The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1873, Page 8

ys LOCAL, WON LAW. Another, Attempt To Be Made to Secure Prohibitory Legislation. REVIEW OF RESULTS HITHERTO OBTAINED, Nistory of English and American Efforts to Suppress the Liquor Traffic. BEER AS A POPULAR BEVERAGE. Sicilian ene ees Anteresting Statistics of the Brewing Interest— ‘Is Whiskey Going Out of Fashion Informa tion and Suggestions for Lewmakers. ALBANY, Jan, 20, 1873. ‘Certain parties, organized as a large and influ- ‘ential association, have combined to obtain the passage of a law by the present Legislature which shall give the power to the majority of citizens ‘resident within such political bounds to say whether there ghall or shall not be granted"license to sell ‘@istitied or fermented liquors within each ward of @city or each township of a county in the State. The policy and probable effect of such a statute, ‘which is commonly known as the Local Option Law, Ipropose to briefly discuss as a matter of general, 4f not universal interest, leaving the constitutional question involved to the courts, where it properly delengs. THE PROPOSED LAW 4s meant to be prohibitory, and is to be enacted in erder to prevent the manufacture and sale, and consequently the drinking, of any liquor in which alcohol in ‘small or large quanties may exist. It apparently draws no line between any of those beverages. Cider, which contains between seven and eight per cent of alcohol; the so-called lager beer, which has between three and four per cent, and.even small beer, which has less than two, are equally proscribed with Seotch whiskey, which ‘sometimes has as high as fifty-six per cent. Root beer, though it contains from two to eight per cent, according to its age and the amount of molasses used in its manufacture, and mead and methelyn, old- fashioned drinks, having a percentage of alcohol equal to the inferior grades of whiskeys and currant wine, which averages twenty per cent, Beem to.be not provided for; but this is possibly because they contain so much fermentable Mucilage as to render them unhealthy, and the framers of the measure think their use will bring ats own punishment. The law is sweeping enongh in its terms and purpose, and its pro- fectors seem to suppose they will be able, in most places, to induce the majority of the people to vote against licenses, and so introduce an era of sobriety and decorum unparalleled in the annals ofthe world. The general prohibitery laws tried hitherto having proved so disastrous in their fects on the morals of the community, and on the general peace and content of the poor—being powerless for good and powerful for’ evil—the advocates of compulsory total abstinence seem to have abandoned them in order to try the effect of special law acting on isolated and select com- munities, As such laws, general or special, are based on the same principle, as they are all in ‘NEW YORK HERALD/ TUESDAY, JANUARY 2), 1873—TRIPLE SHEEY.. forced enactments which every one at the mercy of the ranscTupulous black-tuai ler. One of illustrates the beauty o/ the law, ac- to its advecates. A woman recovered 600 damages {rem @ saloon keeper, the ground ‘ing that he had sold her husband liquor, That couple can do a thriving business where the hus- band is not Knewn, It is the pancl game in a new shape under the sanction of law. The law in some Places is shaped so that a man who gets drunk, and while drunk commits violence or wrong, by Pleading drunkenness, has only to say where he ‘ot his liquor, whether he got it there or not, and e offence is transferred to tne unconscious scape- goat, who is sent, not into the wilderness, but to prison, wiile the drunken {niormer is released to seck for @ new victim, or for the blackmail that Will cause him te look elsewhere, Any habitual drunkard, whose moral feclings are necessarily blunted, unless he becemes a saint by joining some total abstinence secret order, has pewer to punish any one whom he dislikes—two at once, in fact— beating the one, and transferring the penalty ior the assault to the other. This proposed law, with less apparent severity in ite form, bas in it some points more objectiona- bie t ef the prohibitory laws that have failed im the past, or remain now DEAD LETTERS ON THE STATUTE BOOK. If the premises asst by its friends, that any drink containing alcohol in ay per gonsage isa deadly poison be correct, what right, have they to delegate to the majority ofa community the power to permit themselves or neighbers with suicidal propensities, to destroy themselves? According to them arsenic is ambrosia and prassic acid 1s nec- tar, when compared with anything of which alco- hol may be even aninconsiderable ingredient; but men are not allowed to sell these when it is known they are to be swallowed by human Lain, except under the prescription of a physician. Suppose a law were passed permitting every one to vend there polanns in a ward or township if @ majority. of the inhabitants decreed it, and, ifnot, not. The absurdity of the proposition would make some’ laugh and shock others, Still more absurd would it be, while Cy | rossic acid in its undiluted state, men were forbidden to sell peach kernels, bitter almonds or wild cherry bark, all of which contain prussic acid in appreciable quantities. Ifal- cohol in its milder combinations, as in malt ‘iquors, be equally injurious with its greater approach to an absolute form, ag in whiskey, and both have such banefal effects, why permit our community to use it? Why not burn down the distilleries, level the breweries to the ground, knock to pieces the cider presses, and turn the rpot beer fouDtains up- side down? Again, by the proposed measure, Coldwater township may vote to have no liquor sold within its bounds, while Lush township, just ad- joining, and separated from it by an imaginary line, May vote the other way. On one side of a line so fine that a hatr’s breadth is a timber log in compar- ison, it becomes a grave misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, to do what may be done on the other side, not only with impunity, but under direct, sanction of the law. In either case the power exercised is the same. The sale is for- bidden in one township, and permitted in er other at the mere wili—and it may be the whim, or even caprice—of the jerity of dwellers in each Petty political division. at jority may consist of one in each township. In Coldwater 400 free and enlightened citizens may take away the liberty of 399 other free and enlightened citizens; and in Lush 400 wicked scamps may amnoy an isgust 399 angels in broadcioth by aliowing to be sold under their horror-stricken noses the pernicious pe od and the maddening root beer. ‘his is the voice of the peuple, and vox populi vox Det, put which is the true Deity and which is Mumbo Jumbo it is Impossible to determine, More than that, COLD WATER TOWNSHIP gets no protection against alcehol and its various compounds, A determined toper among its mi- nority, in his desperation, may cross over the imaginary and imperceptible line which divides the sober sheep from the tipsy poate, and, alter swallowing a gallon of lager as a foundation, erect On it @ first story of root beer, 4 second of cider, third of Hocheimer, a fourth of currant wine and fifth of sherry and top all off with a mansard roof of whiskey, until beneath this monstrous superstructure his reason gives way, and he comes back into moral Coldwater to disturb its hallowed Precincts with his howlings and to vex the bosoms of ite inhabitants with the painful reflection that they reap all the disadvan’ 8 of the trafic, without having shared a cent of its profits, Ri vines’ bad debows 1a Syeieee town- ship would object to many o! ese pilgrimages to the alcoholic Mecca as a waste of time. ‘the Ameri- ean takes as naturall labor-saving processes as a@ young duck to the nearest puddle. Hence the, would reverse the action of the Oriental prophe: They would bring the mountain, to Mohammed, in order that Mohammed might not have to go s0 olten to the mountain. mney would buy their whiskey by the bottle in Lush and bring it into @erogation of the liverty of the citizen, it is proper to review the results of those hitherto enacted and to examine into the cause of their failure, * HISTORY OF ENGLISH EFFORTS. About a hundred and thirty years since the ‘Srigiish Parliaments undertook to prohibit the mse of ardent spirits entirely. Previous to that— ‘by the act of the second year of George II.