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’ “DRUGS AND DRUGGISTS. How the New Drug Clerk Law Was Carried Out. Seven Hundred Applications for Licenses and Over Twice the Number of Examinations— Value of Competent Apothecaries—The System in Europe—Tae New York College of Pharmacy—Labors of the Commission. Itis now six months since the Board appoluted for the examination of druggists and prescription clerks was organized. During that period they arranged a pharmaceutical laboratory, ta which the practical examinations were made by the Com- missioners in that department; also a collection of materia medica appliances, samples of plants, seeds and salts for the Commissioners having charge—Messrs. Graham and FrohwWein, A separate room was also provided for the exanmnation of ap- plicantsin Latin prescriptuons, for Professor O'Leary, in the same building, a secretary’s apartment as well as a reception room being also furnished. In tne department of chemistry the Commiston- ers availed themselves of tue extensive laboratory and Jibrary of Proiessor Doremus, President of the Board. As all the toregoing were already provided no expense devolved on ie county. The cxamina- tion im the various departments has been as prac. tical ad possivie, and, as auy one may readily com. prehend, A LABOR OF EXCEEDING DELICACY, when {tis considered that many of the druggists have been forty and fifty years in the business, Beyond ail doubt the examination of druggists and prescription clerks has involved an awount of lavor which has never belore been performed in any city. Within & space of six months most of the draggisis and prescription clerks in the Metropolis nave appeared, not only for a single, but in some cases fur two and three examinauons, Those least prepared bave been mduced to attend the lectures at the College of Pharmacy, which, at the suggestion of the Commussioners, were com Menced earlier than usuai in the season. ‘The course of LECTURES ON POISONS at Bellevue Hospital Medical Colleges was also Unrown open, tree of expense, to the druggists and clerés. ‘The Comuussioners express themselves preatiy delighted at tue improvement exni- lied Dy many of tie clerks and some of the younger druggists who had undergone the course of instruction {or the past fev monuis. ‘The entire numper of ZIStS Ulus far examined 4s 314, and the number pre. Scription Clerks 480, making in all 694 Ot that num- bev a great wany succeeded in passing ule requisite examuation and obWuned (uel | censes; but those Who tatied to dO so were, of course, allowed Wie privilege to read up and again present themseives, BU, according Lo the terms of the law, all persons putuing up prescriptions in future without Ucense irom the Board run tue risk of FINS OR LMPuIsONMENT, p or both, It is understood, moreover, that the sored will in every case be enforced, The wurd is, Of course, @ permanent one, and Gli diuggisis and clerks arriving here from otner cities on appiloution can be examiued, and, Mf successtul, will be given the requisite license. Now, u this law is properly carried out it will Teally be @ great proveciion to the accoimpiushed druggists aud prescription clerks, besides being thal ior witch the 1aW Was made—a certain sale guard to the pubic. Up to the present time any person dad the right to attempt putting up Physicians’ prescriptions irrespective of — Com- eee. to do the importance of such guar- janship has been felt aud acted upon in Lurope, ‘where THOROUGH PR PARATORY STUDIES are demanded and examinations made both at the commencement of tle clerk's career as well as aller le has Guished his education, — In Lreland, tor instance, velure tue mdentures can be drawn up the cundidate must be examiued iu several Latin autnois, inciuding Horace, Virgil and Saliust, as Well as. th Greek, the selecuous generally belug from Aenophon’s Anabusis and the Lestaiment, wo- gether with algebra and the six boeks of Luciid--not that each Oo: hese studies would be particularly set- Vaceavie in pulting up prescriptions, out it indicates thal the student bas had a ceriain amount of intel- lectual deveiopment. In serving his time as an @potavcary (ue apprentice is obviiged to alvend lec tures and ten pass uw severe examination prior to we fully ceased. Medical meu douvtiess appre- clate Ule Value of this exaulnation, as 1 tends to ELEVA(E THE BUSINESS of a druggist to that of a@ proies.iou, and therefore greater iaithfulmess im accurately filliug the pre- scripudns imay be expected; for I a doctor bas diagnusced lus caso, dnd, at the result of his ex. perience, Wrces tte prescruplion, be has to de- pend upon whe iutelligonce and honesty of the druggist or Clerk for its iuifilment, since he probably never sees ite prescription, and, even tf be did, would be anadle perhaps to make the chemical analysis 80 as to determine ils accuracy. Every Inuividual in the city is deeply taterested ta this, for ii utaky Ue attacked by disease, though he mlay have the combiued judgment of the best medi- cal men Of the nietropolis, stul He has to RELY ON THE APOTHECARY for the proper performance of its duty, and per- haps for the salvation of his life. jn fact, the science of medical treatment depends to a very large eX.teut upou the drug maker and the drug aispenser. see that has been charged tne drag. gist lor Lis license is the sane as ts asked in other Medical colleges { the graduates in medicine, the charge for the prescription clerks having been reduced to $10 for cuch license, which of course never requires (0 be repeated, but lithe complaint cad be mde on tie score of excessive charge, for U the feo were reduced‘to the nominal sam of ono Gollar tue value ol the license would, doubtless, become lowered tn the cye of the receiver. from inquiries made it would seem that the mem. bers of the commission sy uipatitize Very much with the drug clerks, Whose labors in most cases com. mence at seven o'clock tu tie moruing and do not end before eleven o'clock at nigiit, Sundays not exe cepted, with, perliaps, one evening in Whe week lor reeregttun, ny of THE DRUG CLERKS COMPLAIN that tine Is not adorded nem to attend lectures at the College o. Plarmacy, \heir labors being 8o great that thoy cannot’ properly pursue their scientific studies. in Lurope it is obligatory on the part of the druggist not oniy to give instruction to bis clerk or bis apprenuce, but toadord kya opportunity lo attend instruction at the University. But When, again, Ute salaries of the drug clerks lere are comparatively small, and not at ali commensurate wiih (ue duties they’ perform; 60 that they cau svarecly afford the expease of a collegiate Course, cven where Ley Lave Uke oppor: 1.’ Some of THE NDED DRUGGISTS of this city, It airs, Lave Lol ouly given their clerks the Opportunity to attead lectures, but geu erous}y lurutshed ai With tickets for the cour The “poput: thal the dispensing of drigs aie a by retail is exceed ingly profital an error; not becau’e tuat Une profits trom single prescriptions are not large, but because the nutnber of preseriptions is small while a great deal of time i required in teir pre- peration, tm Germany tie vrugegtst is protected by Taw, outy a limited number being allowed; hence m1 most of ihe estaullshments here dragg ave to look for thelr support tm the sale of other articles than those properly belonging to tue busiuess of an apothecary, THR NEW LAW concerning liceuses has been of great benefit to the College of Pharmacy, now in existence over forty years. It would seein that the attendance of stu- dents this season has been Weble that of yy, pre- ceding one. Indeed, it- ts to be hoped that beiore Jong that institution, may boast of its proper. cohege vullding, will its chemical laboratory, its practical pharmacy, as well as its suitable ecture soom. Although the six months allotted by law fur the examination of droggists and prescription cierks to obtain their licenses ended yesterday, the Board, ;ermanenuy consututed as tt ia, will conlunue to examine appli- cants in tae rooms set apart for that parpose in the right wing of Protessor Doremus’ house, and all persons dispensing drugs henceforth without the Fequisite license will run the risk of pers the penalty. Looking at what has veen accomplisned within @ comparatively brief period the Com- missioners have certainly labored with great assiduity and with an evident determination to fay out the grand object contempiated by the aA. - “Quacks and Quackery!” To THe EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— The mind of the pud!t; 3 now being agitated With rerorm m"ementa in various ways, in justly Punish! g piirering oMetals who havo so wantonly equandered the many millions so hardly earned by the industrious inhabitants of this city, and aiso for @reform in the indiscriminate vending of dangers us druga and .medicines, and we are empowered by law to prohibit ail those who are found Incapable Of Giling such a responsivie position. Tus law no doubt has some defects, which in time We trust will be rectifed, It also im some joints «appears to be over rigorous, ¢ o/— Yhy should @ physician who holds a diploma Se. NOEs Santi. eek eae ier ae Se Rae CR Bilas edie: tS Rk. ais Drs seat Ie PS i at DMR ee ari EE OE id EA eT OEE a EE Sts Srom @ rocognized medical institution be sub-- jected to the additional expense and trouvie of another examination. The maker of a prescrip. on, @ prior!, must be capable of compounding it, In this point the law is provaniz @ lime unne- cessarily Severo; and it la to ve hoped that ts may also be corrected, hig naturally inwoduces aucther Hnportant subject for discussion, and one NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, that seems to be of at least equal importance to that relating to the of dangerous drt i nw copes Ay public 1s end: ae skiltal dr colnpounding ng Mucdicines, SO UCR 80 ULat ML requires the incer- ference uf legislation, 18 tt net uigh Ue to take mio consideration he many systems Of quack ery which ute =~ More dangerous to the com- munity than i bus honest dri ts ¥ ‘There 18 no civilized uation in the world wi 80 wany medical charlatans are permitted to practice ther nefarious calling as are to pe iound in America. Al) other houvrable nations have estab- disued Jaws regulating and defintug the moral standing, literary attainments and knowiedge of ine science of medicine requisite before permission is given WO practise. If there 1s suci a law 10 this. country practivally it is a dead letter. No attention 1s pat to it Whatever, and tue consequence is Wat @ Vast nuMIber OL NCTaut and unprincipled men ure taking = AdVuulago of this quiescent State of the jaw and daily inSicting ineaicula- ble damage upon an tnnocent and unsuspecting community, Many Of ticse meu—aud wouien, Wo, for the Mapostors are uot ull mMen—are totally in cupabie of wring 4 scientitic prescription, It 1s @ very occurrence to meet with what 1s calied w prescription (aud neyer was there a greater Wusbumer) Lrom some of these mpostors, aud SUCL wu jumble of uhsclenitic and incompatible mgee- dicnis would puzale auy one to understand their combined mudus operandi on the numun system. How the druggist prepared tt or wiat effect it nad on the unfortunate patient that swailowed i are proble:s that probably the resurrection morn alone can soive, If unskuiul druggisis have slain toeir thousands (@D asserdon no vue will make positively) tho great army Of medical imposiors must have shiln, poisoned and maitreated their tens of thou. sauas, ‘This state of ati has extsted long enouy h, and progress 1n tfus direction 1s not kee! pace with other great moral, social! and civil reiorms, in Mauy Olver Batious professional impostors are as liable to be pauished by law (ined wud imprisoned Or bol) as & sueMK Uiel ts in New York city, and quack doctors bear aout the same relation to’ bon- Orable medical practitioners asa sucak thiel does to a respectable community. Hoth are about equally deserving of contempt. The ie ar healthol an Auierican citizen 1s as Valuable to himself, the com- munity and the State as is tue Ife or health of a cilizen Or subject OF any oiler civilized government. ‘Theretore there shoul be legislation suMetent wo protect him from one of his most msidious and fatal enemies, 1t 1s to be hoped this matter will receive prompt consideration aad be carefully discussed and eventually remedied. ‘Te evil is yearly increasing, and tue soouer it is eradicated the damage will be proportionately less. No Umecan be more pro- pious than the present, Let it be fully understood that no one shall be permitted to practise medicine or prescribe for the sick until he can produce a diploma from wn instuturion recognized by the State, And this wil be a sufictent guarantee of prdtection to the community and of his capavility to wriie a rational prescription, All others should be re- garded a3 quacks and impostors, lable to be pun. ished like ooher maletactors and law-breakers, and the imposition will soon ceuge to ext XR. FARRIBS, M. D, MURDER AND LYNCHING IN TENNESSEE, One Mav Killed and Another Wounded= fhe Murderer Hung to a Tree by Citle zens. a». [From the Nashville Union, Dec. 26.) Ono of the most terrible and shocking tlagedies we have éver been called upon to chronicle took lave stonday night ub Union City, The nature of he bloody deeds as committed (here are enough to shock the senses and appal the iisarts of every one made conversant with the following ciycumstances, gs detatted by a young man who was in Union City Monday night:— Most oi Our readers have been informed of, and doubtless remember, the two daring eapress rob- beries, one of the train on te Mobile and Ohio Railroad, committed last Juiy, near Moscow, by un- known parties, who succeeded in geting $2,100 or $2,209, and ino other in’ October, wale the waln was at Union city, in both of which the Southera Express Company were losers, Detective William A, Pinkerton, of Chicago, in company with detectives Gallagher, Robert Pinker. ton and Connell, have been on the track of these ‘obbers for some time. Within the last few days Ullaw Barton, kdward Russeli, who also goes by whe name of Farrington, and Wiilam Taylor have been captured and their guilt seems to have been preity well established, Alter bemg captured they were taken to Union City and closely guarded, Anticipating Wat a move would be made to rescue the prisoners, and in order to better secure their siae Keeping, burtou and Taylor were placed ina second story room of the Metropolitan Hotel at Union City, and after being handcuitfed and chained to the bed were also tled and each wiin a chain ‘wich was then locked around the body of Detec- tuves Conneil and Robert yimkerton, who occupied the same room. ‘In an oppostie room was