The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1871, Page 5

THE COURTS. The Bounty Swindle—How a Little Receipt Settled a Larger Matter—Trying to Tricka Son and Daughter Out of Their Father’s Property—The Hogan Will Case, UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. The Bounty Swindie—Another Arrest. _fTmomas Hackett, formerly attached to Mar Whal Sharpe’s office, has been arrested and wrought before Lommisstoner Shields on a charge ‘Of being concerned, as one of the subscribing wit- esses, in preparing the fraudalent claim made out by Henry M. Karpies in the name of Jacob Schret- ber, as father of Paul Schreiber, the latter of whom ‘Was 8 second lieutenant in the Fifty-seeond regi- Went of New York volunteers, and now deceased. ‘The object in making out this claim was to get the bounty'money and back pay due Paul, by faisely re- ting that the claim emanated from Paul's ther, Jacob, when, in fact, 1t was made out by Smith, now the principal witness against the ring ‘of bounty swindiers, signed by Karples as ‘Jaco! Senrieber” and witnessed by Hackett. The latter ‘was held forexamination. He states that he signed ‘the pal ‘unWittingly and as a favor to Karples, at ‘tae latter's request, not knowing the nature of the paper. SUPERIOR COURT—TAIAL TERM—PART 1. Hew a Little Receipt’ Settled a Larger Matter. Before Judge Freedman. Alexander T. Stewart vs. Israel Marks.—This was ‘an action brought against the defendant as surety for non-payment of rent by one of the plaintifms Yensnis. The defence was a dental of ever having ‘become such security. Under the dexterous man- agement of ex-Judge Hilton, the plaintiff’s counsel, ‘the case was brought toa speedy termination, but, though brief, excited a good deal of merriment, The gurety contract, wath the name of the defendant duly appended, was produced; but this bit of auto- be erg chirography the defendant emphatically nied being his. ‘This looked Itke putting a quietus on the prosecution. Not quite so. A receipt, with She same signature, giving written acknowledgment of having been paid twenty-five dollars for becoming the surety in question was produced. “Please read that receipt,” said the Judge to the @efendant, who was undergoing the pleasant process cross-examined. “Have you ever seen it betore?” and the Judge asked this with one of his ‘blandest smiles. “W-e-1-1, I think I have,” responded the defendant. “The signature is yours?” “W-e-l-l, yes.”” ‘That’ my case,” said the Judge. It was a precipitately starting evolution of an im- porsans concession; it settled the case. A verdict given for $1,028 for the plainuf, SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. The Hogan Will Case to be Appeal ed. Before Judge Sutherland. Sarah ©. Hatch vs. Clara M. Peugnet.—This ‘action was brought, it will be recollected, to set aside a will and deeds made by the late Mrs. Hogan, by which sne gave all her estate to her youngest daughter, Clara M. Peugnet, excluding the plaintiff, ‘Mrs, Hatch; and her sister, one of the ladies of tie Sacred Heart Convent. The jury rendered a verdict fm favor of Mrs. Hatch. ‘The delendants moved to set this verdict aside, as against the Weight of evidence, and for a new trial. The ‘case come up yesterday for settlement of the order rsuant to the recent decision of the court, pub- ed in fullin the HERALD. An order denying the motion for a new trial without prejudice to the de- fendants, Clara M. and Dr. Eugene Peugnet, moving on a case ora case and bill of exceptions, accord- ing to the rales of the court, granting sixty days to make out such case, with stay of proceedings, was by the Judge. It will thus be seen that the defendants propose to carry this matter before a Bigher court. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. Decisions. By Judge Cardozo, Davis v8. Davis.—Memorania tor counsel. Melick vs, Melick, —Order settled, In the Matter rgaret Barnicke,“Motiong me ue Hale v8. Hale. moranda for counsel. SUPERIOR COURT—TRIAL TERM—PART 2. ‘Drying to Trick a Son and Daughter Out of Their Father’s Property. Before Judge McCunn, Rovert W. Wilson et ai, v8. Mary A. Leach et al.— ‘The particulars of this suit, which was commenced @everal days ago, have been fully given ™m the HERALD. Ita object was to set aside a deed made by the father of the plaintiff of a house and lot in Forty-fifth street to the defendants, Tus nieces. It was alle that, knowing his pro- ‘pensity for drinking. the defendants enticed the old man from the residence of his son and daughter, the other plaintifs, with whom he was iiving, Sotheir house in Jersey City, and there kept him drunk, and while in this state induced bim to make the deed. The case was tried on framed is- gues, whether any consideration had been given the defendants for the deed; ‘whether Wilson was addicted to drinking xtent rendering him disqualified to deed; whether he was of unsound en he made it; whether it was obtained by or conspiracy, or undue influence. There was yee deal of evidence given on both sides. much of wi sh was quite conficting. Nearly all day yester- ‘as consumed by the counsel in summing up. The Ju gave a very clear and comprehensive @harge. The jury were out only nalfan hour, and sere: in @ verdict finding for the plaintiff's on all 2. COURT OF APPEALS. ‘ALBANY, April 28, 1871. The Court of Appeals take # recess from to-day ‘Gl the 17tn of May. BROOKLYN COURTS. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Counterfeit Money. Before Commissioner Winslow. A man named Chandler was arrested yesterday ‘On the charge of having passed a counterfeit twenty @oliar bank bill. He was arraigned before the Com- gnissioner, who held him to bail In the sum uf $500 ‘to await an examination. SUPREME COURT—CIRCUIT. The Regan Will Case. Before Judge Tappen. Thomas Regan vs. Alice Regan.—This action wa! ‘Brought to test the validity of the will made by Owert Regan, who died in August, 1869, bequeathing the bulk of his estate to Alice Regan, his wife, and James Tonry, his brother-in-law. The case has already ‘been reported in the HERALD. The contestant alleged that the testator wasa hard drinker, and that he ‘was suffering from the effects of liquor when he made the will, Thomas Regan thereupon con- tended that Owen was not in a fit condition to e a Will, and that the document therefore was walid. The defendants denied tnese allegations gna introduced a great deal of evidence to show that the testator was of sound mind, Yesterday the trial of the case, which has occupied the attention ‘of the court since Mondey, was ccncluded, the jury wendering a verdict declaring the will valid, CITY COURT. The May Term. ‘The May term of the City Court of Brooklyn will ommence on May 1. Part 1, Judge Thompson, and Part 2, Judge McCue, will be occupied by jury trials. Part 8, room No. 17, Court House, Judge Nelison, Special Term. On the 1st of May the entire calendar of 192 cases will be called, commencing at ten o'clock A, M., when cases may be set down for op day mutually satisfactory to counsel, general term will be held ou Monday, May 15. ‘By the amended law cases from the General Term of ‘the City Court are appealable directly to the Court of Al penis (4 Ln eR fe first named aval independent of the Supreme Court of the Second Judicial district. 