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THE SON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1897. ALL AWRY. CLAUDE FALLS WRIGHT RECONES ONE OF THE LOST MYSTERIES.

Cancht a Kittie Tingles Chola -marately. for said Mr. Wright's friend. T. E.

WARD 0o. FAIL TO APPEAR. Comforting Statement That Creditors Will Be Paid Eventually. Inst in India, Me Quit Land Fertient, Keightlegs to Occidental Replan Faction Making Inrond4, h. There is, in the words "advAnced" enthusiasts of "the Theosophical Soa "violent row" organization, maniresting itself both here and abroad.

It is to be due to dissatisfaction with Mrs. Kittie Tingley, the head of the esoteric body here. There are people who do not wholly approve of Mrs. Tingley's high place in the society, and snoording the story, their number is growing BO fast that already two esoterio Presidents have resigned and the resignation of a third is expected, Ernest Hargrove's resignation the Presidency of the society in this country WAS chronicled not long since, when he was succoded by E. August Neresheimer.

Yesterday news came from England that Dr. ArchiA bald Keightley of London, the Pre ident of the society in Great and that his wife, Mira. Verplanck Keightley, had followed him out of the society. Dr. Keightley has been reckoned 8.8 pretty far in I the mysterice of the order, and he has given money freoly for carrying on the work.

He visited 1 this country and was duly honored on the occasion of the society's last convention. Mra. Keightley is an American, and is credited with "tromendous occult power," and with working magnificently in astral realms. The Information received yesterday from London a strong intimation of the intention of one of the other European Presidenta to resign shortly. Complaints are made that the society in this city longer studies theosophy, and that it has been converted Into a charitable organization, the work of which is carried on in the name me of International Brotherhood League." The name of the sooloty's paper here, Theosophy, has been changed to Universal Brotherhood, and Theosophical News of Boston has been rechristened the New Era.

Mrs. Tingley's pet project, the "School for the Revival of the First Mysteries of Antiquity," it is said, has so far fallen into desuetude that the building which was only begun at Point Loma, near San Diego, is to be completed and turned into a sanitarium by Dr. Loren A. Wood, formerly of Westerly, to whom it has been turned over. Dr.

Vood was on the recent crusade of the Tingley, theosophists. Mrs. Annie Besant'8 proselytizing here last spring has berun to tell. Branches of the society in different cities have deserted the body whose esoteric bead Mrs. Tingley is, and have joined themselves to that fostered by Mrs.

Besant. The branch at Lynn, Mrs. Tingley'8 former home. has gone over to the Besant enemy. One of the Tingloy lost mysteries, it might be said, is the once ubiquitous and devoted Claude Falls Wright, man of the magenta aureole, who not long ago was remarried to his affinity after separation, sinco the days they trod the streets of Thebes and Memphis and bowed to the ibis and the crocodile.

He has, it is said, disappeared utterly, and even the adepta working along the astral planes have failed to get into communication with him or to bear of him or feel his whereabouts any more definitely "than "in There is some conjecture as to whether tho mahatmas have made 8 winter home out there. It was spurious chela in India that Alled Mr. Wright's soul with pangs and impelled him to remove and occlude bimself. He told a friend of his awful experience when he returned from the great crusade which Mrs. Tingley led around the world.

It was at a given for the benefit of anxious novices in the top story of a hotel at Madras. Mrs. Tingley, having pulled bard on the ethereal wires over the Himalayas, bad announced that 8 message would be received from one of the mahatmas. A door opened and there materialized a chela (disciple or messenger of a mahatma) and he, or it, tendered a note to Mrs. Tingley.

Unfortunately for his peace of mind, which he has ever guarded carefully, Mr. Wright recognized in the chela a scissors grinder he had seen turning his wheel on the street in the afternoon. When Mrs. Tingley asked Mr. Wright to read the mahatma's message which the chela had brought, he declined to do so.

Mr. Hargrove offered to read it and Mrs. Tingley handed it to him. Mr. Wright then, ho told his friend, looked over Mr.

Hargrove's shoulder and recognized in the message the handwriting of Mr. Hargrove. This was too much for C. F. veteran as he was and faithful Ganymede as ho had been to Blavatsky and Judge.

He determined to quit, although he had been devoted in the beginning to Hargrove. "That kind of work wasn't artistic enough The corridors leading to the offices of T. E. Ward 31 seized on Friday by the Sheriff on an attuchment for $5,576.96 in favor of H. Seymour Squyer of Auburn, were thronged with former customers and unpaid employees of the firm from 9 o'clock yesterday morning until late yesterday afternoon.

The customers were there to learn, if possible, what chance there was of getting any of the money which the corporation owed them. The employees were looking for their last week's wages. Neither customers nor employees got any satisfactory information. Neither Mr. Ward nor anyhody known to be connected with the corportion appeared at the offices.

Among the customers were two women. One of these said that the defunct corporation owed her nearly $5,000, The other woman said she WaS out about as much more. Both women bore their alleged losses stoically. Deputy Sheriff Levy said that he had an attachment in favor of Branard W. Barrows, an out-of-town customer of the corporation, for $1,350.

He said that he thought the assets he bad attached would he sufficient to satisfy both claims. Levy added that among the securities found were a number of shares of the United States Rubber Company's stock. One of the cashiers of the corporation stated to a reporter of THE SUN yesterday that T. E. Ward Co.

gave employment to twenty-eight men and boys and two women. He said that he bad been instructed to say that all debts due to either customers or employees would be paid in full. TRIED TO PASS A FORGED CHECK. Arrest of a Swede Who Is Supposed to Be I Professional Crook. Charles Melline, a Swede, who describes himself a cigar manufacturer, of 412 West Thirtyseventh street, presented yesterday to Paying Teller Alfred H.

Curtis of the Bank of the State of New York a check for $120.25, drawn in favor of Henry Billings, and bearing what purported to be the signature of Henry C. Mortimer, a broker living at 54 West Twenty-eighth street. Curtis suspected that something was wrong and had Melline detained while Mr. Mortimer was sent for. As soon as Mr.

Mortimer saw the check he pronounced it a forgery, Special Offcer Brown of the bank arrested Melline after a short struggle and took him to Centre Street Court. Where did you get that check asked Magistrate Kudlich. A man gave it to me at the Brooklyn Board of Trade." replied Melline, and asked me to come to New York and get it cashed for him. He said he was too busy to come over. The man's name is Houry.

and we call him gistrate Kudlich held Melline in $3,000 for trial, He is thought to be a professional crook. FIREMEN'S PENSION FUND. Its Large Increase Dee to Receipts Arising from the Raines Law. The Secretary of the Firemen's Pension Fund reported to the Fire Commissioners yesterday that the amount of the fund on the fret of the present month was $997,462, in addition to 614,181 in the Life Insurance Fund, making a total of 81,011,643. On March 1, 1895, when the present Commissioners took charge of the Fire Department, there was $081.547 in Pension and 63,620 in the Insurance Fund.

