The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1876, Page 3

1875-1876. Departure of the Old Year Amidst a Fog. SCENES IN THE STOCK EXCHANGE, New Year’s Eve Among the Germans. The popular notion that New Year's calls are an “in- stitution” peculiar to New York is not founded on fret, ‘but at the present day the custom is almost confined to this city. In many countries, especially in Scotland, it was long the practice to await the first foot’s entering step, That sudden on the floor is welcome hea Ere blushing maids have braided up their hair. It was in the custom of first footing, doubtless, that New Year's calls had their origin, and this in {ts turn was the outgrowth of the custom of wassail at New ‘Year. Some idea of the antiquity of wassail may be formed from the fact that the name is derived from the ancient Saxon phrase Wass hael—to your health In England the wassail bow! was filled with spiced ale, comically called lamb’s wool, and out of this the healtn of all was drank, The hot pint {n Scotland was prac- tically the same thing, and immediately following the po- sation was the first foot. When the health of the family had been drunk it was the eustom of the elders tosally out with the bot kettle, and bearing a provision ofbuns and short bread to visit their neighbors and interchange yreetings. The first to enter a friend’s house after twelve o’clock was called the first foot, This custom prevailed, notin England and Scotland alone, but in other countries, and our Dutch ancestors brought it with them to New Amsterdam, It was not possible, how- aver, to confine the custom to the elders, and we «ré told that in Edinburgh the young men went abroad with the hope of meeting the maiden of his fancy at the door and obtaining from her the privitege of a kiss as her first foot, Tn this city New Year’s calls are =! mast exclusively con, Aned to the young, the young men priding themselves on the number of calls they are able to make during the day and the young women on the number of callers they receive. We presume the present year will be no exception, and this morning as soon as the early braak- fast and the Heraxp are disposed of the work of the day will begin. Nothing, perhaps, could more ftly describe the spirit of these visitings than a verse of doggerel from an old Gloucestershire wassail song :-~ Be here any maids—I suppose here be some; ‘Bure, they will not let young men stand on the cold stone; Sing hey 0 maids, come troll back the pin, And the fairest maid in the house let us ail in. After New Year’s calls the custom of bestowing XEW YKAR'S GIFTS 1s the most interesting, and its observance is even more general. In spite of its antiquity, however, beng derived, as 1s said, from the Romans, it is falling lito tiesuetude. As with Jus a@ turkey is the usual Thants- giving gift, so in the sixteenth century the tenaniry were accustomed to present their landlords with a capon; and, eartier still, gloves were a customary New Year's gif. When pins were first invented they de- came very acceptable as presents. Money was soue- times given instead, and thus we obtained the phraies “glove money” and ‘pin money." It is almost immpis- ible to conceive at this day how general was the givng of presents on New Year’s in the past. Not only dd the tenant make gifts to the landlord and the subject to the prince, but even judges and magistrates rece vod them. A story is told of Sir Thomas More which {l- lustrates this curious subject. A lady im whose fivor he had decided a cause sent him on New Year’s a oir of gloves with forty gold angels in them. returned the gold with the following note:— Mistress, since it were against good manners to fuxe your New Year’s gift, 1am content to take y gloves, but as for the lining I utterly refuse it, i During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, especially, tie | practice of presenting New Year’s gifts to the sowr- eign was carried to an extravagant heighit, but upon tie Restoration the custom was not revived, Now wh¢a- ever New Year's presents are made at all, it is onlyio near friends and relatives, and, aside fromrgood wishys for the future, the day seems to have lost all distinguish- ing features. THE OLD YEAR AND THE NRW. It has been remarked as a somewhat singular reflec: tion appropriate to New Year’s Day, that ‘‘to but tew does it seem to occur that the day is a memorandum of) the subtraction of another year from the little sum of life, With the multitude the top feeling is a desire to express good wishes for the next twelve months’ ex- perience of their friends and be the sutyect of similar benevolence on the part of others, and to see this inter- change of cordial feeling take place as far as possible in festive circumstances.” This sentiment is even better expressed by the poet:— The agod and the young, man, woman, child, Unite in social glee; even stranger dogs, Meeting with bristling back, soon lay aside Their snarling aspect, and in sportive chase Excursive scour, or wallow in the snow. With sober cheerfulness the grandam eyes Her offspring round her, all in health and pence; And, thankful that she’s spared to see this day Return once more, breathes low a secret prayer That God would shed a blessing on their heads, Such is the impatience of mankind to speed the laps, of time that the dying yearhas but few toregret its departure, We are ready rather to welcome the new year in than to sing dirges over the dead body of the past. In England it is castomary to hail the birth of the new year with the merry ringing of bells, and few families retire to their beds on New Year's Eve, but prefer to await the ushering in of the happy morning, A vestige of this custom is preserved to us in the chimes of Trinity, and what is perhaps peculiar to America is the “watch night” of the Methodists On the last night in the year the churches of that faith are open for worship and the religious exercises are kept up until midnight. The hymns and songs aro mostly of the Moody and Sankey order, and the last one is sung kneeling as the clock strikes the hour ot twelve, The custom is more generally observed in Peunsylvania and the West, where the German cloment Predominates, than in other parts of this country. In Germany New Year's Eve is a season of much jollity | and great good humor; and in France, especially in Paris, the purchase and presentation of bonbons is universal. In all this, exceptin the devotions of the Methodists, joy in the advent of the new year takes pre- cedence over every other feeling, and even in those | sections where the Methodist practices are most strictly enforced, the profaner parts of the community busy | themselves in “‘shooting off the old year.’ Such is the | anxiety of some people to make sure that the past is gone beyond recall tuat they blaze away with guns and Pistols and Chinese crackers, as if to prevent the old Year from lingering in the lop of the new. THK XHW YEAR AND 1 Despite the joy aver th Bee the old year depart with wking sirong resoln- tions for the future. Most men Lot lost to ail that ts Good desire to turn over a new leat with the new year, k NRW Leavy, of the new year few ty The drunkard reforms on New The Spendthrift resolves upon frugality and \\e idler prom. fses himself to become industrious. 0 habits are broken up and a new course of life be All sorts of expedients are adopted, and, absurd as many of them re, they are all resolved upon for some good parpose, Men begin to put money in the bank on this day and schoolgirls biot the virgin page of a diary destined to be discontinued before the month is out, If one-half the resolutions which come with the new year were kept the liquor stores would soon be closed, the jails emptied and the whole baman family enriched and ele- vated. Unfortanately, the g00d resolutions which accompanied it are forgotten as its freshness fades, Still all these things do good, for we cannot recall the past and its errors and resolve upon better courses in the future without being bene- ‘ted thereby, All the events of the year come crowd- ing in upon us on New Year's Day; the memory of ead ones gone; the little lights of the househola come to cheer as on our way; the whole history of 965 days, with all ite joys and sorrows crowded ‘nto an hour. Wits most of us this review of the past is national as well a8 personal, and with the American People vanu- ory 1, 186, 18 more significant than any New Year's worning ty our history. It is the Opening of ‘THR CENTENNIAL TRAR, m which is te be celebrated the handredth cycle of the Republic A hundred years ago New York was a com- paratively unimportant city, All tts fine houses wero below St, Paul’ and one-half of its inhahitenta more —— rr Sir Thoras | jw leaf withers and the | than bi ‘itizens—were tories, Governc ith @ loose hand, the reins 0} ‘Ml practical purposes, the erty Americans. General Wasning.-_, h oe aay -agre that, had it been attacked, it would have been overcome and the hope of American liberty destroyed, Jay at Cambridge watching the operations of the British. It was the darkest hour of a cause so gloomy that only years of defeat could achieve a victory in the end. In the har- bor at Boston an expedition was fitted out which was Son te bring gonsternation to the doors of every pat- riot in New York. Sir Hepry Clinton was in com- mand, and one Sunday morning jn January, 1776, he entered the bay and menaced the city, Lee was in the | city with @ small escort, but without an army, apd Clinton coula easily have laid the town tn ashes. The inhabitants expected its destruction, and all night long after his arrival in the harbor were busy transporting their movables toa place of safety. The streets were filled with carts and the North and East rivers with Doats, all heavily laden with merchandise, It was the design of the British mot only to capture the city but to take possession of the Hudson River as far as Albany, and, by commanding it, divide the colonies into two parts. The alarm among the in- habitants of New York and the ready springing to arms ofthe people of Connecticut and New Jersey seem to have disconcerted Sir Henry, and so pretend- ing that he was only on a visit to Governor Tryon, he sailed further South, and the conflicts about New York, inevitable if the war went on, were deferred till later im the year. This episode, so slight in itself and yet ‘so fraught with important consequences, could not be recalled more fitly than at the present moment, when we are at the threshold of the Revolutionary memories which come with the centenary of American inde- pendence, A HAPPY NEW YEAR, But part of the enjoyment of the present as these memories are, we need not confine our pleasures | to their recollection, As we write the clanging bells announce the death of 1875 and the birth of 1876 Everywhere thore are stir and bustle in the metropolis, and before the first impressions of the Henao are dry the early callers will begin their rounds. Already tables are spread in every household, and young men and maidens are bedecking themselves for the “sober jellity,’’ let us hope, of all true worshippers at New Year's tide, while all give expression to the wish that Love and joy come to you And to your wassail too, And God send you a happy new year, ‘A happy hew year, And God send to you a happy new year, THE EVE AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. ‘The observance of New Year’s Eve at the Stock Ex- change was of the usual merry and uproarious charac. ter. Busmess was suspended in the forenoon, In truth little or no business was done, and then followed a series of horse-play performances that would have done no discredit to the wildest school of unreformed boys that ever existed. The gallery suspended above vhe floor was an excellent vantage ground for such Spectators as felt a natural aversion to ming- ling im the rough fun carricd on be- low. Here a gentleman could stand with tho consciousness that the silk tile upon his head was | safe and yet enjoy all that sense of malicious delight in which our human nature is so prone to indulge in wit nessing tho misfortunes of others. Hats that inno- eoutly entered (on the heads of their owners) the arena ‘were the bulls and bears jostled and howled tn bar- rous delight and mischief departed as misshapen, as rushed and ruined as if a very Juggernaut car had | | passed over them; and if pity did not excite the bosoms of the lookers on, a profound fecling of sacred joy must have stirred the hearts of any practical batters in the Gallery: any renovators of dismantled stove- pipes who “block your hat while you wait for fifty cents.”’ All sense of dignity and decorum disappeared in the hot and turious sport of the bulls and beat Mock auctions were started, and lots in Greenw and Calvary cemeteries went ‘up to a very high figure. ‘Dweed stock jumped to 199, beyond which no one had the courage to bid. Mackerelville was active. Charley | Hoss touched 11, after starting at 2 Had the latest in- | formation been more reliable it might have gone to 22, Whiskey cocktail stock went higher than a kite, and it | was so fcarce on the premises that many of the lead- ing brokers made a frantic rush out upon the street and never found it till they reached Delmoni- co's, A Chinese gong, such as used to be commonly employed in the hotels of former days, was brought in by some of the boys and made a main occasion of the fun of the day. The President of the Board rapped his gavel and declared that any member caught with the poisy and abominable instrument in his possession should saifer the extreme penaity of the law of na- tions. Having said this be solemnly deseended from hus chair and with the stern devotion of an old Roman boldly plunged into the tamultuous mob to art with his own hands, the impious vio- Istor, A crowd at this side now and at that side the next moment circulated the offending gong. It sounded in all quarters of the room, but it eluded the rusp of the exhausted pursuer, piupging madly into is group and that, like the barp that seemed to hang on the old Moorish walls. This portion of the perrmance was very amusing in itself, but the culmi- bating sport was im the final smashing of several \ shining new silk chimney pots that ventured in near the ond of the day’s amusement. Altogether the brokers and speculators le/t an impression that there is trifle more\to live for than money. As Ternyson co ath is the end of life. Viby should life all labor be t YESTERMAY AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE. ‘There were rejoicings and handshaking in the Cus- tom House yest tday to an immense extent und kindly wishes sve vo happiness for the new year. In addition to the) it was pay day, amd there was hot | hurrying from th Custom House to the Sub-Treasury to get checks cas! Assistant Auditor S. T. Jacobs | ‘was at his office afseven o'clock to give checks out to the memeey til echapies and others whose time is ocoupi His consideration for this class is ‘hly appreciated by them, as it pro- vents their losingie by waiting for their turn dur- ing the day. Tb Botal number of checks paid out dur- ing the day by M¥ Ogden, the Anditor. trom the Coi lector to the pfters counted sixteen hundred, The amount paid wasiess than it has been for many years, | the recent ten pedcept reduction on salaries electing } this change. The exempted from the tea per cent | reduction are the ghief oficers of the Collector's office, Deputy Collectur§ Storekeepers, Gaugers and Weigh- | ers, The following edhedule shows the amount of salaries and contingenciesipaid Collector's ofice i Naval Office... Surveyor's office Inspectors and p Weighers and | | Contingenctes. Total. ....+.... . The Custom Hiuse wil! be opened to~ to ten o'clock foi the entrance and clearance ot veasela OFFICI4AG RECOGNITIONS OF TUK bay. By an order of the munon Council the American | flag and the city lors will be asplayed to-day from | | the City Hall apd Qil public offices. An artillery salute at suprise will mak the day as the commencement of | the centennial ye@r of our national life. Flags will also grace all the hote and theatres ava jarge numbers of | private buildings#hroughout the city ae well as all the | shipping in the < ak: xEW YEAR6 EVE AMONG THE GELMANS, Among the Gertans the New Year was celebrated by the different clulg, social and musical, The New York | Turn Verein gavean entertainment at its hail in Fourth | Street, which included « supplementary Christmas en- | tertainment and & distribution of holiday gift. As | soon as the New Year bad been ushered tn | a ball was begun. Atthe large hall at the Germania | Assombiy Room a New Year's entertainment was | given, whder the Buspices of a German Workingmen’s organization, T! Jhiand Bund, @ thriving German | vocal society, spent the last hours of the year at a vocal | and m ebiértainment at Lincoln Hall, in Kast — Houston street, At the Waihalla Hall, in Orchard street, the New York Choral Society gave a Sylvester entertamment, | Consisting of vocal and musical exercises, and a ball | The Arion Quartet Club passed the closing hours of the old year witha vocal and musical entertainment at | Concordia Hall, !» ave: A, and the Srst hours of the new year at a bal NEw Year's DAY IN BROOKLYN. The centennial new year will be observed with due tegard jor the rages of the past in the City of Churches, The custom of calling and receiving calls | Promises to be carried out regardless of the stringency | of the money market and the general depression of trade, The flags will be displayed im grace- ful profusion by Keeper Tormey from the City Hall, while the County Cours House will vie with {8 im artistic ornamentation The publio ree offices and stores will remain closed, Thero this being ‘feap year” name was Greatly enhanced, Thet (ing Mayor, Frederick ean, will stand upon the right side of the outgo. tog democratic Mayor Hunter, tn the office of the Chief strate of the city, (rom ten o’clock A. M. to tweive M. to-day, and will in vindication of ihe prin- | Schroeder, repabdit- | both John L, and W. M. Bremer have been the active | Essex street, Boston; has failed. | schools in the very ciples of the hour, “retrenchment and reform,” “‘send rich and poor alike away empty," after a gentile press- ure of the band. Time was wi the democracy and needy constituents were wont to ‘eat, drink, laugh and be merry’ at the Mayor's receptions on the first day of the year. NEW YEAR'S IN JERSEY CITY. Mayor Trapbagen, of Jersey City, has issued a proc- lamation ordering the display of the national colors from public and private buildings to-day. A national salute will be fired and all the church bells rang at san- rise. He recalls to the minds of the citizens the fact that this day ushers in the anniversary of the centen- nial year, and he calls on all to celebrate it accordingly with becoming solemnity. The Fire Commismoners have ordered the ringing of all the fire bells, one stroke to be given for cach of the ortgnal thirteen States, IN HOBOKEN. The birth of the centennial year was celebrated in Hoboken by the ringing of the re bells, fring of pis- tols, blowing of steam whistles, &c. In addition to this the whole Fire Department, as has been the cus- tom for years, paraded through the streets, burning torches, The greatest enthusiasm prevailed In the township of Union Hill, also, the occasion was simi- larly honored. NEW YEAR'S PRESENTATION, Mr. J. F. Ames, agent of the Maine Steamship Com- pany, Was presented yesterday by the employés of the company with a magnificent gold hunting wateb as a mark of the esteem