The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1875, Page 4

4 THE TRIAL OF REPUTATIONS —_——+—__—_. Evidence for the Defence Introduced Yesterday. FULLERTON ON OVINGTON. | How the Lawyer Wove His Net About the Witness. “THE FUTURE IS NOT FOR YOU.” Counsel Filibustering on Tracy’s Position. The court room was well filled, and unusual pains Were taken at the door to keep out persons not provided with tickets or credeutiais, It was expected that Mr. Beecher would testify, and the unusual opportunity to hear a great orator relate his own misiortunes tempted meu of much occu- pation and little general curiosity to wade through the slush and enter the small, square, jail-like chamber, where the Judge, with the corners of nis mouth turned down, sat as usual, waiting for gleven o’clock to sound, There was quite a mustering of forces, Frank Moulton came in with Judge Fullerton for tne first time since he quitted the witness stand, and, when Mr, Edward c. Ovington’s heag was up im that clair and Moulton’s shock of hair dyed the forum in front, there appeared to be a distri- bution Of temperaments. Mr. Ovington 18 @ tall, plain man, with @ rather fattisn forehead, a good long nose, more expres- | sive than the forehead; small ears, not very alert- looking, and light red veard and mustache cover- | ing the lower features, He bas very pale eyes and whitisu eye-lashes. He appeared to be a man of warm temperament aud good nature, out with very dull jaculties for ready use and a Memory so completeiy out of proportion to what was expectea from it that in a few minutes he had Mr. Hill, who Was examining bim, and who is all alert and quicksilvery, very much flushed ana fidgety. Mr. Sbearman, who had previously minutely examinea the witness-chair, as if he had duuots of its com- fort and cleanliness, and for that rea<on had led | the audience to suppose he designed Mr. Beecher presently to sit in it, Shearman also was up at Hil’s eloow nudging bim along. The witness, however, seemed to be of the class of usassuming mercantile men who have no aptness nor audacity for public glibness. He was not nervous; simply not brignt nor chirpy, and bis examination by his own friends was a sort of verbal tooth-drawing. Mr. Tilton looked very curiously at Mr, Oving- ton as he began to speak. There is understood to be a sirong repugnanze between these two, Tilton taking the position that Ovington bad ab- ducted his wie. The former looked at Ovington with a sort of twinkle, not humorous nor appre- hensive, but as i! rejoicing that he had now got Ovington up on a pedestal. The otner attempted so travestie a conversation between himsel! and Tilton, when the latter had used high-sounding terms, such as drawing the sword and the battle axe, but he had no sumorous or saurical power. Mr. Hill very soon dropped Mr. Ovington, who appesred to be used to pave the way Jor the intro- duction of Mrs. Ovington. Mrs. Ovington was io the court room, 2 stout lady of a decided cast of countenance, who looked on with sympathy while Mr. Ovington testified. Rev. Mr. Talmage sat be- | side Mrs, Ovington. Fullerton toox up Ovington in his cold, crystal way, with decidea intentions from the outset. He plunged in @ short time into General Tracy's reia- | uuon to Mrs. Tilton on the occasion of her testify- | img before the Church Commitiee. He haa pre- viously identified the Ovington jamily as Mrs, Tilton’s custodians irom the moment she left her busband’s dwelling. He now labored with his superior skill as @ cross-examiner to force Tracy into the Ovington household as Mr. Beecher’s | secret delegate to arrange what Mrs. Tiltonshould ‘estily. Tracy withdrew trom the court room during this cros#examimation, he having on @ former occasion prosecuted Fallerton savagely and without success, Fuilerton is pow endeavor- ing to gev even with Tracy. ‘Tilton and Pryor (the latter with his throat tled up in white cloths) conlerred together irequently, und Judge Morris mixed in their talk and sug- gested points to Fullerton. Hill, who bas sat nothing im the case since he examined jurors until yesterday, has a full new mustache and whiskers grown out since this trial began. | Mrs. Beecher looked poorly yesterday, and talked with her slim young son, Will. On the bench with the Juage were Rev. Mr, Varley, of England, and Judge William Law Learned, of the Superior Court. The severest thing Fullerton said to the witness Ovington was in reference to @ letter to be put ip as evidence and remembered by himself, “Ii he has time to commit it, perhaps he can remember it’? The letter did not get in through the lethargy or consclentiousness of the witness. “The future is not for you.” This was one of Fuilerton’s retaliatory answers to Mr. Evarts, who said that he had not proved General Tracy to be on Mr. Beecher’s errand. Said in a cool, confident tone, it brougit on Mr. Beecher’s working face @ paleness. Little omens go around that court room, and the toiling of the city bell at noon every day sometimes gives a nervous jerk to balf the audience. Mr. Beecher finally grew incensed at the closeness and pertinacity of Ful- jerton’s attempt to wind ap Ovington, and he drew out a large Dluc book aud began to read 1, in a few seconds be arose and pulled off his overcoat, looking almost purple, and whispered to Judge vorter, Alter a while, when Fullerton had woven bis web very adroitiy wrougu Mr. Ovington and proceeded to pull the strings, the witness fairly admitting that he bad been mistaken three times: Mr. Beecher laughed at the ludicrousness of the tuing and then directly his head was up and his eyes moodily counting the slate in the window blinds, Mr. Shearman trotted around to talk with Mrs, Ovington, who appeared to desire to relleve her husbandg of nis seat, and the ladies of the Tilton- OUvington coterie. Mrs. Shearman, Tubbs, Patnam and Field paid serious attention to Fullerton’s artfulness. Mrs. Tubbs’ name came up In the testimony as going to a School called “The Gunnery,” and this made general laughter. It was apparent why Pronk Moulton Was in court—to see i! Pulierton could put Tracy in the position of Mr. Beecher’s original emissary to get Mrs. Tilton belore the churon committee, The episode of Florence Tilton bronght out the probability that she would yet be culled on the rebuttal, as Mr, Ovington lad testified that she had not been refused admission to ner mother's preeoce by him, and Fullerton pusnea him hard about it, The witness admitrea tuat he had been advanced to an oftice in Plymouth church since the scandal proceedings begau, having previously been eleven years & private meimver. mr, Ovington was Got a match for his dexterous Opponent, and When Fullerton bad emvarr dy Wituoat angering him, the lawyer suid “That gives me an appetite.” He nad extracted from Ovington @ last admission, and went off to dinner, There bas been some discussion of the language used by General Tracy im his opening, character- iziug the associations of Tilton and Moulton with Victoria Woodha Upon investigation we find that the words be actually employed iu describing her were:—"rhe most notorious preacier und vractiser of free love,” instead of “the most Do- sorious prostitute the world has ever known.’ This clause was the only rejerence Mr. Tracy made to Mrs, Woodhull in the coonection in whicn it Was used, itis due botn to Mr. Tracy and Mrs. Woodbuil to muke this statement. | me DENCK. ‘The Court assembicd at the customary hour of | | Tuton’s appearance ; | again revurne | Tracy arrive; been at the Gunnery, Washingto! | nave a je ry, ngt my ras a witness jor the defendant. Mr. Hill—Are you aquuinted with the parties to this action. Witness—I am; 1 have known’Mr. Beecher about = twenty-five years, ‘tulron about twelve years; have been & Deighbor of Tiitou’s; he and bis wite have been on calling acquaintance with us; there Was a special imendspip between Mrs, Tilton and Mes. Ovington; it began in the year 1868 and continued irom that ume; had an interview with Mr. Tilton stortiy alter the pubiica- tion of the Bacon letter at bis house; J called at his invitation; he had mentioned to my wife that ue Would like to see me; I told mim that i was very sorry to find him in this trouve, that is Was @ Very Serious Inatter to bring such acharge aeelnes Mr. Beecher and a hurt to the cause of religion ; . THE NEXT INTERVIEW was at my House, about a wees alter that; my wife Was present; Mr. Tilton opened the conver- sation by saying, “Kilzabeth made a fine impres- s10n belore the committee: Kizabeth is a trump, isn’t sbef it Was all fiction; 1 can come before the committee and weave a fictiou, speak weil Of Beecher and Elizabeth; but she only dia what any true wile Would do;” my wile remarked that “sie didn’t look apd talk as if she was telling an un- truth, and she didn’t believe she had; Titon replied, “Oh, Liboy wi'l tell any number of lies lor me; then my wife said somethiug about Mrs, at ‘she looked in very bud condition of health’ and | made the remark, “she jookea death struck,’ when Tilton said, “On hu, not SO bad as that; my wife then said that she bad GOT A VERY PLEASANT LETTER from Mrs, Tiiton on the day prevfou I think it Was and contrasted tt with a letter that she had previously received—a hopeful, pleasant letter, TILTON ANXIOUS AUOUT THE LETTER. Mr. Tilton was inquisitive to know the con- tents of the letters; he said, “How 1s that? Blizabeth hus been writing to you;” my wile said “Yes; he asked, “What did she sayr’’ and my wite told him the contents of the letter; I cannot give the substance of what my wile said in giving to Tilton the contents of the letters, Mr. Hill—I desire to offer the letter iu evidence in connection with nis testimony a8 1¢ now stands, r. Beach—I object, ‘The Judge—It cannot be received. Q. Cun you recollect What sue suid in regard to the second letter? Wituess—Well, she said something about being a3 happy as a bird: the letter closed with’ “Bless tne Lord! oh, my soui;? in the cenversation which occurred aster the statement avout the 1et- ter Mr. Tiiton said, ‘Mr. Beecher hever loved any other woman 4s he loves Elizabeth; Mrs, Beecher made his home a hell; singe he loves Elizabeth so why doesn’t he treat her*iike a man; why don’t he come lorward and help her; he 1s a coward and a poltroon; I would not treat a woman so | who had given me all a woman can give; why | does be let ber rent her only cool rooms to boarders; he continued to call Mr. BEECHER A COWARD, He then said, “Mrs. Tilton has only done the duty of u wie in coming Jorward and lying for me;" and he said, “Ii I had committed the Nathan murder and Mrs, Tilton was a witness of it, do you suppose she wouid testify to the truth?’ He said, “No, indeed,” aud he appealed to my wife if | she would not do the same thing; my wife replied | she Would not to convict an innocent man; she would sacrifice her husband rather than an inno- cent man should suffer; as he leit he said, “This copversation 1s confidential, but you can repeat all to Elizabeth.” ALL ABOUT TRACY, | When General Tracy came to our house he saw my wile and self; he went away and returned mv half an nodr; aiterwards he was introduced to Mrs. ‘filton by Judge Morse, and the interview be- tween General Tracy and Mrs, Tilton occurred in the presence of Judge Morse; General Tracy had no inserview with Mrs. Tilton that did not occur im the presence of mysel!, my wile, or the com- mittee; when the coumittee came to the house Geueral Tracy remained with us all through che evening: my Dusiness is importer of fancy goods, on fulton street, pear Clin’on, in the city of Brooklyn; Lam about to go to Eurove on Satar- | day. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION. By Mr. Fallerton—Wnere as Mrs. Tilton made | her bome tor the iast two months ¥ Witness-—At my bouse since the early part of July; she was in the habit o1 goiag out of town in the summer mouths; she wus absent during the | suaimer about jour or ive weeks: 1 was in the city wt thas time ; she Visited stundeid, Coun., and spent wu short time at Wasuington, Conn., in company with mp wiie, at the house of Mr. Gun; it was & bourding schvol ana Called the Gunuery—(laugn- ter); during the remaining period, except a iew Short occasional visits, she Was at my house. ‘A number of questions were here asked by coun- sel as to the nuaber of times MRS. TILION LEFT THE CITY, and a3 to who accompanied her, Witness continued—I did not know when Air. ‘Tracy catled at my house. of the appointment of a comuilitee by the caurcn; I le@rned of the ap- pao from my wWiie that same evening; I now the time when Mr. Tracy came into my house; the house is small, and wheo the bell rings you Can just bear what is going on down in the nall, and I generally ascervaiu who rip; the beil, andin that way iound Mr. Tracy was in tue house, Counsel repeated the question in different forms @ score of times as to how tbe witness knew Tracy Was in the house, but the oue answer was sub- stantially given. Mr. Tracy was to we a compara- tive stranger; did not know he was coming; my wile Was in my room when Mr. Tracy entered; he remained five or ten minutes; I think Mrs. Tiltou Was up stairs: I next saw ber at the interview with Mr. Morse, her father. TRACY AGAIN. lsaw Mr. Tracy again in the parlor down stairs; in the meantime Mra, Tilton had gone out to see her lather, to consait with himiu regard to the step she proposed taking, to consult some of the meters o1 the church, the vrethren of the church as She terined them; the Tilton-isacon letter nad been puolisied, aud she had determined to take some step in the matter. Counsei—Now, Mr. Ovington, perhaps you will expiaiu ove thing. Mrs. Tilton leit before General ‘Tracy leit. How were you abie to state a moment ago that Mrs. fiiton was up stairs woen Mr, Tracy leit? Witness—Yes, I think I was mistaken there— (sensation)—I think 1¢ must have been earlier in the alvernoom that she came, eariier than six o'clock. Counsel—Now, Mr. Uvington, when did Mrs. Til- ton go up stairs, before or alver Mr, Tracy came ’ A. Beiore. Q And you say she left it before youdid? A. Yes, sir; she said she had to go and prepare sup- per lor her boarders. Q. And when did she say that? A. I don’t think She said that. (Sensation.) p Mr. Fullerton—Au! there you are again mis- aken. Witness—I suppose she must have been at home wheo Mr. ‘Ir it the house; she Mixht