The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1875, Page 11

-THE COURT John L. Brown’s Estate as Claimed by His Rival Widows. ARGUMENT UPON THE CONTESTED WILL How a Convivial Bachelor Divided Away His Property. A NEW DEPARTURE IN CITY LITIGATION, Salutary Lesson for Unscrupulous’ Hackmen. The will of the late John L. Brown, the admission of | which to probate isthe subject of a warm contest be- tween ‘two rival widows of the deceased, has beon filly submitted to Surrogate Hutchings for his de- cision, Yesterday counsel on both sides of the case | submitted to the Surrogate lengthy printed arguments on their respective sides, both of which present many points of interest. From the testimony in the case, a brief synopsis of which accompanies the argument of Messrs. Field and Deyo on behalf of the contestants, it is claimed by them that, on September 21, 1828, Mr, Brown was married to Mary Ann Pickering. They lived togetM@r as man and wife until 1853, a period of twenty- five years, when he discarded her for Hannah E. Picker- ing, the divorced wife of his own wife's brother, and with her he lived as her acknowledged busvand until | the time of bis death, in March, 1875. By her was born | to him ason, named Jobn L. Brown, Jr. During tho | Period of his separation from his first wife he gave her | @ house, sums of moncy, presents from time to tine, and occasionally got her to release her dower in parcels of real estate, By his will now in contest, and made nearly two months before his death, he gives all hia | property to his second affinity, Hannah, and her son, his namesake, The estato thus intended to be devised by the deceased, though large, consists mainly of large claims upon contracts with the city of New York. Al- most immediately after the death of Mr. Brown, Hannah, the alleged second wife, offered the will for probate, and on proof by horself and son bad it ad- * mitted, but such admission was subsoquently revoked onthe application of Mary Ann, the first wife, and three sters of deceased, who contest the validity of the will, on the ground that the testator was incompetent by reason of insanity or mental imbecility, and was, moreover, unduly influ- enced by his alleged second ‘wife to cut off his first, ‘The cause of bis impaired mind was claimed to be a fall he had in 1871, which was succeeded by another in 1872, by both of which he sustained injuries to his head, On the effect on his mind of these injuries, and on the question of undue influence exercised over him by the Jegatee, a largo number of witnesses were examined on | both sides, the conflicting testimony of whom raises ek fy aig which the Surrogate 1s now called upon to cide. On behalf of the contestants Messrs. Field and Deyo | contend that the object of the friends of Hannah, the | legatee, was to leaye the impression on the Surrogate’s mind that Brown never recolved any injury; that if he did he was much stronger and Wiser after | the injury than before, and that at all times | up to bis doath ho was a Hercules in | }contestants bad failed to support by body and a Solomon in mind. But the testimony, they claim, had shown that he had committed many ‘acts which could not be those of a man of sound mind; | that he was frequently ma condition to be unable to transact business, and that those who were not induced | by motives of self-interest to shut their eyes to his iin. becility were unwilling to do business with him; that for the last eighteen months of his ife Hannah hardly trusted bim out of her sight; that she went with him | everywhere, she, and not he, conducting his business, and that whenever she was present he was hardly more than au automaton for her to move. The medical tes- limony has shown that the deceased was cuifering from softening of the brain; that there was no possible re- covery from the disease; that the blows which had “injured his head, co.nbined with _peca- niary troubles, had shattered his intellect, and that he was hot of sound and disposing ' mind and memory. The testimony of Dr. Pratt for the pro- ponents had failed to shake the foregoing conclusions | of Drs. Cottman and Hammond, It contradicts itself. | His entire direct testimony on the first day was spent In endeavoring to explain away their evidence on the theory that the symptoms detaiivd by them might not indicato softening, but did indicate partial paralysis of the substance of the brain; while on the second day he undoes his whole prior testimony, owing, as he says, to the consultation of authorities incantime, and says the symptoms might have proceeded from a temporary en- largoment of the cerebral arteries, His second day un- does the labors of his first with a diligence compared to which Penolope’s mighty undoing of her web was but sloth. Why did they not contradict Drs, Cottman and Hammond as to Brown’s hallucinations, his threats and her fears of his doing injury, the project of putting him | in an asylum, his insomnia ‘and other symptoms by Haunah? They did bring one witness who swore he had no hallucinations, and on the cross-examination, when asked what hallucinations were, said he supposed they were something like pneumonia or diphtheria. Hannah might have done as well as this. Counsel’s ar- gumont for the contestants concludes as follows:—The amount ofthe property of the deccased is undeter- mined. Ho has already amply provided for bis sou by gifts of the Gottenburg property and of an interest in the Mehrbach property and otherwise, Hannah bas ‘obtained a large amount of property, and it doos not | appear that she got it from any other source than from | Brown. What is left appears to consist of claims against the city. The mistress and her gon havo ab- | sorbed ail that is now ayailable, It 1s sur- | [ae that they did not get the rest from { im while he lived. Whatever remnant there might be she sought to grasp by taking him to his counsel's office but a few weeks before his death and | letting him make his will, about which she protessed to | have been so indifferent that though she was with him | ‘aud knew that he signed it, she did not inquire the con- | tents. He bad hardly been buried aday before she had | the will admitted to probate upon a false statement that sho was his wile, and without notice to any person in- terested. And now it is time that her rapacity should have some check. ‘Tho real wife and the legitimate relatives should have at least the remnants that she | spared when Brown was living and seoks to grasp when is dead. On behalf of the proponents of the will, Hannah and her son, Messrs. Sullivan, Kobbe and Fowler submittod their arguments, in which they contended the evidence showed that in 1855 Brown separated from his first wifo by an agreement of separation made through a trustee, an actual separation having taken placo in 1849, They had no children. In 1849 tho deceased was married and began to cobabit and dwell im public, and in view of the whole world, with the present wile, Hannab, a decent and respectable ‘woman, woll received among her eset and fu the ation of life with the deceased. For twenty- years the deceased lived with Hannah in the ne town with Mary Ann, the latter making no claim | or interference in this arrangement, Mary Ann had | abandoned her marital and conjugal relations and lived | for twenty-eight years apart and separate from the de- ceased, he having provided for her a maintenance to this end. The deceased and Hannah have lived as man and wife an uninterrupted and happy lite, and what is extraordinary and remarkable, the sister of the ao- eoased and ail his family accepted Hannah as the wife of tho dece visited at his home, and the nephews and nieces of the deceased univer- sally