Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1881, Page 3

* 3 NEW YORK. The Machine Men Jubilant Over Conkling's Pil- grimage. feld Can Have a Second an.r'l‘grm if He Heeds Their Bohests, Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon Capture the New Jer- sey Central. Gonld’s Transcontinental Rail- way Now Has Two Now York Termini. Jo Addition to the Telographs, Ho _ Also Controls the Coal Business, et st However, Re- udge Blatchford, s i:; '8 gstmins the Telegraphic tog + Scheme for a Few and It Days, Y i ai be. still Another Application for In. = VORI | mm junction Being Pressed i with Vigore One of the ‘' Mastodons" Sport= ing Two Wives and Three & Names. Beal Estate Booming—A Perfeot Wil» derness of Interesting News TItems, e, City 3 4 s i CONKLING’S PILGRIMAGE, toux SOME TALK ALOUT IT. g of Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. ityiy New Youxk, Feb. 1n—Local politiclans have ‘:'M td a gool denl to sny toeday cone nfi:} corning Senator Conkltng’s visit to Gen. Garfleld nt Mentor, and all sorts of surmises have, of course, been indulged In. Ong of the Senator’s most ardent ndmlrors satd to- das, relitive to tho rumor that had got out that Conkling had been of- | fered tho Treasury portfoiio, that ho dldn't think it atall likely. He preforred his own placo fo tho Senate ton Cablnot office, The gentle- ‘man sald, futher: **Garfield is no fool in politics. 8 0o the coatrary, ho s well skifled In tho M aris of tho adrolt politiclau, and it 1s his proficlency in this regurd that wil caery bim through tho storm that will be roised as soon as the Cablnot § 1+ announced. Tho Incoming , President wantsto bo his own successor, Unless some- thiog unexpected happens hoe will certainly bo renominated. Ho will depond in a lurgo mens- j§ urc upon tho assistanco of what tho .wenker elements of the Hepublioan politiclaus arc pleased to call STHE MACHINE-MEN,? In order to sccure thla support, ho will have to bo on guod toerms with Conkling.” Ho dld mnot belleve Oarfleld would follow fu Hayes' faostieps, 80 far 83 New York appointments are concerned. ** Of ::f-:l { course,” bo eald, * tuo twenty who broke away i from tho Utlen Instructions will get Inils sometblng; but it will bo very light. other Whatover tho composition of tha Cnblnat, it is,to ot my mind, a sottled [aet that there will be a com- ro ag* Pleto change in tho dlstribution of patronsge. Tho Btalwarts will have full swing in tho Custom-House, | a0d the bybrld nominations inyes has sent in for the Federnl oflices In Now York will bo Anowe Xoocked Ligher than o kite, or por- cone mitted fall by thelr own welght. Why, with thore is somothing ludicrous in tho ep ot calms of Forster and Jncobus. Tho former {8 a nensy mere accident In politfes, haying stepped fnto 5 ok the Stact Sennte_ through' o Democratio solit, nd mado himself canspicuous in that body onl; by hisvbstructive tmm‘?mulu:‘ el “WIAT IF THE STALWARTS ARE IGNORED P’ “Buch a supposition is out of order. It ¥ould bo 8 -rewsonable to oxpeot n Gen- .flm wal to order his rosorvos 1o opon. fire cl apon ~ bis veterans, who had ust Jwlth earricd a fortress by storm, ns to expect Gare ‘ratad feldto turn his buck upon’ the Conkl'og men, trery ono who (s posted knows that the: Tepresont the real Hepublican — strengt g this Etnte, and oven ad they remuined quicscent last fall, Hancock wcend would inve egrricd New York by fifty thousand 200 majority, Oh, no. Garfield us & candldate for o Lt 'Iu\cuml lerm would not care to be confronted shipe intho next Nutlonal Convention with THE BUINING BWORDS OF THE CONKLING 3 LEGIONARIES, utwnuhl not bo a checrful outlook for tho Man entor, nnd ho 8 sharp cnough to sco that wontingency from nfar off, Muark what 1 teil sy ":l. When I suy that tho understanding athtty eo;mn tho Presidont-clect and our peoplo {8 ety rdlal, and that wo shall rido on the crest of 1ho wave of succean, Wo may not got tho Trons- hfi Department, but wo vellluu'{mmnuh both flm'lls(fl\'lllmvl and autside of it to ludicato thut e mtorta ang. el Tsorisnse ot X olitien thoState ace rully mo.{i}ueu." Sl WHY CONKLING VISITED MENTOR. & Bpeclat Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune. NEW Yonx, Fob, 17.—The Sun's Washington lplcc!nl says: u“lnhln-n honrd,” snid one gentloman, *that % eld somo timo ago surmlsod that lm:z s soino foundation for tho impression it mfi':’l‘:\l‘llztlxd‘ ;J:k!!ll hold of the canvass el that his services would be reco- naed mabo desired thom to be. Gartlold hl‘l:l‘l caused frivnds to B0 8tory, LUt s0mo thinggafiorwards bappod | which Tea pin lnl?:luln;:'?’rwnrflahnnpcned Y that Conklin bedaied him to fulnll promises which had i Been,” pies,2ut which Conkiing helieves tw havo i Gavgiyy JOnn Logan went to Mentor ho eron pq i 40 plafic Engllsh that Simon Cam- s ewused” Conkllsg o bellave that 3 SERVICES WOULDL BE RECOGNIZED 2y ailowl Trennara 8700 to uamo the Secrotary of the !‘Mmrc«n’fffif&f‘-‘r’““ Gardeld mado hasto 16 uet 18 some o H;fl bns gy, that thatalk which Conkling's The fnpression 1y grow- s ?llrfl('ld will Coukling or will i the Besrotary of tho Treasury, Conkll cr him tho place,” It {8 bulloved that nmau..",f“m totbo at all satlstied i€ Post~ Logay hnllb? wore numed for the Cublnet. John Nentor ay o CHH0 huppy since his rotura from Pected ol o W5€ Cuniment, Conkling Is ox= that [y Fuk IETO. t0-1n0rrow, and fv 15 belleved, Bet g hacul tiiva Garlleld wiil sullor the Cabl- s ccomu faformully known, TUE FIeTiE AvE TO Hocclal iy EW York, NUE H0TEL, BN HOUTE WASHINGTON, :1":1\ ;; The Chicago Tridune, hvedy he el 17.—Honator Conkling ar- lebe " LBC FIML Avenuo Notol fn this city to- [ ",:Il:lh-"llnnnu 3::[] nl-b way to Washingtaon, on il 0 ueoo i %M"A"r:h::. the Viea-Presidout-cibet, ué‘el\u“:lyr & \-‘glu“mu to his room und recofved ere (on, ‘\rlh?;r:'A‘l\mu“ thoso who ewlled ereiaiy g . Jauobs, and the ilon. o = THg IDORSEY DINNER. DOISEY CRITICISED, ":D;f:fl Dupateh to The Chicage Tridunes ookl ,l:h. ¥eb. 17.—Tho Herald's Washington Bt nduy'h 10 Darsoy dinner fu Now York a0 "m:u becomo “the subjeot of sume m.mmrxn 34 woll as sovero critlolsm Happeary gnert YOrk pollticiung and othors culutgy, m:t‘:anllnz tothe story gencrally cire caglineg 'Ia8 e Tom Murphy bud the tyfim the ustry and izenulty to get to- ot L8, Of thodu who ucted -us a XBted g o U¥Itation, and those who no- togeip i oy mll:.:'»x.