The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1871, Page 8

5 TUB GAS QUESTION What a Member of the Legislature is Going to Do About It. WE MUST HAVE GOOD GAS, eee A Bill that Will Create a Stir and Facts that Will Back It Up. THE GAS STILL FLICKERING. The gas question still continues to give the gene- ral public a great deal to complain about and the gas companies no small degree of uneasiness. But the complaints of the one and the uneasiness of the other do not by any means emanate from the same “warn of mind,” for while the public com- plain bitterly because of the bad gas that te yet furnished by the companies, notwith- standing the exposés in the HERALD as to their utter disregard of their patrons’ rights, the companies feel uneasy over what may be donv ‘With them and their charter by the next Legislature, A few days ago one of the officials, who always has @ certain amount or influence at Albany with legis- Jators, when gas bills are one of the orders of the @ay, sneeringly remarked, when & HERALD reporter reminded him that the power of the Legislature which had given the gas com- panies thelr present strength might, the coming winter, shrive them of much of their powers, ‘That 1s impossible. A charier to a corporation is a vested right, and it can’t ve taken away without cause, and we can prove that we do as well by the pubiic as any company can do and not lose money.” Now, it may be interesting to ‘this official and the companies to know that one of the Assemblymen elect from this city is now busily engaged, in conjunction with ove of the best lawyers 4m the metropolis, FRAMING A GAS BILL ‘Waich, if it becomes a law, will be proof positive that the companies can be brought to terms, all the talk about vested rights to the contrary notwith- standing. The legislator aliuded to was a member of the last House, and knows so well the Albany Topes pulled so often by the companies to the detri- ment of the general pubiic that they will have to be very smart, indeed, to defeat the bill Its terms ‘Will beso precise and its fairness so conspicuous that apy attempt to defeat it by the com- panies will only serve to open the eyes of the very few people who have an idea that the companies are doing their best and have always done so, The Assemblyman siates that he bas been very carful to collate facts and tigures con- cerning the workings of the gas companies during the past five years, which he believes will materially hasten the passage of the bill once it has been Jala before the Legislature. Me has already in his possession quite a number of ailidavits not only of persons who have heen outrageously swindled in the matter of gas bills, but also of employ¢s of some of the commanies, Who know just exactly what Kind of coal and how much good and bad Coal is made use of to make WHAT THE COMPANIKS CALL PURE GAS. It should be understood that 1t is no easy matter for outsiders to get at the inner workings of the companies—thai is to say, they keep their figures \d their facts to Lnemselves, and under the circum- Btances they may be a little surprised to find out ‘When the bili referred to comes up in the Assembly that all their {alk about how they sacritice their ow! Interests for the sake ot he Het public fs Moses ‘On simply nothing at ail. It issaid that there will be some nice revelations made as to bow the bilis as consume, ade out according io fled? nicamuring Pty bi lO % iff es rg man announces that it will not be necessary to ha‘ ® special committee appointed beforehand to find it the why and the wherefore of things which, as Dundreary says, “nobody can understand” atpresent, It will be remembered that when the Yast legisiative investigation was made Judge Daly NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. THE SHIP MARY FRY. ‘The Hardships of Her Crew in the Gulf of St. Laurence—Icebound in the Gulf—Fierce Horricapes and Contrary Winds—Arrival of the Crew “ All Well.” With the return of each winter comes the sad tidings of marine disasters, the sufferings of pas- sengers and crews, and too often the loss of life, Ice and cold weather seem to be more fatal to the Mariner and bis bark than even the flerce hurri- cane. In January, 1870, the steamer City of Boston left New York for Liverpool, never again to be heard from, Her seagoing qualities were so well known that no one would believe she 1oundered in astorm, ‘The cause of her disappearance 1s to this day a mystery, although it 13 generally believed she COLLIDED WITH AN ICEBERG And was lost. A few weeks ago a whole whaling feet in the Arctic Sea was destroyed by ice. These are but some of the many accidents which are at- tended by loss of Iife, The damage done to our shipping along the north AUantic seaboard in winter by the ice 18 something great, This winter promises to be @ very severe one, for already we are informed of the closing of some of the rivers in Maine. Captain Fry, of the ship Mary Fry, arrived im the lower bay yesterday morning, having been driven from the Guilt of St. Lawrence by the ice. ings of his crew during the voyage will be found below, It will be seen that, with the exception of the frst few days, he has had stormy weather during the whole of the voyage, and that when he arrived ICELOUND and his ship encased in Noating ice, The following as the coptain’s story:—On the 15th of October 1 left Middletown, England, for Montreal, with a cargo ol railrcad iron. On the 26th we passed the Oreneys and had jair, clear weather uatil the 28th, when, in latitude 59, longitude 22, we encountered severe Winds blowing north-north west, which in @ short time de Veloped into a hurricane; passed into the St, Law- rence Guill, wind blowing @ hurricane during pe whole night. Uctober 29 continued heavy gales, What only to blow with increased fury on the soth, During the day we sailed with all canvas close reefed except the dying jib, which we spread to keep her beiore the wind. Gn the morning of the Jist it became a litde calmer, so much so inat we were enabied to spread the canvas; put about noon, without @ moment’s warning, a hurricauc struck us and carried away every {oot ol our can- vas. Jt came so sudden and was so fierce we had not time to x MAN THE YARDS TO REEF. November 1, more heavy winds aud large quantl- ues of floating ice, very severe, cold weataer, No- vember 2, strong winds on a yery heavy sea, the breakers breaking om tne deck aud almost swamping her, November 8—This day was so fearluily cold that we could hardly do anything, The sea broke over our ceck, and every- thing was covered with ice. ‘the next day—whe 4th—we had heavy winds, that blew with such lorce as to drive us YWO HUNDRED AND FORTY MILES IN TWENTY-TWO joi OURS under bare poles. The next day the wind abated “some little,” but from the 28th of Octover 1 don’t think we had four steady hours of tine weather, ‘the St. Lawrence now 13 so crammed with ice that no vessel Will be avie to sail up unUl next spring; Swore