be were it in other portion of the body. The unveiling of the monument to the con federate dead at Culpepper, drw a large crowd yesterday. The procession was a milo long and was head ed by the Culpepper Minute men, followed by military companies from various points.

Addresses were made by General Kitzhugh Lte, ex Governor Kemper, Hon, John Gooder and General Walker. Roughs stormed a circus at Pottsvillo, Pa. and dispersed ths audience on Wednesday night, when tbe performance waa about half over. The roughs hurled ahowera of stones against tho canvas from tho outside. Seven or eight shots were fired and several persons were badly wounded.

The disturbance was cauaed on tho part of rowdies to creep under the can vas. Sitting Bull and his warriors hold a council day before yesterday with Major Lothorton, at Fort Buford, D. and he madq a talk, telling what he wanted of the Government. His desire is to go on tbe Little Missouri to Uva aud hava a piece of ground. Major Botherton assured him of the intention of the Government to treat him well and amply provido for them.

A man was drowned yesterday at Long Branch only a tew hundrod yards from shors and in sight of three hundred bathers. He had been swimming out several hundred yards and on returning threw up his hands and sank. The body was not re. covered. In a pocket of his clothing was a card bear ing the name of William J.

Bailey. He was described as bald headed and about 60 years of age. A garden party was given at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, yeaterday afternoon. There was a children's oarnival in connection with it, and a groat orowd of poople wet in attendance. At night the extensive grounds were beautifully lighted, and the costumes of tbe ladies were elaborate.

A large number of prominent Now Yorkers were in attendance. The order of exercises was prepared In Paris for tho occasion. Miss Hedwig Balotz, of Newark, jumped from a carriage yosterday afternoon, at Marion, and was killed. The horaea became unmanageable, and she waa frightened into springing from the carriage while the horses were moving rapidly. Her aunt, Mrs.

Mink, jumpod out at ths tame time and was slightly Injured, Miss Balcts had been in tblB country but one week. A young lady was driving, and the occupants of the carriage wero four ladies. A maniac at Eagle Creek Valley, fourteen miles from Winona, ou Sunday last killed his wifo and seven children and then blew out his own brains. He was a Swiss emlgraot, named Paul Holde, and arrived ia this country three months ago. He had purchased a farm and seemed to be doing weU.

Lately he became despondent and had fits of gloom and depression. There was great excitement in the neighborhood when tho news was made known. James Orr, lately a clerk for Schultz, Southwick was released yesterday from Ludlow street Jail, where he had been for some months, in default of $50,000 ball, in a snlt against him begun by the firm. Mr. Jackson 8.

Schultz made oath that he bad converted to hla own use about 8,800 hides belonging to tha firm, valufld at about $15,000, and the firm pro ceeded both civilly and criminally against him, A few days ago Mr. Sabultz reported to the Distrist Attornoy that he had not a particle of evidence against Orr, and the latter was discharged. Tha Mint Bureau has prepared a circular for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of gold and silver used In the manufactures and tho arts in tbe United States during the last fiscal year. It will be forwarded by mall to manufacturers, with a request that they fill np a blank form whioh will be inclosed, calling for the amount of United States coin melted and worked np, fine bars used, and foreign coin, dUBt and old manufactured artldles made into new work. The answers received last year showed that there had been an aggregate or $13,098,363 in gold and ailvor used during the fiscal year of 1880.

For the sir months ending July 1, 19,000 men and more than 6,000 women were sent away from the labor bureau at Castle Garden to different parts of the United States. The labor bureau cannot fill the pressing! demand from all parts of the country for workingmen. Th Fruit Growers' Association of Sumter County, sent a communication asking for 200 able bodied workingmen to be forwarded immediately. They wish them to work In the orange groves and gardens. Similar letters are being received constantly from all parts of tho South and many portions of tho West.

Tho superintendent of the bureau has on file applications for more than 000 house servants and for any number of female factory hands to go South. He says he could find employment for BOO servants a day if he had them. A society, to be known as the American In atitute of Christian Philosophy, was established at Warwick Woodlands, N. yesterday. The Rev.

Dr. McIIvaino, of Newark, N. was elected chairman, and the Rev. A. N.