7 Whe Coleman Receivership—Decision of Judge Blatchford on the Dewurrer. The hearing in the Coleman receivership matter, Pelating to the disposition of the Englishmen’s Erie stock, was to have been continued before Commis- sioner White, aa master, yesterday, but has been Postponed until halfpast one P. M.on Tuesday, pending the hesring of arguments in the United ‘States Cixcutt Court as to Jay Gould's liability to be attached, DECISION OF JUDGE BLATCHFORD ON THE DEMURRER, In the matter of the bill in equity filed in the ‘United States Circuit Court, in which bill it 1s sought #0 remove Fisk, Gould and Lane from the director- ship of the Erie Railway, on the ground of fraudn Bent mismanagement, to have them render an ac- count of their stewardship, and to have a receiver appointed to taxe possession of the property of the Srapeny. for the benefit of the stockhoiders, Judge latohford has now rendered a decision on the de- murrer which Was taken to the bUl on the ground of A “Real Nice Man” Presents a Married Wo- man With 2 Stolen Carpet, Has Her Hus- band Arrested for Receiving Stolen Goods and Then Marries Her—A Double Bigamy Case in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, April 28, 1871. About nine years since James Glasby met, wooed and won Mary Stanley at Birmingham, England. They were married, and, like many other ambitious young foreigners, thought to better their fortunes by emigrating to America, They came to Philadel- phia, and James soon found employment in one of the many manufacturing establishments in which this city abounds, “Wie THE OLD THING WORKED VERY NICELY until 1866. James, on returning nome one evening, found a very nice Brussels carpet in the ‘keeping rooin” of his modest home in Eleventh street. He, of course, winted to know where it came from, and was told by the demure Mary that “a very nico man, an old friend," gave it to her. Glasby was not satisfied, however, with such a vague answer; but his wife brougnt him around in course of time by the arts that women know 80 well how to em- ploy, and me mjured husband ceased to think of the carpet except as a very nice gift until the “very nice man,” in the person ol former acquaintance in England, one Walker, tur! up. Walker was received by Glasby as a friend and made repeated visits to the house. So anxious was he to know that hia friends were well and tele 9 ing that hecame nearly every day during Glasvy’s absence to ask Glasby’s wife, ‘This thing went on for some little time, when a detective presented himself and arrested Glasby on a charge of receiving stolen goods—the carpet m question. He was sent to prison on the ‘charge, but was released after a short time, through the exertions of Walker and Glasby’s wife, who had begun to repent of the Job they bad so successfully put up on him. leo went to California in 1867, and very foolishly le! his wife behind him. Walker, during Giasby’s ab- sence, mariec Mrs. Glasby, and they lived together for some time, until hig money ran out, when, at the solicitation of her husband, who was ignorant of the wroags hie had suffered, she joined him iu Cali- fornia, Business did not prosper in the Golden State, and Glasby, in Me as 4 with his wife, re- turned to Philadelphia in 1870, le was not longin finding out that his wife had married Waiker, and he had them both arrested and put under $1,000 bail each to answer the enarge of bigamy. The old charge of receiving stolen goods Was again raked up and Giasby con- signed to prison, Where he now is. Walker was sent to prison this afternoon, in default of $1,500 bail, to answer the charge of bigamy, he also having a family, who are at present at Birmingham, Eng- land, where he came from. The case is very badly mixed and presents a new phase of the pursuit of love under difficulties and What a devilish ingenuity may be developed by a man and woman, even though married, who are de- termined to enjoy their guilty love, THE GASS ASSASSINATION. Conclnsion ot the Coroner’s Investigation. The inquest touching the circumstances attending the death of John Gass was concluded yesterday morning before Coroner Whitehill and a jury. The victim, Gass, kept an oyster saloon at No. 39 Divi- sion avenue, which place he left between one and two o’clock on the morning of the 25th, and in com- Pany with a friend, Champlain Smith, proceeded to Ackerley’s oyster saloon, No. 18 Grand street. At this latter place was John Conners, a member of the Brooklyn Fire Department, who was talking to some one in the saloon, and made the remark that he had @ dog which could lick shat cat, referring to a large Maltese cat which was kept in the nouse, De- ceased, who was under the imQuence of liquor, over- heard the remark, and imagining that It was meant a8 an Insult to him retorted im angry terms. Blows were exchanged between Gass and Conners, the latter receiving the worst of the encounter. Subse- oe the party quarrelled on the sidewalk, and ners Was arrested and taken foyer ae oe house; but as he begged 80 10 les go the patrolman acceded to his re- quest a condition that he _ should Tome, He did not return to his residence, but con- tnued his spree up to four or five o'clock in the Morning. At eight o'clock Conners was arrested. ‘The chief point of detence im behalf of Conners was the testimony of Mr. Smith, who swore that the per- son who struck deceased had a heavy black beard, Wheres Conners has@ smooth face and very Hight air. About an hour afer the oyster saloon fracas Smith and Gass were passing the corner of First and South Second streeta when they were | proached from behind and the fatal blow was dealt with @ cart rung. The skull was crushed tn and death ensued in the course of three hours, The Un the following verdict:— “We find that the deceased, John Gass, came to nis deatn by fractures of the skull pro- duced by some biunt instrument, at the hands of some person or persons unknown to the jury, at the corner of First and South Secon¢ streets, E. D., April 25, 1871.7” Conners was honorably discharged by the Coroner. MORMONISM ON LONG ISLAND. A Wife With Two Hu ids and a Husband With Two Wives—Twe Families Rather Mixed. Yesterday a curious case came before Justice Lawrence, of Flushing. One day last week a young and interesting woman, known as Miss Bella Carpen- ter, @ resident of Bay Side, was married to Mr. Jerome Valentine, of the same place, Everything went along smoothly until Monday, when a Mr. Walter Waldron appeared and claimed the now Mrs, Valentine as his wife, stating that he had married her, some ten months since, in New Jersey, and that she had lived with him as his wife for some time. Mrs. Valentine, so called, denied all this, and secured a warrant by which Waldron