The New York Herald Newspaper, June 3, 1876, Page 11

3 \ THE COURTS. Mandamusing the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, THE LEASE OF THE GRAND STREET FERRY. Pokasud ala Wiebe - Beience as a Revealer of Forged Handwriting. ‘THE AUSTIN BLACK SUIT. ——-—_ — ‘The Legislature, at its Inst session, passed an act authorizing the Commissiouers of the Sinking Fund to sell at public auction the lease for ten years of the ferry from the foot of Grandgtreet in this city to the foot of Grand street in Brooklyn. Pursuant to such act the lease of the terry was offered for salo at public auction on the 18th of April last, when the Pesple’s Ferry Company gave for it the highest bid, being $1,100 per annum. In addition to the payment of the fguctioneer’s fees the People’s Ferry Company paid twenty per cent on the first year’s rent, All that re- mained to perfect the sale was the execution of the lease. Upon this point there has been a hitch, and, as the usual sequence of such misunderstandings, the case ts now before the Courts for adjudication, This appeal to the Courts has been the result of a conflict between the People’s Ferry Company and the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund fn regard to the terms of the lease, It is claimed by the ferry company that, in violation of the act of the Legislature conferring upon it power to sell the lease, the Commissioners of ithe Sinking Fand have inserted in the lease an unauthorized and unlawful provision and restriction requiring the surrender of the ferry at any time on three months’ notice to the Department ot Docks, in case the latter require the same in order to prosecute its improvenfont of the tity docks, It is claimed that such restric tion gives to the Department of Docks power to terminate the lease at its pleasure, and that in par- ticalar such restriction and provision are inconsistent and in conflict with the third section of the act under which the lease was sold by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, by the terms of which it 1s expressly pro- vided that the lessee under such leuse shall, at the ex- * piration of the term thereof, be paid the value of tne Duildings, bridges and racks, which shall have been provided by such lessee for the operation of, the fran- clises under the lease, and that such value should be determined by arbitrauion and appraisal, and that such provision and restriction im ellect authorize the De- partment of Docks, at any time during the continuance OF the lease, to ‘take the buildings and other im- provements of the lessee without making any compensation whatever therefor. An effort was made by the ferry company to have the re- striction referred to omitted from the lease, and an offer was made to execute a jease drawn up Without any such restricting clause, but Comptroller Green, acting on bebalt of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, refused to have any otver lease executed than one embodying such restrictions. One of the grounds of objection to any such lease as that submit- ted is that the ferry has been long out of use and the buildings and ferry fixtures at each terminus, including the piers, docks, shps, wharves, bridges and floats, have become dilapidated and unfit for use, all of which ne- cessitates a largo expenditure of money on the part of the ferry company, and for which outlay it is claiined there is no possible show of reimbursement unless a diflerentsort of lease than that proposed 1s executed, Upon the above-stated tacts ap- plication was made to Judge Donohue, in Supreme Court, Chambers, for an order to show cause Why @ peremptory writ of mandamus should not be granted directing the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to execute to the People’s Ferry Company a lease of the Grand Street Ferry tendered by such ferry company to the Commissioners on the 28th of ryoabe ed such lease being tree from the restricting clause referred to. The order was granted yesterday, and the case will come up for argument on Monday next. THE CERTIFICATION CHECK SUIT. There was another very large crowd in attendance yesterday in Supreme Court, Circuit, held by Judge Dykman, to witness the continuation of the trial of the suit brougut by Austin Black to recover $63,000 on a check, the certification of which by Altred Timp- son, the teller, is claimed by the bank to have been a forgery. The plaintiff was represented by ex-Judge Fullerton and Mr. Edward W. Goodrieh, and the bank by “Messrs, Luther R. Marsh and Henry L. Clinton. The day’s proceedings opened by further testimony in rebuital on behalf of the plaintiff, the first wit- ness being Peter H. Vanderwater, Protessor of Chemistry in Cooper Institute, He first examined the check in suit and otkers, the certification of which by Mr, Timpson are acknowledged to be genuine, by the microscope. He stated that the check in suit presented tho same general features as the other checks, and be pronounced them as unqualiliedly the game certiicetion, When asked, on cross-examina- tion, whether the ink in the genuine checks and in the one m suit were not of a different shade he -aid they were, but this, he explained, was occasioned by exposure aud fading and by handling the check a great deal stereo. hibition of the cheek in suit was Kungi, photographic artist, the a ened for the purpose. An % crmous picture of the contested check was thrown on the wall, bringing out m weil developed propor- tons every letter abd shading. It was claimed that the Uold, tree character ot the certifica- fon, ag thus shown 1m the magnified deline- ation of the check, gave indubitabie proof that ihe certification was in the handwriting of Mr Timpson. Aside from the legal bearing of the exbibi- hon, it enjoyed on account of its At the close of this exhi- room Was again restored to its dormal light, further witnesses were examined, the eatied in sarrebuttal on behall of the au expert in the matter of pronounced the ceruiflcation ol the check . After he had explained the alleged differences, in his opiuson, in the handwriting of the contessedly genuine sinatures of Mr. Timpson and that of tha check in suit, he Was cross-examined at lengtu by Judge Fullerton. i “How much do you elfirgo for your scrvices expert in this case ?? inquired Judge Fullerton, “1 cliurge $300,” answered the Witness. “You see, re in Boston, and it is some trouble to come here,” that ali the pay you get?”? I yet $50 a day for attendance.”? ‘How jong will your attendance be ?”