The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1876, Page 6

SAVE THE CHILDREN | Work of the New Medical Corps Among the Poor Thirteen Hundred Visits Made to Overcrowded Tenements Yesterda FILTH AND MORTALITY. The physicians engaged by the Board of Health to | visit the tenement houses forthe purpose of giving medical aid to sick children had « busy time of it yesterday. lt was supposed by some when the fifty Wore appointed that they would report every eveuing the results of their labors of the day to the So Superintendent, aud that they wou y mo obtain their ipstructions at the Hoult Board Head- quarters, Such isnot the case. When cach physician }, that is to dit appointed he was given a special distric Yay a given number of blocks ina certain ward, an Was made incumbent upon bitm to visit every tenement Youse im it, sothat no poor helpless wail might be everlooked. Of course, to cover his district will re ire from each a great deal of time, and itis quite Possible that in the more densely populated neighbor boods some of the houses whose iniu require care will not be reached for a week or ten days Th tricts in such wards as the Seventh, 5.th, Fourth, Eleventh and Thirteenth, where there 3 ma been made very large tenements, have small com pared with those marked out in the uptown wards, where there are but few tenement houses, For instance, the Seveuth ward has been divided into seven visitation districts, with a pby Victan for each district “We are doting what we ca! with this force of doctors,’ said Dr. Janes, the Assist. Ant Sanitary Superintendent, to a iHsKALD reporter yesterday, “to bring down the terrible death rate among the children in the tenement districts, They have a very onerous task to perform. Wh borne in mind that rome tenement houses have fifty and sixty families each, and that the doctors bave to £0 not only from the ground floor to the top, but to tvery room occupied by a family, to ascertain if any ot | the children are sick, their service is one that is very exhausting this trying weather. We are in hopes that \t will lvad to the best results."’ WANT OF MEDICINE. The Board of Healtn expected irom the outset, when Ubey decided upon employsng the visiting physicians, that they would receive valuable aid irom the dispen Barics, but 1 is stated that their expectations have not been realized. The aid they were sanguine of securing Most especially was the inedicine. The physiciuns, AS matiers now stand, have to depend almoet ex: tiusively upon the generosity of the druggists | For instance, one of them finds a sick child (‘na tenement. He writes out a prescription, And if the parents happen to be very poor he wa ote of the circumstance on the prescripuon, with B recommendation to tho druggist to make it up for as small asum of money ay possible. But what M{ the parents have no money at ali? Then .the doctor 18 as powerless upon reiu Vetore, and if the druggist called mality, worse than useless. Tho heaith oflict: fidentiy delicve tnat if the druggists generally were Made acquainted with the wants of the visiting ph Bicians in this respect they would cheeriuily, at the vast majority of them, make up the preserip: tions for nothing, or, at all events, fora very. small figure, as the medicines required for children suffering it from the heat, from the summer complaint and the | like, are very Cheup, It is not to be expected that tho Gruggists in the moro populous tenement districts would be willing to make up ail the prescriptions sent to them by the visiting physicimns for nowing, and it wouid seem theretore necessary that the Heaith Board should take prompt ineasures (0 mect the wants of the doctors in this respect, If they bave the power to engage and pay for the services of physicians other then the reguiar inspectors they certainly can au- thorize the physicians to give au order on the Hoard for payment of the prescriptions made up for extremely poor families, CHILDREN IN TENEMKNTS. Yesterday a large number of tenements on the East Bide were visited by the visiting puysicuus, avd a great many sick children were found in Willett, Division, Jackson, Market and Cannon streets. HERALD report in looking for one of the phystel came across a funeral in Ludiow street. It was of a little child. That makes the thirteenth funeral thay has taken place trom these tw cks during the past tes days,” sata a police officer with whom the reporter get into conversation, ‘and I don't wonder there’s 0 Many in these tenement cistrict . “The chiluren get no rest at night, caved trait out of the barreis here and yt them Bulf the time have very little else to pth Go into avy of the houses along here and you'll be sure to find a sick child on almost every floor.’ Following out this suggestion and making his search for the Board of Health p os the pretext of his visit, the reporter entered two or three of the tenements. In one of the bouses, which was re were five children who a, and in the house adjoin- BK the corpse of a ube only’a year od was Jaid ont in f@ small ‘rout room, and unother cliid of three lay on the floor suffering from prostration aud the summer fomplaint. Tn Essex street (he reporter saw a woman Manding in front of a small procery store crying bitterly Muther Woman apparently attempting Ww console her. The reporter ed from tue groceryman that the poor women was a widow who earned her living by Washing. She had, before the heated term began, tbree children, two girls and a boy, aged respectively five, three and two; but they were now dead, the bab, having beon buried only the day betore, Doubiless this was but one of many terribie tlusirations of the fearfal havoc that the heat has nade tn the tenement districts. four stories in henght, th were suffering from diarr! THY VISITING PHYSICIANS will make their first report to the Sanitary Superin- | \endent on Saturaay morning next, and those wao go duty to-day and who will be visiting the sick ebil fren on Sunday will make the result of their labors known to hini on Monday morning. hese reports will, no doubt, give the beaith authorities a more thor ougi kwowledgo than they pow possess of tho real tause of the large number of deaths among ebi'dren in the tenement districts. Of course cvery ove knows that the terrible mortality among th pasttwo weeks has becn brought about by sickness Superindaced by the excessive heat, but it will be of interest to know why it is that in cere tain tenement localities the death rato is * excessive as compared with thers, Want of proper nourishment and lack of fresh air atter the litte ones have become enervated by the heat, the dovtors say, is the m mortality. “Talk as wo will about te causes, physician of the Health isoard to the Herat porter, “we cannot shut our eyes to the |i after all the chiet cause is our present tenement house Byatem. it 1s an invitation to death to do x @ith children in tho summertime, Let onr Jure pass such laws that landiords will lave to ac knowledge that te rights which they are bound to respec ants have some UNCOVERING DISEASE Yesterday the deaths of children for the preceding ninety ve tay under five y wgbt, making a total of Yay. The work of the new medical stalt +1 Health began in earnest yesterday. Be forsh on the visits Dr. Day summoned the members the corps to his office and gave them practical iw lions how to proceed. The doctors are required to tote every visit par, the number of © youre, well or sick, to be used im future as enty lerence, At ten o'clock, under a fierce and the | Hoctors started forth on what is, most sfensive and the bardest werk mneeive, A reporter of the HeKain accoinps Yr, Kor! whose district embraces Mulberry, Mottand Kitea MFeCIS, Where tenement houses sre Wick aud ebiddren Warm like bees. The first house entored w: No, 273 Mott street, aod Vhe first man cacountered the ja rf “ARY Sick pbildren this house *’ said the Doctor, coh, | Lord, no, sir! This is the healthiest bourse to the Beighborhood. The highest ground in the city, sir. All fat and rosy, sr. Look at dirty nttie girl with but one likes o° that!” “MI the janitors talked this way, never acknowle: tog adirty home orasick child ‘in it, The Doctor, however, paid littio attention to the janitors, but pro ceeded ap stairs, The smell ‘and sifting, bat the children played ppily a though they were in the suri at Rockaw “No sick yess here,’ said a woman on the top door, and the Doo- or leté for Elizabeth street SINELY CULLDRES IN ONE NOUS? Here, beginning wiih No. are a perfect honey- fourb of tenement houses, connecting back and rear, Mack and white mixed up togethe When the doctor entered all tu the windows and women left washing and irons, at one (pointing to a art on); see the nd the nig darky blowing peas through a pipe dropped the shooter and came to see what was the matter. “flow many families are there in these houses ©’ said the Dovtor. “Thirty families, sir,” was the reply “About how m tidren are there?” “Three to a ftamily."’ ‘Ninety children!” The Doctor went vp the narrow stairs. © ple lived 19 the house, and 1t was much cleaner an Tweeter than any of the tenements occapied by whit people, Several little babies were found suitermg frou ¢ complaint, but had urs, white section of the buitding a founding was “La this your cbtid, madam ¢ ; he coom from ze Founding.” t a litte = How old vou dinks “About two months. Whatis tis namel’ “Charley; that’s all he has,"’ and the woman laughed, and the vaby criea and kicked up bis heels, Moricine aod tickets for St. John's Guild were lott for hin TORACOO AND DISEASE ‘The next place visited was the Bohemian quarters, No. 232 to No. 240 Elizabetn street A nice look- ing Bohemion wo stood at tho door. Nobody poke Knelish. the Doctor did not speak Ger- nit ie | to give the medicine (or nothing the doc- | Yor’s visit to the athing little one becomes a mere tor | is con: | m during the | in cause of the present dreadta’ | heads were out of | man, and so a little girl spoke broken English and interpreted, There were sixteen families im each house, or eighty families im all, Thirty babies in the first house. The Doctor proceeded throggh the tenement, Everybody was making , Women and children spreading out wet s, rolling, packing and moulding ergars, The ba- were playing on the floor, well and happy, no- sick in the antire block, and the dector specu- upon the wonderful disinfecting powers of to- bacco, The next house was au Irish tenement. There were thirty-eight ehtliren playing in the passage; not one With "shoes or stockings on, Pails of gurbage stood in the ball, the sink was fall of dirty water, and the smell was intolerable, “How many ebildren are there in this house?” said the Doctor, approaching a lady whose only garment was a calieo dress. The house ts full of them,” she replied, | Reiliy, on the first, bas seven, ana Smith fv Finn, on the fourth, bas eight and O'Mahony four,” The Doctor entered Mrs, Keilly’s apartment, fol- ed by four women and fourteen children of differ eg ae ok tS. re | Mrs. Tin Mrs. O'Reilly arose in wrath ond drove the children | outand thew took a child of about two vears of age eff | the floor, saying:—This one’s sick. What do ye think of that bead? There's nuthin’ in it. ‘That head ain't any good”? ‘The child's head w bur the Doctor explained that he had nothing to do | with heads, The mother intimated that she dian't be. | lieve it would hve fong and that “she had six any: arge and ill formed, | how.” This disirtet, while representing « varict . | “life? did not reveal vo many sick children as was | antietpated, | SCHARNEL HOUSES”? are located in Franklin, Baxter. and the surrounding thoroughfares cown town on the low ground. Here | the houses were found to be much dirtier, more crowded, hot and diseuse breeding. In one small house between Centre street and the Bowery were {c twenty-two fami h room. Som them take board aione h cient number to. stoc! ‘dren tn this house on the frst floor, “Ob, there must be a hundred or mot There's a funeral ap this street near! they are all the children”? | . The stepeh on the stairs and in the rooms was terri- bie. Tin cans and wooden boxes with gar’ on every floor, Children. sick | door, without ined:eal or doctor prescribed aud ga wotban refuse | couldn't walk so tar to th Th esterday mac i Sond g he Board exp: H village. he Doctor ¢ tickets, ‘Poor weople the sun.” 00 visits, guve ade pr 20) ursion feet a TO _DRUGGISTS, | Ata special meeting of the Koard ct Health vester- the following circular was ordered forwarded to New Yor :— ing children of the poorer has compelled the ot special inspectors or sick children whose stot huma ned by Assi pur chang: s nen iS posni- “President Health Departinent B The complaints of residents on Coney Isiana and Bay Ridge-with regard to the carrion washed upon the bh, which resulted in the arrest of Captains Kelly nd Noyes, of the Street Cleaning Department sco t hinted at the possibility of the offal having como from and, { 1 | Barren Is There are located the factories of the | offal cont rs'ot New York and Brooklyn, and to | them are conveyed all tho carcasses of dead animals | | | found in the two cities A H&kaLD reporter who set about investigating the causes of the offal nuisance se- cured the foliowing iaformation from various sources. Messrs, Swift & White have contracted with the city of New York to removs, on notice, ail carrion found in the streets. Dead horses, dogg, cats, &c., aro taken away in covered tracks’ designed | for’ the purpose, and at the dock discharged upon two steam boats, the Nanshon and Argo, for transportation to Bar. ren Island. Here the concern bas a large establish- ment, covering a considerable area, in which