The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. “LONG BRANCH. \A Glance at the Political Situa- tion from the Beach ———__»—— ‘PRESIDENT GRANT'S VIEWS. His Power Under the Resumption Act and Tow He Will Use It. Long Brancn, Sept. 18, 1875, There is good authority for saying that President ‘Grant is well pleased with the present political outlook. \A few months ago the tide appeared to be setting jstrongly against republicanism, and especially against ithe supposed personal uspirations of the President }Corruption in official life was believed to be gradually and jeurely undermining the solid foundation of republican government. Civil service reform had been virtually \abandoned under circumstances which, justly or un- justly, left on the public mind the impression that it | had never been honestly attempted, Every- ‘where reform had been preached by the republicans, but nowhere had it been practised. ‘tinkering of the Congressional majority and of the ‘Treasury Department had failed to give us @ sound currency ten years after the cessation of the war. A ‘panic had spread consternation throughout the coun- try; business was depressed; values had depreciated, ‘and’the insanity which sought to cure the disease by aggravating all the evils that bad originally caused it jwas supposed to be shared by sections of both political parties. Tho people held the republican administration | ‘and the republican party responsible for the existing | corruptions and for the paralyzation of the business ‘against a third term, to disavow a desire for a renom!- nation. Instantly the rival aspirants commenced nib- bling at the bait of the succession and trouble seemed in store for the Republican National Conven- tion, Meanwhile the road appeared smooth before the democracy. The most important States in the Union wheeled into line on the democratic side. In ‘New York the faise pretensions of the republican re- formers were, exposed, and the banner of true reform passed into the hands of the democratic Governor, the democrats had to do to make success in the nation next year a certainty was to promise Onancial and com- mercial stability, so rudely shaken by republican mis- rule; to proclaim official economy and honesty in place of republican extravagance and corruption, and to pledge themselves to a Southern policy which would place every State in the Union on an equal basis of self- | government, free from federal interference. With | true reform, and stnct honesty and economy in the administration of the recovered State governments, it | appeared certain that democrats would secure power in | the mation through the faults and errors of repub- Ucanism. GOW PRESIDENT GRANT VIRWS THE PRESENT SITUATION. The most superficial observer can see that the situa- tion is now entirely changea. The dangerous experi- ment of making the democratic party the immediate champton of inflation and irredeemable rag money and the prospective advocate of repudiation and national dishonor has been tried in the West and has checked the current of popular sentiment, Had the democratic policy been a passive or negative one the evils of repub- licanism would have induced the _—- to seek a change. Under Western contro] it has been active and aggressive, threatening worse evils than those of the past eight yeurs, and the are startled and draw back from the contemplatea revolution. For the past few days President Grant has abandoned the reticence for which he is usually re- markabie and has not hesitated to express his views of current events freely among his friends. Itis very evi- | day morning at the Lower Quarantine at seven o’clock. | cases of cruelty there; dent that he regards his own chances of a renomination and election a8 materially improved by the indiscreet action of the democracy, although upon this point he retains his customary resery that there can no longer be a of the majority of the democratic party on the eur- fency question. If in power in both houses of Con- gress and of the Presidential office they would repeal the resumption law and all laws interfering with the | limitation of the greenback issue. They would | violate the pledged faith of the nation and propose to pay the government bonds in irredeemable and worthless rag money. Some of the Western States do not hesitate to boldly avow such an extreme policy. The democracy of other, States, by taking a single step in the direction of repudiation, dicate unmistakably their willingness to travel thi whole length of the perilous road. Suppose the New York democracy should boldly take a stand against the party and declare in favor of har money and the speed- iest possible resumption; of what use would such a pronunciation be in a national convention controlled by the South, the West and Pennsylvania? And if New York speaks with a feeble and temporizing voice, * who will longer believe that any power will be suMcient to hold the democratic repudiationists in check? So that, under any and all circumstances, President Grant believes. the people will be compelled to recognize the democratic party as the party of tnfla- tion and repudiation and the republican party as the friend of resumption and of the preservation of the national honor and credit, “The issue of next year's campaign,” says the President, ‘is already made, and has been chosen by the democracy. THE PRESIDENTS PROGRAMME POR THR CAMPAIGN. No person who knows President Grant can believe | that he would be likely to neglect the opportunity af- forded him by the folly of the democracy to advance his own political interests. There is the very best autbority for stating that he has already decided upon @ course of action which he regards as likely to force the republican pry to nominate him for a third term. In his Message to Congress, when a democratic Honse of Representatives will have the privilege of considering his recommendations, he will set forth, a8 strongly as be possibly can, the de- | pressed and’ sulfering condition of the business and commerce of the nation, aud will direct attention to the | necessity of taking measures t establish the currency on a sound basis by preparing for resumption under the frets law jn 1879, to which, be will say, we alone can look for a restoration of confidence and credit and a re- vival of trade. He will enlarge upon the ceesity of increasing the national revenues as a preliminary to re. sumption. He will to that end recommend the restora. tion of the duty on tea apd coffee, by the abolition of which the government bas lost from $20,000,000 to $25,000,000 a year, without any benetit to the consumer; the taxation of all articles of foreign manu facture brought to the United States by passengers, whether made or unmade; the general increase of the tariff and probably the abolition of the entire free list, In addition to this, the President will probably suggest | such an amendment of the Legal Tender act as will re- quire the payment of all internal revenue duties in gold, as a further provision for resumption. HOW GRANT WILL MEAD OFP THK INPLATIONISTS. . t ve ig ag A lat TR gt gd on . Donnelly, and it declares that it was the inten: | Cone President will make it clear in his Message to | Geetha, smallpox fom by 4. diphtheria lew by 10, mephaie | tion of Titus to break oat of “his cell, the ar intends to practically carry ou! by'6, and the total deatiis in howpitals being lest by 17. , | iron bars of which he had ied away, ‘Alling duty imposed upon the government by the resumption @ mean day and night temp last week was 68.5 | the cut with wax so as to conceal the m ks of the | act, by proceeding to contract the present greenback | degrees Fabrenheit, or just Sdegrees leas than inthe previous | file, Titus was thon to overpower the hean hi issue to the limit allowed by the law. Upon | week, when it was 76.0 degreer, and on four days that week | Ee tan rpower the keeper, take his tain’ potas more alas ne dey bee he: Slee | the oedemnanereny farthu woe’ inochod’ cmt doeees Fevolver, Tob the money chest of $600, which it con- for the support of the moneyed interests of | Seq upward. ‘That voek, ending September 4 rogiswered the | titty erase. The aempe wea rege eee ighest mi en. reco . mpt was to have been the country in the Republican Presidential | Week ‘by Director Draper es the Central Park Observatory | made on the night of August 1s. It was disclosed on Convention. Between December next and March, 187 since the last week of July, 1873, in which week (ending | the night of the 17th, and th eby frustrated. In the he cannot, of course, contract very extensively; but it | August 2) there were 837 deaths. ‘The number of deaths in | Gel] of Titus was iounl & : he should be re-ei office in 1879, no led, 80 as to be in the Presidential rson will doubt that he would ry wide discretionary powe in providing for resumption, and he will seek to make direct issue on these points with the democratic House of talives at as carly aday as possible, This glance at his projected policy will serve to show how resolved he is to prove that his continuance in office ‘will be of immense service to the moneyed Interests of | the country, and to compel his acceptance by the mon- eyed power as its champion against the Communistic The financial | All | people | The President insists | doubt as to the position | {S| will get well ere many days have elapsed, the attack make a of Long Branch are to out that Place is reall its best from — the middie of August to the middle of October, when the sun loses some of its ferceness, and when a walk on the sands can be in- duiged in without the discomforts of July and early August, This year’s experiment of keeping the best hotels open until October has been decidedly successful ; and hereafter September will, no doubt, be one of the gayest mouths at the Branch.’ The season, while not a vory brilliant one, has been remunerative, and next year we shall have some desirable improvements in the ac- commodatjons. The West End proprietors intend to build an additional wing to their hotel, or rather to extend the southwestern wing 80 a8 to add from one hundred to one hundred fitty rooms to their present number, If they would introduce it water baths into the hotel, as they probably will, they would find guests for more than double their present accom- modations. There is also a probability that Delmonico may purchase Mr. Thomas Murphy's residence and grounds, opposite the President's cottage, and pen a restaurant there. It would be an excellent’ speculation under such management as that of Delmonico, and the business during the three or four summer’ months would no doubt be quite remunerative. A single builder in the village has already contracted for eleven new cot- tages, to be ready for oceupation next summer, So that Long Brauch appears w be on the turning point after two or three yeurs of depression, and will be the scene of a revival next summer, Indeed, the Centen. | nial will no doubt bring large crowds of strangers to the | summer capital from New York and Philadelphia in | | 1876, and the hotel keepers may weli anticipate a prout able season. NEW JERSEY'S ALTERED CONSTI- TUTION. A SCHEDULE SHOWING HOW THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES VOTED. ‘Trenton, Sept, 14, 1875. Full retarns from the various counties, with the ex- ceptions of Essex, Passaic aud Sussex, of the recent election on the constitutional amendments, have been | Tecoived at the office of the Secretary of State, in this city, Below are the majorities given respectively on the first and twelfth amendments (the former known as the public school amendment and the latter the tax amendment) The majorities for all the other amend- | ments will average that given for No. 1, as it is taken as | | | and commerce of the country. They were eagerly and | a criterion:— Auabtintion “se. Hanan $0 oe , plaints from prisoners resolutely in favor of a change and were prepared to | : Masi Against Majority Against > eg Set teacatans oith grees, Je. ae Nols tee for No. 1% “No 12, | OF others.” In other prisons refractory criminals are trust the reg y ra ud Pte Atlantic. - 987 - 966 — | putinto the biack cell and given daily half a gill of Srey. spommanrertion polny apt mW as - Lal — | water with two ounces of bread as punishment, if the white population and to truckle to the ignorance ui 3254 = | the choice were left to the prisoners, they would rather an geaiadions. of the. negro rane: scented to hawe aed cary gray: 383 i "243 = | have the cowhide. The strokes of the cowhide did not even to secure the black vote to its originators, and the | Cumberland... 2,241 tes 1,800 — | exceed four or five about the legs and body. chances appeared to be that the republican party would | pene S ii EPrr) 3,901 ‘ABOUT THE CLUBBING. Jose the Southern States in the next Presidential contest 138 19,254 | ‘Ho said two men quarrelled, and the keeper went up rwith two or probably three exceptions: Republicanism — ber — | to separate them, They turned on him and struck him, feet ees ee ue | ON) ONEREIRHOS. pe "gus =| and he resented tho blows. Then thero is Bretly Cosarism, which bad been ridiculed os s ed 2,428 — | Burns, who killed Jeffery in Sing Sing, He has been in sensational absurdity, began to develop itself = a — | Trenton, Sing Sing, Blackwell and Auburn. Ho is Wie s A orentgning,. Changer; demanding. | the bes re 4g0 | forty-three years of age, and has been twenty- attention of the party. Vice President Wilson raised i 1,113 ec years in prison. He is a burglar, He | bis voice in warning against a departure from the | Sonsereet - be —| charged that he had been cowhided . cruelly. | Pema ies ae oxamplanst, Washington: Oéber sepsbie trig. i o 4145 | The Prison Committeo investigatod that ease in 1873 | cans followed in his wake and State conventions re | Warren, ao 3,108 — | and said that the Warden was justified, When he came | corded their disapproval of a third term for any Presi- oy eee to the Penitentiary he said ho was not, able to work. | . wn 2 2 The Doctor sent bim to the hospital. ere we missed dent of the ors pot ct iors and me | Total pad an 32,710 | wo blankets and acoused hi of stealing them, but te | soldier whoso intbrests and ambitions were affected by pleaded innocence, When he was sent back to’ his cell | these expressions was moved to abandon his policy of | Net majority... 43,314 Net majority. 