? “That will depend upon the length of your cross- dxonunation.”” “Well, 1 am through now; T will try and save the bank something.” James McDoua, Vice President of the National Bank Note Company, ‘examined the contested ctieck, and gave it us biv opinion that the cerutication was a forgery. He said that it was very evident to him, on examining the cheek through a ginss, that the writing bandwritn m suit a torgery. of the certification was py by drawing an original tracing and then retracing it) on th theck, Lorenzo Fairbank, another expert in the ler of handwriting, was next called. He pronounced the certification or the contested check a forgery, It was atter fouro’elock when his examination was con- tiuded, An effort was made to bave the trial ad- journed until next Monday, but some of the jurors e: pressed an anxiety to have the case proceeded with, and Judge Dykman said he would have to hold court in White Piaing on Mooday. After some turther dis. cussion it was finally concluded to take a short recess and go ou with the iriak On the reassembling of the Court Mr. Henry L. Clin- jon summed up on behalt of defendant and ex-Judge Fullerton for plant, Judge Dykman then charged the jury, who retired at eight o'clock, with tnetruce tious to bring tu a scaled verdict this morning. SUMMARY OF LAW CASES. John MeGucktn, first mate of the American bark Emma G Litehiicld, was examimed before United States Cotumiseioner Osborn yesterday, Charles An- derson, second mate of the sel, having “charged him with repeated cruelty during a voyage of the yes. sel, The evidence tended to snow that Anderson was an incompetent cilicer, and Me@uckin, having extra labor to perform in consequence, revenged nimself upon Anderson by beating ond clubbing Lim. The complaint was dismissed by tse Commissioner, but the case Will probably be taken before the Grand Jury. The chailenge to the United States Grand Jury tiled in the United states Circuit Court by Philip H. Tuska, as defendant m the charge of dealing in “crooked” whiskey, and as codefendant with Henry C. fly, Joba R Ely and Louis Kaufman on a charge of conspiracy, tame up pairee veiore Judge Benedict, Genera! Foster, Assistant District Attorney, fii 7 objection to the challenge, and asked that the objection te sus- tained, Mr. E. 'T. Wood, attorney for Tuska, withdrew his plea to the conspiracy indictment from this in order to remove it to Brooklyn. The argumet the onjection to the challenge was set down for Thurs- day next COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before Judge Satherland, THE WORK OF THE MAY onaM, The May term of this court, which ended yesterday, was a notable one in respect of the amount of business transacted, more than 490 cases Waving been disposed of in it. On Wednesday last twenty-six criminals were sent to the State Prison or Penitentinry, and on Thurs. day forty-three, All the work was accomplished in spite of the ‘act that nearly oue-half of the terin was oceupied exclusively wita the trial and convjetion of Charles J. Williamson, ono of the noted Roberts-Gieason 1 voud forgers. The Grand Jury yesterday, after Feoeouting the document which wo print elsowhere NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1876.—f recommending the leensing of houses of prostitution, were addrossed by District Attorney Phelps in most complimentary terms, He thanked them for the fidelity, judgment and discrimination they had exer- cised in disposing of the immense quantity of business with which they were contronted at the beginning of ‘h rict. Attorney’s remurks were emphasized by Judge Sutherland, whg then dismissed the grand and petit jurcrs for the term, SOME PETTY CASES, William Reed and William Perry, convicted on Thurs- day of complicity in a forgery, were sentenced yester day to the State Prison, the former for two years and the latter for one year aud a half, James O'Neil, jointly indicted with James Scott for picking the poeket of Robert J. Brown in Broadway on April 13, was convicted of larceny trom the person and sent to State Prison for three years. FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET COURT. Before Judge Kilbreth, MARRIED, NOT MATED, An old gentleman named Louis Warszaur, who lives at No, 783 Lexington avenue, was held for trial at the General Sessions on a charge of assault and battery preferred by his wife Rose. The wife claims that her husband is an habitual drunkard, and that he continually abuses and beats her. That he now and then gets under the ‘influence’ even bis counsel admitted in court. His counsel, however, claimed that the wife was trying to get possession of all the old man's remaining wealth, about $200,000 in cash and real estate, in addition to two houses which she has already obtained from him by assignment and $20,000 in cash. The houses he assigned to her about two years ago, but to discontinue a suit which she had commenced in the Supreme Court to have him declared an babitual drunkard. About a year ago she had him placed under bonds to keep the peace in this Court, and a fow nights ago she removed two cart loads of furniture from their residence in Lexington avonue to wome place unkuown, The defendant was admitted to bail, POLICE COURT NOTES. A René V. Milhaus, tho importer of drugs of No. 15 Dey street whose arrest on Thursday evening on a charge of having obscene pictures in his possession was published in yesterday’s Heratp, was held to answer at the Tombs Court, before Judge Wandell, yesterday. Mary Jane Harding, a disreputable colored woman, ‘was held for trial at the Tombs yesterday fér stavbing Charles Perdan, a negro, in the temple, with a pocket- knife, at the corner of West: Broadway~and Franklin street. James Meiles, of Boston, was robbed of $125 in the concert saloon No. 4 James street, bv Margaret Court- ney, one of the inmates. She was committed for trial by Judge Wandell yesterday. Henry Schvenwald was held for trial at tho Tombs yesterday for having struck Fanny Hess on the head with a beer bottle and thon stabbed her in the tace with an ice pick in a disreputable house in William street, A well known professional thief named Michael Wha- len, alias Fish, was sent to the Penitentiary for six months yesterday by Judge Smith, of the Washington Place Court, he having been arrested while endeavor- ing to break into the premises of Alonzo Blauvelt, of No. 338 West Twelfth street, Frank J. Schumel, of No. 90 Second street, tell asleep on one of the benches in the City Hall Park, and Thomas Downey, of No. 37 Frankfort strect, stole his watch worth $20 and his pocketbook containing $11. Downey was committed to the Tombs. Otiicer Ahearn, of the Sixth precinct, found George Thompson in Baxter street yesterday with eight untin- ished mon’s coats, evidently stolen, The prisoner, who said he came from Reading, Pa. was remanded by Judge Waudeli unul to-day. Rudolph Snellback, of No, 216 West Thirty-cighth street, who said he worked in a doctor’s office, was held for trial by Judge Stith, at the Washington Place Court, yesterday, for fraudu- lently obtaining a quantity of stationery from Philp Frank, of No, 228 Church street, by representing he had been sent for 1t by Dr. Perry, of No. 49 Bond street, SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. By Judge Dykman. Edelston va. Shandley and another,—Motion for a Teceiver denied, without costs. * SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. By Judge Sedgwick. Rogers vs. Rowe; Graham vs. The Washington Life Tusurance Company, aud Hesse vs, Bruckel et al— Reterences ordered Graham vs. Liddy.