—a duty ‘was laid on spirits, over all other duties, of five shillings per gallon, and each retailer was assessed twenty pounds as a license fee. This ed the way to evasion; drunkenness increased, ‘and the law, being found to be impracticable, was repealed. Forthwith, by way of celebration of the event, every one nearly made it his business to get drunk. This roused the indignation of Par- diament, which passed the act of the 9 George IL, ‘by which the retailing of ardent spirits of any kind ‘was absolutely and positively prohipited. Lord Cholmondely and other noblemen and gentlemen were active in producing this law,.which was Stringent in its provisions and severe in its penal- ties. The effect of the scheme had best be told in the words of Lord Cholmondely himself, when he spoke afterwards in favor of its repeal. He ad- mitted in his speech that the impossibility of en- forcing the law had been predicted both in and out of the houses of legislation. ‘‘But,” said he, “so Turious was our zeal that no heed was given to such prophecies. What was the consequence ? No man could—no man would—observe the law, and 4t gave such a turn to the spirit of the peopie that mo man could with safety venture to become an informer.” And he went on to show how the in- formers had been, mobbed and even murdered; how the government had been obliged to hold Seopa in readiness to meet threatened rebellion, ‘while in the meanwhile the law was a nullity. The government found Beonecisons expensive and convictions impossible; and, above all, it was found that the people abandened malt liquors and hter beverages and became more and more ad- cted to spirits. It became at length so palpable that the law aggravated the evils it was enacted to cure, that It was by general consent repealed. THE EXPERIENCE OF SCOTLAND. In Scotland a prohibitory law met with a singular @uccess, but one by no means gratifying :to the friends of temperance. There a heavy taxation drove out mait liquors and made the populace fall ‘back upon the flerier potation. The Scotch be- came, and remain to this day, the greatest whiskey- drinking people in the world, It is true that this legislation, made in the interest of the English brewers, was changed, but too late to remedy the evil. The Scotch ale now made is excclient, but it is manufactured more for exportation 1! home consumption. The Scotchman disdains Lis twopenny * ale when he can get his whiskey, and Burns’ couplet— Wi’ twopenny we fear nae evil, WP usquebagh we face the deevil— is a lively sentiment in the mind ot the average Scot to this day. In this country the principal pro- hibitory laws liave been those of Maine and Massa- Chusetts, with some attempts at the thing in Wis- consin, and an act in Ohio, which may be defined as prohibition run mad. Local option has been tried in Pennsylvania, partially in New York and I in New Jersey. Then there is an excise law in New York which forbids the sale of any liquors, distilled or fermented, on Sundays. The result of these not been the decrease of drunkenness, ‘They have injured the brewers, but ratier helped the distillers. It is dificult to get beer in some places, but no man in Matne nor Massachusetts nor Wisconsin nor Obio nor New York need go without his whiskey. Experience proves, despite the way in which THESE REPRESSIVE STATUTES Nave been tinkered during several years, that men willno more be made sober than they will be made pious on compulsion, The law is either evaded or disregarded. It has engendered deceit ‘@nd falsehood, and created contempt for the law itself and the officials, as ail unpopular laws do. For an open traffic, regulated and controlied by Jaw, there is substituted a surreptitious trade equally profitable to dealers, but without revenue ro the State. The drinker feels all check removed yy the partial concealment, and from the neces- + Of the case ctiooses the more flery potations. je cannot induige in fermented liquors where the popeentage of alcohol is small, and where the e eek, the slight intoxicatiny ingredients 1a mor on uy its combination with nutritious ex- = ible heir bulk prevents this, Jt is almost gots fe indulge in surreptitious beer-drink- ing. t Uqnors, except when bottled, cannot be Secretly transported, and, as a bottle on ly contains a drink, even their storage in giass for use must de open to observation. Open a barrel of ale oF beer and the carbonic acid wo Which its grateful- ness to the palate is mainly due, evaporates, and the Liquor becomes stale and vapia and soon takes on the acetous fermentation. Sen anould driut, unless man should drink, unless a determined “ not more than he will drink under nmaeh ere étances in the twenty-four hours. ‘Thus the drinker 48 driven from malt liquor to wiiskey, and plenty of it, This he obtains in spite of the law by the Dottie full, and keeps it by him, being tempted con- ‘Gnnally by its possession to drink unnecessarily, ‘aul a depraved appetite is created and confirmed, and he is made A PRUNKARD BY INDIRECT OPERATION OF LAW. Lie drinks 10 more malt liquors to quench thirst, Or to assiat strength, but distilled spirits to create byver-stunulation, The iriend of the law views tids with surprise and indiguation, and, thinking tue measure alia for lack of force, clumors for a stwwonger law, with severer pains and penalties, du some places—in Olio, especially—they have A fat bottle of ontains more than a Coldwater, and pocket pistols, whose contents ey the menial ol wane Pat them of, would be e concealed weapons carried, need to smug- ge sitters if the liquor be parted is glass. Unc lesires revenue and he protects “the original .1_ No State law can prevent this. It deca Dot in Maine, nor Massachusetts, nor New York; it could not in New Jersey or elsewhere. It may stop the consumption of beer, since a bottle only nolds adrink, And that brings us tothe whole gist of the matter, The law, Whether so intended or not, ig in the interest of the distillers inst that of the brewers. Whether that is sound policy or not is the real question to determine. The decrease in the (cree de per head of dis- tilled liquors in the United States duri the last ten years, and the increase in that of fermented arinks is something remarkable. If there had been a decrease in both, it might have been inferred that we were growing to be an abstinent rather than a temperate people. But the increase of the one has been at about the same rate with the decrease of the other, The statistics of the manufacture and | ee ene ey of malt liquors have become first trust- worthy because of the necessity for additional fed- eral revenue, which made ale, beer and porter ob- jects of excise. The official returns show THE AMOUNT OF TAX PALD BY THE BREWERS, and representing nearly as many barrels of beer, a trining special tax making the difference, to be ‘as follows :— 3.734.928 187 1866 5,220,552 1871 1867 . 