‘ K -“h‘llfin"r' Murphy kot woio "'thun F"e thoy sy ht Bh | or tho dluner, thors s t fust udvicea v ub R ed to 34, 13 by Bir. Dorsoy, who, Now York EN TO BE IN FUNDS Tovented, It was genorally 3 NOT napy ; il was p IR (IRCAAA ANTRINE: TTAv, FEBRUARY 18, 1881-TWELVE PAGES, med hero that Mr. Dorsey gavo himaclt this = Delmonico dinner, or yu:’vl Mr, Del- wonfeo to lend it to him, with n Angle eyo to nmlln:r Gen. Garfleld, un the sirength of Mr. John Jucob Astor's, Mr. John A, Btewart's, and Mr. ftobert Lennox Konnedy's nuines, to give him a Cabinet appointment, and that " ho thought ho needed only tho dndorsement by theso nind sumg other prominent men of bis Indiann ex- plolt to sceure his object, Hut it turns out that MR DORSEY I8 MORE CANNY TIAN AMBI- P TIOUS, and whnt he wns really nfter was to place Mr. ‘ll':lvlvltll.'llmml Whenler, better known l'\" futne ns Cline* Wheelerd® " Uin - Cihe useful piace of - Seeond AsslstantPostmuster GUeneral. — That officor controls scnndalous, bit very profituble, “*stir routes, and thore nre persons of lomg: experlence in_ star route business hers in Wnshe ington who say contldentally that a Judicions usn of tho stur routes could ho " mude n sourco of any number of Delmonico dinners to aimost any mnnbier of Durseys, and no diepute nbout the bills, ecitbor, Mr, Horsvy nta hls dia- ner on Fridsy evening. ON BATURDAY NI1GIUT, Mr. Dorsey was alrendy on his way to Meutor, and tho dinner had 8o covered him with glor; that, if reports here may be eredited, undertook not merely “to sceure tho desirnble Secomil Assistant Postmuster-tionorals Ahlll far LA friond, * Clint** Wheelor, but. at the insinnco of Vice-President Arthuer, Mr, George Iiliss, and _somo othoer frignds, to urwe Judga Folger on Guefield for the Secrotaryahip of tho Treasury, 1T WAS NoT, In the general opinlon here, s very nico thing for Mr. Dorsey to rush out to Mentor in Jinlke Folger's intercst fn tuls way, uninyited, only n dnf- or two in advanee of Lo Conkling, who went ont on Gnarflold's speeinl and urgont invitatlon, and who s Kknown not only to desire strongly tho nom- Inatlon of Mr. Morton for the Trensiry, but to Lo apposed to the aspirations of Jilge Folger, whoss carcer, on tho whole, asit Is ro- culled bere by Republicnus, f8 not such ns woutd lead n man ke Senntor Conkling to support him for tho T'rensury, evon were not Mr. Marton his flrst and only “choles, Itis known hero that Benator Conkliing and Scnator-clect Platt aro TOTH OPPOSED TO JUDGE FOLGERS ASPIRA- TIONS, and thoro i a good real of resentment in Re- publienn quarters thut A tmanlike Dorsey shanld hivo the Impudence o ot together a dinner party of n_talerubly mongrel churacter, and on tha strength of it rush to Mentor to interfero in New York politics. JERSEY CENTRAL, QOULD'S LATEST CONQUEST, Bpectal Diapatch to The Chicago Tribine, NEW Youx, Feb, 17.—~Tho general bulls In the coal shares, and the believera In the greut value of conl property, arc touch elated over tho buoyancy and recent large ndvance In New Jersoy Centrnl. Thoy rogard tho “‘conlers” as the bonauzns of tho stock mnrket. Iy tho action to-day, whereby Jay Gould aud Btdney Dillon enter the Directory of the Now.Jersey Central, (he Baltimoro & Ohlo Railroud Compuny secures n first-class New York conneetion, in spite of the hitter opposi- tion with which it hns been forced to contend, and Messrs, Gounld and Sugo thus got another entrance to thia city for thelr South- western systemn of roads, Tho ‘former large owners of New Jersey Central were mainly fo- strumental fn bringlng about this revolution In tho control of the rond, and made the move- mont o success by Jolning hands with Messrs, Garrett, Gould, and Sage, TIHE OLD HOLDERS of tho sccuritics of the Central Company ob- talned information Just in timo that tho Fenn- sylvanin Central Compuny wns qulotly buying tho stock In order to gain the mastory of the rond, and they quickly .made the propo- sition and deal with the parties reforred to, to hond this Compnny off, Tho Now Jerscy Central people suw ut a ulnace, that, with the control of tho roud In the bands of tho Pennsylvania Company, tho great conl busl ness of tho Lehigh and Wilkesbarro lnes would vuss forever from thelr possession. F JAY GOULD AND BIDNEY DILLON BECOME DIRECTONS OF THE COMPANY. To the Western Assoclated Press, NEW Yonk, Fob, 15.—At a meeting of the Di- rectors of tho Centrnl Hallroad of New Jorsey to-dny Mossrs. Knight and Clark resigned, and Jay Gould and Biduey Dillon were elected to il the vacancles. At an adjournod meoting of (ho Dirootors of tho Central Kailrond of New Jorsey yesterday tho following Committeo was appointed to con- sider the plans of extenslon and construction: Prosident Lathrop, 8idney Dillon, Jny Qould, G, Haven, mnd Frederick A, Potts, Diso sion tuole pluco ns 10 the ndvisubility of tak. Ing steps 1o remove the rond from tho hands of tho Iteceiver, but nction was postponed until the next niceting, It js said the schemge Is to Il,l‘n\'lllo nn castern outlet for Gowld's Wabash 'aclilc rystom, nnd that by means of the exten- slon to Burlington & connection will bo mnde with tho Dolaware, Luckawannn & Westorn Ruad, in which tho Gould party have n controlling futcrest, and with which the Central of Now Jersey will cobperate. This will give Gould control of the coal business, and wilt fur- ulsh him with a trand-continontal system of ronds, having two terminl in,this city ludepend- eat of the Erieand New York Centrul Roads. ‘I'n Central of New Jersey had on Dee, 1, 1870, cupital stock of 18,5 honded dobt &1 7,000, and fionting debe $0,341,208, or u total of £57,071.008, ngnlnst n stated cost of rond nmount- 1ngr Lo §20, 120,573, RESTRAINED THE INJUNCTION, NEewW, Yonxk, Feb, 15.—In tho suitof tho Direct United States Cable Company ngainst tho At- lantie & Paclfie, Weatern Union, and American Uunion Tolegraph Compnnles for a perpetunl Injunction to restrain them from consolldating, snd also mgainst the Unfon Trust Company to restruin them from recelving or doliverlng any shares of tolograph stock In pursusnce of tho cousolidution ngreoment, and for the ap- polntmont of u Recelver of the Atlautic & Paclilo Telograph Company, counsol for de- fenduots ASKED FOR AN ADJOURNMENT. Mr. Wheeler suld he had only seon tho bill of complaint yesterduy nfternoon, and bis collesguo even Inter. Thore were certain material fucts thoy had not at presont, These facts were known to George Gray Ward, agent for tho plaioti®, . Thoy intended to "present Presls dent Green's allidavit, wireh containod those facts, to Wurd, and get his sworn answer, aud, It he would not give it, he intended to eatl on the Court and compel him to. 3Mr. Wheeler read an niliduvit which stated the poluta of ngreoment between tho plaipti® and the Con- solidated Cable L‘umpnu}es. thut all profits be pooled, und that the plaintit should recoive 21 por cent of theso protits, They would be IN NO WAY INSURED uunder the present ugroement between the Com- puntes. Al tolls wouldoln ono conimon purse, and, if tho Direct Cublo Company received no messnges from the Athantle & Pacltio Compuny, it would In no way diminish {ts percentage. Mr. Detuticld urged thut o hasty trinl of thy cause wus necessury, ns the teleuraphio agreemont wils to go lnto cflct‘llllhu 10th {nst,, and tho trans- fors bo wade thoe 2ith, Henntor dimunds contended that the Atlantio & Pacitio Compuny was bound by nct of C Cot- Kress never to dispose of its property, but un- 1o s of thia Niuto. Dok dur (] wto trunsferren all s property to the Western Union. Ho asked that a perwanent injunce ton bo granted restruining the consolldution of tho Compunies, on the ground that the Cable Company's busiiess would bo surlously alfected, The oppostiyy counsol replieil that,” for womg yuars, tho Westeen Unlon Compuny had been 1 stockbolder In tho Atlantie & Paelfle Company, und now assumed all {ts nbil- itles, Aftor arguments had boon comploted, AUDGE BLATCIFORD GRANTED AN ORDER Atlantio & Pacllic Compauy 1 runslor any of itd property 1o tho Wastern Union Compairy, or, If tho transfor hug heen mude, from delivering to the Unlon T'rust Conpany or uny other corporition any shures or certhleutes of stock of the Atlantic & Puolfls Compuny; reatraining tho Westeen Unfon Compiny from recoiving any of thy Atlautie & Puciflo Company’s property, or from delivertuig uny #hures ar eertifivates of (ts stock 1 Union Teudl Compuny; and restrulping the Unlon Trust Company from receiving nny such shares. Judge Tlatchford will hoar nmll’- tionul urguinents iu the case Thursday uext, iho princ ANOTIIER, FuE WILLIAMS INJUSCTION BUIT—DECISION RESERVED, Hevently Willlam 8. New Youk, Fev, 17. Willlams sued the Western Unfon to provent tho Issuo of L0000 stock of the Company in surip to purchuse tho stock of tho Awerlean Unilon und Atluntle & Paciie Telogruph Compus nles, Ho obtuined a temporary Injunction reatralnlug tho Dircctors of tho Western Union Compuny from porfecting tho purchase and the Union Trust Compuny from issuing tho scrip, The wpeclal tormn of the Supoerior Court wus crowded this morning with brokers and capltal- ista mnxigus to bear the arguent on the fu- Juncuon. Tho plaluth uaka that tho jujunction wuy bo made perpotual, und that the defend- unts bo restratned from otlecting tho purchase intended. Ho also wished, to forbld tho fssulng of §15,000,000 ot what bo called watered stock, which did not represent capital, In answering the bill of complaint tho counsel tor tho Tele- graph Compuny argued that there wors but two Krounds ulleged for the jujunction,~ono of ALLEGED CONSPIRACY botweon the defoudant Directors of tho Woat- rn Unlon with somobody whom the plaintiits o ot kuow, but which they praposs to discover by subscquent legnl procceding; tho other ground for procreding was the allegation thut tho Western Untan Company proposed to pny SRM00,000 for the Atlantle & Paciflo stock, which they aeserted was worth bt &,000,000, and €15, G010 for the Americnn Gulon stock, whbieh tho PIRIULIT s ansorted was worth hut 85,000,000, Tho allegntions tho counsel denled, nnd In sup- port of “bis_urgument subnitied ' an - affidavie sworth 1o by Augustus Scholl, Edward D). Mor- g, Hnertson Durk A. Barker, Wilson G, Hinnty Joseph Tfarker, Joim Van' Horne fuamtel F, Hargor, J. Pierrepont Morgan, Edwird 8, Snnford, Edwin W, Worceater, Cornellin Vanderbilt, Moses ‘Taylor, and an 11, Vanderdiitylenying that there hus been any une lnx{m"u hination or agrecment whatey, h conclusion of the areument. o Sedywick modiied tho njinetion o Atow (he stockholders of the Western Union to hold the menting called for to-day, but rescrved deelsion on the uther points, WALL STREET VESTERDAY, Spectat Dispateh to Tre Chicago Tribune, New Youk, Feb. 17.—The share speculation was eharacterized by a strong and huoyant tone throughout tho entire day, and, with one or two excepuons, the xoneral ruilroad-list recorded n matorinl advance in prices on tho dny's teansnctions. In the early donlings Now dersey Control waw tho lending feature of the market, and touched the highest prico the stock has reached for many years. Tho Northorn Paciflo shares were also very prom- inont in tie transactions, and advanced sharply. Duriag the afternoon Pacitlo Mall and Hannibal &8t.Josoph took tho most conspicuous pirt In tno spcculation, and on heavy pur- cbnses both stocks recorded n rapld widvance. The Elevated Rallway shares were much stoadier than yestorday, the pressure to sell bavivg greatly decreased and a much fiemer tone prevalling. After tho Becond Honard, whon tho best prices of the day were current, the np- preclution In values as comparcd with yesterdny's closing quotations ranged from % to 4%, tho Intter fn Poetfic Mall—New Jersey Central showing anndvance of 4%; Haonibal & Bt.Joseph 41¢; Chleago, Bt, Louls & New Orlenns 4123 Northorn Pucific 3; and do preferred 8. IN THE FINAL SALES Now Bersoy Central reacted, but the remninder of the list continued strong and closed with an upsward tendency to prices. TILE MONEY MANKET worked smoothly throughout the entlre day, cnll lonns on pledge of ncceptablo atock coll eral varylug _between 3 and § per cent, aml cloring. ut 9@l por cent, The greut mi- Jority of transnctlons wero at @5 per cent. The Governinent-bond dealers supplled tholr requirements at (4 per cont. Time-loans and priwe discounts are unchanged. In the sterling exchonge murket to-duy bitls were nominully unchunged at 481, but “domand was markeil down e, to 4881 in consequenco of tho rednetion in tho Bank of Englund's rate of dis- count to 3 per cent, This rcfiuuuon brings ten slays and demand closer to the nctual bualness rates thun bookers have quated in somo time. Our sterling market hns now becoms 8o dependent upon the course of speculation on thio London ‘and Now York Ex- changes that tho linports and exports do nut materinlly nffect tho currcnt rates for biils, ‘The uction of Congress on tho Funding bill witl ger:h;? considerable influence on the exchange nrket RAILIOAD MORTGAGES wero in moderato demand, and were generally #trong and_higher, Erie _consotidated seconds advanced from Y to 10124, and do funded 68 from 3% to Wi, Iron Sountain fivat pre. ferred incomes rose from 95 to and rencted to03%; an_second preferred {ncames suld up from K3 to 8745, und recurned to 87, Knun- si1a & Texas firsts dectined from WBX to 108, wd clused nt 108153 do scconds advanced from B to £, nnd reacted to 81%, Missourl Pacltle recinds roso from 115 to 116, and reacted to 115 do consols sold up fram 106 to 107, Oregon N igation advanced from 1084 o 105, und roturned to 1064, Texaa Pacilie tand grant iucomes advanced from K73 to BN, rencted to 88, and recovered to 88y, Columbus, Chicago & Indinnn Central incomces mivanced from to Ti4: Cafro, Arkansas & ‘Texua flrsts from 108N to 110; luternationnl & Great Northorn sccond Incomes from 3 to K6 Indisna, Bloomington & Western seconils from 79 to 3 do ncomes from 77 Lo 5Y; Kunsas nclfte firsts (F. and A.) trom H1 do do Denver Division, ex-coupon, from 10815 to 100; Loulsvillo & Nushville eral 83 from 1013 to 104143 do consols from 1 *: North Missourl firsts frou, 1225 to Lt eracy Central consals ussented from 1173 i do wiljustments from 112 o 11346: do fi- cotnes from 104 to 106; 8t Paul, Minncapolis & Manltoba fivsts from 110 to 11614 Union Pacitic firats from 1145 to 115, and Wathish equipments from 05 to b7, Indianapolls, Deeatur & Spring- field sccond incomes zold 643, and reacted to b 5’ Pucifio consols rose from 1005 to 10037 Lehlgh & Wilkesbarre incomes declined from 0813 1o 08; Lake Erie & Western Incomes from Moulle & Ohjo first debentures from 8 to Bt. Lonis & San_Francisco secands, clnss I3, from BU to B8t3: Wabash firata (5t. Louls Division) from 100% to 100, AT TIE MINING EXCHANGES business was less active, and prices were some- what depressed. Tho stocks that showed n de- decling ‘are Huklll, Iron, Silver, Little Pitts- burg, Litllo Chief, Mariposn, Itobinson Consall- dated, and Bpring Valley, The athors waro about stationary. TIE BULLS IN READING predict a great rise goon, Tho advance will commnence very shortiy, snd before Mr. Gowen starts _for