was arrested and brought before Justice Lawrence yesterday. Here a curiously mixed up lot of circumstances were elicited. On the cross-examination of the prisoner he admitted that he had been twice previously married, and that the woman he married last was still Uta but in ex- planation stated that from his first wife he had been divorced, and that contrary to the law of the State in which the divorce was procured he had re-mar- ried the same woman, and which he stated was no marriage. Miss Carpenter had married him with a full understanding, and he says he can bring proof that they have lived as husband and wife. Mrs, Valentine contradicts this statement as far as it re- lates to herself. The matter has caused great ex- citement at Bay Side and Flushing, all the parties being well acquaintea with them. The further ex- amination was adjourned until next week, THE LEXINGTON AVENUE PAVEMENT. Meeting of Property Ownere—The Assess- ment to be Resisted. A large number of property owners on Lexingion avenue, between Twenty-first and Thirty-fourth streets, and on Twenty-fifth etreet, between Third and Lexington avenues, met last night in the Veterinary College, No. 205 Lexington avenue. to concert measures to resist the payment of the assessment made upon them for laying down the McGonegal wooden pavement in front of their .pro- perty. Mr. John P. Crosoy was called to the chair and Mr, George B. Bonney was chosen secretary. ‘The assessment on Lexington avenue amounts to $69,000, and will average about $300 on each lot, and in the same proportion for Twenty-fifth street. ‘These figures, itis claimed, are nearly two-thirds higher than they snould be; for the contract price of the work was only five dollars per yard, whereas the property owners are compelled by the asaess- ment to pay eight collars per yard, Much indignation was ex, by the gentle- men present, and it was finally resoived to employ counsel to test the validity of the assessment, and to defray expenses the property owners will be taxed one per cent upon the amount they have been HORSE NOTES. We learn that Mr. Smith, of the firm of Smith, Gould & Martin, the owner of the famous trotters, Lady Thorn, Goldsmith Maid, Idol, Tammany and many others of great speed, purchased the young stallion Socrates @ few days ago, paying $40,000 for him. Socrates is @ most promising highbred horse, being by Hambietontan, out of a Star mare, It will be remembered that he won the four-year-old colt stake at Prospect Park Fair Grounds last aatumh, beating several very fast colts, He has greatly im- proved since then, and it is said that hecan now trot very low down in the twenties. He will bea valuable horse both forthe track and the stud. Socrates is one of the finest looking horses in the country, being a bright bay, fifteen hands three inches high, powerfully yet gracefully proportioned, and his stwle of trotting 1s unexceptionanie. JERSEY JEWELRY, Extensive Robbery at Madison. A few nights ago the store wf Mr. N. C, Mulford, at Madison, N. J., was entered and robbed of gold and silver watches and jewelry to the value of nearly $1,000. A eyes beers Henrietta Bowers, has been arrested and ny! in the jail at Mormstown ou suspicion jn regard,to the robbery. MATRIMONIAL MYSTERIES. A Strange Story, Revealing Peenliar Complexity of Matrimonial Relations, Drama of Man and Wife, as Acted in Real Life, and Who Were the Players—Exceptional Bthios of Metropolitan Morality Strik- ingly Ilustrated and Developed in « Contest Over a Dead Man's Property. A case presenting features of unusual interest as re- gards the occasional complexity of peculiar matrimo- nial relations most generaily and sedulously hidden from the world until by the force of circumstances they are dragged into the courts, and thusfunavoida- bly given the broadest, thougn often, from the na- ture of the case, the most painful, publicity, is un- dergoing investigation before Judge Cardozo, of the Supreme Court. As itis most frequently in suits of tnis kind the question as to the ownership of pro- perty forms the basis of action, while underlying this question are other and the gravest issues touch- ing the past domestic lives of various parties, some of whom are living and some dead. Commencing at the, BEGINNING OF THE STORY, as developed in the papers in the case, its recital ad- mits of brief narration. For a long series of years— and the same business is stil) cartied on in the same place—James Scott carried on the business of sell- ing ready mage clothing at 142 Fulton street, How from a humble tailor he came to be the proprietor of @ large wholesale clothing establishment need not be described, He did this and made a fortune. There was nothing romantic in this. It was the merest commonplace fact —the legitimate result of pluck, perseverance, rigid attention to business and careful management. But there was, it seems, a streak of romance in him after all. While yet a young man he met Miss Caroline Bagley. She was young and handsome, and he was greatly pleased with her and she was pleased with him, This was just forty years ago. She says she was married to him. Thisis denied; but we will allude to this more particularly here- after. One thing ts not denied, and that is their living together as MAN AND WIFE. They lived thus together for fourteen years at least, 80 says the née Miss Caroline Bagley, and had two children—a son and daughter—both of whom, as also the mother, are still living and resident in this city. To continue with Mra. Scott’s story—for thus she calls herself, in spite of that portion of the story still to follow:—Mr. Scott, at the expiration of their fourteen years of marital life, abandoned her and her children. A few years passed and her husband not returning to her, and it being repre- sented to her that after so many years of abandon- ment by a husband the wife had a right to marry again, and thinking herself accordingly scot free, she MARRIED A SECOND TIME, The name of this second husband was Alexander Hannibai Meade. It did not provea happy marriage, ‘Mr. Meade abandoned her. While she was keeping her domestic grievances concealed from the world and struggling to keep her children and herself from want, and having s hard time gene! "% fortune smiled on the sartorial establishment of Mr. James Scott. He grew rich and prosperous, In 1866 there was ANOTHER WEDDING. ‘The bridegroom was Mr. James Scott and the bride Miss Julia Remoor, a lady sear fous, peers his Junior. ering the marriage Mr. Bi @ fine residence Lexington avenue, wife till July, 1870, when he died, a made his will before he died. By this will he left one-half of his propery to his mother, who is still living, and the other half to this last mentioned wife. Recently the latter died, leaving her portion of the estate to various relations, There were no children by this marriage. The origi- nal Mrs, Scott or the one claimi: be such, at ‘once, on behalf of herself and children, toox legal bow y! to establish her claim as the