Glty men are emp'oyed turning the offal into’ hides, manure and fats of marketable value. The reporter learned, on in- 'y, that no portion of these dead animals is wasted. The skins are used 1 all cases, the fat is rendered, the bones ground down and the flesh turned into meat scrap, which ts valuable manure. As the carrion is | brought to t= island in steamboats and it 18 all availa- | ble for use in the factories, it 1s believed that the offal complained of could not ¢ trom this source, Tho | Brooklyn contractors bave a smail factory on the island, the force and factiitics of which are tnadequase | to properly pertorm the work proposed and to. make use of all the offai brought in. He further ascertained that the carrion was brought to Barren Island from | Brooklyn in a schooner, and this being the season when offal abounds more than at any other timo, this vessel is sometimes very woll filled. In rough weather, | then, some of the carrion on board during the passage or at the time of its delivery ts hkely to bo washed overboard and carried to the Coney Island shore, THE HEAT, HIGH TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY—SUNSTROKES ARD PROSTRATIONS. | ‘The heat was almost intolerable yesterday morning, | but not soim the afternoon, when a fresh breeze | sprang up. The following were the DEATHS FROM BUNSTROKE. The following deaths from sunstroke were yesterdsy reported at the Coroners’ office:— Edward Doran, 30 years, of No. 110 Mulberry street, An unknown man found at Forty-third street and Ninth avenue. Michae! McGrath, aged seventy-four, died at his ret dence ou Third avenue, near Fifty-third street, Brook- lyn, PROSTRATIONS. John Miller, of Brooklyn. Patrick Largely, No. 258 France's Matthew: Mary Powers, of E Street Hospuial Mary Lizou 08 Fast Sixteenth street, Martin Hogan, No. 48 Susaex street. Anna Peck, of Second avenue and Thirty-second strect, sent to New York Hospital, John Wesley, of No. 143 Tillary street, Brooklyn. Sent to New York Hospital, Bridget 0 11, No. 15 Summit street, Brooklyn; removed to er’s Hospital Thomas O'Connor, nineieen, At noon, James Hal street, Brooklyn. irst avenue. 37 West Seventeenth street, riford, Conn, Sent to Chambe mith stree thirty years, No. Brooklyn. Amity William Janrman, twenty-five, Post OMice, Brooklyn, Frank Jonson,’ letter cartier, thirty-two, Henry | stre | General Eugene A. Korzlay, of the Department of Chy Works, Brook! street, near Fulto Jotun Cashon, of > lyn; Degraw street; yh; removed to his home in Navy 6.150 Huntington street, Brook- ken to St. Peter's Hospital. Patrick Orr, forty-six, of Fortieth street, near Fourth | avenue, Brooklyn. Taken to his home. | _ Witham Dickerman, fitteen, at the corner of South Filth and Fourth streets, Brooklyn, Taken home by friends. James NeLonn, thirty, of Warren street, near Rogers avenue, H100\lya, IN WARK. day Newark adds its share to the quota of dead ng trom the overpowering heat, Yesterday tion to the rale, About noon John Miler, ange’s tannery, overcome by th nd before hed he expired, The deceased man, reputed to have a large bank account. with bis mother on the corver of Market aad Shipman streets. Edward Markas was also prostrated, Charles Unse, of Rust Newark, was likewise stricken down. IN CINCINNATI. a Cixerssati, Ohio, July 20, 1876. Tho weatuer here durmg tho past few days has been extremely warm, Yesterday eight cases of sunstroke were reported to the Health Ofice, THE WOTTMST DAY FOR TWENTY YEARS. Minvorn, Pa, July 20, 1876. 0 woather hero to-day has been the hottest for ars, the thermometer registering 104 in the ee o'clock tis afternoon. FRENCH WORKINGMEN, The Parijan delegation of the French workingmen, now visiting the Centennial and other points of tntorest inthis country, will return to France on Saturday | morning on board the steamer St. Laurient, The vessel | leaves at half-past six o'clock in the morning, and the delegation will be accompanied from No, 102 Prince street to the wharf by the French workinginen of this city. Ibis imtended, if permitted by ine Philadelphia Board of Health, to take along the body of ther dead comrade, M. Normandin, and have it interred in Paris, BROOKLYN WATER. | twenty y shad: THE On Wednesday last 31,658,618 gallons of water were used in Brooklyn, being an increase of 1,000,000 gal- ions as compared with the quantity consumed the cor responding day last year. Yesterday papers in the mat ter of the application of the Corporation Counsel for a mandamus to compel the Commissioners of City Works to complete the jacing of the storage