--Default opened. Treacy vs, Hecker et al,—Interlocuiory decree signed and filed. ‘Treacy vs, Hecker et al.—Findings signed and filed. Raynor et al. vs. Strew --Ordered on special calen- dar for the first Monday of June, Salter vs. The Eberdale Coal Company.—Motion do- nied, with $10 costs to abide event, Raynor vs. Martin.—Ordered on calendar for first Monday of June. Pollenz vs. Bberspacker.—Plaintif’s complaint dis- missed conditionally, Chalk vs. Riss.—Extra allowance to the plaintiff, “Stevenson vs. Hegeman ev al.—Order for judgment. Stevenson vs Hegeman et al —Order striking out the name of defendant, John Brown, {rom the sum- mons and complaint in this case, Ry Judge Speir. Moore et al. vs. Belloni, Jr.—iil of exceptions or- dered on file, COMMON PLEAS--CHAMBERS, ‘ ay, Judge Van Brunt. Matthews va irish and Dodge.—Motion granted, upon payment of $10 costs, defendants stipulating to try cause in second week ‘of the June term, unless thoy can show good grounds for postponement. Sup- plemental answer to be served in five days. Richards vs. Pbippany,—Motion to continue injune- tion granted, with $10 costs to abide event. COMMON .PLEAS—EQUITY TERM. By Judge Van Brunt Sage vs. Vermilye,—See memorandum, MARINE COURT—CHAMBERS, By Judge McAdam. Whiteside va. Smith. —Security ordered, Wyman va Newhaus,—Five per cent allowance granted. Strauss ys. Koesting.—Julius Cwsar Langbein ap- 0) d receiver, Woods vs. Burus (two cases). —Moti denied, Hollman vs. Robbins. —Defauit opened, Grat vs. Brown.—Attachment for contempt ordered, Stafford vs, Ashley.—Motion to punish denicd. Wheeler va. Frouchtuecht.—Default opened on terms. Paimer vs. Van Winkie,—Judgment for piaintif”. Petters vs. Fitzpatrick,—Third parties ordered to pay over moneys. Hasbrock vs. Stoken; Meyers vs, Flynn; Meyers va Lambert; Lezano vs. Dooling; Macy vs. Ulman; Wheeler vs." Freuchnicht; Bullamar vs. Hirsch.—Mo- tions granted. i Adams vs. Keveny.—Detault noted, Carroll vs, Cullen. —Bona approved, THE RUSSELL MURDER. Jobn Halliman, who struck William Russell on the head with a barrel stave, causing his death, in June, , Was yesterday taken before Judge Mooro in the Kings county Court of Sessions, and on a motion made by his counsel, ex-Judge Troy, be was admitted to bail, The amount fixed was $1,500, and Mr. Quigley, a resi- dent of this city, acied as boudsman for the prisoner. In Chicago and San. Francisco, where Halliman has «since the homicide, he hs gained many warm friends, who vouch tor his ‘sobriety and steady habits, Haltiman is 4 man about thirty years old aud has a wile aud one child, MATRIMONIAL MISERY. Yesterday application was made in the Brooklyn City Court by the counsel for Mrs. Charlotte Reese, wife of Frederick Reese, a weil known Williamsburg dentist, for alimony pending @ sult for divorce. The plaintiit is a lady about thirteen years older than her husband, whom she eharges with gross immoralities. One of the affidavits presented was by his nieco, Wilhelmina Rosa, whow he brought from Kurope, and by whom he is charged with having had two children, The wife also swears that the husband owns the house in Fighth street, where be lives, and that it js worth $15,000, with a mortgage of $1,900; that he has also a large bank account in the Kings County Savings Bank, and that the pet profits of his busiess in April last were $390, The defence denied the statements as to the plaintift’s property and claimed that the house was ‘only worth $5,000, Judge Neilson granted $100 counsel fees and decided tat the wife was allowed to live in the house, the hus- band to pay all the bilis tor her adequate support and $5 per week besides. A referee was appointed to take testimony and report, THE POMPTON BOND CASE. In the ease of the Cooper Institute against the inhabe itants of the township of Pompton, which has occupied the attention of the United States Cireuit Court at Tren- ton, N. J., Mr. Barker Gunnmere summed up for nif to-day, and Judge Strong, after reviewing t jaw and facts, directed the Pig d find a verdict for the plaintaif, which they did in the sam of $18,102 39, UNITED STATES COURT. SENTENCES, Judge Benedict yesterday rendered decisions in the caves of Howard, the “sawdus”’ swindler, and D. K. Olney Winter, the embezzling Post Oifice clerk. With regard to Howard, in whose behalf a motion for arrest of judgment was made, the Judge stated that the in- dictment was properly framed and the defendant was within the construction of the stavate, and the convie- tion must be sustained, After General Foster had Pe moved for sentence, Mr A. H. Purdy, How- ard’s counsel, wsked that sentence be alto- gether suspended or the punishment mitigated, on the ground that the witneses in the case had committed wilial perjury, im testifying that they had come here to detect the counterfeiters, whea, 1n realtty, their intentiqu was to parchare amd use coun torfeit money. Tuere had been no fraud, tor counter. felt money is nothing, and, therefore, cannot be bought; and Howard bad given them sojething—a sawdust box—ior money, His Honor said that this reasoning was very ingenious, but he must sen- enee Howard to thirteen mouths’ impris opment in Kougs County Penitentiary and to pay a fine of Tn the cage of 1, K. Olney Winter, motion for an ar- rest of judgment was denied, and the prisoner was sentenced to Sing Sing for eighteen months. August Kline, who pleaded guilty to impersonating a Pensioner and drawing bis pension, was sentenced to the Kings County Penitentiary for tour years and to pay w tine ot $1, In the case of William H. Burehard, formeriy Post- master at Florida, Orange county, who was cgnvicied jor unlawtully detaming letters, counsel moved that the punishment be reduced to a fine and that sentence be suspended until Burchard could pay the fine, he having been promised employment in Newark, N. J. General Foster consented to postpone his motion for septenco until the last day of the term, JUNE TERM. The June Term of the Queens County Circuit Court and Court of Oyer and Terminer will convene at the Court House, North Hempstead, on Monday next, Judge Pratt presiding, assisted by Justices Baxter and Chipp. There are about eighty cases on the civil calendar, and there 18 considerable criminal business besides, includ- ing the case of Fowler, the Rutger homicide, and that of the Albertsons, the North Side incendiaries, COURT OF APPEALS. Atpany, June 2, 1876, No. 202, Dodge vs. Village of Cntskill.