in which he is universally held SUICIDE IN A HOTEL. On Thursday night a man registered his name as P. L. O’Brien at the St. Charles Hotel, and engaged a | room. After a few minutes he came down stairs again | to getapen, ink and paper. About noon yesterday, when tne servant girl knocked at his door she received no response. She then unlocked the door and found O’Brien dead in his bed, shot through the heart. A small = five-barrelled = Delaney pistol was lying near his body. The girl gave the alarm and Coroner Kickhoff soon arrived. Upon searching the man’s pockets he found two letters, one addressed to Mrs. L. O’Brien, Ireland, and the other to R Emmett O’Brien, Ireland; a receipt for a registered letter addressed to'R. E. O’Brien; a receipt for a draft for £1 sterling on the Royal Bank of Dublin, payable to R. E. O'Brien; a memorandum book containing $10 in bills and two business cards, having printed on them “p, L, O’Brien, tresco painter, No, 110 West Thirty- fifth street.” It was ascertained by a Heraxp reporter that O'Brien | had lived in Thirty-sixth street, near Eighth avenue, | with his wife and three children and his mother an sister up to last July, when he sent his wife and chil- dren to Ireland on a visit to their relatives, On the Ist | of August he broke up housekeeping in Thirty-sixth street and made his headquarters at the residence of a Mr. McFeeley, No. 110 West Thirty-fifth street, making @ good living at his profession, and was known as an «feellent workman, a bard student and an industrious ,n, He was a periodical drinker, and when intem- perate he would become flighty. He resided at the time of his death at No, 210 West Thirty-seventh street, For a week past he bad been drinking bard, and his mind wandered almost continually. On Thursday morning he told Mrs, Brestler, bis landlady, that unless she gave him $100 he would shoot ber, and exhibited a pistol. On Wednesday night Mra Bresler told O’Brien that she bad something to tell him, but he acted in such & Way as showed that his mind was deranged. It is probable that O’Brien shot bimself during a temporary aberration of the mind. It is believod that he had sent money to Ireiand to enable his children to return to this couotry in company with their grand- mother, The body was removed to the Morgue, and Coroner Etckhoif will hold an inquest on Tuesday next, BUSINESS FAILURES. Messrs. Priest, Fuller & Lawrence, importers, of No. 15 Maiden lane, who recently assigned to W. L, Head- ley, owe $19,852 82; nomiual assets, $8,505 87; actual value, $7,731 47. Assignments have been made by George C. & William G. Angell to W. B, Sofleld; by Emma Bartlett, dealer in barness, of No, 62 Warren street, to Josiah Fletcher, and by J. R Hitcheock & Co., importers, of No. 33 Beaver street, to De L’Orme Knowlton, The individual creditors of Reuben W. Howes, of the late firm of Howes & Macy, bankers, held a meeting yesterday before Register Dayton, at No. 322 Broad- way. ‘The assignee, Nelson J. Tappan, presented bis report, and a dividend of five per cent was declared, making sixty per cent in all ‘the estate of Charles A. Macy paid 100 per cent, and another dividend of about ten per cent will be paid to the creditors of the firm, fifty five per cent having been previously paid, | ‘There are about 900 creditors, A meeting of the creditors of Charles G. Wilson, clocks, No. 69 Nassau fests held at the oflice of | Henry W. Allen, Register in Bankruptcy, No. 152 Broad. _ way. A number of claims were proved and Charies M. | Gould was elected assignee. The liabilities are about $30,000. Among the principal creditors are the follow- ‘ng:—Charles Clark, $3,202; Bridgeport Brass Com- pany, $1,210; W. L’ Gilbert,’ $1,198; Mathew Wilkes, $1,128; Ansonia Brass and Copper Company, $9,043. ‘The creditors of Patrick D. Casey, liquors, met yes- terday at the office of Isaac Dayton, Register in Bank- ruptey, No. 222 Broadway, and, on’ the report of the assignee, George Gallager, vidend of eight per cent was declared. Ata meeting of the creditors of Isaac C. Schafer, syrups, No. 76 Cortlandt strect, Mr. David Wagstail, of | No. 78 Cortiandt street, was chosen assignee tn bank. | ruptcy. BUSINESS CHANGES AND FAILURES. Bostoy, Mass., Deo, 31, 1875. The old firm of Gardner, Bremer & Co, changes its style to J. L, Bremer & Co—a change only in style, as partners in the house for very many years. J. H. Connors, dealer in wholesale liquors, of Haver- hill street, Boston, has failed, with lrabilities of $70,112 Indebtedness to creditors is for the most part in favor | of parties in New York and Boston, Vhe availablo assets aggregate $9,200. 0. F. Sage, trunks, Washington street, Boston, has fatied. A committee of five, consisting of three New York and two Boston parties, was appointed to inves- tigate affairs. The investigating committee in the case of E. D, Peters & Co , of Boston, met yesterday and reported in favor of accepting the firm’s proposition to go into bankruptcy voluntarily and then offer a composition with their creditors on the basis of paying ten per cent of the debts in three months, ten per cent in nine months, five per cent im fifteen months and five por | cent fn eightcem months, all the notes to be the un- | endorsed paper of the firm and the three months notes | to be without interest. The creditors agreed. The liabilities of Robert W. Dresser Co., woollen | goods, Franklin street, Boston, are about $230,000, and the assets $190,000. The tndebteduess is mainly in favor of Boston and New York parties, At a meeting of the creditors of Shepard, Hall & Co., the great Boston lumber house, held yesterday, it waa unanimously voted to take thirty cents on the dollar. The business of the firm is to be carried on under the | superintendence of the Register until the acceptance of | the creditors is contirmed. | W. T. Black & Co., harness dealers, Federal street, | Boston, have failed The liabilities are reported at | about $7,000, $2,000 being due to Boston partes and most of the balance to parties in Maine, At a meeting of the creditors of Bornstein, clothiers, Boston, heid yesterday, it was voted to take fifty cents | on the dollar, } Albert F. Robbins, boots and shoes, Nos. 16 and 20 | His indebtedness |s | in favor of New York parties | about $27,000, most The assets are about $13,000 A. J, Smallage & Co., dry goods, Chauncey street, Boston, have failed) The liabilities are reported at $10,000 or $12,600, | Tho liabilities of William H. Healey, of Boston (in | bankruptcy), are $163,000, mostly in