The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1875, Page 6

————___ ‘ . CANAL FRAUDS. JOBR EXPLANATIONS FROM AUDITOR THAYER— BOW HE CARRIED VIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS’ WORTH OF FLOUR—THR WILLARD JOHNSON AND DENISON CERTIFICATES. Aunaxy, Dec. 24, 1875. Auditor Thayer appeared before the Canal Investigat- yg Commission to-day and presented the statement shich bas beon already published, appended to which yere additional statements saying he desired to qualify (is former statement that upon none of his purchases | 4 the $162,640 09 from contractors named | |; the consnitation with the Governor had he or the yok realtzed more than simple interest, The rate | was simple interest; but the time being uncertain it was cetunated, and in some instances there was a abght gain in time by reason of being paid sooner than was | pxpected at the time of negotiation. He also said bis | yank Mabilities were diminished from $50,000 to $5,000 | sy realizing on flour to the amount of nearly $50,000 which he had deen carrying in Wew York. He also explained his mean- ng of the word “audit” in his testimony. He did not | yousider himself called upon to audit the certificates | further than to see that they were in proper form and jenuine. All these certifteates, he said, were examined snd found to be in due and proper form before he took them, and they were accompanied by the Engineer's | tertificate, as required by law. Mr. Thayer was then examined as to the several alle- gations in bis written statement, and particularly as to bis advance of $50,000 for putting the canal at Utica in wpair. In this examination he fully admitted thas the fovernor never authorized, suggested or countenanced : Ponnsy!vania Railroad, dropped in at the Mayor's fhe loan, but, on the contrary, always insisted that it oa — pt ge gem Figg ange ela ig Mm gee should come out of the ordinary repair fund, and thas | 9 strong bridge, with double the capacity of the old 4 was the plain duty of the Auditor to pay. fone, It shall cost $65,000, $10,000 less than the in- ‘The Commissioners then took a recess. At the-afternoon session Mr. Magone resumed the ex- amination of Mr. Thayer. @ How much had the canals earned in 1875 prior to June 4? A. Can’tsay up two the 4th, On the let of June $100,642 90 had been earned. Q That answers the question, Have you looked to see if you had money to pay the certificates of Yates? A. Have not looked, but know there was none booked Bt the time. Q What sum of money was there pnt in the Treasury gudject to payments for ordinary repairs between the Ast of June and the 28th of June, if any? A. There was money earned, Dut Mt was sulyect to a resolution of the Commissioners of the Cana! Fund. Q But you paid out money without such resolu~ tion? A, Yes; there was no action taken by them. Q Idowot understand it as youdo, 1 understand there was plenty of money. Do you understand Yates was paid according to lawY A. Yes; the fund set apart for that purpose was exhausted. 7 Q Then if you had adopted the same rule as in other gases you could have paid it; that is, there was plenty of money, but + had net been set apart by the Commis- Honers of the Canal Fond? A. There had been no ap- vaigery by the Commissioners of the Canal Fund; ~D As to the certificate of Thomas Gall, how much you pay forthas? A. 1 don know exactly what paid for it @ Do you know for what length of time you dis- er ist A No; I camnot tell what I pudd nor the gth of time I discounted it for. @ Can you say it was for a month or two months? A ee ee alee ne ana Q ee net &@ Ithink I eer it wasn’t it entitled to interest? 0. 'Q That amounted te a warrant for $15,279 17; how you pay bun? A. I don’t know. @ We can only find that you paid $720 88; did you that? A. No, sir; I never discounted that much apy certificaie, ali 1 Know is that] took aboutono month's interest, Q How can you swear that when you say you don’t tmow anything about the time? A. ] draw my knowl- from the dates given and know I took only simple Lerost, Q Then what you got additional was on account of ? A Yes. difference of time’ Q You say in your written statement that the Canal imtsaioners and yourself consulted the Governor, and that it was agreed that you should assist the con- ‘ractore; you then purebased $162,640 of certificates ot staple interest? A Yes, sir. Q@ You say in your statement that the Governor ad- ‘vised you to act as you did, in order to procure the ‘opening of the canals at ‘the commencement of naviga- tion for the public good; did the Governor ever request ou to buy the Dennison certificates, or had they any- ing to do with the opening of the canals? A. Deni- son to go on with the work uniegs hel) @ Did be ever go on with the work? A. . Q Didn’t you know that Dennison was able to go en? A 1 knew him to be a map of means, but he Shreatened to throw up Lis work unless Le could have ea, some money. an “Bia ne ever do any work since the 12th of April? Yea, @ Where? A. Up at Port Schuyler, I heard he a 14, Q Were you not the owner of these certificates be- fore the bill 200 was passed? A. That bil had noting to do with Deuison’s certitcates. 11 was Hamuilton’s. Q. Didn't you know that Hamilton was merely Den- feon’s foreman’ A. No, sir; I never knew it. @ In the intorview with the Governor, what state- ment was made wo lum? A My brother and myself ‘went to the Governor with the bill. Q What amount of certificates did you own at that time? A Not a doilar’s worth. Q What certificates did the bank of which you were a stockholder hold? A. The Osborne certitieate. Q What did you teli the Governor in the interview spoken of? A. My brother did most of ihe taiking, ‘and stated the condition of affairs, saying the contrac- tora needed help; the Governor asked who they were and my brother wrote down the names of Denison and Belden, who wanted $60,000; I did not bold vhetr cer- titcate then; Nash and Barnes were named, and I did not own any of these; theirs amounted to $70,000; also Flagier and Riley; also McEacrow; the Governor said:—"Gentlemen, we must have the canals open at ail hazards; you must do the best thing possible,” Q Lid he uot say go on and do the best yon can, and you will be sustained in so doing? A I don’t Know as he added that; I don’t know as anything was said adout an enabling law, Q Did he say anything about borrowing money at | seven per cent or at any other rate? A. Not in so many words; he advised us to get the canals in cond ou Q Didn’t you know the State had plenty of money | drawing only four per cent? A. Yes Q And vet you bought up thie paper at seven per cent and cashed it as soon as money came into your bands? A. Yea Q Did yon know Hamilton's contract was let with- | ‘out an examination by engineers’ A. No, sir. @ You state that you had # right to pay for this, and yot it wus not under contract? A I thought it was ‘under a contract, @ Didnt you charge Benson interest? A. Yes @ You say:—‘‘Az two the difference in my live of dis | counts at the bank, it was produced by my commercial 8.” In that you included your purchases of cortiticates? A. Yea Q And you also say it hod nothing to do with your offictal acts. By that you mean that you 4d not aliow your official acts to stand in the way of making these rehases? A. Yes. @ Did the Troy City National Bank ever charge you, with the exception of the 8. R. Wells certificates, more than seven per cent per annum upon the loans they made 10 you upon certificates? A. No, sir. | Dut bringing passengers and merchandise to and from NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NAPOLEONIC WORK. HOW TO BUILD A GREAT BRIDGE IN TWENTY DAYS—A CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. Puttapeurma, Dec. 24, 1875. ‘When the old Market street bridge over the Schuy!