Bradford was chosen secretary. Rev. Dr. Deems read a paper explaining the objects of the society, whioh he said were to investigate fully aad impartially the more Important questions of philosophy and sclenoe, particularly those bearing upon the Serip turoB, with a view of demonstrating the harmony existing between Christianity and solenco. Papers read before the society are to be published, together with full reports of the discussions on the several subject, in the form of a Journal The society further proposes to republish in English works of solontlflo and philosophical Talus in foreign languagos.

A library and reading room is to bo established. The annual fee to members is to be $10. A valuable wharf belonging to the Sprague estate, adjoining that of the Stonington Steamship Uompanyat Provldonce, was Bold yesterday for $10,000, It was announeod that tho purohaaer would be protected by the Creditor's Committee to the full extent of the law, despite the faot that the entire Sprague property was attached yesterday morning by the Inldwlck Company to satisfy a olulm of $2,000,000. Tha sounael for tbe trustee of the creditors declared that the property held by an assignee could not be attaobed for an old or new debt. Mr.

Butlor, counsel for the Sprague family, yeaterday had notices appear in the Providence papers signed "William Spragu, president or tbe Quidnlck Company," removing Mr. Chaffee from the office of treasnrer of that company and appointing G. Onaee tojthat office. Heretofore Mr. Chaffee, the trustee and aaslgnoe of the A.

W. Bprsgue Manufacturing Company, ua oonttnd tho business of the mills and print works Inthe name of tbe Quldniok Company, one Of the Sprague corporations whioh was solvent at the tlm of th general failure. This movoment, if not suceess fully resisted, wiU result, It is feared, in Immediately stopping all the Sprague mills and tho print works, 8KOOKLTS1T.ES OS L0S6 IBliASD. Cold Spring Harbor Mrs. Magoe.

Boll port A. K. Meseroie, W. P. Gsrrlson.

Parsll Mrs. Myers, John O. Kally. Sayville A. M.

Kemp, D. T. Wilson, Bay Shore Mrs. G. H.

Lansing, Mrs, George Burehell. Qaogue B. H. Howell. Loonal Valley Mrs.

J. B. Hamel, Babylon Andrew Cunningham, James Bulger. Orient John Douglass. Sea Cliff George W.

Frost. Southampton Mrs. Dr. Flake. Westhampton Theodore F.

Jackson. Patchoguo Mrs. Charles Slobert. Oroen lawu Potior, Am ltyvlUe John E. Vlook.

BITTEN BY HER PET DOS. Mrs. Williams, of Flushing, kept ft pot dog. While she was fondling It on Wednesday, it suddenly exhibited sign oi madness aad bit hf In the face. It then ran out of to hoan aad bi, nuothet dog oa th premUW.

xaent from a debasing influence It is quite 'i 'possible to argue that the men who make wDiuvu0 ni lumiuaou, uut iu AO 1 lulu tjjtnis to say that those who beliove them should subordinate them to any other issue or set of issues now before the country. r. We notice that, while this action does not theeast disturb the Democrats of Ohio, it is spoken of with every evidence of disfavor by the Republicans. The latter regard it tui A'gOrt of rebellion, thoughhy there should bo loyalty they omit to state, unless there be an explanation in the assurance that "the Ro publican is tho party of great moral The great moral idea has lost its influence upon the, temperance men. Thoy want groat moral action for a change.

It is too early to measure the probable off ect orteB toniperaace ticket in the canvass. We i shonii notr' however, be astonished to see it JMfflD and if it polls half that ijranjbsr the Republican ticket will be defeated. Vhf? Chicago' grain gamblers are again IC tnaSSaa havoc on the market. The pretext bprner is the falling off of the iwheatscfrop in low and other districts. So getfflhlw which the upward move onfchi wheat; produced that rye, oats, laid ondjporjt are all advanced.

Tho soone on 'Ohagfi Jn'ChidagQ is saifl.to have 'baffled; description. Sueh a of valuoat the'rocoBnized center of th North western grain market is bpan4 fott vuuoecuona reacn, mo con pocketbook is taxed to resppnd'to tho wp Bpocuiatora.i it auoB ciftmplo to the many which havo pra AT.