The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1874, Page 4

+ NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1874.--TRIPLE SHEET. } 1 ult ea for dividing double stara, and under { inch; on July 11, the fall was .94; on July 12, snd some ambitions “statesmen were cun- bi ) the management ol Struve aculeved @ Very great | .23, making a total of 217 inches for the three THE MAYOR'S PREDICAMENT med as commissioners of deeds, and still the ABUSED ARKANSAS. je | reputation. Up to 1860 it aid probably more work | days, In June, of 1873, when there was no taik of |} “circus” had not begun, | than any other tnstrument in Kurope, the comet, there was a rainiall in Minnesota of Assistant Aiderman Simonson indulged in a t “ Greenwich, of course, has some Une telescopes, | nearly five inches, and in 1872, according small display of pyrotechnics by offering @ resolu. “ . ae, although it ia now more prominent asa meteoro- | to the records of Mr. Cole’s bureau, tion, calling upon the Police Commissioners to en- t logical and surveying bureau and on oe e hesaqnar. a = uitable Building, on Broadway, The Answer to Governor Dix’s Let sores bret of the Revised, Ocala ance a1 aes, Present Situation of the r ters for longitudes and latitudes all the Wor e je highest 8 were a8 £0) :—July 4, com- = | pr e discharge of Mlrecrackers, torpe- The Great Refractor at the National | gibados and la the highest Agures w liows:—Juiy 4, " than as an observatory of stellar phenomena. In Paris the telescopes in use are mostly reflec- | night, . and continu! until ; July 5, commencing at 5:50 PM. and ter To Be Ready This Week. does, &c, Assistant Alderman Clancy moved to refer the Late Combatants. t f Hy the front suriacg alter | continuing until 7:20 P. M., .13; July 15, bes i subject, it being so very artistic, to the Committee Ohserratoy tn Washington. Repent aie han ei | Stuer tuaannng ee PRE Ae | a ee makes 30 many giasses fo . . and 8 —— lescopes iike | at 10 P. M., .82; Jul fo : be deprived of celebrating the anuiversaries of PUNISHMEN ee ne Oe eee eee rata d continainie during’ the night, ta! Juy' 2 THE MAYOR'S SIDE OF THE QUESTION. Our giorious independence without the ald of Are. | + New York Observatories and LORD ROSSE’S FAMOUS TELESCOPE, at Parsonstown, Louth, Ireiand, which has been probably every day pointed at the comet, was beginning at 1 A. M. and continuing to 9:30 A. M., | 2h an aiterwards, di be aan record ran up to 1.30. Thus {t may be seen thi the same day, the crackers, &c, "Patriotism is dying out fast enough,” continued the speaker, ‘and, besides, the m Board of Police is at present chaotic enough with- | @ nts ctnated Results of th Consti - feet ty- ars ago. it 18 a | without the comet, the rain fell vily in workss’: Mike Com pelite eh hice nad Heleuoes bal wv . . : om Private Telescopes. | Singita tne, eats TT abla wet | Re nouweater eae an nes? 'tG ts | The Politicians and Their Speoula- | Suri't Mis tottintasat inure ional a Lord Rosse’s and the Other Fa- mous Instruments. } te | HOW THE COMET Is. Now that the comet has revived the popular toterest in astronomy everything connected with the subject seems most instructive and entertatn- ing. There are but few people in this country who realize the amount of time and money which are spent every year on astronomical observations of Stellar phenomena. It would be diMcult, jor in- | eighty-one balls. | is generally usea, and these thread feet and @ focal iengtn of fiity-three feet, two specula, one weighing three and @ hall and the other four tons, By resting the instrument upon twenty-seven plactiorms, which were 80 arranged that they distributed the pressure equally, a com- plete equilibrium of all the parts of the speculum was obtained. Subsequently twenty-seven tri- angles, each with @ ball at the angles, were suo stituted, so that the speculum rolls freely on The telescope tabe yoate ie a Joint of cast tron, which is supported upon stone % = Work, and cab de moved with the greatest ease. | py, William F. Thoms: i ‘The ordinary flar micrometer with coarse threads . William F, Thoms deilvered iast evening a from the | lecture on the “Law of Storms” at the Nautical power of the reflecting suriace below, are of daz- | institute, e of his zling brulliancy even in the most profound dark- SE ee following ls the eubstence ness. Lussel’s telescope in Malta, constructed aiter Newtonian principles, is a very large one, Storms are caused by a portion of the atmos- phere becoming violently heated. The most im- being jour feet in diameter, tae MELBOURNE TELESCO! titer % portant variety of storms the navigator has to en- counter are known as hurricanes and cyclones monta during July 10, 11 and 1: nearly a# much as rey ar recent few days past. So that, whatever may be in store for the poor earth On account of the poor cemet, the latter is not responsible for the cooling showers we have | had since the thunder and lightning began to | scare us. The Law of Storms—A Lecture by Dr. manufactured by Mr. Grubb, of Dubin, is of the reflecting order, The redector is of metal, al- though the new silvered glass of Foucault 18 pre- Last year, on July 27, the record ia that the rainfall reached 2.02— tions as to the Final Result. The Governor’s invitation extended to Mr. Have. meyer on Saturday to send him a gooa long letter | about the way he has been carrying out the work of “reform” lately, has apparently robbed the case | of the funny old man of much that had been up to | that time but speculation among the politicians and | has brougut the discussion by tuem of the Mayor's | OMctal virtue down to solid facts. The great ques- tion up to Saturday had been, Would the Governor | take any notice of the charges whatever? The | Mayor's friends, whose wish was of course father to the thought, contended stoutly that he would | not; the Mayor’s persecutors and those wno be- ‘the resolution now in their charge. Valuable time gone by, and still no resolutions affecting the Mayor offered yet. The Committee on Arts and Sciences reported adversely upon a resolution passed by the Board of Aldermen, and referred to them, requesting the Board ol Estimate and Apportionment to appro- riate $5,000 lor the pyrchase from Mrs. 5. M. ndall of the Maps and field notes known as the Randall maps, on a survey of Houston street, which was recommended by Commissioner Van Nort. The report was adopted, but reconsidered and again referred to the same committee, More business transacted and still no resolu- tions, A resolution to pave, flag, &c., Sixty-siath street, between avenue A and Third avenue, had | been passed June 22, and vetoed by the Mayor dune 20. The Mayor, however, found out that he disapproved of tits measure by mistake, and in- formed the Board 80 in a communication stating that fact, and that he wanted to see the work tutional Convention. Li1rLe Roc, Ark., July 10, 1874, It 1s now noarly two months since the proclama- tion of the President recognizing Governor Bax- ter brought joy to the now desponding, now hope- ful, camp of Baxter, and dismay to the too conf- dent Brooksites intrenched at the State House. There seems to have been little ground for the apprehensions partly ielt, partly simulated, by Brooks’ followers that they would be persecuted and tried for treason for their taking sides with Mr, Brooks in the late contest. To be sure, they