addressed her as their aunt by marriage, | and assumed the relationship of cousin to the son of | the deceased by Hannah, John L. Brown, Jr. Upon the presentation for probate of the will acontest was made, not so much by the next of kin of the deceased as by a combination, for the ie of ulierior profit. It is due to the decoased and ey the proponent, to say that if the contest had not been a matter of speculation it nover would have existed, and hore this disagreeable vo, as well as defensive, topic will cease, The relations between the deceased and Hannah Browa were singularly pure, happy and contented, Their son dwelt with them for twenty-four years, having the | samme respect for them both, and with the same tender parental relation existing between his fathor and | mother that exists in any other condition of life, The | deceased was proud of his only son and child, and often spoke of him tenderly, and con- stantly express to disinterested persons his intention to leove his estate to him. The sop, up to the time of the contest, had no {dea ot Mrs. Mary Ann’s existence. In the whole ot the evidence appears no single word of reproach or stain upon the fair and exemplary character of the son, It may be that in due course these persons who, for their own altry and mischievous ends, have seen iit to speak un- indiy of this son will regret it, but this is now too late, The testimony shows clearly that the deceased was a man who had very strong affections for his son, the proponent, and had declared at all times his intention to provide for him and had even mado a similar instra- ment to the present wili in favor of this son, This dis- pels and concludes the alleged undue influence and du- ress, There were many reasons why it was not only expedient, but eminently fit and proper, that this son should receive tho bulk of the estate ot the deceased, The first wife, Mary Ann, had, a hifetime before, been provided for and ‘ay Spe of. The sisters had no claim upon the deceased; he had aided them sufliciently, and never Intended to provide for them by his last will and testa- ment. Skilful as the*hypotheses of the contestants’ counsel have, beon the one of undue influence vanishes. ‘The idea of the mental incompetency and incapacity is puerile and disgusting, and the last hope of ingenuity in cases of crime and speculation, Forty witnesses tes- tify to the decedent's mental ability, and upon the con- testants’ own showing wo assert the decedent, under the decisions, was in no sense incompetent to devise his property by will, The loarned Surrogate is familiar with the extent of depravity and the degree of mental darkness that is how necessary to prevent testament- ary disposition, If the deceased had not been tho abl dexterous and clover business man that he was t Would havo been necossary for the contestants, in ordor | where he examined his trunks and found that one of ~NEW YORK H#KALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1875. that they might provai, tosnow the deceased was, at the ‘ime (ea Tastante) of making the wills, mentally in- competent to control or exercise his mind. It Is not necessary to dwell on the egrogious failure they make at this point. Their evidence is vague, conjectural and even Incompetent, ‘The contestants make & great ado about Mrs, Hannah E. Brown not helng. salted to the stand on the part of the proponents, The reason is, and no one knows it better than counsel, that the rel tions between the deceased and herself exposed her to attack, to insult, to exposure in the public prints, and to every specios of slight, slur and dogradation whic as the mother of the son of the deceased, as the cepted sister of the decedent’s own family, as a woman and a mother, the counsel for the proponents reluctantly, and with great diversity of opinion, ex- pearing as a witness simply to rebut ypothetical case which they felt the proper ‘or suifll- cient evidence. After a long and most elaborate reviow of the facts and citations of the law governing them in casesof this character, counsel in favor of the will concluded by submiiting and recommending it to be admitted to probate as the last wil! and testament of John L, Brown, deceased, A TALE POINTING ITS OWN MORAL. A trial presenting some curiously interesting features has been in progress for the last eleven days before Judge Larremore, of the Court of Common Picas, Ad- Yocates for total abstinence trom intoxicating bever- ages would have some difficulty in finding a more striking incident to point a moral in support of their temperance tenets, The story does not require a very lengthy recital of facts, John O'Gorman, said to be ‘an educated and highly accomplished gentleman, is a bachelor not far from sixty years of age, Tho death of his mother, to whom he was greatly attached, unhap- pily for him, as he says, induced him to excessive in- dulgence in drink, In 1867 he boarded in the same house with Henry Kamak. The latter, as ho alleges, having ascertained that he was the owner of the house and lot No, 242 Madison street, took advantage of his convivial habits and deliberately set a plan on foot to rob him of his property. This robbery, he says, was consummated through getting him, while suffering from delirium tremens, to deed over to him the property in question. AS a pre- liminary step Kamak, as he further ayers, took him to ‘a boarding house kept by one Samuel White, who, pur- suant to his instructions, kept him almost continu- ously in a state of intoxication, using for such purpose the cheapest and vilest of liquors, The evidence shows that while boarding here he was so maddened with liquor at times that hewould frequently at night rush about the house in puris naturalibus, and on one or two occasions ran out in the streets in this condition, Finally he took him to a lawyer's office in Tryon row, and, While suffering at the timo from an attack of. deli: rium tremens, induced him to sign the deed. These statements are denied by Mr. Kamak, who claims that bo bought the property and paid’ for it, Sulit was brought by Mr. O'Gorman to recover back his property. The case was tried some years ago before Judge Van Brunt, but the verdict was setaside and the case sent before the Equity branch of the Court, The latter Court ordered the case tried before Judgo Larremore on special issue, the principal question to be decided being whether Mr. O'Gorman was in a sane condition of mind wher he executed the deed, Some rather interesting testimony has been ad- duced in the trial of the case, Dr, Hammond, who was calledas anexpertintbe matter of dipsomania or delir- ium tremens, related incidentally a rather curiousstory, He stated that a Southern gentleman, while suffering from deliriam tremens, ran twenty-two miles without stopping, the result of which was a complete cure of the man. Dr, Allen also added materially to the budget of information on this point, He told of a gentleman who, while suffering from a similar attack, commenced reading the Declaration of Independence in front of a mirror, when he became*incensed at the seeming mock- ery of himself by his reflection in the glass and broke the mirror into pieces. Other stories were told, all going to show the vagaries of the victim of this disease as being parallel to those exhibited by Mr. O’Gorman and all allowing a deduction that no man in @ sane condition of mind would be guilty of such erratic conduct, Some prominent lawyers are engaged in the case, Messrs. John McKeon and Justin Palmer appearing for the plaintiff and ex-Judge Cardoza and A. ©. Carroll for the defendant, The case has been hotly contested thus far, and will be to the close, Just before .recess yesterday several members of