The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1874, Page 10

“HE COURTS. A British Subject Put in} Durance. SUIT, | ——-— CLARK-BININGER ——e—-——— Cominissioners’ Report as to the Eley- _ enth Avenue Extension. Bome time since report of the commiasionors for the opening of Eleventh avenue above 165th treet was submitted for confirmation to Judge | tw Lawrence, hoiding Sopreme Court, Chambers, Ob- fection was made to (ue confirmation, wasmuch aa | nothing was awarded ‘or land taken Mm what was | once # portion of the Dyckman estate, nor to | messre, Hans and Jones for the portions taken of | them laad, The ground of making no award in | these cas was because the land had always beca | Geaicaied to public use, Judge Lawre yeatorday uls decision in the case. ‘Lhe pi iv ia that be cannot entertatn o! aigod wetore the commissioners. t pyckwan estate, Wicd oOK place e bout & year De osetia the fliug by the Park Commissioners i he di Gf she May G1 Me ¢ ) We de | cules WAS made un Lt ances ag to evative apy idea ol dodc le Case Of rere Was ROME proof Chak | d lines af the avenue, | made before the map 0 a Jones, Tho a8 flied and withou t thinks tat their | pasns olgriag that end that the rue tended, Re send report, tacreiore, back wo | Ss the COMMUssI0ue . ita THE CLARK-BININGER CASE. involving the title vo property vaiued at # , Judge the Cuited States Circuit Court, yesterday rendered nis decision. The facts briefly set forth are as follows :—Plai is the assignee in bank- obtain a one made this suit was n conveyance: 3D, James o aT, James aud wite | anattempt to defraud the Now York Life Insur- | and Dr. Sheedy be imprisoned, as hard tabor, tor | account that imprisonment tn Ireland means what ti this jadgment will be , sermon of tleirs without taking away some | keenly felt by gentlemen of the position of these go | and almost Inivlerabie for educated geutiomen. | Of (ue Inteh newapapers, however, consider the sen- cwod too much Clemency towards these culprits. | will practically patam cad to the Barry plan ot! | speculative insurances in Ireland, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 381, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. the Court that she would leave it this fall if = fans tester, becoming her bondsm: an. ‘Tiffany, f the defendant's voarde: who was algo arrested, was discharged. > COURT CALENDAR~—THIS DAY. Sorrems Cover—Cuampers—Held by Jadge ta isa ise aaa AS], 185, LTT, 178, 186, 187, 138, 1 i. aRiNk Count—feiaL TERM—Part 1—Heid by Judge McAdan.—Nos. 5727. 4849. 5031, 5709, 6665, 5704, S726, SObH, 5732, 5556, 6620, 5607. S147, 0446, 1484, 00, , STB1, 58ST, 5046, FESS, 138, 5939, 5840, 6542, 5943, S244, 5846, OBM7, 348, 5949, 5950, 0353, 5804. INSURANCE FRAUDS IN IRELAND. Am Agent and Medical Examiners of tne New Vor Life Insurance Com- pany Convieted—The Crime and the Somtence of the Court. DUBLIN, 13, 1874, Yesterday Mr. Willam Barry aad Drs, Meehan @ad Sheedy, of Kimmaliock and Brud@, county Limerick, were sentenced ty Judgo Lawson, alter having been found guilty the previous evening of ance Company. The Judge orderod that Barry, the company’s agent, be imprisoned, at hard labor, for eighteen momths, and that Dr. Meehan tweive miouths eaah, When the fsof iy taken Into fenteace conveys, ‘The Mfe of secluston, te prison garb | Iran prison fare, is sometiing Some on cuce boo lenieat, and (nat Judge Lawson exer. | But on the whole it is such @ reenlt of the triai ag | THE METHODIST ENCAMPMENT. —+—_—_—— Departure of the Southerners—A Wet and Dull Day—An Improved Religious Feeling—Corbett's Coarse Insult to Dr, Deems—Abatement of the Ticket Nui- sance. Sea OLtrr, July 30, 1874, Tf one wants to know what a dull day ishe has only to attend acamp meeting during a contina- | ously rainy day. Solomon compared a acolding | wife to such Py nd his ¢xperience was doubt less correet. Down and down the rain came ses. terday in showers and tn dribblets, until the soft ground stood tn littie pools and the sand banks felt its Infuence in agilaying the dust,*which has from the beginning been a source of annoyance to the campers, To-day the sun 13 shining in his | strength, and the groves and meadows look green and dry, the air is bracing and beantiful, and there if au inspiration to gratitude in everything | aroand, The Southern bishops have gone to the sunny Sonth again, not withowt many regrets on the part of their Northern friends and with souvenirs } Of thelr visit among us. They have made an im- | pression here that will mot s00m be forgotten or | eMuced. Their style and matter tave stood forth | mp marked contrast to oar Own preachers, The ' Soutueruers are thoroughly IMPREGNATED WITH TRE BIDLE | @nc the bymn book, and go one can listen toa thought of the grandeur and greatnoss of the dear old book, And yet the style of the two bishops differed greatiy one from the other in many re- spects. Bishop Doggett is ® philosophical preacier, while Bishop Kavanaugh is highly emo- tional, and yet not withont a philosophical tea- dency in hie discourses. Be has tn hls accent a charming relic of Hiberotan “brogue,!’ which of itself rivets attention and gives & zest to the interest one feels in his utterances, I find @ little difference of opinion THE JUDGRK'S OF{NION OP THE FRAUDS, @ Lawson, one of the Judges of the Irish | Sommmon Pleas, Opened the Commission | ot Oyer and lerminer for the county of Limerick in the early part Of this week, His Lordship charged the Grand Jury very Qisthactiy and point- ediy relative to {he cused Of lile ineurauce traad, he Gran Jury found “true bills.’ Sir Cole- OLough M. P., Q.G, Mr De Moieyns, witn junior counsel, appeared on the part Q. Ou ruptey of the defen wham &, Clark, who, | ham £: ger, wis partner in the | Of the crown (the State) to prosecute; while the y & Co, was adjudged bankrupt accused Nad ix conasel employed to defend them, | p THR INDICTMENT, Sir Coleman O'Loughien stated that Barr were charged with attempting to defraud the New York Life Insurance Company by irauduientiy pre- Wiliam pared appheations and medical reporta purporting the to do all the bona Rae application and reports for vested in #e geptiemen imsuredin the New York Life in irand of 3 mpiaint iMsurance Oumpany. a alleges, as ground ‘o upset those yances, Mr. Alived Srotit, agent of the company in Lon- that tuey were made ta iraud of Clars’s creditors, don, produced the several appilcations, formas and Witte intent to deiraud such creditors, the prop erty in Hitigation consista of four lots on Park ave- ug, in this city, Which, with the buildings upon them, were in” Ap: valued at $132,000. pri, 1st Judge Wut conciides his decision as follows :- “Hb 18 With coneider: reluctance that L have Feacucd the conclusion that the conveyances to | Mr. James and Mrs. Clark, of AD 20, 1968, are fraucuient, but such is my opmion, and L cannot | do otherwise than old accordingly, The con- Veyance Was (randulent as to creditors, Mr. Ciark fd not leave himseil an amount o! property a% large a he shoud have retaimed,” KEEPING A BRITISH SUBJECT. . A wri! of ne exeat prday issued by Judge © Blatohiord ‘a (ue case of James Daykin, a subject Of Great Britain, to prevent him leaving the juris. diction of the Court, A bill in eqaity has been dled against the defendant im the United States Oircuit Court by James H. Lyles and Walter Gib- #on, praying that the partnerslip between them solved, that Daykin be com- ue Lo them, ve fa w general machinery business | an accounting be b Fk #intits applied tor the writ, and Daykin day arrested by tae United states Mar- anal, and comm. in detanit of 25,04 Wail, DICH ie is nO uired to furmish before he can ave the distric BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. | SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. Decisions. By Judge Lawrence. L she matter of Eleventh avenue report sent back (o the commissioners.—Opin.oa. Bowne vs. Duryea and Auotuer, Executors, &¢.— Motion denied, Without costs. Same vs. Jessup.—Motion to modify injunction @ranted as Moved: motion lor a receiver denied. kerdinand Sarper vs. Julia Sarner.—Decree of @ivorce granted to the piaintim. Lea etal. vs. Oukes.—Order containing injunc- tion granted. Western Railroad Company ys, Boyne. Default Opened on terms specified tn emorandam, | Judge Pratt. ' vo trial fee alowed, \ \ | Cleary vs, Casey SUPEBIOR OOURT—SPEOIAL TERM, Decisions. e Serigirick, Gray ya. Dic —The witnes: should have Appeared berore Teveree [0 give testimony as commanded, although he may have | i 2 re- he books specified, + e Hi ed on the ground that ti stricken out, as amend the plalmtit must trial, and vs, O'Rourk Merrit Fisher vs. Roelker et upon tle annexed —Motion granted. without The motion is Joba F.anagan and Charles W. ner, 3} vice of the order of injunction L the order to stow cause. For t « a . COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge Larremore Jennie Simmous va, Isaac Simmous.—Divorce FIPTY.SEVENTH STREET POLICE GOURT, Attempt to Compound a Felouy Frase trated. Before Judge Sherwood Thomas R. Wiley, a youth of very bad reput tion, was accused of breaking into No, 873 Fighta avenue, owned by ( a r shop Cosgrove, and steaiing therefrom $26 worth of property The complainant wishe to prosectite, bi be bad, it appeared. ed back the g y and hada pro he remats to allow a pounded In his very p Prisoner for triai ‘in grove solemnity pledy the trial, apd the Cc tho order whieh had already him to the House of Deter sd foitted that be was once ar omitting a burglary, but he had ment for the offence by returning the greater part oi the stolen property to the owner. Breaking Up a Disorderly Hoaseeshar- key's Wlstress in © On 4 complaint made by Mr. Charles G. Thomp- fon, toe artist, of No, 185 Lexington avenue, Roundsman Bolman, of the Twenty-Urst precinct, brought into court a young woman named Nelie De Camp on a charge of keeping a disorderiy thereu| fermanded house ou Lexingiou avenne, Mr. Tuompson, while on the stand, informed the Court | that two years ago he had the defendant arrested and brought to this Court when Justice Coulter wor on the . She was then beid in bonds to agswer a charge gumilar to Up peseen’, but she has never been | Cught to trial. reasoD | Re could not tell. He bad also osked Mr. Matsell, on | Dia being made 8 rintendent of Police, to causo an Abatement of the wuisanve, but the also be failed. He now again came here tie | Honor to see whe! OF Dot there was any truth police would not break up buis place. It waa nece ary to do so not only tor the welfare and peace of the other residents, but to prevent property in the neighborivod deterie- | rating in value. ! ‘The reason why she hi bronght to tue house mlatress bbe is It was also said to be the resort of the chiet members of Tweed's ring, and of some of the members of the Americus and Blossom clubs. Tho defendant said that sh this house complained of for the jast three » and whe denied that during that time ber piace has been & nuisance to her neighbors, She did not Geny what ber basiness was, and admitted that it was by no means legitimate. She would wot iniorm | the Court who the owner of her house was, though | a8e dora not own it horsel!: ehe Would, however, | had occapie ‘ney; | whien seemed tot reports. TESTIMONY, Mr. 8. Boucaler, Justice of the Peace; Mr. C. W. Smith, gustice of y . Harris, Postmaster, proved that they never made Any application to the New York Lite Jusurance Company for insurance ; nover signed (he jorms prodaced; never were medically exam- ined by cither Dr. Meehan or Dr, Sheedy; the sig- a 3 professing to be.theirs were ell forgeries. rts proved that the signatures were in the writings of the defendants, Henn, Q. G, MP, for the defence, argued ban Mr. | Mat rhe doctors Bnew the tnsared personally and y mig it nvough zea! ior increasing the com- "s business $d premium imcome, ike Lawson charged tae jury, pointing ont very serious Mature of the Gfence and the ne- sity to protect Iie insurance companies from aude of this class, if brought home by evi- dence to the accus a pan. SILTY. deliberating, brought in a the evening of Thursday, 0 0 salty” © July, recouimending the two doctors ¥ agguitted, vy the Judge's instru tions, Mr. M. Mi as not really involved in it, though the hol @ of the policies, which he rsonal friend” who recom. the lile as & #COd One. ay morning Justice Lawson sentenced ) AS Miready stated. the priso! An Unasant Bale of Fancy Stock—The Dead Dog Fancier’s Home. Yesterday, at eleven A. M., @ portion of the canine establishment of the late Mr. F. Butler, the well Knowa dog tancier of Brookiyn, was disposed | of ite that one ef the best Iriends the dog ever had sboulad have st his life by hydrophobia. readers will remember that Mr. Butler died wbont two months age ‘rom the effects of @ bite tnficted upoe him in the left thamb by adog which he had seea for the first Ume ten minutes previously. Ol this later, The s#le yesterday tock place at the dog kennels, Prospect and Sremen streets, Brooklyn, E. D. The attendance comprised some of