7,612 the stolen blankets were found cut up in strips, and he | silence and, while combating the popular sentiment The majorities in the counties of Essex, Passaic and | Was found one morning trying to hang himself. Ho | Sussex are estimated, in consequence of there being a jew townships in each yet to be heard from. But when all ie returns are in they will not vary the above result muc One remarkable result of the election was in the Fifth | ward of Paterson, where 557 votes were cast for the | tax amenament and but 44 against, giving a majority of 513 in favor of it, while the amendment in regard to | the public schools had but 83 majority. ‘The Governor expressed his surprise that there was no opposition shown to the amendments until the eleventh hour or a few days before election, although ample time was given every one to oppose them, as they had to be submitted to two different Legislatures, } REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE, | | The members of the Bepublicaa State Central Com- | | mittee met yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The | following officers were elected:—Chairman, A. B, Cor- neil; Treasurer, J. N. Knapp; Secretary, H. A. Gilder- sleeve; Executive Committee, A. B. Cornell, J. N. Knapp, H. A. Gildersleeve, 8. B. Dutcher, J. M. Patter- son, Jr.; William A. Darling, E. D, Morgan, William H. Robertaon, George H. Sharp, John F. Smyth, Gil- bert Robertson, J. 0. Remington, W. C. Squire, George N. Crane. Mr. George N. Sharpo was chosen chairman of the Executive Committes, WESTCHESTER POLITICS. Mr. George W. Davids, six times Supervisor of New Rochelle and President of the Board, has been indorsed by all the leading democrats of the district as their ‘candidate in the coming Convention for Treasurer of | | | Westchester county. A QUARANTINE SENSATION. | DETECTION OF YELLOW FEVER ON AN INBOUND | STEAMER—THE CASES REMOVED AND THE VES- j SEL FUMIGATED. | The steamship Columbus, Captain Read, from Ha. | | yama, belonging to the Clyde line, came to anchor yester- | | Shortly afterward she was boarded by Health Of- | ficer Dr. Vanderpoe! and his deputies, Drs. Mosher and McCartney. While examining into the health of the passengers Dr, Vanderpoel discovered that John Ryan, | | assistant steward, and two waiters, were indisposed and | suffering from what might possibly develop into | YELLOW FEVER, ‘The Doctor gave orders that they should be removed | | by the Quorantine tender Daniel McKellar, under the | charge of Superintendent of Quarantine, Major Colville, | | to Dix Island Hospital, where it is probable that they | being of the lightest kind. The matter of their re- |amoval was promptly attended to by Major Colville. The | | health of the port, owing to the strict vigilance of the | | Quarantine officiais, nas been excellent, and it is unfortunate that, as the summer quarantine | season is drawing to its end (1st November), these | trifling cases should have develo After a consulta- | tion with his deputies by the ith Officer it was de- | cided to allow the passengers to land, as the three sick | men had been kept wholly apart from the rest of the | crow since their symptoms of sickness had manifested | | themselves, and, further, that as all the passengers were | | “acelimated’—viz., not liable to any chance of con- | tagion—there could be no risk in allowing old residents | in Cuba to come ashore. Before this was done Dr, | Vanderpoel, assisted by his deputies, made a SECOND Sppncrina INVESTIGATION | into the cofdition of health of all the passengers, and then consented to allow them to land, feeling certain that in so doing there was no possible chance of con- | tagion. In addition to this tho ship was thoroughly | gick ts brought to him for exatninavion; prior to War- | fury . The passengers, numbering some forty, | den Cunninghat’s time at the Penitentiary it was al- | wore then taken off in the Quarantine steamer Nelson | Jowable for Jue keepers tg punish the prisoners; the | J. Hopkins and brought to thia city, but not allowed to | freditl of the prisOh is at present very good; when take their Pee ee orn, them. or even the smallest | Bretly Burns was first brought to the prison he was | valise, = Thi nah however, they will be | suffering from bronchitis, but is now in pretty good | allowed to receive it. = Many ladies begged | health; never heard Whitehead complain after be got Piteously to be allowed to take their trunks with them, but Dr. Vanderpoel was inflexivie. The Rev. Mr. | Kenny, Protestant minister at Havana, and sever: other passengers refused to leave the steamship, stating | that they would not go until they received. tach bag. | gage, and they will, as above stated, have to te till | this evening, The Columbus will’ remain at Lower | Quarantine tll further orders. BOARD OF HEALTH. . | The Board of Health met in weekly session yesterday, | transacting considerable routine business. The following is the weekly report of the Registrar of Vital Statistics :;— MRALTH DEPARTMENT. There were 828 deaths reported in this city in the week end- | ing on Saturday, the 11th of September, against 607 deaths veritied for the previous week. The decrrase of mortalit was greater than the difference (69) between 697 and G2, for 23 of the deaths which were reported Inst week belong to the verified list of the previous week. The decroase com. eck cating A Eee 28 was 572,ehen the mean tem- ro was at 07.5 degrees. The increment of temperature 1g September 4 was 9 dogrees and increased by 125 deaths. mortality in the city wi Again, with & decrease of temperature, though only &” degrees: the deat falls in’ full” propor. tion, Aside from the special results incidental to the high temperature of the fortnight ending September 9 the general health of the city population has been most favorable. There continues annsual exemption to be an | from searlatine, meas! are aes pastperns di to 34. ‘The death rate last wee! week ending September 4 it ‘he rate reported in wee! was 21.8 in the 1,000 annually, and for the twenty- cities in Great ban it was equal 5a 5 98 ie 3 INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED CRUELTY at THE KINGS COUNTY PRISON—COWHIDING PREFERA- BLE TO THE BLACK CELL AND SHORT RA- TIONS—HOW A PLOT TO ESCAPE WAS FRUS- ‘TRATED, Yesterday afternoon the Committee of the Board of Supervisors of Kings county met in the parlors of the Penitentiary, at Flatbush, for the purpose of taking tes- timony dn relation to the allegations of abuse made by _cértain ex-convicts against the managers of that prison. There were present of the committee Messrs. Clat Hill, O'Connell, McKenna, French and Brown. trict Attorney Winchester in attendance and closely watched the proceedings, The chairmain of the committee stated the object of its meeting and its readiness to hear com- plaints from any souree, either by letter or otherwise. As nobody came forward the chairman said that the commitice would hear any statement that Mr. Shevlin, the Warden of the Penitentiary, might have to make. Warden Shevlin then took the witness chair and stated that there had been four or five cases of cowhid- ing in the Penitentiary; they are recorded on the black book, He was always ready and willing to account for his action before any of the men who were punished. He mentioned the case of Timothy McCarthy, who, he | said, was in the shoe shop getting instructions, when | his instructor urged him to finish a certain work which he should have done the day previous, He turned upon the instructor and cut him with a knife on the right cheek, inflicting » terrible scar. McCarthy was put into the black cell. That, said the Warden, is the basis of one of the charges of cruelty, After ten days incarceration in the cell McCarthy wag taken out and cowhided by Mr, Donnelly; he isa burglar, and is un- der sentence by the Court of Sessions for four and a- half years, He was confined in the black cell once for eattempting to throw Keeper Meehan oifatier, Either Deputy Warden E. B. Crummy or he, said the witness, was always in attendance in the Dis- Britton was also was sent to the