- kt! was burned in November last it was regarded as a “peculiarly serious mishap, It wason the line of the main thorougbfare of the city, not only connecting West Philadelphia residents with the city proper, the depots of the Pennsylvania Railroad and all its many connections, But more important even thfn this was the fact that it was the most natural and direct route to the Centennial grounds, destined next year to be the Mecca of so many hundreds of vhousands, The loss of the bridge was not an inconvenience merely; it was a positive danger, menacing the success of the Centennial Fabibition itself, Centennial-mad Philadeiphians were accordingly in despair, The time-honored old bridge had | taken years to finish, and the great Exhibition was only | six months distant, With acorrupt Ring controlling the city government, whose intercst it would be to lengthen the Job of constructing another so that their pickings might be the more frequent, what could be hoped for? | The Mayor issued a proclamation while the | flames were still raging, the City Councils held special meetings, consultations of engineers took place, and there was endless talk but no salution of the problem of how to do the work in time, where to get the large sum of money and whom to find todo The broadbrims had good reason to shake their heads and sigh. INTO THE BREACH. Thomas A. Scott, President of the Bot Mr. surance on the burned bridge; I?ll sell it to the city for cost price exactly; Dl return every, cent less than $55,000 Chat it costs, and I'll guarantee to have it done by the 1st of January.” When the city authorities had recovered breath this bold proposition was accepted. Public opinion demanded it; Dut 1t was not without a struggle that the City Gov- ernment Ring saw their visions of fat “dy * melt into thinair. Mr. Scott had anticipated their acceptance by telegraphing all over the lumber country of Penn- sylvania as soon as he made his proposition, ordering the bridge timber to be immediately cut and loaded upon cars to await orders. The instant the contract was signed he sent despatches ordering that these cars be attached to lightning express trains and whirled toward Philadelphia with the geod of the winds, Before Mr. Scott's proposition been officially received. everything was ready. About 150 men with saws, hammers and spikes im their hands on the banks of the river, at the site of the old bridge, waiting for the ordinance to pass, ready to strike the first blow the moment the aij was given. It was toward evening on the 5th of December when the contract was signed, and work was begun without an iustant’s delay and kept up ali that night By daylight and by torches and calcmum lights, Sundays and week days, in fuir weather aud storm, witbout an hour’s intermission the bridge building was carried on under the direction of Ms William J. Lockhard, division guperimtendent of the railroad, s by Colonel Scott. oat, “a acl, superyiged ‘i At one o’eloék to-day, jours less than twenty- one days from the time the Mayor signed the ordi- bance, or seven days abead of time, the bridge was finished and formally Ce to travel. His Honor Mayor Btokley, Mr. Thomas A. Scott, Chief Highway Commissioner Hill and Chief Engineer | Smedley drove the first vehicie over, and first inspected the work. The men who havo been engaged upon it were then treated to a Christmas dinner at the railrond depot in West Philadelptita, and will be permitted to take a well-earned rest during the holidays. The vridge is a Howe truss, well constructed of white pine, with a fooring of oak, the timbers having been shipped from Harrisburg, Wrightsville, Hunt’s Run and St. Mary. ‘The structure is 540 feet Jong, the two end spans being each 162 feet, and the centre span 216 feet in length, The truss is 25 feet high in the clear and 28 feet from out to out, The width of the bridge is 48-feet, including the sidewalk, which is | 10 feet wide. The railroad bridge which is to be con- | structed on the abutments north of the presentstraetnre will be 23 feet wide in the clear and 28 feet from out to out, The work of constructing this portion of the | bridge will be begun after the Christmas holidays, and upon its completion the temporary railroad bridge over | which the cars of the Pennsylvania road now pass will | be removed and the river once more opened to navigation at that point In order to | increase the facility for travel over the | new bridge an extension was made on the south end of the old piers, through substantial wrought tron | columns, firmly secured in the old masonry at the water Hine and to the pier, filled in with masonry be- tween the end of the pierand the column The new bridge is infinitely superior to the old one, Its con- struction in such & marvellously sbort time !s a good iltastration of the power of a great corporation like the | Pennsylvama Railroad. It is Commanding General Scoti’s Christmas present to the city of Philadelphia, | NEW JERSEY POLITICS, PREPARING FOR THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION— NEW APPOINTMENTS TO BE MADE FOR FAT OFFICES—WHO ARE TO BE THE PRESIDING | OFFICERS OF BOTH HOUSES. | Newarx, Deo. 23, 1875, | As the time for the convening of the New Jersey | Legislature draws nigh signs of active preparation for | the event can be seen in all parts of the State, but especiaily in Trenton. To the people of that city the | annual meeting of the lawmakers is a Godsend, and | during the session Trenton is a new place, and, indeed, @ big place, for it swells with due consider. | ation for the importance of those newly | elected Assemblymen and Senators who feel how mucb the Commonwealth owes to their sagacity and Jegal acumen. What London is in the season and Washington is during the gession of Congress such is Trenton when the Legislature is present, only more so. | | The session commences on Tuesday, the 11th of Janu- | ary, by which time the extensive additions to the State | Capitol, which are progressing ander the careful super- vision of General Perrine, will be completed, and al- though the building may not then be regarded as a beautiful structare, it will, at least, be found commodi- ous and decent, which was not the case before. The adoption of the recent constitutional amend- ments will have the effect of prolonging the session of the Legislature, to which the Trenton tavern keepers, | at least, offer no strenuous opposition. Under the amended constitution, which probibits special legisia- tion, all Jaws which were previously drawn as special | | will have to be made general Jaws, to the great discom- | fture of the lobbyists, who will thus find | much of their labor monotonous and un- protitable. The Governor is now at work upon his annual Message, and it is fair to presume | that it will fally sustain his reputation for thorough- ness in ali he undertakes by the careful and minute ex- | hibit of the finances of the State which tt will present, | accompanied by the suggestions of a