confined Edward Russell, who was also handcuffed and heavily chained to the bed. Detective William Pingerton occupied an adjoining room communica- ling with the two rooms in which tne prisouers were contined. Some time in the afternoon of Monday an m- known man, who is said to have come from me nelghvorhood of Reel Foot Lake, got off tne train at Union City, and was seen avout the towa during the evening. Between the hours of eight and ning o'clock of Monday night the watchman, named Mixe Kelly, at the Northwestern depot, saw a man uying to rob a ireight car that stood im the freight yard. The watenman, who has but one arm, ap- proacned the unknown party and told bim “he could not do that,” meaning that he would not allow him to break open the car, ‘fhe parties then had a few words, without aty cause the robber drew lis pistol, and before Mike was able to escape, als- charged his pistol at bim, the snot hittiag Mike in the lower part of the leit side of the neck and coms ing out in the back. Mike catled for help, and immediatcly @ policeman named Kline ran to his assistance. Learning what was up, Kine started in pursuit, and had nob gone far boiore be saw the party who had fred tue shot. As soou as he saw tin Kime rushed fearlessly upon the ruMan and told him to give his arms up. ‘The only reply was another shot. Taking Celiberate aim’ the villain fited again, and ¢re the shurp report died away Kline was killed, the bullet piercing his breast im- mediately under the colar bone. By tals time several citizens rushed to the rescue. Kitne was picked up senseless and carried to the Metropollian, Hotel, Where he lived only a tew min- utes if specchless agony. Although some ten or jitteen minutes had now elapsed since the last suot Was fired, the mur(lerer made no effurt to escape which he could nave effected very eastiy, but re- mained within a few yards of the spot, seem- iugly in no hurry to get away, only blowing & poticemau’s whlstle, evidently for the pur- pose of summouing other desperaie men to his assistauce, At (bis juncture a genUeman, Whose name we have been unavie to leara, rushed trom among tne excited crowd Of citizeus and periormed @ brave act, as the following well and truly telts:-- Gomg up to the murderer he seized nim by the neck aud demanded lus arms, Alchough unarmed nimeci tue murderer unwediately surrendered him- self aud pistols to this bold and fearless man. Wath the ald of others present the murderer was band- cued and taken to the Metropoiitan Hotel aud Were more securely guarded, By thls time it was ascertained that the effort to break open the car was only a sham to divert the attention of the detec- lives in order to release the prisoners in the hotel. Learning this Lict a large nuniber of citizens armed themsel ves and prepared to resist an attack, should gay be made, About twelve o’clock the hotel was surroanded by thirty or forty masked men, who entered the hotel and immediately as- cended the stairs, Detective Pinkerton poked his head out of tho window and asked who was there. He was told to keep quiet else he might have his head taken of by a bullet. This Pingerton did, and tho party then broke open the door and entered the room Where Russell was confined, A large number of shots Were heard and from that Ume until daybreax tie parties th the hotel knew not what had happeved, until going into the above room. they touud Russell dead. The body vore the marks of countless bullet holes, and we may say it was fairly riddled. He was shot to pieces where he Jay handcutted and chained to the bed. Frout the number 0! the reports heard and the bullet holes in his vody, it appears that there must have been at least forty shots dred, Horrtbie as was this scene, where death had so terribly claimed its defenc less victim of man’s just revenge, yet about a quarter of & mile from the town was another equally Mrighttul m its character, for here was seen the lifeless body of the murderer hung to a tree, Aller shooting Russel tha disguised party seized the murderer, and, procceding aown tue rauroad, launched him tato etermity in the above mentioned manner. ‘The body was still hanging when our informant leit yesterday, and no one seemed disposed to du anyibing In the way of removing It. ment in consequence of the bloudy carnival has been vory great. 1b 13 said that hundreds have been to the spot where the murderer's vody was hung. The citizens are @roused to the Importance of ie: reting ont the parties unphoated in the effort to re- legse the prisonera, Circumstances show that there stil] remains a well organized gang oO! robbers in West Tennessee, and that some of them were in the tmmediate vicinity of Union City whea Kline was so foully murdered, THE COST OF TELEGRAPHIO MESSAGES, To mx Environ or TUR Heraup:— My attention has been drawn td & correspondence fn the Tribune of the 16th inst., beaded Cheap Telograpb Tolls," Mr. Gulick complains that the Western Union charges him from $1 10 to @1 50 for sending messages a distance of 200 to OU miles, Mr, Mumford, Vico President of the company, replies that the messages had to pe sent part of the over i that their ol ‘that distance was ‘cen Mee doards be requrde'ns Tow na justity. He further says, with great com) “It te undoes fary to point out that betwi and important offices, audling ® great ow we can afford to o busthees at rates much lower than. between places in (he country, where the number of mei Recessarily United, and the business barely aye ox tatemen' cae ene of he of the Domini. the other, ‘cents; @ oth Wene u) Usiow’ Com pay, bat the eee company here ha “4 regularly paid ten ‘percent per annum to elt SAD then ore him, it Mr, Mumford can rien: Sa ae i sotisued than a we exp et pro service over all ws miform rat And get prompt all oar daasore fe oSgok vata 1 18th The excite- | THE COURTS. UNITED STATES OISTA.CT COUAT—N BANARUP TCY.. Preferences to Creditors, Before Judge Biatchford, In the Matter of John C. Kohisaat, Assignee im Bankruptcy of Harris L. Katzenburgh, vs, Robert McDonala,—In this case Judge Biatepford nas decided that it is now well settled that the giving of @ preference to a credttor by a debtor while the latter ig insolvent cannot be avjudged void therefor at the suit of an assignee in bankruptcy of the debtor un- less the prefercuce 4 made within four months from the tiling of the petition for the adjudication of the debtor in bankruptcy; and that the six months clause of the Uhirty-sixth apd Ullrty-ninth sections of the Bankruptcy act do notjapply to such a suit, UNITED STATES MARSHAL'S OFFICE. During the past year 526 warrants nave becn served by the deputy marsnals attached tothe office of United States Marshal Sharpe. Owing to the re- moval of the tax ona number or articies the busl- ness of the ofMce has not been quite so large as in former years, Twohundred and seventy monitions and 100 capiases have been served, General Sharpe has issued rules to the effect that no deputy shall serve a warrant until he 1s notitled 10 a prover manner of its issue, and that no prisoner after being arrested shail be taken before a United States Commissioner until after the deputy who has effected the arrest has reported at the Marshal's oflice, The following 18a list of the ofi¢ers who consti- tute the staff at present attached to Marshal Sharpe’s — oitic arshal, tenerat George H, Sharpe; Chief Deputy Marshal, vnver Fiske; Chief Clerk, John E. Kennedy; Clerks, Michael P. Sullivan and Wiliam Masten; Deputy Marshuls, John Robin. son, John E. Dowley, David Crowley, Fredérick Bernhard, James ‘furney, James F, Allen, George Peuniman, Jonn J. Kehoe, George B, Purvis and R. KR, Colfax; Messenger, Joseph McNulty. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COUAT. Non-Pay ment of Special Tax. Before Commissioner Shields, The United States vs. C. F. Rost.—The defendant Was held to await the action of the Grand Jury oa a charge of naving done business at 19 Mott strect as @ reiail liquor dealer without paying the special tax reqmrea by law. A Scene of Happiuess—Christaaas in the United Stites Court. Selig Worth, for nearly three months, has been confined in the prison of Ludlow street on a charge of having made a false afMdavit before an As- sessor of Internal Reyenue that another party had @ large quantity of unstamped cigars im his ossession, Worth’s sister made an appeal to the District Attorney in favor of her brother, and that oficer yesterday consented that Worth should be dis- charged upon his own recognizance. The brother and sister went away rejoicing, the order for Worth’s discharge haying been made by Coinmissioner Shields, with the consent of the District Atcorney, Voluntary Petitions in Bankruptcy. John Quinn, Rozel F, Pickert, Adjudications in Ioveiuatary Cases, Samuel Van Winkle, Andrew J. Dupignac, Wal- ter 8. Derby. * Discharges. Daniel P. Smock, John Coleman. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBEAS Decisions. By Judge Cardozo, John Kinzio et al, ys. Thomas Kinzie et alL— Judgment granted. Wall vs. Goctchins et al.—Order granted, Decistons. By Judge Freedman. Johnson vs. Third Avenue Railroad Company.— Order granted, Quackenbos ve. Eagar.—Motion granted. BROOKLYN COURTS, CITY COURT—CRIMINAL BRANCH, The Election Fraad Cases. Before Judge McCue, The trial of Thomas McGif, Michael J. Weldon and John Shandley, the Inspectors of Election in the First district of the Sixth ward, who are in- dicted for placing fraudulent names on the poll list and stuffing the ballot boxes, was resitmeil yester- day morning. Not one-half of the two hundred jurors summoned to attend yestertiay answered to thely names, Among those summoned was Mr. Heory E, Bowen, whom Judge McCue refused to excuse. The Judge remarked that they wanted just such men as Le is. Mr. D. P. BaRNARD, for the defence, challenged the array of jurors, his point being that the presid- ing Judge had noc made the order fourteen days before the beginning of the term, and that the drawing had not taken place fourteen days before the term was held, District Attorney Morrts interposed a demurrer, and the Court. overruled the chalienge, noting the exception taken. ‘The empanelling of the balance of the jury (seven jurors beg required in addition to the five ob- ined on Friday) was then proceeded with, anda complete jury was finaily secured, as follows:— Peter Urawiord, chandler, 70 Ross street; Geo. McGuirk, painter, 170 Poriiand avenue; Joseph Kel- logg, Teal estate, 280 Tompkins avenue; James Campbell, ligaors, 674 Gaies avenue; W. Young- blood, insurance, 46 Downing street; Otto W. Van Tyle, foundry, 18 Fillmore place; Henry Mangles, real estate, 185 Cumberland street; W. M. Hastimgs, stationer, 267 Ryerson street; Thos. U. Young, merchant, 62 Wyckoff street; Abraham Conrad, hoop sturts, 146 Bridge street; George R. Latham, broker, No. 4 St. Felix street; George W. Almey, glass, 26 St. James place. Alter the jury had been sworn in the trial was ad- | jourmed wath “Tuesday. Judge McCue (uscharget he jury until that time and cautioned them not to read or talk about the case. CITY COURT—SPECIAL TERM. More Assessment Litigation. Betore Judge Nei!son. charies Wilson vs, The City of Brooklyn, Me Water and Sewerage Conumussioners and R. W frundy—The defendant, Trundy, was awarded tne contract for repaving Fourth street, Eastern Dis- trict, with a block pavement, and this action is brovglt to restrain the city from paying Trundy and from levying or collecting any assessment for the work. Plaintiff alleges (hat the Water Board aid and comply with the provisions of the act, a3 no pe- tluon of a majority of the property owners was ever presented, and that a majority of the property own- ers are oppo-ed to the work. He further charges mat previous to the awarding of the contract a fraudulent petition was presented, many of the names signed to which were those of parties who did uot own any property on the street. ‘this, ne alleges, tue Board kuew to be a fact before award- ing the contract, The case came up yesterday onademurrer to the complaint, when the argu. ment was beard, Judge Neilson reserved his de- — Stull Moxe of It, George B, Elkins vs, The Sane.—Elkins brings sult to prevent tne laying,and collection of assess- ments for the construction of,sewers fa Dean, Pacific, Bergen and other streets in that vicinity, east of Nostrand and weet of Albany avenue, on the ground that the streetain quest have net been opened vy jaw. Thereiore he contends that the Water Board as no legal right to “construct sewers their, Decision reserved. SUAROGATE'S COUST. Wills Admitted, &e. Before Surrogate Veeder, Surrogate Veeder during the past week admitted to probate the wills of Benjamin J, Libberman, } Michaei Moore, John Slack and Sarai HW. Arnold, al) of the city of Brooklyn. Letters of administration were granted on the estates of the following named persons, viz.:— Lucretia. Ann Voorhtes, of the town of Flatlands; | George McCauley, Jotm Black, Mary EF. Smith, | Phebe Jane Miller, Ada Brown, Elsey Ricks, Lucy | Ann Holden, Peter Berg and Michael Mowee, ali of the city of Brooklyn, ters of guardianship of the perron and estate | ff Samuel Dikerman were granted to George, Rush. ie rgaret King, Thomas ise 37 Kt . + Duckworth, their mother; of MicGeé, to Michael Shearman, all of the city BURYING A VICTIM OF SMALLPOX.—A tow days ago a young man employed by one of the railroad companies of this State at thelr terminus on the Hud- gon Visited @ pleasant little village among the hills Dot thirty miles trom Newark, the home of the fam- iy of his wie, and taking with him the seeds of the smallpox, Was stricken (own With the disease, At once the father, mother and family fed the house, and but for the devotion of his wi'e he would have been,Jeft aloue, as not a soul could be persuaded to | ‘o near him save the ee doctor, Mle speedily Sted, and the doctor wag oblige’ to lay out tne corpse himself, No inducemenis could prevail on opie to bury him, however, til) at length two men Were found who in night removed the body to the gravevard and placed it in the grave. Before | completely filling \t up they divested themsetves of their clothes and shiveringly threw them in the | grave and a littie dirtover them. Then retiring to | another part of tho seat eo jonned othe | en 4 "— rahe TROTTING, PACING AND RUNING IN CALI- FORyL. Mattie Howard Trots Twenty Miles Withit the Hour. San Francisco, Dec, 8, 1871, ‘The match trotting race against time cameo as per announcement at Agricultural Park yesterday afternoon. This match was made about two months since—Wiiliam Woodward staking $5,000 against $1,000 that a horse could not be produced within ninety days from the time the match was proposed that coukt perform the feat of trotting twenty miles