the jury, secing no prospect of the case coming to a speedy con: clusion, asked Judge Larremore if the sessions could not be prolonged so as to enable the trial to be finished before Christmas. Judge Larremore stated that he | would be willing to hold late evening sessions if rieces- sary rather than debar the gentlemen of the pleasure of spending Christmas and Christmas Eve with their families. ‘ihe lawyers, however, did not favor the suggestion as to more prolonged’ sessions, and finally Judge Larremore adjusted the matter vory satisfactorily by telling the jury that incase the trial was not con- cluded by Friday afternoon he would adjourn {t over until next Monday. With view to keep the evidence fresh in the minds of the jury every effort will be made to bring the trial to a close to-morrow. SUITS AGAINST THE CITY. A more economical administration of the legal de- partment of the city 1s beginning to manifest itself, The new Counsel for the Corporation, not being as reck- loss evidently as Comptroller Green inthe matter of | saddling the city with unnecessary legal expenses, has adopted a plan for consotidating suits where the issues | involved are precisely similar in character. For in_ | stance, among the many litigants against tho city are nineteen officers of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, cused her from a a conjectural ani Frost vs. Van Loon.—Coungel to varon the 24th atten A. M. to enter order, which will be directed. illia vs, Ward,—Motion granted on payment of $10; cause set down for second Monday of January, Bradt vs, Boulter,—Phis is a ease in which ‘tho Court cannot interfere in a summary way. If there be any remedy it is by action. SUPBEME COURT—SPECIAL TERM, By Judge Van Brunt. Ruhe vs. Law, &c., and Ahern vs, Goodspeed et al.— Cases settled, SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. By Jadgo Sedgwick. Meyer vs. Schoffel.—Motion for continuance of in- — aud for receiver, on filing undertaking, &c., 6 Churchill vs, Bradley. —Motion dented, with $10 costs to abide event. Rothschild vs, Suishenner.—Motion for injunction Granted on filing undertaking in $250. Brewster vs, Balch, &c.—Motion granted; the order to be entered should give leave to defendant to amend first undertaking as to the affidavit of justification, &c. Fairchild va, Lynch.—Ten dollars a term fee should be deducted from costs as adjusted, otherwise motion fe Bishop vs. Empire Transportation Company.—Thirty- seven New York Supreme Court R., page 12, Etlinger ys, Silberstein.—Motion denied; taxation of clerk atlirmed. Morgan et al. vs. Davenport Railway Construction Compauy.—It doos not appear that the decision upon appeal in Towa will result in any definite adjustment of rights of the parties, although it may settle, perhaps, @ a pe of law that would be followed here, As to the other ground of the motion, it relates only to mat- ters which should be determined by plaintiff, &c, SUMMARY. OF LAW CASES. Atemporary injunction was granted yesterday by Judge Brady in the Supreme Court, Chambers, rostrain- ing John Meir, proprietor of Essex Halle, from giving any further theatrical performances until after pay- ment of his license fee. William A. Boury, Secretary of the New York Rectt- fying Company, in Cedar street, charged with the illicit manufacture and concealment of spirits, was held yesterday afternoon by United States Commissioner Osborn to await the action of the Grand Jury and bail fixed at $2,000, It is estimated by counsel for the people in the $6,000,000 suit against William M. Tweed that tho trial of the cause at the yext term of the Court will not oc- cupy more than four days. This information will doubtless be a relief to the ‘struck’ jurors in the case. Meantime the elisors to draw the struck jury in the $1,000,009 suit will be selected to-day, In the caso of the Freoman’s National Bank of Bos- ton against C, Edgar Smith, inthe United States Cir- cuit Court, oquity branch, Judge Johnson yesterday rendered a decision denying the application for an in- junction restraining the defendant trom acting as as- signee of the Pensacola Lumber Company. In the case of Herrietta Hunt, who claimed the cus- tody of her child from its father, and in which the lat- ter a'leged the child was dead, Judge Davis yesterday, in his decision of the caso, stated that there was pre- sumptive evidence of the death of the child, ’ Ho de- nies the motion as against tho father, but allows the mother to renew it in case sho obtains any proof that the child is living. In the Marine Court yosterday, before Judge McAdam and a jury, Caleb H. Harrison recovered a judgment for $300 ‘against Joseph T. Price. The only interest at- taening to the suit is that plaintif® claimed be gave tho money to defendant as a broker to bo invested in stock operations and that defendant appropriated it to his own use. Defendant denied the charge of appropria- tion and claimed that’he did invest the money in stock operations, which resulted in a loss of the whole sum intrusted to him by plaintiff, H The Grand Jury came into the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge Benedict, and, among others, presented the following indictments:—James Russell, Bernard Quinn, Emilia Grabbie, Khzabeth De Mott aud Ella Kenney, dealing in counterfeit money; Ralph A. Cochine, serding scurrilous postal cards through the mail, and William K, Brown and William J. Kelley, embezzling letters from the Post Otlice, The trial of Charles L, Lawrence upon the indict- mont charging him with forging owners’ oaths and im- orters’ entries and presenting the same at the Custom louse, with intent to defraud the United States, was put off yesterday in the United States Circuit Court until the January term, there not being suilicient time “during the present term to try it, Counsel for the defendant presented a long affidavit in support of the motion mado, but there was'little in it of public in- terest, In the case of the United States against the Me- chanics’ National Bank to recover $1,500, the alleged “shortage” in the payment of drafts amounting to $25,000, the jury in the United States District Court, by direction of Judge Blatchford, rendered yesterday a Yerdict for the defendants, on ‘the ground that the | government had shown no right of action against the | | | bank, ‘The case was given to the jury about three o'clock in the afternoon, which returned into court Blatchford gave the above order. The trial of the suit of Lewis Levinson vs. The White Star Steamship Company was begun yesterday after- on, in the United States Cireuit Court, before Judge ipman, The suit arises from the wreck of tho eteamship Atlantic, off Halifax, Nova Scotia, two years passenger. of perzonal property lost and great injuries received, which latter have rendered him, as he alleges, a per- manent invalid. surgeon, whose suits are for pay for two years’ services in this Court at the rate of $2 a day for each day the Court was in session, Judge Davis, in Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday granted an order consolidating these suits. A similar order was also granted by the same Judge in the suits brought by the city Coroners for their fees during July, August, September and October of the present ear, MOF course, separate suits, divers in. character, con- tinue to be tried as before. ‘There were three sults of tig kind brought to trial yesterday bofore Judge Loew, of the Court of Common Pleas, In tho first suit John Gilligan sues for services as porter in connection with | the new Court House, The defence was that he was employed by the Court House Commissioners; that they could only employ under the statute for the 'com- pletion of that building; that