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THE BKOOE YN DAILY EAGLil MONDAY, KBBU AliY 17, 1890 SIXPAjgEP. FERRY CONTROL" HELD FOK HIGHWAY ROBBERY. They Aslicd for Kecr Money and Were Arrested. IS HE A HUMBUG THREE JURORS EDITION SECRETARY TRACY BACK AT HIS DESK. Hirst.

Wilmerdintr 1b Much Better and tier DiiuS'Iitor iu Quito Recovered. Special to tho Eagle.) Washington, D. February 17. The Secretary of the Navy drove from the Arno to fhn dnnartnient thiH morning and appeared in by the District Attorney beforo he had boon asked a question. He said that ho resided in Flat bush; had no recollection of reading anything about tho Drs.

Jones; had no opinion whatever about the caso; ho had a prejudico agaiiiBt a female surgeon. "Isn't that a mutter of preference? asked Mr. Ridgway. "I don't think diflieultsnrgery is apropor thing for a female to undertake." "Would you allow that to prejudico you as a juror "I would not." Mr. Marsh said he would havo to make an effort to throw off his prejudice, and was excused.

Tho court then took a recess. John McDcrmott, of 95 York stroot, and James Feeley, of 131 Prospect stroot, were arraigned befork Justico Walsh this morning on a charge of highway robbery. Tlie complainant was Thomas' Kane, of 240 Prospect street, who said that while he was on his way home yesterday morning he was stopped by the two prisoners at the corner of Pearl and York streets. They demanded the prico of a pint of boor and when he refused, Feeloy, ho BayB, held him Dy the arms while McDcrmott went through his pockets and took a jackknife and 25 cents. Kane called for help and Sergeant Crowe, of the Second Precinct, locked the whole party up.

Kane's knife was found in McDermott's possession. Justice Walsh hold Feoloy and McDcrmott tor examination on Thursday. JORDAN'S STORY Of His Relations With the Sixth National. Further llcnring: in the Famous Hank Case To day Some Peculiar Financiering. Conrad M.

Jordan returned to the witness stand at the resumption of the hearing in the case of P. J. Claassen, charged with embezzling from the Sixth New York National Bank, iu New Yrok this afternoon. He made his long promised corrections to his printed testimony, but they wero largely verba! and unimportant. Mr.

Jordan showed himself much more acute in chasing down errors of grammar than he has been in explaining who returned the bonds and securities which Claassen took from the vaults of the Sixth National Bank. He said that the missing $1 0,000 of Cmur d'Aleiie bonds had been sold by W. C. Sheldon, and the proceeds had been paid in to the Sixth National Bank. He explained that the power of at'orncy from Claassen to transfer his stock in the Sixth National after the crash came had been signe by Claassen in blank and filled out later.

Jordan received a batch of resignations and powers of attorneys from the Claassen Board of Directors by mail. On cross examination Mr. Jordan was unablo to tell the value of Equitable bank stock at the time of closure, but he fancied that Lenox Hill stock wm worth $1.1 0. It was a very nice little bank with a good Mr. Jordan also swore that iu his investigation he had not discovered any thing to show that Claassen had converted any of the b.

ink's securities to his own use, and after that a biiission General Foster, Claasseu's lawyer, was glad to let the witness go. James M. Kilduif, tho "company" of Pell, Wal lack A Co. and Pell's brother iu law, identified the writing of a check for $15,000 made by Pell, Vi'aliack it to P. J.

Claassen hb his own. He said that he was in the habit of making out checks an signing tho firm name to them without any regard to the state of their book account, depositing later to meet the cheeks, apart of the kiting process. This particular Cheek was sent to the Equitable Bank and was certified oy Mr. Courier, assistant cashier of that bank. After tlie boy left the ollieo with the check Ki! dnff lost track of it.

and after lus testimony on Saturday he discharged the boy who had carried it. Kilduff was sure that this particular check was made good during the day either by a cheek from Ciaastoii or by one from Pell, but on being pressed to become more definite he could not do so. The fact is that this was one of two $15,000 checks which Claassen deposited in the Park National Bank, and against which Claassen drew a check for which was used to pay Belaud for his stock when ho sold out to the gang. The other fl 5.000 check cd by Claa sen was signed by iiilduii' personally, and ho was as much at a loss to explain what he ever got for this check as he hail been for the one signed by the firm, hut he was sere it was made good by another check rom "somebody. Whether that somebody was Pell cr Simmons he could not say.

Another check of Kil to Claassen, for $10,000, was put in evidence. The witness swore that the check for $00,000 given by Claassen to Pell, Waliack it was not put iu the firm account, because it was given to Philip L.Meyer iu return for a loan of 00,000 or 000." in checks, of course. He wasn't able to explain how he became connected with either tin Lenox Hill or the Equitable bank but he denied what he swore to on 'atur ly, that James A. Simmons suggested the organization of the Equitable. He swore to day that the suggestion came from Courter, who was made cashier of the bunk.

MONEY MARKET CLOSING REPORT. Anthritcite Colli Trade Dull roatl Iliiniiiijrs Proposed Absorption of tUe Ilrliiiijjer Lines Slocks Quiet, AliliotiIi (Generally Steady. For irlicr ov. i'W'n mi Ji'i Wali, Stiikkt, February 17. th cilos ol bonds this afternoon ivin; tlaulic A I) 1st OK At.

irr I 4 Atcli Ti VnUw TAHMYi Kin 1M11M Cent .1 5 1 1 Ut A 100l Ohi flur A Nod fpir A i oii C'hiUas 1st 04 Chi I. A 7s .1 Chi A fnd Coal Jat.OTaiKiW A Ut. So lat 101 l)ul A At 5s Den A It.o 4h 7Kfl7SS East 5a lOoJtf Pac yd Grand tsl Gulf A F'nii 70H H'BJtonio 5j 100H Illinois Con 4s 101 Iron Maun 1st J04H Kentucky 4a 4 I.ouStl, A 1st OS I.aiiK Dock IU A A C.ou 104 Lalii; Shorn 1st 1 bakoShorolid Mol Ek'V li HilM Mor A 101U A 5s 10' 'X LSAWlst HOW Mo A in 751 Nor Par. 1st 101 A 1, O.v'duOliJti W5 0Hl! Nor Pac llrd NY Lac AW 1st Out Or.j Njiv I 10 Ore Tr.Mis lis I O.Vi OhioA In.l Ipi OrShort lsllloJsnl Kl' Oru liuii 1st I'm: of Mn 1 si Pitts A IV 1st K.liMoH. fiich Alle 1st (iii'ii Kiel! I'lam (is Ku'li Torn! SOJ Uio and 4s.

71V, v7 Hea ifinK in RiimiinK IsLine OS KeoiliriK ll.l Hock Island 5i 10: A Glasi fit Paul I A HIS Ht Paul 4s S. A A '4 An A A Mlis Shenandoah in Ton TSt AKClst J( A AAN'Mlal I0lil ex Tex Pais 1 st S4s 1 s.i'i Union Klc Ist.l07!iil0 West A lal A I. li 1st 105 "Wisconsin lat.IitiaOi'M Wisconsin LI inc Shoru 4s. I05H Nor Pacific lat lloU The anthracite coal trade is dull, with no improvement in the demand for domestic sizes. The consumption of furnace and small steam coal is still large.

Railroad earnings: Inr. rt. c. Alemiiliis and Charleston, 1st week 'ol) $4. ISO F.

Va. and tiooiK'a, 1st woidt Poll L. S. and 'd wnok Feb Do.ivor and Hio Grande, weuk Fob. 0,000 A special meeting of East Tennessee, Virginia and Georcia stockholders has been called to take action on the proposed absorption of the Erlar cr system for which it is proposed to pay $15,000, 000 cash and ti, 000, 000 in new Richmond Terminal 5s.

The expert who examined the Reading books to ascertain whether or not the first preferred interest was earned haB comploted his investigation and his report has been sent to tho bondholders in England. It is positively denied that the New York Central will increase its capital stock. Exports of cotton for January show a gain of and for five months an increase of 084,87. A contract for a runnins arrangement has been perfected between the Canadian Pacific and other lineB, which gives a direct route to Omaha. Stocks were irregular early this afternoon with Rock Island weak, St.

Paul and Union Pacific inclined to be strom: and the other stocks, including the trtisla, heavy. The movement grew steadier toward and thou it became dull, no continuing for the next hour, with but slight fluctuations. After the tone was a litter stronger, but tho business was light. Stocks were steady in the lato trade and at the close. Money loaned at 4 per cent, aud at 3H, and closed about 4.

The following table shows the courso of the Btock market for this day Open llillh cst. Low est. Clos iiid ing. Am. Cattle Trust Am.

Cotton Oil Atcb. Top. A Santa Fo Canarlian Pacilio Canada Southern oltl i Central 1 IS Central Pacific 00L.i Chattanooga Chesapeake A Ohio. 2 Pi ('lies. A.

Ohio 1st (il dies. A Ohio Jd OhicacoA Alton Chi. Bur. A tjuincy. 10.i: Chic.

Gas Trust 45' Clev. C. C. A St. 00 3J( 7 lU 5:1 ll7 ii OlS'i 2)Vi 00 lOOMi 07; o.i 47M Hill 1501a 135 48 "i'H f4 74 ir, (10 10 ioV; 44 Oil Oli'4 i'H iiiifj loot; is" '7 s' 745i us Siti (i 40M 107M 4.

"Oil 00 iKi'f 151 llio1! is" Clov. C. O. A St L. pfd t) Colorado Coal 4.S,ls" Consolidated Gas Delaware A Hudson.

Del. back A W. stern. Denv. A Rio Grande.

Donv. A llio pf.l... Tex. A l'l. W'th Dis.

A i'al. l'. Dnlmli Kas! seo Fa I 'I'oun. 1st Knet Tenu lid pfd line Krio pfd Ilockinir Valley i 1 P0! 4 151 4S" '''Of 2ii'j il'O'i if iS Hi i'. 'M IT HAS NOT KEEN SETTLED.