have been turned out of every office they held~ in some cases turned out legally and in many without taw. Many of the more prominent, who | n . ts iderman Clancy, W! stance, to tell how many astronomers are intent | ferred by many astronomers, a5 being. bevter | and typhoons, nese acquire a circular molioe Uaved-an caer did asserted that the charges were soptosed bo bo the vartarcemearian’ a? Ents ee | thought mentite to be peculiarly ob- on this very day upon watching the comet and her | 9/4Pted for these instruments, It ts claimed by | round a focus or centre (at which the air is 4! of such @ character that be was m duty bouna to Pe fie Ervaiane nae ine bgneneeeed noxious the party in power, beautiful tail, ‘There are nearly sixty observa- bere espera aloe llc nary harder pee Bees | tionary), and round this focus the wind rushes | move in the matter and that speedily. | ing une Objections of His Honor the Mayor, pee tt | left the State s00n alter Brooks’ toriesin this coontry armed with cata lesy | patred when they ipiioe once lost thetr polish. Re- | with the greatest violence. These storms have | Now that the Governor has moved, it | wasso passed. t surrender, but have now nearly all returned, an@ powerful telescopes for the observation of such P0/!Sliing of these reflectors is really nothing more | also @ progreasive motion to the westward ata) can be readily understood that the quid- ‘The ‘dog ordinance” as amended last Friday by | have fenewed the fight with the Convention as vagrants as this comet, THE TELESCOPE AT WASHINGTON, The most powerful is the one at the government observatory in Washington, constructed by Alvan Clark & Sons, of Boston, the well known telescope makers. This firm, which reflects great credit upon Ameriean science and enterprise, has sup. | plied some of the best observatories in Europe with large refractors. The first glass the firm made was 4 five inch reflecting telescope. They were greatly encouraged by their first success and made larger and larger tele: Mr, Clark sent } of suspensivn 18 near the mirror, and tn trout of this point the telescope stretches forward to about thirty feet of open lattice Work, made of bands of | has less force and the shifts of wind are longer. elastic steel, The telescope ‘is on Cassegrain’s | plan, With the eye-plece a8 in the Gregorians, the bottom, and exceedingly convenient tor use. America. At Cordova, in the Argentine Republic, | ooking clouds tm the sky. Dr. Gould, of Cambridge, Mass, estabiished an | observatory where two valuable used, a Kepsold meridian circle of filty-iour inches | beavy swell of the sea, far heavier than could be focal length and four and 4 Dalf in aperture and | accounted for by the existing wind. hor less than refiguring, which is a very ¢xpen- | rate varying from twelve to thirty miles an hour. sive process, Restivering @ glass mirror, however, | Thetr atametor varies from 150 to 120 miles. The 1s attended by comparatively slignt expense and does not require extraordinary talent, ‘The point | Wind blows with the greatest fury near the ceatre fot 7 Fe aos | of the focus, and there also the shilts of wind are most rapid, Towards the circumierence the wind ‘he indications of @ coming storm are as fol- at | lows:—The barometer {alis rapidly from 30,00 inches, and when it reaches 29,20 we are on the SOUTH AMERICAN ASTRONOMY, | verge of a storm circle. At the same time the A few words about #n observatory in South | weather becomes threatening, with heavy bluish- metimes the storm commences with small rain, and the wind gradu. One of the signs of the storm is a i instruments are | ally increases. Let us now huncs on both sides of the house, so to question of the probabre removal of the Mayor. For some reason or other best known to them- selves the Tammany people—that is, those who have becn actively engaged in the fight against Gardner and Charlick, and since their reappoint- ment and finai resignations in the campaign against the Mayor himself—contend that the Gov- ernor’s first move is a sure indication that he has been not only profoundly impressed with the se- rious character of the charges, but that it Is @ sort of forerunner unmistakable of his determina- | | speak, have been reduced to discussing the simple > Alderman Morris was called up and concurred in by @ vote of 17 yeas tol nay. The dissenting member was Assistant Alderman Wisser. Mr. Healy moved uneasily about the chamber, his right hand convulsively clutching the leit la- pel of his coat. He approached the reporters’ table, and being importuned concerning the reso- lutions, meekly answered that, “We thought it best not tu offer any to-day, and await the comin; of events,” And the resolutions condemnatory o! the eight Aldermen id Cop berry with the Mayor slumber in the coat pocket of Mr. Healy to be heard of no more. Further interest in the proceedings of the Board ceased on ths promulgation of tne above tacts, and aiter transacting some routine business the Board adjourned until tne 27th inst, at two o'clock Pp. their objective point. Some few, who were alarmed at later threats of indictment on various charges by the Grand Jury, have teft in a hurry. However, a petition addressed to Juage Redmond, signed by prominent lawyers, requesting that he hola no criminal court ts term, for various reasons, has been granted by him; therefore THE GRAND JURY HAS NOT MET, In view of the coming of the Congressional gub- cominitiee everything 1s kept as quiet as possible by the present admimstration, In many of the State aud county ofices where the officials (beinz E a & KS men) have not resigned or been im- ses » Rey. W. R. Dawes, | aN equatorial by Alvan Clark & Sons, with an | Consider how the navigator ts to ascertain where 5 » M. Broo ct ned MLN aera bela ao " nad von’ | eloveninon object glass, formerly the property of | the centre of the storm is. In the northern lati- | Hon to remove the Mayor. This view of the mat- | “It ig currently stated that the Tammany leaders | peached by the Legislature, as provided 4 an amateur astronomer of England, who had rec- 1) Rutherford, of this city. tudes these circular storms commence in the | ter it needs no argument to make plain to any- | have interdicted the offering of the aforemen- by law, thougu many of the officers are ognized the extraordinary ability of the frm in | We can only casuaily mention a few more of the | Northern limits of the northeast trade winds in | yogy who 1s at all acquainted with the law touch- | Moned resolutions, which, however, Mr. Healy ae hi is shaping object glasses. Mr. Clark, in making these leading achromatic telescopes. At the Royal Ob- | August and September, and, travelling westward, emphatically denies. elective, they have been removed, their glasses, had to import bis rough dises from Great Britain, where they had greatly improved methods of casting the rough glass. The trials of the firm were many and severe. Instead of encouraging these pioneers ip an important branch of industry the government actualiy set opstacles in their way by levying the monstrous tax of more than thirty per cent upon the rough dises which they tad to import. In 1862 Mr. Clark finished the largest refractory te pe which the world of Science could boast o/ at that time, The aperture ofits ubject glass was not less than eighteen and servatory in Munich