The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1874, Page 8

8 GEORGE BLISS. e+ ‘he Movement to Remove the United States Distriet Attorney from Office, eeneeanede THE ALLEGED BURNING OF THE MAILS. George Biss, Vuited States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, entered nis ome in the fede palding im Chambers street yestorday morning, ooking healthy and blooming alter his summer sojourn among the White Moun- roms. He hod seareely closed the door bebind non when tt Was opened again to admit the fore- man of the United States Grand Jury, and te two genticinen remained closeted for about an dour, while a representative of the HeRALD quietiy waited around the premises and laid his plans tor the capture Of whatever information of public im- portance should come trom within; for he rightiy onjectured that the visit had no very remote con- nection with the efforts which have been making jor some time past ier the removal of the District Attorney from office, THE PEPILION TO THE PRESIDENT. tt will be remembered that some ten or twelve ‘lays ago a petition, signed by Walter Gibson, Witam H. Pierce and J, H. H. Haws (the last mentioned a Grand Jurymap) was laid belore President Grant, pri for the removal of Mr. ed that Gibson was t im the upper part of his was snbseribed Bliss The petition The parblisher of a loc the cfty; that an aMdavit of before Comissioner Shields setting forth that , bout March 15, 1574, he mailed some copies of his publication at station L post office; that Wil- n money order clerk of station thereo!, Garret B. burn them; that Nam H, Pie L, aw the Superimtendeat Tuuisun, take the papers and George Bliss was then iistrict Attorney and E. H. Purdy his assistant. THE CHANGES set forth that alter the arrest of ‘rupison Mr. Bliss unreasonably postponed and finally abandoned altogether the examination of the ac- cused betore the Commisstoner; that Mr, Bliss would sive Gibson and Pierce no satisiaction for so doing when they made inquiries of him on the + subject: that when they inquired if he would allow them to go belore the Grana Jury he “declined to answer; that at t interview he confessed he based his action on What he was told by Postma: ter James, and Dot upon any knowledge he him- self had acquired; that when going out of town last month he left instructions with District Attor- ney Purdy to deny Gibson ali admission to the and Jury room; that when Gibson atter+ wards procnred ‘and. accepted a uon from the Secretary, ‘Thomas Ss. on, ty enter the Grand Jory was driven out again by orders of District Attorney; that Mr. bhss duced Hermon Gratin, foreman of that Grand Jury, to advise Gib- sou to withdraw his ease; t Mr, Bliss atter- wards brought ‘Tuntson and one A, Frank Shaw betore the Grand Jury, and got tuem to give false evidence in the case; that he intimidated Snaw, who hotds a position in the Internal Revenue De. partment, by threatenmg him with the loss of bts situagen; and, finaly, that the whole conduct of Mr. Bliss mt tus matter was anything but correct or commendadl _ DISTRICT ATTORNEY BLISS EXPLAINS. ‘To the inquiries of the foreman of the Grand Jury yesterday morning Mr. Biss deciared that he did hoc know any ot the parties above satd to have Deen offered as witnesses, and had never seen ‘THles- room, he the Assistant either Shaw or Tutison until a jew moments before the opening of the doors of the Grand Jury room. He added that the instrict Attorney has a discretion under both the Vutted States and state courts to reiuse to have the Grand Jury oceupy its time needlessty in hear- ing volunteer matter to the exclusion of such legitimate and discretiovary business as he might bring betore it. Mr. Gibsol said, claims in his complaint—whether so advised by counsel or not is immatertal—tuat tue District Attorney inust nsher in to the Grand Jury any ‘sous Who might pretend they vad comphiints to make, tas turn- Ing the Grand Jury into an itiuattable comerence ol real ov supposed grievances. wirkout the knowledge or conseut of the oMicer supposed to have the legal cuiture and discretion necessary to khow the statutes under whicn the criminal might be pucistied, as well as ene weight ol evidence re- quired to prove prija facte tat a crime had been committed. The authorities eer this absurd opin- ton quoted in Mr, Gibson’s petition were, Mr. isis thought, selected by non-provesstouals irom # rane dom Teuding of the books. ME. BLIss SYMPATHIZES. When the foreman allnded to the frighttul as- fault by vitriol made upon Mr. Gibson some time the District Attorney expressed great sym- with Mr. Gibson's misfortunes, but he thougut that matter not worthy of more than a ehort note on che subject, which he proposed to be able 0 address to the foreman to-day or to-mor- row. Mr. Griffin then toox lits departure, ENTER COUNSEL. FOR TC The foreman of the Grand dary had scarcely re- Mr. Buss ordered 'B. n Kiluan, ov » Garret #. Tunison, to be admitted, Mr. Killian br ted ius busiuess, He satd that Tamison 18 confident of being able to prove his entire inocence of the charge of burn- ing tle mall matter preferred agaist nun b. Me tabson ‘hat the aeeused ly Sabmitted “fo au imvestigation ic toby the Post Office authorities and an amination before Commissioner Sineida, im the whied he ¥ rater Distrie nother e wholly, and in the latter hat Tunison had written @ Attorney requesting to be amination beiore a United and he (counsel) now came Jnstrict Atiorney menot to act on He hoped ior sue thorough silting eas would rest in puntsn- to hat je M the went of The coimplatmants ior What he considered heir falsevood and malice. 1 1s understood that tt 1 OMe thorities consider that Tunison ug ) press this matter before a Commissioner, if he himselt Were to bear the expense, so as to lalse, Irivoloas and mulicwous at- a onic , and to show persons like! we in (hat business that there are penaities Whica follow the attempts. Pile DISTRICT AVTORNEY ON ECONOMY. replied that Le would give Tunison’s b examination sol consideration, ‘obably come » coucdusion on tt day ypd imiorm Kilian whet it | & At ihe sauie ume he indicated that he m Why the United States government neediess pat to a emed to neg 1. idered very es that Tunison wil p thorough e 1on of xpense where the ive all gutit on the part bis case somewuere or arcely afford to do other- ns a the osc Office authorities, POLICE MATTERS, The Board of Police Commissioners remaimed in éession the greater part of the day re rday. All | that time was occupied in going over the accounts of the Treasury and Street artments, No one ypointed to the vacant iuspectorship, Cane speight is said to be almost certam of the communication was read in the Board ‘ew W. Keeling and @ number of other 1 h ward complaining of per cution at the hands of the police in ihat dist A resoittion Was passed appointing a com on repairs aod supplies and avolishing the prin and stuiionery and station house committees Tesolntion Wis viso | to the effect that no applications will in iuture be received from ex- Pp they resigned or were dis emen, whether stevens, foreman of stri Flow Itt Is Done. Snperintendent Walling continues the centre of ttraction. His bureau at Police Headquarters has !weome a thorough moral scouring machine, s3 is transacted in a quiet, impressive man- effective, The day