tnonghtful and conscientious judge. A matter of deep interest in all parts of the State Is the subject of the Governor’ pointments, and the old war horses of both parties are | bosy night and day with the effort to secure admission Mr. M: here announced that he bad nothing fur- | into the green pastures which the fat offices suggest. ther to But, notwithstanding the fact that during | @ You have sworn here that you reduced that vo- the gubernatorial canvas of jast year Gov- | Jume of indebtedness, in which you were indebted to them, out of sales of four? A. Yes, sir. Q Didn't you realize a net anticipated prot of over 000 on the negotiation at the Troy kof the {lard Jonnson certificater that passed into your ac- count and still remainseim your account and was used for the purpose of reducing the volume of your in- dobtedpessY A. jadmiti. Yes Q Did not the $4,500 realized on the discount of the Baxter award duction of the volume of your accommodation indebt- edness at the bank? A. Yes. G Did eet the money that you reahzed in the trans- action from the purchase of the Case certificates, the French certificates and the Wells certificates each and all into and be credited to your bank account? did; yes, wir, @ Didn't the difference tn interest that ‘ued in the transaction with Mr. Dentson on the pur- chase of $60,000 odd worth of certificates also pasa into the bank? A. All the inoney | received. > @ Then all the profits that you realized, or that you | antictpated you would realize, in the purchase of these ‘certificates passed into the Troy City Bank and went to the volume of your indebtedness? A. No, sir; don’t know that it did. @ What aid you take ont? A. I paid debts; it ettber | mto and form a portron of the re- | you real- ernor Bedle was charged with bemg a member of the so-called State House clique, and with having promised to reappoint Messrs. Kelsey and Little in | consideration of their sapport, he bas since elected | shown sufficient independence of action to disprove the | charges. It cannot be denied that Governor Bedle re- | cetved a large number of republican votes, but he also | remembers tbat tt was hie own party which elected him | and to whom he owes bia advancement He is in no- | wise indifferent to the old democratic thoory of rota- | | tion in office, and it is eafe to say that he will not reap- point those who have already grown rich on the spoils of office, Itignotarare thing to find those who are willing to tell you the Governor's mind, but I am in- formed by one who knows a# much concerning his plans as any one in the State, that the Governor ta | | pledged vo no one and belongs to no ring or clique, but is simply determined to appoint auch persons only ns will be acceptable to the people at large, rather than to the in- veterate off ora, Among ihe appomtinents to bo made by the Governor and confirmed by the Legisia- ture is a State Prison keeper, whose term of office 1s for five years. This is the first time that this oficer has been selected in this manner. Btate Prison reports sbow that the convicts have earned $23,654 61 over and above the cost of maintaining them, so you will see that jt is a paying institution. To maintain passed into the bank or into my pocket this state of affairs much is dependent upon the keeper @ Then you know, on your attention being directed and supervisor. The latter ition is now held by to it, that your debt was reduced by anticipated profita | Colonel William R. Murphy, of Bordentown, who bas | ip the Willard Johnsen ter and in the Baxter mat- | served acceptably for many years and under various ter by $4,600, by actual cash receipts or the surplus, adininistrations From what I learn he will probabil. and received on the Case and French certificates of $200 be recommended for keeper, in view of hia admirable odd, and tn each of the other cases. You are unable | fitness for the office. The Legislature, in joint session, ‘to tell me specifically how much money you dia realizo are to appoint # State Treasurer for three years, | from the transaction? A. That ie mgbt | and he will probably be a republican, as THE FIRE RECORD. A boy, hiring with Mr. Joseph Horton, at South. ampton, on Thursday, threw a lighted match among some straw in the cow yard, and, almost instantly, the entire yard was ablaze. The fre communicated with the adjoining berm and sheds, burning threo build- ings, two horses, several calves, Ofty bushels of wheat, bushels of oats, several tons of bay, a mowin Soonige on reaper, @ Silo sos some farming ‘etensila The loss is about and there le no in- surance. peace Sas See Seat Fn ee | night The logs 16 ewtimated at There was an | Yasurance on the bay of $700. pt. A years by — Ack bgt igere ot son rere Susrraiing , destroy’ “ ner, eighteen months ; igan, — bara, ; A Je pond ge is Rerrign, both branches of the Logislature are of that | complexion. Among the prominent candidates are | Captain Wright, of Bordentown, and Hon. J. L. Hays, | | of Rasex, The organization of the Législature is also | of interest, chiefly to the republicans, as they will | organize both houses. For President of the Senato, | | Genoral Sewell will most likely be chosen, though | Senator Potts is also a strong candidate, Mr. Carscal- | lan, of Jersey City, it is predioted, will be the next Speaker of the Ameinbly and Mr. John ¥, Foster, he who advised Mr, Blaine to “go in” to the 0. A. U., is | the strongest candidate for Clerk of the Assembly, @ plum worth about $4,000, SENTENCE DAY IN JERSEY. In the Conrt of Quarter Sessions at Jersey City yer terday the following sentences were pronounced :— | Mary Sullivan, concealing the birth of her child, six | | receive his death wound. ‘This people have the highest | | when called upon. | longed to a family of bine blood in Ireland and that his | dick gers. Unwilling to return toa place she had disgraced, she accep’ the proposal of a man named | James Thompson, and took up her res- | | dence with him, Thompson brought her | | car. | Wool returned to his work, and coming back about five THE NEWPORT BURIAL CASE, A LETTER FROM MR DE PRAY TO BISHOP HENDRICKEN—HE ASKS FOR THE BURIAL OF HIS CHILD IN A CATHOLIC CEMETERY—-THE QUESTION DISCUSSED BY THB NEWPORT PRESS, Newrorr, R. I., Dec. 24, 1875. The following letter has been sent tq Bishop Hen- dricken, of this diocese, by the father of the unburied | child, and it wiil be seen that he is desirous of having the affuir settled as speedily as possibl Newroxr, R. L, Dec. 22, 1875. Most Reveenp Sm; You, of courue, are well aware of the commotion raised about the burial of my danghter, Gene n Fray, and so I wll not repeat the affair, ‘Ail I want {s to have my child buried according to the rites and privileges of the Catholic Charch. With this I will be Satisfied, and will let the matter drop. 1am a Catholic, have lived in the faith and destre to die in the same. I have no vindictive fecling against Father Grace for his refusal to allow my daughter to be brought to the charch. 