there 1s one of 11.2 inches aperture and 192 focal length, at Paris and Dubita , there ig one of 12,4 aperture and 206 focal lengta, and there are others in almost every capital of Europe and in Madras, Cape Town and other cities. ‘fhe subject is 80 vast that it would be impossible | to give in the limits of a newspaper article more than a brief outline of its salient points. It may be of interest, however, to know HOW THESE GREAT TELESCOPES ARE USED in observations like that of the comet. O! course, observatories differ in this respect, but the foilow- ing, which is authentic, will give an idea of the method generally in vogue:—Tue astronomer sits upon an easy chair, with a movable back. If the object he seeks 18 high itn the heavens this chair | Visit the West India Islands and then the coast of the United States. The centre of the storm circle | can be easily ascertained. Turn your back to the | wind and your left hand will point to the locus, | Having ascertained the centre of the storm it is very easy to keep out of its path by watching the change of the wind, If the wind is north and | east, veering to the north, then run the vessel | to the north and west. If @ norin and | east wind veer to the east put the vessel on the | | starboard tack. Following this rule all round the | compass in northern latitudes, you will avoid ail danger from these circular storms, The navigator must never cross the track of these storms or | even sail in company with them. On the southern latitude these circular storms commence near the | ing removals of sheriffs (which 1s the law appli- cable to the removal of the Mayor) is rather ridiculous, for the Governor could not do other- wise than he has done, no matter what his opinion may be as to the “probable removal” of the Mayor, The letter is a mere form and by no means an in- dication of anything that may follow, good or bad, On the other hand, it is equally absurd to argue, | as some of the politicians are arguing, that the Mayor is not OBLIGED TO MAKE A REPLY. He i8 bound to answer, and upon the answer | will in great part depend the future action of the Governor; for, if it covers all the points in the BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND APPORTIONMENT, | Comptroller Green Still Protesting— Bonds Issued to Satisfy Judgments. Pursuant to the call issued on the 10th inst, this Board convened yesterday afternoon at the Comp- troller’s Office, all the members being present and the Mayor presiding. The Comptroller, after listening to the reading of the minutes of the previois meeting, and which were approved, asked of the President whether offices seized and new appointees installed. The only real excuse offered for this is that of Mr. Brooks in seizing Secretary of State Johnson's office during the war, namely, expediency. A case 18 now pending before the Board of Supervisors ot this county as to who shall act as Clerk to the Board—James Roland, elected on the same ticket with Baxter to the position of County Clerk, since removed by Baxter for participation in the “rebel- lion,” or Benjamin Johnson, who ran on tho Brooks ticket for the same office, and who is now in possession of that office by virtue of appoint- sui ne loses ncen mepe ean rom. tne. Commis: | ment by Governor Baxter. The election held on stoner of Pubiic Works in response to a resolution | asking for a list of employés. Tne Mayoranswered | the 30th ult. to submit to the people the question as to whether they shall have case and shows beyond a doubt that the charges are unjustified by law or fact, then the whole case | may end, But if the Governor does not deem the answer satisfactory an investigation will be half inches—three and a half inches more than that of the !amons refractors used at the great observatories of Pulkowa and Cambridge. With 11 the star is lower the chair back is raised in pro- | and pursue acourse to the westward, They are portion, Across the eye-piece of the telescope are | generally expected in the months ol February or stretched seven lines.ot spider web dividing the | March. Turn your back to the wind and your fleid of view. right hand will point to the centre. The direction } back is lowered ull its occupant almost lies down, | southern Limits of the southeastern trade winds, | | in the negative. Hereupon the Comptroller read the followin; this telescope a discovery of the greatest import aace was made, and the satellite of Sirius FIRST SREN BY HUMAN BYES. Such was the attention which this great discov- ery commanded in Europe that the French Acad- emy bestowed the Lalande medal—an annual re- ward for the most interesting discovery which has been made—on Mr. Clark. Thus the firm was honored by the scientific men of Europe, while in this country, where a great refracting telescope ‘Was 80 sadly needed at the Washington observa- tory, their recognition was far from being ade- quate. The glass at Washington was an old-— fashioned affair, with none of the modern appll- ; ances, and realiy a disgrace tothe country. The subject had frequently been mooted in Congress, and vario uggestions had been made in regard to the purchase of amore powertul glass, worthy of the ational Observavory. At last the Magnates in Washington awoke from their sieep and appropriated $50,000 for the pur- pose. Tne Clarks obtained the contract and pledged themselves to make an instrument of twenty-six inches aperture—the largest whicn had been made thus far was a twenty-five inch glass, The making of such a large inssrument is attended by a great muny difMcuities, Ie glass dises for the lenses were ordered in Engiand, but more than a year passed before they could be completed, The cost of the necessary dome, tower and foundation nd the glass has excecded $60,000, but the coun- try possesses an instrument which is wortby ofits , pame and will render inestimable service to sci+ ence. It 1s the largest refractor ever made and is a glass which wil) ear comparison with the great elescopes of Lord Rosse and Lassel, notwithstand- ing their superior siz CINCINNATI'S WORK. Cineinvati, which has had an observatory for more than seventy years—being indeed the Queen City of the West as tar as scientific enterprise is concerned—purchased, in 1345, @ telescope with a@n object giass Of twelve-inch aperture, of Merz & Miubler, the great telescope makers at Munica, for about $10,000. Under the supervision of Proiessor Mitchell a handsome observatory was built. The telescope had five eye-pieces and nine microme- ters, with 1,400 power aud the necessary clock- work for steadily viewing a star. In 1870 anew and larger site for an observatory was dongted by a Mr. Kilzour, one of the most prominent and active citizens of the place. The builaing will be much jarger and handsomer than the old observatory. THE OBSERVATORIES IN THIS CITY. New York has a number of telescopes which are ying a good deal Of attention to the comet, Rnere, is first of all, une retractor at Dr. Rutner- fora’s observatory in Second avenue, at the corner of Eleventh street, This gentleman ranks with the great amateur astronomers like Lord Rosse and others, haying devoted much of his time and Weaith lo this noble science. He has made the tele-cope himself, The first instrument, which he made in 1864, was for photograpuing stellar groups, and Was intended to be a substitute for the filar Micrometer