his services did not come under that head, and that the appointment was not in writing. Judge Loew adjourned the case until tho Goneral Term decides whe.her the appointment of an employs of the municipal government must neces- sarily be in writing, The second suit was that brought by Peter McGuinness, assignee of the claim of Judge McQuade, of the Harlem district, who sued for $5,416 66 increased salary, the salary being $5,000 until 1870, when ‘the Common Coun- cil’ increased it ‘to $10,000, The City Coun- sel argued that the Corporation had no such power, and | exceeded their duties in raising the salaries. Judge Loew took the papers and reserved his decision. The last suit was thatof Mrs, Vandewater, executrix of | James Vandewater, who was assignee of several painters employed by the Department of Public Works. Sho sued for payment for their services in 1871. Proof was given that the work was performed. The detence interposed was that no assignment of the claims had been proved and also that under the charter of 1870 a certificate was required as to the necessity of the work. Judge Loew dismissed the complaint on the ground that no assignmentshad been proved, but assured plain. tifl’s counsel that if defendants refused to produce the assignments in their otfice he would attach them and compel their production, A WARNING TO HACKMEN. John Elma arrived in this city on Thursday last by the Pennsylvania Railroad. His trunks wero at onco taken to the Astor House, where he intended to stay, On his way thither, however, he met some friends who were staying at the Tremont House and who induced him to hire apartments in that hotel, He accordingly accompanied them to their hostelry, and hailing a | hackman namod Patrick Reilly on the street, handed him the checks for his three trunks and ordered him to bring them from the Astor House to the Tremont, Reilly, who wag accompanied by a man named Daniel Coffin, agreed to carry the trunks for $1 60, Mr, Elma waited two hours for the arrival of his property, and then, becoming uneasy, sallied out and asked an officer what he should do in the promises, The policeman did not suggest anything very clever, and the gentleman turned toward the hotel again, when he was met by Coftin, who informed him that the tranks had been delivered and demanded $# in payment. Mr, Elma gave him the money and proceeded to the hotel, them had been broken into and $200 worth of clothing abstracted. On questioning the hotel clerk he learned that Reilly and Coflin had driven up with two of the trunks lashed ontside of the coach and the third— which proved to be the one which had been broken into—inside, The clerk also informed him that Reilly had demanded and received $3 for his services. Mr. Elma at once procured the arrest of the two men, and they were almost immediately indicted by the Grand Jury, They were arraigned for trial yesterday in the Court of Genoral Sessions, before Judge Suthor- land, when Reilly pleaded guilty and was sent to State Prison for four years, Coflin, who refused to plead was tried and found guilty, when the Court sentenced him to State Prison for five years. DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. By Moat ba Davis, Knapp, &c, vs. Bonesteel. sottled. Carpenter ys, Van Pelt,—Order granted donying motion. Davig ys. Costello; Jung vs, Wagstaff,—Oruers granted, Meyer vs. Joseph.—Order granted opening default, Henrietta Lafaye vs, Edward P. Lataye,—Report of referee confirmed and decree of divorce granted to plainuf, 5 By Judge Brady. Lupton vs. Fletchor,—Atiachment vacated; memo- randum, | counsel for the Police Some four years ago ho was retired on a pension of $1,000 a year, which — pension Was: paid regularly until ‘last’ June, when the Police Board passed a resolution ‘striking bis name from tho pension roll. Application was made yesterday to Judge Brady, in Supreme Court, Cham. ders, for a mandamus against the Police Commission- ers, directing them to restore his name ou the pension lst. His counsel, ex-Judge Fithian, insisted that un- der the act of 1871, pursuant to which Dr. Freleigh was retired on a pension, the Board has power to grant such pension, but did not have the power, having granted the pension, to withdraw it, Mr, Mclain, Board, contended, in opposition) that the Board had power to withdraw a ponsion at any time they considered it for the public beneiit, Ho urged, further, the remedy was by uction at law and not by a mandamus. Judgo Brady took the papers, ro- serving his decision, COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before Judge Sutherland, PLEAS AND SENTENCES, William Benz and John Nickweiler, charged with breaking into the unoccupied building at No, 612 Kast Ninth street and stealing therefrom a quantity of lead pire, pleaded guilty, and were each sent to the State Prison for four years. James Wallace, who broke into the livery stable at No, 312 West Fifty-second street and stole some horse blankets, pleaded guilty, and was sent to State Prison for cighteen months, WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE COURT, Before Judge Duffy, THE EXCISE LAW. Thomas White, of No, 453 Eleventh avenue; James MeDonald, of No. 312 Tenth avenue, il George W. violation of the excise law. ANOTHER CLERK RUINED. Officers Dunn and Kealy, of the Central Office, on Saturday last, arrosted Frank Smith, of No. 800 East Forty-thiird street, a bookkeeper, in the employ of D, ‘Tynberg, No, 66 Lispenard street, whose residence ts No. 60 Prospect place, Brooklyn. For some time past the accounts of Smith havo called forth some attention toh actions, and Mr. Tyn- berg placea tho case in ‘Superintendent Walling’s hands. The specific charges against him, as sworn to before Judge Dufly, were for forging the indorsment on a check for $93 of D. Tynberg, payable to Mr. Tyn- berg’s order and signed by Jumes Glassford & Sons, For this charge he was held in $1,000 to answer, Another charge against the prisoner was also made by Mr. Tynberg for embezzling the sum of $34 15, col- lected by him from H. J. Sawyer & Co., which he con- fessed to his employer. Mr. Tynberg further swore that Smith had been in his employ for about three years, and, from an examination of his accounts, he believes that Smith has embezzled at least $2,000. On the second charge—that of embezzlement—the prisoner was hold in $3,500 to answer. Smith {sa young man | and connected with many respectable persons in this ‘city. POLICE COURT NOTES, At Essex Market Police Court yosterday an examina- tion was held pefore Judge Kasmire in relation to the arrest of Mr, Thomas Ryan, of the Union Place Hotel, for selling liquor after hours, The arrest was made last week by Officer Gilgar, of the Fifteenth precinct, and the prisoner was romanded by the Judge at Wash- ington Place Court, Tho officér swore yesterday to the sale of beer and liquor between the hours of one and five o'clock, and aftor further testimony in rebuttal the examination was further adjourned, Tho defenco ig persecution on the part of the officers and Captain of the Fifteenth precinct, At the Tombs Police Court, B teengn A before Justic Bixby, John Simpson was held to answer on a cha of stealing @ horse, wagon and harngss and several tubs of butter and lard, belonging to Daniel Sullivan, of Greenpoint, The property, which was valued at $347, was found in possession of the prisoner, Bail was fixed at $1,000, Henry Hollwog, of No. 211 Duane street, and Lewis Kuhike, of No. 48 Harrison street, were committed by Justice Bixby yestorday on a charge of violation of the Excise law. By 4 typographical error in yosterday’s Heranp John Willoughby, of No. 194 Loxingvon avenuo, was reported as being charged with stealing. He was not Goodwin va. Health Wepartment.