favor of Bostou | and New York parties. MORTALITY RECORD. OVER THIRTY THOUSAND DEATHS IN NEW YORK CITY LAST YEAR—ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE MORE THAN IN 1874—TABULATED STATEMENT OF DISEASES AND WEEKLY NECROLOGY. The reports of the Board of Health and the Bureau of Vital Stat are not made now to the Mayor and Common Council, as formerly, They are rendered weekly and printed in the Corporation paper in the statements of the regular proceedings according to law. No annual report may be looked for from these depart- ments, nor, mdeed, from any other. Mayor Hall was the last of the city’s chief magistrates who asked for such areport. The figures of the mortality record of 1874 have not yes been given in their full and corrected state to the public They are here subjoined. By way of explanation it would be proper to say in this connection that the report pre- sented was worked out by the Hrxatp’s own reporters, who are indebted for access to documents and depart- mentsto Dr. Elisha Harris, the Registrar, and Mr. Goldman, chief Clerk of the Board of Health. The fig- ures speak for themselves, and are as accurate as could be obtained up to yesterday evening. It will be seen from the tables, prepared with the ut- most care, that the mortality of 1875, upto 4 P. M. Bist inst., exceeds that of 1874 by 1,395 deaths, This is attributable to different causes, Smallpox and diph- theria have been tar more virulent and Widespread this year than last, There have been fewer deaths through Violence in 1875 than in 1874, The following table shows the total weekly mortality tn each year, 1874 and 1876:— NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1876. CORONERS’ WORK. Statistics of the Office for the Year 18 io. The Homicides, Suicides and Sud- den Deaths. The following is a detailed statement of the violent | or sudden deaths that have occurred tm this city dur- | 18st wi0q (8 Aqiwdio eeeeee Fa EE | wud ‘peop punoy sugar Bleswenseewenel ~aorwaqgtg PP Prerr er abled spinos Bleewewausoxas| “oay Suiyn somoin| Pe aasosoy | 3 @lltiitllent«| 1 sauping wos | # “samo wweys Aq 40A0 UY we | S29 oss0y Aq 20A0 UY, **waiejdavo £qQ 40A0 UNY ot" sais UMog = ; Se aeepeayreny ists. 1875. Diarrhea |) je | Diarrheat es. || S anaes | aint 3! s S|. > Weeks. st a? ? Sz] ag eT Fall a8] ® Sel i GS 1S bys Leal Tal) | Era eatin BEE soar aes 11 goed eta eae Peli sg si: 3 | saliell & slie! 4 10) oo 4 13 6 6 + 6) ar) 2 Souk 4) 6} 2 4) Ce 9} Tg ait 8 5 8 8) 8 S| 2 GQot 1} 4 Fourteenth. . 6} 8 4] 5 Fitteenth a} 8 Sixteenth. .... 9) 1 ba cet Seventeenth n 8 6 8 Eighteenth, . y - 1d (ae Nineteenth, gl ul ‘Twentieth. 1} 7 8 - 16, 1 4 3) 13} Ce 4) Ql 1 | 2 - a0} 4 6 ‘Twenty-sixth.... 40} 7] 4 Twenty-seventh. 58 i 5 ‘Twenty-cighth 146 | 17 Twenty-ninth, 358 17 Thirtieth.. og) 27 Thirty-first, 288 80 | Thirty-second 25 Thirty-third.... 214 2} 19 ‘Thirty-fourth..... 234 25] 16 Thirty-tifth 126) 167] 13 Thirty-sixth 136) 213l 17 | Thirty-soventh., 129 165} 12 127 130} 17 110 95} 10 104 3] 13 7 45] 8 | i 49 rr) Forty-third, 33 2) 9 Forty-fourth., 40 26} 3] Forty-fifth 35 Ee BG i} 4 Bt oo 3) 5 ol 5 n 12} 6 9 ieate 3 Fifty-first . n a i Fifty-second. . 10 9} 4 Totals............28,727 90,122 The following shows the mortality in each year under the classification of deaths :— Classification of Death, 1s74, 1875. Zymotic diseases 9,802, 10,840 Constitutional ai 6,023, 6,002 Local diseases, 10,720 Developmental diseases 2,080 Deaths by violence... 480 '“ pees Total deaths from all causes. 30,122 Excess this year over 1874, 1, DBATHS BY CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 1874. 1875, Smallpox 484 1,228 | Measles,.......+ 319 148 Scarlatina. 8i9 619 Diphtheria 665 2,154 ned ‘bis is the correct record of mortality’ in this city from the morning of January 1 to the evening of December | 81, 1875, as reported at the Bareau of Vital Statistics, THE YEAR'S VITAL STATISTICS, ‘The vital statistics of New York city for the year 1875, complete by months, are as follows Months, Deaths, Births, Marriages. ; 2,000 585 1/888 2,200 4 Septomber. October... November. December . COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITIES, At the meeting of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction yesterday the following resolutions were adopted ;— Whereas the Board of Estimate and Apportionment have reduced the appropriation of this department by catting off the allotment for the outdoor poor, and reducing the general spprepeiation more than $100,000’ from our estimate, there- fore be it Resolved, That ke sel i hool ip. Merenry be laid up in or- rred $0 the care of the , and the services of the officers and th from date, drill_master, matron, narse cept night watchinan, at the Nursery at Randall's [sland, be notified this day that the de- partmeut Las no further use for their services, HOW MRS, CORNWALL’S DEATH WAS CAUSED— AN UNGUARDED STREET TRENCH. Mrs. Elizabeth Cornwall, of No. 47 West Thirty-ffth street, fell into a trench made by the Municipal Oxygen Gas Company at the junction of Broadway and Fifth avenue on the 10th wit, and died a few days after from the injuries received by the fall. Coroner Eickho held an inquest on her body yesterday. The liabilities of the suspended furniture firm of Vol- ger Bros., of Concord, N. H., are $18,004 90, and the assets $9,650 Their creditors have decided to place them in bankruptcy, The creditors of J. B. Lawrence & Co., forniture dealers, of Worcester, Mass., have voted to accept a | forty cent composition. | J. & J. W. Brown, manufacturers of bricks, in Bur- | Ington and Colchester, Vt., have been thrown into j bankruptcy. | THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS, Rev. C. P. McCarthy, of the Bleecker street Univer. salist church, addressed the Liberal Club in Plimpton Hall last evening on “The Bible in the Public Schoola * He eaid that in his opinion the Bible isin the public teeth of the law, He believes that itehonld be taken away from all schools, and treated as a religious book whose contents and charac- ver should be explained to children in the home circle and in the churches, The public school system should be entirely secular, any religious matter tntroduced betng injartous to true religion, and this would make parents take a deeper interest in religious instruction, Some excitement ensued at the close of the lecture, the lecturer offering $100 to anyone who would prove that there was sucha wordag “hell” inthe Greek language. A genticman in the rear partof the hall, who gave bia name