method of measurewent, This wasa reiractor of eleven inches aperture, With two dis- tinct glasses, composed of two lenses each, one jor photography and the other jor vision. The resent telescope was made by Dr. Rutherford in 369, It is of thirteen inches clear aperture, and a considerable modification of the old instrument, a lens being added to the usual glass. This lens is so constructed that it shortens the iocus about one-seventh. It has about six ere-pleces anda magnifying power ol 1.500, The telescope with its mounting apparatus, &c., would cost about $10,000, Mr. Campbell, of this city, has a twelve-incn glass an his observatory on the Brooklyn Heights. Its socal length is thirteen feet, and it is probably Worth from $§,000 to $9,000, MINOR CITY TELESCOPES. At the Columbia College there 1s a small tele- scope of five inches aperture and six feet local length, Which is mounted on the green for the in- struction of the stulenis. It was made by Alvan Clark and is worth, probably, $900 or $1,000, j Mr. Harrison, a well known citizen, connected with the Board of Education, and Mr. Fitz have also #1X-iNCh glasses in their private observatories, and Professor Heury Draper has an enormous silver giass reflector, Of twebty-Six inches aperture and jourteen Jeet’ focal length, at his residence in Hastings. This 18, probably, the only large reflector in this country, ali the other leading telescopes being reiractors. Professor Draper's refector has, probably, cost $6,000, There are a number of smaii four and five inch ‘lasses at the varioas colleges ip tnis city, att acker Institute, in Brooklyn, University and in private observatories. ber of small telescopes, Of six-inch ape’ uopwards, throughout the country is @ Besides the Washington and Cincinnati telescopes there are several, however, Whicn are of consicer- abie size and worthy of mention, Harvard Uni- versity has an excellent retractor of fifteen inches aperture and in length, It is equatoriaily mounted anu cos: $20,000. Alleghany, Pa, has @ glass of twelve or thirteen inch aperture and about fourteen feet focai lengtn. At Ann Arbor, An- napolis, West Point, Amberst College, Dartimoutn College, Rochester and in many other cities of the Union there are also good telescopes, aithough of smaller size. CHICAGO'S GREAT LUCK. Chicago, which has already a very valuable re- | fractor, made by Alvan Clark, will soon o¢ abie to boast of the possession of the “biggest”? instru- ment in the country. Mr. McCormick, the reaper Manulacturer, has ordered a refractor of Alvan Clark which will pe of a quarter of an inch larger | aperture than the great telescope in Washington, nis order Was given at the time the government @t the national observatory, and Mr. Mcvormick might have insisted upon having his telescope Orst, but he waived his right and allowed the gov- ernment to have the precedence. Mr, McCormick | will pay $40,000 for tis retractor and Chica rejoice tha@t it bas tie “biggest Wing out.” The | Lick Observatory, in San Francisco, will ai80 soun | be armed with an enormous telesco aod the | munificence of this public spirited cit.zen will, undoubtedly give ab impulse to scientific and astronomical research at San Francisco, | THE RUSSIAN [MPPRIAL OBSERVATORY, Let us pow turn to the great instruments of the Old World, They are 80 Numerous tuat lack of 8 forbids us to mention more than a few, Provably the Most magnificently equipped ovsery- tory in Europe is that o1 Puikowa, tounded by the Emperor Nicolas, Its establisnment coat $500,000, gnc $00, 000 are annually appropriated trom the ‘mperial treasury ior its matutenance. The tele. scope at Pulkowa is not a very large one, being only of Miteen inches averturc. bul th w wonder. motion arranges it to his satistaction, for it rests | pert observer will not commit an error in this second, Or the six hundreth part of a minute, Stars uot very near the sun may be seen in broa: Tay eros on which the expected star is to be visible. leas! salts Cotman eearetactinn ior ie renee of the wind nas Be ciapety sraeetes: ey none | upon a railway of its own. As the star passes the | and east wind veer to the eas en run south | - | and west. Ii the north and east wind veer to the ME MDa ae Twill nae cumin na receon ian cite OEE put the ship on the port tack. fe barom- eter should be always closely watched. When | the barometer falls to 29.50 the vessel will be 150 | miles from the centre of) she Storm, As the focus | 3 at night it is necessary to direct a | approaches the barometer will lal 420 at | pry tight from a lamp to eniighten the | miles and to 28.40 at fifty miles, to 28.00 at about fleid of the telescope 80 as to permit the spider | en eG ape ig near the focus itself It falls as PS 38 the brighter 7. 2 Te Tog ei tus aapetca rear ist a ‘The lecture was amply illustrated by diagrams, A DEADLY THUNDERBOLT. mnental calculation exceeding the tenth part of a ‘nis is the account given by ap astronomer who watched the star-gazers at the Green wich observa- tory. An Amatcar’s Review of the Professors. New York, July 13, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— During the jast few days you have published ex. tensive interviews with American astronomers. | The difference of opinion 1s so contrasting | a3 tO appear comical. Could you not inter- | view by cable Father Secchi, at Rome? [I should think that bis earnest zeal in astro- | nomical observations 18 at least worth the expense ofacable telegram, When, some years A Family Killed by Lightning in Con- necticut—Father, Mother and Child Found Partially Consumed in Their burning House. BRIDGEPORT, July 12, 1874, The thunder storm which passed over this sec- | tion between five and six o’clock on Saturday af- ternoon left in its track one of the saddest scenes ever witnessed. This occurred in the town of Trumbull, and was nothing less than the killing by ago, the New YORK HERALD reported the Lon- lgttning of a father, mother and child, constitut- dou meteoric shower of the previous evening, | 8 @@ enslre family, After the storm had Protessor Loomis believed it to bea hoax, and | Passed Mr. Blood, residing at the northern Was In consequence, nolens volens, compelled to | C4 Of Danicis’ Farm street, about @ mile 2 . ; east of Long Hill, discovered @ dense suffer for several Months as a target of the New | smoke issuing from the house of Mr. Levi 8. York HERALD. I should think that astronomy as | 4 | Harrison, who lived nearly opposite. He imme- Rese OMBBIEE Se ibe Seuniigiebentee | diately sent word to Mr. David Hall, a brother-in- mitied original elements. I propose as a liy- | law of Mr. Harrison, who entered the house at pothesis, that infinite space Must add many more , once and found it full of smoke. In the bedroom, chemical elements, 80 that even the spectroscope may not be all-sufficient tn al cases. There Gara | Sprpencueire taney ates gs eee nurs oui Bad very reliable standpoint of comfnon sense. | after extinguishing the fire with a few pails of Now, Proiessor Eastman says that the comet | water, pai tees in rabies Load te = = dareer { THE DEAD BODY OF MR. HARRISON than a ball capable m size to be claspe | * Sue patmiee RANK band. and yet suone eed | was founa wit’ the lower limbs hanging over the thetical ball could be stretched ‘to an elasticity | age of the bed and the head and snoulders among | of gum three