the leo canine fanciers from the city ' and neighvortood, and nambered about three hundred, Tne st was unmerciful, and bota men and dogs seemed to be thoroughiy satisned of the fact befure the end of To sel dogs at the end of Joly mast require some both them nerve on the part oi owner and aue- must, wader ordi. require more, Bat such not deter the three hundred m Mrs, jood"* was determined to the bidding brisk, and the pro- tie nubLiLY Will have no reason The best breeds in the world ‘ ented, with the exception of the English foxhound aud atagnound, of w: Was but slender show, Outer dog, the New.oundiand Various breeds oF powters, matian hounds, ¢: hounds were well repre considerations «i¢ geatiemea who Butier’s groua: there, and eb 1 ana dicod and showed the rs, of the gentle sof bia favorite » enlivened by iittes between two terriers, nk that so tmportant an ou casion as their own sale should not pass off with- ont some Little proof of their quality. There wero no preiiminaries to this canine encounter: and, keen judgment, in cant ie man Who ie!l & m To anunal The pr interchange of « had Mr, Bergh been there, he would possibly have rea the justice of the doggerel:— Lot dogs “delight to bark and bite, For ‘us their nature to. These little gentlemen occupied the time of the company for about ten minutes. The vigorous ap- pheation of muscular force to the respective caudal appendages of these little worthies seemed uly to increase the prehensile power ut the head, whip Was finally invoked With a due return to fic peace. After this the sale proceeded interruption, and the Whole sale occupied some two hours and @ ha The prices aver- d were good, ranging f 0355, The sum polized Was about ¢ tea u + bioodbounds, wr t $100, and wou! better met 1 than living on a dark in aeul de sec, Various Itttle odds and ends lmimortality w of stuffed canin ® Clsposed of at satisfactory price’, Among the notabilities figured ®@ live two legged tortoise-sh which looked as though she would have bs a better qnalt- fied for noetirnal pastime of “ro' ad she possessed sour legs, Altogether the sule may be proncunced a success, One word touclling My. Butler, Ho received @ bite of seven or eight in cisions in the leit thumb, and beimg quite aware of th danger he ren, took every precaution ayains When seized with hydrophovia nis habitual seli-command did thim, but the extre a » of the disease were mercif{nily spared tim by the judiote © of morphia. ‘This simple statement will cor many that b pre- ceded it and are not (ru | Of Mr. Dotier’s death. THE NEW MASONIC TEMPLE The new and costly Masontc Temple on Twenty- third street and Sixth avenne is gow receiving ite finishing touches, and will be ready fur dedication early in the fall. Some of the stoves on the ground floor are alieady occupied, and the Masonic frater- nity Lave used a poriion of the upper stories tor concerning the manner meoting purposes since the latof Jane last. The | sp cture, aud | the year round, @toan being employed to wateh | Hi new temple i# @ soitd and tmpo-ing sir is @ credit to the fraternity and to the city, 1 de spription ol the buiiding appeared in the Meranp mauy wonths ago. A VALUABLE CARGO. ‘The ship Gardner Colby, which leaves this port #00n, will carry 48 freight lo Pasco Mio, Peru, toar | locomotives and tenders, complete, and eighteen pasdenger cars in compartments—nine first class | abd nine second class-—hesides a large assortment Of ratiroad material, Captain M. V. B. Streeter, her commander, bas bad the hatenes of his vesse Cul larger and movabie hatches substitated, and the lower decks havo also undergone, f@ thorough Chenge. The freight ts conéigned to Lat 4 Meigs, the great South American ralroad king. It will the fret commicte ¢ morn Me cargo GI (ue kind tiat ever leis Dr, Meetao, Dr. Sheedy and M. Mechan | the Peace; Mr. O'Grady, attor- | w their reports irom this knowledge, as neigh- bo and that the @gent, Barry, told the doctors ul aiwaya-do so, As jor Barry himscif, he | It 13 a curtoua commentary on the chances of Our | here a9 to the Bishop's nationality, Some say he is a Keatuckian, but this is disputed by a laay on tne encampment, who declares that he was “born | in the sane town she wai in the Green Isle, | There 1s no eatin. about Bishop Doggett’s na- Uonality. He is a futl-bicoded American and ; Southerner. There remain with us yet Drs, Sar- | | gems and Poisal, of Baltimore, who wil stay until | | the end of this week and probably longer. The | lutter preached for us last evening a sermon re- | “ 2 With scripture texts designed lo Ljustrate tha | | ana that for CHRIST 18 TRE LORD GOD, His incoming every.beart must pre- re the Way by repeatance and faith, The dis- | couse was based on Isaiah's prophecy concerning | Jonn the Baptist, who was to be the voice of one | eryig in the wildernoss—“Prepare ye the way of | ; the Lord; make straight in the dosort a highway | for our God.” The Doctor’s first point was to prove the historical accuracy of the prophecy in ait | its bearings and thon to apply it spirituatly. Ibeard | it spoken of afterward as “the old-fashioned | | Composed of Hebrew lads between the ages of dewy eve” and for hours after the forest with the atentorian voices of ra, praye) Makers and egg latte! out wi! [ey fe or harmony Gn08 rand old church songs as of Ages, ‘Are principal service was in th at the mi tabernacle, when Rev. Dr, der, Professor of Theol in Drew Seminai preached in presence o! least 2,000 Re Aa attractive feature ia t ‘ices for the children, are conducted by Mr. 8, M. Clark, of St. "@ church, Newars. Of ontidren there are Pai large numbers sojourning at the camp. THR ANNIVERSARY of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Rociety of Camp Tabor wili be held to-aay, when interesting exercises will take place. The society bas flour- ished and elected officers for the e: year, as follows :—President, Mrs, Rev. R. Van Horn; Vice Presidents, Mrs, Rose, of Jersey City; Mrs, A. L. Brice, of Newark; Mra, Coit, of Paterson; Corre- sponding Secretary, Mra, Rev. J. H. Knowles, of Newarks Recording Secretary, Mra, Elia Wandell, Morristown; Treasurer, Mré.’ J, Cleaveland, of Elizabeth, and a board of thirty managers, The soctety is an auxiliary of the New York branch, The moet lasts trom the opening ff" days. a is expected that by Sunday there will be 20, people of the grounds. Bishop Janes, Dr. Deems and W. P. Corbit will visit the camp either to-day or to-morrow. | THB PROPOSED NEW ST, FRANCIS XAVIEB/S OHUBOH, For some time past the St. Francis Xavier's Church Soctety have been engaged in collecting money to build the new Jesuit charoh, Tho present one om Sixteenth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, is filled regularly to overfow- ing at the diferent maasea every Sunday, and, aa the congregation steadily increases, the necessity of a more commodio church edifice has long been quite apparent, St. Francis church owns some very Valuable property on Sixteenth strees, adjoining the present place of worship, opon which it isthe lutention of the Fathers have erected, a4 soon as guMictent funds have been col- lected for the purpose, a new, elegant and costuy sacred edifice, extending from Sixteenth atreet to Seventeenth street, which shall be capabie of no- commodating many thousands st each servico. Probably the work of erection would have been begun ere now but for the financial panio and general prostration in business circles, NEW HEBREW SOCIETY, A Rew society has Leen formed in New York city, eleven and fifteen years, whose object is mutual improvement and oharity. They have adopted the name of ‘Young laraei Society,” and bold weekly meetings for the predent in the Forty-fourth street synagogue, where new accessions to the member. ship are gladly welcomed, THE CONSEQUENCE OF A “CORNER.” Saspension of a Large Metal HousewAn | Overload of Copper. Messrs. Hoimes & Lissburger, a frm doing bust- ness at Nos. 255 and 257 Pearl street, were forced to suspend yesterday im consequence, it 13 said, of Gospel.”” Key. Dr. Deems, of New York, preached @ ser- mon here yesterday morning, whuch {s also spoken | H of us one Of great power and force. It was based | | on Luke, xxiv., 46. To give point and pungency to") | the text the Doctor described the birth, chitdhood, | Maahood, suiterings, death and resurrection ot | Christ as the sufferings of the Deity, He remarked | that Guring the three years’ ministry of Jesus he | had not a Single convert, while such came by the | huadreds and thousands after His resurrection un- | der the ministry of His disciples. The sermon was | consistent with itself throughout, though there ; Were some statements in it to which objections | might be made. But it was ieftto “Rev.” W, P. | Corblit to object publicly and in his peculiarly | coarse manner to the discourse. Occupying the | ae ne stepped forward aod, addressing Dr, coms, he said :— CORDITT'S COARSENESS. | “Yon ought to be ashamed of yourself to come | into a Methodist pulpit aud preach such Infernal trash @s that; and, What's more, you don't belleve | @ Word of it yourself,” Ifa thunderbolt had falien among the copgregation they could not have been More ternfied, AS might be Imagined, quite a tion was aroused in every heart, ogy of some sort was needed lor this gratuitous insult to an invited guest and a piinister of the | Gospel who is suicientiy well Known North and South not to need commendation or reproof trom such A source. At the Close of last evening’s ser- vice, therefore, Brother Boole made such an apol ogy and explanation, and announced that Dr. Deews would preach yet again before this meeting closes. The audience received it with evident pleasure. THE OFPICIOUSNESS OF THE POLICE * ‘will break out at times, no matter where they are, | | assets, he belleved, were amply sudicient to secure | commotion was created a'd a spirit of indigna- | every claim, and, apart from the wretched dis- Hence an gpol- | their inability to carry an immense amount of copper which they have recently been accumulat- ing. Nothing is at present known—or, if known, was not communicated to the reporter—concern- ing the sum inyolved. Mr. Lissburger, on being interviewed by @ HERALD reporter, stated that it was impracticabie for him to communicate the | details of the misfortunes of the house, but was frank to confess that in the course recent well planned operations they nad become possessed of nearly ail the loose copper in the United States, Ho was sure the assets were largely 10 excess of the liabilities, and the cred- itors would not suffer at all, except by tuconven- lence, possibly, of a trifiing delay. The stock was solid and as good as gold, and every one interested would be thoroughly satisfied, me. Mr. Holmes, on being Aneanonet sald he had nothing whatever to add to Mr. Lissvurger’s state- ment. They had been taken by surprise. Their of | ‘ne firm wanted composure or such a@ terrible mercantile event aa bowwg compelied to suspend, he felt quite happy and confident as to the uiterior result, oto partners declined positively to name their creditors or to attempt 40 give an approximate idea of their losses, They were evidently ieee! harassed, Swarms of respectable, ‘solid’’ 1ooking men poured into their establishment after the sus- | Pension was announced, and held interviews of interminabie length with the unfortunate princi- pals, THE FEELING OUTSIDE. In other prominent metal houses, such as | in city or country. And hence last night, while a | party of bali a dozen ladies and gentlemen were | taking a moonlight walk about the ground singing | some songs of Zion and, of course, conducting themscives orderly and becomingly, one o! those oficlous persons approached the party and rudely threatened to arrest them if they sung again. The encampment Was not yet cleared, the people were stili up and active in thelr tents and cotrages and In the hotel, and such a threat under such circum. stances Was Very Daturally considcred an outrage, The meetings wili ciose here on Sunday night, and the Sabbath Is expected to be a great day in thls cacampment, THE TICKET NUISANCE ABATED, My calling attention to the charge in tickets the other day has produced the desired result. It now appears that three of the trustees on board the boat that day ordered this action; put as soon ag the other trustees saw the H&RALD’s article they promptly countermanded it, and it may be inter- esting to many to know that au exccrsion ticket lasucd at any Ume is good for any other tume to the end of the meeting. Sedgwick brought up about seven handred persons this morning, among them several clergy- G Bishop Peck was among them, — booked to preach lor us Gn Sunda Rev. Rey. W the evening, hoth of them sermons of rea! merit. T ther meetings of the day demonstrated the prevalence of a better and more religious spirit tnan has been te!t here up to this time, and great — are anticipated ere this calup mecting shall end. W. Horne preached tnis atterucon, and NEW JERSEY METHODISTS’ MECCA. care The Feast of Tabern les at Camp