homo. A bull combination has beon formed. A bet of $L,60 was made last nigbt that Nending would doublo prices “within twelve months, Its most enarnest supporters bellove it will sell at 160, and, Af thie duforred bonds aro not. fssucd, at 20, and even If thoy aro issucd, it will soon s¢il at 110, LAKE ERE & WESTERN, Many rumors have beon circulated in Wall street lntely {n regurd to the control of tho Lnke Erle & Weatern Ralirond Compnny. Tho i vunco in tho prico of the stock was, super- ficinlly, an indication of an koportaut move- ment in tho control, t was enld that ralirond men In Boaton wera lnrge buyers of tho stock; that Mr, Vanderbilt was nuxlous to ob- tuln control of the Company; and that it was nlso tho causeof the rivairy botween tho Chi- ugn, Burlmgton & Quingy and tho Chi- go & Alton Rallroad Companics. Ta euch of theso corporations rumor has neshened ut sevorul times the control of tho road. 1t i3 un- deritood that thoso reports huve been not aftogothier without foundution, Within the resent week Charles A, Whitd] a member of ho Hostou tirm of Lec, Higglugon & Co., for- mally proposed to the Presidont of tho Luke Lrlo & Western Cumrnnr. C. It. Cuminings, ot Chicago, that ho should request tho Directors TO MAKE PLACES FOI FOUR NEW MEMBERS rogruonllnu the now intercat fn tho Company. Whut this new intercst is, tho ticket pro- posed by Gen. Whittler sutliciently indicutes: atwes . Rutter, Viee-Preshilont of the New York Central; John Nowoll, General Mannger of the Luko horo; Elijha Bmlth, of Boston, who I8 Inrgely Interested fn tha Chleago, Burllugton & Quiney: nud Charles A, Whittier. At tho meeting wero B, Llowen, Gen, Whittler and Pregident Cunmnnings; no _othor person wis prescut, but it 8 understood thut the request for a chungo in tho Board was not grauted, Prestdent Cummings 18 reported to heve informed the repro- sentative of tho mew fntercst that _un- dor tho scheme of reorganizadon of tho Litke Erlo & Western Company tho bonds of the Come pany woro entitied to an cquul vote with the stock, and thut tho present Hoard was olectod IN TIE INTERESD OF TIHE BONDIOLDERS, It {5 suid that Mr. Cummings udded thutitwould be an oxceedingly dolleate mattor for him to ask the resignation of any of the mombers of tha present Board, who bad heen elested only s fow months axo, espuciully as me{ hud been chosen by clussification,—a pirt for three yeurs, i part 10vtwo yenrs, and tho rest forone year, Usorge 1 Hunuf’. Presldontofe tho Motropolitun Nutional Hank, I8 reported to bave offered bis resignas tion, but it wus not nccoptod by the Board, REAL ESTATE NISING, Bpecial Diapateh to The Chicago Tribune, Nuw Yonk, Feb, 17.—Just now real-catato deaters and owners are enjoylng n very eheers ful frame of mind, unticipnting o still furthor fnerease In rents, and real estato is on the npwanl turn hore, There has been ageneral wdvanco since the beginning of the your, and A3 to 735 the mmrket 14 unusually notive fn cone sequence, The domand for houses und ofiees hos mot been so great slnco 1872, and lundlords, thorefore, uro not disposed to muke concesslon ‘Tho uveruge Inervaso In tha ronts of dwolllug-houscs has been from 10ty 15 porcent. Insume favored nolghborhoods thera hing been u much lurger advanoe i oflice-rentd, Helow Canal street, the ncreuso bas beon from 10 per cont (in less favored situations) to us high as 130 por cent (lu oo [ustances closo by tho Btock Exchungo), THERE ARE VARIOUS REASONS glven for tho advauco {n prices. Tho prose porous tmes huvo iost to do with tho chunge, The unequaled facilitios whicn tho city offors for all kinds of busle ness buvo aitracted many caplitalists and bugluess men frowm othor pluces, ‘Tho uppreclas tlon fn ull kinds of securities, and the furtuncs that have beon muado iF Wall strece In conse- quence, have resulted u fuoreusing - tho viluo of property in the aclghborhowd af tho Stock Bxcebunge, whiero the prico of scats bus swetled tow yroat siin, Muny old bulldings nre undergolug ropairs, sud touants hevo been corapelled to leavo thown u consequence. Thls udds to tho demand. THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF CALIFOUNIA, even, has bud Its effect on real estuto In New York. Muny caunitalists have wibdsaxn fxow thelr investments qu the Pacifie Slope and purthased New York real estate, Many of them lipve xeitled permunently in c Lat yenr tho Astors thought of rent #) per cont, Thoy tinally « 10’ per cant thon and 10 per have done this without tronble, nith they eonlid not have got tho 20 per cent lasty Bpeaking of tho situnton, OSE OF THE MOST CONRERVATIV ENTATE DEALEIS enld to-day: “The renl-catate inferests of the moeteopolis nre geadually and nurely olmr the cnlues buaed apin teide Ll ces uR e from engn of 1.'()"!, with New York Clty, trwde, tha clovated rajtways, the inlinx of copl- talisia from other States, and the return of n yuluable trado with tho 8,000,000 p«ml.h: of the South. Not oneshundredth part of tho ntvan- tawes of il those rpld-transit fines hns yetheen felt by our property=owners, What vupld transit did for the hudneds centrs of London in incrensing tho value proprty therefour rapid-transit iinea nre doing for Lower Droudway, Wall, Hrond, nnd othor streots, RAPID TIANKIT yane Tho eRr. REA- tho rellway the ndditionnl steamship Aneronsed caineet ng it ol mnkes tradecontres permanent. Nothing would help Brondway from the Dattery to Unlon ermrl! B0 much ns n surfaco horse-raflrond. 'Tho hest salu or rental of stores 13 in Broadwny hetween Unlon Squara and Thirty-fonrth sreet, where there are liorse-railways, In New York, a4 In London, the rielt become richer, the poor beeomo poorer. ‘Tho next ten years will show the mast remarkable mprovement in ity prop- erty ever scen In real estate. Tand In the an- nesed disirict will doublo In value, in my oplnlon.” i DIVORCE, RATHER MIXED. Bpeetal Dispatch to The Chicaga Tribune, NEW Yonk, Feb, 15—A rathor queer caso cropped out in the oftice of the County Clerk of King's County, Drooklyn, to-duy, Three or four years ago John H. Thomas was the youngest member of o distingulshed Inw firm dolng business fn this city and Brook- lyn. flo restded fn apartments clegantly furnished, He kept a fast horse; wore o mng- nificent dinmond, and cut n flgure on tho road, at pinces of amusomentand in soclety, He transneted o largo part of the fion's husi- nessin this eity,and was for n time fmplicltly trusted Ly his partuers. At length ho suddenly disappeared, and his nssociates discov- ered that be had collected lurge sums of woiiey for which he had nover nccounted. They tiad niso to puy for the spléndll furniture with which he had ndorned his residence. It was thon nscertained that his nnme was NOT THOMAS, BUT TINKEN, and that he wad the son of & 1most reputable citlzen of Ohin, which State tho young man had quitted for good reasons. After n time ho reappeared In New York City, and wns soon nfter indicted for . forgers in the o degree. He pleadedt guilty, and wns gentenced by Jwdge Glldersleove to two years fu the Penltentiary. This morning o woman numed Fanny Tioker nppeared, who snys she was married -to John Tinker in I.nndun,{r:nulnnd. in 1871, who then