Of the total in the combined funds at present $139,637 is in cash and $872,007 is invested in bonds. The large increase in the Pension Fund is said to bedue to receipts from the operation of the Raines Liquor Tax law. The receipts for the Pension Fund during the year 1896 were 927 and the disbursements were $224,674. Heroic Policemen Commended. Police Captain Cox of the Montgomery street station in Jersey City sent a communication to Chief of Police Murphy yesterday recommending that Policemen Thomas Dickson and Thomas Williams of his command William Bracken of the Communipaw avenue station be honorably mentioned for gallant and torious conduct at the explosion and fire last Friday at the acetylene gas works.

The communication suys that these officers, at the risk of their lives, entered Henry Byrnes's flats and resened a number of women and ebildren. Chief Murphy will submit the communication to the Police Commissioners at their next mooting. LEADVILLE EDITOR ARRESTED. Indicted More for Teeft in Getting False Representations. At the District Attorney's office yesterday news was received to the effect that William H.

Griffith, proprietor of the Leadville Herald- Democrat, had been arrested in De avor, by Detective Sergeant John Cuff of this city. Cuff started for the West a few days ago. Ho armed with papers and a rant for Grinith's extradition, warrant charged Grifith with obtaining by false representations $14,619 from Richard J. Bolles. In October last Grimth was indicted by the Grand, Jury here for larceny in the first degree.

The Indictment was died after 1 Bolles had testifed before the Grand Jury. Bolles is now living in Colorado, where he is President of the Mining Exchange of Colorado Springs. Some years ago he was a member of the New York Stock, Exchange. He had brokerage offico in this city in November, 1892, and at that time, it is alleged, William H. Griffith called upon him and stated that ho bad visited New York for the purpose of rais.

ing ready cash for the Colorado River Irrigation Company. He produced three Earl B. promissory notos of the company signed by Coo, proprietor of the Denver Times, who was treasurer of the irrigation company. He also produced a check for $1,912.50, said to have been issued the company. Bolles says that ho cashed the chock and discounted the notes, giving Griffith $14,619.

He did this, ing to the indictment papers, on a statement made by Griffith that Coo would be responsible for the payment of the notes and also the check. The indiotment further alleges that Griffith stated to Bolles that Coo was a man worth 8500,000 above his debts, and that the irrigation company had a twelve-mile canal in tion, when this was not true. Also that the company own.d over 400 acres of land in Yuma county, and had spent over 000 in improving the land. All this, Bolles says, is untrue, and he adds that be would not have advanced the money on the irrigation company's paper but for the fact that Griffith made the representations that Doe was a wealthy man and that the irrigation puny was in a prosperous condition and solvent. Assistant District Attorney Perkins, who has charge of the case, said yesterday that Coo would come on here testify as a witness against Griffith.

Mr. Perkins added that Coo bad not received any money ostensibly raised for the irrigation company. JERSEY CITY BAR SANDAL. Lawyers Noonan and Simpson Arraigned on Charges of Conspiracy. Former Assistant Prosecutor Joseph M.

Noonan and Lawyer Alexander Simpson were arraigned in the Court of and Terminer in Jersey City yesterday afternoon to plead to an indictment for conspiracy to obstruct justice. They were attended by ex- Judge Thor.as F. Noonan, who is not related to the ex-Assistant Prosecutor, but who, with AttorneyGeneral Stockton and ex- Judge William T. Hoffman, will conduct defence. Justice Lippincott and Judge Hudspoth were on the bench, and a number of in the court room.

When called to plead the defendants answered "Not guilty!" in a strong, firm voice. Bail was fixed at $1,500 in each case and was promptly furnished. Abram Post became security, for Mr. Noonan and William Ormsby for Mr. Simpson.

Ex-Judge Noonan requested the court to fix an early date for trial. Counsel also wished to deny a statement made in some of the newspapers that the defendants had been before the Grand Jury and made a statement, and he further wished to correct the impression some people have that the Grand Jury hears both sides of a case. The defendants, he said, are extremely desirous of presenting their side of the case to the court and to the pub.ic with as little delay as possible. Justice Lippincott said that it was the province of the Prosecutor to fix a date for trial, and the court had no authority to interfere until two terms had elapsed after the finding of the indictment. Then ir the case had not been moved the court could fix a date for trial.

Prosecutor Winfield, he continued, felt that his health would not permit him to undertake the ordeal of prosecuting the case in person, and he had therefore assigned ex-Judge A. Q. Garrettson to take his place. The indictment against Noonan and Simpson charges them with having agreed to lawfully release a from the county jail for a consideration of $300. ANOTHER MURDER BY FOOTPADS.

Viorian Landes Paye the Penalty of Resisting "Wide Open" Chicago Thieves. CHICAGO, Dec. Landes, a saloon keeper, died at his home, 302 West Chicago avenue, late last night from injuries received in an encounter with robbers at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Landes and a friend named Hartzelman at 1 o'clock on Sunday morning went to a restaurant at West Ohio street and Milwaukee avenue for supper. The meal lasted about an hour.

After the two had left the restaurant they started west on Milwaukee avenue and bad gone a short distance when three men sprang up from a basement stairway leading to the sidewalk and demanded their money. Hartzelman fled. Landes struck at of the men. The dodged, but one of the other men hit Landes over the bead with a billy or sandbag, knocking him down. The thugs kicked him, but he managed to get to his feet, and ebouted for help.

His assailants hit him a second time over the back of the head and rendered him unconscious. Then they ran without searching his pockets. He was found conscious by some young men who carried him home. He talked lucidly with his wife, but could give no definite description of his assailante. Landes is the third citizen of Chicago killed recently by highwaymen.

Five other hold-up robberies were reported yesterday; Joseph Black, Omaha; J. W. J. nedy, clerk of the Saratoga Hotel; Maloney, 177 North Peoria street; Ivan Shay and Samuel Town, 6258 Emerald avenue, were all robbed of small suins of money. Kennedy was beaten brutally, and Black lost a valuable gold watch.

Mrs. E. R. Kiesche, wife of a dealer in brewers' supplies, was assaulted by burglars in her home, 1429 Montana street, and beaten 80 verely that she may die. She heard a noise in the hallway on the third floor and went upstairs to see what it was.

She struck a match, and two men struck her ou the head with butts of revolvers. She fell headlong down two flights of stairs. The burglars escaped with jewelry and small articles valued at $600. NARROW ESCAPES AT A FIRE. Fireman, as Well as Tenants, in DangerEverybody Rescued Finally, There was a good deal of excitement in the tenement at 341 East Forty-first street yesterday morning it caught fire and several persons bad narrow escapes.