—Mandamus granted. Bowery Savings Bank va, Loewenstein.—Ordor granted, Schwarale vs, Burshell.—Mr, Smedley is requested to attend. Jacob vs, Jacob.—Alimony denied, with liberty to renew, Henderson, &¢, Vs, Hewitt.—Allowanco of $100 granted. alker vs, Dodge.—Affidavit or examination of Row- land is deemed essential, Lillia vs, Ward,—Motion denied, but without costs, Matter of Meyer and another.—Granted arraigned on that charge, but for receiving stolon’ ods, CALENDARS—THIS DAY, Supreme Court—Cuampens—Hold by Judgo Brady, — Nos. 2, 44, 47, 55, 56, 85, 86, 88, 101, 121, 180, 149, 160, 163, 170, 175, 17, 178, 193, 197," 108, 223," 236,’ 267, 26u, 268, 278, 277, 284, Supreme Coort—Sreciar Ter! Wostbrook.—Domurrer—No, 22. fnct—-Nos. 728, 49, 634, 557, 106, 662, 653, 654, 568, 75, 686, 275, 102, Oo, S44. * Surreux Covugt—Creourr—Part 1—Hold by Judee about five, unable to agree upon a verdict, when Judge | For fifteen years Dr, Martin Freleigh was a polico | Day, of No, 166 Fifth avenue, gave $100 bail each for | Donobue,—Nos, 1867, 1822, 1459, 453, 2558, 73, 3834, 2079, 2116, 777, 897, $346, 2181, "2119," 1163, 407, 1579, 9473, 3449, 1641 , 1623, 3961, 3547, 2209, 2237," 2239,'2243,' 2245, , 2251, 2255, 2257, 2269, 2271, 22714, 2275, 2285.’ “Part 2—Held by Judge Van’ Vorst.—Nos, 1648, 3632, 630%, 1028, 1536, 1454, 178, 695, 1284, 1514, 1176, 9441, 225, $36, 992, 2338, 082, 45234, 2044, '403, 87055," 3600,’ 1523. Part 3—Held by Judge Lawrence. —Nos. 3269, 1247, 3630, 141, 3039, 8377, 1547, 1961, 3999, 7454;, 3001, 3022,'4009, 83355. Surrxms Court—GensraL Txxm—Adjourned until December 31. Sursrion Covrt—Trrat, Terw—Part 1—Held by Judge Speir.—Case on—No. 855. Part 2—Held by Judge Freedman, —Case on— 556, Sopxriok CourtT—Srxciat Txau—Held by Judge Sedg- wick.—Nos, 27, 14, 13, 23. Sursniok Cousr—Gxvsrat Tra,—Adjourned sine a, Commox Pruas—Equity Term—Held by Juage Van Brunt.—Nos, 25, 26, 44, 3. Common PLeas—Txiat Term—Part 1—Hela by Judge Larremore.—Case on—No, 1978, Part 2—Held by Judge Loew.—One hour causes—Nos, 2099, 1835, 2050, 1808, , 16064, 2243, 2188, 2189, 2064, 2113, 2097, 2195, | , 2180, 204044, 1903, 2054, 1477, "2233," 2246, 2014, 2282, 2251, 2015, 2117, 2272, 226i, 2103, 2191, MARINY Coort—TriaL Teaa—Parts 1 and 2—Ad- Journed for the term, Part 3—Held by Judge Spauld- ing.—Nos, 5997, 5392, 5588, 4582, 8831, 6648, 5814, 2582, 5496, 5698, 5844, 6122, 6140, 6164, 6142, 5384, 6470, 5492,'5558, 4118," 2647,' 5320, 5930, 4568, 4956, 5756, 5618, 6426, 5715, 4607. Court ov Gungrat Sessions—Held by Judge Suther- land.—The People vs. Morris W. Golastein (continued), arson; Same vs. Francis F. Marshall, arson; Same vs. Charles Bovich and James Kavaney, burglary; Same ve. Charles Wensler and Charles Burgio, grand larceny ; Same vs. George Rose, grand larceny; Same vs. Lyman Bullard, violation of the garmbling laws. COURT OF APPEALS. Aunaxy, N. ¥., Deo, 22, 1975, No. 88 Graves ys. Waterman.—Argument resumed and concluded, No, 124. William Whitbeck, appellant, vs, William P. Van Renselacr and others, respondents.—Argued by R. A. Permenter, of counsel for appellant, and by Samuel Hand |. resporspents, No. 79. John Kerby, respondent, vs, Kiernan B. Dailey, appellant.—Submitted, No. 125, Calvin Haines and another, respondents, vs. Sarah KE. Hollister and others, appellants.—Argued by W. F. Cogswell, of counsel for appellants, and sub- mitted for respondents, 1 Recess ill Monday, January 17, 1876, at ten o'clock THE MURDER OF SARA ALEXANDER. VERDICT ACCUSING RUBENSTEIN OF THE MUR- DER. Long before two o'clock yesterday afternoon, the time appointed for resuming the inquest into the mur- der of Sara Alexander, the entrance to the Brooklyn | City Morgue was besieged by a motley throng of Jews and Gentiles, who clamored for admission and elbowed each other about Ina most violent manner, Interest appears to grow in this casé as it progresses, Seated in the hall of the Morgue were Pesach and Zetta Alexan- der, brother and sister of the victim, while several relatives of the accused were also in attend- ance, It {s stated by tho jailer that the wretchea prisoner is literally starving himself, He has not tasted anything save unleavened bread and milk, the | latter being brought to him by his relatives, since his arrest. Yesterday Mr. Mott, counsel for the prisoner, called upon the District Attorney of Kings county and told him where the man could be found who had been on terms of close intimacy with the deceased girl. The prosecuting officer, however, reterred him to the Super- intendent of Police, and the latter official said he did not want to have anything further to do with the case, as it was now in the hands of the District Attorney. The | defence declare their intention of bringing this man | upon the witness stand on the trial in January, and his | testimony will, they say, set aside the alleged motivo onthe part of Pesach Rubenstein to do away with tho | woman, Assistant District Attorney Snell appeared ; for the people, The inquest was begun by Coroner Simms about four o'clock. The first witnoss sworn was Dotective William H, Folk, who testified that he was detailed to police duty at Headquarters; on the 16th of this month he was di- rected by the Superintendent to take the boots belong- ing to Rubenstein, and the shoes belonging to Sara Alexander, the murdered woman, and go to East New York to the lot where the murder was committed, | to seo if they would fit any imprints in the mud in that | | shoes fitted the imprints there; found that after they ago last March, and pon which Mr, Levinson was a | He ‘claims $100,000 damages, on account | lot; didas directed, and found that the boots and the | ‘RAP LK SHKiHi he obtained employment as night clerk {n the American | Hotel in Columbus, where bis first offence was com- | mitted in forging a check for $42. For this he | Served one year in the Ponitentiary. While in prison bis father died and left bim $60,000, and when Set at liberty he went home and returned with the money. He again went into his former bad habits and in a year was almost penniless again, after visiting all the prominent watering places and citios of the Union, Again ho found himself in Ohio, and this time com- mitted @ forgery in Cleveland, which caused his se- clusion in the State Prison for five years, Lately he Was discharged and came to New York and once more took the consequences,” and 1s now locked up in a seis ertaed Lewis, or Brandt, isa man of about of age, of very prepossess! ut and is evidently stirewd business ay seein te To a HeRatp reportor yesterday Lewis said that this is his firat offence and tie never was in prison before. Ho had been in Columbus, Ohio, some time ago and lent Louis Brandt $45, and that is the reason why he cut the slip out of the newspaper. It did not refer to him at all, He did not know Louis Brandt any further than his old friendship and personal business, He de- nied ever having been a clerk in a Columbus hotel and said there was no “American Hote!” in that city. He said that this arrest was brought about by losses at the gambling table, He last lived in this city several years | ago, at No. 4 South Washington place. The name “Louis Brandt,” he said, was an alias of James Will- jams, now a convict in the Ohio State Prison, Lowis’ story is not credited by the police, as his check to Mr. Maas read, “Pay to the order of Louis Brandt,” and was dated December 15. His real name is sup- osed to be Nathan Loewenick, as that was the name found on his satchel and so given to the clerk of the | Brandreth House, He is also said to be drawing in- | terest on $15,000 of New York city bonds. When in affluence he loaned a friend $20,000; the