rightful widow, and thus get sa10n of the motety of Mr. Scott’s estate left to the last reputed wite, WHICH DID HE MARRY 1s the all Important point awaiting the adjadyjcation of the Court. inst the claim of the née Miss Caroline Bagley, it is asserted that Mr. Scott was never married to her; that their living together was illicit; that their chil are illegitimate, and that neither she nor the children have any claims what- ever upon the estate. A perfect PELION ON OSSA OF AFFIDAVITS have been submitted on both sides, occupying over three days in the simple reading of tem. Persons with whom Mr. Scott and the née siss Caroline y boarded tell their stories, and strongly con- flicting stories some of them are, ‘The second hus- band—ne of the dual military cognomen—comes in ior his sworn statement, which is not very fatter. ing to the original Mra. Scott. A good deal of adroitly sbarp detective business is mysteriousi interwoven in the case. There was very clear evi- dence on the second marriage. About the facts of the first alleged marriage a Raoullaely persistent, reticence prevailed until yesterday, when suddenly there was delved from the gloom overshadowing this portion of the case A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE, or, rather, what purports to be such, setting forth the marriage of James Scott to Caroline Bagley. ‘This document bears date June 15, 1881, and claims to have been signed by D. V. McLean, who signs himself ‘‘by me, pastor of the Presbyterian church at New York.” Appended to itas wii es are the names George Moore and Ann Eliza Moore. It looks to bean antique document, the paper being very much creased and wrinkled and embrowned by seeming age. Accompanying its presentation was an aMdavit that it had only just been found, though most careful and repeated searches had been maue for it. The officiating clergyman and the witnesses are dead, but the affidavit sets forth the genuineness of the signatures. The defendant's counsel claim that it is a forgery, and that this fact 18 evident on the face of it. The Judge said it was altogether the most important paper that had yet been submitted, and with a view to ascertain its [pelt HS atthe same time keep it @fe, di- rected it to laced for safe keeping in the hands of Mr. Valentine, the chief oMfcer of the court. Meantime Mr. James M. Sweeny has been appointed RECEIVER OF THE ESTATE, pending the progress of the suit. Mr. Scott left $53,000 personal estate and about $90,000 worth of Teal estate, the latter comprised mainly of property in this city. And thus the case stands, From the brief outline given above it will be seen to be one of unnsual interest, and much more of interest is ikely to be evolved m the further progress of the case, THE ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH TROUBLE IN PHILADELPHIA, PHILADELPHIA, April 29, 1871. The writ of quo warranto in the St. Clement's church case has been applied for, and the parties to the suit are anxiously awaiting the result of the ‘qnquiries” that are to follow, The Stuart-Young imbroglio has developed nothing new, with the ex- ception of tne following card, which Dr. McMarray furnishes for publication in the columns of the HERALD. It is said $100 was paid for a cable telegram to Europe, to the eifect that eleven of tne jurors were for and one Only against Stuart, The following is the card as jurnished by Dr. McMur- ray:— To THE Eprror oF THE HERALD:— Immediately atter Judge Williams had summarily dis- missed the jury Jn this case, finding that eleven were in favor Of a verdict for the relatora and one for the defendants, tele- ma were sent all over the country, and it is even to ‘urope, announcing that eleven were for the “Stuart party, as it was called, and one for the relators—and he a neg instead of allowing these mist tations and Fuisehiocds tobe poblished’to the world, were. indignant thereat, and inserted the statement which ‘appeared in the Philadelphia papers and one New York paper—the week, If the misrepresentations had not HERALD —) reek, been published the jurors’ card denying them would conse- quently have been unnecessary. A DIRECT LINE OF boa BETWEEN ITALY AND NEW ‘The Keo d'Italia says:—*The traMc between Italy and New York by means of sailing ships and steamers will be no longer an exclusive monopoly ofthe British flag. Before long we shall see the trl- color standard of Italy regularly tn this harbor, and we shall be able to visit Italy by a direct route with- out being constrained to delay in England or pase through France. The Commission deputed by the italian government to deliberate on the proposition of a new line of steamers, to run between the Italian ports, India, the Black Sea and the United States, reported in favor of a direct line from baa! to New York, We know from high authority that the Italian Ministry wili, as soon ag possible, present a bill to Parliament for the subsidizing of these lines,’’ CAPTURE OF A VERMONT BUAGLAD, Yesterday morning efiicer Carpenter, of the ‘Twenty-ninth precinct, . arrested Charles Gleason, with haif a dozen aljases, charged with bur- gianiously entermg a bank in Waterbury, V¢., In company with several accomplices, and blowing the safe, which they rifled. An officer from Hg ‘of Vermont appeared before Justice Cox, at Jefferson Market, with a requisition from Governor Hoffman, and demanded the prisoner, for whom there is’a reward of $600 offered, The Vermont officer, in @ brutal manner, placed handcaffs on the prisoner and dragged him from the court room, not- ‘withstanding the unfortunate Individual pleaded for five minutes) conversation with his Wie and chil , siren before he was toyn from them. PLYMOUTH LECTURE ROOM. Various Experionces. Mr. Beecher was in his wonted place last night oD the lecture room platform, looking contentedly upon his large congregation, which included bis sister, Mrs. Stowe. He commenced his talk by 8ay> img that he found many persons who hesitated upon the threshold of a Christian life, thinking that they needed an experience, such as THE METHODIST would call receiving the blessing, and others would designate by the terms ‘assurance of pardon” or “spirit of adoption.” It all amounts to one thing. ‘They want an inward impression so sacred, so light- bearing, #0 different from the ordinary sensations thatit shall bea token that they are in the rignt way. These impressions on many accounts are for- tunate. The idea of the Christian life as a soul life makes the neceasary broad distinction between morality and spirituality. Yet while I would not deprecate such teaching as exalts the feeling of the community in regard to Christian experience, I think it quite possible for persons TO BE MISTAKEN when they suppose these experiences to be neces- sarily initial. In the spring some plants blossom before they put out their leaves; but a great many more get their leaves first, and one 18 as good as the other. If @ man has real communton with Christ it doesn’t matter whether he commenced