within an honr over a half-mile track, Matue Howard (formerly Kate) was chosen by Colonel Dickey for the performance of this feat, and a brief history of the mare may not be outol piace. J. 3. MeCue, stage man, and Michael Reese, his partner at the time, bought her several years since out of a band of forty horses for $40, and placed her in the sead Of a stage team of, six, where she remained a year, She was then sold for $45, Afterward she was sold to a man in Marysville by T. W. McCQue for $65. Mr. Tobia, of this city, then purchased her for $750, and she finally came ito the hands of Colonel Dickey for $500, to go in the race of yesterday. The mare is @ chestaut, welghs m the neighvor- hood of 775 pounds, well and compactly put to- gether, witn flesh as hard and muscies as strong as one would wish tosee in any horse, and remark- ably Migh-spiritled—generally considered a little hard on the bit, Mattie is about ten years old, and car- ries her head as proudly as@ peacock, She hasa record Of about 2:36, Messrs. Duncan, Weeks and Covey acted as judges, aud the timers were Colonel , 0, Cather- wood, J. H. McAllister and Abner Barker. Barney Rice, an experienced driver, was chosen to hold the reins during the task, and Dick Gouga Was brought Out On the track a3 a teaser, with Colonel Dickey behind him. Rice drove to rule—169 pounsis, selling Was carricd on during most of the hour m which the race was being trotted. At the com- mencement the betting was $1u0 to $24 tiat the lit. tle mare could not accomplish the task which she was about to undertake, ‘The track was cleared gnd the mare called up at about half-past two o'clock. By this ume a large crowd had assembled to witness tis unusually long race; some impelled by curiosity, while a great portion came to “guess” onthe race, either on time or on the mare. All proper arraugements havipg been setced, the har- less eXauuned to see that it Was sound, &c., dlatue ‘Was called up, litde aptucipating what she was ex- pected to do, looking as fresa as a daisy and as full Of life as a young colt. THE RACE, Dick Gough, the teaser, took the lead, the mare trating with her nose close up to the driver of Gough. In this manner they started in on the frst mile. In @ race of this Kmd—twenty miles an hour— great caution is necessary not to go too fast in the first few miles, in order to husband speed for the last of the race, Matue trotted in company with Dick Gough ‘or the first five miles, He was then pulled out, aid the mare went by herself. Soe showed no signs of distress whatever, and looked as game as When she started, the first mile being trotted in 2:69, the second in 236034, third in 330245 fourth in 8:00!; and the dith in 2:56%. Pools sold about The same as when the race commenced, Ab tne end of the tenth mile she jooked very iresh, and extending over cizht seasons, In the course of whicn he ran no fewer than 109 races, thts evergreen son of Stockwell took icave of the turf the Lincoln autumn meet Although ten years old, Historian left off “sound as 4 bell,” and Sir Frederick Johnstone now rides him as “cover hack” at Meiton. Hlstoviamonty Tan once at two yegrs old, ten times at ubree, eight times at four, emiteen times at five, eighteen times at SIX, minewen times at seven, eighteen times at eight, nme umes at nine and nine tines at tea. He won once attwo ‘our and five years oid, six times aL six, lour times ab seven and eignt, and twice ab ten; total, nineteen. Lord of the Valley has been sou to go to Egypt, Master Hacry, by Lord Clifden out of Topsy, has been reuamed Sweet William, Mr. John Watson has purchased Clearweil, by Costa, and The Sapper, by The Aliner, both two year olds, but they remain with Ellioct, at Richmond, WoLVERHAMPTON, 1872-3,—The Stamiord Bienntal Stakes has closed with 71 subscribers, SLOCKTON, 18° ‘ne Lambton Plate and the Zet. aoe Biennial Stakes have each closed with 22 sub- rs rGUST MEETING.—The frince of Wales’ Stakes has closed with 37 subscribers. ‘Tae followme years havo arrived at Chan- lily:—-At T, R. Carter's, M, Detamarre’s Apollon, by Vermont out of Anecdote; Barcelone, by Patricien out of Vera Cruz (dam of Véranda); Kolard, by Ver- mont ont of La Bossue; Claron, by Patricien out of Lady Clocklo (dam of Clotho and Clotaire); Cam. poche, by Vermont ont of Cantonade; Complaime, by Vermont out of Conquéte; Horace, by Patricien out of Honduras; Panurge, by Vermont out of Pano- phe; Vericle, by Patricien out of Vérité; Verone, by Patricien out of Vermetilo (dam_ of Verdure); Vipere, by Patricien out of Violet; Vitriol, by Vermont out of Victorieuse, ana vignette, by Vermont out of Virgule, At J. Watxins’, Comte de Korteux’s Hector, by Hospodar out of Laila Rookh; Heémione, by Nabob out of Whirl; Hercule, by Na- bob out of Magenta; hogier, by Argonaut out of Fiamberge, and colt by Hospodar out of Isabela, At F. Kent's, Fleur ae France, by Ventre St. Gris out of Fornart La Puce, by Ruy Blas out of Etoile Royale; colt by Corporal out of Selina, colt. by Dollar out of Clair de Lune, tilly by Fit#-Giadiavor out of Florence, colt by Emptre out of Lilas, al by Sylvain out or Miss Gloria, filly by Filz-Gladiator, Ley Perdican, by West Australian out of Péron- nelle, « ITEMS FROM ASIA. The HERALD newspaper files from Asia contain the following items ef news from China, Japan and the East India settlements generally, in addition to and detati of the telegraph reports overland from San Francisco and from Europe:— Wo learn from the North Chtna Herald that the foreign community held a meeting on the 7th Octo- ber, to take steps to request the Ministers at Pekin to 108 No time in placing a sufficiently strong naval force at the port during the coming winter, to pro- tect foreign life and property against the ravages of that portion of the male popniation who may be urged by want of food for themselves and for vheiwr familles, arising from an mundation of an extensive tract of tho province having destroyed the present year’s crops of millet and other grain, to rob aad plunder people of property, The same foreign memorialist, estimating from computations made in Pekin, set down the starviny population of the district of China at over two mitl- hhons, which calculation allows about two hundred human beings to a square mile, Thousands must die monthly, during the winter, of sheer starvation and e. re to the inclement weather, owing to thelr lacking food and shelter. We learn trom a correspondent in Canton that the shipment of tea and silk continues to go on, not. had no more appearance of being ttred than most horses show atter wovimg two miles. She was wow twenty-eight seconds alicad of ume, and Ber back- ers nad unbounded confidence in her. After trotting fourteen miles Mattie was thirty-five sec- onds ahead of time. At the end of fifveen miles she was stil game and trotting very smoothly, having 833; seconds leeway to go on. ‘There were several large bets made even that she would not make fifteen miles inside of time, and tuose who had won on the little mare feit very jubilant. Rice was informed at the ehd of every mule Low Mst he was going ana occa- sionally how much ahead of ume. Becting was now In favor of Mattie at $60 to $40. On the seven. teenth mle, as the stand was passed, Rice was gently SinOkte to her, and she responded with her usual spirit, She blew but very little, and was not covered With tuam as some horses are alter going two or three miles without ‘stopping. The friends of Matte were juollant, and the excitement was m- vensified at every circuit made. The eighteenth mile was made in 2:55. After going anotner half mile Dick Gough was started in again, and toilowed stightly behind her the remaining mule and a half. Jn the last mule she made a short break, only the second one in the whole twenty, she having broken once.in the first mile, Wile the last mile was be- tng trotted the crowd became very excited, and as Rice drove under tne line (Wwinggr o1 the $5,000 in 59:30) enthusmstic cheers were given Mattie How- ard and her driver, Barney Rice, 1or performing tne wonderiul feat of trotting tweuty miles within an hour over @ half-mile track. Followiog 13 a SUMMARY, AGRICULTURAL PARK, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7.