mullions of myles, and coming a8 the burning bedclothes, which had fallen through 7o1,000,000° joe 9% thecnan) of the sun | vo vhe floor by the burning of the bed cord. The be Visible! Itlacks logic. To be visible at such | Ded was pulled off and thrown from a window, and | distance the comet Coggia (though transparent) inust be comp: however small, morning admits stch @ theory, theory anyhaw is more rational than theory of the condensed ball within the paim of a band. My modest opinion is tuat a comet is a “mother which carries the germs of new planets,’ austribating a as oee t onsands or years of | travel within infinite space, until, exhausted, the ce d | Bing, and were probably sitting on the bed when Goma “alssppssrs; entirely extinct to astronomy | the port caine, "tir Harrison was badly barued ore showers In the fallare distinct trom | about the head and face and one wrist wi urne De ee agmcnts ina comen’ Out imeteorig | half off, while lis clothing was entirely burned showers origilate in the constellation of Leo, and | away; but there was Irom that corner of the heavens emerge with | NO VISIBLE MARK OF THE LIGHTNING regular clock time either in August or October, upon him. Mrs, Harrison was struck upon the One of your interviewed astronomers says that , breast, and the electric fluid had evidently come our planet earth travels 68,000 miles per four, | Out atthe foot, while it is possible that the catid while he gives to the comet Coggia one round | Might have been- suffocated as it lay, stunned, qLiion of miles per hour. under the mother’s body, but one of 1t3 arms was Where, in the name of common sense, is the law badly gasted open. The house, a small cottage, of gravitation ? Comet Coggia (computed by one Stood near a tall tree, which first received tue to be hot more of solid matver than a ball within | boit, after whica the lightning seemed to have di- | the palm of the hand), travelling laster than the | Vided, part golng down the iree into the ground solid heavy body of our planet? Professor Proctor | aud part into the house, passing through the plas- added to our planet every year several thousand | ter and leaving a hole in the ceiling the aize or a tons Of meteoric substance. Such at least was re- | Stove pipe directly over the bed. About half the ported in your columns. If the existence of one | end of the house Was torn away, and there were planet requires such & heavy load o! meteoric , Marks in several places showing where the light- | supply, What could be the ultimate purpose of a ning entered the ground, hi comet (3,000,000 miles of tail length) condensed to | _ Mr. Harrison was twenty seven years Of age, his a ball within the palm of your haud? Avsurd! | wite was twenty-six and the child was about two To travel so much faster than our planet would | yearsoid. Mr. Harrison had purchased the house indicate so much more weight of volume, , butashort time before, and haa, of course, not Vapors, clouds, mists cannot travel so fast, unless | lived tnere long. ‘The funeral of the family ete chased’ by winds, and then they donot travel Place on Sunday at Kaston, whither pried eth such distances and by no imeans in an | Were taken for interment. and was largely at- elliptical way. Take, for instance, the imches | tended, the sad event casting a gloom over the en- and weight of water discharged by a thunder tire neighborhood. Smranee yi | ‘OTHER HOCS vOR. storm. This water is the condensation of clouds. ANOTH ¢ | ‘Thereiore, if you start from the sequel of a thunder | _ Beside the above the nouse of Charles 8. Bruns- storm within our own atmosphere and quite near | Search was made for the wife and child of the un- d of a long Chain of solid meteors, m One of your astronomers this | Ttunate man. They were found on the floor, be- and such neath the window, the woman dead, with the the | Child in her arms, The woman lay partly across ) the child, which was not quite dead when dis- covered, but soon expired, in spite oi all efforts to restore it. The tamuy, of which these three tuted the entire number, had been ersons consti- illed by light- ordered, either before a commission or a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney General to conduct the injuiry. The Mayor yesterday had a long consultation with his legal advisers 1n relation to the answer he is to make, but nothing as to the conclusion ar- rived at was divulged. lt was rumoured that tue answer would be nothing more nor less than a general denial of some of the charges preterred in the first place, and, in the = second place, an argument showing that the movement against him was simply a political one, and one, therefore, which the Governor was in duty bound, as an impartial judge, to discountenance. It was also rumored that the Mayor’s strong point in re- lation to the reappointmeht of Gardner and Char- lick would be that he was legally justified in re- appointing them, whether the reappointments | Were legal or not, inasmuch as he had simply tol- lowed the advice of tne Corporation Counsel. In other words, he will contend that, had tne opinion stated that he had no right to reappoiut them, he would bave abided by the decision. | to “study up” the points of the case. charges that he rejused to proceed against the Police Board, alter the resolutions denouncing them and cailing upon him to investiga‘e their conduct had passed the Board of Aldermen, he will, 80 say some 0: his friends, argue that he was right in refusing to act until specific charges had been preferred against them and submitted to him; that, in fact, the “tnsinuations’ thrown out by the Board afforded him no more justitication to institute an investigation into their conduct than an article in a newspaper accusing vhe Mayor of malieasance in oifice would justily the Governor | 1 calling upon the Mayor for an expianation. OFFICIAL ACCUSATIONS, based upon specific charges, could alone justify either in acting oftictally. It 1s but just to say that the Mayor himself, yesterday, did not, when spoken to on the subject, and when his attention was called te wnat some of his friends assertea would ve the strong part of his answer, indorse his friends’ assertions. At least he refused to say himself what his answer would be main. He contented himself by saying that he had ample time yet belore ‘him in which “Tam in 20 very great hurry avout the matter,’ said he, | laughingly. “When the answer is complete it will, I think, cover all the ground necessary. {t will take some time yet to get it up, but you know the world was not made in a@ day. Of course it will be ready in good time; that 1s, there will be no dilly- dallying over it, aud yet there will be no harry,” It is said that the answer will really be ready by Thursday next at vhe latest, aud that the Mayor, in preterding that there is to be no hurry about it, simply wants to mislead people, as usual, and then give them another surprise, alter his usual style, uy having the letter sent to the Governor just when people the least expect it. Nevertheless, the politicians are under the impression that the Governor will have to ask a sec- ond time before he gets the reply to nis letter, but, as they know somewhat less about the matterthan the Mayor himself, their speculations | can be taken for what they are worth, which is simply nothing atall. If the question of the