that a bill for gag, alleged to have been used ‘Dy his family, amounung to two hundred dollars ‘and over, was sent to lim for payment, although his house had been closed and no gas used during the whole time the bill was made out for. The next Legislature will have, it 1s claimed, a great coh cases of calculations pretty much of this kind laid vefore them when the bill 1s brought forward. It does seem very strange that the companies, if they do use the best of coal and make the best of gas, cannot make some showing for'it; and equally Qs strange that the officiais of une company Will talk go giibly about any other company than their own. A reportcr might as well endeavor to finda needie in a haystack as to find outthe truth of what 1s done v whe companies, or to ferret out the figures whicl ‘would give the public a true insignt inio the profit and joss business, by which somehow their patrons always come out second best. “What do you suppose,” asked a HERALD reporter Of one of tue Officials of the New York Company, inn tne cause of the bad gas supplied to consumers tely ve supply no bad gas,’ 0 the other companies £” “They may. | hear some complaints about the up- town districts; but then, you know, people will giways grumble.” “When they have cause ——’? “Yes, aud when they have not. We have often had compiaints abont our gas; but we almost always Dnd they are without good cause,” “They tell me at oue of the upper district gas- houses that your company do not take up your Small pipes when larger ones are necessary.” “But we do; and 1 know the uptown companies have small pipes in some streets wiere they ought mot to have them,’* And thus it goes. Each company considers itself bapa than any one of Lhe Ouers, and its parucue jar seif very much slandered if any insinuation 13 thrown ont that it docs not Jo Its Guty to te public. As (o the fact that the companies fre responsble for keeping the giusses of the street org clean, they say they do ihe best they can; but how they Can do so When, in a district say that reaches from river to river and over forty blocks in a straight line uptown, but twenty men are employed to do whe general work of lighting, &c., is a mystery. How: ver, although the complaint is general just now as ‘to Whe bad gas furnished in THE STREET LAMPS, private consumers are by long odds the great- est sufferers. In some large boarding houses Up town Lue gas for over two weeks has been so bad That candle light has been subsututed, aad in some large stores down vown it retuses to burn at all e. cept in blue fickerings that give no illumination Whatever. A HikasD reporter lad a talk yesterday with a gentleman who hasa large establishment on Broadway and he said, iu answer to @ question as to the quulity of the gas farpished:— “Why, sir, I might a3 wel Rave no gas at ail. It burns so low when it does burn that 10 18 Of no use, and it very often goes out altogether. “Do you require gas during the day?” “1 a0; then it will burn well. I use it all day Jong in certain parts of tue store, for, you seo, It 13 #0 dark back there to Lbe rear that @ light of some King is necessary. 1 can’t account for Wwe way the gas is carrying on. I’ve complained to the company over and over again, but 1 don’t get any satisiac- tion. ‘They always say, ‘Itis impossible. We fur- mish good gas; the fauit lies in your burners.! 17 “Provably your buruers are at lauit.” “But tuey are not. Ihave bad my pipes cleaned and put up bran new burners, and it ie all no use.” “Do you ever have good gas ¥"” “Oh, yes; but, confound it, thats just what uzzies me. It slows that the companies can give ier gas when they want lo show what they do on the average. My iiea ts thatsome days they take & potion and use good coal, just for the show of the thing, or, probably, whem tuey knoW some HERALD reporter is around? tmay be that the companies will find out in @ few days that they liad better give up the idea that tie pipes are to blame for the bad gas ; for the facis show quite the contrary. ‘They might as well do 60 mow as to wait unt January, when ihe Legisiavure ‘wil take Wem in hand, ALMOST MURDER, Lester Williams, aged twenty-six, of 206 Waverley Place, and William Johnson, of 1,173 Broadway, Doth colored, on Thursday night atvendea a ball Sogether and imbibed rather freely. As they were Passing vp Thirtieth street, Williams insisted upon going back to the ball, to which Jonnson objected, and endeavored to persuade Williams to accompany him home. ‘They Gnaliy separated, Jounson pro- weeding as far as Sixth avenue, where he hallied in hopes his companion woud join him. He nad not remained on the corner long belore Wilitams ap- yoached hit, and, drawing @ small pocket pistol, laced it near his face aud fred, the bail passing inaer the jeft cueek bone aud louging somewhere in Ge base of the skull. Viicer Curtain, of the Twenty-ninth precinct. being ip the vicinity and hearing the Oring, pr weeded to the spot aud conveyed both men to the station house, A surgeod, being sent for, probed dor the ball, but was unable to fod it, and finaly abandoned the search, a8 the wounued man was in too Weak @ condition fo undergo any fartuer opera- tion. SO close Was the pistol to his bead that his Jace Was badly vurned Will powder, The prisoner was arraigned before Justice Cox, at Jefferson Mar- ket, yesterday moralag, aad claimed the shooting Was parely accidental. After comuitting the deed Wiliams threw the pistol in the street, where it was subsequently recovered by the oMcer. He waa cou duitlod Lb default Of $6,000 bad, bo appear for irial, 80 when we iound that out we altered our course aud came to New York indistress, Ali the crew are well except such of them a3 were trostbitten. WAS THIS MAN THE INCENDIARY? The Vengeance of a Fortuquese Cook— Attempt to Pol: His Captain—Alieged Incendinrism—The Cook Breaks the Mato’s Back. On tne night of the 15th of July last the sawmill and lumber yards of J, Bigler & Co., at Newburg, were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of about $70,000, At the time the fire was supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, but the utmost efforts of the detecuyes and tne offering of a reward by the city authorities failed to bring about the dise Covery of the Crimi: Events of comparatively recent date, however, occurring in a place so far way from the scene of the fire as Antwerp, sel- gium, fakén in Gohnéction with some of the ctreum- stances of the disaster, seem now to point towards the incendiary. Those who read the account of the fire in the HERALD of July 16 may remember the Statement that the British bark Lothair, which, at the ume of this flre, was lying at the wharf of J. Big- ler & Co. and receiving a cargo of timber for an Ant. Werp house, had a narrow escape from destruction. On the voyage to this country the master of the Lothair, Lawrence Sneden Leslie, had put his Por- tuguese cook, name unknown, in trons, on the charge of atteropting to