— Trotung match against time—twenty miles an hour, over @ hall-mile track, torule, Stake $6,000 against 1,000. Time, 201 ies, Time, Time, Miles, ‘Stl Miles, oth AGRICULTURAL PARK, 8 and 9. Dee.” stake aah Lege mile heats, three In five. Mr. Farreil’s s, m. Coquette. 2 Mr. Sargent’s b. g. Grant.... Mr. J. L. Koms gr. m. Lady Grant. Time, 2:46-2:44 '¢—2:41 4 — ik AGRICULTURAL PARK, Dec, 9.—Pacing race, for a jurse and stake of $500; mile heats, three in nve, |. L. oil's 8 g. Longieliow, to wagon...... 1 1 ‘Thomas McClelian’s v, m. Lady St, Clare, in harness, Bias» coee '. 2 Colonel Dickey’s b. b, Buly Campbe' Time, 2:2714—2:234—2:2734. Sawe Day.—Purse $——, trotting; mile leats, three in five, Coionel William Buraitt’s b. m, Nellie Grattan... eoeee Thomas Mcvlellan’s bm. Lady Emi Time, 2:52—2:47. 4g — 2:49 325 AGRICULTURAL PARK, SACRAMENTO, Dec, 5,— Match $2,000, running; mile heats, three in five. Tom Atcnison’s gr. bh. Tom Atchison, by N JOAK... Henry Walsh's mi 1123 Py 121 212 rerey FOREIGN HORSE NOTES. {From the London Sporting Gazette.] THE Past RACING SEASON.—A rather awful season it has been, alike disastrous and bewildering. No backers of our acquaintance have realized that for- tune which the ciever and unselfish gentlemen who date tueir commuuications from unpretentious abodes in the back slums of London, Birmingham, Manchester and Sheileid oifer for their acceptance at the cost of such a small outlay; while alt of us have had tocat much dirt and swallow opinions diametrically opposed to those which we- boldly an. nounced in the spring and summer. No new stars have risen on our turf horizon; but we have to regret the loss ofone cr two old ones that cowd be badly spared. From tho-time when Vulcan and Veranda ran their deal heat at Lincoln, and the old horse commenced those extraordinary series of .erforma ces that were to be among the chief surprises uf the year—two oi the most extraordinary beimg, to our thinking, those one day in tle Cravea, wen be won carrying lost 2b, 4. F., and an hour alterwards Won a place, aiso cariying top weight, over the T. Y. G.—down to the time when Steriung showed himself to be about one of the lastest horses over his own distance probably ever fealed, the luck may be said Lo have been pretty well ail one way. Perhaps it would not be @ very difficult task to prove tnat tt always was, aud that we go like sheep to the siaugater year after year, always wailing for that good time looming I the Tutu that continues to loom Mere, aud WeVver, alas! Comes to the trout. FOLKSTONE RACES. —Efforta are being made to get up ameeting for January or Feoruary next, 1 vie nevessary junds can be obtained, “The faihog through of the autumn mecting thts year has beea greatly regretted, but uuforeseen cirenmstances prevented its bemg held, Sir G. Chetwynd has given the following names to his yearlings: —Bay coit by Cavendish out of Trav ata, Honeydew: ‘chestnut colt by Oxford, dam by Van ire: out of Erato, Chandos; vay Bly by Tho Duke out oi Beachy Head, Madge; and chestnut coit by Scock well out of Heroine by Neasnam, Hero. STHGPLE CHASB OSTPONEMENTS. =I iswith great satisfaction we annonnce tual at the next meetiag of the Grand National Hunt Committee it wil be roposed by Lora Poutett, and seconded by Cap in W. H. Cooper, “That in facture, when It ts neces- | Sary to postpone arace mecting, It shat! not be in the power of the stewards to posipone it beyond the week for wich it has een fixed, but when @ Sunday imtervenes all enirics shal ve pull aad Vous _ Boxes have heen engaged at fattersall'g tor Jo) Royscon’s Lorges in tyalaing, el as ae tk the sth of Lacdet S 1 All Mr. Head’s horses in training, except Bonnle Katle and a yearling, wili shortiy be brought to ime hamtner, Mr.8, Jacobs, “who contemplates relinquishing his sth,” advertises his horses ia training \inirteen in number) W be disposed of Im one .lov—"a bare mn. : HE KINGSCLERE STABLE.—Haxtabic has been en: gaged as first jockey by Sir Joseph Hawiey, and will jor the future reside at Kingscicre. Sir Josep was anxious to Lave the first Of Morris, but the ht. we engagement with I’rince Batthyany interfered ith that arrangement, aud Mr, Merry is bow Mor- ris’ secoud master, The stcepie-chasers Fieatistd, Cristal and Only a Clod have returnaa fo Franc, accompaniel by Toot Toot and ‘ypfimist, whose recept purchase by the Duke o! aimiiton at Tattervail’s was recoiierl U3 othe time, The Doctor has pone back to his Ol, quarters at Holmaiy's Ueve Hil, Ghent, 1 “on price” to Mr, sf, John, for £900, smbcot_ to the | Jatter’s approval hersatter, DsToRiAN.—After au anusualiy lengthy career, ‘withstanding most terrifying accounts trom. the home markets “of losses’’ on the former article, The export of silk 18 tncreasiag, and bids fair to lead to, or at least assist in, a revival of the former glories of Canton trade. The Hon, Mrs, Yelverton was to give readings on the 26th Octover at the Ciry Hall, Hong Kong. ‘The government of Cochin China has decreed the establishment of imontes de piete (pawnbroking oftices) taroughout French Cochin Chiva. The rate Of interest is Mxed at four per cent per month, The year has been characterized by general tran- quility in Cochin China and inereasing bribe and irlendstip on the part of the Annainese Loware the French, . peed rice crops near Saigon are gemerally fall and some districts abundant, ‘The cuttle plauge, which has been very prevalent in the territory of Cochin China, is decreasing, but its ravages have been severe, In Bienhoa, the dis- foe thay has suffered most, 1,540 buffaloes died from The business hitherto carried on at Saigon under the style of Hauschilé & Sornsen has been amalga- mated with that of Messrs. W. G, Hale & Co. A letter dated in Saigon on the 30th of October supplies the following reports:—Her Majesty's steamship Teazer arrived here trom Labuan on the 8th inst., having on board Mr. and Mrs. Pope Hen- nessy, Who availed themselves of the opportunity to visit this rising colony en route to Kurope, for which they leit by the Messageries steamer Meikong on the 16th inst. Onthe 15th inst. the master and eleven of théwrew of the we baer ship Taeping ars rived here in a native junk, their vessel, with a cargo of tea trom Gow Heo New York, having been lost on Lada’s reef on September 22, In order to relieve France as much as possible of the expenses attached to the maintenance of the Saigon colony Governor (Admiral Dupré) 13 adopt- ing all reasonable means 1bie to increase revenue, anu @ native spirit tarm has been