Tabor—Large Attendance and Lively Meetings. Acting upon a suggestion made hy Rey. John Atkinson, af the annual meeting in March, 1886, the Neyark Methodist Conference took the initia- tory steps looking to the establishment of a per- manent camp ground, suitable fora yearly iwid- summer gathering of church people desirous of en- joying a season of open air prayer, preaciing and healthiul recreation, all at the same tigie, a “Camp Meeting Association” wus formed, and about tree years alterwards there was purchased and taken possession of a tract of well wooded | and watered land at Denville, some six miles ve. | yond Morristown. This tract contains about thirty and # halfacres. Subsequently Zlere was purchased 100 acres more. The ground, Which is only a tew hundred yerds from the r. oad Gepol, spreads ont on the side of @ gently sloping hull, Here was jaid out Camp Tabor, The first meeting was heid in August, 1669, and proved bighiy s the Conierence, The yearly gatherings have since grown in interest and members until now Camp Tabor has become the Mecca whither go up to worship ali good METHODISTICAT FOLLOWERS OF WESLEY, Asbury and Ewbory. ‘he ground= are taid out in “streets,” “avenues” aud “places,” each bear. Ing the bame of some noted fatner in the Church either of past or preseat generations, There is a “Wesiey place,” an “Empury place,” an “Asbury place,” a “Sitipson place,” and & ‘Janes avenue,’ besides others, All lead to the centre ¢ the round! where Jocated the main “tabernacle, The ebing ana praying atform is covered with a roof running’ out dteet or so. Tae ground raug up from ‘ure, and for a great wide space running ack 18 Aited with rough board benches for : devoutly inciined, the whole iormtng @ natural theatre-like platiorm and auditorium. Around, a horseshoe, are neatly built cottages, some of them fitted up like fairy ats, havin; water, gaa and ait torts oi conven sand Orne | to the taste and means of ‘aosard Tools are numerous, there are seventy-two on the grounds tents, Some of the cottages and cep 45 Inany as @ dozen persons, a pincu, Some memoers of the aesocittion spend the heated term at | Camp Tabor, going there in June and not leaving till September or October. Lot and cottage owners leave their furniture im tne buildings a | the plaice. Some ol the places are most costly and luxurtous manner. brief outline of the place stood that even solely as a country retreat tne Da mo Raa Rt, ia Mee py nt one ur those Met hor Who Can staad the finan preeg, This year ba THE TRIAS HAVE GATHERED a little earlier thao usual On Tuesday the meeting | Opened with a fair attendance and Epirited exer: clgow, The heavy rains of Wednesday prevented ted up ina From thts | mauy irom going, but those aire grounds deciaro they never spent apy yer | or more religiously profitabic time. The rain, they = argus, drove the people into their Cottawes, tents aod the minor taber- | nacles, “‘Bethol’ and nezer,’’ and #0 they were brought “Nearer, ty God, to Thee, nearer to Thee.” Yesterday large patabers tool advantage of the charming weat! And swelled the con- (Course ab the cama, aid fram ‘carly dawn th md he is | » H. Thomas, of Beekman Hill churen, in ; wtsfactory to | it can readily be onder. | Phelps, Dodge & Co.'s, Naylor & Co.'s and Hen- | dricks Brothers, the feeling was evidently | one of Caress with the nouse in trouble, | Mingled with a little chuckling at phelr fallure in cornering toe market. It was undoubtedly thougot that those who had gone out to shear had returned deservedly shorn; but tt was “all in tho family," and anything in the anane of “hard | leelings” was conspicuously absent. On the con- | trary, the ready purse seems open, and ail indica- | Hon’ seem to point to the speedy resumption of | busimess py tho unlortunate firm. *ANYWHERG, ANYWHERE, “OUT OF THE SURED) Suicide in the Human Sorrow Hidden Under Tide. Early yesterday morning another one of those tragedies was enacted on the river an account of | ; which 20 often fills a column in the city journals | and sets the world wondering as to the unbear- able burdens of human life, About a quarter | past five yesterday morning a beautiful girl, ap- parently about eighteen years of age, stepped on board the lioboken boat atthe ferry on the New . Jersey side. Her form was rounded, long faxen hair fell over her shoulders and the glow of health was on her cheeks. No one would have surmised that thoughts of death were in that young | woman’s heart, nor that she was treasur- | ing some unspeakable woe which made itfe in- | supportable. Seating herself quietly in the ladies’ cabin of the ferryboat Hoboken, she took from her | pocket a Ceol aed piece of note papsr—provably a love letter—who knows’ and as she read it her | bine eyes filled with tears, What a history might | be divulged by that little scrap of paper. Finally she folded tt up and waiked slowly to the front of the boat, forgetiul apparently of all ber surround. ings, leaving her waterproo! wrap behind ber on the seat. A gentieman hastened alter her intend- ing to remind her of her garment, when just as | he gpened the cabin door he saw the girlleap upon toe guard rail, and before he could reach her or give the alarm, she was overboard, and au instant aiter had disappeared beneath the water, churned into foam by the luge paddie- wheel of the boat. The steamer was instantiy stopped, asearch made tor the poor girl, but with. oatavali, She had buried her secret for the time being (rom human eyes, and only | In the hereatter the angels may Koil the stone trom its grave away. The sole chance to recognize the unfortunate | may be the waterproof cloak left behind, which was taken 10 the Hoboken station house for iden- tification, It Is od ke however, that she will be found to belong to Hoboken or Jersey ity; that she Was a working girl o1 the better class, and that some love sorrow Or, aias! love shame was the canse Of her rash act. | POISON IN THE SWEETS, | What Cheap Candies are Made Of—How Children are Sickened—An Investiga- | tion by the Brooklyn Board of Heaith. | It will be remembered that a few years ago con. | | siderable epace was devoted in the columns of the | | Hemarp to the subject of adulterated, deleterious and poigonons candies, which were sold in the | various confectioneries. 