—Argued by Jacob 1. Werner for appellant; James B, Olney tor re- sponuent, No. 181, Fulton ‘va. Whitney.—Argued by Samuel Hand and £. G, Sprague for appellant; A. K. Powter for respondent, No, M4. Miller ve. Barber,—Argued by M. M. Waters for appellant; George M, Kennedy tor respondent. Adjourned, ‘The following is the for Monday, Juno 6:—Nos 100), 226, 44)4, 228, 102, 1 Monday, Juno 5:—Nos. rt 6 ata, oe D a a “PROS: ITUTION. SHALL IT BE LEGALIZED IN OUR MIDST ?—- LICENSING OF HOUSES O¥ ILL FAME RECOM- MENDED BY THE GRAND JURY OF THE COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, At the closing of the May term of the Court of Gen- oral Sessions yesterday aiternoon the Grand Jury en- tered the court room and handed the following pre- sentment to Judge Sutherland: — Tuk Court OF GENERAL Sessions oF THE PRACK FOR Tix Ciry AND County or New York :— The Grand Inquest of the county empanclled in the month of May 1n closing their labors respectiully pro- sent:—That they desire to cull the atiention of the Court to the growing evil of prostitution in this eity, Houses of prostitution, dng contined toa great extent to purticular localities in the city, have of late ours, with the mereusing growth of our population, come scattered trough ai parts of the euy., The luck of guflicient power to properly deal with this evil under existing legislation Is very apparent. The houses can only be dealt with as disorderly houses, and where they are kops in such manner as tot two gross); to oifend the senso of public decency a convi tion is exceedingly difficult, even iv the case of houses well known to tali within the definition of the law, It broken up by the constayt action of the police in one district, where they may have become intolérable from their numbers, the result 1s that they reappear in other localities, perhaps previously respectable. In many posonk of the city property has become almost worth- leds for occupancy lor respectable persons either tor business or for residence, because 1 has been invaded by houses of this ciuss, and when they are driven Irom one such district the only result is that they devastate auother, Even if all houses of this kind, by a close and untiring enforcement of ihe law, be entirely sup- pressed, the only resuit would be that prostitutes would harbor in tenement houses and other dwellings imbab- itod by respectable people, and, by their example and conduct, do much more to deprave tke young than they do at present. Indeed, it 1 quite settled that legis- lation to suppress prostitution is aud must be ineffec- tive, And the fact that a business notoriously legal can be safely carried on in detlance of tue law tends to demoralizo public sentiment and is especiaily injurious in its eflects upon the olilcers of the police charged with the enforcement of the law, Tho mombers of this inquest are also deeply im- pressed with the vast eviis juilicted upon society by the totroduction through prostitution of the worst and most dangerous types Of disoase into the whole com. munity, Whose ravages are not limited to those who voluntarily expose themselves to its dangers, but affect tly oF indircetly altclasses of society and entail evils upon posterity, This last consideration hus impressed itself upon the members of this mquest in their observation of the inmates of our penal insti- tutions, This inquest 1s firmly of tho opinion that, however abhorrent to the views of some any leg? tion mnay be which appears to legalize so great av e sull the fa¢t must not be lost sight of that itis an evid imposstole to suppress, yet comparatively easy to reg- ulate and cireumscribe, und thats ble legislation for its restriction to particuiar localities and careful and constant supervision by the Boards of Health and of Police would do very much tw check the evils growing out of it; the spread of disease would be almost, if not enurely, stopped, the employment of houses of description as resorts of thieves and receptacles for stolen goods would become weli nigh impossible, and the very patronage itself of such houses would be al- most eatirely hinted to those who are not ashamed or alraia to be secon Visiting them, It seems wholly un- wise to forego the benetits that may be derived from such a system through a sentimental dread of appear- ing to countenence evil. This inquest begs to present to the Court the following resolution ;—- Revoivea, That the Legislature of the State of New York be earnestiy requested to adopt as early as practi- cable some system of jaws calculated to contine house of prostitat in the large cities of this State within certiin specived limits, and to subject them at all times to the careful and vigilant supervision of the Boards of Health avd Pole. ‘That tuis Court be respectiully requested to forward a copy of this presentment to the Legislature as soon as it shall be in session, WARD VAN VOLKENBURGH, Foreman, Frevexiok H. Cnarix, Secretary HEALTH DEPARTMENT, At tho mecting of the Board of Heaith yesterday the following report was received trom the Deputy Regis- trar of Vital Statistics :— ‘There were 459 donthy roported in weok ending Saturday, M. bei decrease in the number of deaths reported week, compured with the week previous, of 40 from otie discases, 4 of constitutional diseases, 3 of sinallpox, 1 Jes, 1 of seurlatina, 12 ol diphtheria, 6 7 whooping cough, 3 of typl ‘of pneumonia, croup, 1 ot phthisis pulhonail and tubercular meningitis, 18 di of children under deaths from local di Brigh reported during the a 4 a diphtherie, 27 from scarin- tina, 10 from measies, & from wh cough, 4 trom mem. Dranoas croup, 4 from tanlurial tevers, 1 from cerebro. splual fever, 75 from vbthisix pulmonalls, 63 trom pneu- monia und broneinti cl years of uge aud 24 of persous 70 ye