friend tailed, but lately became wealthy, and while Lewis was in prison returned the money by purchasing city bonds. | He is very well educated, speaking five or six lan- | guages, A STRANGE LIFE CLOSED, DEATH OF ALANSON PALMER AT THE WILLARD ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE—FROM A MILLION- NAIRE'S POSITION TO THE POORHOUSE—A BINGULAR AND MELANCHOLY LIFE HISTORY, [From the Buffalo Courier.] : One who acted an important part in the long ago his- tory of our city died on Saturday night last in the Wil- lard Asylum, at Ovid, Seneca county, a State institution for the insane, We speak of Alanson Palmer, once the millionaire whoso vessels were the proudest that ploughed the great lakes; whose landed property was vast in its extent; whose hand seemed to turn to gold everything it touched; but who was yet destined to drag through nearly the years of a generation as a liv- ng monument of the mutability of fortune, groping Into extreme old age with no vestige of his former wealth, with intellect darkened, and, indeod, in the full sense of the expression, “‘a very weak old man,” We can only sketch acareet which, if written in detail, would prove a most interesting recital although a sad one, Alanson Palmer was a self-made and, perhaps we might add, a self-ruined man, He was born in Eastown, Washington county, May 29, 1794, and camo with bis fathor's family to the then villagoof New Amsterdam, now the city of Butlalo, in 1806, Subsequently they removed to Kighteon Milo Creek, this county, where | the future millionaire and pauper worked on’ a farm | until such time as he was rent to learn the tanning, | currying and shoemaking business, at Smith’s Mills; now known as White's Corners, There he remained only four months, leaving his trade to enter the army at the age of cighteon as a substitute for his elder | brother who had been drafted. In 1813 he returned to | his trade, but after working four months longer ho again abandoned it and, coming to Buflalo, he entered the employ of Mrs. St,’ John, who kept’a tavern on Main street, opposite the site at present occupied by the ‘Tifft House. Later, and after the war had closed, he became a clerk for William Hodge, whose store was lo- catod at what would now be the ‘corner of Main and Utica streets, and after remaining with him for a time the young man took half the stock of goods, with which he started a store at Eightoen Mile Creek. Ho continued there until 1817, when he returned to Buffalo and began im the grocery business in what | is now the Kremlin block. Alanson Paliner’s cash capital at that time was just $13; but he was naturally @ business man, shrewd to calculate and energetic to carry out. His trade increased, nnd from that time until the final and fatal crash prosperity seemed to at- tond hia every yonture. In 1817 he was married to | Pattio Swain, daughter of Daniel Swain, of Boston, this county, Five years later she died, leaving no children, and in 1827 he was again married, to Julia Matteson, who bore him five children, of whom the survivors ard Charles W. Palmer, late of Buffalo, and Mrs. Julia Cleveland. Fortune continued to favor him with her pleasantest smiles, His wealth rolled up until he be- camo one of the richest men of the whole section of | the country. According to his own estimate he was | worth $2,000,000, The American Hotel, for which he gave $100,000, was one of his purchases. The Alanson Palmer and the Julia Palmer wero among tho finest vessels on our inland had got over the fence, for about 150 feet, the woman wag on the right hand side; the balance of the way to- ward the corn field the woman was on the left; within about ten fect of the corn stack there was so much tramping around that the track was lost. (Witness here exhibited a diagram of the route taken by the murderer and his victim.) Both boots fitted the | | imprints exactly, and witness got a perfect imprint of both feet about the distance a man would mako a step; the women’s shoe prints could be followed more read: ily on account of the sharp neel, as every step she took it sank up to the solo; the samo mud is on the boots _ as is on the shoes; where the imprint of the right | and left foot was found there were no other footprints except those made by witness. ‘Tho prisoner was here brought in and was seatod in achair near his captors, Detectives Zundt and Butts, He looked the picture of misery aud distress, but listened attentively to the evidence. Sergeant William Meeks, of the Twelfth precinct po- lice, then testified that he visited the Schenck corn | field, the place where the remains were found, in com- pany with the Coroner, Captain Crofts and others, on | Tuesday, the Mth inet; the body was found in the town of New Lots, about’ 500 feet south from the Ja- maica plank road avd the same distance west {rom the toll gato; found spots of blood leading from the body on the corn Stacks, about soven feot distant from the body; opened the corn stacks; on seaching ingide about eighteen inches he found a’ bloody knife concealed there, and handed it to the Coroner. Wit- ness here exanrined the knife, and recognized itas the oue he found there, ‘The weapon was shown to coun- sel for the prisoner, who closely scrutinized it, But | Rubensteim averted his gaze from it, and would not | permit his eyes to rest upon it. ‘Yhis closed the testimony, and Coroner Simms, with- out any comments, committed the case to the jury, who thereupon withdrew. Mr. Mott, as soon as tho jury had retired, ap- proached his client, the prisoner, having with him an | interpreter, and was about to onter into conversation with him, when the Coroner informed tho counsel that the District Attorney would not permit any conference with the accused in presence of a third party, At this interforence Mr. Mott protested, and declared that it was an unheard of outrage on the’ part of that official to attempt to prevent counsel from advising with his client. He said such a proceduro would not be tolerated outside Brooklyn, and he was determined that he would see and converso with his | client. As counsel was beginning to grow warm upon the subject the District Attorney’s representativo, Mr. Snell, ordered the removal of the prisoner to jail, | which was speedily done by the officers. After an absence of twenty-five minutes tho jury returned and rendored the following verdict:— “We find that the said Sara Alexander came to her | death by violonce at the hands of Pesach U. Rubenstein, on or about the 12th of December, 1875, in the town of New Lots, and that the death of the child was consequent upon the death of its mother.” The prisoner, who was broughigin to plead, de- | clined, upon advice of his counsel, to eay anything, and was remanded to jail, SARA ALEXANDER’S BURIAL PLACE. New York, Dec, 22, 1875, To tae Evitor or tHe HeRauo;— To correct the absurd and falso statement regarding tho burial of the murdered girl, Sara Alexander, in the same grave with Ellis, I would ask you to publish the following facts:—On Thursday, December 16, applica- tion was made to me by the brother and little sister of Sara Alexander for the burial of their murdered sister, | I issued my permit for such burial, also an order for a hearse and one coach upon our livery stablo keeper, and handed the same, with the necessary shroud, to our | sexton, who took the bedy of Sara Alexander from the Brooklyn Morgue direct to our grounds in Bay Side Cemetery, where the murdered girl was buried in grave No, 1,106, on Friday, Decomber 17, in presence of her brother and sister. Yours, . OETTINGER, resident Hebrew Free Burial Society. A CRIMINAL'S RECORD, HOW A WEALTHY YOUNG GERMAN Bi} FORGER. At Essex Market Police Court yesterday