1 respecttully refer a for proof of my moral character to any of the leading citizens of Uhis om inside or outside of the Catholic Church. The Hfeless remains of my child are now in the tomb of the Protestant Cemetery, and 1 trust your decision upon the matter will insure a speedy removal to the cemetery of my choice, Hoping you will give this matier due attention at | your convenience, 1am, bopetully vours, MANUEL DE FRAY, ‘The Newport Daily News, in its editorial this evening, has the following to say in relation to the Hxna.o’s course in this unfortunate affair, which is attracting 8o much attention throughont the country, and which is compared in some respects to the famous Guibord case, in Montreal: — “fhe Newport correspondent of the New York Heraup has been severely criticised by some of our Catholic citizens for his course in the De Fray matter. Such criticisms are unjust The statement of the De Fray family may be untrue, bat they constitute a prima facie case, and their publication as A matter of pews was perfectly proper. No obstacle has been putinthe way of Father Grace publishing his statement as widely us the statement of his parishioner, A man is credibly charged with crime; that fact is a matter of news, whether the man is innocent or guilty, aud if a priest is charged formally and upon oath of re- fusing to bury a child because it had attended a public school that is @ matter of news—-of very important news, of course. If the Catholic Church were in power here, as it ia, or very was, in some European countries, nO er would dare to publish anything ad. verse to the Church or its ministers; but here Catholics cannot complain of the publication of Mr. De Fray’s or if Father Grace’s statement is also pub- ed. THE GEORGIA DUEL. FUNERAL OF THE DEAD DUELLIST—THE SER- | VICES AT THE CHURCH—PUBLIC SENTIMENT ON THE EVENT. Avausta, Dec, 21, 1875, Tho funeral of the dead duellist, @ D. Tilly, took | place from St. Paul’s church yesterday, the regular rector officiating. The church was crowded to suffoca- tion almost, there not being a vacant seat either on the floor or in the galleries. The mimieter read a psalm, offered prayer and then the choir sung— Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom tly. Before dismissing the audience he delivered a short discourse upon duelling, condemning the heathenish and barbarous practices in toto, He said not only the laws of Georgia but the laws of God condemned it. We could at least so enforce the laws of the State as to make a repetition of the tragic occurrence which has just stricken this community impossible, He denied the right of any man not only to take his own but the life of his fellow. Life belonged to God, and He alono had the right to take ft away. After the service the magnificent casket, in which the body lay, was borne down the uisle and taken back to the hearse, It was covered with wreaths of white camelias, A long line of carriages and buggies formed in rear of the hearse, Three or four hundred persona | followed the remains to the cemetery. Arriving there, the coffin was lowered while the Episcopal burial gervice was being read by Rev. Mr. Clark. COMMENTS ON THE DUK No duel has occurred in Georgia in twenty-five years which produced such a protound seavation. It was supposed that that mode of setiling a ditticulty had be- come obsolete. To hear the peuple talk one would think the man conid not be found In the city who would engage in it. But just let certain contingencies arise | and they would coine forth by the dozen. The large crowd which attended Tilly’s funeral attested this, or | rather a certain admiration for a man who had the pluck to face.bis enemy at ten paces and admiration for poponal courage and precious little use for a man who fails to show it. Knowing this, it would have amounted to almost social ostracism if Ratcliffe | had declined the peremptory challenge Tilly sent nim. | To break up duelling is now puzzling any amount of | moralists, To cure it entirely they must first nproot this public opinion of aman who declines to fight one Since his death it has been ascertained that Tilly be- sister s married to an English nobleman. SELF-DESTRUCTION. SAD CASES OF SUICIDE IN WESTEEN NEW YORK—EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC INFELICITY | AND THE CRUELTY OF A PARENT. Exar, Dec. 24, 1875. mania for committing suicide seems to be alarmingly prevalent in this victnity | at present, no less than tour shocking cases | having occurred within the past week, one of | which, oceurring in this city, is peculiarly dis- tressing in its circumstances, Four years ago a young Indy, then living in Montrose, Pa, named Louisa Ann | Hawley, was married to a man named Alonzo Burdick. | The marriage took place in opposition to the wishes of Miss Hawiley’s relatives, who are said to be highly respectable people in Montrose After the marriage | the couple came to Chemung county, and finally Bur- The DESERTED HIS WIR, leaving her in destitute circumstances among stran- to Elmira, and took a position as driver on a street He rented aroom in First street, and the two | lived together as man and wife, to all appearances very | happily. They were respected by the people among whotn they lived, Mrs. Thompson being an especial | favorite, A few weeks ago, as recent events develop, ‘Thompson told Louisa that he was going to leave her; that he was engaged to be married to another woman, and they must part. All protestations and appeals of the poor woman being ineifectual to move Thomp- gon from his determination, she on Monday night took a large DOSE OF STRYCHNINE, DECEMBER 25, 1875.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. See ier its Bam: PLYMOUTH PRAYER MBRETING. Pager) ‘MB. BERCHER DISCUSSING THE ADVENT—HIS LOVE FOR MADONNAS, Considering the fact that last mght was the eve of the greatest festival of the Christian year, when every one hae some business to attend to, some preparation to make for ts celebration, and considering, fur- ther, the drenchmg rain that fell, the audi. ence that greeted Mr, Beecher at the regular Friday night prayer meeting was surprisingly large, Many of the sight-seeing non-members usually present were last night conspicuous by their absence. Every one who attended was an earnest member of the church, and the consequence was that the hymns and other exercises were carried through with greater vim and enthusiasm than they sometimes when the room is crowded to the doors, The subject of Mr. Beecher’s discourse was the Ad- vent of Christ, as detailed in the second chapter of Lake, Itis somewhat remarkable, he said, that the only account of the Advent is to be found in Lake, and it is singular that so little notice is taken of an event which bas given to poetry and oratory more figures and phrases than apy other in the life of Christ One of the latest lives of the Saviour is Farrar’s “Life of Christ,” written by a distingmshed divine of the Church of England, and a very admirable work it is: but I notice that he bogins tho “Life of Christ” without noticing at all this whole passage. His history sets in after the Annuncratton, and atter this prelude, as it may be called. He perbaps regarded the story’ of the Advent as myth to some extent, and from this motive left it out of bis history, A mother tells her children of elves and sprites dancing on the moonlit sward, and the man who should come and say, “There are no things as sprites, it’s all a lic,” has no business in a ‘world where there are mothers and children and such things. I should not uke when | wag listening to splen- did music to havea Mephistopheles at my ear saying, 0) “He stole that from Beethoven, and 2, Mozart,” I don’t care where he got it if it is joyable, J am there to hear the mus Isee ‘a