reservoir, Hemp: stent, were served upon Commissioner Adams. official named said “they would be ready on Monday next to show the taxpayers that their course lad been for the best interests of the city.” ‘ A NOBLE CHARITY. | About 500 persons attended the annual picnic on the grounds of the Catholie Protectory at Westenester yes+ torday. This number falls far short, however, of what had been expected, in view of the enthustastic thou. | sands who aided sim charitable undertakings at | the same place on the two provious occasions As the | institution named sheltors and educates more that | 2.200 destitute ehildren, it should be liberally encour- aged, especially by the Catholic population of Now York. | sight, but were afraid to interfere, | deep into the calf of her leg in two places, and one of Tho | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, BRUTES IN BATTLE. 4 MAN WAGERS TO FIGHT A BULLDOG ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES—THE HUMAN DRUTE DIES OF HYDROPHOBIA AND THE QUADRUPED HAS TO BE SHOT WHILE ENGAGED IN THE CONTEST. Pout Jervis, N. Y., duly 20, 1876. John Connolly, better known as “Butcher” Connolly, who was employed on the Monticello and Port Jervis Railway during its constrnetion a few years since, and who obtained considerable notoriety about the country by matching bimself to kill rats lke a terrier, and to fight with dogs, recently died from injuries received in a fight with a buildog in St. Clairsville, Pa, the details of which brutal affair are given in a private letter from place to a gentlewan in Port Jervis, Connolly had been hostier at atavern in St, Clairs ville for some time previous to the affair mentioned above, On the Sth of July he got drank and went into Way's saloon. Lying ou the floor asleep was a large hound, old aad burmless, belonging to the proprietor of the caloon, Connolly walkeu deliberately up to the sleeping aog, and stooping down, seized it with his teeth by the ear, and raising oo his foet lifted the hound clear of the tloor, and in spite of his piteous cries shook hima moment, and then bit off the por- | tion of the ear that was in his mouth and let the dog | | fall to the flvor, it ran bleeding and howiing from | the men wituessed Several the sickening Connolly spat the | piece of ear apon the floor, and offered to bet $10 that | he could whip any deg in the place in teu minutes. j ATTACKING A NELLDOG. No one paying any attention to him he finally went si proveeded to w place Kept by aman named | saloon, outs Bryan Pogorty. lish bulldog, whieh usual and whieh, despite ity sa to interfere with any one. When Joon this dog was lying under a stall table tn the with es hal closed. Connally got ou his | bands ang Knees and put bis head on under the table, The dog looked lazily up mto bis face and wa tail good uredly ihe human brute, bo: novement, seized ouw of the dog’s ears, Whi halt cropped, in lis teeth, and, dragging him from under the table, commenced shaking him, The buiidog, true to bis nature, did not utter a sound, although the blood streamed down tow bis ear over his face. Atter two or throe shakes given by Connolly his short hold on the rtore loose and the dog foll to the floor, He didnot run away, as the bound had done, bui, lounged about the saloon, ly entered | WITH A SAVAGE GROWL, rushed upon his inhuman assaitany Connolly dropped on his hands and kuces ang met the dog with a blow of bis Hist, Which staggered hin back; but he at once renewed the onslaught, At this juncture two men | who were iu the place offered to interfere, but Fogarty exclaimed, “Let ‘em alone! And] hope to God the | dog will kil him!’ ‘The secoud rush of the dog was more saccessiul, and he serzed Connolly in the fore- arm that was Taised to k»ock him off, Connolly clutebed the dog by the tiroat ond choked him 1woae, and reaaiued on bis knees to receive bis THE DOG MADK ANOTENE this time for the throat of Convoily, but was again Jolled, and caught the man ia the mascte uf the leibarm, Diting tt clear through, and tearing out a large piece of flesh. Sit! Connelly remained on the floor, apparently awaiting iv ¥eize the dog 10 some advantageous spot, The latter, iu his courth attempt, wank his teeth into the left shouluer of Connolly, and the man cond not shake nor choke hia of, The dog shook tis head, | aud sank his teeth to their full length into Connolly's flesh, but the man seemod possessed of the very ua- ture of the brute, and gave nosign ihat he was suder- ing or of surrender. By a peculiar movement, he 1 SKIZED THR FOKKSHOULDAK OF THE -bOG— ! the most