Mlso Kunpii'i Ciwo Affalnot Bcmas ItarncH' Elatc Tho statement published in olio of tho Brooklyn papers yesterday to the effect that tho suit brought" by Miss Corabella Knapp against tho estate of the late Dennis Barnes had been settled by tho paymont of $100,000, mado by tho executors of tho estate, sooms to have had its foundation only in an interview hold with a woman whoso naino was not given, and the fact that tho counsel in tho case have neither Affirmed or denied any rumors which havo arisen from time to time. A very caBy way of determining the matter would havo boon to call at tho County Clerk's office, where tho papers in any sottlomout would havo boon filed, aud whore it would havo fnrthor boon loarnod that no such papers had been received. Ex Judge Goorgo G. ltoynolds, counsel for tho executors of tho estate of the late Demas Barnes, was seen this morning at his ollieo in tho Phenix Building, and whon asked regarding tho story of a settlement of thu suit, said: "It is hardly necessary for mo to affirm or deny anything." "But you can at least say whethor a sottlemont has beou made or not," was asked. "Well, I oan nay this much, that if any has boon mado I am entirely ignorant of tho fact and can reasonably impposo that as I am one of the conn sol to the suit I would have received some little knowledge of such an important move." "Have you heard of the death of Miss Knapp's child?" "That is another matter upon which I am ignorant.

I can not understand how or from whom the story has started, but it has evidently been mado from whole cloth." Mr. George F. Elliott was next seen at. his ofUcc in the Garfield Building and when asked for the foundation of the story of a settlement he said: "I do not know that I can say anything that has not already boon sai l. Tin; account you refer to was something of a surprise to mo, for, while I have other matters in hand, I usually try to keep posted in the various oases, and I must say that this most important settlement has not reached mo yet, and in Hobitr oarnest I havo not mado or received any movo in this directiod." SENT A PROXY Rather Than Offend Thomas C.

Piatt. Timothy L. Woodruff Explains His Changro of llcart Darwin K. James Has Lost Hope for the Fair. When the General Committee of the World Fair on Tuesday last rebuked Thomas 0.

Piatt and his obedient servants in tho Legislature for their attempt to make the fair a means of political preferment it was thought that Mr. Piatt would recosni.o tho danger in which he was placing himself and gracefully retire. This impression was strengthened by tho fact that Timothy L. Woodruff, who is recognized as Mr. Piatt's first lieutenant in this county, voted with the committee and against l'latt.

Mr. Woodruff, however, surprised people on Saturday by sending as his proxy the meeting of the Piatt Committee J. 12. Milholland, who introduced resolutions which demonstrated that instead of receding from his position Mr. Piatt had determined that there would be no World Fair held in New York unless his faction could bo benefited by it.

Timothy B. Woodruff, although still a young man, has not heretofore had the reputation of doing things hastily, and his sudden change of front has caused considerable comment. A reporter called on him this morning and asked him if he cared to explain what appeared to be an attempt on his part to get a good seat on tho fence. He said: "1 havo giveu the political complexion of tho corporators of the General Committee of the World Fair no and ail that I know about it is what I have road in the papers and occasionally heard men comment upon, and those statements have been in such direct conllict vith one another as to have left me completely at sea on the matter. I attended the meeting of the General Committee of the World Fair last Tuesday and was satislied that the prevailing sentiment among licpuklieaiiH and Democrats as well was that tlie original bill contained a list of corporators who would conduct the a If airs of the Fair in a lion partisan way, and although I saw evidences that that sentiment had been manufactured by certain leaders of the enterprise, Bepublicans as well as Democrats, yet I believed that those who entertained it were unaware that they had been unduly influenced.

After that meeting every BcpubUcii Senator and ail but aliout fifteen lie publican Assemblymen again voted in favor of the Senate amendment to the original bill. This they did with a full knowledge of what had transpired at tho meeting of the World Fair Committee on Tuesday, because the organizers of that meeting took every pains to put them in possession of tho information of what took plaee at tho meeting. Knowing the character of such men as Senators Stewart, Fassett, Sloan, Hendricks, Bobertson, Biehardsou and the others, and also knowing that they believed from the most careful investigation of the subject that the fair would be conducted in a partisan way t' the benefit of Tammany Hall, if the original bill prevailed, and believing as 1 have from the beginning that Hamilton Fish was actuated by personal motives and not by patriotic ones, I determined that I should attend tho meeting of the State Committee and vote to uphold the overwhelming Bepublican majority in both branches of the Legislature on this question. As I was unable to go, at the last moment I gave my proxy to Mr. Milholland to represent me, knowing that he had giveu tho subject more careful and exhaustive consideration than anyone I knew of.

I sincerely hope that the deadlock in Albany may be soon broken and would most earnestly advocate tho waiver of all personal feelings that have been tho result of tho bitter struggle and tlie acquiescence, by all in some satisfactory solution of the difficulty." "Do you not think that Now York may now abandon all hope of having tho World Fair held within her boundaries Mr. Woodruff was asked. "I do not. New York can still get the fair if the o'pposition is withdrawn." Although Mr. Woodruff is so imnguino but few of the committeemen are possessed of as much hope as is he.

Kx Congressman Darwin B. James said this morning "It now looks as if New York will not get the fair and Piatt is the cause of it. Washington is talked of as a compromise and I am not opposed to it. Washington, however, cannot accommodate the people who go there every four years to attend tho inauguration of the President and certainly cannot accommodate the crowds that would bo attracted by the World Fair. New York cannot hope to have the fair if this struggle among the politicians is permitted to continue." MEETING OF THE ALDERMEN.

iriauy Street Itesoliilions Returned. Tho Board of Aldermen met at 2 this afternoon, with President McCarty in the chair. Mr. Wafer, chairman of Lamps and Gas, said there would bo no report from that committee to day on tho applications of the Brooklyn Electric Light and Tower Company and the George D. Allen Company, which wero considered last Friday night.

There is a crowing belief that tho former company will soon secure a franchise. City Works Commissioner John P. Adams sent in a list of resolutions passed by thu Board in 1H80, ordering electric lights, which resolutions have not boon acted upon by him. There were about one hundred and thirty of such resolutions and they covered nearly all sections of tlie city. The total number of lights projected is not given, but it is very large.

In some instances the distance is a half mile or moro. The largest number of orders was passed on January 2H. Commissioner Adams did not explain why he had not acted on the resolutions, but the supposition is that he did not havo enough money to provide for all of tnem. so not desiring to make distinctions, ho let all go. Progressive measures were taken in respect to the following street pavements, the work to bo done by assessment: Bockaway avenue, Irom Dean street to Atlantic avenue.

Belgian blocks: estimated cost J5. 500. Evergreen avenue, from CI rove to Linden street. Cobble stouo: estimated cost $1,1 Trcmont street, from Bichards to Columbia street. Cobble stone; estimated cost Lafayette avenue, from Bushwick avenue to Broadway.

Cobblestone; estimated cost, 000. Moll'at'sti'eet, from Bushwick to Central avenue. Cobblestone; estimated cost, Tlie Board confirmed the assessments in a score or more of proceedings for fencing lots and laying sidewalks. 1 Fire Commissioner sent in a conimuni tion inclosing a resolution authorizing and d' ting him to advertise for proposals for building an engine house on property now owned bv the citvon Fifty second street, near Fourth avenue. The lot is I oxl 00 feet and cost It is in flic lower part of the Eighth Ward, where the people have been clamoring for facilities for protection from lire.

'The resolution was adopted. Commissioner Funis has ready the engine aud the men for the new house. Temporary quarters havo been secured on Fourth avenue, near Thirty seventh street. Tlie Committee on Law reported adversely to the claim of H. F.

Murray, keeper of the Prospect Park shelter house, for reimbursement for damages done to property owicd by him during the, storm of September 1HK0. Tho committee was discharged from the further consideration of the subject, and the Board referred the claims to the Park Commissioners. The same committee reported against the claim of Wynn for election night damages to her property. She must bring suit as the Board has no power tlie premises. EX TIIEALL DYING.

He In at lrcNcnt uu Inmate of llio S'lulbusli SQovipiml. Mr. Thomas Theall, ex proprietor and manager of tho Novelty Theater and the pioneer of theaters on the better scale in tho Eastern District, is at present an inmate of the Flatbush Hospital, whither ho was sent a fow days ago. His condition is very low aud his friends Bay that he cannot survive moro than a few weeks. Hyatt Lodge, F.

and A. of which he is a member, offered to seo that tho dying consumptive was cared for, but relatives declined tho lodge's aid, according to the statement of a member. Tho lodge will hold a meeting to night, at which action will be taken looking toward the probable transfer of Mr. Theall from his present quarters. INFAVOKOI Til UNION.

A case of much interest to laboring people of all trades was decided to day by Judgo Osborno, in the City Court. It was tho suit of John Burns against the Bricklayers' Benevolent and Protective Union of Brooklyn, for reinstatement and romissiou of lines. Tho judge finds for the defendant and dismisses tho complaint upon tho merits, with cost. Charles F. Brandt represented the plaintiff and Thomas E.

Pearsall appeared for Uio IN ITS FAVOR A Report on the Fort Greene Monument Bill. The Military Committee of the House Tells the Story of the Prison Shin Martyrs and Advises a $100,000 Appropriation. Special to tho Eaclo.l Washinoton, D. February 17. Tho report on tho Martyrs' Monument measure is comploted and was presented to tho Houso today.

As predicted recently in tho Eagle, it an entiroly new report, much more concise than the one in tho last Congress, at tho samo tmio presenting moro facts. It is as follows: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred tho bill (II. It. 3,887 tor ho erec. tion and completion ot a monument to the memory of the victims of the prison "hips, at i'oit Gmme.

Brooklyn, N. do respectfully report: When (ieneral Washington was compelled to ret ro with tho American Army disastrous battle of Bong Island, August 17, 177 i the British anchored several vessels wh ch had been used to traiil.i't cattle and other supplies in Wallab.mt, JJay, and in em imprisoned the captives aken during the remainder of the Revolution. 1 lie re we of these ships, tho most notorious be 10 Hell, as she was euphemistically by those who' suffered the torments of the lanined in that floating ilotlm. The horrors of these ships are too revolting tor s.u iptio i. Bestilenco and starvation reign ed su reme.