a in Nios ining + fan ud Ie streets, rivers, & nt low ‘ere reported ‘on the second, 78 ra, i th and Lo o filth, 2 on the sev of those whe — died years, 7 months, 7 dnys ears, 7. months, 14." day: of diphtlitin, 4 yeuryy mout us croup, 2 years, T month, ing congh, 7 months, 22 months, The di the wook ending 0; Third, 1; Fourth, + Kighth, Ninth, 22; "Pentin’ 2 Mirteeuth, 14; Fourteenth, nth, 21; Seve Ki Twentieth, 4; Twenty-first, 26: Twe d, Twenty-third, 9; Twenty-fourth, 7, The mean temporatu for the week Was O47 degreds, Falrenbeit; the meat humidity was 66, sa ng 100; the mean rending of the barometer wus 2 with a raintall of OSD d the number of mile per 1.000 of the fom the most reeent Richmond, . Cleveland, 26.88; '8t, Louis, 1 «Wi N. Ville, jon, 21.8; Liverpool, Edinburgh, 24; | Glasgow, 28; Dublin, 26; Weltast, 23 jeattn, 29.1; Bom bay, $0.0; Madras, $2.8; Parts, 25,7; Brassis wh: Awster- dain, 26,1; Rotterdam, 90; Copenhagen, 20.8. Stock YAL! Christiania, 26.4; Bertin, 24.5; Breslau, 341; Munich, $ Posth, +47; Rome, 314; Naples, d44; Turin, a Buda. 20.8; Alexandria, 96.2, ‘The following is « comparative statement of cases of contagious diseases reported at this bureau for the two weeks ending May 27, 1876:— ro Week Ending-—> May 20, May 27. Typhas fever Rett | o Typhoid fever Ab 3 Bearlet fover. maere ° a Jerebro-spinal meningitis. ‘ ensies. “ oe) sd Diphtheria... - 2 7 Smiallpos... 32 iu There were received into Bellevue Hospital during the month of May last Ofty-four insane patients, the Youngest of whom was (welve years old and tho oidest fittyame, Of this number twenty-six were males, twenty-one were born in Ireland, cleven im Germany, nineteen in the United States, one in France and tw in Cunade, In addition to’ these there were fix patients admitted who had attempted suicide and who are now believed to be insane, thus making a total number of Hity-nine insane persons admitted to this one institution in thirty-one days or nearly two a day. PATROLMEN ARRAIGNED, Three of the Richmond county patrolmen were ar- raigned before Commissioners Marsh and Wright yes. terday, one for using improper language for an officer, one for being tive minutes behind time and the thi for being on post without bis pistol, Decision was re- soryod until a mooting of the tull Board, REAL ESTATE. Atthe Exchange yesterday R. V. Harnett sold, in foreclosure, a threw story brick house, with lot 48.9x99.11, No. 57 west 132d street, for $6,400, to William J. Walsh. Also, in foreclosure, a house, with lease of lot 20x55, on west side of Third avenue, 80.5 feet north of Sixtieth street, lease baving ten years to run, ground reat $200, for $7,600, to Mary C, OMnger, E, H. Ludlow & Co, sold, by order of the assignee of Messrs, Schuchardt & Co., the following city prop- erty:—No, 29 Washington place, house, with lot 25.24¢x100, for $20,000, to William D. Cranshaw; No. GY West Third strect, house, with lor 25x00, for $11,000, to William D, Cranshaw ; No. 203 Fulton street, between Church and Greenwich streets, house, with lot 25x80, for $27,500, to William Remsen; leasehoid of property on southeast corner of Grand und Wooster streets, comprising ope three story and one four story building, with lot 18x74, for $10,750, to William Den- ton; No, 337 Union street, Brooklyn, house, with Jot 25x10, for ¥6,250, to A. R. Matheson; a house and one acre of land at South Haven, Suffolk county, N. Y., for $250, to William Remsen, Scott & Meyers sold, in foreclosure, three houses, with lots each 25x100.4, on north side of Filty-minth street, between Second and Third avenues, cach with two mortgages, one of $11,400 with interest from July 1, 1575, and ove of $8,500 with interest from June 1, 1815, ts follows:—One’ for $200, one for $225 and one for $250, ali to the piantill. TUANSFERS, 13th vt., 9, s., 322 ft, w. of ay, U, 16x103.3; , Schiloxs and wite to Willinn W. “a + Aith Oo Ite. of Lith ‘av. 153i d wife to Aliew O'Neill. 160.0 few, of © Wilitaimsbride road, h Ward); Jos, Micheli to Bridget 235 13,000 8. (No. §), 206x100; Wiliam G. Ward and fo wnd others to John Ward. i 4 Nom. Road from West Farms to Haut's int ( yay idl Penfield to Aaron B. Petfers: . . 15,000 140 toot w, of 4th ay. ary Areher and husband to William b. . 33,000 George 16,000 O05 Ite. of Sth av, 7 Minah to Pauline Koffinay Nom. 1d ay., 16x98,9; Join ‘Dil: 1 ry Park av, (No. 03), also Madison ay 100.8; Nom. 7,000 block (ky Cromy se f Vouglas to Anow M. Doyle, 5 Washington st rner of dane wt fxs also Washington st., w, s., 35.287 tts. bt dane ste, 17,2s4x63; Peter E. Vitzpitrick ‘und wife to Jacob Schinitt. jac 1WOx10011; Tein’ s, jam 5. Thorn, '... Slocsia 3 id and wite to Victor H. Rothsehtids 1ST ft, & of Spring st. x 1UO; flischitd and wife to Murx Rothschild: SOM. nm. of GUD st., 20x75 5 s Greene st., w. Victor Hl. i Minna Luthj 000 1O1E Tw. of dd aw 0) 1,890 100 3,000 he wy., T4X1U0 ve) 10 Michael 29,000 tat. Ww. 3 No. 30; HE MeUalterty (releree} obs ‘tein and others, ss ft. ¢ 4th nv. LEX 1 1 ttn. referee, tod. Pan, LEASES, + 12,830 12th st. (Litle), Nos. 45 ant ‘Astor to William A, M ooo Be, W. Me Th i to Givorue Heintze. 1,800 14h vt Mi Ch 8,000 5,000 Jacobs, Panite « n, Obth at. W. Of Lexington ‘ 11,000 Post, Joel B. und wife and others, to Seamen's Bank for Savings, No. 6 Hanover st. ; also No, 16 Exenan, years 125,000 pince and No, GO Beaver st, Su we to saine, ns, Pearl st, we of Hanover sb iT year Same to sume, & 6 Of Reh wine, KS OF Sth st,, w, of ud av. J your oto Margaret L, Wainwright, #. & of Sith st., w. v.22 years. Same to same, ¥. s. of S4th st. € 12,000 12,000 i + v= 10,000 to James D. Lyneh, s. 95,000 Bipeseis rites vosctssys« wid otlirs to Jaines Van Buren 3y"00 3,000 O7Uh st: 8,000 2d Ay i Halliday, Mitchell an pC Oth at, w. of 2d ay. : 7,000 jofwan, Margaret L. and of 20th st, f 6,000 of Sith at. ‘3 yonrs «4. 