The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1876, Page 3

OUR SCHOOLS, An Important Decision of the Board of Education. PUPILS NOT TO BE “GERMANIZED.” The Commissioners of Education met yesterday, the president, Mr. William Wood, presiding. The question of teaching German in all the schools was finally set- ted yesterday by a very decisive vote, the report against it being sustained by thirteen Commissioners out of eighteen. And not only is the German language thus doomed to a restriction in the schools, but itisgaid by some that the next siep on the part of some of the Commissioners will be to oust that study from the schools altogether, But this is not by any means likely to be done, for between the radicals— one set wanting to Germatize the schools, the other to blot out the German—there is the sensible majority, who believe that the people have @ right to German and French wm the schools if these studies will tend to impro: pupils’ minds and not interfere with, but subserye the study of English. It is also stated on good authority that the two Commissioners, Traud and Klamroth, intend, atan early day, to move the abolition of the German language in all the classes in all the schools, this being intended to show the little esteem German citizens tertain’ for the boon of the German classes in tho Grammar schools. Should Messrs. Trand and Klam- roth attempt to make ‘THIS PLANK MOVEMBNT, They will assurodly be again doomed to even a greater defeat than they sustaimed yesterday; for the majority of the Board voted not because they desired to oppose Messrs. Traud and Klamroth, but because they believed that it was proper to allow pupils in the three higher ciasses of the grammar schools to study German or French if their parents had any desire that they should do so, As the Bonrd thought yesterday that this was proper to do, it is not likely that these eamo gentlemen are going now to stultify themselves by making this fight an en- turely personal one, and a fight altogether unworthy of the high office they hold. There was a general feeling of relief yesterday when the question was settled, tt bas jung over the meetings of the Board month aiter/ month as a heavy weight from which harm might come if it were Ae kept fixedly in its proper place, and none the less 80 on account of the not unseldom threatening on the part of some #. to. danger in the future, uncertain in its magnitude. There doubt the matter was involved in a number of educational intrigues, which, though small in Ives, were Serious enough to be embarrassing outside of the Board of Education, The hall was crowded during THE PROCREDINGS OF THE BOARD | resolution to brin, yesterday afternoon, and both Commissioners and ‘audience paid marked attention to the proceedings Kigbteen members were preseut, and after the reading of the minutes, Commissioner’ Klamroth arose and said be wished to make a personal explanation. ‘At the last meeting, on the 19th of January, he was valled to order by Commissioner West, and in the dis- pute which arose some words passed between them. It was reported in one of the papers that Commissioner ‘West had said that if Mr, Kiamroth would not retract his remarks in the Board he wouid turn bim out of the Board. Commissioner West, on being questioned, de- pied having made such a remark, but said he would make bim answer outside of the Boara. President Wood said he had not heard any remarks of the kind made on the day mentioned. After some routine business was gone through with the question of the day was bronght up on a previous resolution of J. Grenville Kane regarding the long standing report concerning German in the public schools. Several communicatious were read, of which the following is To Tue HONORABLE THE BOARD oF KpucaTION GuntixweN—The undersigned committee, b: the central orgenization of Taxy ers’ Al city of New York, would respecsfully beg to your honorable body up follows :— It ix with us no uncommou interest that we have followed your discussion of the question relative to the teaching of the German language in our public schools, and the argu- tents used betore you, pro and con. have provoked several interesting debates at the sessions of your organization. Whatever difference of opinion ave at any time ex- isted in the minds of an ates as to the minor details for the successful carrying oat of the German cours ‘a> now provided by your bylaws, nevertheless we are unani- thority of ions of the to represent monaly of opinion. duly and officially exprossed, that the re- seation of, your existing bylaws aving reference to the ould assuredly be a lasting teaching of Germ: those of the'scholars availing themselves of the course. We do nut wish to reiterate the reasous #0 often repeated to yon du lust twelve wonths, such as tha: our ver~ nacular being founded on and in large part {ormed out of the Anglo-Saxon, a thorough knowledge of the German woud materially ald in mastering and fully compre! ish" lmruage, besides other er less ‘pertinent ‘and couvineing. im thus intruding upon your time to acquaint you with the sentiments of your tax .aying community on so all impo which furthermore caus sum of money. We would beg leave to wi we shall at all times strenuously oppose all neediess expen: and extravagance of every kind !n the administration of the affairs of our city or of auy of its departments we are ever ready and willing to do allin our power to advance the In- terests of cnr public school system, being well assured that on that bulwark in m great me: @ future of our country. Our public schools shall always have gar pecunt ry and moral support, and, far trom vexrudging the amount necessary to further he proper introduction an: i portion of topic, and ‘the city au expenditure of a cer- ants that while maintenance of the study of German asa part of the ordi- of our children, we are aud always will be ready to ausume vur shure of the responsibility in order to iusure the successful carrying out of your rules, when the sain tend to promote the interests of our educational sys: We would, therefore, respecttully, yet earnest! you to retain the study of German, present provided by your bylaws, and to suffer no change to be made therein which would curtail the advantages now enjoyed by those wishing to undertake the study of that language. Very respectfully, yours, ¥! SIGEL, Viee President and Chairman, C.J. MBuxtas, Secretary. EDWARD J. H. TAMSEN, ) A. LEBSO) Committee. Dr AUGUS? HERMANN, J ‘THK FORMULA OF PETITION. A pumber of other communications (rom over thirty different German societies, headed by the following resolutions were read:— Whereas the debates in the two last meetings of your hon- rable Board bave shown that the teaching of the Germah language in our public schools does not weet with the ap- Pproval of the majority ot your honorable Board, be it forthe Teasou. of an apparent economy or for the rea- von of auimosity against the German Americans: and whereas we cannvt be led to believe that @ number of high- minded and educated men as your honorable Board consists ef would willingly and knowi drive thousands and thoa- sands of children out of our public into our sectarian school: thereby strengthening the present movement for the sup: port of the latter out of our public fun und whereas wo deem it our duty of to she entirely er- Toneous presumption of some of your members, as ifthe masses of the Germ: citizens were deeply interested in this question, while, you can scarcely i ‘one out of each hundred who’ would not. rise with » of indignation if your honorable board should enact, as pew threatened hy the pending motion belore yon. Now, therefore, we respectfully petition your Honorable Board not to degrade our public schools. the preseut pride of gar nation. by denying what the public schools of almost rent city on Buropean Continent grant, viz — the instruction in another besides the mother lan; by rejecting such motion to show to. the world that the Woard of Bdueation of our metropolis stands. Above ‘all ather on the one question of the true welfare and thorough edueation of oar youth, The following are the names of the societies.