an- swer was not a very entertaining theme for them there was yet another which, to a certain ex- tent, was part and parcel of the offence for which Gardner and Charlick were 3 OVERHAULED BY TAMMANY. It was the rumored action taken to have little ex- | Commissioner Davenport removed from office for having meddled with election ofiicers last Novem- ber in a way that was not strictly legal. A reporter of the HERALD, who met the little man yesterday afternoon, was injormel by him that the first he had heara of any charges having been preferred against him was through the newspapers. He had, he said, telegraphed to Judge Woodraa, velore whom the charges, it 1s sald, were laid, and who is pow at his country seat at Fairfield, Conn., asking him whetuer charges had really been preierred against nim, but had not received an answer. himself as utterly indiiferent as to whether charges had been prelerred against him or not; but if ne 19 indifferent it is rather strange that he | should have gone to the trouble, the momeut he heard that such had been preferred, to tcle- graph to the Judge about the matter. Still he may have done so simpiy to oblige lis political friends in the Custom House, who are more anx- jous than he is himsell to Know whether or not he 18 to follow in the footsteps of Gardner. The dem- ocrats were very jubilant over the idea that to the | in the | He expressed | resolution, which at a previous meeting he had | offered and withdrawn :— Whereas the Comptroller has beon called upon to pro- | vide means to carry on the public works of this city out | of the proceeds of bonds, upon the requisition of tue fol- | lowing departments, to wit:— { YOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, Amount paid for works in progress, such as regulating, iprecing. and sewering streets, avenues, boulevards, | | . $2,587,172 | 1873. «44306103 | 1874 (six months to June 30). « 1,908,617 Total... $3,501,928 THe DEPARTMENT OF PUDLIC PARKS. ¥OR | Stock issued in 1872 1,447,278 id 828, | | Stock issued in 1873. 000 | Stock issued in 1874. 450,000 | Total... T5778 | | Bonds tssued in 1872. $1,002,000 | | Bonds issued in 1873 194,50) | Bonds tssued in 1874 560500 Total... $1,751,000 | And whereas the Gomptroiler has been reauited by Mandate of the Supreme Court to raise moneys to pay the expe $ of opening and acquiring title to boule- Parks and avenues astollows:— 071,100, baat et 1 $6,239,200 <This amount ‘ini io Park, | Broadway widening and the Boulevard ; and for the ex: | tension of Madison avenue, of Lexington avenue, &c., the sum of $954,880 $3 is yet fo be raised during the pres | ent year. Most of these schemes having been com- fore the present Comptrollor took attice ; and. the issue of a large amout f bonds has been pay alleged debts outstanding when the ook office, and a large amount of this class | ding uBliquidated: and | Whereas the revenues of the city have largely in- | creased during the last three years, notwithstanding | which the debt is increasing by reason of these immense | calls for new works aud tor means to pay old and un- | | Hquidated debts: now, therefore, Hesolved, that it is the judginent of this Board that, as the law’ now stand, no new work should be under: | taken except when actually necessary. and the Com- | mon Council, the Corporation Counsel, the Departnen | of Parks and' the Department of Public Works be r | quested not to commence or authorize any new worki | or the opening of any new boulevards or avenues, ex cept distinctly ant clearly necessary, and not until the | owners of property improved by the’ advances made by | | the city slow a greater disposition to pay the assess- | | ments on the property benefited. It is not Rust that the property owners in the lower part of the city should be | taxed to pay tor uptown improvements which are solely | for the benetit of the owners of these lots. | attesolved, That tte prosecution of the ‘class of works under what are Known as Boulevard Laws, by days? | work, at an enormously exaggerated expense, with ihe | | doubé and uncertainty which exist as to the provisions | Of these laws, is prejudicial to the public interests aud | ought not to be continued, and this Board will require | to know that the laws on this subject are clear and un- | mistakable, both as to the authority to do the work and | as to their sutticlency to insure the collection of the as- | | sessments, betore It will consent, to authorize the further | | issue of assessment bonds for the continuance of this | | class of WoFKS inany or which are of no public utility | and most of which are a generation in advance of any | j Public necessity. Kesolved. That instead of further prosecuting this | Glass of improvements in the upper part of the city, @ | generation in anticipation of the requirement, many’ of | which are scarcely used at ali, which are a'contiiual | source of expense for repairs, '&c., and upon which at | Teast $15,000,000 have been expended in two years and a | half, the public interest would be better served by de- | Voting some attention to the repair and improvement of the streets in the lower part of the city, which are | thronged with people, and which are a constant neces- | ‘otal. required to Comptroller | of debts are still outsta) sity for the movement of persons and property. Resolved, That while this Hoard is in favor of the | carrying on of public works which are essential to the rowth, development and ornamentation of the city, 1t is. at this time proper that such of the public moneys as | are expended shonid be devoted espectally to the iw- | provement of the dock property by which commercial | facilities will be enlarged, and trom which an immedi- | ate and remunerative revenue will be derived, aad in putting in order the thoroughfares in the lower part of the city, which are now so much in want of repair. | On motion of Mr. Vance the resolutions were laid over, by three votes, the Comptrolier voting in the a cae and protesting against the action of the | Board. Mr. Vance moved that $150,000 worth of East River Bridge bonds of New York be issued, uid over by Mr. Vance’s request. Mr. Greeu said he wanted ¢o issue bonds im- Tediately to satisiy some judgments granted since the meeting was called, but ie could not do s0 on account of the Vance rule, requiring a notice of lorty-eignt hours belore each such proposal. | . Mr. Vance was willing to suspend the rule in this | Wick, half a mile below Mr. Harrison’s place, Was | our beads with such @ bulk of ciectricity, now absurd would {t be to underrate the size and weight Of an electric phenomenon 60 many millions of miles in length and 0 many millions of miles distant and still visible im brilliancy! You experienced this week, at the same time, one eartnquake in our Utah, and on the same day one in Constantinople, Turkey, while the ther- mometer at your door, at four o'clock in the alter- | noon, pointed 101 degrees. Is this only the elfect | of a condensed ball within the palm of your hand? | I could draw many more logical conclusions—vut | enough for this letuer, A GERMAN AMATEUR, | THE RECENT RAIN STORMS. Has the Comet Anything to Do with | Themt—What the Scientists Say—No Lightning or Electricity Discovered in the Celestial Visitor's T: There is nothing new in saying that people at Most times arrive at conclusions without having the