10,000 Levy, Bertin, to Roserta Steinert, De’ ortolk af 6th wt; 1 yw * . Mantattam Hatlding nnd Fund Asyocitiin, to New Amserdam Savings Bunk of Sheriff st. u. of a wile, sof Spring: 2 yew 8. Smith, 6s. of i enhofen, w. 8. of Sd. w Vowssing, Heney F. and wife, to Abral #5, 10000 st., w. of Bd av, (23d ward) BROOKLYN CROOKED WHISKEY. THE STORY OF THE BONDSMAN OF STEIN. Tho bondsman of Christian A. Stein, the illicit whis- key distillor of Brooklyn, Neil McGoldrick, hus made allidagit before United States Commissioner Winslow to the effect that he signed three bonds of $5,000 each for the appearance of said Stern to answer for in- dictments for illicit distilling, and the said Stem, pend- ing the trial of the said indictments, ran away from said district and it to Canadas Mr. MeGoldrick further deposes that “he had no acquaintance with him whatever, and that he never saw said Stein until the night before he signed the bonds of Stein; that de- ponent signed said bonds of said Stein at request; that e was represented to ve all right; that alter Stem eseapod from said district McGoldrick received 4 letter from him, of which the following is a copy :— onto, Feb. 11, 1876. realy to do wo, id rather bury myself » You will, however, eto arrange and pay my fare back. Arranze ‘it In any way you think vest. Tam rendy to start at « few hoary! . Awa our answer, ours truly, bic J sr CHRIS AL STEIN, Mr. MeGoldrick swears that he went to Toronto and urged Stein to return to Brooklyn, but that he retuxed to doso. Mr, McGoldrick again visited foronto, and Stein told him that he expeetes, through complaints that he would make against the revenue: teers, that he should be vot free, Stem did return to Brooklyn with MeGoldrick, Who surrendered him to the United States autnorives, id THE FREE COLLEGE, ‘The examination of students attending the College of the City of New York began yesterday morning, Thero are now in the institution, exclusive of the 500 admitted yesterday, 606 young men, of whieh number forty-three are in the senior class, sixty-one in the junior, seventy-four in the sophomore, 115 in the fresh. man and 400 im the introductory department. The subjects taken up yesterday by the Seniors were Lata, Greek and astrovomy; by the Juniors, physics; by the Sophomor twodern history; by the Freshmen, shades, shadows and perspective, and by the Introduc- tory Department, Engiish and chemistry, In most casos the questions given were upon printed slips, wo which answers were required in writing. This gave the same questions (0 all, and as great cure was taken to fmt any kind of collusion, the result will probably perfectly Just, cach giudent standing on Lis own rem 'RIPLE SHEET. MUNICIPAL NOTES. Colonel Tom Duniap, Commissioner of Jurors, hasn’t “prociaimed.” He waits the action of the St. Louis Convention whether to go for Tilden, Hendricks or Seymour, Bryan Reilly is saia to be for greenbacks and Bill Alien. Alderman John Reilly declares that if be can't find a Tammany man supporting Tilden he will plant himself at the Planters’ Hovel, 58. Louis, during the Conven- tion, The receipts of John Tyler Kelly, Mayor's Marshal, for the past five months for licenses foot up $24,811 75, being an increase of $1,860 om the corresponding months of last yeur, W. H. Wickham, Mayor, yesterday signed warrants for tbe pay of the Aldermen and their employés, the District Atiorney’s office, the uttendants of the Marine Court, the market sweepers, oltice cleaners, oflicers of the Board of Education, officers of truancy and the en- ture Fire Departineat. ‘The Comptrolier yesterday paid bills upon requisi- tions of the Bourd of Education for the school ship St. Mary’s for outfit and expenses of a cruise of the ship. He also paid $4,125 rentof the reoms occupied by the Board of Excise. At a meeting of the City Record Commission held yes- terday, at which the Mayor, Commissioner Campbell and Counsel to the Corporation were present, the bids for publishing the City Record were opened. M. B. Brown, the Spectator Company (constsung mainly of the publishers of the Daily Graphic), Baker & Godwi of Park row, F. B, Fisher and Ruascil & Brothers, wero competitors, The award was made to Mariin B, Brown at $12 per token, sixty cents for composition per 1,000 ems, and the lowest bidder for other work, Geveral Pinckney, a republican member of the Board of Aldermen, ollicially declares that his Urst choice 1s Conkling and he hopes he will be nominated at Cincin- nau, Ho claims that the candidate should come from this State, which will be ‘the battle ground of the campaign.” Samuel A, Lowis, President of the Board of Alder- men, is for Seymour, and will go to St. Louis in bis interest. Alderman Gumbleton declares that his first choice is Seymour, and he intimates that (if necessary) he will walk there to make him President ot the United States, Deputy Comptrolier Barto, of the Free Trade League, officially announces that his tirst choice is Professor Sumner, of Yale College, and secoad, for Green tor President or Mayor of New York. Comptroller Green paid yesterday a number of re- quisitions of the Board of Education for outht of the nautical schoolslip St. Marys; also a warrant for 3,042 14 for purchase ofbankers’ bill of credit in ta Vor of Captain R, L. Phythian of the stip, for the sum of $3,500, gold, to be used as may be needed for sup plies &c., at such foreign ports a8 may be visited during the summer cruise. MAGIC RECIPROCALS, Professor Gustavus Frankenstein lectured yestor- day afternoon at Steinway Hall to about 560 people upon “Reciprocal Identity.” The title of the lecturo is a somewhat puzzling one, and without tho aid of dia. grams the lecture itself would possibly have left the hearers inatog. Tho statement of the principlo it- self, which Mr. Frankenstein claims to have discov- ered, is necessarily abstruse, and really covers the whole ground of the lecture. This principle may bo briefly stated as follows :—It ull the points of a polygon in one direction be numbered around the perimeter, and all its sides, boginning with any side, in the oppo- site direction, any point number then stands between two line numbers exuctly ay tho samo line number stands between two point numbers. This rule, intelli- gently applied, is sufficient for the reciprocation of any figuros whatever, It follows from this that curves re- ciprocate themsclves—in other words that their re- ciprocals are curyea of like ature. To overs point of a figure there corresponds a line in the reciprocal; and, vice versa, to every line there cor- Tesponds a pomt, The points are associated with re- gard to the lines of the reciprocal exactiy as the lines ure associated with regard to the points in its original figure. The point and tho line are the propagating propwrtics; and by means of these fructilying zeros all figures ure yeciprogs ed, and by them alone. [tis to ‘be understood that these remarks apply to figures in a plaue. ‘Tho principle of reciprocal identity extends to Volumes also, with modifications of the laws abovo Stated, It can be shown that infinite variation is pos- siblo without the boundaries of the typo being even paesed. The magic reciprocals are the symmetrical inavitestations of the principle ot reciprocul identity. They demand the recognition of a force which