before yester- ins were given to understand no mnco” would be permitted, and terday the svat that is v captains reported ft nad disappeared, «That and Panel (hleviog,' sald the Superintendent, “are the meanest kinds of thievti human beings can em- vurk iD, aoa | am not going to allow them it I remain but four days in this omece. The captains 6! pouee and tare old trie We understand cach other. Having worked so many years to- aether, We know one another, conseqnently we shail Have no trouble in getting along comiorta bly yihing straight re end above board; police duty w abo things, ana ine harmony artment picasaul. Will be broad and FIRE IN GREENE STREET. Three Men Severely Injured. A fire broke out an early hour yesterday morning in the rear of No. $1 Greene street that caused a damage to property of about $2,900, ana curing the progress of which three men we; verely injured. These were Adolph Verlace and William Peer, voarders im the house, and Rownds nian Watson, of the Liguth precinct police, wuo was burned about the hands aud head in the en- deavor to rescue the others. An ambulance was legrapued for from the kighth precinet station suse, and the men removed to Bedevue Hospital. ‘The house belonged to Wiliam 'T, Draper, and was damaged to the extent of $1,000; insured. and is still Uaited States | invita. | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29. | A FEMALE PEDESTRIAN. A Young Women Marries in Boston. Emigrates with Her Husband to North Carolia, and Walks Through Five States to New York. A beautiful young woman, apparently twenty yours Of age, applied tor lodging a ‘ew nights ago at the Nineteenth Precinct Police Station, tu East Filty-ninth street. ter dress, although weil worn, Was neat and tidy. The blonde hair of her head hung in caris down a well shaped ne Her form Was petife, and her speect dicated that her edu cation had not been negiected. To Sergeant Whitcomy, who sat vehind the desk, she gave a remarkable story of how, sixteen months ago, she married a man named Apinony Briggs, a carpeb- ter of no mean capacity, residing in Boston, Mi where her parents also lived in comfortable cir- cumstances, The young couple lived happily to- | gether on the outskirts of Boston until last Febru- ary, when, in company with several otlier families, they emigrated to North Carolma, On the way thither hv r husband began to show his true charac- ter, by beating her without the slightest provoca- uov. This be kept up at intervals, untt! she jeft bim in the couutry near Charlotte, N. O., with the determination of going to her parents in Mas- sachusetts, even Lf sne was compelled to walk the whole distance. trip the second week in April, with only w#iew cents more than $2 m her pocket. " North she stopped at farm houses, and, by cook- ing and Washing, earned food and lodging for the night. Oa an average she spent five hours aday in walking; the ‘of the day was spent in sleep and working for families in order to procure a | meal. She travelled throngn North Carolina, Vir- ginta, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and She according!y started on her | On ber way | arrived 1n this city last Week, loot sore and sick trom | ' the long journey which she had undertaken. Being an adept with the needle, an excellent pianist and @ good cook, she sougat for work in any capacity, but without success, Siuce her arrival in this city she has been kindly taken care of by the several captains of police stations where she has appited tor jodging. On making known her story vo Ser- ‘ geant Whitcomb he kindly turnished her with a | her a Women, ac insiitaaon — having substantial meal and ecard of the Free Dormitory — for 54 Amit. street, an Jor it8 object the providing of a temporary shelter for rhose poor women who might find themselves homeless in u strange city. tbither the poor young womun bent ber steps. ‘The matron, Mrs, Boyd, who 1s in charge of the mstirution, kindly showed her a comiortable bed and allowed her to take a bath, The bruises re- ceived by the young woman from her husvand are plainly visible on her arms and body, The woman is low in stature, has dark hatr and eyes and wore @ neat yet piain brown linen suit. She did not have a particle of wearing apparei save What she wore, and when she arrived here she did not hav money enough to purchase an ordinary meui, During her conversation subsequentiy with a HeBALD reporter, wile showing but little out- ward eMotion, the tears would slowly trickle down her cheeks as if it were impossible to restrain them. By the kimdness of several well-known business men down town to whom her case was gave made known, she was enabled to start for Boston — yesterday afternoon and will arrive there eariy this morbing. She claims that her iriends in Bos- ton are numerous, but that she could not let | them know in what an unfortunate position she had veen placed, althoug the iault was not her own, She does not know or at least does not care where her husvand is, It 1s her intention to apply tor a divorce at an early date. ANOTHER PEDESTRIAN To ATTEMPT A PEAT | THIS BVBNING. Pedestrianism seems to be ail the rage just now, notwithstanding the ignominious failure of Mullen to complete his task last week. As am additionai attraction some of the managers of pienic parties advertise that pecestrian feats will embrace a por- tion of tue entertainment tor the gratification of visitors, and the little schoolboys, aud the girls as well, are occasionally lo be seen vying with each other as to their respective merits a8 rapid waikists. ‘The latest attraction in the pedestrianism line is the announcement that Mr. C, N, Payn will at nine o’clock this evening commence his great lest of walking 115 ives im twenty-iour hours on the watking course inside the inner inclosure of the Hippodrome, Twenty-eighth street and Fourth avenue. The feat, it 18 thougnt, will ve difficult to accomplish. A SCULL RACE ON THE HUD30N, An interesting and well contested amateur boat race Was rowed on the Hudson River early yester- day afternoon. ‘he rivals were Philip F. Grover avd Wiiliam Manning, the former of the Sixteeati ward, the latter of the Ninth. Much curiosity was manifested at the result of the race by the crowd of boatmen assembled on the pier at the foot of West Thirty-lourti street. The river could not have been in a better condition for the rowing of arace, jor hardly 4 ripple distarbed its serenity. Hoth men were im five condition. | Grover's weight was 158 pounds, while Manning’s was 160, ‘The course was three miies straight away irom the stakeboai, anchored a short distance above the ‘Thirty-foursa street pier, to a stakeboat located opposite Niuety-sixth street. The betting at the Start Was about even, although Manning became the iavorite as the race progressed. At the start Grover took the iead, which he maintained for the first 200 yards, taen Manning by a desperate spurt dashed ahead of lis antagonist and kepi on in- creasing the distance be'ween him aud Grover until he reached the stakeWoat, which he did in sm. 558. Grover Was about twenty yards behind. A TALE OF TWO HEMISPHERES, Pitta ih Agreeable Finale to an Irish-American Romance in Real Life. in Newark, iast summer, the police made “a descent” one night on a low underground den of infamous repute, located af the corner of Proud