American patriots confined in darkimss, subjected to the most horrible brutal in the annals of tho Christian era, packed to dl.erbe ween docks, fed upon tho condemned fa tho British tleet, frcauently riven scoop up the slops from the troughs of pens on tho decks above them, dying of snllaj tion from the foul air Summer and fie8 deithin Winter, their captors glu ulishly await ng their last breath and often tying the xpir ing martyrs in their winding i sh eets befu Uiui souls had gone to meet their Maker, bu wu the daily occurrences on those vessels while oui forefathers were struggling tor i into tie ixtlc vice. These prisoners wero not criminals, but Kailant America sailors and soldiers It is all out .1 i erodiblc that such barbarities should have been port rated as indubitable testimony establishes the history of the time. From the gross abuse which they received and the thousands of deaths ch occurred the dreadful con v.ctmn is to upon us. as it was unon them, that em of maltreatment, degradation and butch devised to kiil them oil or drive them to enlist in 1 Britth serv.ee. But history drsoloses hat but one man became a traitor.

The i loitnn.iB continually implored eidloct.vpiy a.ul in, vidually, to desert their prinein es Y''' inducement and making terrible tm eats to co pel them to take arms against then J. without avail. By every cunning at were thev offered refuge from death by joining the king's forces. One historian notes that when they ad spurned these overtures the commandant told them to go back to their dungep an I Kit, assured that the poor rations hithei to allowed to their wives ehiUreu should cease and that their dying cousola on might be that their huuilies were trviu. One ship, the Transport, was burned with too prisoners iu her hold, low escaping irom this dreadful death.

It was a common oecurrouce when the prisotiers the ships were as.soml 1 the hatchways in Summer trying breath of fresh air, the reeking 111 ot 1 cell being intolerable, for sentinels to hi 1st th bayoneted guns down among the gathering, an in the morning numerous booies, mor a 1 ei ced through the head, would be picked up at tho The atrocities wero brought to the ticntioi, of the Continental Con ress, wlueh resulted in he adoption of resolutions of remonstrance against these cold blooded outrages. In pursuaiKC ot these resolutions (Ieneral Washington wrote to the commandant of the ships, ca ling atten to the horrors and begging that the war be ducted with regard to the laws ot humanity. This protest was unheeded, but the violence and carnage continued with all its dastardly vigor. bodies of the martyrs to the cause of our country's liberty were buried shallow trenches scraped in the sands of tho nearcHl sin. wl 0 now the site, of the htates Navs eveal vears after tin' war the b.mcttcio sir A.

a ong the beach in 1 they were athered and p.opcly buried. Th. now rest in Ihirtcen enormous eoiiins, typical ot the origiual Slates, in a tomb erected by Hie inuuicipalit ot Brooklyn. For nearly a century, their res Uug place has been the scenes of patriotic The anniversary of independence alwav.s celebrated before the sepulcner with military displays. no Petitions in favor ot the bill, signed .10.000 citizens of the United Slates, resolutions ot the I islatare of the State ot New York, of the Kni' Board of Supervisors and ot lu Hroo'klvi.

Board of Alderuim have been presented to this committee, and a memorial pi the ooeiety of Old Brookivnites, a socc ty which has been chielly instrumental in preserving these relics, has bci cou. The precise number of the victims the prison ships is unknown, but according to a publication Vpril "5, 1783, 11,1144 died from barbarous 'treatment on the O.d alone, and it is conservatively estimate including all the vessels, that no less than 'JO, 000 succumbed. Congress is asked to appnipriate the trilling sum of $. to the memory of each of these. It is a national duty that this monument should be ereceil.

Congress gave tnen. sympathetic consideration while they lived and Congress should show regard for their courage and now lour committee recommended that the bill pass amended to read as follows: Be it enacted bv the Senate and itousoof Bepre iitativcs of the Cnited States of America. in ou geess assemble, 1, hat the sum of $1 00,000 be and lesame is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may he no. essarv, out of any money the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the erection and completion of a inonuuie.it hi the memory of the 1 1,500 patriots who perished in thu British prison ships at New York during the War of the American Uevoliition, to be placed at Fort Greene, Brooklyn, State of New York: Provided. That the money appropriated as aforesaid shall be expended under the di in ,1 tlinii niin.

leciiou Ol me oeeiei specifications and design for such monument shall, before anv of tho money so appropriated is expended, be first approved by the Secretary ot War. The only change was the substitution for tho words "victims of" the words "11,500 patriots who perished in." It is oxpjctcd that the measure will bo considered in the House during the present week. DECIDED AGAINST MK. MTTLEJOH.V. Frederick A.

Wurd and Mrs. Jiid Hon Entitled to i.arjre 1'roperty. This morning Judge Dykman, of the Supremo Court, gave his decision in tho suit of Jessie L. Ward and Annie L. Judson against DeWiit C.

Bittlejohn and others. The decision is in favor of the plaintiffs and entitles them to recover a one half interest in certain very valuable property on Bockaway Beach, which formally included the big hotel property and Bockaway Bark, also a one half interest in the Brooklyn and Bockaway Beach Bailway Company. This company was projected and organized by tho father of the plaintiffs, the late Dr. ltiehard H. Thompson, formerly Health Officer for the Port of New York.

Dr. Thompson died in 1SU4 and, after a hip of twenty six years, the court decides the plaintiffs are entitled" to the one half interest above named. Under this decision Mrs. Frederick A. Ward and her sister.

Mrs. Judson, of Cswego, N. recover properly worth, according to tho lowest estimate put by Mr. Littlejohn, between and WOO, 000. The plaintiffs woro represented by ex Judge Jasper W.

Gilbert, ex Judge George G. Beynolds and John E. Bai'sons; for the defendants, John L. Hill, Houior A. Nelson and Josiah E.

Maraeu. WHO IS THIS SUICIDE? An Unknown Select. ITIidnifrlit for til is IJcftpcrate Act. Charles Busch, of 100 Canal street, and John Johnson, of Catharine street, New York City, are members of Van IIoosou's Merchant Police. Bast night they wero detailed to watch a quantity of rags on tho Atlantic Docks.

Tho hour of midnight had just passed when tho two watchmen noticed a man walking toward them. Judging from his gait it was evident that the stranger was perfectly sober and the two watchmen concluded that ho was a sailor on one of tho many shiis lying there. The now arrival was apparently in a brown study, for ho did not notice the watchmen until ho was within a few feet of them. When he did lie turned at almost right angles to the loft and walked to tho stern of tho ship Jtosina He. stepped up on the string piece, stood there for a while and then Buddonly jumped overboard.

Tho watchmen wero rooted to the spot for a moment, then procured a rope and threw one end of it into tho river, shouting to the man to catch hold. Their cries wero unheeded, however, and the stranger was undoubtedly drowned. An inquiry among the various vessels revealed the fact that nono of the officers or sailors were missing. The suicide is described as a short, thick set man, dressed in dark clothes. He wore a Derby hat and a pea jack 'H.

WILLIAM WATSON'S ACCOUNTS. of (lie (Joimulttec Appointed to Mvamiiie Tlicnia Bernard J. Pink, George W. Palmer Alderman itichnrd Pickering, the committee appointed by the Twenty sixth Ward Democratic Asso eialion to investigate as to how much tax moneys is held by Supervisor W. Watson and liow it can bo devoted toward jiaying bonds or interest, met to day in the Municipal Building.

The committee was empowered to appoint three parties, not members of the association, to act with it. The committee to day selected three Itepnblicans.ex Suncrvisor Ditmas Jewell, president of tin; Twenty sixth Ward Bank; A. II. W. Van Siclen and Henry Wolfert.

Tho six will meet on Thursday evening. BUItNT TO DEATH. A li Venr Old Sloj IVIio ISuiit a Honfirc. Walter Gordon, 0 years old, who resided with his parents at 10(1 Baltic street, was fatally burned yesterday afternoon. About o'clock, with tho assistance of a number of playmates of about his own age, young Gordon built a fire under the, front stoop of the parental domicile.

In his enjoyment Waller jumped over the fire just to show his playmates what he could do. In one of these repeated efforts the boy's clothing caught lire, and liadly frightened he ran up tho stoop and into the presence of his parentH. Bo fore tho flames could be smothered the child had been burnt so badly that he died within an hour. Coroner Itooney was notified. KX SKSATOK ST.

JOHN'S CONDITION. Ex Senator Daniel B. St. John, of Newburgh, N. who is lying ill at the Berkeley, Fiftli avenue and Ninth street, New York, rested ipiietly last night and was slightly improved this morning.

Mr. St. John is years of ago, and is Buffering from several ailments incidental to old age. I'KORARLV FATAL HU.V.UVAY ACCIDENT. Michael Lcgir, of 4 7 Mooro street, aged 18 years, was taken about 8 :20 o'clock last evening to St.

Catharine's Hospital Buffering from concussion of the brain, caused by his being thrown from a milk wagon, by a runaway horse, at tho junction of Btishwick and Flushing nYcnues. Fritz Voile, charged with striking Andreas Hepp, of 175 Scholes street, several times in tho face and throwing him against a barrel Tuesday last, was held to answer oil Monday, Passes Into the Hands of a Syndicate. Tho Majority of tlie Union Company's Stock Hoiiffht at $200 1'cr Share New Yorkers the Buyers'. The eontrollini; interest of the 10,000 HharoS, of stock of tlie Union Ferry Company has Jbeal sold to a New York syndicate at the rate of per share, or just double the par value of the stock. The.

identity of the purchasers is for tho present withheld, as the stock, though contracted fiir, lias not yet been transferred. It is understood that the deal was made thebrokor aue linn of Cyrus K. Staples of street, and a well known linn of New York law yers. Mr. Staples was seen at his office this morning regarding the out he declined to talk, lie said ho had absolutely no information to give on the mil.j 'Ct.

Mr. Hunker, tho treasurer of tho Union Kerry Company, was also seen, but ho denied all knowledge of such a sale. He said he had heard nothing of such a scheme aud, as he was in po. ssion of the hooka of the company, he knew absolutely that no such transfers had yet been made. Ihinker waa not prepared to say that such a deal was not under way, but said if such were the ease he knew nothing about it.

None of the other officers of the company could be The Union I'erry Company controls five ferriea, as follows: South, Wall. Hamilton, Fulton and Catharine. The total number of passengers carried by tlie company for the year 1880 was 35, 057, and total earnings, fs 1 5,104.74. Tho ollieers of tho company are J. S.