have goue belore Mr, Tracy came ; 1 should like to put the mat- ter straight if Leould; Mrs. Tilton came in that alternoon; my wife Was not at auvme; sie said she would like to be alone jor a snort time, and SHE ASKED FOR A BIBLE and leit the room, and { suppose weat up stairs; I then recolect that Mr. Tracy came toward even- ing, and ufter stopping a few moments went out, as I beiteved, iT, Beecher, and in a few minutes ; toen I think Mrs, Tilton came tn wit Judge Morse and bad that interview in the back parlor; Mr. Tracy and Mrs. Tilton were av- sent irom my bouse at the same time; | donot know whether they met outside; 1 think Mr. ‘Tracy said he was going tu see Mr. Beecher; when Mr. Tracy returned I think he went up stairs; my wie was wito Him; | was also present; 1 think we met up wtalrs; ido not think 1¢ wos in the parlor; the mterview may bave lasted ten minutes or talf an hour; 1 do not rememver whetuer Mr. Tracy went away aiter the second interview or remained; when Judge Morse came we were in the parlor; General Tracy was there also; it was nearly eight o'clock P. M. when Judge Morse came; 1 cannot tell how jong alter the second interview; | think Mrs. Tilton went for ber father and arrived witn him; 1 do not think sae came before her iather; when they arrived | wasin the parlor with Geo- eral Tracy aud my wile; I think I saw General they remained im the parior 4@ snort time; Mr. Tracy went out and returned with the committee; it was then about nine ?. M.; 1 knew the committee were coming; when General Iracy came im he asked (or Mrs. Tilton ana Mrs, Ovington, anu I told nim they bad gone down stairs to the Supper table; that was in the basement; my Wile took Mrs. Tilton down to give her acup oftesa; Mr. Tracy was a compara- tive stranger in my house; he never had been there beiore; Mr. Tracy went down to fetch the judiew; 1 don’t know Why be went down; I was entertaining THE COMMITTEE I could have gone ior the jadie: Mr, Tracy was not more thau two minutes down stairs; I um sure of that; Mrs. Tiltom gave her statement that night in the presence of Mr. Saue, Mr. White, Mr. aud wil the committee, Mr. Wins. General Tracy, my wife aud sell; -[ think tae Committee sat au hour; Mr. Storrs was also present; Mrs. Tilton became @® permanent resident of my house about two uays alterward; I do not remember t y Of (he WOuth; I tuink It Was the 11th of Juiy; Ido not recollect (he date of the day of the meeting; I did Bot Kaow Mra, Tilion was coming to stop with me Until $oe came; it Was quire a surprise to ns when sie came; | had ny inuimation of her com- jag to reside with us; We div HOt know she Was coming to us at all; 1 do not recollect wuen tue Appolutment of the commitice was frst pup- lished; 1 cannot rememoor tue date; while Mrs, ‘Viton Was residing with us General Tracy called to see ber; Le vas made @ dozen or fifteen calls, hearly ali im the evening; they were usually alone; the interviews varied in length, some Were short some Were long; sume of them proowbiy \asted an hour; Mr. Siegrman has Giso Called Of several Occasiuns to vee Mrs. Tiltun; bis interviews Were avout the same length and aloue; Mr. Hill bas called Gn Mrs, Turon, out not very trequently; 1am not at home in the daytime, sofdo not Khow Wwoat Calis are made im my ab: sence; I think Mr. Evarts and Judge Porter aiso called; 1 only heard so, I do not kuow it; Mr. Beecher called ou one occasion; [ think it Was 4 diy or two after he appeared belore the Committee; it migit have been five days; | was not at home when he calied; 1 do not know of Ws making apy other cali; Ldo not Knowon what day oO toe week he Called; | tancy ‘he cail was made rT Mra. Tilton been before tae com- am Willig to swear rat he did not cau mitte | beiore that interview ; two oi Mra. Tilton’s children, ALICE AND CARROLL, ote since she to our novse ; tney eleven o'clock, and Edward J. Ovington was called | | people and could | Beecher to shake hands and jest with Ovington | | Ovington, a thick set, stout person, with dark | color during the progress of the case. | had been particulariy noticed all day by specta- | if any exists, 18 of the highest significance. | behind the foreman, snaps his large biack eyes at | next nim, and who watches Closely and expresses tember an! have been there ever since; Ralph has been WILD his mother With Us ever since; | do not has been; she has not been she Is aboul seventeen years of age; | she has called on her moctber about once a tort- | night ap to last three weeks; [do not re leet retusing to tell her Where her mother was do not remember any such circumstance; 1am quite sure | made no such relusal; | do not recol- ject her calling when her mother was absen don't recollect’ apologizing to her jor not telling ber; I rememver Florence sending | & messenger to me requesting me to say | Where her mother was; | think IT sent her a note by This messenger, advising her now to go to her mother at presemt; I believe her motuer was then at Fairfield or in that other viace, the name of whien I cannot recollect; my reasons lor giving that advice to the child was because her moter Was anxious that her whereabouts shoud not te known, as she Wished for quiet; L did not core whether the child saw her or not; | only knew her motber’s feelings; I did not tell her in the noce where her mother was; | should recog: | Dize that note ti | saw it; I have been | | | A MEMBER OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH for the past ten years; | have held office since the first of January; | was then elected a deacon; my wile 18 @ Inember of the church; we are botu rez- ular attendants and communicants; we have been communican's ten or eleven years; I recollect having an interview with alr. Tilton on the first Sanday after tre publication of the Bacon letter; that interview Was held in the street in front of his house; it lasted about ten minutes; | stopped my carriage ana Mr. Tilton came down the sveps of his house to meer me; the meeting was nos purely accidentai; we were In the trabit of driving ont on pleasant Sundays, and as my wile wanted to call on Mrs. fliton We stop and as my wie ‘was In the house talking to Mrs, Tiiton Mr. ‘Vilton came out and talked to me; my meeting with ‘Ti ton was accloental; we talked avout the Bacon jetter; Mr, Tiitoa complamed ag to the way he bad been treated by Plymouth church; he said he had been badly treated by Mr. Beecher and the church; | think he saia he had been called a dog and # fool, and made to appear in @ false light; be said he had been shown up as a kuave, and that Mr, Beecher was responsid® tor it; | think he said Mr, Beecher fad control over his prevented it if he bad chosen; 1 do not remember his saying that be would protect himselland teil the whole trutl he may have said, “If 1 do so it will slay Mr, Beecher; he suid he would publish the truth if | Mr, Beecner did not do his auty and stop Plymouth | church (rom throwing mud at him; he said he would publish the remuinder of the jetter obtained | through Mouiton, January 2, 1871; he said such | puclieation would sliy Mr. Beecher, Alter Mr, Fullerton pleasantly remarked, ‘That wives me an appetite for my dinner,” the Court took their usual recess. AT RECESS, ‘The sun shone bright on the slush at recess, and there was a large gathering of people around Mr. and the lawyers. Mr. Beach almost invariably talks to Mr. Beecher a minute or two at the recess and Fullerton and Evarts exchange jests. Mrs. eyes and small features in a round head, rallied | her husband slightly. Mrs, Beecher put on her black shawl, figured red, and took her husband’s arm uneasily. She appears to have lost flesh and THE JURY tors, as at the present state of the trial tueir bias, The smail-eyed, bird-featured, Ben-Butler-like foreman (he looks like & penitent and converted Butier), as usual, was cocked back in his chair with the deepest interest, bis head flying irom the examining lawyer to the witness! 