The Are started in the basement, 'where janitress, Mrs. Tiesdale, lives with her children, She thee called a policeman and ran down for them. She found one and brought it out, but groped vainly about in the smoke for the other. The child had run to the street op his own account, but she did not find it out until she bed lost her way altogether. Alfred Varney, who lives on the Hoor above.

heard her cries and carried her out in the nick of time. He was singed and prostrated by the smoke himself in the effort. A Mrs. Curry, with her baby and another woman. got out through a rear window, the mother dropping the baby into her friend's ArmS.

Fireman William Cullen was caught in a narrow space between the burning house and the next, and was in danger of being smothered when his comrades came to bis relief and dragged him out. Mary Clancy, an aged woman, was carried bewildered. The firemen found her crouching in her room, unable from terror to help herself. Returning to quarters one of the three horses drawing water tower 3 tell into 8 trench ten feet deep at Second avenue and Forty-second street. Block and tackle were made fast to the elevated railroad structure, and with a crowd of hundred sightseers pulling on, it was hauled out uninjured.

H. MAITLAND KERSEY RESIGNS. The While Star Line Aceut to Embark in Klondike Scheme on a Large Scale. J. Bruce Ismay of the White Star line nounced yesterday that H.

Maitland Kersey, the American agent of the line, decided two montbs ago to resign and would cease to repre. sent the company on Friday. The appointment of Mr. Kersey'8 successor is under tion. Mr.

Ismay said that the report that Mr. Kersex's resignation was due to his connection with Lord Dunraven during the contest for the Amerlea's Cup is not true. Mr. Kersey will be elated with a syndicate of American and British capitalists in a Klondike scheme on an unprecedented scale. George reker's Funeral.

The funeral of George Croker, the brother of Richard Croker, who died at the home of Dr. William T. Jenkins at Rosebunk, S. on Thursday morning, was beld yesterday morning from Dr. Jenkins's house.

The body was taken to Quarantine, where it was placed on a tug and thence ken by special train to Now York and to Woodlawn, where the intermeut was made. Richard Croker, his family and that of Dr. Jenkins, and a few friends, made up the funeral party. NEW CITY PARKS NAMED. STATESMEN'S SERIES ADOPTED BY THE PARK HOARD.

The Bequest to Name Park for the Late William, A. Stilca Denied-The Smaller Site for the G3 monsiem Rest River Park Adopted for New Work Opened. The last regular meeting of the Park Board was held yesterday, and the Commissioners marked the event by rejecting the project ad-, vocated by the Social Reform Club, the Amateur Athletic Union, and several other tions of giving up the finest part of the East River Park for the purpose of establishing an open-air gymnasium. The Board of Estimate made an appropriation sereral months ago for the improvement of this park, and it was decided then to devote part of the money to establishing 8 small open-air gymnasium at the southern end. This plan did not satisfy the advocates of the idea, and they made roquest for the most beantiful spot in the park, a plateau at the northern end, which commands A sweeping view of the East River.

The matter was referred to Commissioners Mitchell and Cruger, and they, acting upon the advice of Superintendent Parsons, reported adversely on the request. They said tha the establishment of such a gymnasium as was suggeeted would interfere very materially with the plans for the park, and they advised that the smaller gymnasium be established at the southern end as an experiment before the project was tried on the large scale proposed. The report was adopted. The board then proceeded to name the small parks recently laid out in the city. The petition asking that one of them bo named after the late William A.

Stiles was not complied with. Commissioner Mitchell offered resolution that the park bounded by Twenty-seventh and streets and Ninth and Tenth nues be called the Alexander Hamilton Park, that the one between Seventy-fourth and Soventy-sixth streets and Pleasant avenue and Avenue A be named the John Jay Park, that the one established on the old Stryker property, between Fifty-second and -fourth streets and Eleventh avenue and the Hudson River, to called the De Witt Clinton Park; that the park laid out between Hester, Suffolk, and Division streets and East Broad way be named the William H. Seward rk, and that the one ed by Houston, Stanton, Pitt, and Sheriff streets be named the Hamilton Fish Park. Commissioner Ely objected to the length of the names. "There is only one Hamilton in history, he said, and the 'Alexander' 18 entirely unnecessary.

The lengthening of these park names will cause the waste of barrels of Ink in the writing of official documents in which they are Commissioner Cruger was inclined to agree with Mr. Ely, and he asked Mr. Mitchell to explain why the full names had been used. Mr. Mitchell replied that it was done so that there could be no doubt as to the persons for whom the honor was intended.

President McMillan said he thought that the small park between Fifty-second and Fiftyfourth streets should be called the Stryker Park, and Commissioner Ely said he would like to see the memory of his late colleague in the Park Board, Mr. Stiles, honored in a similar manner. "The principle underlying this resolution," said Mr. Mitchell, "is to name these parks after distinguished men of this city. Mr.

Stiles was a resident of New Jersey and he rendered no great public service that would entitle him to the honor asked for." The resolution offered by him was then adopted. The board is rushing all matters involving the expenditure of money which it now has under consideration. Bids were opened yesterday for the construction of the bridge across the Harlem River from 145th to 149th street, the estimated cost of which is $1,250,000, and of the new bridge to City Island, for which the Legislature has appropriated $250,000. Bids were also opened for improving the low grounds around the Van Cortlandt mansion in Van Cortlandt Park: for the improvement of the for sinall park at 153d street and Seventh avenue; constructing a road in Pelham Bay Park; for the improvement of Hancock Park as well as for the granite and bronze railing for the park: for the improvement of Paradise Park: for the improvement of St. John's Park: for building a road from the Harlem River Speedway to the roadhouse opposite 175th street: for the construction of the Spuyten Duyvil Parkway and for the improvement of the small park bounded by Houston, Sheriff, Stanton and Pitt streets.

The board will meet again on Friday to award the contracts. THE SUITS AGAINST ARMOUR co. Defendant's Offer to Settle Outside of Court May Be Accepted by the State. ALBANY, Dec. suit against Armour Co.

of Chicago for violations of the Oleomargarine law, involving the payment of penalties in the neighborhood of $500,000, has not yet been compromised by the State authorities. Four months ago Armour offered to settle tho case out of court by the of $20,000. There is a disposition on payment, the Governor, Agricultural Commissioner Welting, and Attorney- General Hancock to effect a settlewent of some kind and thus avoid an endless litigation. The suit was commenced over three years ago, the venue being laid in Jefferson county. The complaint in the suit has not yet been made, for as soon as the Agricultural Commissioner determined to bring the action he was met by an order from a United States court preventing him from interfering with Armour's business.