shoe shop. For all this no cowhide was used till Burns, without any provocation, cut a fel- low prisoner down the right side of the face with a knife. Burns was then taken out and for that the Warden cowbided him. He was then to work again in the shoe shop, get where he did but from twenty-live to thirty-two pairs of shoes per day, whereas the others did from 400 to 1,200 pairs, For that he was again put in the black coll, When he was again returned tothe shop the fellow would not labor, Warden Shevlin asked hint if there was anything he could do, and the prisoner said “No,” that his constitution was broken up. The Doc- tor suid he was able to work, and the Warden believed it to be his duty to make him do so. He was cow- hided again, and increased the number of shoes, doing 120 pairs’ per day, That was not enough, and he was again punished by __ putting the shackles on him, Burns received about eight or nine lashes. The Warden thought if he could use his own discretion he could make Burns work. Breen Morgan, a prisoner, took up an awl in the shop | and stabbed his instructor in the side for no causo whatever. That man was COWMIDED AND WORKED WELL APTER | that, He was u burglar, and his time having expired | he ts now out, The cowhide has never been used with- out the sanction of the Warden. The keepers have used their clubs in self protection only. If any convict has been abused at the niiary and has not stated the fact before leaving it has been his own fault, Several letters which had been received at a certain | newspaper ollice from complainants against the man- | agement of the Penitentiary were here handed in to the | chairman of the committee, who stated that they would be duly examined and the writers thereof re- quested to attend the examination before the commit. | tee, Warden Shevlin said he had never held any cor- | respondence with Dr. Whitehead, who has been prom- inent among the complainants, The Warden said that in extreme cases, as a last resort of discipline, he be- lieved cowhiding to be a good method of punishment— he never knew it to fail, He had found in conversa- tion with all keepers of prisons that cowhiding was the only means of preserving order and promoting discip- line, Itis not so much the sting of the cowhide as it ts the degradation of the punishment, No bodily harm has ever been done by it Rev. Job G. Bass testified that he had been in the Penitentiary as often as three times a week on an ave- rage for the past ten year's; he had never known of any knew of the Bretly Burns cow- hiding and he believed that the act was justitiable; he told Sheviin that either he or Burns must win; either Burns should work or be punished; the German stabbed by Burns was a harmless man; he had spoken to Dr. Whitehead about the charges’ he had made and had urged the Doctor to draw up charges and specifications against Warden Shevlin, and he (Mr. Bass) would pre- sent them; no such charges or specitications were, how- ever, made by the Doctor. WHITEHEAD, WHILE A CONVICT for a year and eight months, under sentence for send- ing obscene literature through the mails, was employed in the hall, as he said be was notable to work in the shop. The Chairman, in reply to a question, said that Dr. Whitehead bad no official notification to be present to- day. Vir, Bass said the Penitentiary ig to-day in a better condition than it ever was before; the cowhide was used and mancles were imposed when he first came to the institution; he remembered when, in the history of the institution, a sick boy, a prisoner, was brought | an orange by his mother, and’it was refused him; now guch is not the case, the greatest kindness “being exercised toward all; the convicts hi access to the witness whenever they come to the institation, and he listens to their complaints; he knew of an instance three years ago when a keeper was dismissed upon complaint of a prisoner, which was verified upon examination of the Warden; ‘Father Hickey attends to the wants of the Catholics of the ison on Sunday mornings and the witness to the rotestants in the afternoons. Dr. J. 8. Zabriski, physician of the Penitentiary, tes- tified that he had been attending there for ten or fif- teen years; @d not remember ever having been called to examine a case of cowhiding; any prisoner reported the position of doorkeeper. Mr. Fred. Hoyt, Chairman of the Kings county Com- + mittee of the State Prison Association, testified that he had examined the complaint of Dr. Whitehead and found that the accusations were almost worthless; there was no ground for complaint that he could find, Mr. ©, T. Biglow, contractor for the Bay State Shoo Company, said that the punishment at the Penitentiary hore was less severe than at the Connecticut Peniten- uary, where the lash is used ; he considered the lash less injurious than the black cell or'showering; in Auburn Prison phe cowhide was found the most eflicacious punishment and Iéast injurious. A REVOLT PRUSTRATED, At this jancture Deputy Warden Crammy, with the consent of the committee, read a remarkable paper, written by a convict, setting forth at length and in de- tail a conspiracy set on foot by one William Titus, along. | term convict, who hus been undergoing sentence on con- ion of burglary since February last. The name of prisoner thaking the confession is withheld by the pape \dressed to the inside keeper, illy,”” which had been made to assault the night keeper. The committee went into executive session and con- cluded to send for ex-convicts James Joyce and Ed- ward Morris, to appear and testify on Tuesday after- nbon, at one o'clock, until which time the committee adjourned. TRY AGAIN, MORAN. Yesterday afternoon, about half-past five o'clock, Michael Moran, who had recently served a term of six months at tho Snake Hill Penitentiary, had a most ning | PENITENTIARY PUNISHMENT. | PUBLIC SCHOOL SCANDALS. UPROAR IN THE JERSEY CITY BOARD OF EDUCA~ TION—ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS—MEMBERS ARRAIGNED FOR EXTRAVAGANCE AND FRAUD. A scandalous scene was enacted in the Board of Edu- cation at Jersey City about one o'clock yesterday morn- ing. Efforts had been made for months to secure econ- omy and an honest.expenditure of the public appropri- ation, but they were fruitless, Mayor Traphagen warned members that if they persisted their reckless extravagance the appropriation would soon run out and the schools would have to be closed. One of the members, Mr. Hollins, was laughed at and taunted by his fellow memfbrs for what they termed his visionary notions of economy, Scandals arose in the schools which shocked public morality, and in vain was Mr, Hollins’ appeal for an investigation. All his objections to the reckless and fraudulent expenditures of the Board were treated with defiance. At length he made up his mind to prepare a statement of the case, which would UNMASK THE PERNICIOUS SYSTEM to the citizens, and the revelations he has made, sus- tained by overwhelming testimony, are positively astounding. Mr. Hollins commenced by moving, as a member of the Finance Committee, a minority report. The Clerk had not proceeded far with the reading when he was in_ terrupted by the President (Mr. Lyon), who ruled that the report was not a proper document to be read in that Board. Then @ shower of denunciations rained down on the devoted head of Mr, Hollins, The bursting of a bomb could not have created greater consternation, Nearly all the members were on their feet at the samo time, and con- fusion reigned supreme. Mr. Hollins cried out that as the reading of the report was suppressed the docu- ment should be returned to him. This was objected to, but when Mr. Hollins informed the Board that he had in his possession a copy of the report, which he would have published, the members wilted, and the report was read, amid continual interruptions from members who writhed under a merciless castigation, At one time would be heard, “prs A Lm, AN INFERNAL LiB!?? At another, ‘It’s false, false as ———!”’ and such choice epithets. The cries from the lobby breathed violence and vengeance against Mr, Holling, who was calm and intrepid throughout the storm. He was not in the least daunted by the cries of ‘Fetch him out here!” nor by the constant shaking of fists in his face. Now for the report itself, which occupied three- quarters of an hour in delivery. It opened by stating that the appropriation, which was intended to last till the st of December, was nearly exhausted, Had the money een hgnestly disbursed the sum was sufficient, In spite of the repeal ate tempts to economize the Boat rsisted in appropri- ating money contrary to law, and was in favor of closing the schools’ as the result of its extravagance, thus throwing out 11,000 children, to the everlasting disgrace of the city. An appeal to the people was, therefore, in- evitable, a3 there was no hope from the’ Board, which was run in the interest of the directors and their friends, teachers, janitors and others, ‘The report then recited the irregularities ana frauds in detail, giving the names of the directors of the Board implicated, as well as the dates of the occurrences and the names of the witnesses who could substantiate them. There were copious references to the records of the Board, and in not a single instance was a name suppressed. Directors and employés were ¢reated with an even hand. One female teacher was stated to have TREATED HER PRINCIPAL WITH DEFIANCH and continued insubordination; snapped her fingers in his face, and boasted that she possessed such influence with certain members of the Bolrd that she could defy him. One member of the Board, whose naine is given, went to the school, supported her in her insubordination and then had her transferred to another school. This member, it is alleged, was so violent that he broke open one of the school doors in the said female teacher’s class room. A man named Hale was employed to teach classics in the High School at $2,000 a year, but he was found to be 60 incompetent that ‘Professor ' Martin ' was engaged to take his place on the promise of a director that he would resign; yet he remains, aud no report was ever made to the Board. ‘The principal of School No. 2 wrote several letters to the Committee on Teachers complaining of the incom- petency of one of the female teachers; but it has been tound impossible to remove her. On the 4th of June charges of a very grave character were presented by parents of children in School No. 14 against Mr. Marvin, the principal. Zhe whole matter was concealed from the Board by the committee, who al- lowed Mr, Marvin to send in his resignation and then draw two months’ salary, amounting to $386, for which * he never rendered any Service. The whole matter was finally smothered in secret session, though Mr, Hollins insisted on the dismissal of Marvin. festly,” says the report at this point, “4 LINK OF CORRUPTION binding democrats to republicans 1m this Board.”” ‘The most glaring fraud set forth in the report is in reference to good heaters, which were taken from schools Nos. 12, 5, 8 and 2, and sold for old iron, while new ones, at a heavy cost, were substituted. The com- mittee responsible for this matter spent $16,000. A janitor who reported that a damaged heater was put in for a new one was threatened with dismissal for “blow- ing too much,” and the threat was fullilled. in the uproar which followed the reading of this re- port Director Thomas offered a resolution that Mr, Hollins be denied ull the privileges of a member of the Board until he should purge himself of his con- tempt, and the resolution was adopted. Mr. Pangborn moved to strike his name off the roll, but a member suggested that they might be travelling too fast and that the Grand dury was in session. A resolution was adopted that Mr. Hollins appear next Monday evening and purge himself of his contempt, at which Mr, Hollins smiled and voted “Aye” with the other members. The case is likely to go before the Grand Jury, and the indictment of some of the mem- bers of the Board is by no means improbable. CHEAP LAND CARRIAGE. “There is, mani- FACTS AND FIGURES IN SUPPORT OF THE NAR- ROW GAUGE RAILWAY SYSTEM. The Board of Directors of the New York Cheap Transportation Company held their regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon, at No. 110 Pearl street, President B. P. Baker in the chair, The Executive Committee reported that, for some time past, they had had under consideration the ques- tion of a freight railway from this city to the West, and that in investigating as to the advisability and practicability of lending the aid of the association to a project of this character the question of gaugo had commanded and received especial atttention, The committee was, it reported, in communication with eminent authorities, of both this country and Europe, and as soon as possible a full report of its doings would be submitted to the Board. Mr. F, B. Thurber, Secretary of the association, then said that, Mr. J. K. Hornish, President of the Forty-first Parallel Railroad, which bad been favorably reported upon by the Committee on Railways and Canals of the last House of Representatives, would read a review of the claims and merits of narrow gauge roads. Mr. Hor- nish’s document stated that the actual cost of trans- portation by railroads is a material element in all measures involving the necessities of commerce and the security of the money invested in these public highways. Commerce should not command or domand rates pelow safety to the capital in- vested. Yet at the present time the public is demanding a reduction of rates while capital is de- manding an advance, This conflict has been raging for the past two years with tho most disastrous and de- moralizing influence on all parties. Itis held that the entire trouble grows out of the nature of our present railroads, or, in other words, that our standard gauge rajlroads (‘our feet eight and one-half inches) are not dapted to the conditions of the commerce of the coun- fry ‘of the age. Narrow gauge railroads (three feet in width) af¢ pow proposed as the common ground upon which all can Thode ‘he merits of these roads are most conspicuously presented ip the report of the Commit- tea on Railroads and Canals of the House of Represen- tatives of the last Congress. The NET COST OF TRANSPORTATION, next to the cost and capacity of the roads, is the ma- terial question and involves the future commerce of the country and the thrift and prosperity of our people. We are estimating for a first class road—first class in all its equipmenis—with an average on@the whole line of 1,000 miles for 2,600,000 tons per annum. From these data we obtain our train miles and ton mileage. The annual gross expenses and gross receipts, divided by the ton miles, give us the average net and gross cost per ton mile, and the difference between these is the profit tor interest, dividends and development, ‘Aiter forty-five years of experience and development the lowest average net