— Aliemania Mannerchor; Fidelitas Deutscher Corps; Tuesday Bowling Ch Arion Quartet Club; Singing Society Abt Schuler; New Yorker Sangermunde; Mannergerong Verein; Deutsche Quartet Club; Agoniz Scientific Association; Grand Lodge L. 0. ¥. S., of L.; Dr. Kane Lodge U. 0.'B. M.; Germania. Sterbekasse; New York Liederkranz, @ e K: U. V., NO. 1; New York Kugel Association, Handel Society, bar Widow and Orphan Benevolent Socicty, Sihuberth Mannerchor, German Machinists jon, German Ciuzens, Tedtouia Union Verein, Bund der Freidenker, importers and Merchants of Grand sirect and vicinity, German Engineers’ Society, Union Showcase Maker Ver Merchants of Lispenard street; £. P. Gleason Manufacturing Company; Abarbaael ‘Lodge No. 92, 1. 0. B..B.; Typograbia No’ 1. All these com- munications were ordered to be placed on file, AN IMPUDENT DOCUMENT. Another communication from the Independent Ger- Man Association of the Eighth Assembly begins with the foliowing sentence :— raages, and especially the in prejudices of @ majority of the m Board of Eucation before it has been allowed « fair trial, bat ropose to show that instruction in foreign langa ans pecially in German, should be highly »ppreci ¥ Germans as well as by all other na tionalities in this country ;" and concludes ns follows "The Mayor, who has at present the power of appointing the Scliool’ Commissioners, 1 ‘arily responsible for appoint jog such members as will endanger our public ols, and we have resolved uch candi: in forure as will Je ce for the ublic schools, and om we know to be en- upright friends of the most liveral develop- ment of our public eehiool system, HUGO GORSCH, President. Joun C, Borcwnt, Treasurer.” This was rejected at once by the majority of the mae a8 ab improper and impertinent communica- 100, COMMISSIONER FULLER'S REMARKS, When the | i list of petitions had been disposed of Commissione: Fuller addressed the Board. He sad ‘that be had made up his mind to say no more on this question of the German in our schools, bat the action of the Germans borat, the Board all these peti- tions and communications bad caused him to change bis mind. As far back as January, 1874, this question was betore the Board. A good deal of bad blood bad been occasioned by this question; but why? It was because the Germans bad *dyocated their views in an offensive manner, Mr. Fu.er then read from the City Superin- tendent’s report for 1860, in which it was explicitly stated that the introduction of the study of German i the public schools was detrimental to reater proficiency im the English branches, ¢ believed in having German or French taught in the Normal College or the College of the City of New York, but pot inthe public schools, German should never have been introduced into our public schoola, By and by at the rte we were going on wo would bave German taught inthe schools ‘first, then English aud pext French—the French dast, of course. We would not submit to the constant NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘warning that we should lose 20,000 German children if ¢ took the German teachers out of the schools, nor to such communications as which in the Henatp yesterday, med by taxpayers representing $15, 000, We meant to Americanize our schoo! and not to Germanize them, nor would we be dic! to by any foreign element, by any class or creed. We wanted no special legislation, and woe to any class or sect that tried to injure our public schools. The bold- ing up of yotes to us would not bully us. Me Paher then saguinen thus ta’ Goramey the public schools, so called, were in fact pauper schools, the pa- rents of children who are able to pay being obliged to In covelusion he stated that three-fourths of rmans themselves were opposed to the schools as the Board had been petitioned certainly ume-tenths of Americans in opposition equally and strongly were resolved to protect our school system at all hazar/s. ‘There could not be two great national Janguages among Us at the one time, and the American language, which wus the commercial language of the wot should be sustained. COMMISSIONER MATTHEWSON’S VIEWS. Commissioner Matthewson then said:—The 3 are in the hands of the people and are the peopi’s property, and we can with safety leave them to the people. ‘In no competitive examination between the sebools have the children of German parentage ever Jed the = val but go into the German districts and see who carries of the palm in English studies, One-third of the children going to scbool in the city are of German parentage, and they ask for German in the schools asa representative portion of the commanity. But eighteen to twenty per cent only of the pee. ever reach the three higher grades, and therefore but eighteen per cent of the pupils will ever have the great advantage of learning what is now one of the most useful acquirements. But to return to the original question, the people will defend the public schools and not the Commissioners of this Board. After some remarks (rom Commissionor Beardsiee, the President here stated that a committee had called on him on the 3ist of January to ask for a post- ponement of the question for some time, but he thought, as it had been in abeyance since Juue 2, 1875, tt was time it was disposed of. Commissioner Matthewson—What are the names of that committee? The President directed the Clerk to read them out. They were Moritz Ellirger, Juhus Bien, William Steinway, Theodore G. Glanbershile, J. H. Fascher, Dr, H. Gercke and Oswald Ottendorter. Commissioners Klamwrth, Traud, Wetmore, Beardslee, Matthewson. Tue original report was then taken up im sections and voted on, Commissioner Wilkins then moved the previous question, which was Commissioner J. Grenville Kan up the report, Commissioner Kramrota—! hope the gentleman will excuse me for five minutes and- that he will not apply the gag law. Another Commissioner then moved to adjourn. Commissioner Kiamxoru—Can we not postpone this matter for the present? Commissioner Woop—The previous question is in order. It wag put, and carried by a vote of 18 to 5. Sxc, 89,—Teachers of vocal music, drawing, Freneb and fled achers. No salary musie or drawing in & grammar or teacher of French or German ina grammar school, shall exceed the rate of $1 75 per hour for the time actually employed tm Instruction. Adopted by a vote of 4 to & Sxc. 79.—Amend section 79 go as to read as follows :— Sec. 79, The City Superintendent, under the 401 of the Committee on Teachers, shall be authorized to license teacl specially to give wn in Freneh of German fa each of the three highest grades of the grammar schools, ‘andl the nétaber Of recitations tn eect ef! the ‘pursu: ing the study of either oi these Isagveste, shall be four, of ac! e twenty: minutes eek, no pupil shall be pert d to pursue the study of more than one of these janguages at the same tim ie eaic’, eaeey Pe to 5. Suc. 76.