This order was finally vacated, and the State has won on every point so far raised by The Armour. defence contend that the action began against Armour in this State is of no force, A8 the venue was laid in Jefferson county. The law provides that the venue shall lie in the county in which the violations occur. Five ditferent suits should, it is argued, have been brought against Armour, with the venue lying in each of the counties in which the violations occurred. Owing to the two statute of limitations the present suit cannot be drawn and five new suits instituted, and it is declared that the courts cannot separate the present suit into Ave separate actions.

This is the reason why some of the State officials interested think it would be well to accept Mr. Armour's proposition to end all litigation on the payment of the $20.000. asotherwise it is anticipated that the suit would hang in the courts for several years, and that in the end the State would be beaten. CHURCH SERVICES BY TELEPHONE. Sermon, Prayers, and Music Transmitted Patients at Morristown Hospital.

MORRISTOWN, N. Dec. way of I special Christmas treat to the patients of All Souls' Hospital in this city, arrangements were made for them to hear the Christmas Day services at the Church of the Assumption, which 18 about a mile distant from the hospital. As it was obviously impossible for the bedridden patienta to go to the service, the service was brought to them by means of the telephone. Each patient had a receiver, and in this way not only the sermon of Dean Flynn, but also the musio and the prayers, were heard at the hospital with practically the same distinctness as in the church.

The sermon was from the text: "Fear not, for behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, which will be to all the people, for this day is born to you in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the This is said to be the fret time a Roman Catholic service has been thus transmitted. The patients at the hospital were delighted with the welcome break in the monotony of their life, and the experiment may be repeated shortly. FELL THROUGH A GLANS HATOHWAY Used to Amuse Himself by Running Up and Down the Biasing. Louis Hendel, a sailor on the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, lying at Hoboken, fell from the ship's rigging yesterday and crashed through one of the glass hutch ways into the hold. He was picked up in an unconscious condition, auffering from severe injuries, and was removed Mary's HospiLal.

His recovery is doubtful. Hendel once served as a marine in German Navy and used to amuse himself by running up one side of the rigging and down the other. Mrs. Robert Hee' Dauce. Mrs.

Robert Hoe of 11 East Thirty- sixth street gave a dance last night for her son and daughter, Robert Hoe and Miss Ruth Hoe. Carl Gould led the cotilion and danced with Miss Hoe. Garrett Pier was his assistant. A number of pretty favors, including fancy baskets Alled with flowers, sashes, rosettes, and silver trinkets, were distributed. An elaborate supper was served after the cotillon.

Among the 150 A dancers were Miss Marian McKeever. Miss Augueta De Pester, Miss Caroline M. Phelps Stokes, Miss Susan Valentine, Miss Juliet Benedict, Miss Adams, the Misses Atterbury, Miss Bowers, Miss Angelica Schuyler Church, Miss Josephine Drexel, Miss Mildred Minturn, the Messrs. Atterbury, Spottswood Bow re, Morris Gillespie, Kinnicutt, Percy Rockefeller, Anson Phelps Stokes, Kiliaou Van Rensselaer, and the Messrs. Barney, LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

Louis C. Wemyes, the doorkeeper of Wallack's Theatre, who was Icept away from his work by rheumatism last week, is the veteran of his profession in New York. For nearly thirty years he has been connected with Wallack's, beginning his service at the building which stood on the corner of Thirteenth street and Brondway. In all the time that he bas been connected with the thentro he has never once seen a performance through, and it rarely happens that he has even taken the trouble to watch any part of a performance. That has not happened in many years, and ho is perfectly content to judge of the merits of a play from the aspect of the audiences as they leave the theatre.

Mr. Wemyss, who is now a white-haired man of large and powerful physique, in full of reminiscences of the earlier days of the Wallack Theatre which was situated where the Star stands now. It was there twenty-five rears ago that ho became acquainted with the men who were notable in fret night audiences, when those gatherings were different in make-up from what they are to-day. He knew all the conspicuous med of that time who were regular members of the group that, gathered at the first perform ances of the old Wallack company. It 18 no apprehension of a decline in the present state of the drama that bade Mr.

Wemyes to keep outside of the theatre. He was no more in the habit of watching the plays thirty years ago than he is now. The young women of the Gaiety Company are shortly to return to London, and it is very frankly admitted by all of them that they are perfectly willing to let many, many REASOnS pass before they ever return to this country again. Their visit has been attended with discouraging circumstances which no other invasion of the London beauties has ever countered. They are carrying back with them, however, a great deal good advice for their associates.

Its nature is confined chiefly to methods of conduct on shipboard, To that seven days spent on the water these young women attribute the lack of excitement- the right kind of -which attended their stay in the United States. They made a ber of acquaintances among their fellow sungers and by the time they arrived in New York, they had already accumulated a set of fronds that seemed perfectly satisfactory. It was to this their incident of their voyage the that fact they that attributed frat failure, and A number of them took supper in an all-night oyster house on their arrival here mace an impression on the persons who saw them if not on the young women themselves. But they soon learned of thoir mistake. The Knickerbocker, the Calumet and the Racquet clubs positively refused to grow enthusiastic over them.

There was little or no excitement in and the Waldorf, and only the all-night restaurants welcomed their presenco with anything liko cordiality. It was all the dreadful mistake of those steamship acquaintances, and although all New Yorkers might look alike to the young women of the Gaiety, there was a distinct difference in the appearance of the steamship fri nds and the men who had been previously in the wake of the imported beauties. They discovered this, but too late. One or two imported friends from England. Others preferred associates in their own profession.

One went home in disgust. Now the rest are about to go back to London, and they have no end of good advice to give to their professional associates as to the kind of friends they should make on shipboard. Lack of knowledge on this point ruined a lot of fun for the collection from the Gaiety. The snow of Sunday, which mado sleighing in this city possible, though not altogether satisfactory, brought out a few sleighs which emphasized very clearly the fact that few or public stables are now equipped with new sleighs. A few handsome ones made their appearanco in the Park, but, for the most part, the sleighs in evidence looked as if they might have been stowed away in a hay loft for many years.