as William Anderson, a Greek scholar, fc op and said there waa The Chairman re- fused to hear him, as he was not * member of the club. Then ensued @ id of inten: number crying, “ ed jury!” pen the plattorm “Give him « eave ” Vinclly the majority prevailed, 4 Mr, Anderson explained his translation of the word ta a very elaborate speech. THE DEATH SHAFT. ‘The suit for damages againat John McAndrews, the contractor of the new Delaware and Lackawanna Rail- road Company, at Jersey City, on account of the death of fourmen who were killed In No 4ebaft, was cop tinued yesterday {n the Circuit Court at Jersey City, before Judge Knapp. Attorney General Vanatta ap- poared on behalf of the railroad company. The court room was crowded by tunnel laborers who anzbously await the result of the trial as several other “y sults are in prospect Ex-Mayor Sawyer and Mr. Joha Ling appear fur the relatives of the deccased labarera, | | | | dents, Henry Bergh testified that in his opinion there was a manifestation of utter carelessness and indifference to the life aud iimb of men and animals in leaving the trench open. Officer John W. Phillips, of the Twenty-0fh precinct, deposed that he took Mrs’ Cornwall out of the trench, and, with the belp of Mr. Baylis, assisted her into the Fifth Avenue Hotel, When she got in the hotel she said she had not seen the hole, At the place where Mrs. Cornwall fell only a space of about two feet were left on the crosswalk for people to cross. No guards were pat Up bor any precaution taken to prevent acck Willam G, Smart, an officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Auimais, corroborated Oficer Phillips’ testimony. | Dr. A Russell Strachan testified that he attended Mrs. Cornwall, and that sue died from the shock given to her system by the The jury returned a verdict in aceordance with the above facts, and declared that the death of Mra, Corn- wail was caused by criminal meglect on the part of the gas company. A BROOKLYN MYSTERY DISPELLED. Patrick Murphy, of No, 46 Amity street, Brooklyn, procured a warrant on Thursday last for the arreaheta — young gentleman named George Wardleigh, of No. 17 | Jefferson street, on suspicion of having foully dealt | ‘with Margaret Mallon, adomestic tn tho family of the | | under 40, 33; under 50, | under 80, 5; under 90, Blow em comm al” “s00d18 Up Bl comm l ol omene! wl” Bl col | wera | sMOpUIM JO 10 Bloom t | coool | if “stows Jo NO Bl cowccwl mello woos word | = Blech eee ee! | SaUIpNg mou Wools | # el TTTT ITT Teal | #prnajo im wos eld element LI 1's odwose aay BO Kas | “ox ‘sysem ‘sop Sill crecrsenng areregee | per ‘sAUIponYas YO Sleleteloeel roa "UN, ell etell eto “om ‘Baneuig elleletittt eet 404 £q porary ell el tel el el’ + --auo1s}f109 Slot l tl al eewel Kaouyqouye “qwey jo wey 9 SMO|LWA WoL Y “spunos 1048 | i sleet TT itil dua Ell wnBSeman| ol: umou Sl ll bc mem! || | umouyun oar ys0y lz SI ees eS ems! UMOUN UoaY NUON | $ El pwioceoon | nol | Waun Year WON & elliliemtiit [amouy “ani mozavp | | vogqun ‘ary wopey i #nnoous | PAE tT Tasuey Ss “ywoaqa aun | = Tamuwoad | 2 & & = = 2 & & & vaio | SUICIDES, Nationalities —Germany, 77; United States, 32; Ire. land, 18; England, 4; Switzerland, "4; France, 3;’Rus- sia, 1; Scotland, 1; Sweden, 1; Cuba, 'l. Yotai, 1 ‘The ages ran as follows:—Under 2, 8; unde! ; under 60, 27; Total, 142, The poisons were as follows:—Paris green, 29; nar- Bellevue, January 2 ‘Stab wound of the abdomen, inflicted with a knife in the hands of Charles Spreng, on board of the tug boat William A. Hen- nesty, at Pier 52 East River, on the morning of December 28, 1874, and the Coroner's jury con- ter that the action of Charles Spreng Was justi- fable under the circumstances, 2.—Schumacher, Nicholas, 33 years, Germany. Found at Park Hospital, January 4. Stab wounds inflicted with a knife in the hands of John Riley, at No. 96 James street, December 6, 1874. 2 20.—Blondiuni, Guessippi, 47 years, Italy. Found at Bellevue Hospital, January 9, 1875. Pyamia tol- be phos injuries to lower jaw, received at hands of a person or persons unknown, on or abo 17th of November, 18t. : ch vg Jax. 29.—Daly, Edward 0., 43 years, Bellevue Hospital! January 20. by being pushed down upon tho sidewalk at the hands of John Fogerty (colored), at Sixth avenue and Twenty-sixth street, December 17, 1874, Fes, 8.—Clare, Elizabeth, 30 years, Ireland.’ Found at Park Hospital February 4 Compression of brain, due to punctured fracture of tho ekull, said fracture of the skull being caused by a poker thrown at her and striking her by James Clare, at “i bes mei street, on the evening of Febru- ary 87. Marcu &—Hutfor, Georgo, 40 years, Germany, Found at Twentieth precinct station house February 26, Injuries received at the hands of Joseph Jordan, causing punctured (racture of skull and wounds of brain by a knife at No. 608 West Thirty-cighth street, February 26, 1875, Jax. 1 Jan, Ireland. Found at Injuries received 1 | Mancu 4 and 8—Orr, James, 47 years, Ireland. Nine- teenth precinct station house to Morgue, Febru- ary 21. Shock and injuries, received at the hands of Phillip Ollwell, on the 20th of February, 1875, ina building on Fourth avenue, between Seventy- eighth and Seventy ninth streets Marcn = 10.—Fitzgeraid, Charles, 35 years, United States. Found at Bellevue February 18. Stab wounds of chest; hands of person unknown. Arr 10,—McCarthy, Michael, 28 years, Ireland. Found at No, 754 Sixth avenue, April & In- juries received by a blow with a bottle in the hands of Michael Cunningham on the 3lst day of March, 1875, at No, 754 Sixth avenue, and the Coroner's jury farther believe that said Cunning- bam had no intention of killing McCarthy, Apri, 24,—Davis, Mary Aun, 9 years, New York. Found at Bellevue, and 437 East Seventeenth street, April 18, Fracture of the skull by being struck on the head with a stone thrown by a lad, Wil- liam Lyon, on the 1ith of April, 1875, Arnit 26.—Campbdell, John, 36 years, Ireland. Found at Bellevue Hospital April 21. club in the hands of police oficer Charles Wil- liamson, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, April 12, 1875, in Liberty street, near Washington street, Arnis 20.