— Whenever the parents or. guardians of st, least thirty pupils attending « grammar department sball desire the ‘introduction of French or German the of the ward shall introduce the study of Tan- guage in department, but no child shall be compelied to study German or French contrary to the wishes of its parents or rdians, expressed either per- sonally or in writing, and wi er avei of pupils engaged in the stady of French, y department shall fall below fil ir the period of three hw such study shall thereafter be discontinued in said ont. ved, That it be referred to the Comm{ttes. on Ovurae of Study and School Books, to report at the next or succeed- ing regular meeting of the Board & course of instraction in the French and German languages which sball comprebend, in three divisions, such ach and auch portions of the course of ven under section 81 as sball by them be deemed suitable for the instruetion in French or German of the third, second and frst grades of the Gram- mar Schools, Adopted by a vote of 14 to 4 The whole report was then put before the Board and was adopted by the following vote:— Yeas—Commissioners Piace, Baker, Goulding, West, Cay- lus, Kane, Halsted, Walker, Fuller, Kelly, Dowd, Wood. Wiikins, Noes, Wetmore, Traud, Klamroth, Beardslee and Mathewson—1, ; After the German question was settled, much to the general satistactiou of the Board, the dnancial state- ment of the Board of Education for the year 1875 was read and adopted, as also a number of other comnfuni- cations from over tifirty different societies. FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION VOR THR YEAR 1875 Resources. Amount apportioned tor “Public Instruction” by Board of Estimate and Apportionment. . $8,589,000 Amount retransterred by Board of Estimate and Apportionment from the fund of 1874.. 70,000 Tot patina een eercateets $8,653,000 E f fe ae 2xpenses of compulsory edugation, Support of the Nautical School... Salaries of teachers in ward schools. Salaries of Janitors in ward schools. Salaries of teachers and javitors schools and college Salaries of teachers ing schools. se irrrgin wives 89,458 Salaries of teachers and janitors in the col- ored schools. a, NE, +. 40,568 Incidental expenses—Current repairs, clerks to trustees, &c... sees sees .. 54,516 Expeuses of the Board of Education—station- ery, advertising, repairs to hall, print ing, &c. ? 18,853 Employes of the Board of Education—Salari superintendents, clerks, &c, . Puel for al! the schools...... Gas for all the schools and Board... teeseece see Workshop—Waves and materials. Pianos and repairs of... Depository account—Books, maps, stationery ‘and general supplies for all the'schools.... 162,843 Rents for schoo! premises..... + 61,565 Expenses Normal Coliege and sch : For scientific apparatus and chemicals, . $2,553 For current repairs, printing, station- ery, &c... ‘ For storm doors, . 6,233 Expenses of evening schools, printing, &c 1,890 Expenses of colored schools, current repairs, + 6,000 ngs. ee ey ‘Altering and repairing Duildings, special . 88,845 Furniture and repairing, speci sults 2 29,95 Heating apparatus and repairing, special. ~ 61,533 WOE Ui ee cecevevtscieseds oaaeeees $3,267,981 Corporate schools apportionment for isté, a0 per reports of Finance Committee of $ist April and June 16 (folio pages 289 and 446).. 103,000 h Dackmper 31, 187 Appropriations for the year 1876 by the Board of Education, viz, :— For salaries of teachers with grammar and primary schools....... - $2,265,000 For salaries of janitors ar and primary schools. For salaries of pro Normal College... For salaries of teachers schools and janitors of. evs oon ve For salaries of teachers in the colored schoals PP gem why pid oeeue seee 40,000 ‘or salaries of superintendents, clerks and other employés of the Board of Education. 78,000 Total.. For books, maps, slates, stationery and g ral supplies ior all the schools...... For fuel for all the schools and the hall of Board of Education......... For gas for ail schools and the Board of Education. For rents of school premises For pianos and repairs of. For workshop, wages and materials, . For incidental expenses and current repairs to buildings, furniture and heating appara- tus by the ward trustees, including compen- sation for clerks of boards of trustees... For Normal College and Training School for supplies, printing, furniture repairs or for fitting up buildings, furniture end apparatus For evening schools for {acidental repairs, sta- tionery, printing, &c. u ei For colored achools, for repairs, sta- tonery, printing, Bo. ee. li sesee For incidental expenses of the Board of Edu- cation, for repairs to hall, and for printing, advertising, stationery, &c, Veuulé For the enforcement of the act entitied, “An act to secure to children the benefits of éle- mentary education,” passed May 1, 1874. For support of the Nautical School, esi lished by act of the Legistature, April 24, 1873. of the gramm: the “evening 95,000 18,000 000 5,000 1,500 59,000 7,000 1,500 1,000 20,000 22,000 State apportion. ment, per acts of the Legisiature. .. . cgi (03, 000 leasing and procuring ne and erecting buildings, furnishing, altering, &c., &e.,”” “set apart and reserved” ? $350,000 Commissioner Goulding ambie and resolutiol mittee on Normal Coll Whereas public attention has been cal book, published by re ae of the Bosca ed anoaston ge} a ty and by Mg known a8 contalns'@ passere et 400, commencing “Ceeeet ovis Chureb of Rome was;” and w! same deomed fous ventiaaty of « large poctton of ont moved the foil i hich were referred was pf offensive to the reli, community and judicial « ‘com: school syste Dy impairing Buble condgunen | is the prose bers! ‘nen upon that system fiaiied and ls now conducted: theret beeniaoaranty Resolved, that the text book known as" 7 tious for the Normal College of the City of Now York. acd ‘now in use in that institution, be and it is hereby expun, tof text books, and its further use in 7 eee from the list or sebool under the jetion of the Board of Edacation of the city and county of New York is hereby prohibited. After the transaction of some routine business the Board adjourned. THE CONTEST BETWEEN COMPTROLLER GREEN AND THE BOARD--WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO DISTRIBUTE SALARIES. A discussion has arisen between Comptroller Green and the Commissioners of Education relative to the dispensing of funds for expenses of that department. Yesverday the following correspondence, bearing upon the subject, was given out for publication:— PRESIDENT WOODSON TO THE COMPTROLLER. Orrics Cuxnk or Boarp or Epucation, New York, Jan. 20, 1876. | Hon, Axpuew H. Greex, Comptroller, ec. Str—I forward herewith a certified cc adopted on the 19th inst, by the Board 9! | ing @ requisition on you for nds to be applied by the Board in payment of the obligations incurred hy it This 4e- tion was taken in conformity with the opinion of the Counsel to the Corporation, recently submitied to this Board and 60 yourself, to the effect that this Board {s legally the controller Of the funds apportioned for the purpose of public instruc: inform me at what date the money asked tor will be deposited with the City Chamberlain. Very respect- tally, &e., WILLIAM WOOD, President of the Boara of Education, COMPTROLLER GREEN TO THE BOARD OF KDUCATION. Pixance Derautaxnt, CoMPTROLLER’s Orrick, Cisy oF Niw Yous, Feb. 1, 1676." To tar Boarv or Epucarion :— I have carefully considered a communication from the President of the Board of Education, dated 20th January, and the opinion of the Counsel to the Corporation alluded 16 in, The latter refers to certain decisions relative to the ve liabilities of the city und the 1 tion or College of the City of New