by an in- tepse experience or whether he grew LITTLE BY LITTLE, I think that the greater number of sincere Chris- tians begin a true spiritual lie without these power- fal enreesicns. Many never feel very deeply; they don’t feel much on any subject, and their religious experience 18 on a level with the possibilities of their nature. Most people begin with a deliberate choice; and in combating with life, its doubts and diMicuities, they come to a knowledge of Christ, ane by and by ripen into @ joyful Christian experience. Some have NO OTHER CALL but this:—Follow me. We can all find out how Christ lived: and as soon as we are really deter- mined to follow him that moment we have a right to feel that we are pardoned and are in the right way. it Goa makes certain states of mind on your part & condition of pardon, then when you cume to these states you are pardoned, whether you TAKE YOUR PARDON OR NOT. The grace and love of God are all the time drawing us and preparing the way. You are hoping that you will some time come where God can pardon you. He is all the time willing ana at last will overcome your evil. When you take the resolution to live according to the best of your ability for Christ then you havea rignt to your pardon. Think who tt is ‘we are trying to follow. All the good that we ever dreamed of in a human being Is not enough to make the shadow of the goodness of God, ‘The goodness, the freshness, THE TENDERNESS, THE DELICACY of God and past all expression, and it is out of this great centre of divine compasgion that all our hope and expectation spring. In answer to some questions about joining the church Mr. Beecher said:—I am very liberal in my views about men being able to live Christian lives out of the church. I know they can. There are those who live useful lives out of the Church, but they are exceptious. They have larger, stronger natures. Common people cannot do it. There are fruit trees that bear fruit in THE HIGHWAY; but nobody thinks of planting an orchard there. ‘There 1s nothing mysterious about the Church. It is only a grouping together of men to help each other. CALLAGHAN’S CLAIM. A Ghost from the Dead Letter Office—He Wants Fifty Thousand* Dollars—“Returned by Request.” Any one familiar with the national capital auring the sessions of Congress will recall with mixed feel ings certain odd-lookmg specimens of humanity ‘who hang round the halls of the principal hotels and buttonhole apy one with the shghcest appearance of verdancy. They are respectable, but seedy, and have no design on your pocket, simply one on your patience. These are the gentlemen of long standing claims on THE GRATITUDE AND TREASURY of the United States, The persistent pestering of consecutive sessions, extending over periods of from five years to half acentury, has not succeeded in bringing their coveted prize. In default of the de- sired grant the next best thing they love ia a lustener, It is painful, for the sake of humanity, to observe the earnestness, nay, enthusiasm, with which they will, ON THE SMALLEST PROVOCATION, unfold the story of the service they have done their country thirty years before, or the unredressed wrong they have endured im the bitterness and hope of their bosoms. They are armed with piles of documents, in which, poor creatures, they imagine every one should have as live an interest as themselves. When Col 38 ad- journs they take ® new lease of hope the first train for their habitation. There they seek the ald of the press with a pertinacity which newspaper men well know. Uniortunately too many of these claims are valia and should be setiled tn some way; the majority are preposterous, particularly 1 amount, A SPECIMEN OF THIS CLASS called at the HERALD ofice, in the shape of an elder- ly man. Mathew Callaghan was Nis Dame, and 167 Bleecker street his haviuat. He is something vague in the book trade, and has done the States some service—so he claims, In 1857-3 this gentleman was struck by THE ACCUMULATION OF DEAD LETTERS in the Post Office at Washington—five or six miliions ayear. In 1869 he claims to have originated the idea of putting the address of the sender on the out- side of letters, so that in case a letter failed to be delivered to the address it could be returned to the sender, without passing through THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE. A law was passed subsequently to that effect, and Mr, Callaghan only asks $5,000 for saving the coun- uy many millions of dollars. He would ve content With this, and let his country reap the balance as the result of his patriotic thought. claim was first presented in toe United States Senate in January, 1869, and referred to the Committee on Post Omicés and Post Roads. In June, 1870, they wrote Mr. Callaghan to the effect that they thought it a matter for the administration of the Post oftice to consider, and NOT A MATTER FOR CONGRESS. In July, 1870, the Postmaster General replies that “the department is aware of the lact that tne ‘return Tequest’ system enacted by Congress March 3, 1863, 18 Of great value to the public, and in the recent re- port of the Postmaster General it was highly com- mended, Whether Mr. Callagnan originated, or, if 80, Whether he is entitled to remuneration for it, the department 18 not advised and expresses’ nO inion.” Mr. Callaghan, although his game appears blocked at both ends, has PREPARED A SECOND PETITION with which to storm the stony hearts of Congress. He pathetically describes how, in pursuit of iis re- turned letter scheme, himseM ana his carpetbag were soaked, himself to the skin and is bag to tue manuscript within. “You see, sir, 1 beg for nothing; I am a peor man and work for ’my living; but if {have @ claim it should be paid.” This prayer was heartily echoed, and tne old gen- tleman buttoned up his coat to the neck, pulled his hat over his eyes and went on his way with rays of hope exuding from every pore. A TOUCHING SCENE. A Father and His Child in Court. An affecting scene took place in the Yorkville Police Court yesterday afternoon, just before its adjournment, It seems that spout five years ago a man named John Graham separated from his wife and went off to Albany, leaving to the care of Mrs, Graham three children. The parties were re- spectably ccnnected, and an uncle of Mrs. Graham, who lives in the Twenty-second ward, named Montgomery, is quite wealthy. But Mr. Graham did not thrive so well as his relatives, and provably this was the cause which led to the separation of himself and wile. She stru, hard to support her children, receiving but Iittle, if indeed any, aid from her husband. Some weeks ago, however, stie met with an accident, which en- tirely incapacitated her for work, and she was removed to Bellevue Hospital, where she died. Two ofthe children, who are quite young, were then taken charge of by relatives, the youngest, Ida, a Jittie girl six yore old, going to Mr. Mon! ry, her mother's uncie, The old gentleman learned to love his little pg. Regs she in return loved him as if he were her father. Atlew days ago the father, who had heard of hisewite’s death, came tor his chidren, and, becoming recenciled to his son, a young man eighteen years of who kept by bis mother, they determined on living together and taking the young ones with them. They got back the one who was living with a friend in Harlem without diMoulty; but Ida, the ‘who was with Mr. Montgomery, would which the old gentleman ve her up, and drove them A summons brough' the chitd to the court, where he was, however, com- mo to give the chita to her father. At partin; he child clasped the oid man round the neck ani cried as if her heart would break to be taken home. With dimcuity he tore himself away from her, and he left the court with tears streaming down bis cheeks. Then she father and brotner came forward, bat she turned away from them, andyt was not until one of the officers threatened her that she was in- duced to gu with them. CuRAr BALiBUT.