cost per ton mile on our four first claas trunk roads, via :—the New York Central, the Erie, the Pennsylvania Central and the Baltimore and Oblo—is eight mills per ton mile, and the lowest average gross tariff is twolve mills per ton mile—that is, eight mills for expenses and four mills for Interest and dividend, First class single track roads ex- ceed this average, from nine to twelve mills being the net cost and from fourteen to sixteen being the average grows tarif, In 1871 the COT PER TRAIN MIL on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad was ninety-five cents, This road 18 embarrassed by ninety-five feet grades and very sharp curves, which limit the Ly seed of the locomotives to ninety tons, and, making fair Jowance for grades, curves and ‘helpers, ‘we will hay fairly a 200 ton ca ity without an increase of cost, In 1869 the cost of the train mile of the Buifaio and Erie road, which has the grades to admit the capacity in thé locomotives, was ninety-o1 conta or 4.55 mills per ton mile, on an average of 200 tons to the train. The Denver and Rio Grands road has seventy-five feet grades, being constructed up among the mountains, in @ country of sparse population, small development and high priced labor, Ite bua- iness (s limited to small train loads, and of this ninety- one por cent is local, irregular and very expensive. But notwithstanding all these drawbacks, its net cost, in wees eistd cerens re asore i hear, i ree cagee Se | RY esa om dah, He wa ntereid and cor rates rangin) ‘82 to 45 in the a experience of this year has gone far to remove | "The following is a comparative statement of cases of | Telsome, and dared any person to approach him as ho t ventional prejudice that the season at Long | contagious diseases reported at this bureau for thetwo | walked along the track of the Penndylvania Brant bina pale pony Dee omg that September is | weeks ending September 11, 1876:—~ Railroad, in Jersey City, He was nowise @ mon! and cold on the seashore. Some of —Week Ending | daunted when the cry was raised that best. ‘Of the season has been found at the | Diseases. Sept. & Sept 11. | a train was coming. Bracing himself up, he yelled out, ‘West End ing September, and certainly the -| Typhus fever, e. 4 | with @ deflant air, “Let it come; I'll not stir,” Tho Branch bas been more enjoyable than since the | Typhoid fever. v7 Q1 | Ongineer, seeing the desperado rush to meet the train, clase of this With the exception of a | Scariet fever la 7 | whistied down brakes, and when the tram reached single day we have two weeks of uninterrupted " 8 6 | Moran its epeed was so lossened that he was thrust off eanshine, with @ — refreshing breeze, sometimes 12 66 | the track by the locomotive without being sertously in- drom the but mostly from the sea The bathing B 40 | jured, This desperate youth is a member of the First bas been ¢: mt and driving good, Those who 1 & | wireat wana in Jersey Wily. 1874, did not exceed fifty per cont of its tariff rates, Tha ‘tort pifmagrent pig 4 an thye of tha Kansas Pacific, which fs a standard gauge, with fine grades, oe Jong haul and aes business. But ine lattoe roed. Bien never been one, havi is able to do its business for one-half the tariff rates, and the other, having all the aH Ce age forty per ceut more. This int that a marrow road can operated at a much less co: than a andard road, and a gauge road can make money narrow when @ standard road can merely exist. are logical facts, which aro self-assorting, and they hold good in a comparison. with any standard and narrow guuge roads similarly situated in any part of the eoun- Mr. N, MoConaughy, an engincer of the proposed People’s Railroad, surveyed betwoon New York and the Mississippi River, also made some remarks on the same subject, ‘The mocting, after electing eighty-six new members to membership, adjourned. NEW YORK CITY. Thomas Ryan, aged forty-one years, of No. 6 West ‘Thirty-fourth street, while at work yesterday morning, fell into the cellar and broke his left arm, He was sent to Bellevue ospital, Elizabeth Winship, of No, 130 Madison street, at- tempted to commit suicide yesterday afternoon by tak ing a dose of Paris green. Sho was attended at the Madison street station house, after which she left for her home, Frank Racigetupo, an Italian boy, aged four years, of No, 36 Baxter street, fell yesterday from coach at Grand street ferry and received severe injuries, He was attended by a police surgeon at the Delancey street Lene house, after which he was removed to his OMe, BROOKLYN. The residence of George L. Kent, No. 11 Montagne terrace, was broken into on Monday night last, and robbed of silverware to the value of $100. The Inspector of Buildings, Hi McLaughlin, who was stabbed recently on Jay strebt, Is said to be sink- ing. His assailant was arrested at time of the oc- currence and is now in jail, ee On application of the counsel for the Board of Police Justice Gilbert, of the Supreme Court, yesterday granted further time to answer in the writ of certiorari procured by ex-Superintendent of Police Joha ¥. Folk against the Commissioners of said Board, , Fire Marshal Keady, of Brooklyn, yesterday caused the arrest of two persons on acharge of arson. The prisoners are Honry and Elizabeth Broalin man and wife, who are accused by Captain MéKellar, of the Eighth precinct, with having set fire to their house in Twenty-fifth street, Gowanus, * William P. Irish, printer, was held to answer a charge of bigamy before Justice Walsh yesterday. The complaint was preferred by Mrs. Margaret Campbell, of No, 800 West Twenty Afth street, New York, who ac- cuses him with having married her daughter Sophia, ho having a wife living at the time. ‘The colored clergyman, Rev. W. F. Johnson, has de- cided to appeal trom the recent decision of Justice Gil- bert, of the Supreme Court, denying his son the right to enter Public School No. 35 asa pupil. The Court held that the relator, Johnson, should submit to the regulations of the Board of Education, which body had provided special schools for black boys, LONG ISLAND. a Captain Alfred Munroe, of Jamaica South, who, with Mr. William Driggs, of Canarsie, was supposed to have been capsized and drowned from the yacht Clara, off Rockaway, in the squall of Friday last, returned to his home on Monday evening, safo and sound. STATEN ISLAND. Surveys have been completed by the landholders for three new avenues at Fieldler’s Park, on Castleton Heights, in the town of Middletown, and the work of opening them was commenced yesterday. County Treasurer McRoberts gives notice that unless the lands sold by him for unpaid taxes shall be re- deemed within one year from the time of sale, in ac- cordance with the statute, they will be conveyed to the purchaser, The Harlem flats nujsance is reproduced on asmall scale at the bulkhead of the lower dock at Stapleton, which is now being filled in with all the rubbish and re- fuse from the village, After rains, and with the hot sun shining upon the mass, the stench from it, added to that from the Canal street body, which runs under the dock, is almost unbearable, and ferry passengers are much annoyed by it. NEW JERSEY. The expense of maintaining the public schools of Jersey City for the year ending June 30, 1875, was as follows:—Rentals, $2.200; salaries, $210,361; books and Mr itrtA { rea ieustise goat and Ret, tore, 613; fu identais, 010, To! $263,310." % i bi ‘The funeral of George Grooby, who committed su cide by taking laudanum over his son’s grave, in the New York ly Cemetery, last Thursday, took place yesterday frdm the Charity Hospital in Jersey City. ‘ne services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Verrin- der, and the body was interred in the grave beside that of Mr. Grooby’s son. WORK OF THE CORONERS. A RAILROAD COMPANY CENSURED—OTHER CASES. An inquest was held yesterday by Coroner Eickhoff in the case of John Feany, of No. 416 West Thirty-second street, who was run over by an ice wagon on the 7th inst. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, Another inquest was held in the case of Leopold ‘Weiss, formerly a workman in the Grand Central depot, who came to his death on the 11th inst. by being crushed under @ car he was repairing. Several witnesses were examined, and {t appears that it was the business of the deceasea to repair the tracks of the cars. On the day in question he went under one of the cars that had but a few minutes before been backed into the depot for the purpose of working on one of the wheols, Ho had been there not more than five minutes before the locomotive backed up and pushed the car a distance of several foet, almost instantly killing the deceased, By the testimony of a fellow workman of the deceased it appears it is customary to notify the engineer and brakeman when repairing {8 about to be done under- neath any of the cars, so that it will not be moved dur- ing such repairing. In this case no notice had been given except to a train switcher, who was acting as brakeman, The Jury rendered the following verdict:— We snd that the deceased came to his death by shock, due to injuries received while repairing a car of the Hudson River Railroad in the depot at Forty-second street, on Saturday, September 11, 1875; and we cen- sure said railroad her af for not perly protecting the lives of employés while en; in work in the de- Bot and we suggest that repairs be done in the repair shop. Coroner Croker held an inquest in the case of Mrs. Ann Carroll, late of No. 403 West Sixteenth street, who died suddenly under suspicious cifcumstances on the 10th inst, A post-mortem examination revealed the fact that the deceased came to her death from alcohol- ism and Bright's disease of the kidne: The jary re- turned @ verdict in accoriiance with tho facts, and Michael Leonard, who had been held as a prisoner on suspicion, was discharged from custody. An inquest was {agen held by Coroner Eickhoff in the case of Louis Diaz, aged sixteen years, who came to his death at Bellevue Hospital on the 2d ult, from lock- Jaw, the result of a shot wound in the hand inflicted pan some unknown person or accidentally by the deceased on the 23d day of last July, After the testi- mony of several witnesses the returned the follow- ing verdict “We find that the deceased, Louis Diaz, came to his death from pee, og gtr) &@ gunshot wound of the left hand received Juty 23, 1876, in Canal street, near Laight, From the testimony we are un- able to determine whether deceased accidentally shot himself or was shot by somo party to us unknown.’? Mrs. Hassey, aged forty-eight years, of No. 409 Sixth street, died yesterday at her residence from injuries re- ceived by failing out of a window. Michael Boyston, aged forty y¢ a watchman em- ployed at the Hoffinan House, died suddenly on Monday | night. It is supposed he died from heart disease. Francis Harmiil, an infant aged five days, died sud- denly yesterday morning at his residence, An unknown man, about forty years of age, was struck by Harlem train going south at 131st stroct P f bay id morning, and received injuries from which died shortly afterwards. He was attempting to cross the track at the time bo was injured. The body of an unknown man, apparently about pi amie of age, was found yesterday floating in tho North River at the foot of Vestry street and was sent to the Morgue, It ts five feet seven inches in height, and was attired in @ light, thin coat, white vest, pants and gaiter shoes, ‘The Coroner has been notified and will hold inquesta in each of the above cases, Margaret Kein, the midwife arrested for matpractice on Mra. Elizabeth Burrows, was yesterday admitted to bail in $2,000 by Coroner ker, her bondsman being Adolph Pleiffer, No, 665 atteet, TRADES’ UNION MEETING. A special meeting of trades’ union delegates was hold last evening at No, 10 Stanton street, There was not a large delegation present, bat what was lacking in point of numbers was more than made up by the en- thugiasm of such as were , Comptroller Groen came in for the usual dose of denunciation, and, after the passage of several resolutions, the mooting ad- { ‘wurned. guliect to Ue call Of tha ra WALL STREET NOTES. SENSATIONS ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE—SOME STATISTICS OF THE CARRYING TRADE—LAKE SHORE AND NORTHWESTERN—WHAT AN OLD DIRECTOR SAYS—PANIC RUMORS AND THE LAW—REPORTED FAILURE IN THE SUGAR TRADE. Thero was an excited market in Wall street yester- day, The various fluctuations of stocks will be found recorded in the proper columns. Lake Shore and Pacific Mail seemed to bo the leaders of the market, and both stocks sold nearly two per cent lower than the recorded prices on Monday evening. The opposition to Pacific Mail—as recorded exclusively in the Hxnatp— seems to be an accomplished fact, as the steamship Oceanic, lately of the White Star line, has sailed from Yokohama with a full cargo of teas intended for this market, which will be transported from San Francisco over the Central and Pacific railroads: “The damaging facts in regard to the company, published in this column yesterday, remain unrefuted, and the parties im interest desire to be heard before an INVESTIGATING COMMITTER as soon as the same may be called. Mr. John Roach remains in New York to endeavor to amicably arrange his contract terms with the Mail company, but it is claimed that there has been bad faith on the part of the directors, and litigation and unpleasant disclosures are likely to result, LAKE SHORS RAILROAD was especially depressed in the market, and rumors flow thick and fast in regard to its condition, The HuRALD representative visited one of the old directors, who gave him the following news in regard to the pres- ent rates and business:—‘‘The freights on wheat from Chicago are about as follows:—From Chicago to Buffalo, 234 cents per bushel; from Buffalo to Now York, say Tcents; and, with the addition of 1 cent per bushel— to cover lighterage and other charges—about 10 or IL cents per bushel Now, @ car carries in the neighbor- hood of 300 bushels, say averaging from $30 to $33 a car. This is about 310 of a mill per ton per mile, while the State Engineer in his report says that the actual cost of transportation ia about five-cighths of a mill per ton per mile! This isa startling fact, and has uever before been published. Why are these insane rates keptup? Either the road cannot compete with the Lake trafflc or it can ; if it cannot, the people and stockholders should know it, ‘The truth, however, is this:—While the road could earn the interest on’ its bonded indebtedness and pay @ fair dividend to stockholders in olden times, it cannot aiford to do go on WATERED STOCK, We therefore see the anomaly of a steel-railed and splendidly equipped road losing money at the rate of $1,000,000 a month, and borrowing money at ruinous rates in order to pay interest on fictitious capital, when by a system of business economy it could be out of debt and be a blessing to the farmer, merchant and in- vestor. A few years since there were only two roads to the West—the Michigan Central and Michigan South- ern, Now there are five roads competing for business, to say nothing of the Canada Southern, now nearly com- pleted, THE NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD is laboring under the same incubus, Its managers were insatiate, and although the earnings, according to the best data which can be obtained, are largely decreasing, bonds are issued for every conceivable purpose, consoli- dation, construction, &c., and to-day every mile of road is morigaged for treble what it could be constructed for. In the days of Henry Keep, whose business sagacity and foresight none will dispute, the roud was managed in @ business-like manner; expenses were kept within the income; yet now, in the hands of stockjobbers and Wall street gamesters, the fuctuations seem like a mere game of shuttlecock and batuedore.” 