The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1875, Page 7

EEE EEEEIEIEIOEEII OO BELGIUM. é RELIGIOUS PROCESSION BROKEN UP BY A MOB—THE POLICE CHARGE ON THE RIOT- ERS. BRUSSELS, May 23, 1875. Asa religious procession wus passing through ithe streets to-day it was assailed by the populace aad ita raugss were broken up. BIOTERS ARRESTED. The police, with drawn swords, charged on the ‘wiotera, ten of whom were arrested. TAB PROCKSSIONISTS DISPERSE. The members of the procession took refuge tn ‘the neighboring houses ani subsequently dis- persed. SPAIN. EX-LEGISLATORS PROJECTING A PLAN FOR A NATIONAL CONSTITUTION—POLITICAL COM- PROMISE ITS CHIEF POINY OF DASIS. i Mapnip, May 23, 1875. An tmportant political meeting nas been hela here, It wos attended by nearly 600 gentiemen ‘who have held seats in the Cortes, either as Sena- tora or Deputies, A resolution was unanimously adopted that on the opening of the next Cortes a constitation hall be submitted formed on a@ basis of compro- anise of all monarchical and liberal parties, AN ARMY COMMANDER RESIGNED. The resignation of Genera! Echagues, command- 4ug tue Araty of the Centre, has been accepied, THE FRENCH TURF. DERBY PAY AT CHANTILLY—RACE YOR THE GREAT EVENT OF THR SPRING MEETING— SALYATOR THE WINNER IN A FULL FIELD. PARIS, May 23, 1875, | The Chantilly Spring Meeting was brought to a close to-day with the annnal rae: for the Prix du Jockey Club, or Frenon Deroy. The event, Uke its English originator, isa dash ofamile aod-a hals for three-year-olds; twelve ran, BALVATOR THE WINNER AFTER AN EXCITING CONTEST. The race was a fine one, and resulted in the suc- cess of M. Luptn’s Salvator, against which six to one was laid, with Count Lagrange’s Nouzat and \M. Lupin’s St. Cyr running a dead heat for second place. Nougat was the favorite, only two to ona being laid against him while as low as five to two | was laid against St. Cyr. THE RACING. Prix du Jockey Club (Frenen Derby) for three- ear-olds, eutrance 1,000 irancs, 600 irancs forieit, ut only 500 irancs if aeciared ous by four P.M. three days beiore the sace, witi 30,000 trancs added, the second boise to receive 2,000 franca; colts to carry 119 pounds and hijiles 115 pounds; bout a mile und a hall. ” M. A. Lupin’s ch. c, Salvator, by Dollar, dam Sauvagine, 119 Ibs........- A M. ie Comte F. de Lugran, Consul, dam Nebuleuse, M. A. Lupin’s b.c. St. Cyx, by jane, LLY Ibs, THE GRASSHOPPERS. is by ‘Dolan, dam Fin- IOWA FREE FROM THE PESTS. Counci, BLUFFS, May 23, 1875. Despatches from a large numver o| towns in this State received bere show undoubiedly that tbere are no grasshopper ravages in tis State, nor ts there any danger anticipated. Crops were never In better condition, nor the prospect tor an im- tiense yleld more auspicious. The despatenes Bent irom here by certata parties that grasshoy pera were devouring the crops are woolly untrae DEATH OF A NOTORIOUS CHARAC- TER. Rocuester, N. Y.. May 1875. This morning Amos Forbes, known as “Chicken Forbes,” a notorious character, in running from Dis house to escape arrest for beating his wife, Zell dead before he had gone Miteen yards. His wife had sent one of their four children ora policeman aiter he bad besten her, and on the approach Of the ofiver Forbes ran from the house, striking his wife @ parting blow as he went. The bursting of @ vivud veosel stretched un Lifeless on the stree: SUICIDE OF A CALIFORNIAN. Exmina, N. Y., May 23, 1875. Ayoung man named Martin Fitzsimmons, son of one of the richest farmers inthis valley, living fhree miles south of this city, committed suicide this afternoon by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. He was about thirty-eight years of age, and hi fornia, where he we: umarried, No caus MURDER OF A TEAMSTER. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 23, 1875. William Dowiey, a Pittsfleid teamster, was fetally shot by Henry G. Urogier, a truckman, on Saturday nigot, apparently without provocation, The parties had been drinkine together, and Crogier, who was riding, coolly shot dewn bis vic- Sum and drove of. OLEARY'S WALK. eleven years ago, He was is Knuwa for the act. FIVER HUNDRED MILES ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN THE SPECIFIED TIME. CHicaGo, May 23, 1875, At In, 32m. 503, o’clock this morning Daniel O'Leary finished his 500 mile walk, muking the | distance in 2h, 28m, 10s. less than the time al- fovted—156 bours. =. During the evening fully 6,000 persons visited She Westside Rink, where the feat was per- formed, Various presents were given him by enthosiastic friends, 1,000. During the Waik be made oue mile in 7m, 8., Ofsy miler in pine consecutive hours and 200 Race i less than fifty hours. He showed signs of fatigue, but was by bo means exhausted at the close, and walked during tue last ours at the rate ofa mile in 12m. S28. THE CENTENNIAL HERALD. (From tne Petersburg (Va.) Index-Appeal.] The New York HgeRatp exhibited its character- istic enterprise and spirit by the publication of a Centennial edition on Thupsday, in honor of the Mecklenburg celebration. The impression con- tained fac-simile reproductions of the New York Journal of Juue 19, 1775, @ conteniporary sketch of the battie of Alamance aud & curious old broad- Bide, issued toward the close of the last century, containing three of the Mecklenvurg resolntions ‘with appropriate patriotic mottoes and embeitish- Meats around them, The H&RALD Dublishes also Jac-similes of the signasures of the Mecklenburg @igners (how ootained we are at a joss to Imagine) and a picture of the Meckienourg meda Just issued oy the Philadeiphia Mint. The edition \together one of curious value and interest, fod its preparation must have cost @ great deal, alike in the way of researcn, labor and expendi- ture of money. ARREST OF A DESPERADO. On the 2th of last October a christening took place in the apartments of an Italtan family at No. to Jersey street, a number of the friends of the family being present. A Jarge quantity of iager beer was imbibed by the sons of sunny Italy, but Jn the course of tht ening the supply run short. The men in the piace were asked to replenish