6,057,600 1872. . (the last year being in round numbers, the last month being estimated) making @ total of nearly $53,000,000, At the same time the amount of native grape wine is incre@sing year by year. And yet, with all thig-vast increase, or, we might say, be- cause.of it, drunkenness is looked upon with mere disfavor than ever, and excess, instead of being as it used to be, considered to be pardonable, and even rather praisewortny, by rich and poor, is mainly considered to be the Vice of the depraved. The time was when it was fashionable to be ‘‘a three- bottle man,” and when the guest at the dinner table was classed as ‘‘a milk-sop,”’ urfless he could drink large draughts of Madeira, supplemented 4 brandy er whiskey punch, witheut flinching It was @ proof of the host’s hospitality when the greater part of the guests, at the close of the enter- tainment, lay under the table. Now a guest who would leave the house intoxicated would scarcely receive a second invitation. Even the saturation of New Year’s Day, which @ fine old Dutch custom seemed about to degene to, has been softened into comparative decorum, and brainless youths are not so ambitious to make beasts of themsclves by swilling large amounts of cider, thinly disguised as champagne. Whiskey drinking is left mataly to the lower order of roughs, and beer drinking sup- pine its place among persons of moderate incomes. ‘he rich still indulge in wine, to some extent; but with them the use of malt liquors increases, That this change ts a desirable one is seen by a reference to the criminal records of the countries where the fermented dfinks are consumed in cemparison with those of whiskey-drinking lands, Of the offences resulting from other causes, such as briberies, coining, &c., where intemperance may be the incident, but not the moving power, it is un- necessary to speak, But the reco! the beer- drinking German States show less arrests for offences resulting from intoxication than in brandy- drinking Kussia, or in the whiskey-drinking parts of the United States. In country the percent- age of such arrests is steadily decreasing. And here the ASSAULTS, RIOTS AND MURDERS spring from the whiskey shop and not the beer saloon. If they occur at the latter investigation generally shews the offender to be one of the Patrons of the former out of his element, and not One of the regular irequenters of the piace. This is not because the Germans in Germany are in- herently a better people than others or that the beer drinkers here are of a naturally superior stock of men. The inherent qualities of all civil- ized and civilizaple peoples are nearly the same. They are changed and developed by education and circumstances. Here education is general and cir- cumstances favorable. Nor is the Russian, either, an infetier man. The Slavonic 18 a type that for native moral principle and intellectual force does not compare uniavorably with the Teutonic or Celtic. Nor are the Germans any more religious than the Russians or ourselves. So far as external manifestation goes we are among the most pious of States. Scarcely any one but has some religious bellef, from Roman Catholicity dowa to Mormon- ism, and the piety of the Russians is intense. THE CHANGE IN OUR NATIONAL DRINKS which is going on with such marvellous swiftness, jeads us to replace Whiskey and brandy with ale, beer and porter. The different effect of the two classes of drinks on heaith also leads to a marked change in our vital statistics, Alconol in excess acts injuriously on the system, and ina suficient quantity produces death, just as strychuia or as table salt in those few cases where the latter is not ejected by the stomach weuld do, by paralyzing the nervous centres, ethers and water, ae in wine, er with nutritive ex- tractive, as in beer, it facilitates the assimilation of food as well as promotes digestion, and produces a stimulus which is never injurious so long as the liquor is not taken in an amount sufficient to nar- cotize the drinker, The general impression is that alcohol 1s not nutritive itself, though the experi- ence of eminent physicians points to another con- clusion, But in mait liquors the amount of nutri- tive matters outside of the alcoliol is very heavy, Much of the starch 4 sugar of the malt remains undeveloped in the beer, aa a matter of course; Jor if the starch in so- lution were all converted into sugar and the sugar into alcohol the last change in the process would commence, the acetous fermentations set in and the beer become sour, This uncombined nutritive Tnatter Ws easily digested in the stomach, and the beer becomes, to a certain extent, food as well as drink, Fr bearing the same relation to whiskeys and Wines, to use the words of an eminent chemist, 48 COCOA bears to tea and coffee.’ There ca be no doubt, then, Au the mind of the impartial observer, that the decrease in the von- sumption of ard¢t spirits and the increase in that of fermented liquors ts one of benefit to the morals and health of the people. Loge reform is one which tae proposed law, if not a dead letter, would revarse.” e change would be necessarily & sudden gne and Rrodeatize of the serious financial shock gonsequent on changing the direction of a = sen ag Lage new roped ps already ae hana persons have notion how important oe THE BREWING INTEREST is in point of money capital and the number of per- sons employed. In 1868 we learn that with a pro- duct of of 5,685,663 7-10 barrels of beer the capital employed in breweries was ($58,805,300, in matt houses $1¥,702,673 and in land used’ in’ growing barley and heps $35,392,060—a total of $105,040,063, Taking the amount produced this year as the basia, Which is estimated to be between nine and ten millions of barrels, the present capital invested must reach, in round numbers, $180,000,00). In these breweries, malt houses and farms we have employed annually nearly 70,000 persons, But this does not take into account the branches of me- chanical industry which the brewery interest calls 10 its aid and the large number of coop black- smniths, wagonmakers and other mi item- ploys; the draft it makes on the services and the amount it pays to forges, foundries, rolling mills, Stave dealers and railro: capital amounting to nearly a8 much as it directly uses and labor nearly equal to what it einegay, employs. All this important industrial element it is proposed not only to disorder but to actually destroy by an qepeiment necessarily destroying it unlegs itself ure, Beyond all this, and calling for particular atten- tion from the statesman and public economist, is the political effect of the law. 1tis mot necessary to assure onservers that at this time the relations of capital and labor are particularly unsettled, Even if we pass by in derision the fact that the International, at whose secret action the most porens, dynasties of Europe are agitated, has mgde its centre in New York city, there is before us the Imevitable result of the modification in our system— stimulated by war, but mainly due