and Bridge streets, and “scooped in” ail the in- mates of the place. Among them was a youig woman of striking personal appearance, about twenty-six years of age. In the den she officiated as pianist, and performed with marked ability on the old rattle-trap of an instrament which was in the place. With the other persone arrested sie was marched, sans cérémonie, to the station house and there lodged for the night. In the morning, upon the party being arraigned beiore | the police mugistrate, Justice Lambert, the wo- man’s manner, no less than her appearance, at- tracted general attention. It was apparent that somehow she was sudly out of her sphere. At first she was very reticent about hersel’, but at length UNBURDENED HERSELY to the magistrate and to a Hehacp reporter present. She proceeded to unfold a tale of two hemispheres, in which giddy girlhood, fashionabie irivolity, man’s heartlessness and heartaches bore each ashare. It appeared trom her story that she was the daughter of Colonel John Hutchinson Garner, a distinguished Irish soldier in the British Army, and residing on his estates at Garnersviile, near Beltast, Ireland. There the family dwelt in elegance and comfort. When quite young Mixs Garner marricd a young bank casiier of the neih- voruood named Charles F, Howe, and for some years the honeymoon appeared to last. Howe was quite well off when he married, but horse racing, sox hunting parties aud dissipation soon swai- jowed up bis substance, and he was fast going to At length he roused mmsel!, said he wus going to TURN OVER A NEW LEAF, and began by starting for the New World. It was not long till Mrs, Howe jojlowed him, and then began ber saddest troubies—then haa she to carry # heavy cross. On this side of the big er Howe continued his dissipation, drinking up all the | means that she procured trom opulent rieuds in and and m Canada, When the supplies ~ oppe alleged, turned upon ber aud beat her ‘The upshot was that HA DESERTED HER. Left alone with ner two sick enildren she was | uable to properiy provide jor then, and, as a | dernier ressort, she pinced trem ou Ward's Islan¢, im the Emigrant hospital. Mrs. Howe tuen ted to earn # living jor hersel!, ont with the poorest ssible anevess. Brought np in the Jap of luxury and in utter ignorance of how to batue witn th handwork of life or de anght but gracefully pr | stae at a piano or tea table, &c., she latled sally Woen thrown on her own resonr ly. step driited into the den Newark p’ Hee found her in, and jor | honest means of subsistence she entertati | bawds and tmechanulian devotees, bert deeply interested tumselt im her case, removed her to Wis Mother's honge, wrote to her (eiends ave provoked tne fears of the sceptics im Mra, Howe's story. ‘These prop! Judge would “get 0 means were forwarded to ha children cared tor and removes to Canada in cau ot relatives. A few days since Mrs, Howe's brother, a dashing young fellow, Iresa trom Ashante whither he bad gone as a volunteer with «ir ( net Wolseley, turned up in Newark and furnis Justice Lambert the fuiest proof that his tain vad been well jounded, Mrs, Howe, wity ber children, 18 DOW comfortably installed ip her father's house, while her nusbaud, i i said, still foots around Newark, furnishing ® shocking spectacie, com- pared with the dashing young Jellow fe was when he married Miss Garnet. dnatice Lam- in the matter, Alter Mra. Howe and 0 TRE “PEMALE IN PANTALOONS,” A note from the proprietor of the Thirtyefourth Street Theatre denies that Jonnie Satree, the young Woman locked op last Wednesday niglit for appearing in tho streets in male apture, and her companion are or have been members of bis com- \ pany. No. | NEW YORK CITY. Two mad dogs were shot by the police yesterday. Mr. G. W. Taytor presided at the meeting of the | Pilot Commissioners yesterday afternoon, Nothing of pubile interest transpired, Van Eten Was removed yesterday from the Cen- tral Office of Poltee to New Jersey, preparatory to leaving ior San Francisco with Captains Thomp- pou aud Lees. George Reed, of No. 178 Ludlow street, stavbed himself in the right breast yesterday afternoon with a pocket Knife. Be was removed to Belle- vue Hospital by tne police, Amelia Mickleboner, of No. 149 East Seventy- first street, was severely burned yesterday at her house. Her ciothes (ook fire from the stove and it 1s feared she has received Jatal injuries. Assistant District, Attoruey Allen having re- turned from nis relaxation at the Olympte Club | House, Long Istana, does not propose to resign fil! the arrivai of District Attorney Phelps next week. Rev. Joun Dooley, Superintendent and Chap)ain of the Bowery branch of the Young Men‘s Chri: tian Association, of this city, has been presented with @ magnificent gold watch and chain by us iriends. A boy named Charles Rudoiph yesterday ran off with the door knob of Simon Rossman, of No. 296 | | Second street. He was captured by OMcer Schmidt, of the Eleventh precinct, and held by Judge Kusmire in $800 bail to answer. ‘The inmates of the tenement house No. 165 Bleecker street found a lot of paper surrounded by barrels and close to a wooden partition on fire yesterday. Itis s sed some one intended to i iestroy the place. 1 he Fire Marshal is making an investigation. The name of Mrs. Fanny Rosenthal having been meutiened in connection with the Proctor-Lapsley ‘aso withont a color of propricty—so itis repre- sented—it may be us well to state that the lady | named has not been identified in the manner sug- | gesied With the parties, While Mrs, Cornelia Moore, of No. 16 West Sev- enteenthb street, was passing along Sixth avenue, yesterday, On a #hopping excursion, sie encoun- | tered a young ruMan, vamed James Smith, who snatched her pocketbook containing fitty-nine cents, Judge Murray hetd him in $1,000 bail to answer. | . Three foreign steamers left this port yesterday, five are to go to-day and three to-morrow, making | efeven in three days, exclusive of the large fleet which go every day to domestic ports. Only afew years ago profound philosophers demonstrated the impossibility of the ocean beimg crossed by a | steamer, | Am ear of maize, eleven inches long and eleven inches in circamference, was yesterday presented | to President Franklin Edsen, of the Produce Ex | change, by Henry Hentz, President of the Cotton | Exchange. It was raised by Peter Marsden, of Montgomery county, Alabama, and is to be placed in a glass case io the grain mart. St. Thomas’ church tower will soon be finished. | It is 30 1eet square and 202 feet high. exclusive of | the cross, The belfry is sv feet bigh, Nearly $100,000 has been expended: in erecting the new edifice, which is architecturally a vast improve- | ment on the old rough stone structure in which | services were heid'so many years at the corner of | Broadway and Houston street. Commissioner Bowen's plan for the reorganiza- tion of the Bellevue Hospital Medical Board was adopted by the Board-of Charities and Correction yesterday. It constitutes eight pbysicians, who , Were named in the HERALD a@ lew days since. | They are to form the new Board irom tne ist of September. They are to uomiuate to the Charity Hoard eleven others, so that the new Board will in the end comprise nineteen members. Whether the steamer Guatemala has broken up and become a total loss 1s a yet