face flushed with noble enthusiasm or the blush of modesty upon a maiden’s cheek I don’t want a Bhy: cian to say to me, “Don you know that that is caused by blood which is circulated through minute vesicles underneath the skin?” I don’t want him to bring # down toa BHASTLY MATTER OF BACT, to tell me that tears ure composed of waler distilled and ehloride of sodium. Mr. Beeeher read from the second chapter of Luke the story of the mother and child bo- ing found in the stable at Bethiehem, This stable, he thought, was one of the many limestone coves of that country which were frequentiy used by the poorer classes as habitations, and the was ‘one of those flat-bottomed boxes in which the people there rock their babies to sleep and feed their cattle al- ternately. The same thing, he added, is stated by Thompson, in bis “The Land and the Book,” to be keen till this day. Mr. Beocher went on reading verse ge verse and commenting upon each at some length, he whole voice of the Gospel, he said, was to heavy laden, suffering men, ‘‘Fear not.” The introduction into this world of a Eien that had for its object the inspiration and elevation of the wretched and downtrodden, that was in — —- jon ea Christ more wonderfu raising the to hfe even. Speaking te 4 Rar of Christ he said, “I have thy house full of Madannas I have from all countries, Spanish and Italian, ited by various artist# and even tho old Fiemish schoo! and the English school; and ay servants, who are mostly Catholica, think 1 4 A 1874, 3875. that if 1 am not a good Catholic 1 bear it, And I look upea them ag pictures of Gevicinemorer, Hey teen So do they. But they look Rig: her as a mother ac- 6.025 €.890 cording to the teachings of their Charch, and I do not, 18/162 131670 ‘The mother when she holds in her arms a httle babe bo Bp ind ig, of il under the sun, the most 062 33218 strange, wonder and beautiful. It has ie nee that unwasting and unspeakable source of all the feel- 18,049 8376 ings, ine and noble, that cluster round the elements of 16'784 218 love. That love is the fit theme with which to close 12,049 v4 this very begtig cig ag et GR iether all that 8708 tsa story out of the Bible I shall put it right back again, ; betihe ris put it out a thousand times I will put it back 4,400 (to date) 2,289 a thousand times, 1 will have 1. Dr. Edward Beecher arose when his brother ceased epeaking, and entered into a learned dissertation to show that Dr. Farrar did not doubt the truth of the chapter which bad just been discussed. The Examining Committee met after the prayer meeting to examine a number of applicants for church | membership. EXPLOSION OF GAS. A BIG SCARE IN WEST FARMS, BUT NO APPRE- CIABLE DAMAGE, Shortly after two o’clock yesterday morning the people living in the immediate vicinity ofthe gas works ‘on the north bank of the Bronx River, in West Farms, were awakened by a loud report, resembling the dis- | charge of a piece of heayy ordnance, For some time it wag difficult to learn the cause of tho report or whence it came, but in the course of fifteen or twenty minutes it became noised about that an explosion had occurred at the gas works, and thither bundreds of people ran, expecting, no doubt, to find the bavldingsin ruins and the workmen. either’ ail killed or terribly mangled. Captain Bennett, of the Thirty-fourth pre- cinct, soon after ‘earned of the bg iow and with his entire force hurried to the scene of disaster, On arriv- ing there he ordered bis men to enter and search the building and see if any workmen had been killed or wounded. The officers soon learned that the only persong injured were two workmen who were in the cellar where the explosion took place, and who wore thrown with great violence against the wall, They were not fatally injured, however. An investigation of the cause of the explosion showed it to have occurred near a conducting pipe through which there was a leak, The damage done, which, by the way, was not very material, was repaired during | the day, in consequence of which there was no dearth of gas last pight. Had tne explosion occurred during the day, when the buildi are full of workmen, the disaster must have been of a decidedly serious nature. a | A DANGEROUS GAS PIPE. } About half-past six o'clock yesterday evening, while | Mr. B. Carr, of No. 642 Second avenue, was engaged in | to steal upward ot $700 worth of jewelry and portable | SPECIAL CONTRACTS. STORY oF THE AN EXPLANATION IN REFEBENCE TO WORK ON THE BASTERM BOULEVARD. Deparruent ov Pusno Works, Contract CLenK's Ovric! New ¥ Dee, "rat To rmx Eprror or rue IekaLD: Aproperty owner publishes a card in your paper of this date asking information from this department con- corning ite power and authority to award acontract to Messrs. Jones & McQuade to (ill in with earth a sec- tion of First avenue between 204th and 107th streets, or what ts known as the Eastern boulevard, at the price of seventy cents per cuble yard, and stating in his communication that other contractors would do the work for leas than half that price. tapiotes ve teed missionor Porter 1 am not willing to wllow a statement of this character to rematn unoont mt when the same is 80 manifestly jastiae ae at the same time ‘published ag acard by one of romonney! of the city. I will, therefore, endeavor pera to convince your correspondent, and th ic that he was evidently misinformed when he submitted his statement, In the first gro this ‘‘property owner’’ is in error when he states that this department awarded tho said contract for earth filing wo the above named contractors at the rave of seventy vents per cabic yard. The are that several proj wore received by the Com- missioner of Public Works nah, Ge peru engaged in that particalar line of business ¢ of which are now on file in this bureau), and Jones & McQuado’s bid being the lowest one received was approved and accepted by Commissioner Porter and the contract awarded to them for the sum of forty-five cents per cubic yard. Tho specifications of this contract require them to fill in the said avenue with good loam, gravel, sand and other wholesome earth, and that no ashes, street sweepings, garbage, refuse or any perishable or unwholesome materials, nor any earth with which any of the above materials are intermixed, will be permitted or allowed 1m the embankment, ‘The power of this department to award contracts re- Jating to the improvement of the Eastern boulevard 18 contained In chapter 628 of the Laws of 1873, entitled “An act to provide for the Eastern boulevard, in the © Foat act spucially ‘confers upon hy ¢ at act 8] cally con! upon the Department ot Pubhio Works the power and authority to lay out and improve the said avenue, ¢ price paid by this de] ent for this work is considered remarkably low by contractors, and in my judgment if the same system of economy which has during the administration of the present Commisstover - ef Public Works received so mach encouragement is continued, the saving to the city by this department alone will amount to thousands of doltars annually. Respactfully, AUGUSTUS T. DOCHARTY, Contract Clerk, THE COMPTROLLER AT WORK. The Comptroller yesterday, in accordance with the established custom, paid the school teachers salaries for the month of December, before the expiration of the month, the Christmas holidays en tho week. The total amount paid was $210,376 72, Comptroller Green has paid