tntro- duced, which realized 971,000 francs per annum for a term of three years, Considering that this tax does not incinde spirits of foreign manulacture, the sum optained 1s very large. The Siam papers, published in Bangkok, report, under date o1 October 20, that during the week Hits Majesty the first King af Siam visited a number of the prominent t@mples which are under the special patronage of the government. We hear, says a Bangkok journal, that orders have been given that the Siamese screw steam brig-of-war Enemy Chaser, Captain Waldron, leave this port for Java on the 17th of Ocvober, The Am- bagsador for the eccasioa 1s nis Excellency Phya Surud Puranurax, the Governor of Paknam, 1a brass elepiant for the great esplanade’ at Batavia and the decorations for the prominent oficials of Java who participated in the reception of His Stamese Majesty during the recent visit to that island are i the care of the Ambassador, The inundations and accumulated waters in regions beyond Bangkok are subsiding, and after the new and {ull moon of October the iundations of me eter the river in Bangkok will, it is pro- sybside, iS 0 rumor that thers are grave disturbances Province of Tak, and 1s Highness the P’usauret Rajakan Pendin, His Excellency tue P’ra Kalahome and His Excellency the P’rg Nalwai bave proceeded there from Bangkok. Lhe straits Tires ot the latest date, reporting the nows from the Straits settlement, says:—‘tAlter lasting three days the rioting reported In our last Was ajjiost entirely suppres-ed, On the 27th of Oc- tober our contemporary wrote:—'The night has passed of in perfect quiet, and this morning the streets are full Of le and animation, and business 13 everywhere resaaied, There ts no indication of any desire to renew the disturbance, Both factions seem to ve beaviily tired of figating.’ IN-PAS ION IN CHINA. J. Ep Siaood has published a letter, giv- ing his experiences on this disturbing fanatical question of re ous practtce In China and the agt- tation against the foreign Christian missionarics, Mr. Mahood appends tne following wanslation of one Of the naive placards cirewiated at Loechow:— Recently foreigners (ifterally berbarivns) bavo been se erchy coneoctiug’scl.enues for the purpose ol grievously th. juring the people. They have erected chure ves, Into whi they {nveigle wr Hiceutious purposes, Whoever seos these outlan 4, with their bideous faces and them. Mov happens it, the their aociely and associat ., These staid fureipe, of money, ewploy persons to felgh then engazo old women, — all ley villages to circus pestilence “which ‘They then olf ate bribe anid, i thea eavon by those jof that this will protect them think that within the post eu ty dave after ners isto entice peope thelr sock them into thelr society they canse tbat to thelr Jiceptrous desires, Al er ntier taking this poison viel id tus become Objects of hutre they succeed im get every feroale to edt fike vag Thus wiil you provect © people aonols machinations of these stupid forelgnars, Ua, neuer date of tie 16th of Novem- ber, we tiave the mtelligence of the following events in Bi a India of food grams have risen tn eleven districts was very Meavy weather on the Madras ¢ a at Pondicherry, vi coas' The Benga) government resolved not to re the buoys cud moorings from the Mauah Kiver at General Bourenier and staff, with the troops and coo res, Were gradualiy getting nearer the starting porat for the Lasiat ¢xpediiion, ‘The focal geverament advanced two lakhs to the Kombay munictpality lo alow them to meet press ing demands, Atterapts are to Le made to improve the cuitiva- tion of tobacco In Burmah, The Directors of the Bank of Bengal ratsed cheir rates of interest anu discount one per cence. Dt. Day, (ue new Tuspegtor General of Pisbertes, ackWor of Baroda Luaposed an income tax on some of lils subjects, many of whom migrated To preted LOM py, ‘The sutterers (rom the famine in Persia vero take ing refuge mM Hirat, Seistan and Beltohivtaa, “Ee mauve idea still continned that the object of the Eritish camp at Debit is to oppose a Russian in- vasion of India. Lord Napier returned to Madras (rom bis tour on the Th of November, The Commander-in-Chict left Simla on the sth of November, ‘Huswistan was suteriag from drought and famine, afd ine people asked Wwe Amie for @ remissiva of revenue, Coronel Pelly reported on the vist of October from | Bustire ae alstress bi <n Ne pumvers dying dally Of starvation in the stree Mirihce ‘Ags Khia, of Bombay, bad given 30,000 ron's for (he relief of his distressed coantryyen and fod and clothed wo hundred of taem for some months wt Kombay. | wis visitiug the livers 1a Sind, 0 ‘Guns of the ares roug paiteru were being cast by | the Amin Of CAB li ITEMS FROM AFRICA. The Heratp mau flies from Africa are datel @ Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, on tie sist o October, The journals supply the following tater esting items of news:— ‘The import market continues active, and it { many years since the wholesale trade has been s¢ brisk as it 18 at present, Orders trom the diamond fields, with scarcely any limits to prices, comtin to arrive by each post, and are executed as rap! a8 carriage offers. Indeed, a much larger amot of business Would be done but for the difficulty obialning cai Ee. A tine specimen of Tati gold, weighing twelvd ounees and apparentiy pure, was sent home per Syria by Messra, Mackie, Dunn & Uo. t At the synodical. gathering recently heid in Gras | hamstown the venerable Arendeacon Merriman wad Unantinously chosen as Bishop of the diocase, Besides the losses of stock from the it heavy rains, the Queenstown Free Press reports that shee}! Jarmers suffered very severely from a species of low fever, which has swept Ore their sheep by hun dreds. A list of the losses sustained by thirty-six farmers Is given, from wuich tt appears that out of 67,950 sheep only 24,167 remained alive. Our obituary includes the death of Mr. Willam Birt, of the firm of Birt & Nephew, who died sud. denly at the Nazaar, on saturday, ihe zist of Oc- tober, Mr. Birt had been travelling for the benent of his healt, and had reached the Nazaar on hig Way home when be was seized by a fit of apoplexy. ‘twenty bales of ginned cotton were forwarded, « formignt ago, from Grahamstown to: ine Kowie, by Messrs. “Cawood Brotiters, t0 ue shipped. td Englund. A photograph of the Wagon and ita load Was tuken a3 & memento of Chis Orat load of giicd cotton that has been sent from Grabamstown. ‘The amounsof cotu lately recetved has been large, but not larger than the ‘imereasing trade of ind Province, and espectally ot the diamond fields, re- quires, and stocks continue to be trenchea upon by the demand for the country districts, Stiver is usually scarce, ‘both here and in Cape Town, 8) —— supply recently recetved Ly the Standard Nike The amount of customs duties collected at es Flizabetu during the month of October will excee: £17,600, The following isa statement of the number and value of diamonds shiphed tor England through thd Custom House per Royal Mail steamship Celt:— No. Values J, Simpson £1,800 P. W. Court 66 1,779 Mackte, Dunn & Co. 56 $00 B, Q. Sandford... sesteeree 88 265 Maynards, Buchanan & Co... 7 ig 3IT £4,770 The following i: diamonds shipped per Royal Mail steamship myria through the Cast — J. Simpson, 1 box (385) diamonds, valued at. ..