unsettied ques- tion, She was lying, little injured, when seeu by the Colon on the 22d; but the Acapulco passed within siX or seven miles of the Jocality of the wreck on the 23d, and saw nO signs of the disabled steamer. A supply of pumps aud other apparatus has been sent to the Guatemala in charge of the chief eugineer ot the mpanby in the city of Pauama, With the lrupe that, as the steamer was allt in water-tight compartments, she tay be seved, if she has not already broken up betore the rejiel reaches ber, flere arrived yesterday, 27th, from China and Japan, seventeen carloads of teas, which have been less than thirty-four days en route from Yoko- hama, viz.:—Sixteen days, seventeen hours and forty-ve minutes irom Yokohama to San Fran- cisco, and Jess thae lourteen days irom the latter port to New York by overland railroad. ‘fois 1s the quickest time yet made vetween Japan and New York; and it Would have been still less bue Jor the lact that the coals used bv the steamer Vasco Da Gama Were not of sn average quauty and retarded the speed oi the steamer. As it was she made the (rip hail way from Yokohama in just elght days. BROOKLYN. ee ss The City Treasurer, Andrew Cunningham, re- pofts the receipts last week to have been $125,356, ‘The balance on hand is $1,196,285 28, The corner stone of St, Teresa’s Roman Catholic church, now in course of erection at the corner of ‘son avenue and Butler street. will be laid on Sunday next, the 2u of Augusi, by Bishop Laughiin. A hostier, named Jumes Kerrigan, thirty-eight years of age, in the employ of P. Gosson, No. 776 Dean street, was kicked in the forehead by @ horse yesterday and sustamed # fracture of the skull. | the ijured man, who resides at No. 715 Dean street, was taken to the Long Island College Hos- pital in the ambulance, Charles E. Williams, grocer, doing business at the corner of Seventeenth street and Fitth ave- nue, caused the arrest of his clerk, one Jonn Jones, on a charge of defrauding him out of $125, whica amount he collected from various customers with- | in the last two weeks, The prisoner was arraigned and committed beiore Justice Delmar. OMcer Doyle took Morris McGrath tn custody for acting in a disorderly manner in Fourteenth street | yesterday. The prisoner resisted, and, with the assistance of bis iriends, who knocked Doyle down, made his escape. He was subsequently cap- tared and clupbed vy patroiman Fitzsimmons, McGrath's wounds were stitched at the hospital. ‘The contributions received by the Treasurer of the Fresu Air Fund, Mr. E. B. Wood, amount to $613 06, ‘The second picnic of the scason under the auspices of the association will start at nine o'clock this morning from the foot of Aiantic street, on the East New York cars. About 600 boys and girls of the poor will be treated to a uy | plains and sandy beaen of Canarsie, Jadge McCue, in the City Court yesterday, dis- | charged Stephen Markham, eight vears old, irom | | custody. The boy, who nas a father living, but | whcse mother is dead, was recently arrested on a | charge of vagrancy and Was sentenced to the Kings County Peniteptiaiy by Justice Elion, boy was taken before the Court on a writ of habeas corpus sued out by Alderman Richardson, Jovenite culprit was subscqueatiy committed by the Mayor to the Traant Home, Rey. Simon Buudick, the deposed pastor of the ‘an African Baptist church, states that he owns | the church and paid off ali the debts, As itis his property he will clam it assoon ashe recovers Irom his present iliness. He cluims that he can | send Armistead Movadle, the present occapunt of | | the pulpit, to the state Prison, together with the trustees, for What they have cone in ousting him, | He has seven able lawyers engaged for his side of the case. Mr. Bundick says the trustees owe him Jor the last seven years, aud when he gets out he “will make it lively for them all rouns. ? About ten o'clock yesterday torenoon a boy named Louis Ackerman, fourteen reais old, step- son of Mr. Noyes G Palmer, while standing in jront of the Howard Honse, at Kast New York, Was accidentally shot in the abdomen by a pistol in the band of Frederi Reid, sou of Mr. P, The Keid, proprietor of the Canarsie Rattroad, T wounded lad was Vhysiolan Was S001 lind the bal! have conveyed lo his home, and a in attendance. Ali entorts to far proved anavaiding, and littic hopes are given tor the recovery of young Mr. Reid, upon being apprised of the » at once surrendered bis son to the authorities, to await the result. There is trouble in the Democratic Central Com- mittee in Queens Counry. At the last meeting, held last week, charges were preferred against one of the members. Mr. James ©. Valentine, of North Hempstead, alieging, umong over things, that he supported Mr. Alonzo D. Wright, the re- publican candidate for Sucrut at the election fast sitll. pared jor trial, but the matter has been laid over until the next meeting o1 the committee. VYhe fire in the woods of Suioik county, which commenced on Wednesday of iast week, was sub- dued yesterday, alter buramg over an area variously estimated at trom 5,000 to 6,000 acres. | It Was started in the vrush between Babylon and Deer Park and extended to a pout a short dis tance east of Brentwood. It was confined, by hard | Jabor, between tue line of the Southside and Lon: Isiand Ratiroads, 11 ts believed to vave originate | Irom sparks from « locomotive. Great clouds of smoke from the buramg bruah, Walted by the | aoushoriy breeze, lave enveloped the north side villages for several days, leading to the sapposition | that am immense fre was raging. No butidings s romp on the | The | The | Iv 1s understood that Mr. Varentine was pre- | a | were burned and no lives were endange! the land burnt over was covered with « worthless urowth of scrub oaks and dwarf pines. Pretty much all the loss suffered, therefore, was the time spent by the farmers in fighting (ue Names to save their buildings. Miss Annie Keyser, aged thirteen years, residing on Locust avenue, South Jamaica, while in com- pany with a simaller sister picking blackberries in @ lot near their residence yesterday morn- ing, Was approached from a thicket by @ colored ruMan, who, without a word ol waritn: caught her by the throat, threw her down and at- tempted to perpetrate an outrage. The smalier giri’s cries attracted the attention of some men in alot nearby, and upon their approach the scoan- drei fed to the wood, leaving the girl ly ing. nense- less from the effects of the choking and fright. | Pursuit Was made, and late in the afternoon two colored men, hamed respectively Johnson ana were arrested upon suspicion and lodged cells at Jama: A Mr. Buckhee, of Jamaica, WhO Was berrying im the outskirts of the village, Was shot at by one of the pursuing parties, under the suppesition that he was a colored man trying to hide in the thicket, but lortunateiy he was not bit. | At the last meeting of the Board of Directors of the Queens County Agricultural Society a com- munication was received irom the Kast River Ferry Company, offering to transport articles in- | tended for exhibition across the teriy free of charge, and Mr. J.D, Barton, Supérintendent of | the Flushing and Northside Ratiroad, offered to | carry articies to and irom the iair iree, and'to run | | excursion trains, charging only seventy-live cents | for