—Pondolfo, Joseph, 34 years, Italy, Found at Bellevoe Hospital, April 24. Exhaustion follow- ing wounds received at the hands of Dominico Policio, On the 13th of April, 1875, in Jersey street, May 15,—Walker, John, 93 years, United States, Found at Bellevue, May 4, Stab wounds inflicted by his step-son, Theodore Reed, in the heat of exette- + ment, caused by great provocation from the de- ceased, on May 1, 1875, May 27,—Blake, Jobn, 27 yoars, United States, Found at Twentieth precinct station house, April 27. Injuries received through being strack on the neck with a hot iron horse shoe, thrown by one ‘Thomas lan at No, 205 West Fortieth street, April 26, 1875. Jonz 2—Seidenwand, Louisa, 20 years, New York. Found at No. 40 City Hall place May 28. Ptatot shot wound of the head at the hands of Jacob Straudermann, in Chatham street, near Roose- ~ velt, on the evening of April 19, 1874, Jcxs 4—MeKenna, John, 14 years, New York. Found at Ninth precinct station Bouse, May 27, 1875. Fractare of the skail and Jaceration of brain, from @ pistol shot wound of head, atthe hands of Henry Rix, in lumber yard at West street and Thirteenth avenue, May 1875. Joxe 9 —Suilivan, Mary, 11 years, New York. Fonnd at No, 662 Water street June. Pistol shot wound of the bea caused byAhe carelessnens of yg alad named J 0, 662 Water strcet, May 26, 1875, Jone 28,— McKay, Al 6 years, Seottand, Fouha at No. 56 avenue ©, Jone 11 jolence received at the hands of a berson au. ngs tp inne deserip- tion given in she testimony of wife of do- Ernestine McKay (said description hav- tng been given to Mra McKay by deceased), at the corner of Eighth street aud avenue D, on the | morning of June 1, 1875. ) June So ehecdior, Sophie, 14 years, Switzer! } ‘ound at Bellevue June 25. “Gunshot wounds at | o hands of Gotieib Schaedioe Thursday, June 24, 1876, while in a row boat near Governor's laland. Jory 14—Bennett, Wiliam, 25 years, born in the United States. Died at Bellevue Hospital from lockjaw following injuries received during &quar- rel with an apknown person, July 4, 1875. Jour Leg Alphonso, 16 years, bora in Chins. Died at Bellevue Hospital July 1%, 1875, from memngitia, following pistol shot wound of hy at the hands of Thomas Wilson, July 1, 1975, Jvuy 20-—Peterson, Samuel (colored), 20 years, born in United States. Found at Eighth preciact sta tion house July 18, from hemorrhage following stab wound of the cheat, Inflieted with » knife in the hands of Thomas Sorrell, in Thompson street, near Broome street, Jul, 1875. Sexy 21.—Bailley, Samuel, 60 Years, born tn England. Died at No. 424 West Forty. Ourth street July 18, from pistol shot ere KOO PY, caer] James L, Bailley, at No. es! -fourt street, Sdneay, duly 18, 1875, and he Cbvenere jury consider that he fired she shot bell that is life and that of bis mosher was in danger. We consider that he dred the shot in self-defence, und paw joisid ‘wuep crt et Leet et | md yoo dq sysop suoqoya | Blbulwccent “ wosiod cotics, 17; arsenic, 5; phosphorous, 2; prussic acid, 1; | hydrociante acid, 1; cyanide of potassium, 2; carbolic | acid, L Total, Males, 40; females, 18. | MOMICIDES, Date of Inquest, Jan, 9.—Davis, Peter, 27 years, England. Found at Meningitis, the | result of a blow on the head, inflicted with a | 3 Ava. 3—Nordstrom, Anton, 28 years, Sweden; No. 66 Greenwich street, August 1, 1876. Hemorrhage from a stab wound of left groin, in ficted with a knife in the hands of Jobn Bengts- son, at No. 66 Greenwich street, August 1, 1875. 28—Connolly, Michael, 27 years, Ireland; Peni tentiary Hospital, Blackwell's Isiand, August 28, 1875. Sottening ‘of the brain, accelerated by brutal aud ill treatment at the hands of Keepers Patrick Geary, James T. Couenhoven, Edward M. Rees and Denis Hardy at the Penitentiary, Blackwell's Island, and we exonerate Thomas Reiliey and James M. Boyle We further recom- wneud that the Commissioners of Charitics and Correction, a8 well as the Warden of the Peni- tentiary, Blackwell's Island, use more care in the selection of keepers, and also in the proper care of prisoners who may be aick.’” 28 AND Skvr. 4—Doylo, William, 24 years, Ire- land; Beilevue, August 28, Stab wound of neck, intlicted with @ knife im the hands of Samuel MeMarray, at No, 404 Greenwich street, August 22, 1875, 29 anv Serr, 2.—Callaghan, Mary, 48 years, Ire- jand; No, 189 South Fiith avenue, August 29. ck from fracture of ribs and other injuries in- theted by her son Thomas, at No. 159 South Filth 2 Bvenue, August 28, 1875, . 81 ANv Skt. 1.—Conlan, John, 55 years, I Morgue trom Eighth precinct, August 31. Juries received at the hands of Johm Sewell and George Washington (colored), at No. $7 Thomp- ee street, on or about the night of August 20, 875, 1.—Langdon, at Ava. Ave. Serr, James, Sixteenth 1875. 22 years, New York. precinct station house Pistol shot wound in the chest, hands of some person unkuown, wtNinth avenue aud Fourwenth street, August 21,1 2—Loesch, Feodore C., No. 77 Chrystie street, wy pression of brain, due tw injury ceived at the hands of some perso Chrystio street, between G streets, August 15, 1875, 9 —Leary, Dennis, years, Ireland; Park Hos- pital September 4. Stab wound of abdomen, in- feted with a knife in the hands of Augustus Ross September 3, 1875, at No w 15.—Noe, H., 68 year New York He gitis, the result of Serr, 56 years, Germany, 25. Com- of head re- uknown, ip aud Hester Szrt, injuries d by bemg struck on the head cau with a piece of iron in the hand known to the jury, at No. 275 day morning, August 2 Burckhardt, Cathari 21 First avenue. is of a person un- reenWich Bireet, | Seer. No. miscarriage, the result of a kick upon the abdo- men from her sister, Who was then ne and is an inmate of the Lunatic A . Binek- 's Island, on the 22d day of August, 1875, a No. 421 First avenue, while suid insane sister was resieting the cllorts nade to prepare and convey her to the Insane Asylum. —Seiger, Joseph, 28 years, Germany; No, 79 Frankfort street, September 8. Injurive received by being struck on the bead with a cartrung iD the hands of John Gartiand, at No. us Ferry street, September 7, 1 o’Baldwin, Ed years, Ireland; No. 114 Greenwich street, September 29, Peritonitis and extravasation of blood, the resalt of pistol shot wounds of chest and abdomen received atthe ands of Michacl Finmell, at No, 4 West street, September 27, 1875. 5. —Bechwold, Anion, 50 years, Germany. Found at No. 408 West Forty-lirst street October 31, ‘“Be- ing struck with a club on bis head, fracturing his skull, at No, 408 West Forty-(irst ‘street, October 30, 1875, and from the evidence the Coroner's Jary find Frank Burns to be the party who struck the blow."? 6 ~-Dowdell, Thomas, ‘ears, New York. Found at Bollevue Hospital November 1, Gunshot wound of head, received October 27, atNo. 44 Henry street, at the hands of parties unkuown to Cor- oner’s jory. 8.