Detective Jeremiah Woods, of the Central Office, brought before Judge Kasmire a prisoner, who gave bis name as Adolph Lowis. Tho detective recently received in- structions from Superintendent Walling to arrest the man and was given his photograph to werk upon. Tho complaint was sent to the Superintendent by Mr, Will. jam Maas, of No. 64 Lispenard street, who sold Lewis some goods, and in retutn got a check on tho First National Bank of Reading, Pa., signed by ¥. Liebmana, for $166. The balance of the bill, about $50, was paid to Lewis, The detective found out that Lewis had also victimized Charles A. Rothschild, of No. 424 Broadway, and Samuel Strauss, of No. 8 Maiden Jano, ina like manner, and both parties tdentifed and made acom- plaint against him, The prisoner was held in $5,000 to answer, ‘When arrested Lowis had in his pocket a slip cut from a Columbus (Ohio) bbe os 8) which gave the history of a convict in the Columbus prison, The name Louis Brandt. Lewis is now — identified as being Louis Brandt, and the subject of the article. His history is mt curious and romantic, When twenty-one years of age ho left his home in Ger- many and started for this country with $50,000 in his jon, given tohim by his father, ‘Alter a fow CAME A | The old man loved to talk of the very early history of | jh, , <j, o" & | mh months he lost this money atthe gambling table and In fast life, Then, being in straightened circumstances, seas, His equipage | was the grandest scen upon the streets, and he was looked upon as the Crassus | of our then infant city, But at last the change came. Grand speculations developed into nothing, costly bub- bles burst, leaving nothing but empty air, and Alangon Palmer's riches took wings which hurried them irre- | trievably away, On the 4th of May, 1837, he made am | assignment to Horatio Warren, his brother-in-law, and Colonel Alfred Cleves. His ruin was utter and com- | plete. Of his lost fortune not even the shadow re- | mained. The blow was more severo than his mental faculties could sustain, and the balance of his long life | bocame useless to himself and to the world. Not even the means of subsistence remained to him, and he be- came a public pauper, for years an inmate of the Erie county Almshouse, Uf all his faculties the only one which seemed to remain unimpaired was his memory. | Buffalo, reciting many quaint avd interesting circum- stances. Many anocdotes of Alanson Palmer’s life might be repeated, but they would only lengthen out a chapter that is at its best gloomy. Many of our readers will | remeinber the old man making his slow way about the city streets clad in his poorhouse garb, a melancholy picture of the work of adversity. During the con- | struction of the addition to the County Asylum he was removed to Ovid, where h's history of over eighty-one years has ended with his death. HOUSES, NIST. In this City and Brooklyn, A GENTLEMAN AND WIFE DESIRE UNFUR! ed, furnished or partially furnished Apartments for light housekeeping; price must be stated and reasonabl Address IMPORTER, box 127 Herald office. ROOMS, &C., WANTED. DVERTISERS AND THE P' ? GENERALLY OULD DO WELL TO. NOTICE THAT THE | CIRCULATION OF THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAST WEE: Y¥ AVERAGE OF K ATTAINED A DAIL 86,286 COPIES. ANTED—A HOUSE FOR A PRIVATE FAMILY, | hetwoen Forty-second and Sixty-third streats and | Seventh and Third avenues; rent not toexceed $1,5 Ad- dre: |. A. H., Herald office. ANTED—FOUR OR FIVE FURNISHED OR PARTLY | farnished Rooms for housekeeping, in a respectable lo- cality, wt a moderate rent. Address, with full particulars, ECONOMY, Herald office, WANTED UNFURNISHED, BY A. MAN AND | wife, throe or’ four Rooms, in a private house, first | floor, for light housekeeping. Address, stating price, F., | ice. Herald o' ANTED—BY GENTLEMAN AND WIFE, A SMALL | French Flat, furnished or unfurnished, or a furnished Floor in a private ti . W. H, box 176 Herald Uptown Branch « OST OFFICE NOTICE. _ PUBLIC * GENERALLY VERTISERS AND THE WOULD DO WELL TO NOTICE THAT THE | CIRCULATION OF THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAST WHEK 96,2860 COPIES, OST OFFICE NOTIVE, The foreign matis for the woek ending Saturday, De- | ATTAINED A DAILY AVERAGE OF cember 25, 1875, will clos his office on Thurs 11:30 A. M., tor Europe, pe mer Wieland, via Plymouth | and Hambirg; on Saturday, at 12 M., for Europe, per | ate Elysia, via Queenstown, and at 11 A. M., for France, a por steamer Pereire, via Havre. . L, JAMES, Postmaster. = HOLIDAY PRESENTS, _ LL WHO WISH A NICE CHRISTMAS TREE SHOULD dross it with Pop Corn. Schools, churches and fairs plied at wholesale prices at Pop Corn Manufactory, 23 npson street, n irand. DVERTISERS AND rae. PUBLIO. GENERALLY | NOTICE THAT WOULD DO WELL THE CIRCULATION OF THE | EVENING TELEGRAM LAST WEEK ATTAINED A DAILY AVERAGE OF 96,286 COPIES. OLIDAY PRES) Hair Shawls, 125 5 '3.—TWO HAN and $400; 18 | A , hav » | wanted for them. Call on or uddress BROK ae _...PIANOFORTES, ORGANS, &C, N EXCELLENT CHANCE TO MAKE A HOLIDA® } fee .n elegant Steinway & Sons’ 7\¢ BY forte, at a bargain; @ brilliant toned 734 octa Windsor Pian is nd corners, name on pl | $1,200, for 8275; maker's guarantee and bill of | avlo to purchaser; also Parlor, Lil ‘hambe: ing Room Furniture ; to be sol private resideuce No. 120 Weat T A SACRIPICE—AN ENTIRELY NEW class 718 octave Piano cust. Piano can be seon at 261 A LARG lan FI {must be sold, regardi Pourl street, near Fulton. satin «SoG _ ASSORTMENT OF SECOND HAND from 850 upward; new Pianos, extremely low; 8. DECKER & BARNES, 27 Third avenue corner Fourteeuth street. —$100—BEAUTIFUL ROSEWOOD PIANOFORTE And Stool; Pianos to rent; $5 per month; instalments cash or instals fact taken; new instruments exceedingly low. Pianos tuned, GOLDSMITHS, 26 Bleecker st,, near Bowery. —LOT OF SECOND HAND PIANOFORTES, IN thorough order, for sale at moderate prices by KERING & SUNS, 130 Fifth avenue, corner Bigite ICKERING, STEIN Pianolorte y, WEBER AND OTHER: 3 to $10, monthly instal ifice for cash. J. BIDDLE, 13 Waverley CHANCE TO PURCHASE PIANOS AND ORGANS during the holidays at prices to suit all,—A large stocks of Burdett Organs to be sold cheap for mn easy instale a few, very little used, at a gi mestic Organs, $45 $65 and wy Astonishingly low ‘prices. BILLIN« East Fourteenth street, up stairs, A fi N ELEGANT DECKER + Brother Pianoforte for sale at a sxeril four round rosewood havin used t sacrifice; new Dos ard; fine new Pianos af is & WHEELOCK, 1 8: vol and Cove! ‘ for one-tourt 0 vekering grand Piano, almost new, i Seren Bag Box OF slipping. Call private residence No, GOOD SEVEN OCTAVE PIANO, CARVED LEGS, bargain; upright 7 1-3 octave, sacrifice; 8-stop Organ, iso 2-bank, cheap. PEEK & SON, No. 23 0H street), near Broadway. DVERTISER E PUBLIC GENERALLY AL wouLD TO NOTICE THAT THE PURGURATION (08 SHE EVENING TELEGRAM Og NED A DAILY AVERAGE OF A FINE ASSORTMENT OF FIRST CLASS PIANO fortes at greatly redu instalments and to rent, AN, UPRIGHT PIANO, $40; sau, rights, $200; elexunily square grand very low; special bargains for holidays. RAVEN & UO., No. 110 West Fourteenth strect. A. PRIVATE FAMILY SELL IMMEDIATELY. clogant 73g octave Piano; celebrated maker, half price; also 7 octave, $109. No. 9 West Nineteenth street, one door from Fitth ‘avenue, CLOSING OUT SALE—LARGE, ELEG Pianos, half price, order administratrix estate, 363 Bleecker street, with all latest improvements and fully Warranted; Pianos, $150, $200. RARE CHANCE.