tae toon ana on one of them, named Jento Arreso, rs eing told that it was his turn to treat he be- a indignant d refused. fis refasal caused some of his companious to scot at him about being a miser, whereupon he flew into A passion and drawing & large dirk kniie com- menced an attack on the persons im the room, which resuited im two of them, named respectively Michael Dieto and Chiliardo Bosgagedo, veing se arts of their bodies. made his escape. ‘The we pposed to be fatal, and the injured men were removed to Bellevu Hospital, at whicn institation tuey passed several months, Onoily convalescing. Last night @ young Italian boy called at the Fourteenth precinct station house and iniormed Captain Aliaire taat Arreso was at his home, No. 63 OMecer Mitcoell was promptly the arrest, which be succeeded in doing, and took Hts prisoner to the station ouse in Mulberry street, wovre he was locked up, and @ charge of felonious asswult, with Intent to kill preierred againat nim by his vietims, On his being searched at (he desk preparatory to his emoval to a cell, @ large clasp knife was ound on ig person. Arreso Will be arraigned before & pollve Mazisirate at the Tombs (his morning, | tributed, includiug ® purse of | | that agency explaining NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE BLACK HILLS. ——+ Delay in the Negotiations with the Sioux Chiefs. SPECIAL PLEA FOR THE Qi The Native Princes Selecting Quarters for Themselves. a GOVERNOR PENNINGTON ON THE GOLD QUESTION. NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE SIOUX LIKELY TO BE | DELAYED—A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OPPO- SITION FACTION TO BE SENT FOR—A SPECTAL | PLEA FOR THE BING. WASHINGTON, May 23, 1875. ‘The indicat ona are that the negotiations with 4 the Sivux Indians here will extend over a conaid- eravle period. The Indians, in their councils, have decided that it 18 necessary, to have the oppo- sition faction of the Sioux represented here, whico is now entirely without representation, Accord- ingly @ telegram was sent to-day to the tribal om- cers at Cheyenne, requesting that the chief, Young- Msn-Afraid-of-His-Horses,shail immediately set out for Washington. This Onief is the soie remaining hereditary chief of tho Sioux, and was deposed by the council which elavated the usurper Red Cloud, Young -Man-Afraid-ol-His-Horses remained bebind because the government agents refused to allow him to bring on bis own interpreter, He wanted one Of the famous Richaud family, a descendant of the old French Canadian trapper family that has so long been allied with the Sioux. The Indian iuterpreters here say that 1: Young-Mau-Afraid-of- His-Horses is brought on, whatever he and Red Cioud and Spotted Tail may agree to is much more likely to be ratified, witnout delay, by both branches of the tribe. 7 THE COMPLAINTS OF THE INDIANS. Some of the parties who find it difficult to ex- | plain the mapner in which the appropriations made for the purchase of food for the Sioux have been expended are entering a special plea, calcu- lated to vefog the main issue. They say: Those who, with Professor Marsh, have been so enthusiastic in insisting that the rights of the In- dians, under the treaties, shall be preserved ana better food supplied them,gwill be surprised to learn that under tne treaties, as regards food, the Stoux Indians have no rights whatever, The fact 1s that all the food which the government has given the Sioux Indians for the last two years has been a gratuity. The sections of all the treaties between the government and the Sioux which provide that the government shall furnish the Sioux a certain amount of food each year, expired by limitation two years ago. | By the terms of the treaties irom that date the Indians have to provide themseives with food out of their annnities and general fund and by agriculturat pursuits, Yet last ear the government —_ appropriated $1,200, and this year has appropriated $1,100,000 for food fur the Sioux. fhe Indians, according to tne terms of their own contract, have no right to demand food ol the government. THE QUARREL, therefore, about the quantity or qnality of the provisions, or the manner ia which they are dis- the quarrel with the benefactor about agit. ‘Inere 1s no treaty right concerned, THR VISITING SIOUX CHIEFS. A pressure has been brought to bear upon the Indians since their arrival here by outside parties: to induce them to leave the Tremont House, where the government had provided quarters lor them, and go to their old stamping ground at the Wash- ington ilouse. This infuence has come mostly irom the outside interpreters who followed the Indians here, and who are ail stopping at the Washington Honse, These men are repre- sented as being interested in the negotia- | tlons concerning tne Black Hills, and they desire to manipulate the minds of the Indians, Ked vioud and Spotted ‘Vail de- mandec 0: the Commissioner, jast Friday, a change from their present quarters, but he per- emptorily refused to acceae to the demand. To-day, however, they were induced by some one to make the change on their own account, and, headed by American Horse, seven of them, in- cluding Red Cioud and Spotted Tail, succeeded, and went over 10 the Wasvington House, tis not known What action the Commissioners wilitake im the premises, bat this step ou the part of the Indians 18 considered a bold one, and indicates that tney are determined to have some | things their own Ww It is Said that the ne- gotiations wilt not be accomplished #0 easily as the government auticipaced, | GOLD IN THE BLACK HILLS. Governor Pennington, of Dakota, contradicts ad just re'urned from Gan. | Varlous misrepresentations and exaggerations concerning dome {nforma! remarks made by him at an informal conference recently held in the of- fice of the Commissioner of indian Affairs. What be did say was, that there could be no doubt of the existence of goid in the Black Hills, but whether in large or small quantities was yet to be deter- mined. He does not believe in the fabulous re- ports started br interested or designing persons, Many good people, t and West, wanted to go