—Goldman, Joseph, 40 years, Poland. at No. 106 Delancey street November 3. Pistol shot wound of brain at the hands of David Jaras- low, at No. 106 Delancey street, on the 2d day of November, 1876. Jarasiow, David, 37 years, Pola: Found at Bellevue Hospital November 3. Pistol shotwound of brain at the hands of Joseph Goldman, at No, 106 Delancey street, on 1875 . 23.—Inslee, John H., Found at No. 414 Eig “Gangrene of the lui celerated by injuries party or parties unk about August 6, 1873 | Twenty-eighth street Fighth w 24.—Bogenschutz, Albe Found at No. 754 Elev “Fracture of the skuliby a violent blow given by some person unknown to the Coroner's jury, on or about July 13, 1875." 10.—Clooney, James, 21 years, Ireland; fonnd av the House of Relief ot the New Yori November 23. Peritoattis, from rupuure ° bladder, the result of a kick inflicted by Joho Holland alias “Yank,’’ at No. 10 Washington street, November 18, 1875. “We recommend that the physicians attached to the oe Relief Supt. Oct, Nov. Nov. Nov. Found =i Nov. Dec. of the New York Hospital be more prompt in future to report the cases under their qure sufler- ing from criminal violence.” 11.—Creevy, Matthew, years, Irdand, gate keeper Penitentiary, Blackwell's Islaid. Found at Biackwell’s Isiand November “Frac- ture of the skull, at the bands of some person or persons unknown, on the night of November 25 or the morning of November. 26, and the Coroner's jury think that suspicious cair- cumstances point toward Thomas Jones ond John Gray; that they be detained for further inquiry. We censure Warden Fox, Deputy Wardea Brown and the keepers of the Penitentiary for the loose manner in which the aflairs of Up institu- tion are conducted, and we recommnd that, owing to the insecurity of human life dud prop: erty, asuificient guard be placed on tle island aiter nine o'clock P. M.”” 29.—Zornow, August, 27 years, United, 8! Found at Seventeenth precinct station bows cember 25, “Shock from pistol shot Ww abdomen inflicted at the bands of sone pe us unknown, on Second strect, between A and B, between the hours of one and two December 25, 1875. Reilley, James, 25 years, Ireland, Foupd at Bellevue, December 30. Injured by being s\ruck on the head by a stone, m Forty-seventh s near the East River, on or about the Ith o! vember. Joseph Farrell beld upon an ante-gior- tem statement of deceased + somelt n juries, and now to await a Minster, Carrie, 3 years No. 346 West Fitty-shird Pistol shot wound of the | of father, Meyer J. Min time, shot and fatally + | deceased, and then com | ndin, | Pefacbonough, William | Found at No. 343 West F H ver 29. Peritonitis follow.u, mem through being struck by @ crutch in the hands of the assistant janitor of the school in West Fortieth street on or about the 16th of December, 1875, without any criminal intent Inquest pending. Dre. 90 Purcell, Sania, 36 years, Ireland. Found at Bellevue Hospital, Dec, 22. Fracture of the skull received in @ fall caused by a blow being given by one Edward Gannon on the 20h of De- cember 1575, opposite No. 263 West Seventeenth street Due. 8, De- nd of Dee. | ' | | INPANTICIDE, Manrci 11.—Child (female) of Kate O'Toole, Found at Morgue, from No. 237 West Bixtecuth street, January 17, Asphyxia, resulting from causes 10 the jury unknown, January 16, 1875, 1L— Caroline, $ months, New York. Found * Morgue, from Thirty-third street, East River. ‘Drowning in arms of mother.”’ Mother committed suicide by drowning as same time. 19 and Serer. 18. itt (female), one day old (about), born im New York. Said female cbiid was thrown into the North River at the foot of Thirty-ninth street, August 19, 1875, by Bridget Kélly, who was held in defaulwof bail. 18.—inquert held at Coroner's office on the body of female child of Mary and Thomas Master- son, of No, 427 First avenue, Verdict by six jurymen—"That the child was premavarely born, and born dead, the resait of Causes to us unknown, at No, 427 First avenee, July 19, 1875." Verdict by two jurymen—“That tho said child was prematurely born, and born dead, owing to violence inflected on the mother during ascuifle between John Kenny and herself at No. 427 First avenue, July 1%, 1875," Jobn Kenny held in dofault of bail. Dac. 20.—Child (female) of Mary Tansey. Found at No. 21 Park row, November 19. Neglect on the part of the mother, Mary Tansey, at No. 21 Park row, November 18, 1875. KeCAPITULATION, | Ava. Avo. 1875. 1874 Infants found in the streets, alleys, Tivers, &c., desd, from neglect and ex posare, but principally etillborn......... 102 112 Deathe by sulfecation, principally infants overiaid in bed... 43 O8T Deatha by accident... 6362 Deaths by accidental shooting, potsoning, + 2 69 y erheated. ...... 3 ry Drowning, mot including suicidal di ing—kuown, 114, unknown, 61 105) Suicide. 434 Homicide o 8 Infanticide, 5 1 Abortion, 2 5 Judicial hanging. ry ° Total....... “ 10 1,100 THE PRODUCK EXCHANGE. Ata meeting of bag manufactarers in the Produce Exchange yesterday it was unanimously agreed to es- tablish s uniform rate of hire for grain bags to Europo as follows :—Seven and ahalf cents three basbel bag, or two anda half cents per delivered there; six cents three bushel bag, or two cents per bushel, returned here free of expense, both to include the sewing up. This agreement takes effect to-day, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A CELL Two young women, named respectively Minnie Jony 22. —Morreiii, Jobn, 46 years, born In Italy. . Died since 21, and her clothing being | fog (Woeies te. mo gn fa mer soem | ‘. 3 who is her cousin, sumed thas she had been done with, Search was made in every direction by tives, bat to oo avail Hence the arrest. areer ae been Gnally cleared by Devective Corr. At the he foand Margaret in the lyin ward and by ber wasa Gne male child. 1t seem: that she was taken il! while on Myrtle av pains of by om the day on which sh seen by er and was removed to the hospital The name We to the physicians there was Bridges | Reynolds, informed the officer that the young man who wag custody was innocent of offence hos but inculpated a ras! prominent member the ee Wercca ek, the pager guardian of ie, Wardleigh, who is a respectable was thereuvon reicased, TT ‘at Bellevue Hospital July 19; stab wound of cheat, inficted with a knife in the hands of Jo- oeee orange, at No, 216 Hester street, July 11, i Griffiths and Annie Wilson, confined in the Fourteently recinct station house on Thursday oight for being Beorderty, attempted suicide by hanging themselves to the bai They were discovered and resto! irs of their cells, red W conRcrousuecEs