York, as c opimon. Without these supposed di it is quite of the opinion, that the Counsel ion would be unwilling to sustain the taken by the Board of Education as expressed in thelr lution, which is enclosed in your communication, On rs that those decisions are not upon the int involved in this resolution of the Hoard of jon. As this subject relates to an annual ex- penditure of more than ,000, and the existing course of proceeding in ‘the’ audit and payment of claims incurred by the Board of Edueation has been pur- sued for nearly three years with the acquiescence of all par- from this course would be subversi 7 qyhlch wae intended to, reform, and has to great degree already retormed, the previously existing irre- Spousibis and loose tuethods. prevailing in the. affairs of the city, I should feel a very great reluctance to assent to any ange, unless it was very evident that the | \d as the Board of Education, or at least som bers, seem to desire to have the system changed by an ap- plication to the courts, [ shall facilitate any action to pro- cure un adjudication that will settle the question both for the Board of Education and the Finance Departwent at the earliest possible day; and meantime, that ho incon ience ‘accrue to teachers and others having claims, will conti the usual manner to pay their salaries an claiins when certified to me by the Board of Edueation. Re- spectfully, ‘ANDREW H. GREEN, Comptroiler, ADULTERATED MILK. of a resolntion cation, mak ay to ry 8 and as a departu stem leh w: 36,000 | A BATCH OF SPOILERS OF THE LACTEAL FLUID MULCTED IN THE COURT OF GENERAL SES- BIONS. Twenty-six milk dealers were tried yesterday in the Court of Special Sessions before Justices Dufly, Bixby and Wandell. The charge against them was that they had adulterated the milk they sold. Messrs. Hastings and Colonel Prentice appeared to prosecute on bebalf of the Board of Health, and Messrs, Waener and Law- rence conducted the defence. The first case called was that of Francis McCarman, of No. 122 Mott street. Ofi- cer Gardrrer testified that he examined the milk sold at the place in Mott street and that the lactometer showed it to be but eighty degrees, or twelve degrees below the required standard. The witness, however, failed to prove that the accused had any proprietorship in the shop where the milk had been sold, and the case of Francis was dismissed, Then Frank Lubban, of No. 10 Oak street; John Haase, of No, 284 Mul- berry street, and John Jaeger, No, 81 Norfolk street, pleaded guilty to the charge, and were mulcted in the sum of $50 each. In the case of John Juechier Officer Gardner testified that he bad tested #he milk found on the defendant’s premises; it registered eighty-eight de- grees On the lactometer, the temperature being afty degrees Fabrénheit; he took the sample, bottled, labelled and delivered it to Professor Waller for analy- sis. Professor Charles F. Chandler, President of the Board of Health of this city, was the first scientific witness examined, He said that after careful analysis and repeated experiments be had decided that the lac- tometer is an infallible test of the quality of milk He gave.a detailed account of the method adopted by the Board of Health for testing miik, describing the lactom- eter and the gradations under which the milk was vested. He showed thatthe milk produced by the cows in the vicinity of New York, and from which the supply ig generally taken, ranged as high as 129 degrees by the lactometer, whereas the milk sold by the accused was as low as 88.40, several degrees below the limit tixed by the Board, The lactometer used by the Board of Health was more favorable to the milk- men by ten degrees than the one used by themselves for the purpose of testing milk received from the pro- ducers. Professor Henry Morton, President of the Stevens Institute, saplaines his experiments with the lactom- eter, which, he said, is a bydrometer graduated to measure the specilic gravity of milk; the standard adopted by the Board of Health of 1,029 of the hydrom- eter, as compured with 100 of the lactometer, is tae standard. Milk that ranged at the standard of 88 de- grees on the lactometer at the temperature of 60 do- grees Fabrenbeit, could not be pure, and must have been mixed with some adulterating substance. He bad never known pure milk from a healthy cow that would range lower than 100 on the lactometer used by the Board of Health. To secure a correct test the ther- mometer and the lactometer were generally used to- gether, and reasonable care was also required. If several cases of milk taken from healthy cows should range less than 100 it would destroy his faith im the instrument, The witness was closely cross-examined as to the conditions under which milk of a lower range than 100 | might be produced from an tiaras healthy cow, stated that impurities might arise from the acci- dental mixture of foreign substances with the milk through carelessness, but with proper care pure milk would range higher than 100, Professor George F. Barker, formerly professor of chemistry in Yale College, but now of oe described the method of inding the specific gravity o} pare milk from the cows by using the hydrometer and ‘the lactometer, and said that an indication of 1,029 de- rees on the hydrometer is equaj to 100 degrees on the lactometer. Each instrument must be tested separately to give accurate results. If any sample of milk should stand below 100 degrees on the lactometer such milk could not be pure, Officer Gepson testified that he bad received instruc- tions from the proper authorities connected with the Bvara of Health, which enabied him to use the lactoin- eter correctly. He had tested nine or ten samples of pure milk, and the lowest specific gravity of any of them was equal te 102 degrees. Professor Elwyn Waller, (ormerly of Harvard Uni- versity, testified that he possesses a special knowledge of chemistry and understands how to make a test jor pure milk; the evidence given by the scientific gentle- man who had preceded him agreed with bis own ex- perience; the lactometer of the Board of Health is a sure test for the pressure of water only; if the lactom- eter showed less than 100 degrees specific gravity the milk 80 tested would not be pure; if at 50 degrees Pah- ernibeit the lactometer showed a sample to range below pressure of water. Here the witness went into a de- scription of the component parts of pure milk. Dr, Wailer stated that in last September he visited several dairies in Orange county and made a number of tosis with the lactometer; be had experimented with sam- ples of mil& from eighty-five or eighty-six cows, and the lowest grade ipdicated by the lactometer was 102 degrees; milk from Alderney cows bad also been tried and Rone of it registered a lower degree of specific gravity than 102, .” Casper Goldmann testified to the publication in three daily bewspapers of the ordiuance under which the prosecution was made. A copy of the law, certifled by the secretary of the Board of Health, was admitted as | evidence of the existence of the law. The defendaut (Juechler) testified that he received the milk without knowing what it contained. John Meyer, who sold milk to the defendant, testified that he did not adulterate it. ‘The Court found the defendant guilty of the charge, and sentenced him to pay a fine of $100, with costs—an order which he promptly obeyed. When the other milkmen who were present heard the decision in Juechler’s case, they resolved to plead wity and get of on a fine of $50 each. The names of wailed themselves of this privilege are:— Jolin