there and exami} for themselves, and they would be satisfied With nothing jess than the open- ing up of the country, so they might go there law- fully, and the people whom he represented re- spectinlly petitioned the government author- ities to EXTINGUISH THE INDIAN TITLE at the earliest practicible moment and provide ample right of way, in order that ail who desired | to enter the Biack Hills might do s0. He con- siders all lawless luvasions of thé Iadian resetva- tions Wicked and wrong, and that many of those who were going there in deflance of law and against the orders and protests of the gov- ernment were desperate characters, who would not hesitate at t:e commission of any crime, THE RATIONS AT WICHITA AGENCY. John Richards, inaian Agent at tne Wichita Agency, bas sent through the Indian Bureau a reply to statements reflecting upon the afairs at tae cireumstances of admits that there has been & ® ons, but dentes the statement thatevery means possible Was not used to pre- vent suffering, and says that full rations of be have been issued regulariy every week. The win- ter has been unusual cold and the beef fas fallen off in quality, but bas generally been good, Other provisions have no. been so plentiful as could be desired. the principal cause | for this, he says, has arisen trom the want of funds to make the purchases, He states that he has not been absent from his post unnecessarily or with- | oat leave, and charges that the statement to that was maliciousiy put fortn by interested a He closes by asserting there is no truth in the statement inat there is danger of an out- | break among the Indians there. OUTSPOKEN LETTER FROM GENERAL SHERIDAN— | PARTIES NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER THE BIG HORN REGION. CHICAGO, May 23, 1876. General Sheridan to-day sent the following despatch to Hon. A. W. Hubbard and others:— Sroux Ciry, May 23, 1875. The Secretary of War has sent me your aespatch of the 2ist inst. from Sioux City. Generai Terry, commanding the Department of Dakota, has d' rected that the Gordon mining party be released | if the capture was tiade outside of the Sioux reservation, but in case it was made inside to require @ promise from each individual com- | posing tt not to violate the provisions or the treaty of 1869 With the Sioux Indians, which for- bids any trespass op the part of the whites until the government gives permission, The Gordon party or any other party nave no more right, un- der the treaty of 1868, to $0 to te ig Horn than they have to go to she Biack Hills, and it might just as well be understood at once that it or any | other party will not be permitted to go to these places until these instructions which now govern | military are revoked, SHERID, Lieutenant General OBITUARY. GEORGE B. ROLLINS. The subject of this sketcb, Mr. George B. Rol- lins, died yesterday at bis residence near Jamaica, L. 1, He was born in this city in the year 1804, and belonged to one of the o1d Knickerbocker families, He engaged 1a active business at an | early age, and from the year 1836 unth 1860 was knoWD as one Of Our most promipent mercuants. He retired from business in the year 1890, at | which time he was stricken wita blindness, He took @n active partin natiwnai as weillas State | ahi) and held at one time the posiuon of a jer in the councils of the old whig party. He w aiso ® member of the old Volunteer Fire Department, and Was associated with such men a8 Anderson, Mulls and Norwood, He joined the ‘Old Wav: Rowing Association in the year 1844, and was subsequently one of the incorporators of the New York Yacht Club. Yacnt- ing was one of his favorite usements, and the year 1867 he butit the yacht Betty Bilis: which, although totally bereit of sight, he made a voyage around the world. O/ his immediate faintly be leaves his wife, severai sons and Gaughters to mourn bis loss. His funeral will take at Trimity charch, i ry ry ty, wb twelve Preloak on Ta ee | ried to bis Victim avout two | have never lived on aiuican! | hoven’s HORRIBLE MURDER. A LITTLE GIRL KILLED IN A CHURCH—HER BODY CARRIED INTO THE TOWEK AND LEFT THERE—THE SEXTON ARRESTED ON SUSPICION EXCITEMENT AMONG THE PEOPLE. Boston, May 23, 1875. Another murder, even more horribie in its de- tails than that of Mrs. Bingvam, hich so shocked and startled the entire community afew weeks since, Was perpetrated in this city this afternoon. A bright little girl five years of age was murderea in @ church, and the bruised anda mutilated body carried up into the tower and thrown upon the floor of the loft, for years the abode of hundreds of doves and pigeous. The victim of tis cruel tragedy was Mabel H. Young, who, with her widowed mother, resided with her grandfather, at No, 60 East Chester Park. The latter, Mr. James Hobbs, is a well known aod highly respected mercvant, senior of the firm of Hobbs, Pope & Co. This afternoon ttle Mabel, in company with an aunt, attended the Sunday School anniversary exercises of the Warren Avenue Baptist Church. On coming out of church, at half-past three o’clock, the sunt remained in the vestibule about ten minutes, conversing with some friends, and on starting home missed the child, who & few minutes be‘ore was at her side. At first it was supposed she naa gone back into the church: but when she was not found In- side and persons outside declared she had not theaunt became alarmed, and search was made in every direction. About (our o'clock Somme tadieg at anopen window across the street ea FAINT CRIES OF A CHILD parently from the church tower, and noticed unusual commotion among the doves that swarmed in and out of the window. Some young men who had jomed the search Btarted at once to ascend the tower. They found the door leading up irom the orgab lof’, locked and, oa forcing it open, were started to see iresh bioud Upon fhe foor and steps leading np to the next landing. They also iound a strip Ol board covered with blood at one end, and heard low moanings from above. As- cending a long, steep flight of stairs and raising tue scuttie, which resisied the strength of & strong man, they found the mangled body of the child