The upper part of New York, where the streets once afforded good sleighing after such a snowfall as that of Sunday, has been so built up and undermined by steam pipes that the snow melts almost as soon as it falls. Few people care to go to the expense of keeping up with the times in sleighs for the possible chance of using them once or twice during the winter, and in consequence the display in the Park after a snowfall is very modest. Many of the livery stables are unable to furnish sleighs on demand. The proprietors say that there are so few occasions on which they can be used in this city now that they do not pay for storing. One of the sights of downtown just now is the great new Empire building that is rising sky.

ward just south of Trinity Church. Its steel trame, twenty-one stories up in the air, stretches along Rector street from Broadway to Trinity place. Strangers used to be taken downtown to see the steeple of Trinity Church, the highest point in town, but that was before the days skyscrapers. Already the whole mighty hulk of the Empire building towers above Trinity Church steeple. From a point north of the church on Broadway the building.

with its comparatively small' width and great depth, looks like a gigantic wall of iron and stone that A stiff breeze from the bay might topple over to cru the church. It is not the only big building near by that is higher than the steeple. The American Surety building at 100 Broadway is higher, and so is the Weather Bureau tower on the roof of the Manhattan Life building. People who have been scowled out of countenance by conductors to whom they have oftered their fare in cents may get consolation for these affronts if they will take their cents to the department stores. No problem during the holiday rush is more annoying to the manager a big department store than that of the supply of 1 and 5 cent pieces to make change.

The cent pieces command the greater premium because most of the big stores mark their goods in odd numbers. A shopper in one of these stores waited three-quarters of an hour yesterday for her change, and when she complained to the floorwalker he explained that the delay was due to a lack of cents. "We get all the cents that we can collect from the Manhattan Elevated Railroad Company, he said, "and one of the members of our Bria has exerted all his political pull at the SubTreasury 80 that we start the day with a good supply of 1-cent pieces, but they are nearly all paid out on a rush day like this before the middle of the afternoon. During the week the demand for small change at all the big stores has been Bo great that in some cases the managers have bought cents in large quantities at a premium. G.

W. PROOTOR KNOTT'S ALIMONY. He Is Caught on Christmas Vleit to Now York and Put Under Bonds to Pay. George W. Proctor Knott, who is in the stationery manufacturing business, was arrested on Christmas Eve on an order.

made by Justice Beekman of the Supreme Court last April adjudging him in contempt of court for falling to pay his wife, 1 Eleanor, alimony. He owed $1,975 last April when he was adjudged in contempt, but the order could not be served, as he went to Holyoke, to live and do business. When he has come here it has been on Sundays, according to Burr Delacy, attorneys wife, and he always went away on Sunday ni ht, so that the order could not be erved. He had come down to spend the holidays when apprehended. He gave a bond to secure the $1.975 and was released.

As considerable alimony has accumulated since he was adjudged to be in contempt, Lawyer William P. Burr moved before Justice Beekman of the Supreme Court yesterday to increase the bond to $2,500. Decision was reserved on the motion. WOULDN'T LEAVE PRISON. to them.

Notes of Music Events. Winterssill Had Been Pardoned, but Preferred His Jail Life to Freedom. COLUMBUS, Dec. State is keeping among the 2.500 prisoners in the Ohio penitentiary Ralph Wintersgill, who was pardoned on Christmas day, but refuses to leave the institution. He was received in October, 1878, for life, for the murder of his wife.

He is 75 years of age, and with winter staring him in the face, he declined to leave the prison. He has relatives somewhere in New York State willing to receive him, and will be kept until ready to go Mme. Emma Juch will be the soloist at the organ recital to be given this afternoon by Alexander Gullmant at the Me idelssohn Hall. She witl sing an aria by M. Gullmant and a collection of songs Schumann.

M. Gullmant, who will be heard in public for the last time, will play a numbers by Handel, Bach, Widor, and Du Bois, and will improvise on theme given by Walter Damroach. Xaver Scharwenka will be the soloist at the cert this afternoon in Chickering Hall. He will play one of his own compositions as a number by Liszt. Anton Seidl will conduct his orchestra in selections by Dvorak, Bach, Mozart, Bizet, Volkmaun and Waguer.

To-morrow night Eugene Yeage will be heard at the Academy of Music in Brookiyn, at a concert given under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts aud Sciences. Carlos Sobrino will assist him. Schumann, Vieustemps, Chopin, Haendel, Liszt, Kess and Guirand are the composers represented on the proI gramme. TESTING A MONSTER LIGHT. THE NINE- FOOT BIVALVE LENS MAI BE USED IN A LIGHTHOUNE.

Each Lens Throws a or the Metimated Intensity Ninety Be Seen a Hundred Mites A 90-Ton May Bo Revelred with One The "Lightning Light," the huge bivalve lens which was exhibited at the World's Fair by Henry Lepaute of Paris, France, and was purchased for $10,000 by the Lighthouse Board and has since been on exhibition at the expositions at Atianta and Nashville, now undergoing a ten days' test at the general depot of the Lighthouse establishment at Tompkinsville, S. this exhaustive test is succes-ful, the light will probably be installed at some point along the coast, though Its exact location has not yet been decided upon. The lenses of this light are nine feet in diameter. Each is composed of a central diao, two prismatio rims, and 190 prismatio segments of rims, all of carefully ground optical glass. The prisms of each lens are mounted in a brass framework made in nineteen sections, The light is furnished by a specially designed tric aro, and there are three lamps.

Two of them are interchangeable by simply turning a hand wheel, and the third can easily be substituted for elther. The lamps have interchangeable carbons of different sizes, so that the light can be varied in intensity according to the condition of the atmosphere. With carbons one inch in diameter. the light is equal to from 8,000 to 10,000 standard candles. Each leus gathers nearly, a balf of this light and projects it in a beau nine feet in diameter, which has an estimated intensity of 90,000,000 candles.

Such a light on a lighthouse high enough could be seen a hundred miles away, and in notual use it can be located at a still greater distance by ite reflection on the clouds. The light and lenses revolve six times a minute, so that a beam from one of the lenses is flashed in a given direction once every five seconds. The lamp, the lenses, and "tho porting framework weigh twenty tons. They Are supported by a hollow steel cylinder floating in mercury and so slight is the friction that one may revolve the whole mass by pushing with finger. The regular revolving mechanism 1a a clockwork driven by a falling weight of 100 pounds.

The lamps have an automatic feed, which keeps the ArC in the focal centre of the two lenses. The current to run one is of 55 volts, and its amperage varies from 25 to 100, according as carbons of one-balf or one and onehalf inches in diameter are used. The French not generator and ased. engine made domestic for the machines outfit were pure as thought to be as well fitted for the work. Two General Electric alternat ng gen rators, driven by 25-horse power Ideal engine and Fitzgibbone boilers will constitute the plant.

Everything is in duplicate in case of a possible accident. Access to the space between the lenses is by frou steps at one side of the heavy pedestal of the light. At the head of these steps is a grating which, when opened to allow one to ascend, automatically stops the revolution of the light. The lenses are over four feet apart at the centre and one standing in the space between them, which, from inside, has the appoarance of being completely surrounded by, solid glass, is dazzled by the brilliance of the light they transmit from the outside. At night, and with the light burning, the effect is far more bewildering.