11 ig believed that the discussion had a beneficial emect tor a time, atall events, In the two cities, From re- cent developments made to the Brooklyn sanitary authorities It appears tiat the manufacwrers of sweetmeats iu that city have fallen into their old bad habits of using poisonous compounds, several cbildren having recently been taken wl suddenly alter eating candy. Ata mecting of the Brookiyo , Board of Health yesterday the following very im- portant resolution in regard to the matter was in- troduced by General Jourdan and adopted :— Whereas frequent complaints have peer made by the res pecble that terra aloa (which Is nothing but Paris or gypsum), glocuse, lampolacs, sul- digris, Brunswick gree mi | oil ot turpentine, prussic acid, rome yellow and’ ot North River—More | the ! blaster | phuric acid, aniline, vi 6. i ok cheese, fusil oil, « ac. aru nd compounds are largely usod in the manutacta: | cheap candics; and whereas the indiscriminate nse of | | snen potsonots drugs and compounds is considered dele- r ry | re of | | tertous to healt, " ved, Theat the Sanitary such | officers of thie Board ay they may direct, do thoroughly | | Investigate and report to this Board ay soon as possible ye mode and material used Jn the manutacture of | all descriptions of wares and merchandise made and | Gold by contectioners. in order that the children, at least, | may be protected irom the evil effects of the dangerous compounds sold tinder the description of cancly. PRISDLE STILL AN ABSENTEE, The oxcitement at No. 176 Broadway still con tinued yesterday. Rumors were rife ag to the i whereabouts of the dofauiting agent, but all waa pure specalation us to his abiding place, Some | persons javored the idea that Burope would re- ceive the nonor of a visit; others were confident ; Shas he was not ten miles from New York. The caster of the absent Insurance agent stated the booke would show that instead of having rnined the People's Companys, of Philedeiphis, Mr. Prindie Was their croditor In (he aum Of $35,000, Mr. Peck, fhe agent o1 tle Atiantic and Pacific Qompauy, | Committee, or engines aré placed in di sbip, and ampt either fire or | expends, if | sticking upright | presebt Supéerahnuat said there were no new FY? maotal ° of tl of agente thelr su nates, a jr whether ‘tney nave in piaces of trust apy lurking Prindies. NEW YORK CITY. The members of the “Old Guard’ will leave next week for Long Branch, The free Ubrary and reading room of the Cooper Union will close Monday, August 3, for cieaning ona. Pag +e again be open for visitors on Rey. Dr. Mendez, @ prominent Hebrew of this city, has recently been elected Corresponding Sec- ‘etary for America of the London Society of Hobtew Eiteracure, and has accepted the position. Tho following gentiemen were admitted to mem- berabip of the Produce Exchange yesterday :— mg 3 Boughton, Wm. B, Oakiey, Samuel Sydney, bull, , Streeter, Beanley Taytor and Kobert Under: William Albert, @ lad ten years of age, while Playing om tho roof of premises No, 243 Kast Twenty-fifth street, fell into the rear yard and was fatally injured, and died subsequently at tho resi- aencé of bis parents, No. amd avenue, Coroner Kesler Was notified to an inquest, Comptrolier Green, with the Police Commission- ers, opened bids yesterday for the supplying of registry books, £6,, for election purposes, Lange, Little & Co, were the lowoat bidders, and the con- tract was awarded fo that fitm at $1,302 Two updred ene fiity election boxes will be needed id Mr. brouck ts instructed to advertise tor proposals, Reports were in circuiation yesterday in Wail street that the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Rau- way Company had gone to protest. This was focbasoeny true, as & $30,000 draft of the road, held § St. Louis ndtional bank, had not been paid at atarity; bur this matter was not only satisfac orily adjusted, but an arrangement for baylug the joating debt at an early day consummate The new engines lately pat in the great tron steamship City of Pexing are gaid to be the largest ever built in thia country or in Europe. Two of the cylinders are of low and two of Digh pressure, and che, rei souvely Baan 61 inches in diameter, lorse power. rent Tepresenting 6,000 Eleven donke: Re prenareHene have been made for ‘age. The work of paving and trafic preparation of Broadway, from Thirty-second street to Fiity- ninth street, came toa stand on the 25th of July, aa the Comptroiler refused to pay money on the certified warrants, The contractors have accord- Ingly discontinued operationg and fave notified the pabito that they wiil not pi oggea unell paid for what has been alveady done. e poor labore: aro the greatest suderors and utter grievous com: plaints, The Commissioners of Docks held their reguiar weekly meeting yesterday, Commissioner Wes- torvelt was in the chair, Repairs to pier No. 23 North River wore directed to be made (on account of tho Fiehmongers! Association), and Smith Turner was directed to do the necessary work, A number of petitions were received and piaced on file, je Kngineer-in-Chief made a report of the amount of work done daring the past week, aiter which the mocting adjourne At tho Produce Excaange yesterday afternoon the members of the grain trade held & meeting to consider rules 20 and 21, Section 7 of rue 19 re- | ceived an addition as follows:—“No charge for elevating or unloads! boats nor any other | charges shall be imposed upon said grain by the failroad companies, except as provided by above rates.” Mr. Baxter offered an amendihent to ruie 21 a8 follows, viz.:—If from any cause the | railroads are unable to deliver the grain, wheo called upon, within @ reasonable time, tue seller shall be required to make good the sale on the de- mand of the buyer.” This was referred to a com- mittee to be hereatter appoiuted, after which the Meeting adjourned, BROOKLYN, Contracts tor groceries, four and other pro- | visions for the use of the county tnstitutions were awarded by the Supervisors yesterday to the lowest bidders, 2 ‘The warrant for $21,600 for Park maintenance was signed by Mayor Hunter yesterday, and ne will noid the Commissioners responsible for the faithiul expenditure of the money. At a convention of Irish civic societies it was | resolved to parade on Sunday next, when the corner stone of St. Teresa's church will be latd. Bishop Laughiin and several priests of the qiocese will offictate, ‘There will be a special! meeting Of the Board of Aldermen held on Wednesday next, when an effort will be made to pledge the city to payment Of $2,000,000, $1,000,000 to be appropriated for 1874 and 1875 respectively, toward t of the Hast Kiver Bridge. dhe proprietor of the East New York and ca oarsie Railroad has invited the police of Brooklyn