lying near the edge of tne Bcuttie, as though it bad been curried up the steps and hastily thrown down there. Carefully they carried her down inio the church, where a large number of persous had con- regated, and into the presence of her agonized iriends. From the top of her head, which was | ! broken, blood and brains were sowly oozing, | while the nose was crushed in and the face terribly mangled, She was carried to her grandfather's residence and surgeons at once summoned, woo | pronounced the cuse hopeless anu her death a uestion of but & iew hours at the farthest. ‘homas Piper, who has been sexton of the churca for about a year, Was soon alter arrested, and 13 now contined at the Chief’s office. He was engaged at work about the church, but HIS SUSPICIOUS MANNER, and his dental chat he nad the keys, when the two keys fitting the doors to the tower were taken jrom bis berson, point strongly to him as the party. He is @ dark, heavy set mau, about twenty-six years old, and has ounce before been under suspicion of murder, but was discharged for want of sufficient evidence. Many | of the police stili beleve him guilty ofthe murder of @ young girl in Dorcnester district about dficen months since. This last atfair has caused @ profound sensation in the community and intense excitement pre- valls. The very bolaness of the affuir lends addi- tonal norror to it. Scarcely three-quarters of an hour elapsed from the time the child came out of the vestioule of the church until she was iound in a dying condition. How she was enticed away, and for what mouve, has not transpired. THE EAST NEW YORK TRAGEDY. Nothing new has been developed by the authori- | THE FOREST FIRES. Details of the Loss and Suffering the Pennsylvania Mountains. VILLAGES AND SETTLEMENTS BURNED, A Town Entirely Surrounded by Fire and Retreat Cut Off NARROW ESCAPE OF THE INNABITANTS. The Noted Game Region of Penn- sylvania Swept Over. + Estimated Loss in Dwellings, Mills and Lumber Over $300,000. DSHONOLA, Pa., May 23, 1876, Never since the memorable spring of 1862 has this region of country been so devastated by forest fires as during the past week, ‘The rains of Fricay night and yesterday morning have subaued the flames; but thousands of acres of woodland, numerous farm buildings, lumbering villages, tan- neries and sawmilis mark their track with smouldering rutus, The fire in the mountains hereabout appeared @ week ago to-day in an in- consideraple bush fire, which could easily have been extinguished. Simultaneously with that small fire others sprang up in every direction, until the high hills to the west,in the direction of Blooming Grove, the Sullivan county mountains, and the lofty range bordering the Delaware River four miles north and south, were almost solid sheets of fame. In this immediate vicinity the fire was confined to the burning of timber, cord- wood, railroad ttes, bark, &c., lyiug in the woods, and it is estimated that two thousand acres of land have been burned over. A hundred men, fighting tne Names night and day, kept them from sweeping down the mountains to the settlement, but Were unable to stay their progress through the woods, westward. The Jarmers in the valley, from Susquehanna Depot to Jervis, over a hundred miles, have been obliged to neglect ali farm work for a week in order to fight the tires. The unusual dryness of the weather favored the progress of the conflagration, and it Was only the tall of raim above mentioned that saved not only acres of forest and thousands of cords of wood and bark, but villages and dwellings that stood in the path of the fires, To-day has been the first in nearly 4 week that the sun has ‘appeared other than asa dull crimson disk, seen ties m their researches concerning the Joung | tragedy at East New York, save (hat on Viursday evening last Joung, the suicide, called at tne lager beer saloon of Hans Peterson, where Miss Bedgoia (Wilhelmina), his former housekeeper, has veen stopping since she left bis house, on Tuesday last, and paid her $30, This Money was two months’ wages, at the rate of $15 per month, which was the price he stipulated upon with her when he engaged her, in January last, Subsequently he called on her again and gave her $300 in green- backs, which he asked her to keep for hiw, say- ing at the same time, “You better take care of this money for me, a8 J don’t know how Wings are going to turn out With me just yew”? She she did not like to comply with bis re- | quest, dreading she might lose 1:; but he insisted upon her doing 80, as he said he intended to make her bis heiress, On Friday ue called on Wilhelmina again and gave her $ito take care of. His man- ner Was odd and excitabie. There can be little or no doubt that Mrs. Joung was murdered by her husband oa the afternoon of fhursday, as sho Was never Seen alive aiter the visit of Oficer Bropay at two o’clock on Thursday afternoon, When, he says, he w ner lying on tue lounge with a handkerchief around ner head; but he did not speak to her, ag he bad no warrant jor her arrest, and could not, therefore, take her out of tne house. The husband called his attention co ber then, said she bad cut her finger and was druvk. It would have settied a question which must now Temain in doubt, had Bropiy spoken to the wo- Man, as there is @ possibility that she was then dead, and that ner looking at bim was purely iuagimary on his part. As it was, he did uot speak to her, por did she to him, and the neighbors say thet they have not seen her since Weanesday last. ‘The suicide aud murderer, 1t appears, was mar- the report of the neighbor: Indeed, it is sata that sue was not @ Virtuous Woman, and that this fact being known to him ied to his drinking ana negiecting his business. He lived for twenty years at Hast New York, and was con- sidered an excelent custom work tailor. Of lave it Was the habit of Jacob Joung to assert that this woman, Annie, Was not #18 lawful wife. This was 4 laisenood, as they were married at the little Lutheran coureh, about two biocks distant irom the sceve of the murder. Miss Bedgold gave the Coroner $330 of thefmoney she received from the suicide Joung. She