poison him, It was aiso alleged that among tne effects of the cook was found 4 vial of poison. On arriving at Newourg no effort was made to have the cook brought to justice, the captain saying that his case would be attended to on the return to Liver- pool, where the Portuguese had been ship- ped. Tne cook, however, was heard to swear Vengeauce against tne vessel, her oficers, and in paritcular against her second mate, towards whom he entertained, for some reasoa or other, feelings of the bitierest hate. A short me after tie fire the Lotuair sailed for Antwerp, and the sur caused in Newburg by the story of the troubies on shipboard soon ceased. Recently, however, t has been revived in consequence ol letters received from Antwerp reporting further — disturb- auces on the Lothair. While she was uuload- ing in that city the second mate and the cook got mto a wrangle, the flery Portuguese seized the mate around the middie and threw bin over the side of the vessel. In las fall be struck ou some umbers and lus back was broken, death re- sulting in two days alter the affray, The Vortu- guese was arrested and held for trial, and will provably be imprisoned for live. The captain expresses his stroug belief that the establishment of J. bigier & Co. was fired vy ttus Portuguese cook, who by tls means hoped to carry out lis threats Of vengeance aguinstethe Lothair and her officers; and altnough there is no fact directly connecting him with the incenatary act, yet the opinion of many Newburgers, as weil as of at least one member of the firm named, and of the ofMicers of the Lothair, is tat the cook was the guilty party. If such was the cuse the Portuguese came Very near the accomplishment of his desizn, tor the sawmill aud lumber burned with a flerce fame and the bows of the Lothair were but twenty yards from the lames. The pitch boiled out of her seams, her sie was smoking and holes were burned in the awning of her deck, when by good Joriune the ferryboat Union steamed up and reioved her to a place of safety. Aminute or two more In her ie es sitaation would have been fatal to the erat, RAILROAD’ REQUIREMENTS, Rapid Transit Wan in the Hudson River Towps—Yropesed “New Departure?” at Youkers. The committee of twenty-five citizens, appointed at & pubitc meeting held in Yonkers, Westchester coun- ty, last Saturday evening, a report of which has al- ready appeared 1y these columns, met in that village on Thursday for the purpose of devising measures for attaining the desired object, viz:—petter rall- road accommodations and a more speeay means of communicating with New York. Among otter business transacted was the appolutment of a com- mittee to examine and report as to what are the nights of traveliers, and the duties of the New York Central and iludson River Rallroad Company as common carriers under their charter and tue laws Of the Stave. On motion the following preamble and resolutions were unanlunously adopted:— Whereas the construction of ® public dock would prove an Important step in the direction of rvouring inersaced facill- tes Tor travel between New York nnd Youkers: thereture d, ‘That the committes request the Jtoard ut Trus- tees topetttion the Legisiature for power to consruct dock ou the Hudson Iver, to be owned and coutrolied by the village, Resolved, That three snb-coramittees be appointed by the chairman of this committee, one to confer with the oflcert of the Hudson River Railroad Company to secure better uo- ‘com modations (rom that company, one to ascertain and re- port as lo the propriety tot estavilshing @ line of ferryboats nkeru and New York, ada third to confer with f the Boston an York Railroad Company nd those of the Fievated allroad in reference to an jude- pendent Jing of railroad, Resolved, That the Committee on Hudson River Raiiroxd be insiricted to demand the restoration of ail facilities Lere- tofore enjoyed, the une of clean aud comfortable cars, (ue rubbing Upon (ime, and the runging of frequent trains duriog the evening up to Lull-past eleven o'clock, The mecting then adjourned, to meet again at the call of Wie chairman, HOGAN'S LAST SPREB, A Woman Hicked Almost to Death by a Drunken RuMan, Peter Hogan, a well known rough of the Eleventh ward, went into the lager beer saloon 732 East Ninth street at about ten o'clock yesterday mora- ing and called for drinks, but refused payment, Mrs, Catnarine Humuieli, the attendant, remon- strating. Hogan stlenced her expostulations by knocking her down and pratally kickin her in the abdomen, Onticer Foskett of ne Eloventh precinct, went to arrest the scoundrel, ‘The lavter struck lim iu the face and grappled him by the tavoat, Alter some trouble he was finaily cuptared and taken to Basex Market, where Justice Scott held jitin to awalt the result of the woman's wries. Mrs. Jiummell, tt seems, was carried up re (rom tiie Balove utterly tnsensible, aud from phe Wai Bol seveves The captain’s story of the hardships and sufter- | within a short distance of his destination he was | but towards wight the wind abated souie- | statements of the aWendng physician itis feared { AB. THE PACIFIC COAST. General Schoficld Gives the Apache Indians the Alternative of Remaining on the Reser- vation or Being Exterminated—The Wicken- burg Massacre—Breach of Promise Case. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 23, 1871 General Schofield, Commander gf the Military District of the Pacino, has issued a siriugent order concerning military operations against the Apache Indians in Arizona, the eifect of which will be to compel them to goon the reservation and remain tnere, where tuey will be protected and fed, or take the alternative of being exterminated. The order meets warm approval in San Francisco, and it 1s believed that if carried out it will give a lasting peace to the Territory. leave no possibility of aoubt that F, M. Loring, of Wheeler’s expedition, was killea by the Apaches. mation leaves no doubt that Cochise is at Canada | Alamusa. Hime, who was arrested here recently for the robbery of the National Bank of Great Bar- taken back immediately for trial. It is currently reported that the Stockton and Copperopohs and the Stockton and Visalla rall- Toads have been sold to the Central Pacitic, which, with tue excepuon Of a short ine in Los Augeles county, DOW OWS CVery rou Of railroad in California, ‘The great breach of promise and seduction suit of Miss L. K. Turner against Sedor Caledonio urtes, a banker of Hermosillo, Mexico, divides public alien | lon with vue Horace Hawes contested will case. atterwards an employé im the United states Branch Aint in Unis cliy. Sue was subsequently a cierk in the treasury bepartiment, at Washington. She 18 & vaughter of the Jae Admiral ‘iurner, of the United States Navy. Miss ‘Turner ciaims tial sie Was seduced by Ortes under a promise of marriage while she was living 10 bis family in the capacity of | | governess to lus children, and that the criminal } mtunacy was coutinued