—The Glonceste r (Maas.) fishing Vvesseis are returning from their ocean tri with from 35,000 to 45,000 pounds of halibut, which find Teady purchasers at remunerative rates. NEW YORK CITY. ‘Tne following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indi by at Gadnows Phar. acon up Heme: & Sata 187 1871, . e ba 10, 67 leo so «68P. oa bo 66 55 7 a“ 6 8 bce alee Bi Ave! temperature yeste! o . Average temperature for corresponding ‘The Rev. Father Nugent, chaplain of the Borongh Prison in Liverpool, will deliver kis lectureon “No- body’s Children” at Cooper Institute to-morrow evening. The food father’s earnestness in the work of reclaiming the gamins of the large cities, as well as his abilities as a lecturer, should secure him & large audience. ‘The next lecture in the free course of scientific lectures for the people, at the Cooper Union, will take place in the great hall this (Saturday) evening, at eight o'clock. The subject will be:—The Metric System considered with reference to its introduc- tion and use in the United states;” and the lecturer Charles Davies, LL.U., Profeasor of Mathematics 1a Columbia Colleze. Coroner Keenan yesterday held an inquest in the case of Mrs. Mary Galvin, lave of 88 Laurens street, who was fatally injured on Saturday of last week by @ box falling on her while being lowered from one of the upper floors of Miller’s carpenter shop, next door to where she lived, by Urich H. Miller. In their verdict the jury censured Urich H. Miller for not er securing the box in the slings while lower- John McPartland, @ laborer, twenty years of age’ on Thursday morning fellfrom one of the upper stories of premises No, 327 East Twenty-seventh street and fractured his skull. He was conveyed to Bellevue Hospital, where death subsequently en- sued. The body of deceased was removed to his late residence, No. 30 Pitt street, where Coroner Kee- TAD Was notified to hold an inquest, Jacob Lib, of 301 avenue O, was arraigned before Judge Scott, at Essex Market, yesterday morning, on complaint of Francis Clark, 179 East Seventy- eighth street, for Perma in walking his horse and cart loaded with brick slong the track of the Third Avenue Railroad ten blocks, stopping @ number of cars, and thereby incommoding travel, to the se- Tous inconventence of the passengers, He was held under $500 bail to answer. In a recent law report, published in the HERALD, im which Frederick Koehler was given as the plaintiff! and Gustave Frank as tne defend- ant, the latter name should have been Gusta. vous Frank, @ member of the firm of ‘Albert Frank & Bros, of Broad street. Mr. Gustave Frank carries on business at No. 7 Exchange court, and very naturally does not relish being published as a judgment debtor, which, happily, he is not. On Thursday night Thomas Mitchell, an English- ‘man, sixty-five years of age, was arrested in the Fifteenth precinct for intoxication, and yesterday morning, while being taken to court, he complained of being unwell, ana at the same time commencea trembling. Mitchell was at once returned to the station house, where death ensued soon afterwards. Surgeon Freligh, who was called, thought organic disease of the heart was the cause of death. De- ceased has left a widow at 256 West Fifteenth street, Coroner Keenan was notified. Shortly before ten o’clock yesterday morning a man about thirty-five years of age, whose name, from papers found in his possession, is thought to have béen James Adams, deliberately jumped into the dock foot ol Tenth street, East river, and was drowned. The body was soon recovered and taken to the Eleventh precinct police station, Deceased, who appeared to have been a member of the Hat. ter’s Association, was dressed in plack overcoat, black frock undercout, black Ppt white muslin and white flannel undershirts, Cungress gaiters and black silk hat. The pear. was taken to the Morgue and Coroner Young notified, Tne Board of Health yesterday afternoon for- warded to the Coroners’ office a death certificate made out by Dr. Chaimers, of West Seventeenth street, which was quite @ curiosity in its way. He certified that Bernard Quinn, a liquor dealer, had diea at 263 West Seventeenth ‘street, ag he belleves, from acute indisposition—a singular di to be sure. The Doctor further says:—‘‘Saw him but once; he complained of crushing of tue heart and pam ino igastric region; was about his business the morning of death (271n); beefsteak ana potatoes for breakfast.” By request of the Health Board Coroner Young took charge of the cuse and will hold an inquest, Morris Bogatckl, proprietor of & second nand fur- niture store on the first floor of the six story tene- ment house No. 44 Thompson street, was arrested by Sergeant Gactlin, of the Eighth precinct, and arraigned before Justice Cox, at Jefferson Market, yesterday, charged with setting fire to the premises on Wednesday night. He was remanded to* the ody of Fire Marshal McSpedon, who will investi- gate the case. The police report there 1s strong evi dence to show the prisoner fired the place, which, had it not been discovered in time, would have re- sulted in a fearful loss of life, as there were over 100 persons in the house, the majority of whom were in ed asleep. The anniversary reception of the Five Points House of Industry, in Worth street, took place yes- terday afternoon, and was largely attended by the friends of the institution. Some 300 children occu- pled the seats at one end of the chapel, and their neat dress and strict cleanliness were the shbjects of general remark and commendation. The Rev. H. . Potter, of Grace church, presided, and delivered an address, after which the exercises by tne children were proceeded with. They consisted of vocal music and recitations, and were, in all respects, highly creditable. The occasion could not fail to impress every One most favorably as to the merits and man- agement of the institution. There will be @ grand attendance at the rooms of the famous Oriental Clab to-night, Members and their friends from every part of the city will