ts r tamed iu custody by oraer 0 the Coroner. The boates are at the Morgue, where @ post-mortem examination will be made by Dr. Shepara, Coro- her Simms Will commence the inquest as the Corouers’ Office in the County Court House to-day. AMUSEMENTS. SUNDAY CONCERT AT JONES’ WOOD COLOSSEUM. Mr. Schulthets, the proprietor of Jones’ Wood Colosseum, the largest musical resort In the city, had a preliminary concert there yesterday after- noon, at which Downing’s Ninth Regiment Band appeared, The programme consisted of the fol lowing selections :—Overture, ‘‘Der Tambour der Guard,” Titth; waltz, “Ua the Beautifal Rhine,” Bia; selection, “La Fille de Madame Angot,” Lecocgq; fackeltanz, No. 1, in B flat, Meyerbeer; cor- net solo, “Excelsior Polka,” #rewin—Mr. Benjamin C. Bent; grand selection, ‘Macbeth’? (No. 1), Verdi; solos by all the principal artists of the band; overture, ‘‘Rosemunde,” Schubert; fan- taale, “Carmivai of Venice,” with new and humorous variations, composed expressly for tne Ninta Regiment Band by Carl Kerssen; lection, ‘Don Pasqus Domizetes ; Itz, “Farry Palace,” Godirey; chor der piiger, from “Tannhauser,’’ Wagner; march, “There is No Harm in Kissiog,” Downing. The band has lost none Of those qualities O/ brilliant, artistic render- ing and homogeneity of expression that years ago made it renowned among our military organiza- tions, in Mr, Bentone will find a cornet player second only to Levy In effective and telling style of playing, and he was enthusiastically recalied after the “Excelsior Polka.” On Suuday next Beet- ‘Battle of Vittoria” will be given with | those briliant surroundings that must render it doubly attractive and that will be made the oc- casion of the jormal opening of the season. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. On Saturday night, at the Park Theatre, 1 new candidate ior pudlic favor appeared in Miiman’s tragedy of “The Italian Wile.” The honse was weil filled, snd the audience wus largely composed of prominent society people. Tne débutante, Miss Eleanor How- ard, displayed unmistakable dramatic ability, which received prompt recognition at the hands Of the audience, and secured for the lady at the close of the performance a call before curtain, Apart from the nervousness Daturaily attending a | first appearance and a certain deficiency in her | method of reading, M Howard’s performance gave evidence of the possession by the laay of considerable histrionic ability. [t is not often that so much saccess attends the frst per/ermance of anew comer to the stay Miss Lizzie Auld and ber sister will give, on Thursday night next, at Steinway Hall, 4 dramatic reading. The programme wili include scenes from “King Jobo’! and she baicony scene from “Romeo and Juliet.” The young ladies, who have already acquired considerable reputation leaders in private circles, will be asaistea by Mr, Stoddard gad Mr. Alired Pease through the dense clouds of swoke that lowered over this section of country, and last night the first toata watch over villages, farms, milla, 4c, has not been necessary, The air bas been filled with cinders, and firebrands in the shape of burn- ing branches have been @ constant source of danger for days, A VILLAGE CONSUMED, Other places have not been so fortunate as this, In Sullivan county, New York, across the river Jrom this place, setciements in the lumbering woods are more numerous. A number of these have been destroyed. Friday might the village of Gilman’s, wnich had been surrounded for two days with fire, was almost totally consumed. The entire population combated the flames success, fully for forty-eight hours. A strong wind from the west then arosp which faaned the extin- | guished fires again {nto flames and drove the already furious fire from the back woods rapidly toward the village. An attempt was made to ob- tain aid from the Port Jervis Fire De} ent, but before word could be carried to tuat piace fire bad communicated toone or two dwellings occupied | by employés of Gitman's tannery. From these the | spread of the condagration was rapid, and tn the Space of ten minutes after the fre reached the aettlement tne tannery, an immense structure, together with all 11s adjacent buildings, the ex- tensive sawmill and ten dwellings were in dames. They were all totally destroyed, together witn several hundred thousand feet of lumber, $12,000 worth of ieather and 10,000 cords of bark. The loss wili not be less ¢! $125,000 at this one pice. ‘At Swamp Mills, on Ten-mile River, the moun- | tains encirciing the three days, but the lace had been buruing for fow families residing at the lumber settlement did not feel alarmed tor the | consequences until Friday afternvoa, Some twenty men were fighting tne fre, but the sum wind that arose toward evening drove the faines dowa the mountain with great velocity and com- fecal them to abandon the work ana dy tor ther ves. Fortunately the miil and the large amount of lumber piled the side ot and the fire on the mountat sloping up from the mill was driven aw: trom the buildings. By keeping the mill drenched with water, dnd eXxtinguisiing the burning branches that feli thick about it, it was saved; but 16,000 Jeet of iumber, piled out on a dock in the stream, were consumed, together with three smali butid- ings, George Crane, while fighting the fire on Friday afternoon, Was caught bepeain some bura- ing limbs which fell upon him, and was terribly, uf not fatally burned, beiore he could be rescued. itis Ffeported that two tanneries, toree saw- mills and a number of tarm houses in Kocklund, Sullivan county, were destroyed on Friday nignt. A bridge across the east branen of the Deiawa: ear Shuvertown, was also destroyed. In Wayne county, Pennsylvacta, six miles from Narrowsburg, are the Very extensive steam saw- milis ot Ward & Boyd, The village in which they aro situated is Kidred, contaiming avout 200 inhabi- nts, The mountain fires surrounding this plice gradually reauced the circle, despite the efforts of the iInbavitants, unul they threacened the destrac- tion of the village, and had CUT OFF ALL RETREAT from it. Isolated bulidings were consumed, and