From without one cannot look at the flash of the lenses at short range. It hurts the eyes, even when closed. A Captain in the lighthouse service says he can read a newspaper at Ridgewood by the light from Staten Island. The tests are being conducted under the BUpervision of D. P.

Heap, Corps of Engineers, U. 9. engineer of the Third Lighthouse district, and C. A. Lamy, superintendent of the depot.

One criticism so far made is on the use of mercury for the bearing. There are on the floor above the big light two smaller ones one mounted in mercury, and the other on a ball bearing designed by Lieut. Col. Head, and while the one in mercury, though it weighs only 300 pounds, moves no more easily than the twentyton one below, a tiere breath will revolve the one on ball bearings. LLANTHONY ABREF'S STORMY TRIP.

Only Taree Tens of Coal After Battling with Gales for Thirty Days, The tramp steamship Llanthony Abbey, which arrived yesterday, spent thirty days, nearly every one of which was stormy, on her voyage from Dunkirk. She carried 800 tons of general cargo and 450 tons of bullast, and was not loaded deep enough to keep the blasts and seas from turning her into the trough, where she wallowed as only a high-sided freighter can, and shipped cataracts of frigid sea crests that froze 88 they fell. She had 380 tong of coal when she left kirk, and when she was in the neighborhood of the Banks, five days ago, she had only forty tons. Capt. Townsend thought then that he would into Halifax for a fresh supply, but the weather moderated a bit and be decided to risk abead.

He ran into a flerce storm on Christmas eve, in wbich the ship pitched and rolled 80 violently nnd the decks became 80 thickly coated with ice that nobody ventured out of shelter. Cook Charles Salz was thrown from his berth in the galley, where be sleeping. He woke with his head sticking out through a panel of the galley door. He thought he WAS the victim of a nightmare at first. After he bad felt himself all and found that there was not h- ing missing be decided that a lurch of the ship responsible for his mishap.

The ship had just three tons of coal in her bunkers when she docked yesterday in Brooklyn. DUNKIRK POST OFFICE ROBBED. Eighteen Registered Packages Taken from the Distributing Table. of outside. PASTOR RANDOLPH'S UGLY CALLER.

A Bessar Uses Violence and Is Kjected from Jersey City Parsonage. DUNKIRK, Dec. Post Office was robbed last night of eighteen outgoing registered packages, which had arrived from various points for redistribution. Thirteen of the packages were addressed to Fredonia. The theft committed between 1 and 10:40 P.

M. yesterday. The discovery was made by the clerk who sleeps in the Post Office, when he arrived there for the night. Nothing else has been missed by the Post Office officials, although other registered packages lay untouched on the distribution table beside the packages taken. The packages were left on the table because the safe WAS already crowded with valuables from the Christ mas mail.

At first it was thought that the thief had entered by forcing a cellar door connecting with A passageway running the length of the Operu House block, in which the Post Office is located, and then forcing a heavy trapdoor in the Post Office. But later this theory was disproved by the fact that the snow, which in two places covered the floor of the long passage, had no footprints in it, and opinion is that the thief entered and departed unlocking the front door, and then, to elude pursuit, forced the cellar door and trapdoor frown the inside instead The doorbell of the parsonage connected with the Trinity M. E. Church in York street, Jersey City, was rung about 9 A. M.

on Saturday, and when the Rev. D. B. F. Randolph, the pastor, opened the door, he found a tall, well-built man standing there.

The man politely asked the minister to give him an overcoat. Mr. Randolph said he was sorry, but he had none to spare. The caller's demeanor changed stantly. He became violent and forced his way through the vestibule door.

In trying to stop him Mr. Randolph was knocked down. Mrs. Randolph, two daughters, and the servant girl went to his assistance. By a united effort they forced the intruder out into the vestibule and closed the inner door.

Then the women called "Police!" and the fellow hurried down the street, Washington and street. disappeared Mr. around Randolph the did corner not re- of cover from the effects of the struggle for four or five hours. Ho la convinced that the man intended rob the house. The case was not reported to the police until yesterduy.

Died a Barber's Chair. ALBANY, Dec. T. Rockerfeller, aged 84. expired suddenly in a barber's chair this morning.

He left his home at 8 o'clock for his usual walk and to get shaved, and apparently was in good health. As he sat in the chair Mr. Rockefeller chatted pleasantly with the barber, who, having completed his work, noticed that the old man was unusually pale. It WAS soon discovered that be was dead. Apoplexy was the cause.

He is survived by a widow and grown up children. Indictments for Manslaughter Dismissed. Judge McMahon yesterday dismissed the indictmenta for manslaughter against George E. McCoy, ticket chopper at the Ninth street station of the Third avenue elevated railroad, and Charles E. Foley, the ticket agent, who were charged with having caused the death of Charles Weber while ejecting bi from: the station on Feb.

4 last. The men said chat Weber fell downstairs while drunk. and no witnesses against them could be found. DOOK BOARD MONUMENT UNVEILED. Plan of the water Front Imprevement Which It to Meant to Commemorate, The Dock Commissioners yes'erday gathered a party of guests, including representatives of the shipping interests of the city, sonie Aldermen, and Mayor Strong.

and took them on the excursion steamer Favorite the foot of Bethune on the North River. There the board unveiled the monument to itself and to Mayor Strong, which was shown in THE SUN on Dec. 1. The ceremonies began at 8 o'clock, when the boat tied up at what will be the central pier of five for which appropriations have already been made. The monument etands on a granite foundation, now surrounded by water.

When the pier is finished, the moment will be at its entrance. The monument is of Quincy granite, about five feet high, and looks very much like a respectable tombstone. It bas been approved by the Municipal Art Commission. On its landward side is the inscription, stating that it commemorates the improvement of the water front from Charles street to Twenty-third street, begun during the administration of Mayor Strong. The names of the Dock Commissioners appear in largo letters, with that of their engineer-in-chief, George S.

Greene. The monument was drapod in tarpaulina when the party arrived. They were removed, and the party filed across the gangplank and it. Then the returned to the cabin of the Favorite. Henry F.

Dimock, a former Dock Commissioner, made a speech describing the dock improvements which the monument The plan provides for ten piers 800 feet long and five varying from 700 to 755 feet in length and from 70 to 125 feet in width. Nearly five miles of wharfBITO room will be made. The whole expense is about $7,500,000. The rental will be about 5.20 per cent. City bonds which pay for it can be placed at 3 per cent.

said Mr. Dimock, 'a sinking fund will be created which within the thirty years the leases will have to run will pay these bonds and thus practically give this magnificent property to the city free of cost." The Mayor and each Commissioner made a short speech, and the steamer Favorite returned to Pier where the guests disembarked. "It isn't often you have a chance to see your name on a monument before you are dead," ono of the Commissioners remarked. L. D.