for several years in Us city. she asks for damages in the sum Of $202,000. cht Marquesas Islanders, alleged to be mute ‘3 vom the crew of the whaling bark Koman, of foundiand, were brougitt to tus city irom | Tahiil this week for trial; but as the captaia of the vessel has gone Kast it ig likely there will pe no prosecution of the case. ‘The weather contnucs extremely hot and dry. REFORMATORY FOR FEMALE JUVENILES. New Jersey Provides for Ber Young Female Crinaini ‘The following proclamation, just issued by Gover- nor Randolph, of New Jersey, gives effect to an act ol the Legisiature which cannot fail to be produce tive of ncalculavle benefit to the unfortunate class | for which it is desigued:— Whereas, by the twentieth section of an act of the Legis- | Eeinne of New Jersey, entitied ndustrial KAN uct 10 estab.isu a Stale Ging,” approved April 4, 16i1) it is tha: when the butidings and pret School authorized by tis acs tie trustee, solu nor thereof upon which he shail issue his proclamation of the fact, and | the provisions of this act in re'aion te commitments’ sual not go into effect until such prociamation be is-aed;” and Whereas the said trustees incu: pormie] Ly the sald nov uncer the name of The irustees of the State Ludustriai School for Girls,” have, by resolution, fucormed me that the buildings and precnises of the salt Reorm Schvol are now so prepared for tue reception of pupils: Now, there.ore, 1, £uizovoRE F, RANDOLPH, Governor of the State of New Jersey, by virtue of aniharity' ia me vested, and ia conformity with the provisions of an act of the Legis: Jature evtiiied “An act to establish a State Industrial School for Giria” do issue this, my proclamation, aud hereby pro- c.aim and declare the fact that the buildings and premises of the Industrial School authorized by the said act are now pre: pared for the reception of pupus, and that the provisions uf the suid act relative to commitments do yo into effect trom and after the date hereot. Given under my haud, and the Great Seal of the State of New dersey, at Yrenton, this: day of November, 1871. THEODORE F, RANDOLPH. H.C, Kracy, Secretary of State. ‘The premises set apart jor the Reformatory are known as Fine Grove, lately used as a military | academy. Pine Grove is avout two miles from Trenton City Hall, ou the bank of the Delaware, and School ‘ior ‘The detatis of the Wickenburg (Arwona\ massacre | Miss ‘Turner Was formerly a school wacier, and | | her at hoine. | daughter of @ wowan who lives tu a narrow room 1s admiratly adapted for the purpose set fort in the proclamation. AVAL INTELLIGENCE, The Accident to the Colorado. YOROHAMA, OCt, 20, 1872. The United States flagship Ovlorado has just re- turned here from Yokoska, where she has been une dergolng repairs, having gone from here for tne purpose on the 20th September. Her injuries re- ceived by runuing on rocks, coming through the Inland Sea, came very near being serious. But for the fact of running over a bar before striking the rocks, she Would have propably been a total loss, As it was, scraping over the bar diminished her speed so much that she struck on the rocks with greatiy reduced force. Even this gave her a very severe shock, carrying away her fore foot, as it 13 termed, and thea as she swung around with her side on the recks she received several severe bruises amidships, fortunately in the strongest part, Where her timbers are firmly supported by interior knees. It was found necessary to give her an entire Jore foot and snoe and | ten of her tmbers on the starboard side amidships, about Six [eet below the Water hue, sie came 80 near going high and dry at the time of tie accident thut When she was found to be hard and fust the sharp points of rocs could be seen Leur the surface Oi Lue waier a few Leet irom her side, Tne accident happened Oa Siuonescki Straits, just abreast of a buoy, tu @ narrow chaanel, with Tapid current, and resulted from the fact that the plot, or navigator, or beta, Dad lorgottea which side of the buoy to go, thouh the Bayigator had passed 1 twice this year, aud the pilot a Lumber of Umes. Going on Lue port tustead o: the starboard side they rai On the Very rocks Lue LUOY Was piaced there Lo warn thea against. James Statiord, seaman, died on board the Colo- Tado on Une 20th Inst, Oi heart disease, aged cwenty- eight. A native oi Maine. The Alaska J8 at Nagasaki aud the Benicia at Shanghae. ‘Jue Monocacy is surveying in the neighborhood of Woosuag, aud the Palos is at Newehwang. ‘The Ashuciolis engaged iu surveying Wie Yaugtzee, TOE NEW JERSEY EXPLOSION AT STATE HOUSE. Yesterday morning an explosion of gas occurred which did considerable damage to the room adjoin. ing the new Senate Chamber, known as the Bui room, in Trenton, When the workmen left on ‘Thursday night some one turned the gas of in tne room mentioned, and, though tue light was extin- guished, the tap was turned completely around, aad ail bight the gas escaped, filling the room with the combustible material. About halt past seven o'clock yesterday morning @ work man, it 18 supposed, went to strike a match agaist the side of the Senate Chamber Qoor leaiing to the rooms where the dam- age is done for the purpose of lighting a cigar. An cxplosion immediately followed. A painter named Bennett was thrown twenty feet, and bad bw hand badiycut Anotner painter was turowu among the pillars of the Presi- dens alcove. Bennett was injured, vat nut s ously; the other escaped without injury Tne explosion dixlodged @& brick wall juily twelve iuches in width that divides the Biil room from the main corridor of the State Louse, it must now be taken dowa and revuilt, ‘Ibe explosion Uirew down the partivon wall dividing lie entrance to the Senate Chuinber and Bil room, burst one doer into iragments and Shattered anciher, ‘Ihe skyiights of tie Bil room were iowa away, ligtts over the dvors, and, pausing up the Senate Chamber, wre out some of ine lighis o1 the dome, ‘fhe plaster was cracked and siaken considerably, aud tie place looked, Alter the explosion, as if there had been a gener: assault made on it. ‘The Joss 18 not very great; but the delay It will occasion 1s to be deplored, because every moment Is valuable in getting the auditions to the State House finished tn ime tor the meeting of the Legisiature. Fortunately, the beautiful fresco- ing of Lue seuate Chamber 1s uninjured by the accl- deut. EXPLOSION IN HARPER'S BUILDING, At nine o'clock yesterday morning the occupants of the Harper building, iu Frankfort square, were precipitated into an unusual excitement by an ex- plosion of gas, that wounded James Granam, the fireman, who was sent to the Park Mospital, The alarm of fire was given by an of- cer of the Sanitary Squad, and it was promptly put out, A examination showed that one of he gas pipes leading trough ihe botier room had been leaking during the night aud fil the room with gas, Which ignited and caused tne explosion as soun as ihe light was brougitin, The [ng roof of ue centre building Was blown Out, caus- ipg © damage of $60. No furtuer damage was one. LARGE FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA, PHILADELPHIA, Nov, 24, 1871. A fire broke out last night at 603 Commerce street, occupled by the English firm of Wiisun, Hawks worth, Ellis & Co., dealers in SheMeld haraware, the establishment was totally uestroyed, The in- surance on Ue stock Is $20,000, divided among Hngiish and Pullade.phia ofices, The Ore extenled to 67, Heaton & Denkla’s hard- ware 6 ier hen toes Wily insured; and to bod, N WAKE BIWrGs fee ¥ SWIG s Loss $19,000, fully | BURNED TO A CRISP. A Little Child Burned to Death While Its Mother Was at Church—A Mossage to Her An- nounced by the Priest—The Sad Story of tho Tragedy. After the solemnities of the mass on Thursday morning, while Father Caughly was preaching in the pulpit of the Church of St. John the Evangellst, he was mlerrupted by @ messenger from the sacr‘sty, who handed him a small slip of paper, After a long pause he again spoke to the people, asking if there was @ woman present named Curtis, and, if there were such, requesting her. to go into the vestry ‘as some one wished to see her, A woman, whose ny | Dame is Curtin, arose and passed out during the hush The Arizona Citizen states that the latest infor- that fovlowed, She soon returned, however, and it ‘was agalu announced that some oue had come in haste to flud Mrs, Curtis. When no one came for. ward the priest explained the reason of the tuter- | Tuption—that a child, whose motuer was a woman rington, Mass, confesses everything, aud will be | named Curtis, had been BURNED TO DEATH while the latter was absent at church, and it was supposed atthe Churca of St, John. This produced a deep sensation in the assemblage; women wrang their hands and uttered under their breath exclama- mations of pity to one ano:her, Many surmised that the real Mrs. Curtis was one residing at No. 210 East Fifty-fourth street, and so hastened to sug- gest It to the priest; but no woman answered a second time to the announcement. It was only a few hours afterwards that these iriends of Mrs. Cur- tis learned the vernication of their sickening fears, Meanwhile the priest continued his sermon, and closed by referring in touching terms to the terrible accident which had cecurred, The people then dis- persed, Aveporter yesterday proceeded to No. 210 t Fifty-fourth street and entering the narrow, Bare and dirty hall, mounted up a rickety flight of stairs to the second story, where he knocked at the first door to which he came. A muiiied voice from within cried out, “Come in!” and, turning the knob, only apparent comforts of lile were several rude chairs and benches anda bare table, The indica- Uons of pitiable poverty were numerous, ana a wo- man with > A BSHRIVELLED PACE, was laboring at @ washtab in the middie of a cloud of steam, out of which she peered at the stranger inquiringly. A young woman sat at the window, Very readily both women fell into the recital of the death of the child, the parents 0: whom lived at the other end of the gloomy hall, The lauer had gone | to bury the blackened body of their dead daring UNDER TUE SOD OF CALVARY CEMETERY, but the three little brothers were at home and were cailed in by the Womed, and helped m telling the story. fie name of the unfortunate littic girl was Annie Curils, aged jour years and six mouths. On Thurs: day morning the mother went to church, leaving The child called ina playmate, the on the same floor with her honest-facea husband, in the course of their play Ana Bou some splinters of wood and amused herself by lighUng them at the tire, This ior some time ‘was only interrupted once, and then by her goin, to the door, 1ocking It, wrapping the Key in an old @pron and hiding MW between a chair and the wail, After this she returned to the sticks and stood lighting ove at the door of the siove wiuilie ber play mate wus similarly engaged, wuen her pianolore suddenly caught te flames and BLAZED UP WITH FRIGHTFUL RAPIDITY. The other little girl, who is but two years old, ‘stood by and saw ler agony. ny one woman at the washtub thus continued the “My litule girl was playing in the hall and seea the light through the litte glass over the door and she screamed, “On! the bouse 1s atire.”” She run up stairs then and told the lady up stairs that the house was afire and that she could not open the door ; then she ran down stairs, and the man what lives next door, he came up and broke open the door, And @ woman that was passing—a Mrs, Doyle—the child screamed to her what the matter Was, and she rushed up stairs just as the door was burst open, and there stood that poor child all ablaze ana JUST BURNED TO A CRISP. She dragged her out aud wrapped her shawl about her. ‘Then we put her under the hydrant m the hall and put the fire out. The mother got the word which was sent to the church justas she reacnea the door of her home. emid was Tyin’ at the door and her child was A SCREAMIN? WITH THE PATN, It happened at ten o'clock, and sue died at three im the afternoon. She was vurnt black all over. Her face wasn’t so bad, but her little hands and her stomach across—I seed her when she was stripped— Oh tawiul. And wuile she was aburnin’, said the boy, she called ‘Daddy,’ just when her clos: was commencing to light. ‘An atter she was barned she spoke to the jather, just betore she died, and told him where the key was.” By this time it was dark, and the reporter could hardly see the hard-lined face of the old woman and the fresher ones of the young woman and the cil- dren in the dim light. “ints ig the sixtn child in Calvary, and only the three voys left, Ob! 1l’s hard Ls bg poor tather and mother of her, IVs awiul ard. Before the burial yesterday an Inquest was held by Coroner Herrman on the body of tne child, NOT AN INCORPORATOR. To Tne Eprror oF THe HERALD:— Without my own agency or previous knowledge, and through the partiality, I doubt not, ofsome friend in the Legislature, my name was placed in the list of corporators of the Bowing Green Savings Bank in its act of incorporation, May 19, 1868 I was then Surrogate, and had large amounts of trust funds in my hands, and it seemed to me improper that I shoula take part in the management of a bank lor savings, 1 deciined, therclore, to act as trustee, Ihave never attended a meeting of the board. 