is the greatest force in nature—the force of symmetry, Bal- ance and variety are the foundation of all beauty, Man is perfectly balanced. The power of symmetry has es- tablished the balance, notwithatanving the wusymmet- rical internal orguaization, CORONERS CASES. Abody was found yesterday morning at picr 52 t River, by Roundsman Dahlgren, of tho Thirteenth precinct, and brought to the Morgue, The police autboritics reported that there were several wounds onthe bead. The deceased was about forty years of age, with smooth face, long black hair and aark clothes, ‘The body was removed to the Morgue, where Coroner Woltmah accompanied by bis deputy found tt in the afternoon, The latter made an examination of the corpse and found that the only violence to the body was done by fishes, which had eaten away a stall por- tion of the face, No papers were found on tho deceased that could establish his identity. Mr. Kelly, a painter, thirty-tive years of age, while at work on a scalfold at No 659 Fitth avenue, fell to the ground and was instaatly killed, An unknown man was yesterday found drowned in the Sound and sent to the Morgue, August Spohr, aged thirty, of No, 200 East Seventh street, laborer at the Manhattan Gas Company's works on avenue C, near Fourteenth street, dropped dead early yesterday inorning while at work ‘there Deputy Corover Cushman made an examination of the de- coused ang found that he died from heart disease, THAT “DRU GGIST'S MISTAKE, From the testimony given in the case of Kdna Ein- stem, who died from the effects of medicine mixed with laudanum through the mistake of a druggist’s clerk on the 31st ult., Coroner Ellinger summoned the parties to appear before him yesterday morning, Tho druggist, John Faber, was held to bail in the sum of $1,000, and his son, who mixed the prescription, w: held under $1,500 bail. Mr. Henry Diedel, of No. 375 | Third avenne, apveared on their behalf and gave the required bail, when they were dismissed, INCOMPETENT DRUG CLERKS. New York, June 1, 1876, To tue Epitor or tar Heratp;— Does not the caso of litte Edna Einstein, who died by tne poison given ber through the mistake of a drug clerk, as reported in yesterday's Hxxa.p, call for a strict enforcement of the Jaw regulating the dis- pensing of medicines in this city? The faw requires prescription clerks (0 pass an examination, or to have graduated at some pharmaceutical coliego. « Two-thirds or one-baif of the prescriptions dafly put up in New York are dispensed by clerks well trained in selling toilet articles, but incompetent to pass even the very lenient examination the law provides. Neither the physician who prescribes, nor the patient who takes the medicines 18 protected, a8 long as our sleeping Board of Pharmacy allow boys and ignorant clerks to dispense, If they do not dare to interfere with our Jeading pharmacies on Jiroadway and on the avenues, it is high time for them to step out, and allow men outside of the profession to take the hands. Your influential journal, I am sure, will nasi in the good work by exposing the pharmacies where his dangerous practice 1% carried on, and where the dives of our sick citizens are daily placed in jeopardy. Yours, a constant reader of the Hxnaup for the fifteen years, RICHARD IRVING, ‘FIRE BUGS ACTIVE, Various acts of incendiarism which have occurred in the village of Jamaica rocently have caused a deal of alarm among the residents, as, although the amount of property thus far destroyed is comparatively small, ho fear is that unless some measures are taken to put a stop to the lawlessness, there may be a more serious conflagration, dozen or more small fires, every ch was evidently caused by design, have tor- extinguished with small loss within a The Board of Trustees some ume ago offered 4 reward for the detection of the incendiarie: but it appears not to bave had phe desired effect, a: they are now urged to employ the services of a skilial detective, which they will probably do, BOARD OF POLICE. At a meeting of the Board of Police yesterday a reso lution was adopted chavging the summer hats of the police from the 10th inst. The new style is a high crown, black Derby, with three ventilating holes. James A. Dolan was appointed to a clerketup in the Bureau of Vital Statistics at a yearly salary o1 $1, ‘The Chiel Clerk was directed to forward to the Board of Health the legal opinion of coansel on the rolation- ship existing between the two boards, FERRY CHANGES. Mr. Kroweher, the new president of the Staton Island Ratlroad Company, will make farther changes on the ferry on Monday next. The steamer Josephine will make two direet morning trips from the trains at Chiton landing, leavin s at twenty minutes vo eight aud nine o'clock. RAIN WANTED, The drought is now severely felt at the east end of Staten Island. The garden crops are beginning to suf. fer, and the roads are disagreeably dusty. A heavy shower pussed over the west ead on Jaat, but Ga bo great goud SEC ES hi call LITERARY CHIT CHAT. {A capital book is Mr. Fox Bourne's “Life of Joba Knox,” jast out in London, in two volume: A most complete life of Titian, with a history of bis times, by the well known art eritics Crow and Cavak casetle is in Murray’s (Loudon) press, Lord Lindsay bas a poem, in ten books, nearly ready, entitled “Argo; or, The Quest of the Golden Fleece.’ Mr. Durwin’s fortheoraing book wiil be entitled “The Results of Cross and Self-Fertilization in wao Veyetable Kingdom, ”? In these days of centennial celebrations the reaaer will not be astonished that it is proposed to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Spinosa, im February next, The Paris committee on this bi- centenary celebration contaius the names of Rénan, Littré, Taine and Jules Simon. That indef tigable pedestrian, Mr, Walter White, who has walked all over England and uearly all ofer Eu- rope, has in press ‘Holidays in Tyrol, Kufstein, Kio- venstein and Panevegyio.” Another history of Queen Anne's days, in two vol- umes, is out from the pen of Frederick W, Wyon, This period of English history, which was not reached by Macaulay in his unfinished work, 18 very creditably troated in Mr, Wyon’s volumes, M, Foissac, a learned Frenchman, has published at Paris a book entitied ‘La Chance Ou La Desting,” 19 which the philosophy of the conditioned is thoroughly discussed, Professor W. D. Whitney's “Life and Growth of Language’? has been translated into German and printed at Lerpsic. Mr. W. D, Keller has come out with ‘The Keclesi- astical History of Ireland from the’ Earliest Period to the Present Time,” in