T. Stranahau, president; W. N. Degrauw, managing director; M. Bunker, treasurer aud secretary; W.

C. gerton, general superintendent. SI'OilTlNt; OO0DS DEAL Kit 1'KCK ACCUSED. Andrew Peek, of the sporting goods firm ol Peck it Snyder, was arraigned the dates avenue police court to day on tho charge of assault in the third degree, preferred by Austin C. Pitz patriek, of 000 Dean street.

On January the accused, it was alleged, struck Irving Fitz patrick, the 8 year son of the complainant, on the face aud head without cause. Mr. Fitzpat rick failed to appear in court and the justico was informed that the case had been amicably Bottled. Mr. Peck was conseiiiieutly discharged.

Hindoo Jagger, who is neither a Hindoo nor a worshiper of Juggernaut but a Plattdeutscher, was arraigned on a charge of threatening the lifo of his wife, Ulrica, at 110 Kent avenue, on Valentine day. Ulrica not appearing Hindoo was allowed to disappear. Dr. l'crfoet Touili 3'oivilcr Whitcn5tho teach an1 th contj. Children Cry for Caloriru A por.oet preparation for childr.uf eoaiulainti.

For ihe Aired. Mrensrlljoiiiiigr, E'lcnainc WAGNKn'H Infant Toon. They IIriit Color To cheek and lip i. Caiitkii's Lirri.i: Pills. TJOUttNEAY BURNHAM, IMPORTERS OF AND DllAl.MtS IN FINIJ DRY GOOllS, 124, AND 1128 ATI.AXTPJ AYkiNUE.

SILK GOODS. Printed PON'GKKS aud in new and axel iive designs. Plain PONGEES, CREPES an IUKKPE DE CHINE, fine and latest color. FAILLE FRAN'CAISE, 1IROCA DES and EVENING SILKS. SILKS, bjst only, and loire.it pricoi over oilered.

Black White SILKS, new eft'ects. MOURNING GOODS of every description. Silk WAltP IIKXUI ETTAS in jet black, imported to i ouroivn s.iles. ihecheap't and he it the market. Camel's flair SHAWLS, now iMis and colorings, received and at low price'.

French C11ALLIES, SATIN ES, VliS, Mo.lej'. celebrated HOSIERY and ITNDKRWEAR. Ladies' and Misses' fine UNDEUG A RMK.NTS. A lot of Thomson's Summer COHSETS, 50c. A lot RiLhed Cotlon HOSE, fast black, 125c, Men's FURNISHINGS of all kin.

U. CURTAINS, SHADES, RUGS, DRAPERIES. Ac. J. II.

offer the choicot and he of fins dry goods tobj i'oun 1 aujiYhere and at ihe lowest pricoi ia TBriably. 1 ATAllltHAL DANGERS. To be frnod from tho dangers of flufTocition whilo do'tfn to brembo freely, eloeji soun lly ami to ririe rofrcslied, head clear, hrMn active mid frei from pain or to know tint my poisonous, putrid matter defiled the breath aud rots ftivay the delie.ilc macliinary of smell, tasio and hoarinj; to fool that thu system doQ3 not, through its voinn ami arteries, suet up tho poison that is Hiiro to undermine and destroy, is indeed a ble.sinK beyond all othar human enjoyments, To purchase immunity from su a fato should he the object of all alllicted. Uut thona y1m hare trio.l nany remedies and physicians despair of reliof or cure. SANKOUD'S HADIOAL OUUI0 meets every phase ot from a dimple hoad oold to tho most loathsomo 5ni! destructive utases.

It an constitutional Instant in roiioving, permanent in curing, safe, economical and nevor failing. SANI'ORD'S RADICAL CURE of one bottla of tho RADICAL ClTllK, on box: of CATARRHAL; SOLVENT and nndMPRO ED INUALER.all wrapped in ono packaRO. with treatise and directions, and sold by all drupjjists for $1. POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CORPORATION, BOSTON. S3ATNS AND "WEAKNESS OF FEMALES iulintly relipvod by that nor, uloeant and infallible, antidote to pain, inilammati'm ana weakness, tho Cl'TlCUKA A NT I PAIN PLASTKR.

Tho first and only pain riiilxluiu? planter, especially adapted to euro female jams and weaknesses. Vastly superior to all other plasters yet prepared. At all druKtrisLV, centn: fivf for $1 or, postage froe, oi PO I 1 hit DHUi; AND CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Boston, Mass. yTH AT SCOTT'S EMULSION HAS DONB OVER So POUNDS GAINED IK TEN WEEKS, EXPERIENCE OF A PROMINENT CITIZEN. Toe California Shciett von tub) IKTT KOH TUB) oy Vice, July 7, 1SS5.) hUlTIlESBION OY San I'Kasl'ibiio, I took a severe co'td upon my chest and lungs and did not sivo it proper attention it developed iuto brouchitia, aud in tho Fall of tho samo year I was threatened with couniunption.

Physicians ordered mo to a moro con denial climato, and I camo to San Francisco. Soon aftoiv vay arrival I commoncod Scott's Emulsion of Coo Liver Oil with Hypophosphitos regularly threo times ft day. Iu ten wooks my avoirdupois wont from to 180 pounds and over tho cough meantime ceased. 0. K.

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A Rei'onit hand ono would cost you a much. A nioa Chamber Suit, oak or oherry, $17.00. $15.00 and upward. Will cost you per cent, more in tho dry ro ids district. Hoddinc, Carpets, at cijually low prices.

Wo want yon to rail and boo for yourself. No trouble to show goods, bother you purchase or not. Wo have onlarged and improved our warorooms, so tbato NOW tliey aro tho prettiest in tlie city. Remember tho. old stand, fifty years established, MYKTLU AVENUE, COfiNEU IiltlDO STIIEET.

OYAL BAKING POYVD15K L' ROYAli BAKING POWDEli. ABSOLUTELY PUKE. Highest of all in Leavening Strength. United Statos Government report, August 17, ISS'J. AVU YOU HAD LA (SKIPI'E? (IHiri i LA (iKll'I'H? IF IT LEAVES YOIJ WEAK IF IT LEAVES YOU TAKE TAKE TAKE HOOD'S SAHSAPAKILLA.

HOOD'S SAliSAl A It LLA. AND IIHEO AND TIUIU) HOOD'S SA113A1 TT MAKES THE WEAK STRONG MAKES THE WEAK STRONG HAKliS THE WEAK STROmS? i Dr. Talmage Evades the Pertinent Question. Never Reads the Things Said About Him. Doesn't Mean to Leave Brooklyn Will Build the Tnbornacle.

Dr. Tabnago is not at home to casual callers in the morning, and unless you know him very well your card will be returned to yon with a polite "Not in" if you visit him before 2 o'clock P. M. But sinco returning from his trip to tho Holy Land tho famous preacher has not enforced thia rule in regard to early visitors as vigorously as heretofore. So many things have to bo done in connection with the building of the new Tabernacle that require his personal attention that his study hour has been considerably infringed on.

This morning, a short time after breakfast, he had a long conversation with a member of his congregation, and then, with a good grace, submitted himself to an interviewer. He sat iu the bay window of the parlor of his handsome residence on South Oxford street. 'Tho room is exquisitely furnished and filled with rare brio a brae, bronzes and paintings and drapod with soft fabrics from tho East. As far as appearances went, tho doctor was the only everyday, matter of fact thing in the apartment. He.

wore a suit of the well known popper and salt pattern, which hung loosely on his spare ligure and accentuated its points and angles. A big palm tree that stood in a corner near the chair which he occupied extended its branches over the preacher's head and when, in order to emphasize a remark, ho lifted his right arm his hand would come into contact with the wide green branches of tlie palm and start them moving. "Under the head of 'Is Taimago a Humbug a New Yyrk morning paper yesterday gave you a polite hauling over the coals. The would like to ask you, Doctor, what reply you have to make to the cbargos contained therein, and iu order to give you an opportunity to talk asks you this direct question, 'Are you a Tlie doctor laughed heartily when he heard tho question, ran his lingers through his hair, ad Justed himself comfortably in his seat, crossed his logs and, without exhibiting a trace of annoyance, said "I never reply to newspaper criticisms. This has been my invariable rule for years.

Iu fact, I do not even read unfavorable things that are written concerning mo. Iu this way I keep in good health ami spirits and am always good na ttircd. Someone connected with my family reads all tho papers before they are brought to me, and also opens every letter that comes addressed to mo. If they find any unfavorable criticisms oi my work or anything disagreeable in either they cut them out before they reach me. Now, yon uay a New Y'ork paper yesterday tried to make me out a humbug.

If the writer of that article cursed me very bad and you know who he is give him my bles ing. The Book says bless them that curse yon and pray for them that despitef ully use you and persecute you." "Have you nothing to say in regard to the specific charges made in this article in regard to tlie sources of your income, your method of having your sermons syndicated, "No, nothing." "In your rniou yesterday you said that if Brooklyn people wanted you to preach here they would build you a church. That if they did not want you they wouldn't. Was this an intimation that in case the new Tabernacle was not built as you desire you w'lll leave this city aud seek another field of labor? Is there any truth iu a current report that you have received a good offer from both Chicago and St. Louis?" "I have been asked to go to both cities, but I have not coquetted with either of them.

Brooklyn is my home. I think it the best city iu the world to live in and I am content to remain here. Our new Tabernacle is going to be built and it is going to be a magniii 'ent temple to the worship of God. Because Christ was born in a manger there is no reason why he should be worshiped in a barn. The new Tabernacle will be an ornament and an advantage to the best section of Brooklyn.

The locality which we have selected, it bcc nis to me, is especially adapted to our purpose. I wonder the land was not purchased long ago for a church. I think it was saved for our particular use. I have no fear in regard to our ability to raise tho necessary money for the erection of the church. Over six thousand subscribers were received for my new paper, the (Jhurclt IlrrulG, last night, but this is a mere drop the bucket.