1 have never entered the dvors of the bank. The charter provides that any trustee declining to act for four Mouths shall forieit bis seat, and, as the only connection I had with the concern was that coulerred upon me by the act of the Legislature it ceased in the fail of 1808. GIDEON J. TUCKER. New YORK, Nov. 24, 1871, RAILBOAD CASUALTY. The case of James Bedford, the man who was fatally crushed corner of Twenty-flith street and Second avenue on the evening of November 4, by car 16 of the Second avenue line, was yesterday commenced before Coroner Herrman at tue City Hail. The evidence showed tnat the deceased, while grossly intoxicated, ran from the sidewalk, where he had been standing with a frend, towards the car, and, stumbling against the track, fell before the wheel, which passed over his right leg before the driver had time to stop the car Oficer Clinchy, of the Eighteenth precinct, who came up directly afterwards, unwittingly arrested Frederick H. Butler, the conductor, who saw noth of the accident, and hurried him off towar the station house, instead of allowing hun to remain and look after the dying man. Before reaching the lock-up, however, Butler was released by order of Sergeant Lownie, Who chanced to meet them and returned to the scene of the accident, but im the meantime de- ceased had heen removed to Bellevue Lospital, ‘The testimony went to show that the occurrence was accidental, but in the absence of Ollicer egal the invesugation was postponed untti Monday nex! Deceased was thirty-seven years of age, born in Eng- land, and lived at 419 Canal street, ‘It is satd he has leit @ Widow and several children in we old country, THE CHILLICOTHE MURDER. An Annlysis of the Stomach Shows Against Blackbur Cartiicoras, Ohio, Nov. 24, 1871, Professor Joseph M. Locke, an analytical chemist Of Cincinnati, made his report of the analysis of the stomach and viscera of Mary Jane Loveil to-day, ana Which is substantially tols:—ise found strychnia in the stomach, liver an’ kidaeys, and proved the exist- ence of wine in the contents of the stomach. It was shown in evidence that Blackburn bought port wine during the day on which Miss Lovell and he rode down to the gien in lift Run, ‘The clothing of the murdered woman was pro- duced in Conrt and recognized by witnesses who found the body. The heeis of the galters and hose half way up were daubed with yellow ciay, also the skirt and underskirt; and it Was shown that the death struggt toox piace seventy or elglty yards distant {rom where the body was found—thus giv- ing the Impression that ve body Was cacried from the place of death to the spot where discovered, VIEWS OF THE PAST. NOVEMBER 25, 1865—James Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre, es- caped from Richmond Prison, Dublin, 3—Batle of Missionary Ridge; revel General Bragg’s forces utterly acleated by General Grands troops. 1796—King Stanisiaas, of Poland, resigned hia ‘ crown, ana his kingdom was divided, 1783—New Lurk evacuated by the Brisk Woops, jontents of the Victim's Polson—Strong Evidence . = = ° EVACUATION DAY. Its Memories and Commemoration. - To-day 18 the elghty-eighth auniversary of the evacution of our city by the British army, the memorable event which occurred on the 25th of November, 1783. As the years roll on the remem- brance of the days which nave been signalized In the making of a nation’s Itfe becomes less vivid, and enthusiasm is replaced in the public heart by j @calmer gratitude, but not leas earnest and stead- fast, * . TOEPAR wilt not bé A day of brilliant pageantry—of impos- ing processions with martial music—of rushing crowds and patriotic speech-making. Men will read. their newspapers at the breakfast table; mammas { and daughters will chatas usual over the coifec: but possibly there may be some mental excitement tm the young lads and lasses wio havitualty plod to school at tie stroke of nine, and who to-day, ac- cording to the sanctioned custom, will be at lyorty Lo throw aside both books an. cares and relax weir diligence in honor of the patriotism of their fore- Jatiers, There will pe some Locking Im Lue streets, although Do grand assembung; {0 its stead A QUIRY SENTIMENT will pervade every household, perhaps stronzer in its silent miluence than any Kind of ostentation, Last year twenty-three of the veterans of 1812 met at Military Uail, in the Bowery, aud alter a parade proceded to the Continental Hotel, where they did suCK jUsiice LO an ample feast as could be expected from sucu ancient and tried soldiers. Some, doubt- has yet been heard of any proposed repetition of THE LAST YEAW'S FESTiVITIES. Doubtless there is @ period when age acknowl- edges that It cannot be young again and when it shrinks from plodding for a day through muddy streets, shouldering a rusty musket which dia ser- vive in the good old times, Be this a3 16 may, the celebration of to-day, if there be any, will not be in excess of the ieeling which prompts them, and be- yonu a lew quiet parades and wiget excursions not much js anuctpated, FOREIGN MISC LLANEQUS ITEMS. Cholera 1s on the decrease in Russia. Tn. Belfast Chivago Fund amounts to £5,000, ‘The goodwill and fittings of nine spirit shops were sold in Glasgow recently for £4,300, Arouzh diamond from the Cape, weighing over ; twenty-three carats was sold in London for £670. he entered a small, uncarpeted room, 10 which the | Another Burmese embassy 1s shoruy vo start for Englana with letters and presents to the Queen, Itis proposed to erect a covered public Market in York at & cost of upwards of £20,000. Tt has been discovered that the destruction of the Court wheatre at Darmstadt the other day was caused by an explosion of gas ium oue of the upper dressing rooms, In the village of Hasketn, where the English work- men inthe employ of the Salta live, wore than tweaty Engiisimen have airea.ly die lot cholera, ‘Vue Congress of Workmen in Rome, pompously Announced as acungress of Rowmaa workmen, Las prov signal failure. Arepubiican club has been formed in Norwich, England, ‘The promoters kindly disclaim any per- soual hostility to the Queen as a laay, but will en- deavor to substitute, by ail lawful means, a repub- Neun for a mouurchical forw of goverauent. Thereceipts of the Suez Canal during the nine months (January to October), 1871, amounted to 7,736,001, agamst 4,446,001, for the same period last year. These receipts must, however, be doubled to cover the expense o: working und maintenance and the interest oa the obligations. ‘The orders from the British government placing all the military tents and blankets tn the Dominion at the disposal of the Chicago Kelte’ Commitiee aud the telegrams constantly received aunounciag the muniticent gifts trom abroad are creating a profound impression and elicit warm praise. Tne Russian Invalid (government organ) an- nounces that by January 1, i872, 790,000 new or remodelled Krenk rifles wili be ready for use, and ‘that 150,400,000 bail cartridges have been ordered to supply them. The scheme of arming the cavalry regiments with revoivers 13 being vigorously pur- sued, 770.000 roubles having just been added to the 510,000 already assigned for that purpose. In addi- on to Lis 30,000 small arms are expected from Bir- mingham, 14,000 from Sestroretsk and 6,000 from ied as Well a3 69 mutrailieuse batteries of 8 pleces each, Advices from St. Petersburg state that incen- diary fires in the neighborhood of Moscow contint The flames have ceen ragiug for days i the ii mense forest which, 9% six leagues from tne sonth- ern capital of Russia, extend