1ace, putting in every second of time most righteously to the evidence, as if he might at any moment see some- thing important. Tne handsome young feilow, Jeffers, who sits born witness and lawyer, and appears to have doubts about all of them. He gets lus knee on the back of the char before him, lays tis hand and seal ring on his knee, chews away at something (perhaps “‘solace’’), bites his finger naiis and snaps his eyes | allat the same time. The Sphinx bas a candid | countenance compared to the unsatisfactory study of this otuerwise agreeable iace, It haa ouce or | twice smiled at Fullerton’s Irish twinkle of huimor, but “eyes right’ is the order ina minute, and then | he looks iminediately at the witness as if to say, “You're a scouudrel,’’ and at the lawyer as if say- ing, “You don’t biarney me.’’ Beside Jeffers sits the middle-aged, trarquil, uninspired Mr. Taylor. He appears to be planged into a series of deep reflections on the itfe and sufferings ot Richard Baxte:. He is never quite asleep, but he never smiles. He is said by tnose | who have made his acquaintance to be @ sensible, considering, conscientious person. Christopher Fitter, big and Jond of his forty winks, talks occasionally to Edward Whelan who 1s his emotions with some transparency, but he does not appear to think much oF either side. Fitter | seems to like to bear all the amiable and humor- ous testimony, and to be of the opinion that this trial ls a very ary performance. AFTER RECRSS. After recess, at a quarter past two o’clock, Mr. Ovington was further cross-examined by Mr. Fullerton. ‘Ihe witness said:—L do not remember that Mr. Tilton said he coarged Beecher with the whole truth; Tilton said that if he published. the Bacon letter Mr. Beecher would have | to leave Brooklyn; Mr. Tilton said tuat | Mr. Beecher should do him justice. | Q, Did Mr. Tiltgn say he was ylad that his wile | had vindicated herself beture the committee? A. 1 do hot remember that; the second interview, of Which I have spoken, took piace a iew days after tie first one; it took place at Tilton’s house; I Went there irom curiosity; my Wile Was bot there witi me; I went there to see Mrs. Tilton; Luad jusi retujned from Europe, and I went there to see her; lL went there on business and out of curiosity to see Mr. and Mrs, lilton; | went there | acter the publication of the Bacon ietter; | went there to sce how Mrs. Tilton teii in regard to the Bacon let er; [tniuk my wie told me that Mr. ‘Tilton asked that I shouta go to his house; 1 think 1 Went to the house On ousiness, out of Curiosity and because Mr, liltoa sent ior me. Q. Are you quite sure you went there at all? A, i bad &@ conversation Wito Mrs. Tilton; 1 made | some remarks to Mrs, Tilton about the Bacon let. | ter; Tilton said if he went for Beecher ne would | slay bim. | q. Do you remember that you took Mra, Tilton — oui riding the day before sie Wens to your house? | A, 1 reuiember tuat I aid noc; | did not take her out ridjng three days before she went belore the committee; three days beiore she came to my house permauently my wife took Mrs, Tilton Out. riding to Coney Isiand; [do not know that she was oUt most of the dsy; 1 had no iutimation that she was coming to the house to stay until soe came; | heara iy wie invite her; 1 do not think thac I invited ner; what 1 knew o: Mrs. Tuton coming to my house I heard from my wile; the first 1 heard of her coming was two or three uays beiore she did come; from what my wife told me 1 came to the conclusion that | possioly Mrs. Tiiton might come; I think once before that she was at my vouse; then I toink my wile called upon her to bring her there previous to ber coming to stay; I do not, of my own knowl- edge, know where my wile jound her to oring her | to our house; I think | bad been but once at Mr. | ‘Tilton’s Louse velore the pubiication of the Bacon letter; 1. Was an unusual thing for me to go to Mr. ‘Hilton's nouse. Q. | Want to ase you Mf some person other than your wife did not. Speak to you about Mrs, Tilton coming to your house before she did come? A. No, sir; | recoliect tae morning she came to our house; 1 do not recoliect tuat Mr. Tilton the morn- ing he came tnere after Mrs. Tilton came read to me irom @ newspaper the appointment of the church committee; Mr. Tuton went before the committee that nignt, PLORENCK'S LETTER. Having recollecteu nothing im particular for some time aiter dinner, Mr. Ovington's recollec- tion was reireshed by a letter he had written to | Piorence Tilton, and by its production it is a new document in the case, This letter did pave the effect to entrap him into the admission that he had endeavored to keep Mrs, Tilton irom ber bus band, and had said to some person ur persons that if she saw Itlton he would tempt her to return to him. Letter produced—This is tne letter I wrote to Florence tiiton, Q Do you know if Mrs. Tiiton'’s whereabouts was kept from Florence? A. I do not know. q State by tae advice of what friends her whereavouts was to be kept secret ? A. By mysel! q Vid you hot say \owome person Liat it M Tilton saw her husvand she Would go back to liv with tim? A, | may or may oot have ja #0; 1 did uot bear a Word of what her evidence Was to be belore #ue Went veore the commitice. Q. Way did you say that ber friends advi her whereabouts suouid be kept secret if it Was Dot true? Mr, Evarte—Give him the levter, aod let him see it he 80 Wrote. | A. My Wile may have so advised; | do not re- | memver What my leelings Were; it Was HOt alse, but it Was oot true; | and my wife advised it, Q. Do you Know where Teresa Burae ist A. Sue 1s living at sore liguthouse; I do not know that | during the last three onthe she was at the Pierre- pout House: | do not know if she goes by tne | bame of Teresa burke now; I am soun going to | Europe alone; i believe Mra, Tilton ts going to | stay With my lamily during my absence, | TERESA BURKE. | The mention of the name of Teresa Burke brought the audience up to @ moment of in- tensity, This isthe woman relied upon to prove | Mr, Boeoher's familiar relations with Mra, futon | | questioned her. | ton’s gotug away out o! the city; | think | Tilton there? | third time or not, but [ ¢oink I did no: NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. at Theodore Tilton’s house, where she was a do- | did you try the door of the room before knock- mestic. Kate Carey had reierred to herinevi- | tug? A. I did not try the door