Rohs, No. 622 Ninth avenue; John fer, No. 81 rman, No. 879 Third avenue; Michael Schroeder, No. 96 Oliver street ; Martin Joost, No, 413 Greenwich street; Peter Hays, corner Seventh avenue and pine sixth street, and Frederick Hencken, No. 830 Eighth ave- nue. MOODY AND SANKEY. ‘The alterations necessary for the proposed religious meetings to beheld in this city by Mr. D. L. Moody and Mr. Ira D. Sankey, are almost completed. The building at the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue wil! ve thrown open for inspection this evening at eight o’ciock, when @ full rehearsal of the choir will take place, THE CONVERTED AOTRESS, To tae Epitor or THe Heratp:— lam very sorry to see that the Henracn, as well as other journals of New York, when speaking of the Bdy evangelist, Mrs. Lowery, invariably use the expression, “converted actroas.”” Strrely the time has gone by when actors were considered as any worse than other people. You never speak of a converte? milliner or dressmaker, or of a converted doctor, lawyer or shoe- maker, or even of a converted editor, though I presume there have been such. Why, then, select a profession of which no more orderly citizens can be found, w speak of as though they were specially criminal? D- verted burglar or converted thief, if you will, but do not inclade actors in your category of people who need be considered as especially wicked, Respectfully your BR New Yous. Jan. 41. 1874 e 100 degrees this would be proof positive of the undue | Norfolk street; Henry 0. Meyer,No. 766 Tenth avenue; | Martin Brunings, No. 129 Ninth avenue; Henry Brink: | OCCULTATIONS OF THE PLEIADES. To tur Epitor or THe HeRaLp:— We may weil hope fora clear sky al! over the country this evening, for otherwise we ehall lose the oppor- tunity, which may not again occur in @ lifetime, of witnessing the phenomenon, under its most advan- tageous circumstances, of the occultation of the princi- pal stars of the Pleiades. The above diagram repre- sents the phenomenon at 9h. 26h. 508., when it is predicted that the bright star b will disappear behind the dark edge of the moon. The dark line, dimly seen, passing from the moon’s centre toward the opposite corner of the diagram, represents the direction of the moon’s motion, and the stars in its path will succes- sively disappear with a suddenness which will be all the more startling if the eye is fixed upon the star and the bright portion of the moon is kept out of the field. In order that the moon may not be too bright it is desirable that it should not be too near the full On the other hand, !a order that the occultations may be visible over a large extent of country, it is necessary that it should not be too near the new, Occurring in February we bave the happy mean between these two extremes, and even the hour of the day is so vicely adjusted that, while on tho Pacifie coast, an hour earlier would have eaused the daylight sadly to interfere, on the Atlantic coast an hour later would have brought the moon so near the horizon that the later contacts would have been los. Let me first give some idea of the reasons which induce astrono- mers to look upon the occultations of the Pleiades under such circumstances as this evening with peculiar interest, In navigation it is necessary that the position of the ship should be known both in longitude and 1p latitude. The /atitude is easily obtained from the meridian alti tude of any known star, because the direction of the axis of the earth is fixed, but the longitude is obtained with difficulty, the meridian of Greenwich, from which the longitude is reckoned, as well as the meridian of tho observer, being in motion at the race of about 1,000 miles per hour, It {8 easy to determine the position of any meridan among the stars, which 18 the local time, Bat the difficulty is to determine on any other meridian what is the local time at Greenwich. The most accurate means of determining the longitude of distant stations is by telegraph signals. If, at 6h. Om. P, M., local sime in New York, a signal by the cablo indicates that it is 9h, 56m. P. M. at Greenwich, we know that our longitude is 4h. 56m. west of Greenwich, When, ‘as at sea, there are no means of direct signals, a chron- ometer is relied. upon to give Greenwich time. If the chronometer ran with accuracy, the sea captain, on arriving in New York, would find that his chronometer indicated 9h. 56m. when the City Hall clock indicated 5b. Om. But no chronometer rans with perfect accu~ racy, and a century or two ago they were far less relia- ble than now. Asa cbeck upon the chronometer, the changing place of the moon among the stars has been generally resorted to, The motion of the moon being thirteen deghees per day or more than half a degree an hour, sea captains observe “lunar distances,” the apparent dis- tance of the moon from the larger fixed earn al ng its: path and obtain from the pagtical almanac the Grten- wich time at which the moon is predicted to be at the It ig trae that the moon would not rs at the Seen from two different stations, but same time, o: this difference, from parallax, as well as the stnaller difference {rom the refraction of our atmosphere is allowed for i the caleulation, These corrections re- duce the observed position of the moon to its position as ‘supposed to be seen {rom the earth’s centre,” Wo should most naturally suppose that from the earth's centre the moon could not be seen at ail, but this ¢: pression, which has been made the subject of much criticism, refers to its position as it would be seen from any point on the line between the moon and the earth’s centre, This method is not sufficiently accurate for the needs of astronomy, and it is common to employ the method of moon culminations, which gives the moon's place as nearly as it can be measured in the telescopa The time of the moon’s passing the meridian 1s accurately observed, and also that of a neighboring star. From the latter the local time is known or verified, and (rom the former the local time at Greenwich may be ob- tained by computing at what Greenwich time the moon would be tn the observed poriiion among the stats. A great advantage of this method is thatas both the star and the moon are observed. in the meridian, neither refraction nor parallax affect their position in right as- cension, and consequently no correction has to be ap- plied to reduce the observations to the earth’s centre, Is ts obvious that at the instant when a star (s oc- culted by the moon its distance irom the moon's cen- tre is exactly one-half of the moon's diamet AS a bright star disappears behind the dark li of the moon with suddenness it is easy to obtain the distance of the moon from the star with as much accuracy—with no other instrument than a sextant, with which to ob- tain the local time, ana a smal) spyglasa, with which to observe the occultattion—as it can be obtained with the transit or meridian circle of the observatory by the method of moon culminations, Occultations of stars by the moon have, therefore, long been a savorite means of determining the longitude eyen of fixed ob- servatorios, Were the moon a perfect sphere ora perfectly reguiar spheroid, probably occultations would bave retained their pre-eminence, notwithstanding the additional complication of the computations. But when a star happens to be obscured by a lunar mountain before its time, or when it happens to descend into a lunar valley at tbe edge of the disk and remains visibie too long, in either case there js an inaccuracy in the result In the former case there may be an uncertainty