the round trip, it was announced that the | Long Island Ratlroad Company refused to do any- toting for the fair if any favors were accepted from the Vlusting and Northside road. A ring as to be prepared jor the better exhibition of cattle, and a large numocr of celebrated horses will be ou the grounds during the progress of the fair. Another Special feature will be an exnibition ot do; | Among the premiums offered is one by Mr, Charles | A. Dana, tor the best pair of pea jowls, and another | jor the vest samole of lard, not less tian ten pounds. Mr. H. C. Ricnarason a!so offers one tor the best exhibition of dabiias by an amateur. | Three thonsand copies of the premium lst will soon be printed and ready for distribution. | STATEN ISLAND. | So eer | ‘The Staten Island Schuetzen Corps will nave their | annual prize snootiug and festival at Bechtel’s | Park on Monday and Tuesday, the 3d and 4th of August. Mary De Waters was arraigned before Justice | Middlewood at Port Richmond yesterday, upon the | | charge of stealing $500 in gold lust week trom the | house of Mrs. Ehzubeth Wright, at Mutier's Har bor. ‘The prisoner was committed to the County | Jail to await the action of the Grand Jury. i | AN ABOMINABLE. NUISANCE. Sufferings of Some Residents in Jersey | City. ; Colgate street 1s a short theroughtare m the i ‘westerly section of old Jersey City and terminates mm aswamp. The latter is the property of Mr. Col- | gate, who has recently been filing it up with | | refuse matter taken from the soap factory. ‘This matter, several hundred loads of which nave been deposited almost against the dwelling houses, is a | compound of alkali, coal, time and sulphuric acid. The smeil emitted irom it is so oftensive that the people living tere ure wud in their complaint. A most singular property | of this compound is that the gases released from It | attack the walls of the trame houses and act upon | them so that taney ure as black as if volumes of smoke were daily discharged against them. Mr. | Colgate ayreed to huve the nouses so damaged | painted at iis own expense, and he is redeeming | bis promise, The tenants say that tue interior of the houses 18 similarly affected. A HERALD 1e- | porter, accompanied by acity physician, visited ; the place yesterday and had a conversation with. the residents, ‘The house nearest the | swamp is the most “uniucky,” as one poor | Woman expressed it. She buried two of her chil- | dren last week. Another woman in the same house | buried a child a few days ago, ‘The number of chu- dren counted up on the deati list by these women , Was startling, considering the extent of the lo- calir, Yet the Board ot Health are furnished by the city with a Health Inspector, ut a large salary; but these poor people have pot seen him, ; Dor did they understand that such an oficer ex- ill they were informed yesterday. The City clan, alter hearing their complaints, prom- ised to ¢all the aftention of the Board of Health immhediateiy. THE NEWABK PLANK ROAD MURDER Arrest of “Sport,” the Suspected Mur- 1 f derer, In Newark. The fact is now settled that the man John | McCann, whose body was found under mysterious circumstances on Communipaw avenue, Jersey City, was the victim of @ cold-blooded and brutal murder. It having come to the ears of the Hudson county authorities that the murderer or mar- derers liad taken refuge in Newers, thYther pro- | ceedel yesterday Officer Rees, of the Fourth pre- | | cinct police, Jersey City, and gave such tu.orma- | tion to the Newark police as ied to the prompt arrest of Prank Wawner, alias “Sport,” ® driver employed by a centre Market Nockster named Wolter, “Sport” has # bad | record with the Newark police avd in the market. ‘When questioned by bis captors in Newark he told conficting stories, He first said he had not been | to Jersey City on Sunday night, but afterwards | Said be vad, and, as the police say, “gave himsell | | away” by admitting that he had dropped im and ased & cigar at O'Rourke's saieon, wher ‘ann was last seen. His employer, Mr. Wot corroporaied the statement thut he wi y the pight named, At tie home a . 128 Commerce street, Newark, was joand a | | Smith & Weesou's revoiver, into the chambers of which exactiy fitted the bail extracted irom M Cann’s body. THE THEORY OF THE MURDER, as stated by the police, is that MeCaun and “Sport? | got Into a row on the road avout a ride, and tu the quarre! “Sport” pulled is pistol aud fired, “Sport? then drove of, and at the tollgate threatened to shoot the tollman i he aid pot nurry and let bim | througn, He was greutly excited. Yesterduy atternoon he was handed over to the Hudson county officers and remeved there, the crime | | Raving been committed in Hudson county, |” POUR THOUSAND NEWARK DEPAULTERE. i | The List of Delinquent Taxpayers and the Causes of Their Delinquencies. ; There has just been published in the Newark local prints lists of about 4,000 delinquent taxpay- | ers, the sum of whose combined delinquencies | would foot up between $200,000 and $300,000. The | | lists would cover a space in the Hkranp of about twenty-five columns and includes debts to | the city of from $2 up to $2,000, In causing them to be published the Comptrolier annonaces that unless the taxes are paid belore September 14 he | will proceed vo seil at public acution the property ; whose owners are in default. Included in this } | et are a) number = of~—stown __nota- | bies, showing that causes other than a: | Mere = shirking from the payment of their just debis are at the bottom of the whole- | sale delinquencies, The causes are varied, Many | refuse 10 pay their taxes because of a chronic | vred-in-the-Hone disiucitnation to pay thing | until they are compelied to, but the majority re- | iase to pay because of alleged unjust or exte | Honate taxation. Another fact wmich, incites , Many citizens to hold back is the kuowlédge that | mijions of money have been spent by the city authori‘ies 1p notoriously unnecessary directions, while pots upon which money might huve been | Wisely and judiciously used, such as the central or | generally used portions ol’ tie city, nave been | utterly negiected. «and hence it is thi taxpayers will not pay their assessment | the work done being generally disgraceful or in- complete, as ju the Villiuore and st, Charles “im- provements.” It wil tas SOF wise, carerul and economical govern tor Newark to pec back 10 her aucleit moorings of pleuty. prosperity and casy taxation, Under ine gine ot the last half dozen years a Vast deal of capital and mane. trial Wealth lias been driven away from the city, so high bad taxauon become and so enormous the as- sessment, | THE TAX LEVY. Acting upon the apportionment of the Board cf County Assessors the City X Board lave fixed vate for isi4 at $1 se of eleven cents per £100 trom thc last year, The { city tax proper, however, Is increasod eight cents, | itis the county rate which bas lowered niueteen cents, | | ‘THE RAILROAD TROUBLE IN NEWARK. The Company “Caves In%—=A Triumph for the City. The “war’ hetweon the city of Newark and the | Central Railroad Company, which was, in fact, no | warat ail, beyoud the firing off of a few legal shots from ex-Chancellor Williamson's battery, has closed, and “peace reigns once more in Warsaw.” | Alter a ¥ jeebie resistance the company buve “caved in,’ instead of permitting, as they first | threatened, the road to caye in at the street junc tures, where the city authorities began opéning operations oh Monday, ‘That aiternoon, upon the | trip to New York of the quarter-past four train | irom Newark, it was found that there was | IMMINENT DANGER in crossing the point where the Street Commis- sioner’s nen Were excavating, and the train was | backed aud run over on te up track, then | across the excavated part, It was then switched off aguin to (he proper track, and so made the trip , safely. Meanwitile, as night oy aera a police. | man was stationed with a red fax to warn ap. | | proaching trains, By and by, coutrary to ail pre- | vious proiessions about letting the responsimility | Fest on the city, along came superintendent | reacning’ the summit | other. e deaths wei | ally grew wore , 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. a Ricker, with a gang of sixty men. and proceeded to brace up the weakened part with strong pieces ol massive size. Everything was inade periectly secure, and travel was entirely interrupted all day vesterday while: the Street Commissioner pro- veeded with bis opening. e impression now is That the company will completely ‘cave in” and build the bridges as originaliydemanded by the city and promisea by the compauy. Of course, there is much general rejoicing over tie manner | in whieh the “soulless corporation” tas Nad to “come cown.” And tere is. a ceneral desire that the city show no ‘weakening’ auul the law is Jully complied with and the bridges built, In the case of Thomas Agens, President of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty | to Animais vs. the Newark and South Orange Horse Car Company decision was rendered yester- day by Justice Paulin. On July 4 the company over-loaded their cars, Mr. Agens swore that the horses of one car in going up a steep grade had to labor so that they were in a lather of foam on Usually there were four horses, but this day there were oniy two, with over fity passengers. The Court deciited against the delendants, spoke ofthe “enormity” of their offence and let the company off with a fine of $20, a8 1t was the first offence they were known to have com- mitted, The company will appeal to the higner court SANITARY MATTERS. til Ata meeting of the Board of Health, beld yes- teraay aiternoon, the following reports were re- ceived and adopted :— The Sumiary Committee respectfully report that on the 25th diy of April, In74, the Board directed the en- forcement of the ordinahce requiring housekeepers to separate ashes and garbage. The nciion was taken at the request of the Presiveniof the rd of Polive, who stated thar ihe street Cleaning Bureau way prepared to thoroughly periorm its part by providing separate carts, Ae. ‘This Board proceedad ut ance to issue notices wo house- Keevers to the eflect that the ordinance requiring house vers to separate the ashes and garbase would be en- joreed atter a yviven date. Large numbers of peopis romplied with the notice, and against these who did not | mits Were ordered ty bee ed. How fur tite Bu | Peau of Slroot Cleaning pertormed ity part of the Work is the committee, but constant com) inens that, though titey Nave pur 1 curetully’ x the ashes an this recei ls. ‘They, consequently, seve Health for requiring tem to in two garbage vessels and-sepatate tho garbaxe t hes, When the cartman does not dascriminate mixes them-in hiveart. Wroper care and disposition of house refuse has aiways been a mater of deep concern to this Board, Tt 1 nsianily recognized the fact t wily that of the domiciles of the poor, i: sre liable to containination from this source _ Ali the ordinances of the Board relating to thi material have aimed to secure tts prompt removal from ihe house and from the city, in the feast ofeusiveman- ner, and its proper weliga x in the execution of any. pre for the care of zarbage that part which nivolves its removal trom the premises and from the city inust under tne present laws, be per- under ihe Kureau of Street Cleaning. Untortu- tor the reputation of this Board, the community holus it resjonsible tov the execution i all its detatls of nsure the Board 0% 1c | the renoval of zarbage, and hence it happens that lw nthe Kureau of Street Cleaning tails to perrorm all its work properly, the Board ot Heaith receives the cen- sure of the public: In the reeent effort of the Bureau of Street improve its methods of work by the sepa les end yarbaye his Board, on app! ton of the to US ordinances and thus perform its part of juering the number ot complaints which are daily cot the heglecé of the cartmen to remove the ashes aud yarbage separately, it is @ matter of interest and import Board to tearn how far and how well the Bureau of Street Cleaning is pertorming its part of the contract. [tis very unwine us well as unjust ior the Bourd of Health to conipel the people to be to tne trouble and expense of separating the ushes and garbage it the eartman is allowed to mix them again in the act of removal. mittee recommend the adoption of the follow- she ing resotutic Kosolved, hat the Board ot Poltce be aud is hereby respecttully requested to inform this Board what meas ures are now in course of execution tor the removal of ashes and garbage soparately, in whut streets of the c the cartmen always remove the axbes and garbage in separatd@earts, and, in general, the success which has at- tended this effort to remove the ashes and carbaze sepu- rately, STPRPHEN SMETH, M. D., Chairman. New Yorx, July 28, 1874, Tk UOREAC OF VerAL sratistics, In the week ending om Saturday, the 25th inst., 873 reported Wa this city. there were 79) reported, but 84 actually occurred, Ti correction shows that J of the deaths reported during the hist week occurred hetare the close ot the previous week, Sut were nol reported until the last week, there- sore 439 of the 878 reported deuths oveurred during the Week. There Was wo other marked increase of ior- tality physicians eertied as acute diarrhoeal diseases ot in- laiits, “Lhe increase ovourred in intants under 2 years of yon a wap of the city now submitted the places are marked where deaths oecurred trom any cause during the past Week, and special symbols show where the ceaths occurred irom diarrheal disease. TAlily the past two weeks las remained quite yatanaverage of 115 deaths daily. intants ander two Yeurs of age constituied sixty per nt, of tiree-tltths o: the total mortatity, while over seventy per cent of the infaut deaths were charged to drarrhawi diseases, ‘there was # tailing of im the pum. her of deaths uttribnted to direct eflects of heat an diseases ot the brain and nervous system. to rees Cahrenbeit) than in the previous week ees). and the atmosphere was much drier, th idity last week beinz only 57-100 of saturation. ihe excesstve ratio of intane mortality. the increase of diphtheria—trom 24 to 31 fatal cases—nid no inereass in the to:al mortatity of persons over five veurs ot axe, are marked characte ‘lcs of euch of tne past three 9 hue of the Board of Potice, undertook in good faith | Hale ereyous “eek | Winkle, Bergen avenue, between Vroom and Acad- week und in the previous than that which | The deaths | ‘The mean | rature in the inst week was one degree lower 74.8 | | weeks. On ihe ? of the present month