much lumber, piled un tne Outskirts of the place, around ib were on ready to be ied to the river, The most intense excitement prevailed in the village as the fire steaaily closed in upon it. The peopie ve- came pant ricken, and it Was With great aim. culty that women childrea could be kept from rushing into sie very Qumes to find some way out of the doomed village. Men borriedly built “back fires,” and, forming bucket lines around tae place, | drenched the ground with water, 's cleared away the space between the approaching fire and the village, taking out the intervening under- brush and combustible stud. it is dondtiul if ail this would have saved the place and its inmates, but a change m the wind, which came up from te west ih altnost a gale, turned the course of the conflagration, = toe Village escaped with com- j parative lict! Side Was ariven by the Wind down into the settiement, wich is on ground formerly belonging to th horace Greeley, and Where he establisned i fal Fourierite Society some forty years ag place consisted only of a large circular sawmill and two or three nouses. These were ail de- stroyed, together witn 10,000 feet of manuiactured lumber and a8 many jogs. Tue property was known as the Ballet Mill property, and beionged to @ Newark firm, whose jos is about $15,000, A herd of filteen cows, bevonging to digerent | farmers around Taylortown, which were pastar- ing old clearing made by the Fou were Surrounded by toe fire, and being unabie to escape, Were burned up. James Haney, who haa been out beyong@ the piace looking at some wild jaad he intended to purchase, was compelled to~ rap @ gauntiet of fire for two miles, the woods b ing 1 Hames on cither side. His vorse fell dead a quarter of @ mile from where the road emerged | from tae burning woods, and Haney was com- pelled to leave bis wagon, in the bottom of which he bad been able to shield himself somewhat from the heat, and make the rest of the distance on foot, reaching 'Taylortown just before the mill was destroyed, almost dead from his terribie expe ricnce, He was badiy burned. The fires swept through the western part of this county with no leas fury ¢ that which chara terized them in tne valley. The High Knob, the loftiest eminence in Northeastern Pennsyl- ove tide, was iy which the Knob is the centre in the notea game region of Pennsyivanis, and where the lands of =the § Biooming rove Park are g@ruated. It is a complete wilderness, filled with bear, deerand other wild game. The fires drove large numbers of deer from the woods to the numerons lakes in the region, and they even sought refuge im the clearings around farms on the Outskirts of tne witderne Near Blooming Grove viMage, in different pastures, ven deer Were counted last Friday lteeding with the cattle, At the village of Egypt, above Bloom- ing Grove, two large biack bears and three young ones emerged from the burning woods and fol- lowed the public road for a mils, when they again entered the forest, having passed beyond the barmiog dmvtrict, They wera fallowed b Port | the stream opposite the advancing flames, ‘ bunters, and several snots were nrea without effect, the bears escaping apparently un- injaree and civding ther followers in the woods, Thursday and Saturday the air was jierally filed with wild pigeons which bad been driven from their roosts in the depths of the beech woous west of Blooming Grove, and were fying northward in search of other resting places. Hundreds were kuled, not only with guns, but with cluvs, by per- $008 Standing on the brows of Ligh bills, It 1s feared that the fires have ruined the prospects of & successius game season neXt fali, as wundreds of auimals must pave perished and partridge nesis | been totaliy destroyed. A party of Philudeiphia fishermen were en- camped on Bright Brook, @ noted trout siream uth of the Kuo. The fre surrounded ‘ten, d they were ooliged to devert their tents and k safety by climbing a mountain wiieh lad ‘nm burned over, but waoich Was yet covered with smouldering fires and hot ashes, s(umpa, dc. The party were forced to make their way 4 Inile in this Way beiore reaching @ place of safely. ‘lwo men trom Rochester, named Downs and Keeves, | who were spending a few cays’ fishing in this Vicinity, nad AN BXCITING ADVENTURE And narrow escupe wile faping on Wednesday on Taylor's Creek, ‘Tney pad fished up nearly to the Babit Mill, when they met tue advancing forest fire that destroyed that structure. They had noticed the prevalence of the fires on the mountain on both sides of the creek as they came up, and had suffered consider- able inconvenience trom the *moke and beat, Dut Gid not dream of uny danger from them. When they came upon the vast tract of fire that had just swept over Taylertown advancing on down the Stream, on both sides, tuey at ouce com- menced to retrace their steps, They ad not goue more than a quarter o1 a mule belore they noticed that the ores down the creek haa drawn nearer | | the stream, and finally found their retreatentirely | cutoff. ‘They were shut in on every side by walls | ot fire. To escape up the mountains, which rose on both sides of the creek, was impos. | sible, and the fishermen awoke to the ter- | rible’ nature of the situation. A horrible deatn stared them in the face and they saw no possible chance Of escape, Their only hope seemed to be that the fire from below, which was not so flerce or extensive as the one coming down the stream, | would be stopped by an opening about tweoty feet wide, made by Oravine Dear the spot where they were forced to halt, when they thought they could wade down the creek and get out of the burning woods, This hope was soon dispetied, lor the fire coming down tue stream made such rapid progress that 15 was evident (hat it would be upon | them before the iower fire reached the opening. | In toils strait Downs hit upon a plan that seemed | to offer them the only remnant of hope. ‘the creek where they were shat off by the ire falis over @ precipice about ten feet igh. it then spreads out into @ circular basin about twenty leet In diameter, and very deep. Downs’ plan was for him and his companions