Wo have decided ti)on a Byskniitie and thorough canvass of the country for the paper, and I should, be greatly surprised if wc do not get all the subscribers that wc require before Summer. Everybody treats me very kindly in Brooklyn, particularly the newspaper men, among whom I have a great many friends. When tho curiosities wdiich I collected during my recent trip to tho Holy Land have arrived I propose to have them arranged and invite inv friends to come and sec them. "The article about you, pnbli died yesterday, asserts that you are a preacher, but iu no sense a pastor. What do you say to this?" "Nothing at.

all. I have told you that I wil make no reply to such crifici in. Let peoplo know that you sympathize with them in their troubles and that in your church they will receive hospitable treatment, give them Boinething to think about, something to do, and they will crowd in. This is what we tried to do at the Tabernacle and this iB why our congregations aro always large." "It has been stated that somo of the property owners on Clinton avenue are opposed to the Tabernacle being built on that street. Do you think it will decrease the value of the property in that neighborhood to have your new church there "From as far as I can learn it will increase tho value of Clinton avenue property fully 2 0 per cent.

Several of the most prominent residents on Clinton avenue have subscribed to the building fund of the new Tabernacle aud many others have intimated to mc their willingness to contribute later on. This ought to show conclusively that there is nothing serious in the way of opposition to us from the owners of property." DEATH OF BENJAMIN V. ABBOTT. lie Wan (lie ICIdctt Krothcr of the 11 itiixMIi Church I'agtor. Benjamin A'aughan Abbott, oldest brother of Rev.

Dr. Lyman Abbott, pastor of Plymouth Church, and of Austin Abbitt and Rev. Edward Abbott, of Cambridge, died after an Ulness of several weeks at his residence, 9 Middagh street, at 5:15 o'clock this morning. Mr. Abbott was born in Boston Juno 4, 1830.

Ho graduated from tho New York University in 1850 and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He became the head of tho law firm of Abbott Brothers, in New York, which was afterward dissolved, and Mr. Abbott devoted himself mainly to compilations and digests of law. He was married iu 1853 to Miss Elizabeth Titcomb, daughter of John Tit comb, of Farmington, and immediately came to Brooklyn, whero he has since resided, except for a few years, when ho made up his residence in Washington, New York aud Rochester, in order to facilitate the writing of books. He was appointed by President Graut in 1870 a member of the National Commission for Bevis ing the Laws of the United States, and, associated with his brother, compiled the following works: "Abbott's Admiralty Reports," "Abbott's Prac tieo Reports" (1!) "Abbott's Practice Reports'' (ne series, 10 "Clerks and Conveyancers' "Forms of Pleading" (3 "Digest of Corporations," and "New York Digest (0 vols.) His own works aro as follows: United States Courts and Their Practice" (2 "Indiana Digest" (2 United States Circuit and District Courts Reports" (2 "Beport of a Proposed Penal Code, Proparod for tho New York Commissioners of tho ''ode (Messrs.

Field, Noyes, and BradfoiVl), and Reported by them them to tho Legislature;" "Digest of Corporations," "Supplement for Ten Years, 1808 1878;" "United States Digest" (1st series, 14 'United States D'gost" (new series, or annuals, 0 "Law Dictionary" (J "Judgo and Jury;" "Traveling Law School and Frmous Trials;" "National Digest" (4 "Central Hoportor (3 and still continued); "Patent Laws of All Nations" (2 vols); "English Patent Cases" (3 and many of tho reports of the commissions to revise the Statutes of the United States wero prepared by him as commissioner, and reported by tho Board to Congress. Mr. Abbott was devoted strictly to his writings and never took an active part in local politics. Ho was a member of Plymouth Church. A widow and two children, a sou aud a daughter, survive him.

Tho funeral services will bo strictly private, attended only by tho near relatives, and will be conducted by tho Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott. The interment will bo in Greenwood. ISAAC JACOB'S REVENUE.

Ho murders Man Who Ileffnsed to IDim Commit Bliirmiiy. A long nursed resolution to have revongo upon his enemies caused Isaac Jacob, a Polish Jow, fakir, pedlor, fenco and itinerant rabbi, to tako the life of Hermann BogoziiiBki and severely, if not fatally, wound his wife, try to murder thoir sou and then to avoid capture and the consequent well moritod punishment for his crime, blow out his own brains yesterday morning in Bidgo stroot, noar Dolanoey, New York. His plan, no doubt, had been long matured and was only brought to its continuation by deliberate thought. He first decoyed Rogozinski i mm his house, shot and killed him, thou returned and shot Mrs. Rogozinski while she was in tho hallway, and then tried to shoot tho son.

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A Rcmnrlcahlo rnvjmli'CB Against Female rhysiciatis Developed in the Preliminary Procer.diiiK.s of iho Case. The caso of tho People against Alary A. Dixon Jones and Charles Dixon Jonos, physicians, mother and boh, managers and proprietors of tho Woman's Hospital of Brooklyn, on Greono and Sumner avenues, was called this morning beforo Judge Bartlett, in the Oyer and Terminer Division of the Supreme Court. The indictment upon which the defendants are to bo tried oharges that on February 1S80, they performed an utterly unnecessary operation on one Ida L. Hunt; that said operation was culpably, negligently and carelessly performed; that Ida L.

Hunt becamo greviously inflamed and ill; that tho doctors Jones neglected their duty to skillfully and carefully nourish and treat tho patient, who in consequence died, and by reason of their so nogle ing their dutv they woro guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. Thu indictment was found against tho defendants by tho Juno Grand Jury and Judgo Moore admitted them to bail, Mrs. Jones in the sum of 7,. 00 and Charles Jones in the Bum of $3,000. Two indictments were found against the Joneses and they will be tried on tho second as soon aa the present ease is ended.

The defendants' lawyers are Douolme, Now coinbe Cardoza, of New York. Mr. Neweombo is in charge of the case. With him are associated ox Judgo George G. Reynolds aud Counselor Jackson.

District Attorney James W. Itidgway appeared for the People. After the jury panel waB called and Judeo Bartlett had listened to and adjudicated upon a long list of more or less ingeniously devised excuses, Lawyer Neweombo, with hisByronie locks waving in the breeze from an open window, a diamond stud in his immaculately white shirt bosom and a bouquet of violets in his gray frock coat, asked that after the jury was impanoled iho caso be adjourned until tomorrow, as Counsolor Jackson, upon whom ho had relied, had written him that in consequence of an attack of rheumatic was unable to be present, Mr. Itidgway consenting, Judge Bartlett granted the application. The prisoners occupied chairs beside eacli other immediately behind their counsel.

Mrs. Jones seemed nervous, but ever and anon, as Bho recognized a friend in the crowded court room, a benignant smile illumined her fat, douoic dunned, decidedly prepossessing face. She had on a black bonnet, trimmed with feathers, a dark colored cloth dress and a sealskin sacquo. Her black kid covered liamh agitated continually a largo black fan. She is apparently about 35 years of age.

Charles Jones did not seem to appreciate tho unpleasantness of the situation aud smiled superciliously at tho small army of witnesses who answered to the roll called by tho district attorney. He is years old, is about 3 feet 6 inches tall, of slim figure, has a bristly black beard and dark lffiir, which he wears in bangs low down on his forehead. He has magnificent teeth, which he is fond of showing. He wore this morning a black frock coat and necktie and dark trousers. Monte Christo is tho nickname by which ho is known to his associated.

Tho court room was crowded to an uncomfortable degree when rder was rapped for and Judge Bell took his seat. The judge announced that view of the large number of witnesses and others interested in tho case, no one else would be allowed within the inner rail but members ot the bar and representatives of the press. James li. Atkinson was the iirst juror called. Ho lives at 37 Boss street; is an upholstery salesman and married; he knew none of the defendants and had no opinion; the fact that one ot toe defendants was a woman would not interfere witli his judgment, Ex Juuge Itcynolds then took Mr.

Atkinson in hand. He drew out the statement, that Mr. Atkinson had lived four years in Brooklyn; he had never hear of the defendants' hospital; he did not remember having read iu any ot the pipers about the defendants, nor did he recollect having heard any diseussi about them. Have you any prejudice against female physicians he was ked. "Well, I don't know about that: I have never employed one.

I do not believe that a woinan could be a skillful physician or surgeon. 1 would not employ one." I ask on what particular ground you base that opinion "I think thev would be apt to be too nervous and that they w'ould lack nerve." "Do you suppose that they would be lacking Judgment "No, I thins their judgment would be as good as a ui's, but that tuey would fail pcrform "W'ould it require evidence to remove that opinion "It would." "Have you any opinion as to whether laparotomy is a proper operation to I have not." Atkin. on Mii.l, answer to questions, that he was not inierestcd iu any hospitals, did not kno.v the District Attorney or any writer for or other Persons interested in the Eaui.e, or any ot the witnesses for the People. Ex Judge Bevuol Is said that Mr. Atkinson was very acceptable in every respect except his prejudice against female physicians.

Judgo JiarUett excused the Jin or. Samuel Jackson, of (0 Dekalb avenue, was the next talesman culled. He is engaged tho shoe business and said that he knew nothing about the case more than a slight recollection ot having read of it. He had no prejudice against female physicians; win married. In answer to ex Judge Kevuolds' questions lie said that lie had read of some op ratioils having been uertoimod bv a Dr.

Jones, but did not follow it up. don't read everything you see in the "1 haven't the time." "Have you any opinion regard to tho ability of female "I have no opinion, further than that I never employed one; I prefer, a man; I don think a woman from lack of nerve or skill would bo incompetent to perforin an operation." "Would you determine on the evidence without regard to the sex of too "I would. Ex Judge Itcynolds asked if Mr. Jackson had anv prejudice against hospitals. The court said that there was no general prejudice against hospitals in these days.

Mr. Jackson said that he would not approve the operation of hiparotomy unless it was absolutely necessary to save lite. "If tlie evidence," asked Judgo Bartlett, "showed that it was done when it was not necessary to save life would you disapprove of it "I would." Mr. Jackson wai excused. Samuel J.

Burrowes, an electrician, of 100 Pierropont street, was then examined us to his competency to serve as a juror. Ho is about 50 years old, with gray hair, beard and mustache. He answered the District Attorney's questions acceptably and was taken in hand by ex Judge Beynolds. He had not read anything about the ease in the Kaoi.e; in the practice of surgery ho would prefer a man; a woman, he thought, would not be ajit to be as competent as a man; she had not the same experience and reputation; women were not as studious or as thorough us men; ho had more confidence in a man and would not trust a woman with a capitil operation; this view would influence him iu passing on tlie case. He was excused.

James N. Norris, a commission merchant, of 70y Greene avenue, knew Mrs. Dr. Jones only by seeing her pass in a carriage. Some time ago ho had attended a meeting called for the purpose ot having the hospital on the corner ot his block removed.