—SEVERAL ROUND CORNERED and grand Pianos, in perfect order, at a very low figure, Call and see them, before purchasing elsewhere, at 335 West ‘Thirty-sixth street; also at 10 East Union square. AN pRERGAND, HOLIDAY | PRESENT—ONE | OF BLOOMFIELD & OTIS’ celebrated Pianos. Call at the factory, 209 ast Nineteenth street, MAGNIFICENT 71-3 OCTAVE CARVED CASE Pianoforte, nearly new, of best city maker; will be sold all at 151 East near Lexing- T STOCK . Barmore's BEAUTIFUL CARVED ROSEWOOD SEVEN 00. ¥ modern improvements, celebrated. for $100. Private residence 243 East 80th and 3d avenues. ‘oot, betwee! LADY WOULD SELL. FOR LESS THAN $100, handsome Chickering Pianoforte; sweet tone ; perfee order; iron frame; guaranteed; Stool’ and Cover,’ No, 28 East 3d st., near 2d ay. LADY WILL SELL HER 7 OCTAVE PIANO- forte, $180; Steinway; vory cheap; on inatalments or 5 15 Abingdon AN EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY —A. RESPON: sible party can hire or purchase a first class Piano om gaty monthly instalments or eash, very reusonable, Address THALBERG, Herald Uptown Braach office. RGAINS,—SECOND. HAND PIANOS, $50, $755 seven octave Piano, $129; new uprights and squares t6 Melodeons, $25, GORDON & SON, rn 0 Sewing Machinw and Mirror, hth avenue. Ohickering enue, corner ighteenth street, whore they will bo pleased to receive their friends and the patie. WOR SALE LOW—A D HAND CHICKERING no; alsoa grand Piano, but little used; two second hand Uprights: several Organs will be sold very low. s. OSBORNE C0. w York, 20 East Fourteenth street, GREAT BARGAINS IN, NEW AND SECOND HAND Pianos of the best quality, fully warranted, yet low for cash, at FISCHER'S wareroonms and manufactory 421, 423 and 425 West Twe eighth street, AREAT BARGAIN. HX upright and sqi let; also second haud —NEW FIRST CLASS 7'{ OUTAVE © Pianos and Organs for saie and to Ingtruments. F, LUDKE, 69 East Fourth street. AGNIFICENT SEVEN OCTAVE ROSEWOOD PIANO- forte, having four round corners, overstrung bass, full iron plate, only $100, worth $600; also superb Parlor Organ cheap at GORDON’S, 157 Bleecher street. EW UPRIGHT AND SQUARE inducements for eash, on in: X. BALL & OO, 15 PIANOS—GREAT stalments and for rent, ast Fourteenth street. DIANOS AND Ok TREMELY LOW FOR cash, on amall mouthly or quarterly payments, or to let hand Instruments at groat bargaina; Pianos to rent for $3 and upward at. WATERS’, 481 Broad= way. QEOOND, HAND P OJ. & C. Fischer EARLY NEW, MADE BY ken iron plates; an offer KEN PLA’ PIANOS, 163 Bleecker street. y ANTED—AN OLD ITALIAN gain. Address K. L., He: 100) “SEXES OCTAVE ROSEWOOD PIANO. IN + perlect order; superior tone; first class maker; worth $300; must be sold this week. ' 296 Henry street, Brooklyn, N. ¥. VIOLIN AT A BAR. id office. _ PROPOSALS. _ ue ERS AND THE PUBLI ERALLY WOULD DO WELL TO NOTICE THAT THES CIRCULATION OF THE EVENING | TELEGRAM LAST WEEK ATTAINED A DAILY AVERAGE OF 36,286 COPIES. EW YORK CENTRAL AY road Company, Grand ember 15, 1875.—This compa: annual contra ts for Cross Tie the season of 1876. Proposals will ary 1 HUDSON RIVER RATE tral Depot, New York, y is now prepared to make . to be delivered during: ve received until Janu 1876, for the delivery of hewn White Oak Cross Ties only, in lots‘of from 1,000 ¢6 50,000 and upward, at points on the line between New York and Buffalo and Suspegsion Bridge. The company reserve the t to reject any or all bids. Specifications and blank forms of proposals may be had on application to Mr, JOHN C. CHAMPION, Tie Agent, New York Centrai and Hadson River Railroad Company, Rome, N. ¥. WM. H. VANDERBILT, ¢ President. EALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED UNTIL, Ps Fobrusty 1876, by the Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, at thelr office, No. 21 Water street, Brooks lyn, N. ¥., for thé manutacture ‘and delivery of 12u'tons of Cast steel Wire rope, required for the erection of the tempa- rary foot bridge, cradle cables and other appliances necos- rary for the construction of the main cables of the East River Suspension Bridge, Printed specifications, together with any other information In regard to these ropes, may be obtained trom the Secretary of the Board, or of tho Chiigt Engineer, W. A, ROEBLING. (0 BUILDERS AND ARCHITECTS. . Bonevolent Society hereby calls for plans and specificas tions to erect a home for their aged and intirm on thote rounds in Yonkers, at the corner of Riverdale avenue and alentine lane; said plans should take in contemplation the erection of various institutions conuected with the soclety, The society favors the pavilion plan, and contemplates t one of the buildings be erected in the ewrly spring. For furs ther information and inspection of topographic ply to the President, Dr. 8, WATERMAN, 103 ninth street, from 9 till 10 A. M DENTISTRY. ADE IN THRER HOURS A’ Thirty-fourth> stroet, between Sixth an Broadway.—Special mechanical den~ whalebone rubber, gold and ators, te. Take green car reot ferry, or Sixth avenne cars or Broadway NEWBROUGH, 128 Wost Thirty-fourth street, DVERTISERS AND THE WOULD DO WELL TO. LATION OF THE BY WEEK ATTAINED A DAILY COPIES, cars. PUBLIC, GENERALLY NOTICE THAT. Cikeo LAs’ BEAUTIFUL SRT, $8; GUM TEBTH, $1; warranted. le of teoth requires » , 202 Sixth avenue, near Sixteenth street. Remem- ELEGRAM AGE OF iG TE AVER, WATCHES, JEWELRY, &C, ti dsome Mink Cape, 46. in : cot 8450. ent air Mt yards siripest purple Silk ‘* ROC Carriage § if Pid titop nandocesel dered Pillow Y 5; three hy wv Shama howe $15.0 pair. LINDO BROS, 1,207 Broudway. {DAY PRESENTS IN DIAMONDS, WATCHES, | QT iva. gold and coral 3 eck and Chains, A Opera Glasses, &c., at low prices. Lockets, Silverware OPE TO BROS., 1,207 Broadway. ATURAL FLOWERS—WILLIAM FITZPATRICK, florist, 1,213 Broa will have his nsual fi ly | of flowers fir ‘the holidays. "All designs for churehes got up in the best mannor; also Uhristiuns trees and green! BOOTS AND SHOES. THE, PUBLIG. GENERALLY VERTISERS AND A WounD DO WELL TO NOTICR THAT THE CIRCULATION OF THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAST WEEK ATTAINED A DAILY AVERAGE OF 286 COPIES, D! AUKENPFAST, A Imported Bopticy Feet af gentlemen, BOOTS AND S!Obs ‘Ai hupucen PRICES, GENTLEMEN'S LADIES’ SHOR “fronelad: *0 Ladies’ Rubbers, d5e, ES, igeable shoes for boys, CANTRELL, 241 Fourth avenue. 77 BLEECKER STREET, NEAR BROADWAY.— Money advanced on Diamonds, Watches, pores nos, &o. ; also Pawnbroker's Mekets bought of Diamon Watehes, &c. 77 Bleecker street, up stairs. T 697 BROADWA CORNER FOURTH STREBT, iamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silks, Camel's Hair Shave, “Laces and Personal Proverty of overy description bought tiated. ce WAS ene negonleSAMES P, MATTHEWS, 25 €O $0 POSITIVELY rin quality ot’ mounting. Bought, sold and exel apaed te © in nds, Watches, Jewelry, &ey tablished 1 RRINGER, 795 Broadway. DVERTISERS AND THE PUBLIC GENERALL WOULD WELL TO NOTICE THAT. Ti IRCULATION OF THB ING) TELEG LAST WEEK ATTAINED & 3 PLES. r®, DAILY AVERAGE IAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVERWAR Furs, &c., bought and sold back when desired at a vi small advanced, GEO, 0. ALLEN, jeweller, 1,100 Brondway, near Twenty-cighth street. FINE ARTS. DVERTISERS AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY WOULD DO WELL N ok TI THR TO NOTICE THAT CIRCULATION OF THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAST WR. ATTAINED A DAILY: AVERAGE OF 86,286 COP! CATHOLIO = CHURCHES.—A MAGNIFICENT NTED, GENTLEMAN'S PIN, VALUE in axchange for Al saleable mor ROMBY, Horald office. A LADY'S FINE GOLD hunting case Watch and Chain. For particulars ads TAMONDS.—WA from $200 wo $400), chandise, Address K. C Rh SALE VERY CHEAP. Painting, th oad Christ,” for sale at GIBBONS’ Gallary. corser Savantaouth street and ith avenue ress WATCH, box 131 Herald office, OR SALE—A HANDSOME, PAIR CLUSTE! Diamond Barri: also Jacket, wi | Echos ou PRRGEY: Be. 207 keath We