beiore | knocke cence, One of the Junior lawyers Jor the platntur | | Know it was shut; | heard a noise within when I found this woman about ten days ago and paruy He then served asubpa@na upon . The woman has since disappeared and public rumor and newspaper insinuation have it that sie has veen taken to New Jersey, out of the reach of asubpana. Mr. Peckham, the lawyer in question, is under- stood to say that Teresa made some admissions to | him, but was already under disciplines Q Has any arrangement been mage with you about Mrs, Tilton’s support’ A. 1 do not mean to support her without some assistance irom some of my iriends in Plymouta churen; that expecta- tion 14 1ounded on something that has been said; 1 have not received auything jor Mré. ‘Tilton’s support; have received money from Augustus Storrs, in checks, $875, Jor tne schooling of Mrs, ‘Tilton’s children; | put the money io bank to tny own credit, and paid it, some for the private matters of Mrs. Tilton, $100 or $200, and other money for the culidren; I patd money to Balawin and Price, $26 or $30, Q. L want you to name every person to whom you ree a dollar of that money besiues Mrs. Tilion? have ao account and Will produce 1t to-morro: the children are at school at Washington, Coon. ; I can tell you the amount to-morrow; I have neither asked nor suggested money trom other persons for this family, and | have not complained about having the support o1 this family leit on me. Q. Did you ever see Mrs. Tilton alone in the street siuce she came to your house? A, No; I never saw her leave my house alone. FULLERTON DROPS OVINGTON. Just at three o’clock, after Fullerton had accu- mulated leading questions upon Uvington until he haa extracted the important fact that $875 had already been put in his hands by Augustus Storrs, at whose house the Church Committee met, he himself signing the report exonerating Mr. Beecher. This money was to be used lor the cnil- dren ostensibly, but Tilton himself had paid the school bills, and Mis. Tiluon had obtained some of this money herseir. The general effect of the testimony of Ovington was regarded as less advantageous to the side which cited him than to the plaintiff, This was, | to a very great degree, owing to Judge Fullerton’s unequalie! cross-examining acumen and to the points in his possession derived from Tilton and Judge Morris, both of whom, with Pryor, prompted | | Jrequently, Mr. Hill seemed destrous to make a few points on the re-direct and let Mr. Ovington drop, as nis good natured, rutber obtuse metnod had been of | less advantage to the deience than it might nave been with @ more magnetic relation between counsel and man. Re-direct, by Mr. Hili—I cannot fix the day of the week when Mrs, Tiltom went beiore the com- mittee; 1 think she came to my house on Satur- | day to stay permanently; | do vot Know of any- | ting toat occurred in my presence that Mrs. Tiltou was to come to my house; | returned trom Europe on tne 23d vi June, 1874; I had been tour months agent; have been asked as to Mrs, ‘Tul. e went away in August; [ think there were a great many persous at that time anxious to have interviews with her, Q. Can you state the reason why she went away? Ovjected to. Mr. Evarts—She went away to avoid the perse- cutions 01 newspaper publicity. ‘The Judge would not allow the question, Q. Do you know whether Fiorence visited her mother at Wasniogton, Conn.’ A. I donot gave Miss Florence the direction where her mother Was, and she started to see her mother. Miss Florence went with her mother to Washington, Conn. Re-cross—No effcr: was made at my house to prevent Miss Florence seeng her mother. Q. Did you give her a direction that was the wrong one? A, Yes, but I was not aware that she had changed her address. Q, 50 Miss Florence had that journey for noth. ing’ A. Yea, sir. My wile kept me apprised of where Mra. Tilton was, THE SECOND: WITNESS. Mr. Rufus E. Holmes, banker at Winsted, Conn., where Tilton had lectured in December, 1869, took the stand at a quarter past three. Tilton began reading newspapers in a rather flurried way when the witness appeared. He was not at ease and did not look at the witness, Holmes was @ stolid-looking New England man, witn coarse hair and reddish beard all over nis mouth and chin, He told @ straight, story and parts of 1t raised roars of laughter, as where he spoke of Mr, Tilton’s companion on that occasion as being a woman twenty-seven years old, and she said she had been reading ‘Paradise Lost” to Tilton, both being in aéshabillé, Judge | Fullerton and Mr. Beach objected to this testi- mony, but the Judge admitted it a8 not collateral. TESTIMONY OF RUFUS E, HOLMES. Rufas E. Holmes, being calied and sworn, testi- fied:—I resiae in Winsted, Connecticut, aud am a | banker by business; | have resiaed there petween | twenty-four and twenty-five years; 1 am vice president of a bank, with which 1 have been con- nected for avout twenty years. Q. Are you connected with the Young Men’s | Christian Association of Winsted? A. I was con- pected with the association during the lecturing season of 1869 and 1870, q bid you know Mr. Tilton in December, 1869, when he visited Winsted on his lecturing tour? | A. Yes, sir; i was president of the Young Men’s Christian Association at the time and met Mr. Tilton at the depot when he arrived. Q. Vid you escort nim to the hotel when he came? A. I did, Q. Was there any one with him when he came? A. There was a lacy with him. Q. And what kind of a person was she? A, There was a lady with him; she was, I shouid judge, abour twenty-seven or twenty-eight years of age; sbe wus nota girl; soe was aiull growo woman, (Sensation). . Now, What did you do in introducing Mr. A. 1 acco.npanied him to tne Gilsey House. Objected to and objection overruled. Q. Were you present when Mr. Tilton registered his name atthe notely A, I was hot in company with lim when he registered; | was standing near the door in the hall of the hotel ut the time. Mr. Fullercoa arose, and, adiressing the Court, Suid iL Was not proper to go into a side issue such aa this, asit was not material to the case and would bave the effect of prolonging the trial, which was long enough witovut it. Mr. Evaris said it does not appear what they (the defence) were going to prove thus far, and the objection was not in order. Mr. Fulierton sald the issue was Immaterial ana ‘collateral. jober-sided | | returned to Knock again, Q. How tar had you gone from the door before you did hear the noise within’ A, 1 had gone ) When ! heard tne noise; it Was a sort ofa rustic, a moving; Lcouldn’t te l what sort of @ boise It Was; 1 would have gone away at that Uine HT had not heard that noise; after bearing the noise I stopped and the door was opened voluntarily, aud tots lady came to the door; [said to her Mr, Tiltou requested me to cali and accor pany bim to see the church, aud that he expec me to call; Lsaid to bim when he made this appi- cution to me, and I did go to the hotel in compliance with that in the monta of December, Q. What did you say when the lady said Mr. ‘Tuton was asicep. and Mr, Tilton said “hold on,’ prevented me irom going, and invited me into the room. Q. Where was this bed situared in the room; Was it in view of the door when opened? A, It was at the back of the door; | could not gee the bed when he s8,oke or wien she spoke: Icould not see the bed unless she threw the door wide open. then? A, He was lying still on the bea, Q. Was there any etfort at conceaiment on ms part alter the door was opened, A. There was no effort ay concealment. | _Q. How Jid the door open, wide? A, At first it opened narrowly, q. Do you Know that she was concealing any- thing When she came to tne door?’ A, Ldo not; when | Went in Tilton dressed and went out with be said to Me that she had been reading him ween readyne to bim was “Paradise Lost.’ Don't youwthing toat would put soy man to sleepy (Laugnter,) A. seated iu the room ail the time while he was get- ting up; | can’t say as to her appearance: I did not take particular notice of t Q. Were the members of the Christian Associa. yon present at the lecuire of Mr. Tilton that night? A, They were, sir; | introduced Mr, Tii- ton to my wile. to my wife's sister and to my Wule’s mother and aiso to one or two other per- sons; [ have been trequentiy in Brookiyn belore now; 1 Was first informed to come here on ‘Thurs- day last by the attorney im the case, Mr. Hill. Redirect by Mr. Hili—Mr. Holmes, plea-e state to the Court and the jury whether that transac. uon at Winsied which you have related created a | scandal or notY Judge Neilson said that question had been ruled | ont, | Mr. Evarts contended that it should be ad- mitted as tne occurrence was pertinent to the case, ior it bad led to the discharge of Tilton by Mr. Bowen. Judge Neison—I think not sir. And the counsel noted exception, The nead of the iury, Carpenter, put a question | tothe witness as he left the box, showing the working of his mind. “Was there a fire in that room?” he asked. “There wus,’’ replied the witness, This was Tilton’s evidence as a witness, that " communicated; that it was December, and the lady (& Miss Lovejoy) entered nis room to keep warm. Foreman Carpenter’s question showed that he had recurred to this story. MARIA N, OVINGTON. main part of the day, was a fat lady, wearing a great sealskin robe, a black velvet hat and plato dress. She had a somewhat dropsical look, and spoke with difMiculty ana @ rather embarrassed manner, She met the Tiltons at their tin wedding, The Judge said taatehe might have a chair on the floor if she wished without climbing to the wit- ness platform, ‘ Mr. Evarts, who kept still almost all day, seemed disposed to imitate Judge Fullerton, who occa- | sionally raps his associate, Morris, Mr. Evarcs ‘Was once as brusque with Mr. Hill. The diMeculty of getting tegtimony from Mrs. Ovingtoo was her health and temperament. She ia that Mra, Tilton was ‘‘a beautiful Cnristian,”” and this called up Mr. Beach to strike it out as mere generality, Mr. Beacn, however, is gen- | erally courteous to lady witnesses. Mis. Ovipgton had but a few minutes to give evidence before tne time of adjournment. Mr. Beecher was out of Court almost all the afternoon, | leaving his wife there with ner son. MRS. OVINGTON'S TESTIMONY, ides lady being sworn, was examined by>Mr. all. a. Are you the wile of the witness Edward J. Ovington? A. Yes, sir. Q. Where do you reside? A, At No. 148 Hicks street; I have resided re for avout nine years. Q. How long have y wo the parties to this suit? A. I pave known the Tiltons ever since their un wedding, tn 1865; 1 have known Mr, Beecher | since about that time, | Q. Please state how intimate your acquaintance | has been with the family of Mr. Tilton? A, T was not intimately acquainted until about the fall or 1867; Mrs. Tilton caiicd upon me then as a member of the church, ana offered her services to me in any wuy that she could be of service to me; trom | that time [ have Known her intimately; at the | time of my husbana’s illness sue called on me | almost daily. - ‘Toe witness was inaudibie to the counsel and jury in giving portions of her testimony and tne Court ordered the stenograpaer to read the an- | ‘Tnis was done for a d alaugh by The stenographer is worse thau the Witness raised her voice a | swers as they were given. few minutes, woen Mr, Evarts causi the remark “1' lady, We can’t hear.’ littie thencetorth, Witness—My tusband was ill until the fall of 1868; she took care oi my child, Who was also sick ; nly residence then wae at No. 125 Livingston street; Mrs. Tiiton resided at No, 130; these were the oid | numbers, since changed. Q. Do you remember the publication of the Woodnull scandal in 1872, A. Ido; I offered her my sympathies and assixtance at tnat time: in times of aiMiction we have been tomed to offer our services '9 one another. | Q. What were Mrs. Tiiton’s manners and habits | in ber own home as to religious customs and | habits of lite? | Objected to and admitted, Withess—Ste was a very affectionate mother and a loving Wile; she was.very religious; I thought her a beautiful example of a Christian | woman; I tirst observed that phase in her charac- ter in 1567-68, Q. What were the nature of her visits to you? | A. They were of a religious character. | Objected to as immaterial and excluded, after some argument, in which Messrs. Beach and | Shearman took part. | . Witness—Mrs. ‘Tilton was, ] should judge, en- | gaged in works of benevolence (objected to, but allowed) ; sne gave all the time that she could to | Judge Neilson said that anything tending to these works. show the bad character or conduct of the platntitt .Q. Do you recollect your trip to Havana? A. 1n this case is not coliatera! and ne would there- Yes, sit, in 1872; 1 returned in September, 1873. fore allow tue evidence. Anything affecting the conduct and morals of tuis pluintif’ cannot be re- garded as collateral, Q. State what you saw when you called at the hotel that afternoon to see Mr. Tilton ? PARADISE LOST AT WINSTED. Witness—I called on Mr. ‘Illton in the afternoon and I went to the door of fis room in tne hotei; the door was closed and I knocked on it and there was no repiy; | knocked again and there was no reply; | don’t know whether | knocked again the turned to go away when | heard a noise of some Kind tn- | side and [ knocked again and the door opened; a lady appeared at it. Q. Was it tue sume lady you saw with Mr. Tilton at te depot? A. lt was the game lady I saw with him at the depot; | said to her Mr. Tilton said be would like to visit the churcn where he is going to speak tols evening, abd she said he was lying down on the bed; I Said weil, I will come avain; Mr, ‘Iilton beard me, and sala “Hold on air, Holmes, and | will go with you now,” aud with that tne lady opened tue door wide, so that I could see into the room; Mr. Tilton was in bed at the time; all the bed clothes were turned down on the toot of tne | bed, ail but the under sacer, Q. How was Tilton as to dress at the time? A. Re had notuing on but Dis shirts, pants and stock- Ings, that Was visible. ). “How was the lady as to appearance? A. Her hair had the appearance of being disheveled; I | did pot remark her dress, Q Did Mr. Tilton say anything to you when you | entered in regard to nis veing in bea? A. He said the lady had been reading him \o sleep, that had