only 48 deaths occurre tty. Tt was the day of least woriaiity in several years. On the 15ih inst. there were | 44 deaths, possibly the largest nuinber that will occur inany day in the Sear. ‘There were toree days in dud 1873, whe more than 130 deaths oveurred tn this cit ‘The iniant mortafity then, as at present, maintained its part in the inerea yy y. During a period like the present, when the whole population over 5 years ot age is enjoy f henthfulness quite untsual for the sea which combine to destroy infant lite 1 seasons, clearly defined than in ordinary ‘the nese litle group of infants that was swept off. signal trated one oft the chief sources of ‘tatality am budly d and badly nourished, During ‘the tot or June » miscuided man, in the name of eharity gathered 8 young ch:biren from iothers, and betore th. | Sth of July 7 of the § perished, Ar the same time, other ‘eneément houses, and throughout the feast clenniy: wetions of the city, uwats rapidly. med und have been daily dying fom the causes whieh spring into ac tivity in-and about sien tenemegis whenever a tev werkes ot ¢ Rous High temperature prevail. What hese canses a more geadily vnderstood than torsare associated in producin: ut at is gate to say that the impurity s where these children tat be charged wath an of the evi whieh continued summer heat nil whieh tralts nd nourishment of in: Iso hep 44 rey it is desirable at all parents ani takers ot youn® infants should, under medical advice, test the saying value o: ths larger parks of the city or ot rural, lulls, and in. their on. ELISHA HARRL owing isn city Nome enforce absolute i hati constant Vital Statistic, ent of cf nagious diseases reported at this Bureau for wo weeks euding July 25, 1874:— Disenses Tuly WS, Suly 2, ‘Typhustever. i ‘i yhoil tever, utlet 1eve ashes, . Diphtheria Smallpox... Cerebro-sp:nal men Respectiully submit ER DE F. DAY, M, D., Sanitary Superintendent. REPORTED CASE OF OHOLERA, A Faise Alarm—The City Healthy. Yesterday notice was conveyed to Coroner Wolt- ; Man that a woman had died in the upper part of the city with symptoms strongly resembling cholera, A reporter was despatched to No, 820 Kast Fifty-sixth street, the residence of the deceased, to ascertain ail the facts in reference to the case. The home of the unlortunate—three rooms, a portion of a modest brick dwelling, near First avenne—was visited, and found to be surrounded by motley throngs of neighbors, consisting muiniy of unkempt cnifaren, siat- | ternly women—giad of an opportunity to gussip about anything, from the comet to sporadi pholera—and the usual leaven of ash guther- ers, chifonniers aud veggars, ‘The Mary, Morgan, was lying in the third story, the Coroner and his assistants having previously Muuie the medical exatmation necessary to determine the disease, She wus a woman of periups thirty-five years of age, of Snglisit ‘n is this country about fifteen ® Working woman oF respectavie ‘wiurday evening sue had eaten freely as, salad and had indulged in lager hot to an intemperate degree. she was taken | put three o'clock on Sunday morn- ing aud received tho attention of Doctor pew! about nine o'clock te same morning; she grad and died about tour o‘elock tn Xammation proved that it was a jolera morbus, and @ report was aiternoon. Au simpig case of made according! is supposed, 18 Stl living; but Ins whereabouts are unknown. A WOULD-BE MURDERER, At about two o'clock yesterday afternoon Hugh Gerrity, aged twenty-four, residing at No. 518 West come engaged in an altercation about the payment of drinks at the latter's barroom, No. 302 Kleventh avenue, and Jacovson, who was considerably in- | toxicated, without warning drew from bebind his counter a large seven-chamber navy revolver and deliberately aiming at Gerrity’s head fred. ils ain, fortunately for Gerrity, proved bad, the vall lodging im is neck, near the Juxwar vein, ‘The poles were Instantly notited and promptly ar: rested {he would-be murderer and conveyed him to the ‘twentieti precinct station house where he was locked up to await examination this Mhorning. Police Surgeon McLoud dressed wer- nity's Wound and pronounced it not necessarily jatal, but Utinks, uevertheless, that the greatest ad care aud attention are requisite to save bis oo DEATHS. ApaMs.—In Williamsburg, on Tuesday, July 26, ANTHIONA ADAMS, Funeral service at two o'clock P. M., (rom the deceased, | | The husband of the woman, tt | | Twenty-ninth street, and Bernard Jacobson ve. | ) ‘Phircy-flith street, to-day ( | daughter of the lave Rev. | | Tesidence of his brother-in-law, J.C. Moreter, Wo, 156 Fagle street. Friends of the family are in vited to attend, without farther notice. New York and Boston papers please copy. AuNOW.—At Westchester, N. ¥., on Monday, July 27, 1874, BENSON, son of William H. and Sarah Arhow, aged 26 years, ‘The relatives “ana friends of the family are re- 8) ully Invited to attend the tuneral, on Wednesday, July 29 at three o'clock P. M., from Sh. Peter's church, Westchester. BoLernr.—On Tuesday, July 28, Mrs, MARGARET Bouger, wile of the late Owen: Bolger, native of =~ Wexiord, freland, in the 63d year of her e. The funeral will take place at Fort Hamilton, L, J... 00 Thursday, July 30, at two o’ciock. CHRESwriGhT.—In Brooklyn, on Monday, July 27, LOWARD, son of che Key. James Cheeswright, of as Eogiand. , ftelatives and friends of the fa are respect- fully invited to attend the funerals ties ine lave residence, 434 sti treet, on Wed, 2 at three o'clock rat sibel ot a English papers please copy. CoHeN.—On Tuesday, July 28, FLORENCE, infant daugiter of Willy 4 y Sota ee H. and Kate L, Cohen, aged 4 Funeral services will be held at the restdence of the parents, 630 Seventh avenue, on Thursday, July 30, At One O'clock P. M. CUNNEKLY.—On Sanday, July 2, JOHANNA Oun- NEELY, beloved wile of John Cunneely; born in Limerick, Ireland, ‘The reuains Will be taken to St. Peter's chureh, ast nine o'clock A. M., where on Thursday, at hate mass for the repose of there will be a solemn her soul; from thence to Calvary Cemetery for in- terment, Relatives and iriends of the family are invited to attend without further notice. DE Suddenly, on Sunday, July at Paterson, N. J., at the residence of her son-in-law, George S. McCarter, Mrs, SARAH R. DEazLEy, aged 63 yeurs. Burial at Newton, Sussex county, N. v., this (Wednesday) morning, DuGaN.—On Monday, July 27, at his residence, No, 253 Weet Lhirty-third street, of rheumatic gout, Joun Dugan. Notice or rea ba se noreiets Pape ; FaTon.—At Peekskill, on Monday, Jul HENBY B. Eaton, in his 28d year. i His remains were interred in St, Peter's Ceme- tery, Courtlandville, N. Y. Boston and Worcester (Mass.) papers please copy. WARDS,—At Long Brancb, N. J., on Monday, July 27, alter a shortiliness, JAMES ALFRED, young- est child of James W. and Mary Emma Edwards, aged 5 months apd 21 days, Relatives and Iriends of the family are invited to uttend his iuneral, from the residence of his graudiather, William ‘B. Lippincott. Esq., 350 West ednesday), 29th inst. at hair-past twelve o'clock, Gastoy.—At Elizabeth, N. J., on Monday, July 27, after ashort finess, WM. EpGAr, youngest child of Wiliam and Margaret A. Gaston, aged 1 year and 13 days, t ctfully invited to tives and friends are res attend the funeral, on Wednesday, July 20, at one o'clock, irom the residence of his parents, No. 19 Stiles street, Kiizaberh, N, J. GRakEF.