vulnerable point--in his mouth, and then the two brutes roiled abont on the floor, tearing eact other's flesb, The blood rap in streams {rom each, aud, mingling with the dust that rose from the floor, gave them both the appearance of demons, — This lasted about five minuies, when the tneee | spectators were sickened ‘at the sight, and an attempt was made to separate the combatants, The dog was seized, but al! the beating, twisting and burn. ing that was inflicted upon hit tailed to loosen his hold aparticle, Finally, Fogarty drew a pistol, and with the remark, *‘It's ashame that the best of the two has to die to save the worst,”’ placed it to the dog's Side ana shot him throngh the heart. Even after he | was dead his Jawa had to be pried loose from Connolly's lesb, CONDITION CF THE MAN BRUTE, Connolly attempted to got upon his feet, but he fell back, exhausted and weak from loss of blood. He was given a glass of brandy, and a doctor was called in to see him, Half of the large muscle of his lett arm was bitten away, and his forearm was torn fright; fully, the’ bone boing exposed in one place, His shoulder was literally a pulpy mass, both bones ind fiesh being ground together by the teeth of tue dog. There were other severe injuries on Connolly's person, and the doctor at once gave it as his opinion that the condition of the man was critical. Three days afterward he was seized with most violent convulsions, in one of which he died in his bunk in the tavern barn, Although the fate of the man was fea ful, the general opinion 1s that the disgraceful, inhu- man affair was caused entirely by him, and there 1s little sympathy manifested for him; and there is no disguising the truth that more regret is expressed over the aeath of the dog than that of his brutal assailant, A DISHONEST POST OFFICE CLERK, THE SAD CONSEQUENCES OF RIOTOUS LIVING— A YOUNG MAN RESPECTABLY CONNECTED STEALS FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS BELONGING TO THE POST OFFICE. Newport, R. £, July 20, 1876, For the past seven months the cash receipts in the Post office in this city have repeatedly been short, but until within the past fow weeks no notice was taken | ofit, The head clerk, Eugeno Atkinson, has long sus- pected William D, Tew, a clerk, about eighteen years of axe, as being the thief He watched him trom day to day, aud finally communicated his suspicion to the Postinaster, Thomas’ Coggeshall, The latter called Tew into his office and informed him that he was the guilty person, that he had been spending three times the amount of bis salary i cigars, champagne, sup- pers, &c, ‘The proof against nim’ being so ms, he ‘acknowledged the charge, and» stated that he bad been stealing for a iong time, but that he bad never tampered with any of the letters; he has stolen nearly $500, and he made his heaviest hauls within the past two weeks, Mr. Coggeshall being képt athome a greater part of the time on account of the fatal ilivess of bis wile. Tew belongs to a highly re- gpectable family, and the grief of his parents being so great Mr. Coggeshall wax induced not to prosecute him, they promising to make the loss good, Mr. Coggesball could take this course as the loss tails upon him. Tew has been discharged. Several letters have been missed of late, but Tew porsisis in xaying that he is not gaiity. | of this charge, and in justice to hin it should be stated that Mr. Coggeshall believes iim, KILLED BY ATTLESNAKE, A RA THE FATE OF A BERRY PICKER—THE FANGS OF A RATTLESNAKE YASTENTD IN HER LEG— DYING A HORRIBLE DEATH IN THE Woops, Portage, Pa, July 20, 1876 On Monday morning Jast Miss Sarah Goodloe, daugh- ter of a prominent resident of this place, and two little girls, named Jennie Wagner and Laura Webb, went out in the Wyckof Mountain to pick buckles berries, About tea o'clock the Webb girl returned ery- | ing to the village, and said that Miss Goodloe liad been bitten by a rattiesuake and was sick in the woods about aimule away. The young lady's inther, accompanied by a couple of iriends and Dr. Crane, hastened to the spot, guided by the girk On reaching it a fearful sight presented itself, Miss Goodloe lay in convu'sions om the ground and was swollen to an enormous size, Dr, Crane at cnee tore her clothing loose and revealed we fact that the flesh bfa commenced to turn black, She was entirely unconscious aud was at once pronounced beyond all buman aid. The spake had sunk his iangs thei was found hanging to her stockin admmisiered such remedies as ure used in such cases, yut the unfortunate young woman died in a few