veen reading to him from “Paradise Lost;" Mr, {ton got up and dressed himsell and then accompanied me to the church, which was across the road irom the botel: from there we went (oa Jurniture store kept by Mr. Forves, I introduced him to Mr. Forbes, with wnom L left tim, Q, Now. Mr. Hoimes, was there anything of the appearance ora litue girl, or of tne appearance ofa scloul girl about her presence’ A. Nothing at Gil; nothing at wll; she was a sull grown woman, FULLERTON ATTACKS HOLMES, Frank Moulton, sitting close to Mrs, Uvington and Mrs, Tilton’s bodyguard, listened to tbe fore- going testimony with deep interest, and Tilton himsell was sensibly discommoded. But ina few minutes Judge Fullerton showed his keen forte again, ond by wiew strokes appeared to put a diferent construction upon Hoimes’ testimony. He ts by ali odds the best cross-examiner ig this case, and can get testimony out of stone. The evidence beluw shows how, in a lew sentences, Fullerton got the court room inaroar and the jury equally good natured, and made the witness quality his Own testimony to favor Fallerton’s client, ° examined by Mr, Fuilerton—Mr. Holmes, y ident of the Young Meo’s Curistlan Associat.on of Winsted at the time o: woica you ry ‘ ir; i Wad @isu Premoent ior two years beiore that Uwe Q For how lug alter this occasion did yor ain thatpowtion? A, i retemed it jor one J "es Fo with dark blue ‘When you caued on Mr, Tilton at the hotel Q. How olten were you absent trom the city after your returny A, I was not aosent till August last; | went to Havana for my health. Q. Do you remember reading the Bacon letter? A. My Husband read it to me one Friday. Q. What did youd»? A. [rose from the lounge on which I was reclining and said. ‘| must go at once to Mrs, Tilton’s;” | was uot well enough to go then, but my husvand took me ‘the next day, Saturday. Q. Who did you see there? A. Carroll opened the hall door and invited me into the parlor, and in aiew minutes Mrs, Tilton came down stairs, looking— Here objection was made by plaintiffs counsel to the witness giving tie particular appearance of Mrs, Tilton, as What passed was uot presumptively material. Mr. Evarce satd that what is said pre- sumptively 18 not evidence, but what erson sees is evidence. Mr. Hill said he proposea to show that she was in iil health at the time, and the Court thought the question proper. Mr. Beach—It is not merely bad healtn, but de- spondency, and bad heaith they seek to snow. . Evarts—Our question is “State what you no- ticed in Mrs. Tilton’s appearance?’ Witness—she iaoked very feeble; Mrs. Tilton and myself were the only persons present on this oe asioo. Mr. Ttiton had stepped out while | was Q. Was the subject of this conversation between you and Mrs. Tilton the suoject of a conversation | between you and Mr, Tilton aiterward? Ovjected to by Mr, Beach as a leadiug question, ‘The Gourt ruled that that question was not ad+ Missiole at this point, Q. Did you speak to Mr, Tilton concerning this | conversation afterwara? \ ‘The Court—That question {s ruled out, with per- mission to introduce it at another point. Juuge Neilson was in favor of continuing the examination Of toils witness; but, it being five minati counse: urgin; their wish, aud toe Court was adjourned tiileleven this A. ML THE MACKENZIE DIVORCE SUIT. THE CASE GIVEN TO THE JURY—A SEALED VER- DICT TO BE RENDERED TO-Day. Before Judge McCue. In the corridor, on the second story of the Kings | County Court House, as early as hali-pasy nine o'clock several hundred men and boys were assem- bled, and Patroimen McMahon, Hamilton ana their associates were kept busy in regulating the throng and keeping them in live, There was a double at- traction In the atmosphere of the corridor, and the impatience to gain admission into either Part 1 or Part 2 of the City Court was apparent | upon the eager countenances of the morbid mob, The doors of the former court room were opened at ten ofclock, and a& grand rush made for eiigible positions, Shortly after a iledy of medium height, rather stout, | eyes and comely feature: | avtived ia black six, with ve “L will go in the course of ap hour,” | agreement; ts was in the Wintcr season; tt was | Said “1 will come ugain,” | Q. Mr. Tilton was not In the act of getting up | Pp; L think he said the book irom which she | 1 gon’t Know; he was | notin a hurry in getting up; the lady remained | the lady had no fire in her room; that the rooms | Mrs. Ovington, wie of the florid witness of the } and had been very intimate since with Mrs. Tilton, | mutually accus- | alter four o'clock, and a majority of tne | an adjournment, he acceded to | tered with her counsel, General 8, I, Catlin, amd took a seat by the side of her legal adviser. The | lady is the defendant, Mrs, Sarah Mackensie, | against whom her husband, a retired tea merchant of New York, brought sult for absolute divorce, on the ground ot adultery with several men, at his residence, in State street, Brooklyn, in 1874, ‘The pltoti is a man avout thirty-live years of age, and sat during the trial within a few leet of his wile, The social standing oi the de- Jendant attracted several af her 1emale acquaint: ances to the coum, ; _ Judge McCue presided, ‘Tue first witness called was Kate Harney, a aomestic, who testitied as to severa! gentiemen named in the complaint bav- lng called at the house, No. 472 State street, and also that her mistress received them in the parlor, but she Knew 0/ notching criminal against the de- Jendant. Katie Fitzpatrick, who Was ten montit in the employ of the family in State street, leaving there la Feoruary of last year, testified that she had Ireqnently Opened the door tor Mr. Rankin, Mr. Corbett and other gentlemen, who always called whe Mr. Mackenzie was absent and who lnquired jor Mrs, Mackenzie; on one occasion whie the witness was making @ fire in the stove in a room over the parlor she heard a noise whici sounded like @ kis8; the deienaant and a gentie- man Were in the parlor at the tune, General Catlin then opened the ease lor the de- fence, arguing the improodavility o1 a true wie a devoted motner o! five children savmitting | herself to promiscuous Intimacy ol a criminal nae ture With every man woo visited ut her house, | He dwelt upon the respectability of the position of the defendant, and, speaking of her mar. tage, | said that the wedding Was attended by every per- | son of distinction on the Heights. The counsel Jelt almost inclined vo let the case go delore tae | mtelligent gentlemen of the jury without taking | Up the time of the Court by introducing witnesses to prove this case is, the language of the streets, nothing more nor less than ‘a put up | Joo.” He would, however, caiia few witnesses, | und then consign the good name and character of this true wie and viriuous matron to the honors able verdict of an American jury, witnout any ; doubt as to her vindication tuil and complete, Mrs. Kilzaveth Waters, an eide:ly lady, was them | called to the witness stand and testified to an ine | tinrate acquaintance with the defendant and her | Jamily, and she never saw anything of an ime. | proper character in any reiation of ii'e on the part of Mrs, Mackenzie. A