He wasexensed. Charles Smith, a millinery salesman, of 5 South Fourth street, hail no recollection ot reading about the case; ho favored tho homeopathic school of medicine, but was not particular; he did not think medicine was the right profession for women; they were the weaker sex and not properly constituted; he would not a female physician with an important surgical operation. Tho District Attorney submitted that the juror waB competent to serve. In answer to Judgo Bartlett Mr. said that ho could go into the jury box without prejudice.

Ho was excused. Judge Bartlett remarked that he was surprised to find such a general feeling against female physicians. Walter Boaeh, a oookbinder, ot Ji'J'A Nineteenth street, knew neither ot tho defendants nor their counsel. He couldn't say that he had any prejudice against female physicians; he thought a woman was as competent to practice the profession as a man, and would trust one, other thiugs being equal, quite ad readily. "Do you think," asked cx Judgo Beynolds, to that the operation ot laparotomy si.oum uw ue employed? District Attorney Kidgway objected to tho form of the question, saying that most men would be opposed to the operation unless it was necessary.

"The question, said Judgo Bartlett, is whether the operation should bo periormod approved by medical men. Would you think, those circumstances, that it would be wrong to perform the operation?" "Do you think you could decido the case solely on the "It would take considerable evidence to make mo decide iu the woman's "Suppose she were charged with having been unskillful, would you require evidence to offset that? In other words, wjuld your uand be tree from prejudice at the start?" Ex Judge Beynolds submitted that the taleB man might not be litted to pass on the.quostions that would arise and challenged him. Iho challenge was overruled, whereupon Mr. ltoach was challenged percmptorilly by ex Judge EVih'melmrt, a manufacturer of siphons for mineral water, of Tompkins avenue, had read about tho case, but had forgotten it; ho could not say at present whether tho defendants wero guiltv or not, ho would rather have a male physician than a female; would not in his own caso trust a woman; ho hud a notion that a woman could not be a skillful physician; he had no objection, however, to having ladles around him, but would not care for them as physicians. Challenged and excused.

Bartholomew Tooniey, a waiter, of ,18 ourth avenue, was disqualified on the ground that ho did not possess jSiiO of personal property. Philip F. Nolan, a printer, ot Flushing avenue, said thai in exceptional circumstances no might biro a female physician; as a rule, did not think they had the nerve ot men; thought that a couple of' mice might cause a stampede among the members of tho female box present court; thought, however, that a woman, it possessed ot the same nerve as a man, might be as skillful in a surgical operation. Mr. Nolan was asked by Mr.

Neweombe whether iie thought the operation of hiparatomy would be a proper pno to relievo a woman of pam and replied that ho did. Ho would not, in tho case of death, condemn the physician unless it was shown that he had upon unskillful. He did not know James Hunt, a printer, and was not a member of any printer's union; was married and had a family: ho did not particularly favor any school of medicine. Mr. Nolan proved acceptable and took his seat tho box as the lirst juror.

Francis P. Center, an employe of the New York Condensed Milk Company, ot I'latbush avenue, hail read about tho Drs. Jones tlie L.wii.e; he supposed it had created an impression pn his mind at the time; the opinion ho had formedmiglit bo changed by an authority on medical matters; lie had no opinion at present as to the guilt or innocence of the defendants: under cprtain conditions he did not see why a woman might not bo as good a physician as a man; oven though tho patient died under tho operation tho fact that the lihysician was a femalo would not make any dit ference in UiH mind; if Bho wero a qualified surgeon and death followed the operation ot laparotomy that alone would not create a. prejudice in his mind; ho had no prejudice against any particular school of medicine and knew no one whoso name was connected with tho case. Mr.

Center was selected as tho sooond juror. George W. Van Attan, a tinsmith, of 18 Walton street, had never employed femalo Burgeons, but had no prejudico against thorn; ho would havo more confidence in a man. Mr. Van Attan was 0XYHliiim II.

Sargent, a printer, of 110 Rutledgo street, was challenged and excused. Goorgo W. McChesnoy, a lumber doaloi, of Kent avenuo and Howes street, said that ho em ployed a female physician; ho would not bo eju (licod against a woman physic an if death occurred in an operation by a mistake, Provided she was otherwiso tompotent. Mr. McOuosnoy took was accepted HO.NDAY EVENING.

FEBRUARY 17. 1830. FROM BEAZIL Forty Emigrants Forlornly Return. A Melancholy Story Told by To day's Ar riyals on tlie Steamship Financft The Republic Not a Faradise. The Brazilian mail steamship Finance, Captniu E.

C. Baker, arrived at Roberts' pier at noon today, with a cargo coiiHistini: moitly of coffee. Bho 6.iilel from Bio ilo Janeiro January 22; Bahia, 2(i: I'ernambuco, 20; Maraiiham, February Para, Baliia, and St. Thomas on the 11th. Captain liaker was interviewed by an Eacii.f.

reporter and that in ail the Brazilian ports the peopie were quiet and the Government ruling peaeefnlly, no outbreaks of any kind haviiiK oeeurrtd. The present state of affairs, he thinks, will at lent continue, till the near approach of the September eleetionu. Standing forward on the lower deck waa a forlorn looking M'oup of immigrants huddled together and guarding a few small parcels) of clothing, all they, possess in the world. There were nearly forty of them all told, mostly Germans and Hungarians. Mr.

Fred llamm, one of their number, endeavored to enlighten the reporter in broken English why the company had returned from Brazil. His remarks were ably supplemented by the excited group standing near and occasionally breaking in on thu conversation to aid the description of the wrongs they had suffered. Mr. llamm said: "We are a remnant of the immigrants which sailed from this port in the early part of last November to start a colony near Maranham. The agent of the company or the Government, which I believe hi the same thing, is Mr.

D. Adler, who last fall inserted an advertisement several times in the AVtr York Starts Zeitunq to get German immigrants to go to Brazil. The inducements held out were that our expenses should be paid to that country, and that when we arrived, a parcel of cleared land consisting of seven acres should be given to each family: a wooden frame house was to bo giveu with tho land, also farming Utensils, and the sum of thirty milreas should bo paid each month to each family to help them out in living expenses. This payment was to continue for eight months. We signed the contract and wero taken there in this same steamship, the Finance.

When wo arrived there we found everything to have been misrepresented to us. We landed in Maranham. the company then consist ine of nearly 1G0 people, and were immediately sent out a few miles from the town to form our settlement, where a few people were already located. The settlement was called Cotim. The houses that we were given to inhabit were not of wood, but built of palm leaves, woven together in a thatch.

Tho entire houses or huts, as they might be better called, were made of this material, and the spaces in tho roof and sides were often an inch apart, not forming as much protection as a hut made of ouror basket work would afford. Such a house is not fit for anyone to stow away tools in, much loss to live in. There were no floors in tho huts and we were obliged to live and sleep on the bare, damp ground. Tho ground is not of the best, being mostly swampy and kept constantly wet by the rains, which pour down almost every night in torrents. Our huts afforded us no shelter whatever, we might Just as weil have Blept outside on the ground as in ide.

The lirst night we were there we had to shoot a negro who was trying to steal, the scanty possession of one of our number. The houses, being built of such flimsy stuff, afforded no protection from weather, thieves or anything else, they wore far diiferent from the cosy wooden cottages whieh had been promised us. In them we ion got sick, for the climate is not healthy, and only those who have been born and brought up there can stand it even under more favorable conditions. We had no stoves or places to put them for the one small room of the huts would hardly hold a family of live sleeping on the ground, while their height could be easily reached by Etretching the hand above one's head. For cooking purposes, that is, such cooking as we could do, for we had but very scanty provisions, we had to build a lire in the sand outside of the huts and utilize it as bc.

we might. The food hich we were abie to secure was of the poorest, dirtiest kind and the water winch we used hail to be taken from stagnant pools of the neighboring swamp, in which the negroes, who are much less than half civilized, used to bathe. We had to use this water or none at all. and it was very muddy and full of all the uncleanness hich collects iu the. pools of a swamp.

There was no brook or spring of any kind near nothing but the water from the swamp, which would make an American sick to even look at. Thi. water, the bad food, the ing sun by day and the almost continual rain at night time soon produced fevers and other sickness among us. The land is by no means lit to cultivate. We had been promised good cleared land, on which we could grow three crops of wine grapes a year, and it was from this that we were to obtain our living, together with such other produce as we could grow, while the country itself, it had been pictured to ns, was swarming with fruit trees, but there was no such land there where we were placed or anywhere near.

It was not worth cultivating at all, and grapes could not be grown there. It was simply sand and swamp, swamp and sand, and we were expected to till that land and provide for ourselves and establish a thriving colony. "You can see what sort of a place it was when I tell you that only a very few of the almost savago negroes lived there and made no attempt at cultivating it at all. The Government was very glad to get rid of it by Hiving it to us in lots of six acres each, and we could doubtless have obtained much more if we had wanted it. "It soon became a question not of how we were to get rich or even become comfortably well off, but how we were to save our lives.

Our clothes from lack of protection soon becamo mildewed and began to rot, so that we had to throw them awR3': and sicknes broke out among our number to an awful extent. Not only did the company have sore cyr without exception, from the climate and sun effects, but many were stricken down with fevers and malaria, while the eet of thoe who were not well protected got full of worms, which ate and made raw spots in them. It was a most sickening sight to see a man take off hig shoe and find the sole of his foot covered and eaten into by these small worms, and there was no relief to be had, as we had no physician with us. We appealed to the agent, Adler, to do something for ue, but he only laughed, and when we threatened to do something for ourselves ho cursed and sworo at us and said our treatment was what wc had ought to get for coming out there. Sickness came among us so fast that out of our small number five died in three days, tho corpses almojt tnrninf! black.

At last we made a break almost in a body and went to the hospital in Maranham. But there they would not allow us to stay and get well or receive any medical attendance whatever, but we were driven out by the soldiers by order of the governor. Wo appealed to the governor for help but got none whatever, lie treated us as though we were a pestilence come among the people. Back to our little colony we were forced to go more, and then the few people there rai ed a row and wc were once more ejected by a troop of soldiers, consisting of twenty to each house. We were driven I cannot say taken back to Marankam, and from there we wi re divided into two companies and sent to two islands in the harbor.