ail the rolls of laborers on ae city works which havo been received at his C3, COMING AMERICANS. The following statistics show the comparative num- ber of emigrant arrivals at Castle Gardon for the years 1674 and 1876: Totals........0+6 weeees begged 99,582 ‘This list does not include arrivals by sailing vessels. While the deplorable condition of basiness here ts said to be the cause of the decrease of arrivals, it has had also the effect of almost entirely excluding from the immigrant hste a class of people that in former years tonk passage hither merely to escape financial pressure at home. On the other band at least seven-eights of those who have come this year had either their passage paid by resident friends, or came snfitcientty supplied with money to carry them to places where they had de- signed and after arranged to commence business. The destination of most of them has been west of Onto, whither they at once proceeded. Of those remaining here nearly all have entered into business that has afforded at least a maintenance, for the number of re- turn passports issued from the offices of the Consuls General ‘been only about one-third as many as during the year 1874, anda much smaller fraction of those of preceding years. WAS IT A MURDER? Coroner Gannon visited the tenement house No, 122 Steuben streot, Jersey City, yesterday, and on the top floor he foand the body of Joun Devine, sixty years old, the cause of whose death is shrouded in mystery. Tho wife and daughter of deceased were present, and did not appear to be distressed. He left bis house on Savurdsy morning and was not heard from wll Sunday afternoon, when his son was tnformed that the old man had been in- jured at the house of John Reilly, in First street. The Bon proceeded to the place designated and found the otd man unconscious The only explanation given bv the {nmates was that he was burt by falling down stairs. A bruise on the forehead over the left eye, however, suggested foul play. Dr. Hadden, who mado the examination, states that the brain had been seriously injured. An inquest will be held. CAPTURE OF A FEMALE THIEF, Bridget O’Shay, who is believed to be a professional thief and gives her residence as near the Monastery, West Hoboken, was arrested yesterday for attempting making some repairs in the Inger beer saloon No. 84 Chrystie street, he chanced to try» gas pipe whieh he had been stopping up by applying a match. The stopper had become loosened, and the gas igniting exploded at | once, injuring Carr severely and slightly damaging the | store, PRACTICAL RELIEF. A meeting of the citizens of Yorkville for the relief | of the poor was held on Wednesday evening, 22d inst., | atthe lecture room of the Yorkville Young Men’s Chris. | tian Association, Mr. Jefferson Crombie in the chair, lt was resolved that @ room be opened under the name | of the Yorkville Economical Restaurant, where work- | ingmen may obtain wholesome and well cooked food at | & price leaving neither gain nor loss to the association, and where the deserving indigent poor may be gratui- tously fed. Citizens of Yorkville have responded generously to the appeal for funds, and the house will be opened in a few days. A WANDERER'S RETURN. Fritz A. Meyer, the President of the Common Coun- and died in the most intense agony early Monday morn- img, The above facts came out at the Coroner's investi- gation which was heid, and created the most intense excitement. Great sympathy was felt for the un- fortunate woman, and vorresponding indignation for | Thompson. The deceased was a handsome brunette, | but twenty-three years of ago, and was possessed of | many attainments, Her remains were removed to | Montrose for burtal. | BUICIDE OF A YOUNG MAN, ! Some time ago Isaac Wood, a farmer living on Lang- | don Hill, in the town of Erin, married a widow named Black. She had a son named William, aged out twenty years. Mr. Wood had a daughter about the “same age. These two could not agree, and the young man being of a pecu- Narly’ overbearing and morose disposition yiolent quarrels between them were frequent, On Monday preity t I in one of these quarrel: ung Black strick bie step-sister and choked her severely. She started to get a warrant for her assailant, and he went | muttering off into the woods, where be helped his step- father to cat wood uptil noon. The latter came in to his dinner, but the former did not put io an appear- ance, and it was supposed that he had run away. Mr. o'clock he went to the barn to feed his cattle, and on entering the haymow he was horror-stricken 10 see the dead body of his step-son dangling by » balter strap trom the ridge pole of the barn, An inquest was held and a verdict found in accordance with the tacts, ‘A WOMAN DKOWNE MERSELP, On Satarday last the dead body of Mra. M. E. Per- fonions, wife of Charies W. Personions, was found in a small etroam at Mott's Corners, wito a’ large etone tied | around her neck. She had left (he house but a short time belore, No cause is known leading to the act, AN ONNATURAL PARINT, | A man named Cooper, living near Welle’ Bridge, | recently put hie daughter Ida out to work ip the family of Lucius Chase, im Otego. Cooyer took ull of the girl’s wages and refused to purchase her necessary clothing, spending the money on himself. “ On Wednesday the girl went to the store of Burdick & Rathburn and purchased | some arsenic, saying that Mr. Chase wanted it to kill | rate, She took the poison herself and died the same | night, The following uote was received by her father the same day :— I can’t keep neither warm nor dec. live any longer, The deceased was sixteen years of age and a respect able and promising young woman. The Coroner held an inquest and @ verdict was found to the effect that deceased came to ber death by poison administered by berown band. MARY FINNEGAN'S FROLIC. andi rant to | DA. Mary Ann Finnegan, sixteen years of age, of No, 226 | | whip. The child had a black eye, several bruises on | police that she'received hor injurics by falling into the Gorman street, Philadelphia, stole a gold watch from her father yomertag morning and went to Brooklyn on a Christmas viait. Upon her arrival she was arrested and het for the Philadelobia volice \ tna unt veuterday, cil of Union Hill, N. J., who 80 mysteriously disap- | Peared some weeks ago, and was reported to have been John Mortimer, at No. 499 Tenth avenue, with which in Canada, retarned to his home yesterday. In con- | versation with a Heraxp reporter he declined to give | any reason for his mysterious disappearance. He was received home with shouts of welcome, Bigotry, he | said to a friend, had bad much to do with his departure | from Union Hill, Mr. Meyer, it may be remembered, being the mover of the suspension of reading the Bible | m the Union Hill public school. THE GERMAN REVOLUTIONISTS. General Franz Sigel has presented to Mr, Julius Sehiatter, of Hoboken, a copy of the resolutions | adopted by the German Association of this city of the | German patriots of 1848-9, with reference to the death | ot the Rev. George Frederick Schlatter, the veteran | and itaprisoned revolutionist who died in Baden about six weeks ago, The resolutions, to which is added a Hkeness of the deceased, are surrounded by a border of deep black and handsomely framed, A BRUTAL FATHER, ditidethdabes' | An officer of the Fourth Bxooklyn precinct last even- ing