be present to decide a question of great magnitude. It appears that Sid Dorlon!, of Fulton Market oyster fame, fur. Bished the club with a savory clam chowder, which was tucked away on last Saturday night amid en- thuslastic exclamations about its excellence, since which time Sid nas pro ed himself champion chowderist. To-night his claim will be dis puted by Jim Sullivan, ex-clerk of the market who will offer about 100 gallons of fish chowder an formally deman4 at the hands of the clubmen a de- cision as to the relative merits of the two dish Beis are even. For some time past James West, a man of some- what intemperate habits, has ocoupied a room at No. 2 Walker street. Yesterday morning, not farfrom three o’clock, his clothes caught fire from a lighted candle or lamp which he had in his room, and the firemen, seeing smoke reeoing from the premises, burst in the door and found West lying dead on the floor, tus body being burned in @ horrible manner. The fire being extinguished, the charred remains were conveyed to the Leonard street police station, where Coroner Keenan was notitied to hold an in- quest. Deceased was unmarried, about forty years of age, born in Ireland, and had no particular occu- ation, In years past he had been a member of the olunteer Fire Department, and was a member of engine company No. 27. Owing to the cruwded condition of the halls of the new, spacious and elegant building near Broad- way, in West Thirtieth street, at tne late “recep- tion” by the pupils of Grammar School No. 26, the programme, by general request, was yesterday repeated to a large audience. Evergreens a nd flowers, busts and statuets added the.r charms to the bouquet of 600 youths that fillea the chapel at ten A. M. How many a mother’s, heart was bound up in that collection of flowers! During the exercises tne singing of Master Andrew Jackson, the reciting. of “Bingen on the Rhine’ by Master Carlisle, the tive chorus, ‘Pleasures of ar,” by the |, attracted special attention. but the exnibi- class of sixty, with Dr. , Was perhaps the most interesting feature of the day. Buch perfection of drill ag exhibited is seldum seen in @ public school, and itis pigssing to learn that physical culture is a rt‘on of the course of training in tals department. ‘ne school ts certainly in excellent hands, and the Board of Education and the sehool oficers of the ‘Twentieth ward are to be congratulated on the suc- cess of both entertainments. ‘A WINDOW SMASHING BURGLAR, , At twelve o’clock on Thursday night a young man, giving bis name as Thomas Williams, a siiverplater, residing at 83 Perry street, smashed one of the large French plate windows in the store of Brinck & Russell, 800 Broadway. After breaking the giass he put bis arm through the pane and took out a roll of silk valued at Officer Dennison, of the Fifteenth precinct, hearing the crash, pursued the burglar and captured him with the property in nis Fosseasion. He pleaded not guilty before Justice Oox at Jefferson Market eaterday morning, but was held in default of $1,000 il to answer at the General Sessions. Ofticer Lewis, of the Sixteenth precinct, also arrested John McKough, @ junkman, residing in fwenty-sixth street, whom he found in the act of endeavoring to force open the rear window @ the liquor saloon of Peter aden SSure onto ant Justice Cox comm io ult O1 W answer a ' charge of attempted burglary, SHAD. The Recent Order of the Pilot Commissioners. “Pulling the Poles—The River and the Market— Agony Up Stairs and In the Kitchen—The Commissioners’ Order and the Shad Catchers—How It is Done—The Supply and the Demand. The recent piscatorial mandate issued from the office of the Pilot Commissioners has struck terror to the hearts of the large number of men who haul a living out of the bowels of the North river. Commissioners, high and low, domestia caterers and @ large proportion of the dining-out publio unitedly groaned in agony when the rumor came that the supply of the delicious esculent was likely to be stopped. The very fish reddened to the gilley as they swept along the river's bed, and thought, “Those poles are to be pulled up, and we shall no longer have w chance of being caught and dished up elegantly on silver dishes, lined with gold, picked to pieces by dainty fingers and bo swept out of existence by the choicest; vintages ot the globe.” Efforts have been made year after year to DESTROY THIS FISHING in the river, but without any results. The season of shad fishing in #o short that the authorities have scarcely time to put the law in force, when the term is over and the fisher- men come of their own accord to pull up the obnoxious poles. The shad merchants at the various depots in the city are in the greatest consternation at the announcement made by the Commiasioners, “That if the polea are not taken out of the river before Monday ,next they will take means to have them removed.’* ‘This action on the part of the Commisstoners the dealers con= tend is calculated to destroy the present supply of this ble fish to he market, turn hundreds of men out of employ- ment and completely ‘paralyze a branch of commerce that ought to be Hlourihing at this time of the year ‘the diference between the fish caught here and sent to the market boxed and packed in iee, of course, makes the article obtained on the, apot the tmost valuable, “If the supply of this fish should be oly Contigued the eke Yaterior artioie srowd, Taaoadaaae assume its place inthe market and would command a Vin not worth. A number of tue tahermen emphatically de- nounce THR WHOLE MATTER AS _A JOB, andone of the meanest and most pernicious kind. It has been tried before and succeasCully, they aileze; but this time they are determined not to give = dollar to any ope. They would rather ‘‘tear up the sticks,” as they call them, than be again muicted by outsiders. The men have an idea that the people in authority never touched any of the money they contributed last year and the year before as ® bonus that they might be left alone. Captain Sam Ludlow was vis- ited yesterday und asked f n the subject. The Captain, who is the most 1m abad in the city, r information enstve deal in reply to a question put to him, said “It don’t hurt me any this year, for T have no poles along the east shor “Then this only hurts the small men?” “Yes, twill injure the little men, who have the least to stand againat {t."" “How long does the “From eight to nine wee! loning money all the time. “Puen it is not a profitable business this year?” “Quite the reverse. Stop for amoment to think of THR EXPENSE ATTENDING It and yon will soon see that it cannot be “Where is the great ontlay, in putting down the poles?” pitn putting them down, keeping them tn order and palling them up again.” “What are the poles worth each 7”? ‘rom fifteen to twenty dollars.” ou puil them up when the season is over, don’t you?” “Yes, we put them down at the beginning’and pull them up at the end of every season, That's one of the items of expense. Now, I have twenty men, to whom I pay on an average fifty dollars a month and their Keep, Then there are nets, boata, time, danger and a heap of little things one couldn’t remember. “It’s an uncomfortable life too, Captain ?"" “You are right, sir, itis; up day and night, You see, we haul at every full tide.’ “What do you think of the supply of fish this year?" pe'lt isuncommon!y bad. “In another year or two we abi ad season last, Captain?” NK: have been at it four now, 7” QBLIGED TO GIVE IT UP ALTOGETHER." Bocuse the fish is becoming so scarce. Here, you see, we leave off on of ut up the river they taxe 5 have seen abad sold here in the market that were within a few days of depositing their aay ‘you consider shad a desirable fish in the market?” 1 do, sir; when jave shad it reduces the price of fish’ for poor people. tt isa luxury tothe middle class and a ne- e rieh." ceasity to tl “How much are you getting a hundrea now ?” “Forty-tive dollars. 1 took from four to five thousand to market morning, and if I bad four times the quantity I could have sold it.” “What is the North river fish worth 2”? seat glh bre geen i cold from sixteen to twenty-five dollars; it alll depends." “One man who has a line of rods told me be only took in seven fish last night. Is that possible ?”” “Indeed it is, T can show you a man who has twenty-four nets and who only drew in sixty-six.” “How do manage with the Jerse: people, here?" “They don’t bother me—Jeruey folks, at least THE POLITICIANS, ARE FOND OF FISH, ‘0 they let me alone. This State, you know, has jurisdiction over balf the breadth of the river." “There is no fish yet from Connecticat, is there 7”? “Not yat; they don’t begin to send on until we are nearly “T suppose you have heard this action of the pilot people: denounced asa job 7" “T have, and the men have good reason in believing ft is one.” ‘hat's your impression, too, then?"” “Moat decidediy ; I know ‘em of old" “They have done this thing before!"* “Indeed they have. We made up our twenty-five dollar® @ piece out of our bard earnings aud handed it to’em last “To whom?” am no matter, but [ don't belleve it ever got out of tsiders.” When they mavie the fuss last Mr. Blunt myself, and he said to me, ‘I week, and if these ‘end ty THE TOG TO PULL ‘eM OUT.’ He did come along, sure enough, a few days after, when I was hauling out mine, but he only passed the time of day and went on.’ “1 don’t think they can get much this year.” “They cannot. There are no large wnieresis at stake. The onty ones they can burt are a few poor men, out of whom they can’t squeeze a dollar.” ‘his ended the conversation with the old shadder. The men tn the trade are all very muchexercised about the recent order of the Pilot Commissioners, ‘They claim that the poles are Bo more an obstruction to navigation now than they were before, and no accidents to passing vessels on account of the poles tiave occurred. They wait quictly, however, for the en- forcement of the Commissioners’ order, and may then make a determinea oppositio AMERICANS ABROAD, List of Americans registered at the oMfices of Bowles Brothers & Uo., 449 Strand, Charing Croas, London, and 12 Rue de la Paix, Paris:— AT THE LONDON OFFICE, FOR THE WEEE ENDING APRIL 15, New York—H. W. Derby, W. H. Chamberlain and wife, George B, Turrell, J. D. Hague, Miss Hague, H. ©. Stetson, G. F. Cole, W. H. Buckman and wile, G. T. Schuneman, Albert riperno, E.G. Lenox, Shet- don Leavitt, General Ledlie and wife, C. W. Scofeid, 0. T, Glenn, G. B. Ellery, G. G. Nichols, Mrs, Joet Wolfe, Miss Wolfe. Loston—h. M. Bearce, Miss Carrie Bates, Miss Kitty Morse, Miss Charlotte Hawes, F. M. Sawyer and wife, J. G. Batchelder and family, G N. Dana and wife, F. G. Peabody. James Oakes, William R. Aiger, Mrs. 8S. W. Bent, 8. A. Bent, Charies F. Dun- bar and family, Miss M. A. Srooks, Mrs. H. K, Hor- ton, Miss Kittie Horton, G. A. B, Abbott. New Haven, Conn.—Mrs. Henry Farnam, Miss Farn- hom, Dr. and Mrs. G. Bronson Farnham. Chicago—R. L, Fabian and family, Mrs. A. M. Shum- way and daughter. Snanghai, China—W. H. Ma- comber, Cincinnati—D. G. Ray and wife, Kev. M. A. Hoge, Mrs. George Carlisle and daughters, Dr. J. D. Webvd, Washington—General F. A. Starring, Charles -A. Page, Charlies’ Kaapp. |United States Army—Lieutenant Genera! Phil. H. Sheridan, General James W. Forsyth. United States Navy—Dr, W, 3. Fowen, Lieutenant Commander A, G. Kellogg, Pay- master H. I. R. Harris, Master Richard Rush, W. c. Field, C. 8. Sperry, G. J. Marbury, W. H. Bechler. Westport, Conn.—H. R. Treadwell, Lem oo France—Charies Field Haviland and family. Vere sailles—Edgar C. Cartis, hiladelphta—J. M. Fish- tlico—John te Swift aud iamuy’ Henry Payot and lace ohn F. Swift an |, Henry rot family, J. Melvin Smith, William Shiels and daugh- ter. Sacramento—Judge C, B. Crocker aad LY, Dr. H. W. Harkness, Colorado—J. W. Mareg Louisville—Thomas H. Lowe. Michigan—A. H. Gib- son, Henry A. Newland. Virginia—K. G. Pendleton, Mra. M. L, Horton. Baltimore—Miss Kummer, Miss Belle Devries. . F, Loubat. AT PARIS, FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 3, New York—George 8. Partridge, Jr., G@ w. Hosmer, John P. Howard, John'G. Walsh, M. C- Stanley, J. A. Bain, Edgar A. Turrell, a McFarland, Mme. J. Hervey Dening, J. Nelson Low, Kessler Smith, William P, Dewey and qife. Bos- ton—John Ware, Parker Dracon, P. M. Field, Miss F. J, Gardener. ' Balthmore—Miss Kummer, Miss B. L. Devries, Mrs. J. Latimer Tompkins, Miss Clemen- tine Tompkins. Chicago—J. M. Durand, wife and family. Ohio—Dr. G. Haisted Boylan. Detroit— Jesse M. Smith. ‘1s—J. Cormack, W. H. Hunting- ton, W. Rangis, A. D. Wiszniewski, H. Russel, A. Souther, Brussels—A. L. Shetlamn, Uaited States Consul, Brooklyn—Wilham P. Hild ana family. San Francisco—Mrs, J. U. Fall, John F. Swift. Hart- ford, Conn.—H. C. White. Washington—H. Rob- bins, M. D., F. A. Starring. West Point, Conn.—H. R. Treadwell. Miaco, Japan—C. K. Saroicze. Mil- wankee—William E. Cramer and wife. Vermont— Major Hitchcock, E, F. N, Hitchcock. ARSON IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY. Shortly before midnight on Thursday a diabolicat attempt was made to barn a large frame tenement builaing in Riverdale avenue, Yonkers, Westohester county. Some six or eight families occupted apart- ments in the structure, and had the flames not been discovered in time a deplorable loss of iife must have occurred. H oo — ey ~~ ona was” sleepii in @ room directly ov aw ay ‘at the time indicated nearly suffocated with smoke, Having alarmed the nelenbernens @ heap of rubbisl hited Meanwhile the terrified occupants hurried from their béds into the street in thelr nigBt cloth- ing, many of the women bearing young children in in their arms. The Fire Department were quickly on band, aud through their iseworthy exertions the oot Le had already La ay cated with an adjoining house, were §| extinguished. The damage to the building 1s estimated at $1,000, Motive can whicti 1s fully covered by tnsurance, No be assigned sor the Hendish crime,