LEITER PRAISES HIS SON. Says the Young Man's Whent Deal Has Been of Great Benefit to the Farmers. CHICAGO, Doc. The wheat deal of my son has brought to the farmers of the United States 10 or 15 cents a bushel more for wheat than if he had not gone into it," said L. Z.

Leiter in talking of the great battle between Joseph Letter on the one side and the elevator nies, headed by P. D. Armour, on other. "My son has been the benefactor of the industries of the country to that extent. The seller is now dictating the price of his product, not the purchasor.

Chicago makes the market price of wheat, not Liverpool, and tho local influences, which have been so long for constantly lower prices, have ceased to control Chicago markets." The first purchases of wheat by Joseph Loiter were made in July last at 64 cents. The price for actual wheat, such as the farmer sells, has been between 99 cents and $1 for several days. This a makes a total advance since July of about 35 cents. Leiter, gives to the ordinary course of the markets credit for botween 20 and 25 cents of the rise. The remainder ho attributes to the substantial support given to prices by Leiter, in the last six months.

Joseph Leiter has determined to fight out the mixing' of different grades of grain to the limit of the Board of Trade judiciary. The test will come with the cargo or wheat which was tendered for the steamer Iron King on last shipping agent. The whole system of mixing a Thursday, but which was rejected by the clique's lower grade of grain into a higher grade, in order to bring up the standard of the whole. will be attacked vigorously. It has been maintained that some houses have the system: of mixing grain down to so fine a point that they can turn out a mixture that will just get into the contract grado without a shade to spare.

AQUEDUCT CLAIMS SETTLED. City Allows Judgment for $700,000 to the Chief Contracting Firms. Corporation Counsel Scott, acting upon the recommendation of the Aqueduct Board and of Lawyers Root, Carter and Fox, special counsel for the city, made an offer yesterday to O'Brien Clark and Brown, Howard Co. of about $700,000 as a settlement in full of all their claims against the city arising out of the construction of the first nine sections of the new Croton Aqueduct. The offer was accepted and Mr.

Scott allowed judgments to be entered against the city in favor of Walston H. Brown, receiver for Brown, Howard for 670.40, $134,114, $87,528 and $79,689.10, and in favor of O'Brien Clark for $264,000.. Afterward the Corporation Counsel issued an elaborate statement giving his reasons for lowing the judgments to be entered after the contractors had lost their cases in the different courta. He said that many of the witnesses upon whom the city would be obliged to rely, if it ever became necessary to go into merits of the case, had either died or had left the ity. It was inevitable, he says, that sooner or later the contractors would obtain, at least, the appointment of a commission to look into their claims and to award them such amounts as might be deemed to be equitable to them, and if such a commission should be appointed it was clear to all those cognizant of the facts that the awards to be made must greatly exceed the amount for which settlement has been made.

In return for allowing the judgments to bo entered, Mr. Scott said, the city received complete releases of all claims which have arisen or may arise in connection with the construction of the sections named. The total amount of the claims involved in the litigation upon these sections is, according to Mr. Scott, over $10,000,000. The claims arising from the construction of sections 10, 11 and 16 have not been settled.

JUDGE THINKS HIS BROTHER MAD. Lawyer Bischon, on the Contrary, Insists That He le Sane Now. An inquiry was had before the Sheriff's jury yesterday in regard to the mental condition of Franklin J. Bischoff. a lawyer and brother of Justice Henry Bischoff of the Supreme Court.

The bearing was had on petition of Justice Bischoff, who averred that he believed his brother to be insane. Lawyer Bischoff was Arrested in several actions brought by people who said be had defrauded them of money, and WAS in Ludlow Street Jail on these processes until he was removed to Bloomingdale asylum. Lawyer Bischoff WaS examined at length yesterday. He said that his wife and children have not visited him at the asylum and that they are maintained by bis brother. He said that he would prefer to surfer imprisonment for any wrongs he had done bis clients rather than be kept with lunatics all his life.

While he might have been troubled mentally when he went to the institution, the treatment there had 80 improved bim that he is now sensible. At the asylum he said they had treated him with much consideration and permitted him to go AWAY bicy. cling for a day or two on his parole that be would return, and he feels improved mentally and physically. He snid he did not know how he stood with his clients because he did not have his books with bim, but if he could get free he would earn money to pay anything be owed. He denied that he had twice threatened to mit suicide.

The nearing was adjourned until to-day with Lawyer Bischoff still on the stand. LEFI P. MORTON'S NEW OFFICE. The Ex-Governor to Be President of the Now Fifth Avenue Trust Company. Ex-Gov.

Levi P. Morton, who is the head of the banking house of Morton, Bliss is to be President of the lately Incorporated Fifth Avenue Trust Company. The company has a capital of $500.000, and will do business at Forty-third street and Fifth avenue. Its incorporators inclue Samuel D. B.

brock, August Belmont. Chauncey M. Depew, Elbridge T. Gerry, Joseph O. Hendrix, Adrian Iselin.

William C. Whitney, Frank Tilford, James H. Hyde, Daniel Lord, and A. D. Juilliard.

Stabbed for Refusing to Pay for a Meal. Juckson is under arrest. The Murder of Angelo De Luce. Antonio Denise and Joseph Mastromavica TROY, Dec. Lyons of Liberty street went into the In" restaurant this morning with a companion, and after eating a meal refused to pay for it.

Stougbton Jackson, who was in charge of the place, got into a row with Lyons, in which Lyons received a deep stab wound in the left side. He may die. have been held for examination for the killing of Angelo De Luco of 502 President street, Brooklyn. on Christinas night. According to the story told by one of the wit.

esses of the assault Denise stabbed De Luco in the neck, face, and head with a stiletto while the other prisoner bold him fast. CIT COMES FOR airs JOB, Ploked Out One in the District Ace at 87,500 a Fear, He was a little fat man with a long black beard, and he had left his collar and tie at home the District Attorney'8 office at noon yestorday and was stopped in the hah by John Redmond, the hall man. Who you want to asked Redmond. "I vieb to spoken a little mit der District 'Torney's office," said the stranger. "It stande in der Cherman newspaper dot der Assistante District 'Torneys all leave der office on Chanuary 1st und dot yet more new ones vill be needed.

It stands in dor paper dot des can't find no mons at toll for der chobs, und dot it page 7,500 dollar a year for a salary. I come for one, cause I ain't vorking now "You come for one!" said Redmond. "One what One chob; I don't need any for my son, 'cause ve all could live easy on dot. I told my vite ton day dot it vould make us rich in six Are you a lawyer asked Redmond. lawyer to said ask the for a stranger.

chob for I don't I alvags need get no me. my own chobs: I am a a man must be a lawyer to be appointed Assistant District Attorney, argued dmond, "Den I can hire one to do der rork." replied the little man. "Der salary is yet big enough for two Vhat Yes. said Redmond, "but only lawyers need apply. Mr.