arrested McGuire MeNulty, of No. 16 Walworth | street, for beating bis young daughter with a horse- | her head nd scratches on her face, She said wo the cellar, bat © W. Rowe, of No, 12 Walworth street, said he witnessed the beating of the child, and McNulty was locked up for examination, THE PAUPER CHILDREN. The work of removing the children between the age: of three and sixteen from the County Poorhouse on | Blackwell's Island, continues. None, except those who have parents or guard will be sent away until the | Q0th inst., though the law requires that all shall be dis- osed of by the Ist prox. Upto yesterday about 360 jad been removed, SUDDEN DEATH. Jobn Ayres, who bas been connected with the Police Department for thirty years, and latterly doorman of the First precinct station house, died snddenly in his chair in the station Louse at nine o'clock yesterday morning while reading a newspaper, He was seventy- two yeare of age, and if #aid to have left property to the value of $25,000, It was only on Thursday that he called upon @ iawyer for the pupose of having his will drawn up, but wae then indaced to postpone the sign- | with a large pearl inserted upon the | wearing apparel. property from Mrs, Smith, of No. 150 Washington street, Hoboken, She was searched at the police sta- tion and @ magnificent broché shawl valued at about $200 wae found in her possession; also # set of coral jewelry valued at $30; a heavy gold chain, with a gold cross attached, upon which was a figure of the Baviour, worth about ides. She $80, and many other valuable articles was heid for trial by Recorder Bohnstedt, RECORD OF CRIME. ‘Thieves entered the rooms occupied by William Sehieckler, at No, 584 West Thirty-fifth street, by means of false keys and carried off $85 worth of prop- .| Monday, December 27, at half-past ton A. erty. No arrest. Mr. Wilham Ayres, of No, 313 Arch stroet, Philadel- phin, while riding on a Grand street car, was robbed of a gold watch, valued at $80. ‘An overcoat valued at $85, belonging to James B. Smith, of No. 518 Eighth avenue, was stolen from in front of his store. During the absence of Mrs, Regina Beam from hor rooms, at No. 214 Fifth street, thieves stole $42 worth ‘of her jewelry and escaped. Thieves entered the apartments of Daniel McCarty, at No, 688 Greenwich street, and took $40 worth of Jozeph Smith stole $100 from a room mate named he left for the West. A pickpocket stole $50 from the coat pocket of Mr. | R. Baker, of No. 6 Broadway, while» he was passing down Broadway. ‘The prisoners confined in Richmond county jail are kopt breaking stone eight hours aday, and are to be supplied with State prison suits in afew days, This is cousidered @ very good move on the part of the Super- visors, as heretofore prisoners confined im the Jail on terms of from ten to sixty days have been kept idle, THE TRAMP CURE. Edward Davie and Michael Walsh, two tramps, on whose track the Jersey City police have been a long time, were at last caught and brought before Justice Davis yesterday. Walsh carried, in addition to a woll- filled carpet bag, a yt club, and Davis had his pockets filled with packages of snuff, They were sent to break stones at the Penitentiary for three months. FELL FROM A TRUCK. Michael Hanlon, a driver in the employ of Mr. Jones, whose Sixth street brewery was lately destroyed by fire, fell from atruck in passing from the Houston | street ferry boat to the briage, sustaining serious inja- | riex. Ambulance Surgeon Corcoran attended tian prior to his removal to the Hospital. MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, MARRIED. Brosn—Gervors.—On Wednesday, 224 inst, SV. | Buosn, Jr., to MAwIR Altice, daughter of the late J. W. Gervois, of Baltimore. Buruen—Tayvior,—On Thursday, December 23, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. Dr. Vin- cent, Coantes R. Borner to Sanuk W. TaYion, daughter of Wenry Weil. DORYRA—SAGENDORF.—Decomber 23, at tho Third Lutheran church, Rhinebeck, N. ¥., by Kev. Dr. Stro- | pel, CuHances H. Donvea, of this city, to Sanam Sacen- | boty, daughler ot Mra. Margaret A. Sagendort, No cards. Earox—Quinw.—In Worcester, Mass,, on Thursday, 234 inst., by the Rev. G. W. Phillips, Himam W. Eatow t., of Brooklyn, N. ¥., to Miss Sanam J. Quixx, of ‘Worcester, Guion—Courman,—At St, — Stephen’s — Episcopal church, December 22, by the Rev, J, J. Roberts, Jonn QUION to Jvita ConemAn, both of this city. Hari—Heyaeck.—On the 15th inst., by the Rev. Dr. aoa Gronas HALL to Saran Hevnron, both of this city. MoNin—Lvptam.—On Thursday evening, December 2A at the residence of the bride's mother, by Rev. Dr. fon aed Brooklyn: No‘curds, tie WAX.—-At Albany, N, ¥., on Septem. han, Esq, ail of this city. nan. 0t Te wn C, DIED. Awpensox.—Suddenly, on Thursday evening, Dece! Der 23, Captain N, ANDERSON, In the 49th year of his sue. ‘Phe relatives and friends of the ity are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, his late resi- dence, 252 Raymond street, on Sunday, ‘26th inst., at two o'clock, Aynes.—On Friday, the 24th, suddenly, Jomw Arras, 70 yours, Relatives and friends, and the Police Department of Jersey City, are respectfully invited to attend hig funeral, on Sunday, the 20th, ‘at kwo P. M., trom 164 Montgomery street, Jersey 4 Barees —In ecko ‘on thi , December 25; Many Heme Bannus, wife of Demas Barnes, editor o! the Argus, and daughter of the late Judge i Hyde, of Otsego-county, in the 43d year of her age, Funofal from her late residence, No, 85 First place, Brooklyn, on Sunday, at bwo P. M. Bartaxy,—On Thursday, December 23, 1875, Marra bag Sars the wife beers Bartley, after eine Lesa os 6 and frie! are respectiuily invited to. attend the funeral, (rom hor late reaidence, 361 Ninth avenne, onsen, December 25, at twelve o'clock. Brock, —On , December 24, Bowrx Connap Buook, aged 9 months and 10 days. Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully fnited te aston faneral, from the reaidense 9f hiss paren Fran eet, the 2 fat one o'clock P, M. haga a .—On Friday, December 24, Parnick BRADY,. in the 00th year of his - x The relatives and friends of the family are respect- fly be Bh Peters the funeral, from his late resi- lence, it Broadway, on Sunday, December 26, at halpast one o'clock Fit. . ie Beyay.—On Thursday morning, December 28, Sanam Lr Brvax, wife of John Bryan, in the 47th’ year of er age. The relatives and friends of the fumfly are respect. fully invited to attend the funeral, from her inte rest- dence, 164 West Twenty-fifth street, on Saturday, at one o'clock. Cor.a.—Suddently, at Williamsbridge, on Monday, 20th inst, Jonn CoyLn, in his 50th year, Tho relatives and triends are invited to attend bi funeral, on Sunday, 26th inst, at hatf-past two P. M. from the Methodist church at Williamabridge. CrowsKLL.—On Friday, December 24, at Scotch Plains N. J., Nancy, widow of Thompson Crowell, aged 83 years, Priends and relatives are invited to attend tho funeral, at the Presbyterian church at Woodbridge, N. J., on Monday, 27th mst., at twelve o'clock, Train. loaves by Pennsylvania road at ten A. ML. Dswnerr.—On Thursday evening, December 23, 1875, at twelve minutes past eleven, after a severe ies Mary Axn Dennett, wife of Henry Dennett, in the ist year of her age. All friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 3538 West Fifty-third: street, at one o'clock Sunday, 20th. Members of Park. Lodge 516 and companion of Union Chapter 180 aro re~ Spectiully invited. Donax.