large number of witnesses, including the gentlemen with whom the wife was accused of being on improper terms, testified as to tile falsity Of the accusation, and the case was given to the jury at five o'clock last evening, with instructions to render a seamed verdict to the Court in the mornin SHARKEY INIERVIEWED. THE ESCAPED MURDERER EXPLAINS HI3 CASE 10 A HERALD CORRESPONDENT—HE DENIES MAGGIE JORDAN'S STORY—PLENTY OF AMERI- CAN FRIENDS, BUT AFRAID OF THE PRESI- DENT. : Havana, Feb, 25, 1875. William J, Sharkey is at present in the jail of Havana incomunicado. HE STATES HIS CASE TO THE HERALD. | Acorrespondent of the HERALD obtained per | mission yesterday to see him, but he was very reticent inregard to how he hadspent his time since his escape trom the Tombs. He denies the charges of having treated Maggte Jordan brutally, | as published in some of the New York papers. In conversation with him as to Row ne vad pro- | oured the means of living since his ape irom | New York Sharkey remarked that he nad plenty ! oanencs in New York wuo would yet stand by | him. AFRAID OF GRANT. | He is very uneasy, however, asa report Is in | circulation that President Grant nus asked for his extradition, and that the autnorities of Havana have signified their willmgness to give him up should he be gent for. THE POLICE DON’T LIKE HIM. Upon inquiry at Police Headquarters nothing | could be learned further than vbat he would be tried for carrying concealed weapons and having threatened the lives of Captain Curtis and Purser Girard, of the steamer Crescent City. The Spanish authorities consider him a dane erous character, and if there is no request mada jor bis extradition he will be compelied to leave the island, Parties here who had been iriendiy to him previous to his arrest nave haa nothing to | do with him since the departure of Maggie Jorda..- TELEGRAPH CONNECTION BY ‘OABLE, THE UNITED STATES NAVAL SURVEY IN THH WEST INDIA WATERS. Havana, Feb. 26, 1876. The United States steamer Fortune, Com mander Green, 1s now at Santiago de Cuba, nav« ing arrived on the 16cn, under instructfons of the Navy Department, to make observations with the view of ascertaining the exact geographical porter of ali places in the West Indies connected y the submarine cable. ‘The Spanish goveroment has offered, and Is giv- | ing Commander Green ev lacility and co« | operation in carrying out the scientitilc Work ins trusted to him, BILLIARDS. | seis | THE EXHIBITION GAMES IN AID OF THE CUBAN | AU! The exhibition games of billiards for the benefit | of the Cuban patriots were played last night in Tammany Hall. The attendance was not very large, bul as @ number of tickets were sold pri- vately that Were not made use of, the pecuniary result was satisiactory, The evening’s entertain: | Ment commenced with a three-ball game, 10¢ points, played on a Griffith tab.e, fittea witn the Deianey wire cushions, between Maurice Vignaux aud Ruaolphe, Tne tormer won the lead and opened witn a briiliant run of 85. After trou | Radoiphe 11 were scored by Vignaux and then | Kudaolphe roiled up 55. Vignaux tailed to score, and Rudoipie counted 7, alter which Vignaux ran 4, and won the game With an average o1 25. Garnier and Cyrille Dion then, started to play 100 oints, and aiter a couple oO! uninteresting Innings Garnier ran 11 and Cyrille Dion followed with 45. | On the flith inning Garnier counted 37 and Dion | added 44 to his string, leaving him only 2 to go. | fhe balls were kept together, and a littie skiliul manipulation on the part or Garnier rolled up 46, and gave tim game with an average of 16 2-3. | Tne third game was between Ubassy and Joe | Dion, The former broke the balls and counted 7, | Alter a miss from Diou and | from Ubassy, Joe wot the bulls running his way and scored 52, Noting very skiliul was displayed by either player bus Dion finally won in eleven innings, with an aver- age of 9. Ubassy only made 19 potuts, | “Rudolphe then gave an exhibition of fancy shots. His tricks with the fingers were clever, 908 he did nothing remarkable with tne cue, Ubussy and Garnier also gave examples of fancy shotw | that were really very interesting. |THE LAW OF MASQUERADE BALLS. | A committee from the Cosmopolitan Culinary | Association, who are to give a fancy dress bail at | Irving Hall on Thursday evening, the Association | being composed of over one hundred French cooks, waited upon Superintendent Walling, at Police Headquarters, yesterday, and desired to know if | their guests would be allowed to wear masks, The law was shown to them as passed by the Leg isiature of New York in 1829, which made it an offence, punishable by fine, for any keeper, mau- ager or proprietor of any place of amusement to peruit masked persons to enter Ms piace, having paid an adaussion fee, This law, as amended in 1868, makes the offence @ misdemeanor, punish. able by a ne of $2,500 or by imprisoument for hot less than six months or more than twenty-four months. The jaw, it will be seen, does not aifect the maskers thetnseives, but merely the proprietor or manager of tie place of amusement or the oil- cers Or floor or reception committees of the mus- qnerade vail, Ine committee withdrew aiter hav- ing been informed by Superinteadea: Walling that veils might be worn, but not uf the thickness tilt would conceal the identity oi any lady who migut attend, Tne Commitiee of the Cosmopolitan Uu- itpary Association have, therefore, resolved to give their ball as betore, on to-morrow night, but tt will not be & masquerade bail, fancy u: aue | veils being, of course, permitted to be wor | BOOKSELLERS’ ASSOCIATION. | REGULATING THE TRADE—iMPORTANT RESQLU- | TION. | The Central Booksellers’ Association held an ad- | Journed meeting yesterday morning at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Mr. A. O. Barnes presiding. After | the reading ofa number of communications from memvers of the trade indorsing the proposed twenty per cent rule of discount the discussion on this subject was continued. Mr. Cbristian sug. gesied that certain rules and regulations should be established, and no une should be cunsiiered a | bookseller unless be conlormed to those rules. ‘dhe :ollowing resolution was olfered by Mr. Walter | Appleton :— Resolved, That any dealer, whether a member of this lation or not, who do¢s uot contorm to ity rules, shail be reported by any member coxnizaut of the tact to the Arbitration Committee, and the committee sail investigate the charge, and, ‘it established, shall report ittoeach house iv the trae. Hereatter until noted by the Arbitrauon \ ommittee that the feuding house agrees (o coniorm tu the rules, No house in theassocia ton shull buy from the offending bouge directly or in direcdy, or sell to thew directly or indirecuy at a better discount than twenty per cent Mr, Jansen, of Chicago, said that for some time the houses in the trade bad sirictiy adhered to tue twenty percent rule with but lew exceptions. Quite a sively discussion Ou the resolution ensued, ‘rhe original resoiution was tinally amended to ibe Was | effect thut the resoluvion ve relerred to a comme tee who snail circulate It lor signature in their judgment @ sulticient nuurve!