Olcott has no vacancies here, A All his der places are tell hat's true vhen 10 per stands dot der Assistants get out on Friday 1" Yes, said the hall man, but then Mr. Gar diner, the new District Attorney, will fill the vacant jobs." Vell, I see Mr. Gardiner, den," remarked the tailor. "You had better call at Tammany Hall," shouted one of the elevator men. Never declared the applicant: "I voted against dot machine und der Republicanische machine und I speeched for der Citizens' Union.

Dey told me I vould get a chob, und I vant 10 now." You better go home," said Redmond, "or the Board of Health may get you. Quick! Catch that elevator And the little tailor ran and caught it. FOUR AWFEDES WITH SKIS. They Are Golns to the Klondike and Getting Used to Cold Weather on the Way. Four Swedes, bound for the Klondike and equipped with skis, or snowshoes, were second cabin passengers on the Cunard steamship Etruria, which arrived on Sunday night from Liverpool and Queenstown and came up to her pier yesterday morning.

adventurers are E. A. Erikson, John Hemgren, G. R. Karlstrom, An A.

W. Modee of Stockholm. They were on deck nearly all the voyage, and wore on the fourth day out, when there was a biting northwester intermingled with squalls of stinging hail and snow, the furs they are going to put on when they reach the Northwest. They said they were preparing themselves to stand the rigors of the Klondike. They will go to Seattle and complete their outfit, and will sail thence for the gold regions.

A Dance at the Motopolitan Club Annex. Mrs. Ogden Mills and Mrs. Henry Sloane bad a conference yesterday in regard to a proposed series of dances. The first will be given on Tuesday night, Jan.

4. in tho annex of the Metropolitan Club. The other organizers of the dances besides Mrs. Mills und Mre. Sloane are Mrs.

John Jacob Astor, Mrs. Frank Key Pom dleton, and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, MARINE INTELLIGENCE. MINIATURE ALMANAC -THIS DAY. Sun 7 28 Sun 4 41 Moon HIGH WATER-THIS DAY.

Sandy Hook. 10 57 Gov.Isl'd.11 29 Hell 1 Arrived -MONDAY, Dec. 27. Ss Llanthony Abbey, Townsend, Dunkirk. 5a Caracas, Woodrick, La Guayra.

Ss Dona Maria, Leal, Para. Ss aribbee, Scott, Barbadoes. 6s Colorado, Risk, Brunswick. S8 El Norte, Hawthorne, New Orleans. 68 Oneida, Staples, Wilmington.

Sa Guvandotte, Davis, Norfolk. Ship R. Rice, Carver, Yokohama. later arrivals see First ARRIVED OUT. Ss La Gascogne, from New York, at Havre.

BAILED FROM DOMESTIC PORTS. Ss Nacoochee, from Savannab for New York. Se Comanche, from Jacksonville for New York. S8 El Paso, from New Orleans for New York. Sa Comal, from Galveston for New York.

OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS. Sail To- bay. Mails Close. Vessel Salta Excelsior, New Is 8 00 Pretoria, Windward de. 12 80 8 00 Georgian Navahoe, Prince, La Plata.

100 3 00 Salt To- Morrow. St. Paul, 700 A 10 Majestic. 9 00 12 00 Saratoga, 1 3 00 Keusington, 100 10 00 A Alamo, Algonquin, Galveston 8 8 00 00 SERE Sail Thursday, Dec. 30.

Kaiser Wilhelm 8 00 10 00 Obdam, 800 A 10 00 A Finance, 1000 A 12 00 Pauamna, Santiago, Nassau. 100 00 A 1 00 00 Antilia. Nassau, 00 00 Ardanrose, Jamaica 11 00 A 1 00 El Dorado, New 8 0U INCOMING STEAMSHIPS. Due To- Day. Strathesk.

Havre Dea Dec Deo Macuuff Dec 10 Jersey City Dec Hull. Dec 11 Gibraltar. Dec 11 Raisby Autwerp Dec 11 British Queen Dec 12 Kafir Lucia Dec 26 London. Dec 15 Liverpool 15 Vulcan Dec 9 Hudson New Dec 10 Sicilia Havre Dec 14 Alsatia. Gibraltar.

Dec 14 Sardinian gow Dec 16 Peconte. Gibraltar Dec 18 Limon Dee 21 29 El New Orleans Dec 28 Prins Willer Dec 29 2 Due Wednesdan. Dec. 29. Werra.

Dec 20 Vega Dec 14 Yumuri. Dec 25 Westmeath Dec 14 Strathairly Deo 14 Kitty. 29 Comanche. Jacksonville 26 Due Thursday, Lee, 80. Liverpool Dee 29 Christiansand Dec 16 El Dec 25 Due Friday, Dee.

31. Munchen. Dec 19 Prussian Hamburg Dec 10 Allianca Dee 26 25 Due Saturday, van. 1. St.

95 Due Sunday, Jan. 2. La Havre 95 Business Notices. Waltham Watches. The best in existence.

Eight millions in use, all keeping correct time. Prices much lower, but quality higher than ever. Best assortment in the country inspection invited. HOWARD 204 Fifth Avenue, New York. Mrs.

Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething; softens the gums, reduces iodammati lays pain, cures wind colic, diarrtiona. 250. a bottle. DIED. BULL.

-At his residence, 898 Bergen Brooklyn, Charles Bull, in his 63d year. Funeral services Wednesday, Dee, 29, at 8 P.M. Burial convenience of the family. Orange county papers please copy. Saturday, Dec.

25, at 805 West 70th New York city, Ellen Dana, wife of cure D. Conway, in the 64th year of her age. Funeral private. Cincinnati aud London papers please sopy. -On Sunday evening, Doo, 20, Jane Proudfoot, widow of Peter Cron, In her 88d year.

Funeral services at her late residence, 117 South 4th Mount Vernon, N. Tuesday, at 7:40 P. M. KELLY (SHIELDS). -On Monday, Dee.

27, 1697, at her residence, 121 West 115th Katie grath, widow of J. W. Kelly (Shields), aged 25 years. Notice of funeral hereafter. MARSHALL.

-On Dee, 26, at St. Louis. Minute wife of Pierre H. Marshall of New York. -At Pursale, N.

Dec. 46, Moses Edson Worthon, in the Gist year of his age. Funeral from his late residence, Passale, N. on Tuesday, bee, 28, at 2 w'elock P.M. Kindly omit Rowers.

Train leaves Erie K. Chambers at. ferry, 1 o'clock, and West 48d at. ferry as 18150 o'clock P. M.

Boston papers please copy..