£2,500 E. G, Sandford, 1 box (87) diamonds, valued at “175 ‘Total... < deshanecenvelats TasaMba tame nT Two largo sales of landed property in sunary ine solvent and assigned estates have been held a the fortnignt. In tne assigned estate of BE. He Salmond & Co., the two stores m Jetty street, Port Elizabeth, occupled by Messrs, H. Rutherford and L, Baumann, were par oe to Mx, W. M. rarmer, q. q., lor £1,725, and the latter for £1 toMr. 1. Baumann,’ - ne Cape paper is scarce, and is selling at par to one quarter per cent premium. ‘The fourteenth annual wool fair of Riverdale haa been held. It was much better attended vy buyers, both foreign and local, than im any previous year. Tho first sample put up was knocked down at 16d.; all doubis aud tears immediately vanished, and lotg were freely oftered. ‘There were 108 disposed amounting to 196,870 pounds. This falls short last year’s quantity by about 28,000 pounds, which must be attributed, says a local journal, partly to the severe drought wo have beén suffering iront, but mostiy to a number of our farmers being cajol fair promises into parting with thelr wools out of hand, little dreaming of the mo ye they are in fiicting, not only on themselves bub on the market, by uriving away foreign buyers. ‘The German screw steamer Bismarck, Captain O, Staats, arrived at Port Ellzabeth from ‘Table and Mossel bays on the 20th of October, with a general cargo and passengers. The Sismarck sailed for Hust London and Natal on the 2id of Octoher, tak- ing as passcngers for East Londen Mr, Brunettes for Natal, Captain Foster, Mra Roverts, Mr. M, Brown aud oue colored woman, Acorrespondent writing from Uitenhage to tnd Graag-Remet Herald, under the stgnature of “A Reader,” sa) ‘uitors Of the press here and in Port Elizabeth eschew any correspondence at varl- ance with their own self-suiliciont knowledge.” ‘The inteliigence that the colonia! government had determined upon annoxing the diaimond telds to the colony gave general satisfaction to the inhabit. tants of Port Buzaveth, SHOCKING DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. A Haaband Tries to Kill Fis Wife and Mure . ders His Child. * ‘The Buffalo Kxpiess of Wednesday publishes a re- port of a terrible murder committea at White's Corners, about twelve miles southwest of that city ’ For a tong time past there has resided In the vil- Ii a amity gamed Sprague, consisting of the father, Horace W. or aged twenty-seven; bit wifey Mary Sprague, twenty-five, and three childrén—Eimer, aged five years; Clarence, three years, and Lilen, aged nine months. a couple do not scem to have agreed very well, Sprague being a sbifuiess sort or fellow, and, the neighvors say, having abused his wile, who, how- ever, never made any public complaimt against him, The family lived im the rear of the millinery | which 13 4 two story frame building, on Chure streer, ‘The Sprague family retired to bed 93 usual om Monday evening. Ail slept in tne same bed in the room at the reat of the store. Sprague did not ua- dress, About one o’clock Sprague got up, told his wile that ne could not sleep ant would build @ fire. She heard bim go w Lhe buttery, where be kept his razor, and (he next recollection she had was that he was standing over her trying (o cut her throat. She 1s somewhat larger than’ her husband, and suc- ceeded in wrenching the weapou from hts hand, He then rushed tH the woodvox, seized (he nxe and deait her several blows upon the head. Stunned and biceding she managed to escape out into the store, thence into the street and actoss to one of the neighbors. Itis supposed that upon his wife's escape Sprague kitled the litte girl Euen, her head bvelog nearly severed from her body, . Passing through the store, whicn 1@ carpeted, and contains @ snail counter, a sewug Machine and a few picture frames, our reporter passed into the. roomin which the tragedy occurred. If 18 sepa. vated from the store by @ glass door. On catering at the right is seen a cook stove and taple, to the left Is an alcove, in Which was the bed. The whee place was a scene of horrible disorder. The bed was tossed by [he struggle ant plastered with blood, as were also (he walls and floor, The mangled corpse of the murdered entid was lit ont upon the table, and ali around the apartments were scat- tered the bioody traces of the terrivie seruggte. A coyoner’s inquest Was held, and the jury re- turned a verdict that the child came to her death from biows by an axe mficted by Horace Sprague. During the inquest the lollowing ieident oc currea:—Mr. O'Brien, who was acquainted with Sprague, advanced into the room, when we Jatter immediately recoguized bin, and called dim by name. Mr O'Bricn, after exchanging tie usnal salutations, said, “This ts a sad thing im your faintly. He replied, “It 44 God's doings; the sible says so—don’tyou know that’? Mr. o'irien said he did not. Sprague thea sald, “You wul tad 1c there. It says, ‘Vengeance Is mine, and I will pay, gays the Loru;’ thai's all”? After ‘thas deuvering himself Sprague reiapsed meo stience, an merely answered yes, no, what, unmeaningly to ail ques+ ions put to him. Me ts a dark-compiexioued man, about five feet four inches in heigat, and weighs, robavly, 149 pounds, During the war lie served jun tne Tenth New York cavairy, and te ts a member of tie Granda Army of (he Kepnotte. Great exertement prevatied at White’s Corners, Oi course tha murder ts ine onty topie of conversa. on. Some believe In Sprague’s msautty, others denounce him as a wurdecer, shamuaing to escape punisaient, sydapaliy of tne people ts gou- erally Ww favor of Mrs. sprague, Who ts spoxeu of as a hard-working, Industrions woman, Mas. VAN BUSKIRK AT THE TONDS, The “Binck Crook” Ballet Girls and Their Versccuter. Mrs. Van Duskirk, who it will be remembered ts charged by seven ladies of the “Black Crook’? company with baving throwa their baggage into the street and robbed them of money, made her appearance at the Tombs Poilce Court yesterday afternoon, accompauied oy ex-District Attorney Blunt, a lady friend and half a dozen gentiemen friends. She ts a handsome lady, about twenty. six years of ago, and was born, as she says, at sea, on the Iudiaa Ocean, When Sergeant Quinn cailed at her house yesterday, ior tha purpose of securing her attendance at Court, she positively refused to be seen, and but for some gen- Ueman friends, who were im the house at the time, Woull have necessitated the painful duty upow the Sergeant of taking her away by force. Her counsel desired to waive an examination and asked that bis client be admitted to ball, and the cage sens to the General Sessions. Judge Hogan refused this applicauioa. The complainants were unable to be present yesterday, oW'ng to their eugagoment at tha Matinée at Nivlo’s, and under these circumstances tne Judge reicased Mrs. Van Buskirk 0a her own Fecognizance, until next Tuesday at Gwelve o'clock, ‘when the examivation will take place. aD Dear OF A THERMIT.— Oliver Elmore, the “hots nit of Winhall River,” died from exposure last week, at the foot of Stratton Mouatain, im Vermont, where he bad lived tor mmvty years na hole dug ta, @ hili, with no comfpanjons save bis dogs and hens. When 4 young man bet was driven to his strange Ife by the death OF Ute + woman whoit he joved andl was lo marry, THe haa weatuy aha Infirential rownves in tha mong them & mwerber att We Ted tf) mduece tome We a die ided in Conugetiont, and .