remotest idea of the actual facts upon which the premisez are based, This is true not only of matertal tuings but even of affairs of a different order; and 80 the world goes along, evil for the most part and always suspicious. Even the poor comet, about which nobody seems to know any- thing, has been unjustly blamed for what it was not at all answeraple. comet might well have prepared the public for placidity in regard \o the alleged destructiveness ol that heavenly body; but tue public is am Ob- | streperous animal, which will persist in adhering to extraordinary abd most ridiculous theories for the while, The recent heavy suowers we have had have caused a tremendous sensation among the nervous portion of the com- munity, What will noc peals of thunder and flashes of lightning—Which seem like descended meteors—do upon tie minds Of guilty consciences, which have been mocking IM Verbiage the people who go to church, looking upon the church as & nelp tothe end’ Inquiries at various piaces and among Well Known scientists reveal thie fact, for the benefit or those most in terror, that the comet has had nothing at ali to do with the recent heavy | rains, Those who may have still any doubt of the fallacy Of the “Post noo ergo propter hoc'’ argu- ment of the ‘‘cometians,” had better remember \ We followinm facts:—On July 10 {ie rainfall was an The celestial observations — contracted with Mr. Clark ior the instrument now | which HERALD men had already made upon tne | ing to you. struck and badly torn, but no one was burt, | although windows were broken, the siding of the house torn off aud the hinges drawn {rom 4 cellar door, which was found thrown into the cellar, There were lightning rods on each of the chimneys, Crops were beaten down, and the Housatonic Kail- | road so badly washed between Beers Mills and Trumbull as to necessitate the slower running of trains till repairs can be made, STRANGE PREAK OF LIGHTNING. The Electric Fluid Playing About the Strings of a Violin. Scorcu Pars, N. J,, July 11, 1874 To THE EpIToR OF THE HERALD:— During the thunder storm on Friday evening, July 10, the lightning entered one of the rooms of | my house in which upon a table my violin was | lying, striking upon the strings of tae violin and snapping them all except the G string, upon which it played about for an instant and then, as tl re- | pelled by its vibration, seemed to pass out at the | Window. No damage was done to the violin ex- cept the shapplug o1 the strings, nor was any other | article in the room or house damaged, The sounds when the Violin was struck by tne lightning re- sembied guitar playing or pizzicato. Seeing the fire playing about my violin 1, of course, almost gave up my beautiful instrument as lost, and was so astonished to fod it unin. | jured, except im the joss of the springs, that it seemed to ae sufficiently curious to be interest- espectiully yours. 4 ED, MOLLENBAUER. | M'CARTY'S MISTAKE, Willtam McCarty, a truckman, drove up yester- | day morning to the lumber yard of James E. Trim- street, aud proceeded to pile a load of timber on his truck. | came up and ordered @ halt, | and bad McCarty arrested, bu | load of lumber, had mistaken the yard. | upon nim the necensity canton An the, array he! n ple Ay Oe Geyeral Saseinna, jain the | ble, corner of Eleventh avenue and Twenty-fourth | Having secured his load he was about to drive off, when Mr, Trimble, the proprietor, | time came for decisive work the courage had Mr. Trimble sum- | qmoned Officer Gardner, of the Sixteenth precinct, In explanation of the act the prisoner said that be nad been “seat Irepe | ears, however, that MoUarty has fallen into such Rittie mistakes beiore, and the beter to impress of caution im the future little “Johnny” "was to get an overhaul- | instance, but the Comptroller expressed duubts as ‘ng, and not a few claimed that enough to tne propriety or legality of suchacourse. He | of evidence of fraud at elections could | evidently wanted the rule repealed altogether, | be brought against him to induce a jury, with- | out leaving their seats, to convict a fuil grown man, much less Davenport himsell. The friends of “Johnny” claimed that if he has been proceeded against it 1s Tammany tat ts domg the work, | If this be so, it is quite possible that Jotun Kelly and other Wigwamites became convinced, during the trial of Gardner and Charlick, in which Daven- ort was & sort of fourth assistant counsel, that | Johnny knew a great deal about the illegal way his cients had dealt with election ofiicers, and that that opinion, added to the facts they had al- ready in their possession relative to his alleged action on election days, has induced them to make things lively tor him for some time to come. | GOVERNOR DIX passed through the ofty yesterday on his way to Albany. [np view of the pecullar situation of the | case against the Mayor, as it now stands, he re- | fused to talk on the subject. MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. anemones THE ASSISTANT ALDERMANIO CIROUS. The Resolutions That Wero Not Offered, than and Why Not. than municipal proceedings, Considerable interest was manifested by the | IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TWELFTH WARD, | public in the meeting of the junior branch of the | —— | Common Council, owing to the publication in | Compliments tor Havemeyer and Green, Saturday's HERALD of the contemplated action of A meeting Of prominent real estate owners of the Board of Assistant Aldermen on the action of | te Twelfth ward is soon to be held in Pine street, the Aldermen in passing resolutions condemning ,| fF the purpose of protesting against Mayor Have- Mayor Havemeyer and calling upon the Governor meyer’s and Comptroller Green’s obstructive | to remove him from office. In the interest of fair | POlicy in regard to the improvements tn that part | play the action of Assistant Alderman Michael | Of the city. One of the gentlemen stated yester- | my ” | day that the Jolly of that policy was proved by the tel Who “engineered the tid neta Of | fact that the teuabie property in that ward im: | | his colleagues, was a subject of considerable com- | creased trom $25,143,005 in 1864 to $07,493,586 In | ment in and about the City Hall, but when the | 1874, and this increase was simply owing to the | improvements wiich had been made. Some Alter some discussion the matter was finally dropped Without being voted upon. Mr. Wheeler offered a resoiution authorizing the issue of $42,000 worth of bonds to construct a public road or drive from 155ti street northwards, ; Adopted, After which the Board adjourned, CITY HALL GOssIP. Mayor Havemeyer has not wilted much since the budget of charges were handed him by Governor Dix’s military secretary. He looks as cool as a cu- cumber in an Arctic freezer. Police Justices George KE. Kasmire and Wandell, | the so-called “apostle of reform,” John Foley, and Commissioner Thomus E. Stewart were among the Mayor's guests at his customary levee yester- | aay. Nearly $100,000 in warrants were signed by Mayor Havemeyer yesterday, being payments by the city for supplies lurnished and labor done. ‘The query has been put, ‘‘Has tue Comptroller re- lented?"” The Assistant Aldermen were in a hurry to ad- journ yesterday. A feast had more savor for them | $6,000,000 had been paid by real estate owners in | Cozed out and a