repre- sented that 118 name was Harry C. Lestie. She holleved this was his name untll Iater on, when he admitted that it was JOUN 1, THOM. o had, ho safd, been married heforo In Oberlin, 0., but was divoresd. It turned out, she says, hat tho young rascal's name was nelthor Lestie mor Thomns, but plain Tinker, and tint his Ohlo wifo wns not divoreed from him. Mrs, Tinker wantsn divoree. It is sald that the dofendant hus for some- tine been connected witk Haverls's Mastodon Minstrels; that he accompanied thom to En- gland, and that he {8 performing with thom at tho Brooklyn Theutro.nt which place they vpened an Mondny night, immedintely upon thelr ur- rival from Englund, TWICE MARRIED, NEW Yonrk, Feb, 1%—An futeresting divoree sult was begun in Hrooklyn to-dny. The com- plainant is Fauny F. Tinker, tho defendant John Tinker. £he married him In London, Engtand, In 1871, when ho gavo tho unmo of lnrry €. Leslie. Subsequently he aald his name was John IT, Thomas, and be confessed he had been married Lefore at Oberlin, 0. He ropresented that his flrst wife had obtalned o divorce. Pluinti sepnrated from defendnnt In 1877, Bhe nfterwards loarnod bis trire name wus Tinker, and that he had a lawrul wife living in Ohlo, tho story of the divorce being o fabrica- tion, Tho plaiatif consuited nn ntturney with a view to divoree, but defendant sakl ho wus an exporienced luwyer, nnd knew all nbout tholaw of divorce, and that it was ; INPOSSIBLE FOR 1IER 'TO GET A DIVONCE underthe circumstances,in thisStato,ns sho could not maintain her action. He told her in order to obtain u divorce she must first bo remarried to bimin this State. Believing ho wus islng Bier In goud falth, she consented, and & cereinuny Wil formed nt Fluthush July 8, 1850, Ifelme- dintely quitted her, and hns never returned or doune anything for her support since. Sho hoas ascertained thut the ndvice he gave her WAS GIVEN FALSELY AND FRAUDULENTLY, and for the purpose of binding her to hin us ho bud learned his tirst wifo had just procurcd a Judgmant of divorce absolute ngalust him in Ohin, Tho Illlfllltllf usks thut her two marrigges with defendant be declured null and vold. It is eald defendant has for sume been connccted with Haverly's Mastodon ‘Minstrels; thut he necompanied “thom to En- gland, and 13 performing with them ut tho Hrooklyn ‘Thontre, It §s aileged that three or four yéars ago Tinker was A MEMBER OF A PROMINENT LAW FIRM. fle collected lnrto sums of money which ho nover accounted for, nud served two years I the Penfteatiury. A JOIIN LAW SCIIEME, timy WHAT THE ORGA! L OF TIE OREGON NAVIGATION COMPANY WANTED §8,000,000 FOIL New Youx, Feb, 17.—Tho Evening Post snys: “ It §s reported that thoe chief organizer of tho Oregon navigaton system recently gave notico 10 hia following, who, under his lewd, bave in tho Inst two years inde fortunes, that ho wanted o fund of $8,000,000, to bo used for a purpose which ho would disclose [ater; that In response to this notico e recelved offers of $16,000,0, but al- lotted only €8,000,000; morcover, thut his re- colpts or certificates of neeeptance of subscrip- tions have since beon sold at 40 por cout pro- wium, Wesay that this is reported, 1t was told us by a reapectablo banker, und purts of tho tale read lko n chapter froma leaf of Jobri Law, We now hear, butniot on_ 1o sume’ authority, that the purpuse for which this moncy was waunted 18 to be used In sceurlng contral of the Northern Pacific Ratlvond, the schemo belug to pructically bring ubout a unfon of interest bo- twoeen that Comnpany and the Oregon Nuvigution. ‘W huve heen unabile onilrm this, bt (01t s ton for the lurgo rise ck, und tho nd- In Northern Pacitio co vaneo tu duy in prefer: FERNANDO WOOD’'S BEAT IN CONGRESS, Bpecial Dispaten to The Chicago Tribunes New Youk, Fob. 17.—=The deuth of Fernando Wood lenves the Ninth Cougresslonnl Distriet In* this ity without a Represontative n the Fortys soventh Congress, the ofticlul Hfe of which by ®ius on tho 4th of March, Chap, 6, Title 11, See, 8, 0f the Revised Btatutes of Neow York, pro- vides for this cmergeney by dirceting that the Governor shall enll u specinl election * whon the rlght of otfice of 4 person cleeted 1o the oltico of n Representative in Congress shall censo beforo the commoncoment of tho term of scrvico for which such otticor shall huve beon elected.” The torinof e, .Wool's oftice, had ke lived, wonld bave bogun on tho dth of next manth, bat, un- lessun oxtra scsslon was catled by President (artield, the Housoof Reprosentutives would nat have como together until tho Nrat Monday in December, Mr. Ueorge B, speaking of the duty of the Govertor 1o call l]{ el plection to il the vacuney eaused by Mr, Wood's duath, suld to 8 Times reporter yestorduy; OLUE STATUTE I8 MANDATORY, der it 3r, Wood’s nlico thust bo filed by tion i hls distriet, The Jaw, however, feuves It 1o the discretion of the Gavernor to fix the thme of the speclal vlection, The practice hus boen, when tho regulur seasion of the House 10 which the doceased belonged dhl not bexin untibufier n regulyr eleetion, to eall the spectal Cleetion on tho sume duy with the regutar one, und thus suye expense, Tho regular sesslon of tho House does not begln antil nexe December, d. 118 wo huve an eleetion fn November, it 1 n that thit was the proper tmo 10 Gl Thiy hus nwiys been the pructico 1t thore (s un eXtry sessfon of tho in tho past, Housu next month, 1am afruld the Democruts will find themselves one man short,” THE REV. GEORGI 11, POOLE, FURTIIER ACCOUNTS OF IS DEATH. Bpecial Dispateh to The Chlcugo Tribunt, New Yong, Fob, 17.—0n - tho 27th of Junusry last ‘0. Dauncy, the proprictor of u boardings house ut No, 183 Juy street, Brooklyn, {nformoed the health authorities In that clty that a geatlo- mau who had taken # furnished room In bis Louse sowmo time beforo wus sick, and thut ho belioved tho lodger was sufering from el pox. Mr. Dauncy’s susplcious were vorlited, und tho patleur, who guve the nume of Poole, was tuken to the hospital for swall-pox paticuts at Flatbush. BMr. Poolo wus o muu of spieudid suyglouo, odussied, end well wrovided with money, He woa nlicted with smatl-pox in ita 1most npgrivated form, his earso heing one of tho worst ever treated in the hospital, Knowing that tho man's reeovery wns nll but Imposaible, Dr. 8chenck asked him” several tinies who we ves, In order that they mikht be com- munfeated with, The patient Invariably an- awereil by asking the question, DOCTOR, DO YOU GIVE ME U Anlony as Jir, Kehenck would adinit that there was nny posaibility of the putient’s recovery tha Intter would not sny where his relatives or riunds, 1F be hnd nny, conld be found, Jist bes tory he died Poule 1ol the Tiactor that hia Inwe yer's natne was 1. €3, Harrlnan, and that hs of- Tieo waa ut Now 2% Hroudway, in this city. When the patient died, as he did_about a weok nfter adminslon to the iosmtal, Dr.Schienck sent word of the ovent to Me. Dauney wid 1o Mr, D, t, Har- riman, ‘The former unawered at ones that ho did not know whetber the nsed hid any rel atives. Mr. Haerman didnotreply inmedintely, and, uwing to the nature of tho disoass, Dr, Sehenck waa obliged (o huvo the patient burled