to the ey tion of wealth in fewer hands—an uneasy feeling in the poor man’s mind anda growing conviction with the laborer that the great employer is his natural enemy. That intelligent men generally do not believe this, that there need be no necessary antagonism between rich and poor, who should be harmonious parts of a united whole, has nothing to do with the matter, The feeling itself exists whether true or not. Now this law is one directly aimed at the poor. It is impos- sible at any time to make a sumptuary law bearing on the rich. The power of the purse is Pe than that of the sword. The sword, in- eed, is powerless until the- purse grasps its hilt, This law strikes at the privileges of the poor, The rich man, if he wants his beer, his wine or his brandy, stocks his vaultand drinks at will, This the poor man cannot do. If the laborer at his mid- day meal wants to moisten his food with a glass of beer he is tobe deprived of the power to refresh himself cheaply, The rich man, privileged by his riches, becomes further privileged by law. dis- content now acute becomes chronic. You add another grievance to the stock in hand and widen still deeper the gulf between the classes. Your fanatical legislator becomes thus a blind mission. ary for the International, and aids to precipitate the struggle between muscie and poverty on one side and craft and riches on the other—a struggle whose ultimate result no man can foresee, and ‘whose probable incidents make the men of prop- ae shudder. iO one lightly estimates THE EVILS OF DRUNKENNESS, Assaults, affrays, riots and murders are its certain consequences, and it depraves and brutalizes its victims as well as beggars and degrades their tamilies. But these evils cannot be prevented by the empty enactment of dawes: promising the sale of intoxicating drinks—certainly not by laws which encourage the most objectionable form of alcoholic stimulants by preventing, if effective against an; the consumption of the milder kinds, The o remedy lies in the diffusion of knowledge concern- ing the effects of alcohol and its compounds on the human system, and of the evils of excess in any- thing—eating, drinking, mental effort, physical labor and fanatical impulses included; in the in- creased compensation and additional home com- forts and innocent pleasures of the working man, whose prosperity should be the first care of the State, since without it the State itaelf is not prosperous; in the creation of a higher standard of morality and virtue, and in the persistent non-interference by the state with the pursuit of the individual after pe inetd so long as that pursuit does not interfere arbitrarily with the same object in others. Bui to attempt to legislate people out of habits that vio- late no necessary laws, or to force a uniformity of opinions, tastes or SePeere, is one of those absurd efforts that brings its own punishment in the dis- But when combined with | turbance and consequent nonin Hay not the dis- pol organization, of the whole body THE, WIFE-SCALPING CASE. Shefflin Held and Committed to the Tombs—A Verdict Against Him—He Denies His Guilt. Yesterday morning Coroner Kessler held his first homicide inquest on the Sheitlin wile-scalpmg case, which occurred at 414 East Eleventh street, on the evening of the.14th instant, as fully reperted in the HERALD at the time, The testimony adduced against the prisoner was comparatively slight, there being nothing to show that he used any weapon on deceased except his own hand, and that only when he found a dirty vagabond running from her bedroom. It doubtless is true that deceased was beaten ever the head by some weapon, but at whose hands it did not appear. Below will be found a synopsis of the evidence elicited. Mrs. Ann Shefflin, mother of the prisoner, was first called to the witness stand and testified that last Tuesday night her husband was seat to the hospital, after which the prisoner, George Sheflin, came to inquire for his father, and asked where Maria, his wife was, and being informed that she was in the bedroom, he went in there, and, finding @ young fellow with her, chased him out, and re- turning, siapped her across theface with his open hand, and in staggering away she fell across the stove and cut her head; she was too drunk to walk steady; prisoner used no weapon on his wife in pre sence of the witness; prisoner remained in tl house till next ae eal When he left; did not know of deceased’s death till nine o'clock in the morning. Mary tee sister of the prisoner, was next called, and testified that she was intoxicated on the night in question, and saw two boys come in ‘with bottles of liquor for deceased; atter the pris- oner came in there was a dificulty during the evening, but did not see her brother strike any blows; after he came in, at ten o'clock P. M,, she was too drunk to know what was going on; at two o’clock A. M. the witness went out, and, meeting 4n officer, told him there was a sort of muss inside, and asked him to Go in; he said, ‘There is no noise in the house and there is no use going in;” the next morning prisomer asked the witmess to cover up deceased, as she lay on the floor, aad in doing @ ae thet she was dead; prisoner said, “Oh, my 0 Ferdinand Sternshorn, keeping a saloon at 414 East Eleventh street, depesed that on Wednesday morning the prisoner came into his place, ieeling bad, and among other things said his wile was dead; he further stated that the night caught a fellow with bis wile, and cause he found the feliow in bed with her; he said he would go to the station house and give himself up; Maria was in the habit of seeing company; prisoner did not say what he struck his wife with. Mary McGinn testified that after nine o'clock on the niorning after Mrs. Shefflin’s death, she saw old Mrs. Sheiflin carrying a pail of blood out in the yard; saw some blood in the yard; the old woman said she had great troubie; her son was using his wile most brutally, and wished he wouid go away; she did not say her daughter-in-law was dead. James P. Bennett, of the Detective force, de- | Sie that he arrested Sheflin at his boarding ouse in Third avenue, near 104th street, by direc- tion of Inspector Walling; Sheflin was asleep in bed; prisoner said that the night previous he had been to a political meeting, from wiich he went to his wlie’s place and saw a man run from her room; he said he oy ne that he had done more than he ought to do, but denied using any weapons; pris- oner said he went to sleep on a chair, and awaking at three o'clock A. M., being cold, called his sister to cover up his wife. Who lay en the floor; in the morning When he awoke again found his wife dead; Shemiin said he aiterwards went to an undertak- er’s in Thirty-seventh street and requested him to nouly the Coroner, Deputy Coroner Leo then read his report of the post-mortem examination, and gave it as his opinion that deatn resulted trom hemorrhage, through the injuries inflicted, A KNIFE AND A PROTEST. At this stage of the proceedings Coroner Kessler exhibited to the jury a bloody tabie knife said to have been found in the 1oom with the deceased. Mr. William F. Howe, counsel jor Sheflin, urgently protested against showing the knife to the jury, in- asmuch as it had not been offered in evidence, and there was not a particie of proof to show that the Weapon had been used by the prisoner, The Coroner then read a carefully prepa charge to the jury, after which t) se was sab- mitted to them, and they