The island on which the company 1 was in was placed was name 1 Monte Rio, I be lievCj an'J was a fort upon it, garrisoned by Brazilian soldiers. "Before leaving Maranham. I should have said, we were offered a chance to go to Bio do to try our fortune's, and such of the company as did not die or are not here now, have gone there, with the exception of a few Jews who yet in the etticmeiit and say they can endure it. The rest of ns were sent to thse two islands. This happened shortly after New Year's.

"On the island, as on tho land, wc were treated in the very worst manner possible We were giveu the worst of food, very small belter, and our wants generally were but very poorly looked after. Wo had but very little clothing and that scarcely fit to wear, and no money with winch to buy anything. The inilrcis were religiously paid ovr to us, as per contract, but, then that scarcely sullied! for bread to keep our families from starving. When the Finance cam into Hakanham the officials visited us and promised to send us back to America if we would sign a written promise to say nothing about how we had been treated when we reached this country. We signed the paper because wc had to or die there, and here we are in New York without friends or money, but in a better country we know.

Captain J. M. Bachlan, the manager of tho steamship lino to which the Finance belongs, was interviewed and said: "The statement of these people may have some truth in it, but it is very much exaggerated, for the Government and the company got these immigrants there to form a colony and produce a class of labor of which the emancipated Brazilian slaves arc incapable. The company, as far as I know, have all that they promised and more, and when the movement was starte I there was a fund of 000 in col 1 cash put into the hands of the treasurer to help things out, of which only a fraction was needed to get the colony there. Mr.

Adler, the agent against whom the immigrants are so bitter, is a German or Hungarian, ami went there to inspect the lands and find out all about it before he would even attempt to get any of his countrymen together. These people, it is evident, wero not lit to do what they themselves promised and therefore the difficulty. Among the prssengcrs on the steamer are Captain Killau, his wife and fourteen men from tho bark Emily Boyd, of Nova Scotia, before reported wrecked. ItlCHAliP FATA FALL. Richard Clark, aged years, residing on Clinton street, near Kelson, while doing some chores about the vaseline works, at Richards and Dele van streets, yesterday afternoon, fell from a balcony to the ground, a distance of thirty five feet Death was instantaneous.

Tho Coroner was notified, Sl'I'KBVISOKS AT ALBANY. The Law Committee of tho Board of Supervisors will start this afternoon for Albany to oppose tho passage of tho bill taxing tho St. John land farm for the benefit of Suffolk County. his office Bhortly beforo 10 o'clock. Ho sum moned Commodoro ltamsay, who haH been acting iu his stead for tho past two weeks, and relieved him of tho responsibility.

Then he plunged directly into tho business that has accumulated during his absence. General R. A. Alger called to pay his respects a little after 10 o'clock and very few other visitors disturbed the progress of official business. Tho chiefs of bureaus wero consulted about many matters and tho Navy Department was moving along at noon very much as if there had been no interruption.

Mrs. Wilmerding is very much improved and yesterday took a long drivo. Her daughter Alice is entirely well and will go back to school next week. Within a few days Mrs. Wilmerding and her daughter will join the Secretary at tho Arno.

Frank Tracy will remain with his father for some time. AERIAL FLIGHT. Mrs. Wilson's Leap to Save Her Life. Strange Scene on Grand Street at 2 o't'lock This Morning A Lively Family Fracas.

Roundsman Sennolt, of tho Bedford avenue station, was at tho corner of Grand street and Bedford avenue at 2 oclock this morning when his attention was attracted by a woman's cries of "Police watch! murder!" emanating from the second lloe of the three story building Grand street, the gronud floor of which is occupied as a shoo store. He hurried to the place, which was only fifty feet away from whero he stood, and found tho door leading to the dwelling apartments unlocked and opened it. "Come up, Officer, come up," cried a young woman at the head of the stairs, in wild tones, "for they are murdering one another." There could bo no mistaking the fact that there was a big row on hand, for the sound of broken crockery resounded through the house and the heavy tread of thu struggling men and women fairly shook it. When tho officer reached the second tlbor ho could scarcely seo his hand, for the lamp had shared the fato of the crockery, pots and pans and all the household goods which could be used as missiles. In groping his way in the dark toward where the men were he stumbled over an upturned stove, but recovering himself he took hold of two of tho men and walked them down stairs.

There had been a temporary cessation of hostilities while the roundsman was present, but the war was resumed between the women with tho utmost fury. Cries of were renewed and pots and pans evidently Hew around in all directions. "I'm getti ig murdered," cried a handsome young blonde, wife of one of the prisoners, and presently she stepped out of the open window on a small piazza and said she was going to jump to save her life. A gentleman fashionably attired and carrying a cane stopped to ascertain what the matter was. "Catch the woman in your arms as she imps," said the roundsman to the man, "for 1 cannot let go the prisoners to save The man did as requested; tho woman jumped from the piazza into his arms.

He merely broke her fall, for sue landed on the sidewalk. She was helped to the station, only a block distant, where an ambulance surg. on treated her for a slightly injured ankle and shock. Her name is Mrs. Mary Wilson, aged 77 years.

Her husband, James Wilson, a shoemaker, aged 7 1 years, and Krnst White, were locked up for assault, the complainant being Thomas McGahey, who, with his family, resides on the second floor. It appears that, the two prisoners and their wives live on the third Moor. The house is a narrow one and a person had to pass through a portion of McGahey rooms iu going to their own. Tin; men picked up a quarrel with McGahey and struck him. He defended himself against odds as best he could.

The women went to the assistance of their bus. bands and the meleo became general. Justice Goetting to day adjourned an examination of charge of assault made by Mr. McGahey against the accused. A Tlt.UHC iilUlllDAY PARTY.

E.ouis Si'iiitiAvU'iu C'aliJiij Wuimilial One of ISin Louis Schlussteiu, a Polish Jew, has occupied the premises at the corner of Watkins and Sutter avenues. He conducts a merchant tailor establishment on the ground floor and has living ap.ii tments upstairs. In celebration of his birthday yesterday Schlussteiu gathered his friends about him and started in to have a good time. Whisky was an important factor in the celebration. Among the taiior'd friends present were Sehier Schieffman, Max Geroffaker, Israel Men did and Louis Goft'rcy.

Sometime between o'clock in the evening and 7 o'clock this morning an altercation sprung up between Schieffman and hi host. As a result of the disturbance Sclusstein is now at the point of death on a cot in St. Mary Hospital and Schieffman in locked up iu Raymond Street Jail on the charge of probable homicide. As far as it has been able to got at the facts Schieffman, effected by the whisky he had imbibed, began to abuse tho tailor. Sclusstein resented his guest's remarks and a seuflie followed.

During the melee Schieli'man took hold of his host and pmdicd him violently into a broken chair. A protruding rung of the chair entered the tailor's abdomen and mortally wounded him. The guests were instantly sobered by the accident, and one of the men present ran around to the Seventeenth Precinct Station House and notified Captain French of the circumstance. All the guests in tho apartments were arrested and locked up and the injured man takon in an ambulance to St. Mary's Hospital.

At 4 o'clock this morning Sclusstcm's death seemed imminent, and Coroner Lindsay was summoned to take the dying man's ante mortem statement. The prisoners were arraigned in the Gates avenue police court this morning. Schieffman was charged with assault iu the second degree and held to await tho result of the tailor's injuries. The other prisoners wero charged with vagrancy and committed as witnesses to the assault. This afternoon it was stated at tho hospital that Schussteiu could not recover.

WILCOX ARRAIGXEO. He Chews SSi Cnue anil Itefuscs to I'lcad to the Indictment. Superintendent Theodore S. Wilcox, of the Brooklyn Sanitarian Hospital and Dispensary, who was arrested last week under an indictment of the Grand Jury charging him with grand larceny in obtaining under false pretenses over $1,700 of the Excise moneys of 18so from the City Controller for the use of his alleged institution, was arraigned this mnrning in the Court of Sessions. He came up from Raymond street Jail iu charge of Warden Brymer, and when his name was called ha waddled out of the pen and revealed himself to the Court and spectators as an ill clothed and very much disgruntled and disheveled person.

He chewed his cane and looked furtively around with downcast head. Tho indictment was read by tho clerk and when Wilcox was asked how he pleaded he worked his Jaws as though in close communion with a mouthful of gum, and said nothing. After his refusal to plead, Lawyer A. Martin, Wilcox's counsel, asked the Court about bail. His Honor referred him to the District Attorney.

Wilcox was then taken back to the tarn. DIED I.N THE TOMBS. The gloom of tho old priion in the Tombs, in New York, was heightened this morning when it was announced that a prisoner had died during the night. Tho body of Lizzie Lyons, arrested on Saturday as a vagrant, lay on a cot cold in death, while a kind hearted matron held the dead woman's two months old babe in her arms. Lizzie died of heart disease, superinduced by dissipation.

WRECKED I.N NEWTOWN C'ltEKK. Saturday evening the boilers of the tug Alpha, owned by the firm of F. A. J. Russell, exploded in Newtown Creek, opposite the Jute works, and was completely wrecked.

No person on board was injured. The hull lies on the Long Island City shore. tOLOXKL LA1I0NT CALLS. Colonel Dan Lamont called at the Mayor's office (his afternoon. Chapin had gone to lunch and Colonel Lamont followed him to the Brooklyn Club.

The object of the colonel's call was not made known. THE WEATIIKIt. INJIH'A I IONS. Was him; roN, D. February IT.

For Kai'dorn New York, fair weather in southern, light snows northern portion; variable winds; slightly warmer. what r.uooKi.vs'i The indications are that in Brooklyn to morrow it will be fair and warmer. It was raining in the West to day, raining in the South and snowing in thi' North. The weather prophet at Washington thinks rain is not far off for this vicinity. ItKCOIU) Ol' THE THF.H3IOMKTF.lt.

The following is the record of the thermometer as kept at tho Biiooki.yn Daily Laoj.k ofiiei. 7 A. I) I 10 A. 40 4 a. 7 7 V.

1'. in 17 'MM a. a. Average tcmnoraturo to day Average temperature same dato fast yoar. HIGH ffATER.

The following is tho official announcement of the time and duration of high water at Now York and Sandy Hook for to morrow, February 18: Zl iZ, P. lit. Height. Time. I Iliso.