fu Potter's Fleld, Mr, Harrlman “was engaged inn Bronklyn court whe: nouncing Poole's death wae so ho did not get it until the following duay. then weote to Dr, Schenck thut he “knew very littlo of tho decensed beyond tho fuctthat he was A RETIRED PRESBYTERIAN CLERGYMAN, and that be had come to New York from Phila- delphluto cstublish a leatherold company for mukine chafrsseata, Mr. Harriman —thonght R!lll'llm Rev, Mr, Poole had brothers in the vat, e gald he would endeavor to tind thom, ntimu ho direeted that the body , but that the grave be nim- t was subsequently learned that the de- 0 L had Introduced himself when ho hired the furnlsnedl reom at Mr. Dauncy's house ns the ltev. Georye H. Poole. Hesald he had been pastor of the First Presbyterlan Chureh of Poll- adelphia, but thut be was obllged to resign on neeount of _fi-health, i physician bad told hitn, he srid, that a sedentary life loa man of i physique would break down his constitution, The ltev, Mr, T'oole wis the author of aeveral rellelous works, and at one time prominent, it s snlil, fu Presbyteriun elreies in Philadelpbia. His efects, co ug of §64 in money, a watch, and anumber of papers, including deeds of prop- erty, awalt tho order of his reiutives, REPARATION. A SCENE IN COURT. Hpectat Disvateh to The Chicago Tribunt. New Yonk, Feb, 15.—In tho Westchestor County Court of Sessions, at White Plains, yes- terday ufternoon, Joun Deely, of Tarrytown, 20 yeurs of age, was plneed un triat for betragal under promlee of marrlage, the complatnant helng Mary Lyueh, n daughter of Dennis Lynch, of Pleasuutville. Tho young men ndinitted that he hiod promised to marry Miss Lynet, but bla purents opposed the match. The Jury brought 1 n verdict of * guilty.” Aa soon us the verdict was nnnpunced, Mr. Franeis Larkin, the connsel of the prisoner, arose, and to the astonishment of every one present mide tho sugkestion thut Deely be married to the young woman by the Jwilge, us by elient was willing, and, froin the testimony of Miss Lynch, he belleved she had no abjectlon to that course. District Attorney Bitker, nddressing tho prisoner, salds * Are you willlng to marry Mury Lyoen oow?" s, 8l ;m yu;- lova ber yet? ‘1o you love John sufMclently to marry W Yes, sir,”” was the reply of the hlushing youni woman, ** Youne muan, will you support herif she mar- riga you, and be truo'to her?’ Yes, sir.'! The Judge here Interposed, and eald he didnot have much faith in tho promises of ninun with one foot in tho State Prison and the other in wntrimony, but would think tho matter over untll Thuradny, to which time an adjournment was taken. ITEMS. TIHE DAILY INTERESTS. New Yonk, Fcb, 179.~Tho Committee ap- pointed by tho Internatiounl Dairy Falr Asso- clation hus addressed 0 momorinl to the Legls- lnture protesting agulust a policy dictated, ¢ Is claimed, by tho Syracuse [uterest, whichis said to be detrimental to the hest Intercsts of the State, and espeelally to the dairy and canal in- tercsts. Tho mombers of tho Cotnmittee main- tafn that the discrimination in tolls on aalt Is tnjust and unnecessary, English salt, which is principally used by dairymen, belog now ship- ped from Liverpool to Montreal, whence itls distributed through the West, Tho high tolis on forelgn sult, thoy say, bave diverted n large quantity destined for consumption in the West from the port of New York to Canadian ports, THE TELEGRAPILCONSOLIDATION, Tho Willlams injuuction ense is heing argued 1n tho Superior Court this nfterooon, Williams socitred n temporary injunction, n few daya ago, restralning the Directors af the Western Union Company from perfecting the purchase of the stock of tho Amerlean Union and Atlantle & P'acific Compnnics, Tho proceedings to-day are o1 amotion tomnke the Injunction perpetuul. The court-voom Is crowded, MR, HOWELLS TO i PROVIDED FOIL Tuo Evening Post suys: Mr. Howells vetlres from tho Atlantic Monthly in order to dovote himself more closcly to creative work, for which i opportunity 18 to ba glven hint, a8 we learn, by hiduppalntmont ns Unfted States Minlster to the Hwina Confederntion. " lnformation to this cffect camo to us confldentiully erul weeks ago, 'To-dny we have it from guother soutee, without restriction reapecting 1!5%. QOULD'S LATEST CAITURE. At nmeethyr of the Directors of tho Central Raflrond of Now Jersey, to-duy Messrs, Knight and Clark resigoed, and Jay Gould and Siduey Ditlou were elected to 11l v acancies, FIIL JOHN'S REPRESENTATIVE. Mr, Atkinson, of tho Landon Sportaman, and representative of Sir John Astley, Burt,, arrlved ju this elty this afternoon on 1bo stenmer Wy- oming, from Liverpool. 1l was met by Howelt nud Vaughan, A WHESTLING MATCIL Capt, James Daly, tho Irish champlon, and Fdwin 1libby, the English chumplon wrestler, ure 1o wrestlo at ‘Turn Hall, Bast Fourth street, to-night, Tho conditlony nre, cuteh as cateh ean, bk'i!L two inthree, for §00 and tho champlon- anip. “pPADDY " RYAN'S ESCAIE. Ex-Chlof of Pallco Jumea Sweenuy, of Wheel- 1ng, W, Vi, sent by tho Governor of that State to urrest ™ Piuldy ' Itvan, the Troy prize-tighter, hns returned from Albung, He does not hesis tate to attribute the esenpo of lyun to the sym- pathy nod conntvauce of the Albany police with the offender. AN OLD LADY KILLED. At noon te-duy Anh lasklns, nged 50, an in- mato of the d Ladics® Home, foll out of u sce- ond-story window of thont Institution to tho puvenent of tho yard, and was instuntly killed, THE WHITTAKER CASE. ‘There waanothing of speeinl Interest developed in the Whittuker cuso to-tay, TIE POLICE FOICE OF THIS CITY nl 10 inen, but the avernge, and those detalled fur gspeoinl duties, brings the number uvailable for patrol duty nt night down to 150, Add to this tho Brondway, stenmbost, and mounted gyuuds detailed to dopatrol duty and these uvallable for day patrol duty, and tho total forco available for day patrol duty {8 1,84, JLGO BANK, 8 Gorman, and wife urrived ju this country elght months ngo, aod since that thne visited Clnein- natl, wheneo they roturned Tuesdny, wnd stopped at 310 East Nineth street. Tho husbund cumu to Castlo Gurdon toeday and sald that, Inst night, his wife aud hs aunrreled over 50 siijeh sho hud 1ost, und sbhe had Toft the lhouso vowing sbo would suver return, Ho suys sho huy no fricinds In the city, und the police wore notitled to seareh for her, JUDGL LATIOP hna beon elected President ot the New Jorsey Central MINING SUIT, Nauthan O. Jonathan, A. Daldwin, and othors huve obialn vordlet 1 n suit sgntust George Cornwall to recovor one-halfl o1 a onu-tenth lo- turost In tho Furest Queon Miuo, in Gunnlson LCounty, Colorido, MRS, ANN MS'CAnTHY, ot Clifton place, Brooklyn, foll und broke un oll- Tnmp, which set Hiro to her elothmg, iz Martin rushed to her assistaneo, when her cloth- I:“'“ n‘u took tire. Hoth women were fatally urned. TWO RAZOUS, Charles Moredit, supposed to boinsane, foreed s way Into Huckloy's [odiing- buuse, K Wors strect, and, deawing two einzors, cut Danlol Me- Gregor noross the hewd, neck, wnd welst, Mo- Gregor (3 i w cvitieal condition, Moredith kept whumbor of uthor lodgors ut hay with his dondly weupons, but was finully disurmed by the policc, PEDESTRIANS, Atklason, ltowell and Vaughan's munager, hos avplvest E TIE LADIES' ANTIFOLYGAMY BOCIETY OF IRGORLYN tunl 4 meeting this nfternoon. Mrs. lmogens Fules presided. Munv promiuent ladles of Nrookiyn were present. 