tance on both sides oy the Nischni-Novgorod Ralle way. The coaiflagration covers an extent of more than two leagues square, apd, being’ fanned by the ‘wind, 13 daily assum.ng increa-ed proportions. In the town vi Pocgny, in the government of Czernikow, several churches, sixty-seven warehouses and sev- erat hundreds of houses have been reduced to ashes, besides an immense quantity of mercuandise. ‘Tue damage 1s calculated at more than a milion of roubles (3f 75c. each). The following seems to be the true cause of the difference betweeu France and Italy, tne very ex- istence of Which is, however, denied by the Opinion», When Italy undertouk the respousiviltty for that part of the Papal debt watch veionged to the an- nexed provinces, the papers were stamped and taxed in contormity with the Italan law. When the holders protested against this, the corel gov- ernment exchanged stamped for unstamped obliga- tions, so that the Whole of the expense of the opera- tion was borne by the Papal weasury. Since the “iailof the Papa: government tue distinciton be- tween the stamped and the nustamped papers has ceased, and allare alike subjected tothe stamp duty. Itappears that the ireuch government has taken the part of those cred he Roman chair Who dispute the rignt of the lialian government to apply the Jlallan stamp flaw ta this case, The dag. devurg Gazette considers this a new proof that M. ‘Thiers omits no Opportunity of showing huuself tie irreconcilavie enemy ot Italy, an:t of proving to tie Italians Wattheir only chance of security frum foreign attack lies in amicable relations with Ger- many. FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSHP. ——tThe Kings of Spain and Portugal will shoruy have a meeting. —Geueral Fleury, ex-Ambassador of France to St. Petersburg, has leit Paris tor England. ‘The Queen of Holland recently made the ascent of Mount Vesuvius, belug conveyed in a sedan chair, . —The Emperor of Russta, by last mall accounts, was suill at Livadia, but the Czarovitz and the Ozarevna have leit for St. Petersburg. ——The Chevalier Nigra returned to Paris on Saturday, November 11, and bis post as Italian Minister to France, . —M, Jules Janin, the critic, fills the place of the late atheist philosopher, M. de Suiute Beuve, in the Freuch Academy, =~ ——The Alcalde of Valencia, who received Ama- deus with so much urbanity in that efty, has refused to accept (rom the “foreign” King the Gand Cross of Isabel la Uatolica, ——M. Perier, the Minister of the interlor, has issued an order, shutting up the famous Communist Club of the Rue Grolée, in Lyons. The delay of the Prefect to enforce this order causes inuch comment and some nueasiness, ——Miss Dimock, @ young American lady, twenty- four years of has just veew admitied to the dig- nity of Doctor lu Medicine, Surgery aud Accouche- ment at Zurich, in consequence Of brilliant exanl- natious and a public dissertation, wluch attracted a numerous auditory. —wMr. Henry Coxwell, the aeronaut, replying to the hypothesis of the London 7elegraph, “that oue- half of tho number of proiessional acronauts had been killed In the exercise of the vocation,” says that of the 3,500 ascents executed in Kurope and Aterica fifteen deaths oniy have been recorded, —Shertf! Fraser, Edinburg, having given an opinion that the Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburg could not refuse, legally, to Admit the female medical students to the preitimi- nary examiuation, the Dean has admitted them pro- visionally until tue matter ts decided by the proper autorities. —"The Italian Ministry has proposed that all the royal family should assist at the opeulng of the Pare hament in Rome, The Duchess of Genoa and the Princess Clotilde have refused, in the most positive manner, to submit, it 18 expected that the Queen of Portugal will aiso refuse, ——M, Léon Say, Prefect of the Seine, has given a department. The Communisc members of the Coun- cil, Messrs, ag Motter, Rano, uockroy and others, sent @ letter of excuse,’ in which they say that “in presence of the mourning whtvit the death of so many of their friends and electors has brought upon them” they decline to attend, They say nothing about their friends and constituents sent to the huks or to the penal coionies. They hope, perhaps, to see them re-tored to ireedom belore long, ai (herefore do not mourn them. That's tt. —The Grand Turk 13 not smart, He nas allowed himselt to be “oniselled”’ out of a tres supply to his harem. A few days ago au elderly lady pre- sented Lerself at the port of the Golden Horn with @ “prime lov” of Circassian hours, warranted sound in wind and limb; but the Chief of Police got wind of the arrival of the dainty cargo and went jor it. Who can describe the mingled icelings with which he gazed upon the bewitching syrens? «fter a few Moments’ reflection he resolved—sly old dog—to coutiacate the lotand take them home, —A Paris physiclan writes to ine papers to re- mind the public that about eight hundred ns were secretly assassinated, in batches, night after night, in the underground cellars of the prison of the Conciergerte and their bodies carried away to ‘ne Cemetery of Mont Parnasse, Can sap bill be more terrible or more heartrendtng than those mtd- ight fusilades, in which eight hundred innocent age were cruelly murdered by those for whom ‘Thiers promises moderation, or clemency, fcr that 8 Lhe Word for which tho other was substituted ¢ Those whappy victims are already forgotten by the public, althouga the Doctor in question points to certain persons as Low | able to ‘all the informa Mon that cau bo de! less, of tue twenty-three are sill living, but nothing | dinner to the members of the Council General of that | vo all Imaiense dis- | ; denied ‘ THAT BLACK FRUAY surr. Motion to Di:miss the Com-~ plaint Denied. The Defendants Fut In Their Testimony, JIM FISK, J2., ON THE srann Another crowd filed yesterday the Superior Court room, before Judge McCunn, to near the continua tion of the suit broaght against Messrs. Smitn, Mar- ‘un, Gould, Bates, Belden and Fisk for failing to pay for gold sold to them on the ‘faursday of Septem- ber, 1870, before the Black Friday at 142%. Juage Mcvann, immediately on the opening of te Court, THE MOTION FOR A NONSUIT, giving the following opinion:—“By section 117 of the Code of Procedure all persons having an tater- est in the subject of the action and ia obtain- ing the reliet demandea may be joined as plaintia. The first agreement be. tween Bonner and J. 0. Davis & Co. and the second one sets out in the complaint expressly communicates, .and reseryes to each of those par- ties an interest in the claim now in controversy; heace both J. 0. Davis & Co. and Bonner are pro- per parties to this action, aud the complaint cannot be dismissed as to either. Moreover, the interests of these two parties are obviously -Joint, and are properly united in tie same action. The contract in question providing for the sale of gold ot the value of