whether some terrestrial cause may not have caused the too early disappearance; but in the latter case, if the tine is certainly known, we can only refer the cause of the visibility of the star to a depression in the disk of the moon itself. Ifthe moon always turned precisely the same face toward us we might devermine on what paris of the moon's limb the mountains or the vaileys were to be found, and make allowance for them, although it would be a slow process and requirg very many observations: but the difficulty is immensely increased, almost beyond the limits of possibility, when we take into con- sideration the libration of the moon, so that the moun- tain which to-day occults a star may to-morrow bave been carried either beyond the edge of the disk or brought so far téward us as not to project at all, For the motion of the moon is not like that of the ball representing it in the orrery, rigidly fastened to a wire aud compelled to keep the same face toward the earth; but the moon is freely poised in space, and appears to swing back and forth like the roiling of a ship. This is ite apparent motion with respect to the earth, arising from its varying orbital velocity, combined with a per- fectly uniform velocity of rotation. When the moon is uear us and moving most rapidly, the western side comes more apd more into view, and in the opposite | part of its orbit, while moving slowly, the eastern side comes more and more into view, Before corrections can be applied for the lunar mountains or valleys their exact positions and dimensions must be ascertained, aod then it must be also ascertained in precisely what stage of libration they are upon the moon's limb. So hopeless has 1t seumed to undertake this lam not aware that {t bas yet been aitempted. qT ces of error are much diminished when sev- eral contacts are observed within a few hours, and especially when the moon passes centrally over such & group of starsasthe Pleiades, The hastening of one contact by @ mountain will be counterbalanced by the delay of another by a depression, so that the averago result will be very nearly the same as if there-were neither mountains mor depressions. There are other advantages scarcely jess important. Astronomy has not yet reached ‘@ position that predictions can be curate as observations, The moon may be at the ¢ of the oceultation a little further east or west than was predicted, is be @ little further north or south; it may bea little further from us or nearer to us, varying ite ‘parallax and spparent semi- diameter; and its motion tn longitude, in lat tude, and radially, may be somewhat different from that If @ sufficient number of observations are made all these inaccuracies of pre- diction can be corrected by the observations, and elim- inated, When the moon was last traversing this group, nearly twenty years ago, large numbers of observa- tions were made by officers of the Coast Survey and by others When aphenomenon so interesting in Stseif as an occultation is repeated a dozen or twenty times ip succession 1+ will alwayetand necessarily attract sufficient attention to secure the requisite observa- tops In the annqal report of the United States Coast Sur- vey for 1865 Professor Peirce calls special attention to the occultations of the )! ie9, whigh were then to occur, could bo used ‘for correcting the Innar semi-diameter, the mutual positions and changes of position of the stars of this group, for testing and correcting the formulw of judur parallax, for devermiming the iregulari- ties of the mogn’s limb, and, finally, for ecor- recting the longwudes of the Piaces” of obser- vation.” The whole group of stars whose places were accurately determimed by Bessel consists of fifty- three, of the pinth magnitude and brighter. Of these Whirty-one wilkbe occuited in New York city, furnish- 'Dg Sixty-two contacts to be observed. The disuppear ance bebsnd the dark ater of the moon may be easily observed, even with an ordinary telescope; but the re- appearance of the smaller stars from behind the moon's bright limb will require a good telescope und & previous knowledge of the time and place at which the reappearance will take place. The place can be learned from the dbove diagram, and the time for New York city is given in the following table. 1t will be observed that several times during the occultations there will be two of more contacts so nearly together that it is uu- certain which will frst occur, It so happens that in each case, in this city, it is probable that the immer. sion of the one star will occur before the emersion of the other. The principal etar, Aleyone, Eta, 1 indi cated in the table by A, and in the diagram’ by the Greek character resembling n. Emer- Immer- — Emer- seseees 10:48 For any other place within one or two hundred miles of New York city, a correction must be applied for the difference of longitude, and also for the difference of latitude, which may bo obtained for tho principal stars from the following table, the result being the local time:— Dipl tp Di deg Dif.1 ae De 1 Diff. 1 de r ldeg Diff. 1 deg. Dif. 1 deg. Tat.” Lon. We kat. No Lon. W ‘Min, ‘Min, Min. 5.6 38 wo Me 55 L2 49 60 80 40 at or: 5.2 a8 0.8 46 41 04 438 4s Od 44 ence of latitude and 16.8 minutes for the difference of longitude, the disappearance at Boston will be at about 10h, 6.6m. Bute will only be occulted # short distance to the north of New York, the hmit passing early through Hartiord, Conn., and Kingston, N. Y., 60 that there will be no means of determining with reasonable accuracy the time when /t will disappear at any given place, except by careful computation. The times for the smaller, stars shown upon the diagram and forthe seven stars to the left of hand s may be estimated from the above data with suflicient accuracy to observe the immersions; but the immersions of these smaller stars can only be well seen with a large telescope. Ihave already relerred to the effect of mountains and depressions upon the moon’ Attention has recently beem called to remarkable depressions in the moon’s western limb, near the Equator, to which have been given the name of the discoverer. In the monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 24, No. 1, Rev. Henry Cooper Key announces his discovery, and furnishes a diagram, of which the following isa copy :— KRY'S PLATTENTNOS, SEPTEMBER 20, 1863. ‘The letters a,b and c stand opposite to the middle of the depressions respectively. His observations were made with an. unsilvered twelve inch glass speculum on September 20, 1863, at about six P. M., before the san hadset He say: a had no sooner focussed the telescope (power 130) than 1 was astounded at observing that the limb of the moon was entirely out of shape; that it was, in fact, irregu- larly polygonal, as if several large, segments had been cut’ off the spherical limb—not the terminator. Of course I at once changed the eye piece (using powers of 85 and 203) and looked to see whether’ the Instra- ment was out of adjustment, but the cause of this ex- traordinary appearance was clearly not in the tele- scope.’ This drawing was made from recollection on the following day, He estimates that tho largest de- pression extended across more than of lati- tude, and in the centre was at least twenty-five miles below the general level of the moon's surface. At about eight P. M. on the 20th he’saw the flatten- ings with an eight inch silvered 8 speculum; but they were so much wident than with the larger instrament that he felt satisfied that he should not have noticed them had 1 already seen them. On September 25, with the exception of a comparatively fs trace, the flattenings had entirely disappeared, and during the following lunation, in October, he could only detect the slightest trace of them, So far as I am awaro this completes his testimony. The next witness is Rev. T. W. Webb, the author of the well known little volume, ‘Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes," who saw the depressions sev- eral times {n September and October, 1 He tried them with the micromets and the immediate pres- ence of the wire proved beyond the possibility of doubt that they were actually flat; one wasa Tievte concave, He considered the flattenings very exten- J but makes no estimate of the arc or of the de- pression. The next reference tothe subject! find in No, 9 of the same volume. W. Lasrell, on May 21, 1864, observ- ing the moon with a pine inch speculum anda power of 199, ‘‘was immediately struck with an unusually irregular outline of the moon's limb, and was re- minded of @ rather startling diagram—that given above—he had seen in a paper by the Rev, Henry oper Kev,” But the depressions that he saw were on avery different part of the moon and very much less in dimensions, not extending over more than about 11 deg. of latitude. After twelve years of silence the subject is called ap by Mr, Marth, who asks that observations may be made on October 14 and 15 and on November 11 and 12, with the special object of verifying or contradicting the existence of these depressions, The December num- ber ofthe Astronomical Register gives the result 6f such observations. Mr. W. R Birt, on November 3, ud 5, saw the flattenings and took measures, indi- cating that at that time they extended from 5 deg. north'to 9 deg, south latitude, an arc of lddeg. Another observer says that for 12 deg. of lunar latitude tho limb did not Geviate from tho straight edgo of the bar, On the 12th of November Rev. Mr. Key saw them with an achromatic of 1% Inch aperture, and says “Yhe limb in these places, each of them extending for several hundred miles, was as straight asa micrometer web, and if similar straight surfaces bad extended round the whole moon ber form would bave been very decided dodecahedron, and not a circie,” Atthe time of the original discovery "the moon’s libration was 3 deg. 6 min. we: do not take she libration in latitude into account, because, ag Proctor has shown, libration im latitude would not affect tho apparent position of an ob- ject om the moon’s equatorial limb. Aithough ‘a difference of libration in latitude might cause some difference in the appearance of a depression ex. tending over 10 deg. or more, this would be lost in comparison with the differencg caused by a slight change in the libration in longitude, On November 3, 1875, the libration was 4 deg. wget; on the 4th, 5 deg. 2 min. it, and on the Sth, 6 deg. 2 min. On Novem. ber 11 the libration was 4 deg. 7 min. west and on the 12th 3 deg. wes Comparing the observations, either Rev. Mr. Key has enormously exaggerated the magni- tude of the depressions or he has seen them under bet- ter circemstances than other observers, His estimate, n 1863, of an angular extent of 35 deg. agrees well with o's and also with his last remark in 1875; for one line of a dodecahedron would be about 86 deg. aud if we assume a typographical end, and that “dodecagon”’ wag intended, it would still be 30 deg — two or three times the extent seen by others This estimate of @ depression of twenty- fi miles corresponds with an arc of about 26 deg. It will be seen, too, that all the other observ. ers betl # libration greater than 3 6 min., and that Mr. Key, on November 12, had a@ libration of 3 dog. It would seem, therefore, that altho may be seen with tion is 3 deg. tod deg. west On Januar; libration was 6 deg. 8 min. west, I saw the fanenings without difficulty, but they certainiy did not ed 10 deg. or 12 deg. in arc, and did not present @ ing” appearance, ‘he next tavorable opportanity to see Key’s flatten- ings will be on February 8, or withina day or two of that time, At the time ot the occultations of the Pleiades the libration will be 4 deg. 2 min. west, gradually diminishing, ‘until at noon of the following day it will be the same ae September 20, 1963 Daring the occultation My whe aisee 4 “4 +. 3 yesceme tunity to verify the rr but to apoly the tees of an occultation, probably more than once, Several of the principal stars of the Pleiades will be occuited nearly poe and itis likely that some of them will reappear behind the fat tonings. “Probably at different localities in the United States different stars will have their reappearance accolerated by the depressions. Should the weath be. favorable fot, the observatiop, of the oceul Seas attae Psat ia cane locdlillas 6 comentionn a @f Me results may give us more exactly than If coula be obtained by any other means the configuras tion of the depressions at the stage of libration of th Moon at which the secultations occur, The nicety of this test will be apparent with a moment's considera tion, If thearc included in the greatest depression wore 35 deg,,and if the contour were perfectly straight, the central depression would be fifty miles, But we wiil assume the di as estimated by Mr, Key, twenty-Uive miles, Now, the moon will pass over ita whole diameter, 2,162 miles, m avout seventy minutes. So that i¢ will pass over avouttlirty miles per Mute, or twenty five miles in (ity se Such a phenome- nc as the reappearance of a star (ifty seconds before 1s due is, 60 far as ! am aware, unprecedented Reduc- one-half reduces the depression one-fourth. 2 deg. or 14 deg. would make the depression miles. Even ed upon Meast:res, and at a derate estimates, of libration cer- tainly not more favorable tha: % the occultations, would hasten the reappearance of a star which hap- pened to reappear at the middie of the greatest depres- nh to sixteen seconds. Of the thirty-one stars at y York city, there are eleven vhich will reappear on that portion of the disk whera ttonings were seen, and which will have their re- re of Jess hastened from this cause. We hope, from the observations of thia learn more exactly thé form of the moon's at this important point than is now kuown, HENRY M, PARKHURST. Naw York, Feb, 3, 1876. NEW YORK YACHT CLUB. FIRST GENERAL OFFIC ss TO BI The New York Yacht Club w meeting of the year this even avenue and. Twenty The business eat! down to be transacted is of portant nature, apd promises to produce considerable excitement MEETING OF THE YEAR—THH * ELECTED, hold its first general rooms, Madison B, ab i eventh street an i Beside the reports of committees that will be presented and the miscellaneous business that may come up during the evening, officers for the ensuing year will vé elected, The resuit of the election is looked forwaré to with interest, as scarceiy within the history of the club has there ever been such determined yet gooe natured rivalry between candiaates and their support ers as is at present observed. Two tickets have for ‘al days been industriously circulated among yachi owners and the claims of each candidate have beet fully set forth, The tickets are as follows, and they are given as they were made public:— For Commodore, William T. Garner; for Rear Com: modore, J. J. Alexandre; for Secretary, Charles A. Minton; for Treasurer, Sheppard stomans; for Meas urer, A. Cary Smith; for Regatta Committee, Gilbert L. Haight, Henry Steers and G. 8. Winston, M. D.; for House Committee, Fletcher Westray, W. Holly Hudson, ©. Alfred Grymes, N. D. White, W. H. Pendleton, Bev: erly Robinson, Jr., D, T. Worden: for Commutice on Admissions, William H, Thomas, F. W. J. Hurst, A. 3. Hatch, J, Kearney Warren, H. M. Morris, The other ts styled the “‘regular” ticket, and is—for Commodore, George L, Kingsland; for Vice Commo dore, J. Nicholas Kane; for Secretary, William B. Bend; for Treasurer, Sheppard Homans; for Measurer, A. Car Smith; for Fleet Surgeon, L. de Forest Woodruff, M. D.; for Regatta Committee, William Krebs, Henry Steers, G. 5. Winston, M. D.; for House Commistea, Fletcher Westray, N. D. White, George L. Jordan, W. Holly Hudson, €, Alfred Grymes, H. N. Alden, J, 0. Proudfit; for Committee on Aamissions, 8. Nicholsom Kane, A’ 8 Hatch, Philip Schuyler, H. M. Morris, It will bé noted that the © rer’ ticket bas ne candidate for Vice Commodore and the “Kingsland! ticket none for Rear Commodore, These nominations will be made to night, the places having been left open intentionhily, it will also be observed that on the “Garner’’ ticket the candidate for Flees Surgeon bag also been omitted. There are about sixty votes that can be cast, but ft tf not probable that more than forty-five will be polled this evening. The present bylaws require each vote ta be personally deposited by the yacht owner, as the day of proxies is now passed, Among the proposed new members that will come up forelection are Count Ed. mund Batthyany, Rear Commodore gf the Royal Albert Yacht Club, owner of the fast cutter Krembilda, ana Prince Mafleo Schiarra, of the Royal Italian Yacht Club, owner of the sghooner Sappho. It is understood that during the coming season both of these foreign craft will visit American waters. HANDBALL AND RACKET. An interesting match, between Messrs. Cook, the former champion of the United States, and T. Norton, and Messrs. D. Millan and M. Landy, the best three i: five, came off yesterday, at McQuade's court, and wag witnessed by a large concourse of people, At the cone clusion of the fourth game the match, owing to dark« ness, was postponed till Monday next. To-day M. Landy and D. Madden play a match against D, McCarthy and Joseph Sullivan, the best three in five; the stakes being $50 a side, The single-handed match between J. Nelson and D, Madden, played yesterday, at the Madison street court, resulted in favor of Nelson. The match between the base ball players, Nelson and Anthon and Messrs. Cook and Laudy (the former the late champion handball player of the United States), excited considerable interest. It resulted in favor of the former, To-day Messrs. Lenihan and Gleason play against Messra. Barry and McGrath, the best two in three, CURIOUS SUICIDE. A PROMINENT JEWISH LADY HANGS HERSELP, ‘A painful case of suicide by hanging occurred yester- day morning in the family of a well-known and highly respectable Jewish merchant, living at No. 246 West ‘Thirty-sixth street. The unfortudate victim was the wife of the senior partner of the large clothing firm of Henry Sulzbacher & Co., doing business at No. 39 White street, At ten o'clock. yesterday morning Mrs. Sulzbacher went into the kitcben and gave directions to the cook, Margaretta Dingman, about the dinner. Shortly afterward ehe began peeling apples, ayig that she would assist in making the pudding. Af a quarter before cleven she turned to the servant and directed her to go up stairs and make fires in all the rooms. The gtrl obeyed and was gone an hour. When she returned to the kitchen she saw her mistress hang- ing by the neck to the kitchen door, lifeless, The ser- vant hastened to call neighbors, and in a few momenta returned with Mrs. Mena Kauffman, of No. 242 the same street, who hastily cut down the body, which wag still warm, but lite was extinct. The rope by, which the anfortinate woman had hanged herself was a pieco of ordinary clothes line, which she had fastened to the door by passing it over the upper hinge and then clos- ing the door. A small stool was found near the door, upon which she stood wnile committing the fatal deed. In afew moments after the discovery an officer of tho Twenticth. precinct was notified and be promptly tole- graphed word tothe Coroner's office. Word was also seat to the husband of the deceased. At five P. M. Coroner Croker and Deputy Coroner MacWhinnie ar- rived ang at once empaneiled a jury. Tho following testimony was taken:— Mar ny oru:—Mrs Sulzbacher was. live this forenoon at a qan ter to eleven, wheo 6! was peeling apples ip the kitchen, and appeared to be fn usual health; she was a saflerer from want of sleep and headache, but she did not complain of any this moruing; Mr, and Mrs, Sulz- bacher have always lived happily together; I never heard deceased say that she would take her life; she did not drink. Witness then described how she found the body as above Mrs, Mena KauMman testified to cutting down the body. Mr Henry Sulzbacher, husband of the deceased, testified:—I last saw my wife alive this morni: about half-past seven o'clock; I went out at that umo to go to my busivess; for the past week or so my wifo had compiaimed of nervousness; about two weeks ago I was obliged to give up my business, as it did not pay; nce then my wife has fot. been able to sleep, bein apparently much worried about it; she complained of pain inthe back of ber head; we always lived peace- ably together; she was a temperate woman, heard of her death about two P. M., first receiving a despatch that she wag sick, bat on arriving home I found her dead; was thirty-dvo years old, and was born in Bavaria; she never received injury of any kind: sbe had been im this country seventeen years; we had three children, The house in which tho unfortunate Indy resided is an elegant brown stone front aud furnished ina very costly style, AN ALLEGED ELOPEMENT. The story published by a morning paper that the Earl of Dunraven had eloped with the daughter of Dr, Rowand, an eminent physician of Quebec, ana was con- cealed in this city, has turned out to be atterly without foundation, It was stated that the Earl had made his conquest in an incredibly short space of time, as he bad only arrived from England a few weeks ago, and he was described as‘a bachelor and quite a veteran in the art of captivating the fair sex. The trath of the matter is that the Eari has been stopping at. the Brevoort House during the past week in company with Miss Sophie and Miss Minnie Rowand, the daughters of Dr. Rowand, of Quebeo, who is his intimate friend, The party have been the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Mur- ray Kai , of West Thirty-fourth street, who gave an’ ontertainment in their honor on last Monday night, at’ which some of the most prominent ladies and gentle- men of the city were present, On being called on by a. reporter the Earl expressed his astonishment at the report, and said he had never read anything that con- tained so many falsehoods. Instead of being a bachelor he ts married an has a family, who are in England at present, where be will soon rejoin them. He left Quebec some days ago an@ took charge of the two daughters of his friend Dr. Rowand, The Earl is some- what tndisposed and bas been confined to his room for days. Ou Tuesday evening he was the guest of ‘airne at a farewell dinner previous to his te so le ture for his home in Irel: Sfler which the party went to the Charity ‘Ball e FIRE IN GUTTENBERG, N. J. Atan carly hour yesterday morning a fire broke out in the residence of Mr. John Noiton, on the Daileytown road, at Guttenbetg, N. J. The house, which was of wood and two stories in height, soon fell a prey to the. flames. A considerable portion of the furniture wae saved, The loss is revoried to ve $3,600, ’