'Tho messago of tho Uovernor of lduho on tho subject ol polygutay was rend by the Beerctury, Mt Urndshaw, and fovorably “commented on. Thoe Socluty will phice Jtself In communication with the prinol- pal elties, with o view of forming suxillury soe cleties, A commilive was uppolnted to confer with Congressmenselect Bliss und Smith, and in- terest thous I the work which tho Boclety pro- poscs todo, A pented petition ngalist polygus iy will bo sont to temperanco wnd wonici's praver meethigs for signutires. Tho elorgymen of Brooklyn will be requosted to rend notices relutive (o the nost uwultufq of tho Bociety from thoir puipits Sunday. A letlor from tie Rove b, fugorsoll, ot Brooklyn, was read, fn wiich he stites thut bo will give the movemnent his bearty codperation aud profonudly lilwmlh[ufl with It Letters wero also read froni Now Yurk ladles, expresslug sympatby with the work, SUPEMINTENDENT WALLING ta-day wrote'tw tha Begretary of the Hoglety top the Prevention of Crime that he woubl take ne- tian, An far s warknnted by jnw. to break up tho gambdling-house wrovided the Soclety would furnish the necessary evidence, A FUGITIVE MUBDEREI. The steamship France, tor finvrg, has on honrd, in eustody of Depty United SPates Mar- atinl Jorry Johnson, of [ndinnapolls, Joseph Marle ticorges Nleduriat, chargetd with the mur- der of Jane Bourgele and her newhew, Jdncob Bonrueir, aged 9 years, ahout the 2th of Sep- tember laat, near tho Village of Ormontza, in tha Canton of Vand, Switzerland. GLASSILOWERS IN BAD LUCK. Itev Praneisco Rirncta eogognd twenty-elght German gliad-blowers in Humburg Just Tall to come to Cubn and work In n munufactory near Havana. The mon areive in November Inet, but, nlter working scveral wwoeke, wera ouly tibin th abtain tielr puy by the clforta of tho Gevman Consul, Haraeta therce upon disappenved, and tho factory ¢uno 1nto the bamds of o man named Losoga, He obllwed men to work dny and nlght, pay-duy was near when b Accretly sold ‘out tho eutlre stock nnd machinery, and ned without paying them. Tho awindled Germnns applied to the nenl anthorl- ties, hut, nat being able to make tiemselves nn- derstood n Spruish, thelr caso wis unheeded, They then sought employment elsewhere, and, Ialling to olititin 1t sulfered groatly tor slmost o muonth, Floally the German ienl at Havann took pity on them, and partly out of hiy owl, pocket pakl passagn to tiis city. Tempors ary Todglngs were provided for them nta (ere nin Hotel near the Uattery, Tha men are in a half-starved eondition. BEAMAN'S RETREAT. The Physicinn In Chiet, Senman's Itetreat ios- pital, yesterday submitied the following report: Last yenr N;){mtlnmn were wimitted to the hos- pitnl “and 494 recotved oflice treatinent and mealelnes. There were twenty-uno denths, W per_cent from chronle or orgunic disenses, which shonld have provented persons becom e sulors, Tho Doctor says: **Among those facetiously terined ‘abie-bodlefd seamen® we find a lnrio pereentuge of erlpples, weak, siekly boya, warn-out ald men, cnses of disense of the heart, Kidng hernla, neuraliln, chronle rhenmatism, d ive sight or hearlng, color-blindnesa, and many cases of eonsnmption and canfirined nebriates.” He says this isn true picture of tho eondition of tho mnerchunt marine, = A FRADULENT WILL, In December last. four persons—threemen and a womun=—living in Hudson County, New Jersey, on thodeat of i man witn whosenifairs they wers futimute, drew up o bogus will, had [t udinitted 10 probate, and eceited a portion of tho estate, Christinn Kline and u mun named Plejifer and his wife e been nrrested for participation in the forgery and frawd, MEETING OF RAILNOAD MAGNATE: Thore was ameeting yestersdny at Comuilss er Finl's ollice of Vice-Presidents of the trunk lines belonging to the frelghit-pool, - No speclat business was transuctwd, but thero was o weneral talk. cspecinlly over tho withdrawal of the itoek Island from the Western rajirond combination. WRESTLING, The*entch 18 eateh cah ™ wrestliog mntel for £40 and the champlonship of Amerien, best three (o five fulla, between Edwin Bibly und Capt. .James Daly, Irlsh champion, wus won by the former easily. A LIVELY ¥lo1T, Thomaa Sulllvan, barkeeper, white drunk this evening, refused to leave n Third avente ear at tho deput. Tho eonduetor endeavored to ree move him, and » fight followed, iu which Joseph Bunnister, unother conductor, u Umekeeper, and a policennn took & hand. Salllvan w ¢ the club from the policeman and piled it vigor- ously, Thoe poliecmun repossessed the elub, and then Suilivan drew a plstol and shot Bannister, probubly lumllf'. Iie inissed the oflieer twice. and In turn bnd his own skull crusbed In by o heavy stone hurled by James Hoyt, depot em- ployé. CHARGED WITH CRUELTY. Annle Crunford, a l0-yerr-old girl, whose fatber and stepmother, thinking her gullty of stenling, nre charged with having lll-treated’her, and havipg chalned her to the wall, was in tho Supreme Court te-day with nn oflicer of the Soclety for the Prevention of Crielty ta Children, on proceedings ta declde ns to her custody, Pending tho henring Monday the child was turned over to the Soclewy. CARRIED AWAY BY ICE. ‘Tho massive fce In the North Itiver to-night earried uway nearly seventy-five feet of the plers at the foot of Twentleth and Twenty- second streots, A PRIZE-FIGIT to-night In & room ot Sixth avenue, botween Jimuy Kelly and Steve 'l'l:f“ur. I Negro, wns n’on by Kelly, who knocked the negro out of me. SUICIDE, : Ann Harkius, an old rervant of tho Astor fam- 1I5, committed suieide yesterduy by leaping from :{m l:ucuml story of St.Juseph's Hotno for the ged. BENJAMIN CURTIS, at ono time n member of ono of tho lnrgest dry- goods firms in this city, dica Wednesday evens ing, aged U1, TRICKETT COMING TO AMERICA. A prominent sporting-man in this conutry hns Justreeelved n letter fromn Trickett, i which the Intter says he will leave England for Amerien, He traln nt Sarntoga Lake. losays he will take part in all protessionn] regattas, and endeavor to got matches with all prominent American scullera, TWEEDISM. Iow the Taxpayers of Philadelphin Were Swindled by the Gus Trustees. PHiLAvELPILA, Feb, 17.