min= tutes alter the arrival ot her lather and party, Her limbs swelled so that the one bitien by the snake burst the skin She died in the most intense agony, THE CIRCUMSTANCES Attending the crise are related by the little girl as fol- lows:—They were picking berries near tne top of the and bad their pails wearly filled, Suddenly Si Gooatoe gave aloud scream, and, dropping her patl, ran wildly out of the bushes towurd a plot of grass near by, shouting, “My God, my God, a rattlesnake has vitien me!” “She threw herself on tho grass ond commenced rolling and shrieking. The little Webb girl ran toward ber and saw a portion of the snake, which seemed to be still attacking Mias Goodloe. About halt of the shake, from the rattles up, Was exposed, and it was sounding the falter in a'manner denoting tho greatest rage. The little girl, with singular bravery, seized the reptile by the tail and jerked it loose trom Miss Goodloe and killed with aclub before it got away. She then tofa the young judy that they had dottor siart for home at once, and they hurried home- ward, the two httle girls assisting Miss Goodloe, who continued to grow ill fromthe eflects of the ‘vite, and finally dropped in convalsions at the spot where the Webb girl left her and hurried on for aid, BROOKLYN ISh LAW. Yesterday forenoon a committee from the Temper. Brotherhood of Christian Churches catlea upon President Jourdan, the new Commissioner of the Board of Police and Excise of Brooklyn, and com- piained that the Excise law was not properly enforced, They contended that every saloon should bo closed. Commissioner P'ybura stated that it Was impossible to stop the sale of liquor altogether, and the temperance men know this to be a lactas well as the Commission- The doctor | wrauce, never offered | | | | | JULY 21, 1876. — ‘ BOARD OF ALDERMEN. EXPENDITURES OF THE PARK DEPARTMENT —- A REPORT CALLED FOR—TOMPKINS SQUARE AGAIN-—CASTLE GARDEN AND THE BATTERY. A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held yesterday afternoon, with Mr, Samuel A. Lewis in the chair, Alderman Cole offered the following resolution : Resolved, That the Department of Public Parks be and it Is heroby directed to rep |s Board as soon as possible a tement showing the of every emetove of that departme:t. with the residence and eompensution paid to . incliding laborers; also a statement showing in de i the expenditures under the item of appropriation made for said department for the present year. Mr. Cole’s rearons for presenting this resolution were that a few days ago he called at the office of the Park Commissioners on bebalf of sume workmen who were in need of employment Commissioner Martin informed him that they were not putting on any lavor- ers at present; im fact, they had 1 in contemplation to discharge 100 men. The reason given for this was that the appropriation tor 1876 was inadequate, and the department could not spon moro than the sum appropriated fer it, The Alderman then proceeded to avalyze the expenditures of the Park Commissioners as follows :— On looking over the Qnal estimates for the year 1876 I find under tho head of Department of Pubiic Parks that the sum of $495,000 has been appropriated for thoir maintenaneo and government. Half a milion of dollars is a large sum of money, and considering that the Central. Fark was ‘surveyed,’ “engincered?? and “iandscape-gardened”? many years ago, the public | would, no doubt, like to know bow such a large amount Foguriy owned a full-blooded Eng- | ers themseives, The Board assored the cold water del- egation that they would do whatever they could to | curty oat the law. of money 18 disbursed, especially as only a very sinall atnount is paid for operauye labor, On looking over the items which make up the appro- pristion for 1876 I find the folowing estimates for sal- aries alone:—Landscapo architect, $6,500; Clief Clerk, $0,000, superintending architect, $5,000; saperintend- ing engineer, $5,200; superintending assistant engineer, $1,000; engineer in’chief, $5,200, assistant engineer, $1,000; etx division engineers, $16,000; civil and topo- graphical engmeer, $5,200; agsistaut’ civil aud topo- graphical engineer, $4,000; meteorologist, $4,000; pay master, $4,000; three assistant paymasters. $4,500 draughismen and assistants, $3,200. Toial, $69,700, ese oflicials appear to be only connected with the Central Park, ax 1 find (he “annexed district”? is pro- vided for in other items, as totlows:—*Superintendent | and engineer, $4,500; salaries for surveying the Twenty-third and Twenty: th wards, $95,760." 