to plunge into { the pool, and remain there until the fury | ot the fire was spent, which would pe ; in @ quarter of an hour, as the approach- ing flames would meet before that time, and having nothing more to feed on along the ; creek would clim> bigner up the mountains. He thought (pat by keeping in the Water, diving and moving about, and suielding themseives beneath the cascades that they couid pass the ordeal wita | safety, auc undergo very littie suffering from the heat. ' Unfortanately, Reeves could not swim, but, | as he said to bis companion, he would rather tun | the risk of drowning than ve burned to death, ne | | found a piece of a pine log, and, with the support of Downs? arm, plunged with his companion in the | stream. They made their way up to tue four of the falls, where Reeves {ound a projecting rock, ; | which hé grasped with his hands aud kept nis nead above Water. By this time the heat had be- come intense, and the air was dense with smoke and filied with burning twigs and ovrancies, , which fell like a red-hot shower in the pool, Downs, being able to move about tn the water and remain for some time beneath the surface, ut no | time having more of his person exposed than was necessary [0 obtain alr, suffered noting from the | heat or smoke. Reeves, on the contrary, had only such protection to Uis face and hands a3 was afforded ef, the waters of the cataract, bebinu which thin veil he kept as much as pos- sible. He had no support for his teet, and was afraid to release his tauds irom | the rock, altnough be could teel them blistering with the heat. For nearly fiteen minutes he re- mained in unis tor: uring situation, and then, say- Ing he would rather drown than suffer any longer, let go his hoid and disappeared beneatn the water, When he reappeared he bad reached tne lower ena of the basin, ana when he recovered his breath he started as fast as he could down the cre-k, knocking aside burning branches with his | bands and keeping them away [rom his face as much a8 possible. He soon disappeared irom view. About half an hour erward the worst of the fire was over. 1 opposing conflagrations had met and taken a course up the mountain. Downs then ioliowed bis companion | down the stream. The heat was still Intense, and the smoke almost suffocating. He found no great | aiMculty in making bis way along, and found Reeves about a quarter of @ mile below, lying on the ground below the burned dis- | trict. He was almost exhausted, and bias | hands and face were badly burned. His cloti- ing was ful! of holes, and there were several busters on his boay and iimbs, where burning embers had fallen on him, and burned through nis clothing. His serious, how- ever, and in about an hour the fishermen had so | | much recovered as to start on thelr way to their boarding place, afarm house near by, On fburs- | day they returned to Rochester, Near Hawley, Wayne county, Pa., on the line of the gravity railroad of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, @ sawmill belonging to the estate ot J. T. Barnes and $5,000 worth 0! mine props were destroyed. The fire for nearly two days wus only kept away from a number of the stationary engine hoases on the r at the heads of planes, by the united efforts of @ large force of employés. Thousands of railroad ties were destroyed along this road. { On a branch of tne Eqununk Creek, in Warne | county, a circular mill and 8,000 feet of mana- factured lumoer were burned. THR TOTAL LOSS in the aestruction of milla, lumber, &¢., 80 far as Known, cannot fall below $300,000, while the loss in Standing timber, cordwood, tan bark, ratlroad ties, and similar property cannot be estimared. When the full measure of the damage done ia known, it will far exceed any calamity, in @ fnan- cial polnt of view, that ever betel the region, | | THE OSCEOLA FIRE. FURTHER DETAILS OF THE CATASTROPHE— FURTHER RELIEF REQUIRED FOR THE suF FERERS—HEKOIC ACTION OF THE STRIKING MINERS. | Tyrons, Pa., May 23, 18 The following has been received from the Super- intendent of the Moshannon Land and Lumoer Company of Osceol rrived at Oseeo! tion and desol#tion ve: may, and found the destrac- | much greater than h: a reported. N nths ot the town are burned, | searcely enous’ hes to mark where the houses so The fire broke o it or near faylors saw mill, on ¢ Run, two miles and three-quariers above Usceola; burned bis mill, lumber and houses; swept down the run to the Moshannom Greek, taking im i's course the saw mill uncer and houses belonging to ©, Heines & Co.: thence down the Moshanaon to the Belt Mill of the Moshannom Land and Lamber | Company. three-quarters of a mile above Osceola, barn ¢ mill hoase and about 2,00), besides a large qi " feet of man tity of loss; th ing tured lumber, | down both sides of the creek on the cass side of the roar | | of Osecola, taking Orst that pa: called ‘rench ville, sweeping over the centre of the town, taking im its ourse the Presbyterian church and the public school, ali the best dwellings in the place, with all the hotels and stores on the west side of the creek. At the same tume the lire was attacking the Vanadelphia colliery owned by the Kittaning Coal Company, barning the chute and all the miners’ houses, tweive railway cars be longing to the same company, and the large gang saw | mill owned by the Moshatinon Land and Lumber | Company was between the two fires The lumber first took fire, and was tought vigorously, but without avail. The Tyge Mill, it ls called. was about the to ie fire, and ail ts consumed round and about It, including | 15,000,000 tect of lamber snd the flnest saw mill. it 1s snid, ‘on the contineai—not the sargest. but the most complete in all Hts parte—and besides this the large planing mill be- longing to the Walker Brothers, the saw will of Joho Milligan and the iarge steam tannery of Joha White. in the midst of the conflagration thieves aud < trunks RELIEF NEEDED. | Money and clothing is needed, and the supply of food willmave to be kept up ior sometime, A | committee of the very best men of the town are now in charge of the supplies coming forward, | and are dispensing them