over Alty dollars 1s a contract within the provisjous of the statute of irauds, But the bonght and sola notes signed by the agents of the par- ules to the contract consticute a contract in writing subscribed by the parties or their agents, and so satisfy the requirements of the statute. The contract, therefore, as to form ts valid and obliga. tory; whether or not the contract in controversy falls within the statute against betting and gaming 1s not now necessary to determine. It suffices at present to say that the onjection is not so obviously. untenable as to warrant me in refusing to permik the defendants to amend their answer by mserting the defence of illegality of the contract, I shalt allow the amendmeut, and afterwards, where the guestion improperly comes up in the progress of the trial, [shall be prepared to rule distinctly on the sufiicieacy of the defence.” TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENCE. After the above decision Mr. Shearman opened the case for the defence. He claimed that except as to Martin, Smith and Bates ths transaction was a gambling transaction, the parties merely gam- bing in gold, and having no intention to give or receive the gold, only to settle diiferences, and thas the latter became impossivle under the occurrences oj the Black Friday; ind this element being altered, the whole contract was viliated. ‘ Mr. Small, one of the defendants, positively con. tradicted the testimony of Mr. speyers, as far as it related to himself, Mr. Heath also denied the truth of Mr. Speyer’s testimony relating to himsell, remarking that his partner had control of the details, and he knew nothe ing about them. Mr. born was next put on the stand, but nig testimony was nothing specially important, FISK, JR., ON THE STAND, Q. You are one of these defendants? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you on Thursday of the gold week authorize Mr. Kelaen or Allbert Speyers to purchase gold on your account? A. No. sir. ui ed + of them made? Did you in o'clock of that day, in the presence of Air. Goul mith, say to Smith:—4 Y $1,000,000, aad you, Heath, take $1,000,000? A. No, sir. Yj Cross-examined—Q, Did you have an interviews with these parties, featn, Spey ore and reg ee | any place on the alternoon of Tharsday? A. Lt no interview with Mr. Speyera. Q, Did you see Speyers? Q Yes, sir; I think & saw him that day in Mr. Heath’s ofiice, when ne came in there on the afternoon of Thursday. Q. via you see him before then? A. No, sir; was not there until atternoon, Q. Were you notin the a of Wall and Broad before aiternoon? A, You.asked about in Mr. Heath's office; 1 was not at Mr. Heath’s eficé came tn, until afternoon. Did you have aa A. No, ‘sir. Q. You say Speyers interview with him? Q. Were you not in Mr. Heath’s office im the morn- eth jo, sir, 1 dou't think I was; 1 am not pozitive, Q. What time did you get down that morning? A. Idon’t remember, Q. Do you remember whether it was before or after the hour of the Board? A, No, sir. Q. Did you spend most of the day in the neighbors hooa of Wall aid Broad strects, A. I can’t remene ber. Q Can’tyou remember whether you spent the most of Thursday down town or not? A. No, gir. q Were you down town on Wednesday? A. & on at iin parchbette Seek cal . Were you engaged in pu weinesay? A. Ttunk not; but don’t remembers Q. You were inicresied in the purchage of gold ta yf large amount that week, Were you not? As (0, wir. You don’t recollect whether you purchased any Inesday? A, 1 don't. Q. ‘Tuesday? A. Don’t remember. Q. Ind you parctia: nv on Thursday? A. I gave no orders to purchase any on Thursday of any one. Q. Do you méau t you didn’t purchase any on ‘Thursday? A. [gave no order. . } Q. Did you authorize anybody else to give any order? A. No, su Q. Did you have on Thursday, Q. Or with A. No, sit. Q. Any conversation with Mr. Belden that day about ciuploying anybouy to purchase gold’ A. No, sit. Q. Lasked you if you were interested in any pur- chases of gold on Tiursday, and you didn’t answer my question, A. Yes I did; 1 said, “No, sir.’? Q. You said, ‘I gave no order;”’ What co you say now to my questions A. No, sir, Q You know Mr. Speyers? A, Yes, sit, How long have you known him? A. Since avout the 24th of September, 1869. Q What day of vie week was the 24th? A. riday. eee you know Speyers before that time? «NO, sit. Q. You had seen him in the street? A. No, sir. You don't remember, then, whether you saw hn on ey A. I said I thougnt he came inte Heath’s oMice; I didn’t speak to him or of him. Q. Were you introduced to him on;Friday? A, Yes, sir. Q, By whom? A. Mr. Belden. Q And had never spoken to him before? A. Noy Bir. ‘ By Mr, Freip—Q, On Friday, at Mr. Heath’s offic in the presence of Gould and Belden, aid Speye! -_ = tor mulgins on ‘Thursday's trausactions Ae 0, sit. Q. Did he ever ask you for any margins on Thurs day’s transactions? A. No, sir. by Ex-Judge Evorr—Q. Did Mr. Brown come in there on Friday with reference to margins? A, No, sir; 1 don’t know Mr. Brown. Q. Did anybody cone in there about margina? A, Not to me. Q. To anybovy eise in your presence? A. Not to my recollection, ' Mr. Quincy was next called as a witness after his testimony, which was unimportant, Court was adjourued ull Monday, PROSPECT PARK FAIR GROU. ny conversation with Speycrs Sir, Mr. Belden in reference to Speyers? Ivtsto be hoped that the weather will be suff. ciently pleasant to-day to allow the exhibition of speed announced to take place at this track bee tween the mares Goldsmith Matd and Lucy. It was postponed on Monday last because of the storm then raging, and yesterday's rain may have caused the track to be quite heavy; but @ fewhours of sune shine will make a great change in its condition, aa the soil is such that It becomes @ good track from @ poor one ina few hours auder Javorabie circum stances, ‘There 1s also announced for decision on this tra to-day the great vs match between the tea Honest Allen and mate and Kingston and mate, mUe heats, best three in five. Already this season these clippers, with tueir runners, have trotted two rewarkable races, cach scoring @ victory, and the present coatest may be just as replete with lacident and interest as were the other struggies, The a@nusement will begin at two P, M. promptly. COLORED EMIGRATION TO KANSAS, Sr. Louis, Mo., Nov. 24, 1971. Forty-five colored persons passed through shige clty yesterday en roue to Lawrence county, Kané gas, They are the advance guard of about fivé thousand who will soon fullow, ‘che annual meeting of the stockholders of thé, National Land Company was held here yesterdays ‘rhe report shows that 103,200 acres of land in Kau‘ fas wud Colorado Were soid to actval setuers we the year for the total sun of $409,000, ‘The numd ‘8 801d SLUCE Lie iization of the com: 600, ‘The company is sevtied twenty ait Hes OL LHS land, Charies B. Lowborn, bec y of the Kansas Vocitic nailroad, was re elect tu \ President of the land company,