masterly inactivity took its place. | assessments for improveiments, which had now Eighteen members answered to their names | been discontinued, and the property was conse- when the Board had been called to order, The | {uently not benetited oy these payments, Mr. | Theodore EK. Tominson, 3 of the signers usual lobby was in attendance; but, thanks to | Of the call, declared that Muyor Havemeyer aud President Strack’s orders, the Noor of the chamber | Comptroller Green had retarded the progress of ‘was not intruded on by outsiders toa very great | the city and injused its material development extent. | More than did the Tawmany Ring, with all its diss, ‘The reading ot the minutes was duly proceeded | ponasty, | organ) declaring that General Fagan, | States Marshal for the A NEW CONSTITUTION and to elect delegates to the Constitutional Gon- vention, which meets on the 14th inst., resulted in the people giving a very large majority for the Convention and in the triumph of the Baxter party as regards having a large majority of their dele- gates elected. As elections go in Arkansas, this last One seems to have been Jair. it is certain thas the people of the State wanted a convention, and now they will have it. ‘The deiegates will be a | Superior set Of men to the average Arkansas legis- lavors, and will, undoubtedly, make @ good consti- tution. The Brooks organ, of course, cried “Fraud!” very loudiy during the late election, There has been a good deal of squabbiung as to whether the United States or State officials elected as delegates are eligible, the Gazette (Baxter's an ex-Oon- federate, lately Commander-in-Chiet of the brooks forces, since appointed by the President Unitea estern district of this State, elected in this county to the Convention, ta not eligibie, and wisely abstaining irom noticing that the State Commissioner of Public Improve- ment has been elected on their ticket. THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE, who will be here in a few days, will, probably, be accompanied vy Senator Clayton and ex-Chief Jus- tice McClure. {In view of the approaching Oonven- tion and the probability of the election of @ new set of State officers, which will be ordered by the Con- vention, the Brooksites have little hope of getting agai into peer through their investigation, ‘They wili find frauds in everything on both sides, both in the election of 1872, before and since, and will get so mixed on the subject that they will probably abstain trom reporting a8 to who are in the right and who in the wrong. Finan- cially the State is in a bad 1x, and the Convention will undouptedly try to legislate some way out of it, andit is to be hoped will abstain from repudi- ation in apy shape, What the new democratia ucket in the fall will be 1s not known. Many think that Governor Baxter will be renominated. The Secretary of State, Johnson, stands a good chance of re-election, There is still a good deat of taik about the Brooks men having been guilty Of treason against the State, and Governor Baxter feels so bitter against the persons who ousted him for @ brief time irom his office that he would like to see them all tried and punished for treason, from Brooks down. Fortunately, wiser counsels nave prevailed. It certainly seems strange to hear, us 1s heard every day, ex-Confederates on the Baxter side speaking of ex-Uniun soldiers as traitors. MARTIAL LAW STILL PREVAILS. For some inscrntable reason martial law stilt revails in this county. A company of State ouse guards are quartered in barracks in the rear of the building; two Parrott guns stand on the grounds, guarded by a sentinel; a sentinel is Stavioned at the gate, and others pace the corri- dors of the building. However, it 1s now to be hoped that, leaving Baxter and Brooks aside, this great, rich and un- developed State wil be allowed, by means of the Convention elected by the votes of her basta to work out her own salvation. One more prolonged clutch by either the corrupt radicals or Bourbons would rain her beyond present redemption. THE VICE PRESIDENCY CANARD. {From the Boston Advertiser of yesterday.} The report irom Washington that Vice President Wilson is about to resign on account of tl! health is a very clumsy invention, Mr. Wilson is now at home; he has not been in Washington for several weeks. His health is steadily improving, and he has the best reasons to hope for a complete re- covery. Ii the object of the canard was to draw out some expression in favor of nis resigning it will fail, The Vice President has the entire con- fidence of the country, and its best wishes for his recovery and return to active public service, Practically, his oMce requires very little of him, and aitords no excuse for resigning under any cir- cumstanc His counsel and influence are wanted im the administration as it 18; and the contingen- ‘ cies of life are such that his withdrawal irom 1¢ could not be regarded without very serious appre- hension. CORONERS’ CASES, The body of a man, supposed to be that of Dantel Hyer, who, turee or four days ago, tell overboard from an excursion steamer as it was landing at one of the East River piers, was yesterday found floating in the dock at pier No, 28 Kast River. Tha | remains were sent to the Morgue and Coroner Woltman notified. Deceased was about torty-live | years of age. Yesterday morning the remains of an unknown man, some forty years of age, were found in the dock at pier No, 21 East River, Deceasea wore a Diack cloth irock coat, vest, cassimere pauts, white | Muslin shirt, merino undershirt and calfskin boots, He was partially bald and had small side whiskers, Coroner Woltman was notified to hold an (nquest atthe Morgue, whither the body was removed, Hlizabeth Murphy, ap English woman, thirty years of age, was yesterday morning found dead in bed by her husband, on the top floor of premises No. 65 Cherry street. The Fourth Precinct police report that they both went to bed drunk about eleven o'clock on Sunday night. Coroner Wolt man was notitied. y Corover Kepler held an inqaest at No, 927 Sec. ond avenue, On the body of Fanny Slaymon, @ child, whose death resulted from scalas accidentaliy received, ) Vincenzo Ruocco, an Italian thirty-five years ox age, a sailor on the brig Rosalio, lying at Pier No, 42 Last River, was almost instantly killed yesterday morning, by @ bar ol railroad irou slipping from the slings and failing on him while he wag assist« ing to discilarge the cargo of the vessel Coroner, Woitinan Was notified, M John Crouse, a man thirty-five years of age, wag drowned by acctdentally falling overboard at pict No. 12 North River, on Sunday, yesterday his body was found at pier No, 13 and sent to the Morgue. Coroner Kickhoft was notified. Thomas McLaughiin, a man forty years of age, died at No. 2,186 Second avenue, trom diarrhea and gastritis, doubtless superinduced by taking a mix ture, composed in part of colchicum, Which he had ootained {rom ab apothecary and Laken without being regularity prescribed vy aphysictau, Coronet Woltman took charge of the case, voroner EickhoiT was called to hold an inquest On the vody of William Ryan, a single man tweutys ‘hree years of age, who died in the Tombs, wher@ he had beeu committed, with delirium tremens, Deceased kept a liquor ees corner of Chariton au Macdougal streets, Friends took charge Of te fe mains for interment, ’ :