4EW VAILURES ANNOUNCED. Yesterday the air was black with sinister rumors of failures. The writer waited on Major George W. Mc~ Lean, the President of the Stock Exchange, in refer- ence to tracing the authors of these ramors, and was informed that the Governing Committee was endeavor- ing to ferret out the culprits. There were many diffl- culties jn the way, howeyer, and it seemed next to im- possible to locate the authors. As soon as a quorum of the og tno ps be hs trey | is baby wo ite ener getically proceed to investigate, It may no seated to quote in this place a copy of the law intended to pullish these pestiferous eee who smirch bet reputations with their foul slanders. It is as fol- OWS i— CHAPTER 440, LAWS QF 1874. As Act to declare the publication and dissemination of false news a crime, and to provide for its punishment, Passed May 11, 1874, three-fifths beiig present, ‘The People of the State ot New York, represented im Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows Suction 1.—Every person who shall knowingly circa- late fulse intelligence, with the intent of depreciati or advancing the market price of the public funds of the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, or of any foreign country or government, or the stocks, bonds or evidence of debt of any corporation or associa- tion, or the market price of any merchandise or com- modity whatever, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- meanor, and shall be punished, upon conviction there of, by a fine not-exceeding $5,000 and imprisoument for & period not exceeding three years, or either. Seo. 2. Every person who shall forgo the name of any person, or of the officer of any corporation, to any let ter, message or paper whatever, with intent to ad~ vance or depreciate the market price of the publio funds of the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, or of any foreign country or government, or the market price of bonds or stocks, or other evidence of debt issued by any corporation or agsociation, or the market price of gold or silver coin or of bullion, or of ‘any merchandise or commodity whatever, shall; upom conviction, be adjudged guilty of forgery in the third degree, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a Stato prison for a term not exceeding five years, Among other houses yesterday mentioned as having failed was ono of the largest — firms in this city, whose office is in Wall street. The Heap representa- nes waited on the firm, and was authorized to deny he rumor; yet, in justice to the cashier of a city bank and on the positive assurance of a member of one the oldest mercantile houses in this city, it is a to say the news of the failure was confirmed, To-day probably will produce either its authoritative denial or 4 confirmation of the painful intelligence, SUICIDE OF A POLITICIAN. THE DEED PRECEDED BY AN ATTEMPT TO KILL A WIFE. Wm. F. Krulder, asome time prominent local pot tician, committed suicide at No. 177 Broadway, Wik liamsbarg, yesterday morning, by shooting himself in the head after an attempt to shoot his wifo, The details of the tragedy, briefly told, are as follows: Krulder and his wife, who are fifty-six years of age each, separated something over @ year ago after thirty years of married life, in consequence of violent outbreaks of ‘emper and ill treatment on his part. The separa- tion was effected in January, 1874, on an agrement on his part to pay $4 per ‘week toward the support of his wife, she to re- tain all the furniture. He took board in the vicinity, and she was compelled to collect her $4 from him every week, and they frequently had some bitter words over the matter. In June last ho refused to pay tho $4, and circumstances compelled her to commence pro- ceedings before Judge Riley on a complaint of aban- donmeat in order to enforce the payment of the money, This seemed to enrage him, and as the Judge, in tryi to bring about a settlement between the parties, ‘old him he would have to pay or go to prison, the blow rankled and found fruit in the tragedy of yesterday be hog | Mrs. Krulder was engaged in her usual household duties in the basement of her residence, No. 177 Broad- way, about ten o’clock, when he presented himself be- fore her, saying he had come to talk the matter over. She was glad to seo that be was willing to do this, and said so, whereupon he said that he would not go to prison for her, and rather than pay her any more money he had come to the conclusion to kill both her and himself. He then placed his hand on his brp and drew his re- volver, She endeavored to prevent him, but finding herself unable to do so she turned and ran out in the ball, he firing the first shot and missing her as eho fran through the door, She went toward the street and up the stairs to the sidewalk and thence into J. H. Farenholz’s cigar store, which occupies the first floor, crying, “I am shot!” Krulder went up the back stairs and endeay- ored to get admission, which was refused him just ag Mrs. Kruider cried “I am shot!” and it is supposed that he heard her, and concluding his object was ac- complished, as far as she was concern’ placed the jistol to the side of his own head and fired, killing imself instantly. He fell in a sitting posture at the bead of the basement stairs, re he was found by Mr. Fabrenholz and Officer Lyons, a few minutes later, the istol in bis hamd being still warm from the discharge, Voroner Nolan was notified, and the body removed up stairs to the apartments of his wife, where it is new, awaiting the inquest to-day, W. H. Krulder is a member of several pone eae bers of which were in attendance forapiay and Lh the night, The Masonic fravernity take charge of remains, THE CANNSTADT FESTIVAL, Jones’ Wood Colosseum and the adjoining Washing: ton Park were attended yesterday by vast crowds of visitors, attracted thither by the second day’s festivities: ofthe Suabian harvest home or Cannstadt Volksfeat, It ig estimated that not less than 26,000 persons were im attendance on the festival grounds during the afternoon. he festivities were wound up by a summer nights tival and ball, the grounds berg illaminated with calcium lights A FIRE DEPARTMENT DISBANDS, The members of the Kast New York Fire Department have repeatedly requested the authorities of the town to appropriate a proper sum for an increase in the water supply, threatening, if they refused, to abandon their engines and disband, The officials refused to make the appropriation ($25,000), and the department was formally disbanded yesterday, the engines being turned over to Supervigor Van Siaien bv tha officers