Fall. I n. M. I Knot. I II.

if. I K'Jut. .1 li. i M. Now York, Baudyll'ki 5.U 7:15 4.H 5.2 i MOVEMENTS OF OCUAN VESSELS.

ARRIVED MONDAY, FHHRUAHY 17. Sis Ilonilo, Kingston anil fireytown. Now York. Ks Finance, fiuntb Americnn anil West Iniuaa ports. New Ynrk.

Hs Sapoaia.baKtmyra, Now York, fcis YV'eslliall, Klnelds, New York. AIllUVKII AT FOUKIIl.V TOUTS. Ss Russia, New York, g. Ks I 'uIda, New York, Southampton. Ss ICK'Pt, New York.

Urave'euiid. bs La Noruiandio, New York, pasaoa Scilly. SAILED yilOM KOIIEIUH POUTS. SsEnw, Southampton, New York, PATRIOTISM AGAINST PARTISANSHIP. Tlie Hon Will Speak i'o iiitflit for a World Fair in iVciv YorK.

Tho Sub Committco of tho Executive Committee of the World fair, which issued the formal notice calling for a mass meeting in Cooper Union to night to protest against the destruction of the World fair enterprise, met in the Times Building, in New York, to day, with Chairman James W. Tappau presiding. Among tho gentlemen present wore B. Fulton Cutting, John Foord, A. B.

de Froece, Leonard J. Moody and Captain Ambrose Snow. After sonio informal discussion was had tho following list of speakers was decided upon as being sure to address the meeting: Chauneey M. Depew, ex Senator Warner Miller, ex Mayor Hewitt. G.

Waldo Smith, Samuel Goni pers, Goneral A. C. Barnes, Hon. S. V.

White Itipley Bopes, Darwin it. James, William Stein way and possibly Congressman Lyons. Chairman Tappiu then announced the Committee of Arrangements for to night's meeting as follows: James W. Tappiu, Cornelius N. Bliss, John Clatlin, It.

Fulton Cutting, A. B. Do Frcce, John Foord, Samuel Gompers, E. J. Ilorsman, ltiehard M.

Hunt, Ambrose Snow, G. Waldo Smith, George Warner and Leonard J. Moody. (JUNTRACTOU BIKKKTT'S OFKfllt. Contractor Birkett this morning offered to repair tho wrecked boiler house at St.

Johnland, but the Charities Commissioners cannot act ill the mailer without the Board of Supervisors. THE WHEELMEN. President Luscomb Makes a Warm Report. Pitching: Iuto Potter for Interfering: With the Right of Way Bill The National Convention iu Session. Iu Tai'Ior A of tho Grand Union Hotel, Forty Kecond street, New York, this morning tho annual national convention of tho Loaguo of American Wheelmen was called to order by President Charles II, Luscombo, of this city.

There were present ninety six delegates, including ftom Brooklyn C. C. Aldon and Michael Ftirst, of the Long Island Wheelman, and Isaac 11. Potter and II. E.

ltaymond, of tho Brooklyn Bicycle Club. Between Mr. Potter and President Luscombo there is considerable ill fooling because of the removal of Potter from the Bights and Privileges Committee, for causes told of in President Luscombe's report, extracts from which are appended. In another report, signed by Mr. Potter and A.

Mooro Perry. Mr. Potter's removal is declared to have been "ill advued, unwarranted and unjust: nsurpatoiy and without legal effect." Mr. Potter intends to be heard further on the matter before the convention ends. This is what President Luscombo Hays of his removal of Mr.

Potter: Early in the mouth of October the President, iu conference with the Improvement of Highways Committee, the league; movement to secure better roads by legi lative action. After correspondence with the members of the Executive, tlight i and Privilege i and Highway Improvement committees, a conference was finally arranged in New York for December 7, the only date at which ahuost every member could bo present. About November (I the members of tho Bights and Privileges Committee Were requested by the President to prepare each three bills for nine certain States designated, that the conference when it mot might be prepared to take definito action upon matter already prepared. At about the same time, the chief consuls of several divisions where legn laf ion was con i lcred feasible were also asked to prepare and forward bills consistent with tho existing road laws of their several states. The thii'd member of the committee Isaac B.

1'otlerJ had a bill of his own which lie stated w.n incomplete, and when urged to action in the league interest be lirst vague aud indefinite and liually insubordinate and personally abusive. The committee indicated that the time would pass and New York be without a bill, and in this state of uncertainty the member refu ing lo resign and allow another to do that which for some personal reason he woul I not do, I he President removed him from ouVe, because he. did not propose that the forward movement of the great scheme of highway improvement slioul i be cheeke 1 or interfered with by any individual as long as it was within tlie power of the Executive to direct the advance. This conference decided to memorialize the Governors of the several States and to attempt legislation in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts Maryland. Ohio and Virginia: and Messrs.

Perkins and ('ossuin a once commenced the preparation of a bill for New York. This bill which is a most admirable arrrngemeut of road laws for the securing of proper highways, has been introduced and is now pending in the State Legislature. Messrs. Perkins and Cossuni have also gone personally into the States of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia. Ohio and Illinois and have endeavored to advauee tho cause by personal interviews with members of the Legislature and with influential citizens.

It is difficult to understand in the face of the national movement petty, jealous and unreasonable opposition should bo developed, but it i unfortunately the fact, and both in New York and Massachusetts the chief consuls are apparently in fear of some interference of their prerogatives; while in Ohio there is apparently much reluctance to yield that support to the movement it merits. It is di cuur aging and unjust to he league and the prosecution of its aims and objects. It is unworthy the cause and is a matter that behooves the National Assembly to well consider and determine whether, when its constitution declares certain national committees for specified purpose, this is a mere ornamental creation, and whether the committees so selected are charged within their scope with general consideration of the object of the league wherever it exists, or may bo only heard and permitted to act when a chief counsel happens to bo complaisant. If this latter bo the accented judgment the reason for a national league is gone and each State may bo supreme within its own borders. Upon this basis the large divisions may succeed, but tho national unity is gone and the Hiiiallcr divisions and States must be carelessly abandoned to their fate.

The president deems it necessary to present his condition of aff.iirs as it stands and without any attempt at explanation or extenuation, that tho league may not proceed upon the matter of road improvement with any undisclosed pitfalls which the present administration lias been able to locate and to tho end that it may have full knowledge of past experience for its guidance iu the future. The report of the secretary, Abbott Bassett, told that the membership of tho league was 1(2 300, of which 2,154 were of New York, 1,044 of Massachusetts, 1,400 of Pennsylvania, 010 of Illinois, 858 of Ohio and the others scattering as far as California, from which State a delegate was present. In the league are 171 ladies, of them belonging in Massachusetts and 24 in New York. There was no lady delegate present, representation at tho convention being limited to one iu Tlie league is in correspondence with the Cyclists' Touring Club, of England, an international organization with members in every part of tho world. From membership tho loaguo has received during the year $10,701, an excess over last year of Of this amount $10,342.50 has been distributed to thirty State divisions and id, 358.

50 has been retained by tho national organization. Instituting a comparison between the league aud the Cyclists Touring Club, of England, it was found the' latter had 21,035 onrollcd or 8,805 more than the league, hut last year tho income of. the cyclists club was $2,240.85 lesB than the income of the league. Mobbi's. A.

Moore Perry and Isaac B. Potter, of tho Committee on Bights and Privileges, reported that eighteen cases of action for damages by wheelmen have been submitted for advice. All these cases involved the question of the rights of wheelmen upon tho public highways. In many instances the facts showed a total disregard of these rights by tho owners and drivers of vehiclos other than bicycles, and, in some eases, a decided prejudice on the part of magistrates and jurymon against wheels and wheelmen. The election of officers takes place this evening and a contest is expected between President Luscomb and Vice President James B.

Dunn. SWINDLED SALOONKEEPERS. Two Sharpcrv Who I'eddted KogiiM Kill I TiclcetN. Tho police of tho Soventh Precinct were notified last night that two men representing themselves as connected with tho Excise Board wero swindling the saloonkeepers iu thoir locality by the sale of tickets for a bogus ball, to take place at StuyvcBant Hall, on Wednesday evening, February 20. Tho mode of operation was to visit a saloon and summon tho proprietor of the place to tho street and present him with throe to four tickets at $1 each.

In nearly every instance tho sale was made. Yesterday afternoon tho two men called at the saloon of Christopher Huss, at 03 Eagle street, who purchased three tickets. Mr. Huss, who was a victim a year ago to tho extent of $.10 in the same way, suspected tho men to bo swindlers, notwithstanding he had purchased the ticketB, and immediately notified Otlieer Monahan, but iu the meantimo tho mou had escaped. Mr.

Huss described the swindlers as one being 5 feet 10 inches in height, 50 years of age, with gray beard, and dressed in a dark suit of clothing and soft felt hat, while his companion was about 22 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches in height, with smooth face and woolly overcoat. 'The tickets represented a ball to bo held under tho auspices of tho Hudson Association, and gave as its officers M. J. Bates, president, and W. E.

Ryan and W. S. Burke, secretaries. Tho location of tho hall was not stated on tho tickets. T' Hwiudlers aro suspected of being the two men who worked bo successfully a year ago in tho Eastern District, realizing several hundred dollars.

AN INTKKVIEW WITH KCDKKUufT. The World this morning gives a long interview which its London correspondent held with Bed Jim McDeriuott. He says that ho has not been in American siuco ho left it years ago and nevor expects to return liorc again. Tho many statements published Borne mouths ago to tho effect that ho had been scon in Brooklyn are, therefore supposed to bo fabrications. IttlKDICK KEI'T THE KEYS.

A. Hall Burdick, tho deposed principal of tho First Ward school in Long Island City, refused to deliver up tho keys of tho building and sent word to tho Board of Education that ho would tako his position in tho school aB usual this morn ing. Mayor Gloason, being notified of Mr. Bur dick's intention, sent Sorgeant Carroll to tho school under instructions to eject Mr. Burdick, but tho officer's sorvioos wore not needed.

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Tho Reformed pastors, at their regular weekly session this morning in tho synod rooms on Ileade street, New York, discussed "The Revival of Catechetics," a paper on which topic had been prepared by Rov. Jesse W. Brooka, of tho East Now York Boformed Church, of this city..