rendered the following vekpicr. “That Maria Sheffin came to her death by hemorrhage irom violence to the head, inflicted, as we believe, at the hands of her husband, George Shemllin, at 414 East Eleventh street, on the 14th day of January, 1873.” Shettlin is thirty-six years of age, bern in Ireland, and by occupation a piasterer. By advice of his counsel the accused declined to Say anything at present concerning his guilt or in hocence. . Howe said, admitting the prisoner's guilt (which he denied), the case was nothing more than Mansiaaghter in the third degree, and consequently bailable. The motion to hail Shefttin was denied for the Nour aud Coroner Kessler committed him to the ‘combs. William H. Kidd, of the Murray street arson case, was brought before Jndge Dowling yesterday. On the advice of his counsel, Mr. J. B. Fellows, late Assistant District Attorney, he waived examina- tion, Judge Dowling committed him uhder $10,000 bail to answer at the Geueral Sessions, BUREAU OF COMBUSTIBLES. Inspection of Theatres and Other Buildings Continued by the Fire Commissioners. Four Important Public Places . Examined. What is Thought of Wallack’s and the Union Square Theatres, the Grand Opera House andthe Brevoort House—Their Secu- rity and Provisions Against Fire. ‘The inspection of theatres and other buildings is being continued under direction of the Fire Com- Misstoners. Those reported at the headquarters on Mercer street yesterday were Wallack’s and the Unjon Square theatres, together with the Grand Opera House aud the Brevoort House—the hotel loeated on the corner of Fifth avenue and Eighth street, The result of these examinations will be found appended. ’ WALLACK’S THEATRE, ‘This building is 75 feet by 140 feet, and substan- tially constructed., Two furnaces are under the stage, supplying heat to the rear of the theatre. Sixteen buckets, filled with water, are here dis- tributed. To provide additional means of escape, im Case the necessity should arise, an iron laddgy has been placed in the area on the Fourth avenue side, igading to the sidewalk. Five pails, filled with water, were found in the fies, There is a small gas stove for heating glue in the carpenter shop, which is well protected; also a stove in the scene painter's room, protected with zinc, and away from any woodwork. Five border lights are used, of the latest itmprove- ment, made of tin, and protected with iron bands and wire. Two axes are in place in the-flles and the same number on the stage floor, kept espe- cially for fire use, One fire extinguisher was found in the rigging loft, kept in erder and recharged from time to time by the manufacturer. Five buckets of water are in the loft over the audito- rium. On the rear of the stage is a fire hydrant, two and-a half inch opening, to which are attaehed 100 feet of combmation hose, with pipe, capable of reaching to any part of the stage, and always ready for use. No smoking or matches are allowed in any part of the building. Every light about the theatre, dressing roams, &c., is protected with wire baskets. Two watchmen are on duty every night patrolling the house, and their vigilance is half- hourly attested by a telegraph cennected with Mr. Wallack’s residence. The theatre seats 1,600 per- sons, but will accommodate 2,000, It requires or- dunarily four mimutes to empty it. There are two doors opening from the family circle, each six feet wide, to a stairway eight feet In width, leading into Thirteenth street. One door, six feet wide, also opens into this stairway from the dress circle. Two doors, each six feet wide, furnish passageway to the main entrance in Broadway, by a stairway, eight feet in width. The main entrance, in Broad- way, 1s eighteen feet wide, as is the Thirteenth street entrance. The building has iron shutters on all the windows, excepting those on Fourth avenue and two on the alleyway on the north side, and are closed at 7 The roof is covered with tin; skylights of light glass. There is no great ac- cumulation of old scenery about the place. The carpenter shop and all parts of the theatre are neatly kept. je exits in both front and rear are very ample, UNION SQUARE THEATRE. The basement in Fourteenth street contains a horizontal tubular boiler tweive feet long by torty inches in diameter, and.of thirty-five horse power. There is here one small pump for fercing water to the tep ef the hotel in same building, for fire and other use, and an opening on the street to attach hose in case of fire. The boiler is set safely; two tanks, holding 400 gallons of hot water, are under the sidewalk on Fourteenth street. There is an oven in the basement using & coal fire, with a space of fitteen inches over the top for the circulation of air. The smoke pipe from the range is carried along too close to the ceiling. It will covered with zinc and lowered. the hall under the parquet there are two axes, fifty feet of two inch hose attached to the water cock and one fire extinguisher, Under the stage was found fifty feet of twoinch hose and pire Properly attached for immediate use. *The its throughout are pro- tected with wire baskets, and above and behind with tin, There isa tire extinguisher on the side of the stage. Two two and a half inch water cocks are connected with tanks on the roof, anda third with the steam pump in the vault, which is furnished with seventy teet of two inch hose and pipe attacned. Only one set of scenery is on the stage at a time. The footlights are covered with glass. Have no ballet here. In the flies are thirty feet of one and a half inch hose, sup- plied from two inch pipe leading from tank on the roof, There 18 also & branch from the same pipe on the opposite side with fiity feet of ene and a half fuch hose and pipe. Four border lights are over the stage, of recent construction, and protected and strong iren bands, There is a gas stove for heating giue in the scene painter’s room and also one in the scene room. One axe was found on each sid» of the fies and one on the stage, designed for fire purposes only. The gallery has two doers, one four feet and the other six feet wide, stairs of corresponding width, and one side door on Fourth avenue. The family cir- cle has two stairways leading to the street, one four feet and the other six feet wide. The parquet has a door, 9 feet in width, leading to the main entrance on Fourteenth street; one door, 2 feet wide, from main entrance to the hotel, and a doorway 12 feet wide to office and thence to the street. @ main entrance is 11 feet wide. House holds 2,000 persons and requires six miautes toempty. The building 1s 55 feet by 140 feet; wing on Fourth avenue 18 feet by 40 feet, ‘The carpenter shop 1s located over the auditorium, and is neat and clean, On this floor is a 24-inch pipe, reduced to 144 inches, connected with tank, with 50 feet of rubber hose and Pipes attached, Eight buckets of water were found on the bridge across the flies. Enclosed outlet on Fourth avenue, 10 feet wide. Skylight on roof, with heavy iron frame and thick, rough plate glass, ‘fin roof. One man does all the lighting, with a torch, No qne allowed, even in own rooms, to light gas, Xo cigars or pipes permitted to be used or matches carried about. One day and one night watchman patrol the house continually. An apparatns indi- cates their passing certain points every half hour. GRAND OPERA HOUSE has four doors opening from the family circle, each 6 feet 6 inches wide; one doorway leading to the Erie offices, of