—On ‘lueslay, July 28, after a short ill ness, HENRY A, GRAEF, in the 71st year of his age. Faneral will take place from his late residence, 142 Wyckoml street, Brooklyn, on Thursday next, at three P. M. Hewitr.—In_ Brooklyn, on Monday, July 27, Manon T. HEWITT, in the 66th year of his age. ‘The Iriends of the lamily are invited to attend the funeral, from hts late restdence, 113 Quincy street, this (Wednesday) evening, at eight o’ctock, HeYWARD.—Drowned, at Hackensack, N, J., on Monday, July 27, WILLI£, only son of the late Gen- eneral Willlam’C. Heyward, of Charleston, 8. C., in the 20h year of his age. Funeral from residence 335 West Thirty-fourte street, on Thursday, at two o'clock P. M. Charleston (S. (.) and Baltimore (Md.) papers please copy. Jones.—On Monday, July 27, HARRY ALFRE! youngest son of Jobn W. and Charlotte Jones, age 3 months and 5 days. The relatives and friends of the famity, and Members of the Copestone Lodge, No. 641, F. and A. M., and of Copestone Chapter, No. 203, R. A. B., are respectiully mnvited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his parents, No. 459 Third avenue, this (Wednesday) afternoon, July 29, at one o'clock, KING.—At Jersey City Heights, on Monday, July HATTIE, only child o! ‘Thomas P. and Hattie E. King, aged 4 months and 12 days. ‘The relatives, and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the tuneral, from the residence of her grandfather, Mr. Michael Vap emy streets, this (Wednesday) afternoon, at two o'clock. Manony.—On Tuesday, July 28, JAMES HENRY MAuONY, aged 15 years and 8 months. The tuneral will leave his late residence, 579 Second avenue, on Thursday, July 30, at one stam Mo Sunday, July 26, 8. the ARTIN.—On Sunday, AMUBL, 80D Of late Samuel and Hannah 8. Martin, in the s7sh year of his age. MELIC ¢ Round Valley, N. J., on Tuesday morning, July 28, alter a lingering illness, 5aRaw A., daughter of the late Baltnazer Melick, Relat:ves and jrieads are invited to attend the funeral, trom her late residence, on Thursday morning, at Ralf-past nine o'clock. Interment at Somerville, N. J. MULLEN.—Un Tuesday, July 1874, MaRY EF. ; ster of John J. Hughes, Mobile, Ala.), aged 2 ‘the relatives and friends of the family are re- sp.ctluuly inyited to attend the tuneral, on Thurs- day, July 30, 1374, at one o'clock P. M., from her late residence, No. 116 Sullivan street. Mobile pape: @ COPY. Maccanan org morning, July 26, ie JOSEPH MACCARRON, aged at Squan beach, years. Funeral services will taxe place at St. Vincent de Laul church, West Twenty-third street, on Wed- nesday morning, at nine o'clock. Relatives and iriends are invited to attena. McGowax.—On Tuesday, July 27, of cholera ine fantum, WALTER OoRN! only child of M. H. McGowan and M. E. McGowan, aged 8 months. Relatives and friends of the famtly are respect- fally invited to attend the funeral, from 49 Gree! Wich avenue, at two o'clock. McINNes.—Un = Monday, July 27, SaARan OC. MciNx Wie of Archibald McInnes, after a lo! und severe itiness. etfully invited ¢ relatives and friends are reg) to attend ihe tuneralf irom her father's (Charles Carr, residence, 191 Bloomfield street, Hoboken, on Wednesday, 20th mpst., at two o'clock P, M. on.—On Monday, duly 1874, MARGARET rk, only daughter of Margaret and the late X O'Connor, aged 2 years aud i1 months. eiunernl wil take place irom her late rest- dence, 254 West Thirty-ninth street, this (Wednes- day) Juorning, at ten o'clock. O'Lsaky.—On Monday, July 27, 1874, Dasten O'LEARY, son of James “and Jonanna O'Leary, No. 241 Clinton street, aged 6 years, 8 months and 13 days. Relatives aud friends ave reqnested to uttend the funeral, from the residence of the parents to Calvary Cemetery, on Wednesday, the 29th ist., as two P. M. PondD.—At North Stamiord, Conn., on Tuesday, duly 1874, ADDISON A., twin son of Addison and Mary £. Pond, aged 1 year and 28 days, Funeral at the residence of bis parents, Port Richmond, staten Island, on Thursday, July 20, at two o'clock P.M. Relatives and friends are ‘re- specttuily lnvited to attend. | Boston and Worcester (Mass.) papers please copy. SaLoMON.—On Monday, July 27, Isaac, son of Leopold and Carrie Salomon, aged § mouths and | 23 day | The reiatives and friends of the family are in- vited tu attend the funeral, trom the residence of lus parents, No. 9 Suifolk street, this (Wednesday) morning, at eleven o'clock. SHELHAN.—On Monday, duly 27, at his residence, No, bust Eignty seventh street, of paralysis of the brain, atter 4 briet 1iiness, JAMES M. SHEEHAN, In the 47th year of his age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are in- vited to meet at the residence corner of Lex. ington avenue and Eighty-seventh street, at halt past nine o'clock this morning, trom which the remains will be conveyed to Lawrence's Ro- man Catholic church, East Eighty-fourth street, near Fourth avenue, NE.—Ou Monday, July 27, 1874, JULIA Spite LANE, bejoved wile of John Spillane, awed 42 years, ‘The relatives and friends ot the family are re- gpectiully invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, No. i4sCherry street, tos (Wednes- day) afternoon, at hali-past one o'clock, UPHENS.—At Yonkers, on Monday, Jnly 27, ROBERY STEPHE (nephew of William Gibson, New York), aged 4Y years, Friends are respectiuly invited to attend the | funeral irom his late restdenee, School street, Yonkers, at half-past four o’clock, this day, 29th inst, ‘The meimbers of ot Union Chapter, it. A. M., No. 180, and of Manhattan Cee. No. 31, are aixo requested to attend, Newburg (WN. ¥.) papers wil! please copy. Cars leave Thirtieth street at three o'clock. MANHATTAN COMMANDERY,—STR KNiGHTS—You are requested to assemble at the Hudson River Railroad depot, Thirticth street and Tenth avenoc, ab liwli-past two. P. this day (Weduesday), in order to proceed to Yonkers to attend the iuneral of our late iriend and Sir Knight, Robert ag “ar By order. W. A. BLANCK, ‘Ihe members of Unton Chapter are invited to ttend the funeral of our late M. E. Comp. Kobert Stephens, from tis tave residence, School street, Yonkers this (Wednesday) aiternoon, July 20. The ave ‘boirtieth street depot at thre clock York commandery 18 invited to unite with us. JOUN HOOK, ‘Trove.—On Tuesday, July 28, Mary Trav, wiuow of Bartholomy Tigue, native of Ballisadare, county Sligo, Lreland, aged 77 yeara, Her sons, Michael, John and Patrick Tigue, and her son-in-law, Patrick McGuinn, are re. spectitlly tuvited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, No. 66 Mulberry strect, on ‘Thurs- day, July 30, at two o'clocé ; Irom thence to Fiat. bush Cemetery, Brooklyn, WADDELL.--On Sunday, July 26, MARY WappeLL, the beloved wife of Hamilton Waddell, and eldest Join Hayden, a rich deacon of Londonderry, Ireland. ‘The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the iuneral, from 392 Tenth avenae, on Wednesday, 29th nst., at two o'clock P.M. Londonderry, Downpatrick (treland) and Mon treal (Canady) papers please copy, WASHINUTON, de aly Sunday morning, | July 26, Dr. JOHN WASHINGTON, aged 85 yeurs. The relatives and iriends 01 the Jatmly are re Spectiuliy invited to attend tne funeral, ou Wednesday aiternoon, July 20, at halt-past two | O'clock, from his late residen igabetn avenue, | Bizaveth, X. J