to visit Rockaway and partake of a chowder at his The Commissioners have givon tueir cousens to “the boys in blue”? accepting the tempting offer. They will picnic it by platoons. Among the curious things that will be on ex- hibition at the fall exbibition of the Queens County ordi- Bary stable manure. It is said that this method is DOW bel Successfully pursued by a Frenchman named Corbett, at Hicksville. The Board of Directors of the North Shore Rall- road Company, of Long Island, held a meeting yesterday, the President, Dr. W. W. Bail, presia- ing, the purpose being to authorize the tssue of bonds to the smount necessary to secure the prompt construction of the road and for the acing Of which, it ls understood, negotiations ave already been concluded. It 18 probable that the entire transaction will be consummated to- day. ‘The bonds are taken by the agent of a forel, house, and on terms which are regarded as higity favorable to the company. STATEN ISLAND. ——_—— Yesterday there were one stcamship, four barks and one brig from Southern ports at anchor at the lighterage grounds, of Rubbin's reef, discharging cargoes into lighters before being aliowed to come up to the city, The Sunday school children of the Rey. Dr. En- yard’s church, at Brighton Heights, Tompkins- ville, had their anunal excursion and picnic yes terday, gong by a special train over the Staten Isiand a to the grove near St Paul's church, at Tottenville. Tue stench (rom the negiected gutters of Stapie- ton and the open brook whici runs throngh Canal street and empties into the bay adjoining the Staten Isiand ferry dock 1s aimost insupportabie, @0d 16 a constant source of complaint on the part Of passengers landing from the ferryboats, Staten Island has now half-hourly’ communica- tion with New York between the two old lines of ferries whose slips adjoin each other at Whitehall, The ratlway ferryboata land at Tompkinsvilte every hour from New York, and the North Shore boat8 land at New Briguton every half hour from New York, NEW JERSEY. As the steamer Bordentown, owned by the Dela ware and Raritan Cana! Company, was passing the draw of the New York and Long Branch Rall road Company’s bridge at Amboy, N.J., at three o'clock yesterday morning, with barge Reading Rallroad No, 85 in tow, the barge struck an ob- struction in the centre of the draw and sunk 60 | rapidly that the crew were barely able vo get of in their night clothes. The disaster causea con- siderable excitement, as it was thought at the time that some were drowned. It is thought the contractors who are erecting the vridge lefi a {n the draw, or droppe jarge stone overboard there. The barge is now ing i the south draw in about twenty-one feet of water. A JERSEY BRIDGE MANTRAP, Hudson county is joined to Kssex by an old Tattle-trap of a bridge, the giving way of whioh {3 dreaded by every one obliged to cross it. It Was purchased a few yi ago from the New Jer- sey Railroad Company at a cost of $70,000, For some time past the united wisdom of the two counties, a6 represented by their respective Boards of Chosen Freonolders, has been concen trated on the bridge, the problem being, “Woat Shall we do with it—bulid a new one or repatr the Would eat up. $00,000 of” $10,0008 tee dor aee ir 3; w do latter about $10,000, It is ‘agreed by ae the wise men that someting ought to ve done and that without delay, but exactly what 4 the rock upon which the county Bolons sput. Those of Hud- Son are for @ new bridge, those of Hagex for repatr- ing the present one, Meanwhile the man, dear! Gnd property trap remains in all ite dangerout conditions, @ constant terror to the timid, At ine last meeting of the joint committee the matter was frecly discussed, but, aa usnal, no decision was anna At and the snbjeot went Ovex till the NERS portions of tho | completion en MURDER IN VIRGINIA, A Citizen Shot and the Body Anchored in a Creek. CONFESSION OF AN ACCOMPLIOE, Details of the Discovery—Verdiot of the Coroner’s Jury. ee uy Middlesex C vi RBANA, st 5 ne a Tes Veg This community, Ordinartiy one of the quictest in the State, being from ite tsolated position far removed from exciting inflaences, 1s at this mo ment deeply agitated by the discovery of a murder which was committed for $3, and whiten for cold bivoded, atrocity and flendtsh cruelty has fd parallel in recent history. DETAILS OF THE CREE, A respectable white man, by the name of Rozs, who lived near Parrott’s Oreek, in this county, on Sunday, July 19, visited a neighbor about a mile off to breakfast, after which, as the family desired to attend Sunday school, Rose left to return to his house on the creek. Im passing down a path through an open fleid, on one side of which were thick vushes aud undergrowth, and about half way to the crees, ne was Suot trough the heart with nine buckshot from & guy in tho nands of parties conceaiea im the bushes, As he was an unmarried man, and lived entirely by himself in 4 small how» yniit on piles driven down in the creek some dista, * from tne shore, hia ab- | sence, between the time of his terrible maraer | and the discovery of the wemi body, was not re- | marked, Tuesday afteracon, foliowing the mar- der, two men coming in the creek from febing Saw just on the surface of the water a human foot They attempted to pul the body up by beret but found that it was fstened to the bottom the river, They then stick an oar down in the } Maud and made the foot fast to it, that they migh¢ easily find the body when they returned, They came ashore and informod two mon, Rurus Fisher ana James Wallace, of THE DISCOVERY OP THE DEAD BODY, But these mon, instead of offering their assiatance | in getting up the body, said or did nothing In the matter, The next day being Court day, tho parties who bad found the body in the river went to Court and reported the fact. Immediately upon recolv- | ing the information, and hearing that Ross was missing, Mr, Robert H. McKan, @ iriend and eona. | dant of Ross, sent for Mr. Scott, a magistrate, and | they, with the assistance of several other mon, proceeded to tho creek, and, seouring a boat, went | out tothe dead body, After some aificalty they | succeeded in getting it to the surtace of the water. | They towed the body in the creek and placed it in tue honse which Ross occupied, stationing two meo to guard is until @ coroner's inquest could be held. The imtention to destroy the bod. was clearly shown by the horrible and brutal precautions evident upon ite recovery. The murderers (fof several dre proven to bo impl- | cated), In