the same dimensions, and two door- ways in lobby, each 4 feet in width, also leading into the isrie offices, with six fire buckets on shelf and one fire extinguisher; stairway, 7 feet wide, leading down te Twenty-fourth street; a fire extinguisher in the passageway from dress cirele to this stairway. The dress circle has three openings, each 7 feet 6 inches. There are two doors Ie enn Sob the private boxes to the stage; @ Wiudow here affords access to the aliey- way on Twenty-fourth street. The parquet has a door, 8 feet wide, opening into this alleyway. All.the deors open outward. Leading into the vestibule are three doors, each 7 feet 6 inches in width; four windows, each 4 feet 6 inches, open into yards on Twenty-third street. The main stair- way from dress circle is 12 feet 6 inches wide; the vestibule is 46 leet by 72 fect 8 inches; main outlet to Etghth avenue, 15 feet 6 inches in width; to Twenty-third street, the same. Arrangements are being made to connect the water main on Twenty-fourth street with pipes from the building, that water for firé purposes may be obtained. A powerful Pale and suiticient hose to Teach any partof te euse will be furnished; also a system of gong sig- nals will be arranged connecting ail portions of the house with the engine room, where an engineer is always ou daty, “kour buckets of water under the stage—which place is well cleaned coe ninety- four buckets in all are distributed throughout the building. There is a gas steve in the scene paint- er’s room, The property room in the Twenty- fourth street wing is heated with a stove, which is well protected, The room off the rigging loit should be cleaned up. Two fire extinguishers are in place here, and also any feet of hose and pipe attached to water cocks, Six border lights are in pieces and carefully protected with tin and iron, ‘here is one fire extinguisher in the orchestra, A doorway leads from the stage to the orchestra and also to the cellar of the front building, which could used by employés to escape in® case peril. No matches are al- lowed in any part of the louse; the gas man attends to all lights; the cleauers use covered lanterns. On the Twenty-/ourth street side of the stage two lines of 2-inch hose, 75 feet each, properly attached, are in place. The carpenter shop, on Twenty-fourth street, 50 feet by 50 feet, contains a gas stove for heating gine; the shop is in good order; two fire extinguishers are here, aud the lights are all protected. There are Six outlets on twenty-fourth street; fire extin- goishers in main entrance. House accommodates 2,500 persons, and it is asserted can be emptied Within six minutes, BREVOORT House. ‘This building was formerly several dwelling houses, New stories have been added and doorways cut through walls, so that now tue house has 138 rooms, and, when full, accommodates 160 ad 8, in- cluding servants of ail Kinds, ‘The building 1s five stories ‘and basement; root of tin, covered with gravel. Two water tanks are over the main ouild- Ing, having a capacity of 3,300 gallons. Some of the servants occupy: @ room built above and on the roof, with doors opening on the latter. The roois of different house: connected with ladders, so as to allow passage (rom one to the other. Doors to the roof and scutties are never locked or fastened; water is kept im 4 large closet of ‘on the fifth floor, where there are three uckets: Valve ‘ a his ry sed frou an! iron @ cock on Tr, BU) also 8 small hose, leading fom the closet, ere are four stairways leading rom the Aith to fourth floor, also five stairways tron fourth to first oor. Three fire buckets are in thy closets Qn each floor, The third floor CS anes with @ 24¢-Inoh valve cock, connected ke on the Toof, with 100 feet of hose and pipe One ner ta in tl kitchen; the latter apartnent has laid on concrete; the oven (oes not come in contact with the woodwork, and Ins a cir- of alr above. Stone floor on grouni and no A Bi the basement, and if 8 iron pn dl to £ street. Two water tanks, holdin, . heated with exhaust seem? i plas bare and beget we ag in are five buckets, w! are constantly dled with water for use in case of fire ud Ly pidpignt the full force of employés are on Mity throughout ihe house. The watchman comes om duty st seven P.M. and patrols all parts of the buil until seven A. M. From twelve o'clock until three porter threp o'clock iy o'clock A.M. the watchman, night clerk, and bootblacks are on duty, and at A.M. the baker and firemen are at their posts, The proprietor and bis family occupy rooms on the upper floor, The servants’ apartments, both up aud down stairs, f access to the roof in one ) are of cage and to the sidewalk in the other. The en- gineer and his assistant sleep in the house, and one or both are constantly on Baty, A JERSEY CITY MYSTERY. + A Man Found Bleeding and Dying on the Sidewalk—He Lives Only Eleven Hours—Two Men in Custody. Jersey City is just now agitated by a painful mys- tery. About one o’clock yesterday morning a quict and respectable young man named Edward P. Jones was found lying in an unconscious condition on the sidewalk 1n front of his boarding house, kept by Mrs. Dexheimer, at the corner of Hudson and Essex streets, His head lay m a pool of blood, and am examination showed that the skull had been fractured on the left side, the wound extending to the left eye. The unfortu- nate man was conveyed into the boarding house, and soon aiterwards to the City Hospital. e phy- sicians are unable to say whether the wound was caused by a slungshot or by @ fall against the curb- stone and scraper. At all events compression of the brain was evident, and the patient lingered only till noon, when he expirea. He was uncon- scious to the last. When Officer Broadmeadow asked two men who boarded in the same house with Jones to assist him in carrying the injured man to the hospital they refused. Suspicion at once rested on them, and the officer informed them immediately they were under arrest. This brought them to terms, and they tendered their assistance. The officer, however, did not lose sight of them, especially as they had during the men when they met him on the sidewalk, addessed him in an impertinent and jeering manner. He communicated his sus- picions to Omcer Rose, and both officers “shad- owed” them to a saloon, where they heard one of them remark, ‘That fellow got a d— gore peed on him down on Hudson street, and it served the 8—— right,” or words to that effect. The officers here darted in and pounced upon the two men, wh were Soave ed i. the, First precinct police station, They gave their names as Thomas Lee and Robert Halladay. Lee said he resided at 437 Seventeenth street, New York, though it was afterwards ascertained he resides ‘irty- seventh street. He had come ever for the night, he alleged, to stop with his friend Halladay at Mrs. Dexheimer’s. Peter Reen, who was ‘ound in the saloon with them, was also arrested, but was soon afterwards discharged, although a revolver found on him is kept at the station house, When the prisoners Lee and Halladay were Peihny ? before Justice Seymour they denied all mowledge of the affair and they were remanded to their cells. Lee’s prevarica- tion regarding his residence will not help his case, It should be stated that Jones’ pocket- book containing money was found on his person, though his watch was gone. He was employed as a craaghermen on the Pennsylvania Railroad and was of a harmless, unassuming disposition. He sat reading and talking pleasantly in the back room of a wime store on Washington street, not far from his boarding house, till near one o’clock in the morning. An inquest will be held. FATAL I0E AOQOIDENT Censured by a Coroner’s Jury. Coroner Keenan yesterday afternoon held an in- questin the case of Washington J. Andrews, the lad, sixteen years of age, who was killed by a mass of snow and ice falling upon him from the roof of premises 24 Broad street on the alternoon of the 8d inst. Several witnesses were examined, but it did not appear that the occupants of the place had been notified by the authorities to clear away the Mass of snow frem the roof, but in their verdict the jury censured the owners or lessees of the building for allowing the snow and ice to remain on the roof in so insecure a condition. ++ MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. AUBFRT—CARRICABURU.