two volumes, Law of Literature,” two volumes, and Law of Taxation” have been republished in London. ‘The great *‘ Encyclopwdia of Education,’ by an ase sociation of German scholars, published by Besser, of Gotha, has reached the eleventh volame. Mr. J. Shelton comes out with a fresh book on an iuterminablo controversy, which he entitles “The Impeachment of Mary Stuart, Some Time Queen of Scots.” “The Pertodjcal Press of Austria” is the title of a treatise by J. Winckler, which gives a historical and statistical view of Austrian journalism, It is from Gerold’s preas, in Vienna, A new book on ‘Trade Unions,” by, a Glasgow jour- nalist, Mr, R. Somers, will shortly appear in Edin. burgh. Tho number of newspapers and other periodicals now published in Austria is 810, of which 544 are in tho German language. Miss Colenso, daughtor of the famous heretical Bishop of Natal, has published an interesting novel. Mr. Frank Vincent's “Through and Through the Tropics’ is pronounced extremely readable by the London Saturday Review, “The Ceramic Art of Japan,’? by Messrs, Audsley and Bowes, is an admirable work on a subject now attract ing much attention, Tiio “Great Universal Geography”? of M. Eliséeléchus is to be translated by Mr, Ravenstein, in several vob umes. It ts expected to replace Malte Brun and all the other geographers. Tho noxt book in American early history will be B, F, De Costa’s “Conquest of the Wilderness; or, Chap: ters in the Maritime and Colonial History of New Kng- land.”? It will include the pablication, for the first timo, of the lost journal of the Colony of Sagadahoo, m Maine, 1607, ‘The “Calendar of Venetian State Papers,’ published by the British government, under the editorship of Mr. Randon Brown, will reach the end of Queen Mary’s reign in the ferthcoming sixth volume, ‘The London Academy thinks that much of Mrs A. D. T. Whitney's “Sights and Insights” is ‘mere maudlin chatter, gushing raptures and alfectation,?? ‘The fortheoming “Sacred Books of the East,” to ba edited by Professor Max Miiller, will make twenty-four volumes, aud will include the books of the Brahmang, the Buddhists, the Zoroastrians, and the followers of Contuciug, Lao-tse and Mohammed, The Zondavista will, for tho first time, be translated entire. Mr. Edward A. Freeman has compress-d mto a re markable little work, entitled “Europe,” his polemical views of tho present State systems of modern Europe. He ts very bitter against all Celts and Frenchmen. The able pamphlet of Henri Cernuschi on “B1-Mo- tallic Money’ has been translated and published by Sampson Low, @f London, It considera fully the coin age question as if affects botn England and America, and advocates with great vigor the double standard of gold and silver. 3 George Ehot will finish the last book of “Daniel Das ronda” by about midsummer, and will spend the autume months in Embrun, in the south of France. The idealists seem to bo capturing the British publie at last, The new philosophical quarterly, Mind, bad te reprint its first number twice, and another new quar terly, entitled Matter and Spirit, will appear in July, its purpose being to discuss all questions of acience an@ religion trom a Christian point of view, ‘The Saturday Review has a queer biographical article, entitled “The Loves of a Philosopher,” which treats of Thomas Day, the author of ‘Sandford and Merton.’” The new book of Todhunter on Dr. Whewell, witd ; his writings and letters, is packed full of learning. Mr. Lowell's “Among My Books’’ does not please the critic of the Saturday Review, who finds the boob crammed with bad metaphors and faults of taste, Yet it admits his great knowledge of the poets about whow he writes, and confesses that he has great critical power, . F. G. Fleay’s “Shakespeare Manual’ is a com- plete digest of all the authoritative knowledge respect- ing Shakespeare's life, his manner and method of work and the succession of his plays in the order of compo. sition, It gives in brief the substance of many books which are expensive and difficult to procure, ‘The taste for the art of gardening is rapidly spreadiog, and Mr. W. Paul, a London practical rose grower, has published “Villa Gardening,” which is a valuable cone tribution to the subject. Mr. Poter O'Leary has printed his “Travels and Ex. periences in Canada, the Red River Territory and the United States.” He writes as a delegate of the Agri- cultural Laborers’ Union, and his book is valuable for emigrants, SABBATH OBSERVANCE. At @ regular meeting of the Board of Managers of the New York Bible Society, held yesterday, the following res olutions were adopted ;— ‘Whereas the recent efforts made by His Honor th with him, wecord with ciples ineulen province of tis it Rosatved, That the Boar: nmrs of the X Bible Society extend to Hix ¢ William H. Wi Mayor of the city of New York, and to the departments wet: p ing with bim, thelr ernest Invements#verntly initiated. tending to w more reverans observance of the Sabbath day in the closing of the liquor saloons in this city Kesolved, That the Secretary forward to His Honor a copy Of this resolution. THE SUNDAY QUESTION, Efforts are still being made by the Temperance Brotherhood and its agent, Oliver Cotter, to suppress the sale of liquor on Sundays in Brooklyn and other cites During the past week Mr, Cotter bas been visite ing the different towns and cities along the Hudson River as far up as Newburg. He reports tha: he ene ceeded in Inducing seventy-two saloon keepers to sign bis pledge not to keep their places of business open om Sundays, GOOD NEWS FOR THE\ BATHERS, Yesterday one of tne free baths of the city wag brought from Gowanus and moored for the summer season at the foot of Kast Fifth street, and to-day the other will be placed at the foot of Eleventh strect, North River. On Monday tho baths will be open ta the pubife under the old regulations, Both baths have been repainted and repaired. They cost the city $10,000 per annum, Over 800,000 availed thomselveq of using the baths last year, and this number would bave been augmented had there been other baths, The uptown residents are also complaining that theyhave no facility for enjoying a free a.) —---— DOLAN'S WIFE ARRESTED. Henry Moore, a sailor, went into aden in the Bowery on Thursday night and fell aseon m « chair, after drinking considerable liquor. While he was asleop Thomas Kesiah, of Staten Island, saw steal $7 fom Mooro’s coat pocket. called an officer aod had her name as Maggie Smith, who was mated in the mardere| veing ar betore Jastice kot “ bag go sieramen Sbo was committed for trial : |