—On Larsen, of congestion of the brain, Wiis A., son of tho late William Dolan. Relatives and iriends are respect invited to at- tend the funeral, from No. 103 West Sixteonth street, this aay (Saturday), at half-past ten A. m. Thence to» Calvary Some * Doougy.—On Thursday evening, December 23, Mary Asne SHBEHAN, wife of Patrick Dooley. ‘he relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the fun from her late resi- den 868 Third avenue, on Sunday, 26th inst, at one o'clock P, M. Facax.—On Friday, December 24, 1875, Ricmarp- Facan, a native of the parish of Maine, county West- meath, Ireland, in the 55th year of hts age. jotice of funeral in Sunday’s Herald. —CarneRixs Frevp, daughter of Richard and Catherine Field, aged 5 years, departed this life on Friday, the 24th day of December. The funoral will take place from the residence of her parents, Ho. 268 Canal street, on Sunday, December 26,, atone “ GaLLacusR.—The ineral of mks F. Goatees as iD ned ti}l Sunday, Dec, at two o’c! Pate trom 20 Bast Broagway i Gosaxt.—On Wednesday, ember 22, 1875, Ina F.. . and Sophia F, Goebel,, ‘M. Gone, daughter of Lewis aged 2 years, 7 months and 21 da: Puneral from her pee # resiaence, No, 235 Seventh) street, on Sunday, December 26, 1875, at one o'clock. PM Relatives and friends are respectfully invited te atten ~ Greex,—On Thursday, December 23, Haxora GREEN, in the Gist year of her age, The relatives and friends of the family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral, from her tate real- dence, 435 West Forticth stre o'clock sbarp, without further notice, Griswoup,—In Jersey City, December 18, 1875, Eurs- Anwrit, widow of William H. Griswold and’ daughter of the late John and Mary Hutchings, aged 58 years. Remains interred in Greenwood Cemetery. Goyox.—In Brookiy December 23, Huway G. Geox, in the 82d year of bis age. Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend tho funeral, from the residence of his son-in-law, Richard T, Rich, 145 Van Buren street, Brookiyn, on Sunday, the 26th inst., at ten A.M. Re- ok to be taken to Moravian Cemetery, Staten sian * Hrxseu,—On Friday morning, December 24, Isipor. Hinson, in the 86th year of bis age, ‘The relatives and iriends of the family, also the mem- bers of Humboldt Ladgs, No. 512, F. and A. M.; the: members of Beersheeba Lodge, I 0. B. B.; the. mem- bers of the Congregations Adath Israel and Rodolph Sholam, are respect{ully invited to attend the funeral, op Sunday morning, at half-past nino o'clock, from his ite residence, No. 719Third avenue, Kreg.—At Claason’s Point, Westchester county, on Friday, 24th inst, of pneumonia, Lewis J. Kink, aged i and 5 montbs. roe of funeral hereafter. ‘ Krreure.—At the Winchester House, New York, om Friday morning, December 24, Joun Bexsamm, Jr., oungest child of Alice May aud Frederick McHenry” itching, aged 6 months: Reiattves and friends are invited to attend tho funeral services, at 21 West Thirty-second street, on. M. Kyiatir.—In Brookiyn, on Thursday, December 23, 1876, Faayors E. KsiGut, in the 64th year of his age. Funeral will take place on Monday, the 27th inst, at one o'clock, from his late residence, Warren street, Relatives and friends are invited to atsend, without fur- ther notice. ‘Miuts.—On Wednesday. December 22, fanny, wife of Edward Mills. ‘The relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, trom her late residence, No, 147 Bast Sixty- first street, on Sunday, December 26, at half-past twelvo- o'clock, Mokrcax,—On December of Asher R. Morgan, in the 84 Notice of funeral hereafter, Munx.—The funeral of the late Davi Monn will bo Eumza Morcay, mother year of her age. | from his late residence, at Haverstraw, on Monday, at two o’clock P, M. McLeax.—On Wednesday, December 22, 1875, Num McLean, aged 56 years. The relatives and friends of the family, also members. of Chancellor Walworth Lodge, No. 271, F. and A. M. ; Priune Chapter 241, anc Columbian Commandery No. 1, are respectiully invited to attend his funeral on Sun- day, 26th inst., at one P. M., from his late residence, No. 128 Bast Nineteenth street, Novxsk.—On Friday morning, December 24, 1875, aged 8 years and 5 months, ALyreD P. Nourse, Jr., som of Alfred P, and Casilla F. Nourse. Funeral from the residence of his parents, 29 West. Thirty-sixth street, at half-past nine A. M., on Monday, the par Relatives and friends respectfully invited to» atten Pearsath —On the 23d inst., James Prarsau, aged. 74 years, ‘the relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the faneral, from his late resi- dence, No. 233 West Forty-seventh street, on Sunday, at haif-past one o'clock. Prick.—The members of Warren e, No. 84, 1. O. 0. F., are hereby notified to meet at their rooms, No. 827 Bowery, on Sunday, December 26, at one o'clock sharp, attend the funeral of our late brother Johm Price. By order of ABR. BLAUVELT, N. G. Geo, L. Marty, ae G P. 3.—Members of sister lodges are respectfully in- vited. Quinw.—At the pastoral residence, on the 28d inst... after along and painful tliness, of ‘chronic disease of the heart, Rev. Joun Quinn, of Piermont, in the 67th: year of his ago, Funeral services in his church at Piermont, at ten A. M., on Toesday, 28th inat,, after which his remaing- will be taken to Calvary Cemetery for interment. Tho- reverend clergy and his numerous friends are re fully invited to attend. ‘Trains leave City for’ Piermont at seven and hall ht o'clock A. M. Returning, carriages will be in waiting at Twenty-third street ferry, New York, at three o’cock P. M. Roparrs,—On the inst, at the restdence of her son-in-law, A. EK. Shipley, Mrs. Mary Axx Ronan’ peed of Cornwall, England, aged 72 years and months, Funeral from 192 Ross street, Brooklyn, KE. D., at one o'clock P, M., on Sunday, December 26. Smira.—In Brooklyn, December 23, Sawcen Surrn, aged 74 years. Friends and relatives are requested to attend the funeral, at Ing late residence, No, 818 Bergen street, om Sunday’, at two F. M. Surru.—In thie city, of kidney disease, on Friday, ee 24, Taomas davvenson ‘Suita, in the 73d your’ of bis Funcral vices from his late residence, 320 West Forty-third street, on December 25, at three P. M. His remains will be taken to Newcastie, Westchester county, for interment on Sunday moruing by tho 9:18 train. Warrers.—On December 24, Hewiert Waurans, ip tha bith year of bis age, riend’ and relatives are invited to attend the fu- neral, at the house of W. D. Myers, Bayonne, N. J., on Sunday, December 26, at three o’ol mM. Wanp.—On December 28, Neat Wann, of Conwell, near Litterkenny, county Donegall, aged 8 years. Tho relatives and friends are invited to attend the foneral, from hts late reside pe od West Twenty- seventh street, on Sunday, the 26th inst, at half-past one o'clock P.’M., Winrre.—In\ this city, on Friday, December 24, after a protracted illness, Jomx H. Warts, in the 86tn year ot’ bis Relatives and friends are requested to attend the funeral services, at the residence of his mother-in-law, Mra. Robertson, 92 East Tenth street, on Sunday after- noon, at three o'clock. ZancER,—On Thursday, December 23, 1875, UnaRiRe L. K. Zanoen, im the Wth year of his ‘The relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend his funeral, from his late rosi-~ dence, 108 Rast Kighty-third street, on Sunday. they ‘26th ingt., at one o'clock P.M,