—At Havana, Cuba,’ on Thursday, January 9, 1873, at the French Consu- late, Mr, Goprroy J. AUBERT, of Paris, France, to Miss Jutta E., daughter of Mr. John Carricaburu, of Havana, Cuba. HAND—GOODELL.—On Thursday, January 16, 1873, by the Rev. Dr. Moore, CHARLES H. HAND to IRENE GOODELL, both of Brooklyn. HorPER—SUTHERLAND.—At Cornwall, N. Y., on Thursday, January 9, 1873, by the Rev. Lyman Ab- dott, JOHN H. Horrer, Esq., of Piermont, N. Y., to MARY AUGUSTA SUTHERLAND, daughter of Mrs. C, L. Suther land, of the former place. STANFORD—BRENNAN.—On Wednesday, January 15, by Rev. T. S. Preston, HENRY C. STANFORD to Miss JENNIE E, BRENNAN, both of this city, Died. ANDREWS.—On Sunday morning, January 19, of scarlet fever, HATTIE LOUISE, aged 3 years and 6 months, only danghter of Thomas and Jennie A. Andrews, Funeral from the residence of her parents, 246 West Twenty-first street, on Wednesday, January atone o'clock P. M. ufralo papers please eet ANTHONY.—On Sunday, January 19, of scarlet fever, CAROLINE ELIZABETH, second daughter ot James L.and Alice 8. Anthony, aged 1 year, 8 months and 27 days, Notice of funeral hereafter. ARNOLD.—At Haddam, Conn., on Sunday, Jan- yey Mrs. MATILDA ARNOLD, widow oi Samuel rnold. Funeral front her late residence, this day (Tues- day), at two P. M. BARKLEY.—In Brooklyn, on Monday, January 20, 1873, SIDNEY P. BARKLEY. Notice of funeral! hereafter. BENJAMIN.—On Friday, January 17, MEIGS D. BEN- JAMIN, In the 78th year of his age. The funeral will take place trom his late resi- dence, 112 West Thirty-second street, on Tuesday, January 21, at half-past ten o'clock A. M. The friends of the family are invited to attend without further notice, The remains will be taken to Bridgeport (Conm.) for interment. BippLe.—In Brooklyn, on Sunday, January 19, 1873, JAMES E. BIDDLE, youngest son of John Biddle, in the 28th year of his age. ‘The friends of the family, also the members of Principle Lodge, No, 48, I. 0. 0. F., are respectfull invited to attend the funeral, from his late resi- dence, 57 Adelphi street, on Wednesday, January 22, at two o'clock P. M. RADLEY.—On Monday, January 20, after a short but severe iliness, of diphtheria, FRANCIS, eldest and beloved son of Francis and Letitia C, Bradley, aged 3 years, 11 months and 22 days, he relatives and Iriends are respectfully in- vited to attend the funeral, at his late residence, 22 Lewis street, this (Tuesday) afternoon, at twé o'clock, Brooks.—On Friday, December 20, 1872, at Paris, France, aged 26 years, Bessig, beloved wife of Paul Brooks, Esq., of Coba, and danghter of the late William Gorsuch, Esq., of Liverpool, sygant. Buck.—On Sunday mght, January 19, 1873, CLARA beeen wife of Francis D, Buck, in the 23d year of er age. The relatives and friends of os family, and those of her father, Francis Tillou, and of her father-in- law, Dr. Gurdon Buck, are respectiully invited to attend ‘the funeral, from her late residence, 43 West Twenty-ninth’ street, on Thursday, the 23d inst., at eleven o'clock A. M., without further notice, Her remains will be taken to Greenwood for interment. oCAMPnELI-On Monday evening, January 20, in the 73d year of his age, JAMES CAMPRELL, late of Enniskillen, Fermanagh county, Ireland. ‘The mneral will take place from his late resi- dence, 134 West Sixteenth street, on Wednesday, 220 inst,, at twelve o’ciock M. Relatives and triends of the family are invited to attend without further notice. Enniskillen papers please copy, OuatFiaLp.—in Brooklyn, on Monday morning, January 20, ARTHUR BROOKS, son of Henry W. and Fitz beth Brooks Chatfeld,’ aged 19 years and 6 months. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the foneral services, at the residence of his parents, No. 368 Adelphi street, on. Wednesda: afternoon, at half-past three o'clock, Remains will be taken to Bridgeport on Thursday. Bridgeport and New Haven papers please copy. OLARKE.—On Saturday, January 18, FREDERICK W., son of William D, and Annie D. Clarke, aged 4 months and 9 days. Funeral will take place from 144 Grove stree! Jer ey oy on Tuesday afternoon, January 21, ai ol Velock, CocHRaN.—Of membrane croup, ROBERT EMMET, youngest son of John S,, and Catherine Cochran, aged | yeat months and 22 days. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to atiend the funeral, irom the residence of his pa- No. 82. Columbia street, New York, on Tues- F, the 21st inst., at one o’ P.M Sunday, January, 19, sta, at three "clock P. M., JOHN CORDES, stepson of and Bana ‘shop, aged twenty years, two montas and cai eitives and fends are respecttuly nriteg bares Sree. ae aaa S31, veloc P. Pee ea rey eighth street. DaLy.: , Jan of infamma- tion of the lungs, JouN Joxati08, twin aon ef John ithe funeral. will take place from the residence of 0 eaday, 22d inst., at ten o’clock A. M, aris Saturday, January 18, &zexiey R. Da- ‘Vis, age years. by relatives and fends A! rst are fe tt invite atten eral, Hite renidence, No. 606 West Forty-fourth stteet on Tuesday, at one o'clock P. M. The remains will be teken to Lowell, Mass., for interment. DE GARMO.—On Monday, January 20, 1873, Exiza — mires GaxMo, wife of L. Brookes De Garmo, in. year of her age. A Notice of funeral in to-morrow’s paper. Dg VARAIGNE.- France, on Tuesday, De- cember 31, 1872, Baron CAMILLE DE VARAIGNE, son-in-law of the late Colonel Herman Thorn. ELsworts.—On Saturday evening, January 18, Henry E:sworrs, in the 65th year of his age. The relatives and friends of the family are re- invited to attend the funeral from his pes perce 203 South Oxford uty late lence, 223 West Fourteenth street, on Wed- Tesday, 22d inst.; at 11 o’clock, without further in- vitation, The will be taken to Greenwood for interment. FEBRE.—On Sunday, January 19, 1873, FRANCIS coanam eldest son ‘of Charles J. and Maria J. Febre, aged ‘days, years F anus Marg ace. Bs, fom, Me igs . Broo! to r of the Star of whe Bees ‘tis ‘Craceday), morning, at wheres solemn high mass of requiem the ey se of his soul. FISHER.—At White Plains, on Saturday, Janua 8, SAMUEL DENISON, infant son of Myndert M. an Mary o. wig city, c LINT,—[n » 0D Monday, January he egeminrn prin ie relatives and friends t are menpecerny: invited to attend the funerai, ut the residence of her son-in-law, D, D, T,, Moore, 564 Fifth avenue, on Wednesday, January 22, at one o’clock P. M., without further invitation, Grsnows.—On Sunday, January 19, Davip Grs- BONS, in the 92d year of his age. His relatives and friends, the Managers of the Ladies’ Union Aid Society and the members of the Forty-third Street Methodist opal church are invited to attend his funeral this (Tuesday) after- noon, at one o'clock, from the Ladiea’ Union Aid In- stitution |, 255 West Forty-second street, GRINNoN.