with great care sad economy. A spectal police force is on dut Houtzdale, five miles above the M Branch Railroad, has escaped pretty w abvut fifteen houses being bared, credit of the miners even the Vivient strik worked like beroes to save the con) chrte improvements connected therewith, none of whieh {| have beendamaged. The railroad will be repaired 80 a8 to bting out coal by morning. Reports re- | ceived here this evening describe the fire around Osceola and Phillipsburg as nearly out. THE FIRES EXTINGUISHED BY A DRENCHING BAIN—TRAVEL BESUMED ON THR RAILROAD. ScRanTos, Pa., May 23, 1875. A drenching rain accompanied by a severe thun- der storm, Visited this section of the State yester- | day, completely extingutshing the forest fires on | the Moosic Highlands and in the woods around Moscow, Daleville, Tobyhanna and other towns along the Delaware, Lackawana and Western | Railroad. which were threatened on Friday by the flames. The Pennsylvania Coal Company's Gravity Rali- road, of which three miles were destroyed by fire on the Moosic Highlands, has been promptiy re- paired, and travel was resumed over that busy route yesterday. The company’s mines at Pitis- ton, thrown idie in consequence of phe obstruce tion, will resume work on Monday morming. The weather here to-day is beautifal, da the | atmosphere has been thoroughly clearod of the biimding smoke by wach it had been sureuargea for she past ‘ew days. ae crepe ree | Ol TANK ON FIRE, Prrrspura, Pa., May 23, 1875, | fire, Efforts are being made to save the oil by y sured | ramnine it off but is 18 feared the tauk max burst. | pline, Colonel James R. Hitsheoe | vied to test the article before purch«sing. | Bost Thoughts of Charles Dickens:” c Lightaing struck a twenty-thousand-barret tank | ': CURTIS, a7 Wes Twenty second stroet New be fail of oll at Karns City to-night, setting the oil on | 7 eneuniecalialiiae The tank is owned by Saiterfleld & Taylor and the oll belongs co the United Pipe line. The amouns of los# and jusurauce is not yet Known. RIVER STEAMER BURNED. Rocuesrer, N. Y., May 23, 1875, The steamer Falling Waters, William Bennece, owner and captain, was totally destroyed by fre on the Genesee River at four o'clock tis worn- ing. The fire is supposed to have been the work of am incendiary, as the fireman, who left the ves- sei eigbt hours beiore the fumes burst out, haa carefully extinguished the fires. A young man named Johnsion, of Port Hope, Canada, asicep om the vessel, aiter being badly burned, jumped over- bourd and was drowned. The loss on the Falling Waters 18 about $10,000; insurance $6,000, She tas been used for pleasure parties and made regular trips between Bueli’s Landing and Caariotte, STEEL AND SHOVEL WORKS BURNED. PirrsaunG, Pa., May 23, 1875. A fire was discovered about two o'clock tiis morning in Hustey, Binns & Co.’a Cast Steel and Shovel Works at the foot of Twemty-seventh street. When discovered half the bulld- ing was enveloped in flames and despite che efforts of the firemen it was totauy destroyed, The flre was und ubtediy the work of @u incendiary. Loss oa building and machinery, about $20,000; on stock, $5,000. Total insurance, $12,000, of whic FIRE IN LEXINGTON, KY. LEXINGTON, May 23, 1876. A Gre of considerable magnitude broke out ucre about two o’clock this morning in the ilvery Stabile of Davis & Adams. If spread with great h $2,500 is in home companies. rapidity, and it seemed at one time as though the A high wind and the flames be- Whole town would be destroyed. was blowing at the ume, spread rapidly until the whole biock tween'Snort and Main streets, on Limes! one & was involved, It then took in the divck ¢ other side of Limestone street, spread Along Shor’ street and burned turee wouses on Main street. The Fire Department worked well, but as ther was but one engine, its work Was nov very ef ive, and but ior the bucket bmgades the half of Lexington would have been in ashes. Tue fre was got under control about half-past 8)x o'clock. The totai ioss is about $100,000, and the tusurance about $35,000, FIRE IN BROOKLYN. At ten o’clock last niznt a firetn the frame dweiling No, 492 Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D., owned | by Joseph Enderson, causea @ damage of $109. | The adjoining house, No. 494, also owned by Endere son, Was damaged $500 worth by Water. Insured for $1,800 in the Imperiai Company, of London, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes tm tne temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison with the corresponding date of lass Year, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Huanuvs Puarmacy, HERALD butiding:— 1874, 1875. ST 3A. M. 69 GA, 50 63 . 7 + 70 64 12 P.M temperature yesterday Average temperature for corresponding date last year..... seedtey ele ORM NINTH REGIMENT ANNIVERSARY. In obedience to orders from regimental heaa- quarters, the oMcers and members of the Ninth regiment, N. G. 8S. N. Y., will assemble at the regi- mental armory on Thuraday afternoon, 27th tnst., for the purpose Of making a@ street parade in commemoration of the departure of the “oid Ninth regiment’ for the seat of war tn 1861. | Mayor Wickham and the members of the Common Council will review the command at four P, M. jront of the City Hall, The band, um the leadershio of Major Downing, will parade their new uutform. In the evening the veteran of the Ninth will sit down to a banquet at t Union Place flotel. The Ninth regiment bas beem gaining 0: late, nomericaliy weillas in dise- the new com- mandaat, having paid consideravie attention dur- ing the past winter to periecting the meu in the manual, or the school of Lhe suldier. A TERMIBLE SEASON FOR WEAK LUNGS} ughs and colds were never so prevaleut. Fortunately $ Hoszy of HoxxnounD and Tax will cure the worst of them, and the people kuow it. Pixe's Tooriacns Vuors cure ia one minute. A.—THE SUMMER SIYLES OF GENTL Hars are reaay at LSPENSCUE: Nassad street. A.—BUCKINGHAM HOTEL, Pifth avenue, corner Fittieth Street (opposite the Cathedral). Tus new and elegant house will be completed by Sep tember next. 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