order to cover up all trace of the body and clow to their crime, determined to bury it in he river, 60 that the crabe and fish might destro; tt. Ap inquest was had as spcedily as possible. ‘ana | one of the party who assisted tn bringing the boay | to shore testified ag follows ;—‘‘We fonna the boay in the river Of the mouth of the creek, ANCHORED WITH AN OLD PLOUGH CASTING and other pieces of tron tied around the neck, and & rock ended twenty-five or thirty pounds Wrapped and tied up in a piece of new cotton cloth, jastened to one loot. The hands were ied togeete with @ palr of suspenders and a mixed flannel shirt. A pair of pants were tled to the tron around the neck.” The articles of clothing found | on the body were easily identified as those worm | by Ross on the morning of the marder, As the body had been at the bottom of the river from Sunday night until the Wednesday evening followin as iN a state o! great an ie Raviag ° it besides, octane had been feeding on tt, havin, eaten out the eyes, mouth and nose. The domen had been Cut open, so that the intestiaes protruded, A POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION was held by Dr. W. K. Gatewood, who testin that he viewed the body after tt was taken {rol the Water and found nine buckshot wounds, trom 8 shotgun, immodiately over the region of the the le{t shoulder; these heart, and one throug! produce death bp side wounds were sumetent to sides, there were two incistoas—one on eithe of the abdomen—about six inches tong; De could not have lived more than a few moments alter re celving these wounds, Great excitement prevatled throughout the en- tire community 8s soon as the murder was, dis- covered. ‘The citizens collected from far and near, expreasiog their indignation at the committal of ry aastardiy @ crime in thetr midst, and with the full determination to bring the murderers to justica, A coroner's jury of twelve men were ompanel and agreat many witnesses summoned, The e dence implicates several wolte men and a family of negroes named Robinson, consisting of three women and @ young negro man about twenty | years of age. Much diMcolty was experienced on the part of the attorney for the Commonwealth arrive at the truth. But finally, after betng at | Agricuitural Society is a machine for hatching mutted for several days toa rigid cross-examinge ‘ chickens through the warmth furnished b: tion conducted by the Commonwealth's attorney for Middlesex county, assisted by Mr. Robert Mou- tague and Brown Evans, the negro Ben Robinson revesled THE SRCEET OF THIS AWPUL CRIME He said :—"l made a statement yonteecay, which I know Was enticely wrong. Now I wil! fell you all apout it. I met Mr. Rufus Fisher Sunaay morning, July 19, at the red gate at the turn of the road. Mr. Fisher said, ‘We have put Ross out of the way, and we want you to help us to-night? After a fuil understanding with Mr. Fisher | agreed to help hun to Make way with the body, | went back tiome, passing directly by where Mr. y body was lying concealed tn the bushes. When to where I knew the body was I pulled hat down ou the side of my face to prevent mo from seeing it, The body was only a lew steps | from the path, and was covered with bushes, | 1 met Mr. Fisher and Mr. James Wallace at the red gato at twelve o'clock Sundey night, Jaiy { 19, according to my agreement with Mr. Fisher im | the morning. Went from the gate to where the dead body of Mr. Ross was. I pulled the body ous of the bushes and tied his nands together with his (Ross’) suspenders. 1 tied his feet together with fece ofrope. Mr. James Wallace and myself rried the body down Lo the creek on @ rail, Mr. Fisher going @ short distance ahead of us, Im carrying hii through tie woods one shirt sleeve was torn of. We went all the way through the woods to the landing, When we got to the creek with the body we tied a rope around the neck, put hiro in the water and towed him out tn the river to nine feetdeep waler. When we got out in the | river Mr. Fisher fastened the {ron around Mr. ' Ross’ neck, ‘The rock was tied up in a prece of new domestic and lastened to one foot. In gol! out tn the river Mr. Ross’ pants camo_partiy o: aod we took thein off and fastened thea aroun his neck with the iron. Betore letting him sing Mr. Pisher, with @ Knite, cut Mr. Ross open in two iF 8. MR. FISHER GAVE ME TWO DOLLARS and some clothes, and aout a peck of cakes, and told me I must get outof the way and conceal myself, Made me promize if I was caught that & would not swear this deed on him. 1 went down m the woods and carried the clothes aad cakes apd a five-shooter, which he gave me also, de termined to stay In the woods; but after being | there some time I thought that Mr, Fisher only wanted nie torun Of, 80 Lbat they might lay the killing of Mr. Ross on me. So I concluded to come back hero and teil you the whole truth about the matter."’ Nearly al of this testimony was corrob- | Orated by the two sisters of Ben Robinson and-by finding the clothes and cakea as he bad described them. Alter hearing consideradle more circomatantial evidence, nearly ail of which was conciusive as to the goilt of Ruins R, Fisher and James P, Wallace, | the jury rendered A VERDICT that “the sald John W, Ross came to lils death on Sunday, July 19, 1874, between the hours of seven end ten o'clock A. M., by reason of certain gune abot wounds which entered the body of deceased inthe region of the heart, and that the said wounds Were inficted from a gun discharged by Rufus K. Fisher.” Fisher aud Wallace have been arrested and pat Jail. im MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. ——— Waiting for the Verdict. Mayor Havemeyer 1s waiting for the verdict, Yesterday he rocetved a targe oumber o! callers, among whom were Comptroller Grecu, Simon Storn, ex-Commisstoner Gardner and others, ood it was reported that ho consoited all these astate j 8nd wily politicians as Co the probavie dectsion of the Governor, In conversation with s HsRaLp re- | porter tho Mayor said, a Gay or two ago, “that it | woald not take him long make op bts mind ont charges" 8 2 Were Govsracr, aoe. \ poeat outer oxpiseaons of tis Honor tnere te no doubt that he Ormiy beltoves tn his vindication i and acquittal by the Governor. In this confaent j orre or8 08, yhe Mayor la strengthened and (orci. fled by the Opinions of lita friends, who, of coarse, | assure him Governor Di ill acquit tim, ns fall.” When caliea upon b: Mayor assured that he ha no 001 ion whatever fom the —— COONTINURD ON NINTH PAGE) | | | io at ee