—On Monday, January 20, Francis B. GRINNON, the youngest son of Daniel and Margaret F, Grinnon, aged 7 years, 4 months and 13 days. The relatives and iriends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funera;, from the residence of hig parents, 307 West Forty-eignth street, this day (Tuesday), at one o’clock P, M. Harris.—On Sunday, ideale Aid 18" JABEZ, third son of Jabez and Maria J. ris, aged 4 years, 6 months and 29 days. Faneral from his parents’ residence, Ravenswood, L, 1, on Wednesday, 22d inst., at 11 o’clock A. M. Providence papers please copy. Hi UBS.- Sunday morning, January 19, GEORG! IRIQUES, Esq., in the 62d of hisage.. e funeral will take place from his residence, Beira at lon aig Be hedty oP te fay at ten o’cloc! e friends of the family rk tock Exchag; and the members of the New York St ry are respectfully invited to attend. ‘ HuaHEs.—On Monda; ry 20, 1878, Mary,. y, Janual loved wife of John Hughes, in the 65th year ofher re, The relatives and friends of the family are re- specti invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, Stapleton, S.I.,on Thursday, Jan- uary 23, 1873, at half-past nine o'clock A. M3 thence to St; Mary’s, Clifton; S. 1., where a solem: Fequiem masa’ will be offered up for the repose o! er soul. Hypg.—On Sunday, January 19, Mrs. BRinG! pe ‘widow of Richard Hyde, in the 42d year o! er age. The relatives and friends of the family are re” spectfully invited to attend the faneral, from her late residence, 611 East Eleventh street, this day (Tuesday), at half-past one o’clock. Kayzs.—On Monday morniag, Jan Mary Ann Kayes, daughter of Wiliam and es, d 4 years and 8 months. e relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her parents, 38 jt Twenty-third pipe on Wednesday aiternoon, January 22, at one o’cloc! Many.—At Red Bank, N,J.,,on Sunday, Januar: 19, MaRTHa J., wife of Benjamin 8. Many, aged years, Mars.—On Monday, January 20, WrtLIAm NEw- MAN, youngest child of Bryce and Mary F. Mars, ed 1 year, 10 months and 13 days. atives and iriends are respectfully invited to ral, residence of his parents, 1% Columbia street, on Wednesday after- nefonGaN.--At RanWray, N. J., Sunday, Janukry 10, (ORGAN. —. way, N. J., , January ABIGAIL L,, wife of Ira F. Morgan rt daughter of Elizar Merriam, Esq., , Conn., aged 82 years, 10 months and 2% cat, Fan services from the First Baptist church, Rahw: Thursday, January 23, at three P. M. Munpby,: ber peseance. ja Bound. Brook, N, J., on Saturday, January be ARY Loutsa, wife of Hee oe aquney, and daughter of William Harney, of Jersey City. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her parents, 198 Mercer street, Jersey City, on Wednes- unt the 22nd inst., at half-past twelve o'clock P.M, without further notice. McNALLY.—On Monday, January 20, Jamrs MONALLY, @ native of Ballyshannon, county Done- gal, Ireland, in the 37th year of his age, Relatives and friends of the family are respect- fally invited to attend the funeral, on Wednesday, January 22, at one o’clock, from his late residence, 835 Third avenue, from thence to Calvary Cemetery for interment. Nevin.—On Monday, January 20, after a short but severe illness, THOMAS N&vVIN, aged 36 years, bend his soul rest in peace, Amen. The relatives and friends o/ the ee Tespect- invited to attend the funer m his late Yesidence, 33 Cherry street, to St. James’ church, on Wednesday, January 22, at ten o’clock, where a solemn requiem high mass will be offered up for the repose of his soul. The funeral will take place from the church, in the afternoon, at two o'clock po and from thence to Calvary Cemetery for OURIEN.—O1 Monday, Ji 20, 1873, C. RIEN.—On Mon: januar, ATHE- vivtiam and the late Susap the daughter of W! en. kelatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, trom the residence of her aunt, Mrs. Cronan, 237 Greenwich street, on Tuesday, at haif past one o’clock P. M. O'NBILL.—On Sunday, ater 19, after a short filness, Mary MULLEN, beloved wife of Edward O'Neill, in the 227d Pend of her ag The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 188 Broome street, on Tuesday, 2ist inst, at two o'clock, and thence to Calvary Cemetery. SAYERS,—-On. Moriday, January 20, ANNIE Lercner, wife of John F. Sayers. ‘Notice of funeral hereafter. SEMCKEN.—On Sunday, January 19, of scarlet. fever, CHARLES GroRGE, Son of John and Alice Semcken, agea 2 years. The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Tues- day, the 21st inst., at one o’clock P. M., from the residence oi his parents, No. 27 Corlears, corner of Cherry street. STicH.—On Saturday, January 18, WILLIAM STICcH, aged 89 years, ‘The relatives and friends of the’ family/are in- vited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 222 East Seventy-eighth street, on Tuesday mora- ing, begi-hesi 21, at Long Kate San Francisco papers please copy. The members Por the. Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society are hereby notified that the funeral of Mr. William Stich will take place this (Tuesday) morn- ing, at eleven o'clock, from his late residence, 222 Bast Seventy-cighth street. Also the funeral of Mr. E. Hameiverg uae id ae ua as late re- , 239 Second street, at the same time. ress ‘A. 8. VAN PRAAG, President. Srorrs.—On Saturday, January 18, Bens. EopERT™ Storrs, aged 2 months and 18 days. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Tuesday afternoon, January 21, at three o'clock, from the residence of his father, William H. Storrs, Bayonne, N. J. Suanug.—The members of the Sarsfeld Associa- tion of Hoboken are hereby requested to mcet at their hall, in Newark street, on Wednesday, Janu- ary 22, at one o’ciock sharp, for'the purpose of at- tending the funeral of our late brother, DANIEL SUGRUE. THOMAS BOURKE, President. VAN NEss.—At San Luis Obispo, Cal., on Saturday, December 26, 1872, JAMES VAN NEss, a native of Ver- mont, and son of the late Governor ©. P, Van Ness, of that State, Mr. Van Ness was at one time Mayor of San Fran- brat! and subsequently a member of the Catifornia enate. VaN ZANDT.—On Monday, January 20, 1873, at the residence ot her brother-in-law, William D, Vreden- burgh, REBECCA VAN ZANDT, in the 86th year of her a ge. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Wednesday, January 22, at. the Reformed church, Ridgetiel |. d., at two o'clock. Train leaves at #:30 foot ot Cham- bers puvet. io Lt SE of New Jersey, stopping at otield st Whutke at copeninge mee air cane November 29, 1872, GRORG! - maining son of thd late Willard Walker, of Aibany, bY ears. Nv iiuieetn Brooklyn, on Monday, January 20 NELLIE ADELAIDE, little daughter 01 George B. and |. Ward, d 2 years and § months. Ban fiaeea twit take’ place from the residence of her parents, 272 Ryerson street, on Wednesday, at two o'clock P, M. The relatives and friends are in- vited to attend. West,—On Saturday, January 18, of consumption, FRANK BALDWIN, Wife of Smith V. B. West, ‘The friends of the family are invited to attend the faneral, from the residence of her uncle, Mr. John B. Spafford, 121 Leroy street, on Wednesday, the 22d inst., at one o'clock P, M, Newark (N. J.) papers Dg aay! copy. WILson.—At_ Newark, N.J., on Satarday morn- ing, January 18, DANIEL M. WILSON, in the 70th year of his age. Funeral service it his late residence, 1,021 Broad street, Newark, N. J., ob Thursday, January 23, at two o'clock P, At