—Tho Jolnt Speeial Committee of the Councll to investicato the munagement of the Philladelpbln Gus Works met ugain to-duy, Thomas Moore, Fresident of the Youghiogheny Coal Compuny in 1570, testi- fied that In 1576 he owned n pas-cnal mine him- gelf and slx-tenths of another. He made n bid for supplying the Gas Trustecs with conl, 1o wos Introduced to McManes, who fnfortned bim it would be necessary to bave a broker make the bid. Moore suw the broker, Peterson, who, upon hearlug Moore's bLid was to be §5.25 per ton, said thoy would haveto maoke it §6.10 10 divide profits. Of this swin Peterson reck- oned 25 centa per ton for himsell and 60 comts for othor parties unkmown to Moore, The latter found he conld obtain cheaper road frelghts, and nccordlugly reduced his bid to § per ton. About the sume timoe he sold about 100,00 tona of cou!l to uther purtles, prineipally the Noew York Gus Company, tho rute belug $6.15 por ton, dellvered in New York, i3 bid was rejected by the Gus Trustee: ot the grounds principally that Moore's mothod of deliveriur would be both o fuss and an inconvenienco, Moore refuted the transice tlon to foveral parties ut the time, und wrote un article for publiention, but st the sollcltation ot Peterson, und not Knowlug positively o bwl boen dealing with tho are not through _Peterson, Moore let tno matter drop. Tho 'Trastees lost 200,000 by refusing to give bilm the contraet, Peterson cried und begged hlin not to expose bl Charles I, Willis, whoso atlidavit relutive to by connection ne bookkeeper with the tirm of Churles . Hrown and ita business transies tions with tho Ous 'l'rustces, bas beou pub Hsied,was called up, but was uncotmmunleative. He denled, howover, thit any of tho Gns Trustees had enjoined sllence upon him, but wlmitted that onw Joe Young bad informed him I:’l:ll ho mignt make §00 or 1,000 out ot this thing, A COLORADO MINER. 1o Gota on a Sgroe and In Robbed of a Large Amount, Juimnes MoMahon, n Colarado miner with ple of money, shuwed upunt the Avinory late day afternoon swdly under the Intluenes of 3 nor, and with his head budly cut and brulsed, and entered comphiiut of - huve ing been onticed Into a bagnio at No 5it Clurk stroet, where ho,wied robbed of hetween $700 und $K00 cusb, and u smull gold ring sot with a dluwond. ‘Tho pulice urreatod Annlo Murray, tho keeper of the hose, und two Inmates numed Ling Wingate and Jeunlo Kl ty the lutter of whom —MeMubon pretond ed to ldentity us - tho ablet. No money was found upon eithur of tho pris- oners gor seeroled tnywhers nbont tha honse, From the fuot that MeSabon at st pluced his loss ne $1,000, wind seomed rather bazy on some of the purticulars, the police wers linelined to itk Wl u littlo ot of bis head, But nloug in hours this anerning - MeMulon hyd sobered sutliciently ta bhe able | to dufinitly sttt his doss, 1lo soys ho worked B fur bis monoy, aud ntemted o purctiuse hoste for his fumily 1o this clty, Ordinarlly ho I u strung temperancs ndyocate, but ho feit so goad upoireaching Chlcugo that ho could not ubstuin from u sprev. ‘Ihe bouse wh o wus robbod 3 notorious for tbat sort of work. —— THE WORK OF FOOTPADS, An old mun nagned John Metaner whiloon hls way frou Hulstul streot bridge to Archer uven- o e 0 o'elook last ovening was ussaulied and the vurly robbed by twa footpads, whu first kuockod him senioless by @ blow I the fuco with some blunt fnstrument, They thon ransacked bis Eumkuluy but fouml nothin of vatus, Otlicers Hylaud "and durphy heur hia crlos for holp, and reached the sconu Just i thnoto cntoh sight of the robburs, Thoy s ‘ml‘- gitit und captured pio of them, wbo hud Bldden boueath i frefghteear iy the Bupo of eluding b pirsuers. At tho stution ho guve the nue of uscph Purtell. 1o was positivoly Iduntitied by Mr. Metzaer, und by Jobn 3leNolly, who wit- nessed the yobl o e ——— MINERS' WAGES 8AN FRANCIBC), Fob, 17,—The Virginia Enter« prise publishes « long and intorvsting articlo un tho question now belng ugltuted of reduclug the wuges of the miners fu order to work tho low. grudo ores ot the Cowstock at u profit. Tho artigle stuteg \bue by propodiilog 18 3 to reduoe tha wages on tho upper lovels tofrom &L150 to £3.50 per day, according to the dopth and difMculty of tho work, continning the present rate—¢(—for work in tho shafts at any deptu and for all work Lelow the 250 feet lovels. Tho Enterprise cinims that with such n reductlon thore Is an Immenso amount of ora that could be extracted ata profit, nota- bly fu Crown Polnt, Kentttek, Imporial, Jnckot, Ophlr, Moxienn, Gould & Curry, Savage, Cholinr, + Coneotidated Virginia, and Callfornin, 1t also holits thut tho yuestion'of a reduction of wages may he aettled without_any contlict If the mine mnnngers and Miners' Union ean bo hrought together, with 8 viow to busincss, The Vieginla Chrondele indorses tho Enterprise's artiele and lulllm'sll that the Miners' Unlon tako :::;vnlnlllyllh'l' 1 tho conslderation of tha qucs- NEAL-DOWISM IN MAINE. Ilow Coercive ‘Toetotalixm Fubilc Morain, Portland (Me.y Press, Col. Porter, Chalrman of tho Boara of Inspect- ors hus sent me the now Htate-Prisun report. A comparison with tho report of 1851 discloses an Increase of felony, and cspeclally of murder und other high crimes, which ought to stnrticour commnunity. Look at the offlcinl Ngures: Tmproves l'cmn;- 1ge o 185, 180, tnronsg. Murderers. 4 2 423 Munstuyers, el 40 Murderous ussauiis. . Itobbery. Piracy. Tatal of high crimes. Otherfelons........, [ i n ] 1 H] COT . | Total of State Prison CONVICH.cersrrn oo If two munlerers hud not been pardoned Inst year our nssusins’ row swould have reachod twenty-nine, . In 1851 our populntion was 87,630; in 1880 ftis 618,53, Increase In twonty-nine years, 01,205, or H per cont .10 1831 divorco was exceedingly rare in Malne, Now, us ex-tiov. Dingley has proved to a com- mittee of this Leglslnture, Maine leads nil New England. He shows that 47 divorces were wrantedsn 1878, belny one man and woman out of every (79, and bo thinks thut 1880 was proba- bli‘ still worse, nunnity busnlso stendlly and raplaly Inorensed ata ratio fur exceeding the gain iu population. The same muy be auld of suleide, The Inrgo percentage of youthful conviets 18 nantully suggestive, Nearly 18 percent wore convieted during thelr minority, snd more than 64 per cent under the nge of 30. ] The average age of commitment is only 25.. Great Injustice has been dona to our forelgn. Yorn population, and particulurly to tho Iriah, by thie fouse talk of tnany of our writers and speakers. - Out of tho 110 felons confined In the Stnte Prigon proper, only 39 are of foreign birth, only 18 are natives of "Europe, and ounly 4 are Irish; 12 were born in Malne. In 1820 our population was about 00,000, and In 1840 about 500,000 lmrmig thoso first twenty years of the history of Maine only two convio- tiong of murder or wrdon uro known to hive oce curred. ‘This I8 nt the rate of one caso to 4,000, 0y inhnbitants annunliy, In tho singlo yeur 1830 tho Attorney-General's report showa geven convictions, ive of which were of murder, belng ot the rate of uno convie- tion to overy KLOW persons, ‘This revedls the appalling Incrense of fortys three folil in what until 1838 wns called capit; crimo within forty years. C. W. GODDARD. STEAMSHIP NEWS. Loxpox, Feb. 15.~The steamships ierder, P, Caland, and Fthlopls, from Now York, and the luwa, from Hoston, have urrlved out, NEW Youk, Feb. 17.—Arrived, tho Wyoming, from Liverpool, _AMUSEMENT, CENTRAL MUSIC-HALL. 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'Uhe prices of resvrved'ssuts wiil be 81.50 and $2.00, Wi ACI.\II'ILIIIB tu lucativi, SPRAGUE'S OLYMPIC THEATR Kvery Evonlug ot Matinees Wednosday, Salurday, y and Bunday, Leavitt's English Uueura iuflasqua Troupe. eiduy, Fob. 14 -First production of thy grout bure caquo=UA R s s iunday, Fob. 2= Leavies tlaantlc Vuristy Co LIt I CURE ‘Wei De Meyer's . CATARRH URE, Onc packags is generally sufficleats cA ssal cure of Catargl f3¢ §uioqt o