1 beieve they have been surveying the Sannexed ais- trict” during the past two years, and it will, very likely, take many years more betore it 1s completed, Besides the “annexed district” has_another oppropri- ation awarded to it oi some $57,100 for surveying, monumenting, &¢., making, in all, m of $155,360 for the | wenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards, Li the superintending architects, the landscape architects, jandseape engineers, landscape gardeners, surveyors aud other salaried oificials employed in the “annexed | district”? get tho same salaries as those montioned in the estimates for the Central Park, we have a force of nearly seventy-five men, absorbing fully one-half of the appropriation of 1876 for the maimtenance and government of the public parks, The resolution was passed, Alderman Purroy remark- ing that a statement trom the Commissioners would establish an entirely different state of affairs, Alderman Bryan Retity called up the resolution relating to the completion of Tompkins square by day's work by the Department of Public Parks, The resolution was again lost, bya vote of 16 to 3, Messrs. Wade, diorris and Howlaud being recorded in the negative, Alderman John Reilly then moved that when the Board adjourn it adjourn (o meet every day at two o’clock until the Tompkins square resolution is passed. This motion was agreed to. CASTLE GARDRN, Aidorman Morris offered the ‘ollowing preamble and resolutions relative to Castic Garden and the Battery :— Wharens by the destruction of the building ob ‘the Bai tery, owned by the city aud leased to the Commissioners of Emiizratioa, Known as Castlo Garden, the question of re- building the structure, the usea to which of late years it has been applied, the expediency of a longer continuance of the building for such purposes and inany other questions connected with emigration to this port naturally attract public attention, and opinions are expressed ay varied as the interests or predilections of the different parties to the controversy, the opinions or wishes of the city, which owns the property, alone being entirely Ixnored; au Whereas this corporation, as owner of the lund and build- ings at the Buttery, have certainly « prior if not exclusive richt to determine the uses to which this portion of its reul property shall be applied: bo it, therefore, Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Common Council, it is both inexpedient and unwise to rebuild the old stractire at the Battery recently destroyed by fire, of to continue its further use as» depot for emigrants, in’ view of the danger to the hoalth of the city, the known’ and reprehensible in- fluence to which emigrants. are subjected, the demoraliziny: effects upon tho entire neighborhood, and by converting into an immense lodging house, entuiling the disadvantages and {and others, a portion of one of the , and, if not entirely per- Common Council, eror more appropriate and desiranle place ean he obtained for the purposes to which Castle Garden has been recently applied than the property on Ward’ in owned by the State and controlled by of Emigration, Here is located the emigrants, aud there ar island, belonging to the Stat commodate the emigrants now arriving or likely to atrive t this port for many years to come. The situation is healthy and salubrions; complete isolation can be had for the emigrants. thereby affording bim security against the rapucity or dishonesty that meets him at every turn in the lower and overcrowded part of the city, while, ax a measure of economy, the State and its now pecuniarily embarrassed Emigrant Commission would be largely the gainer. It id have no rent to pay; emigrant vessels can Land their sengers at the very door of the institutions on the isiand, or, it as now, they are conveyed in steamboats from the shtp to hore, a very slight additional expense will y them from the ship, harbor, to the dock at In any view of the cuse, the locat of the on Ward's island presents dvan- migrants, ‘he State and the city, that, in the st of all three, this Common Connell ate clearly of opinion le Garden should not Se reouilt; that the Battery grounds siould be devoted entirely to the uses and ont of our own citiz and that the entire emi- tablishment of tl shonld be located in one and that place, sufficiently large and commodions, 1s provided on’ Ward's Isiand; be it, theretore, fur- ‘ommixsioners nek liospital for buildings now vacant on that ther Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, who aro now empowered to lene and control city property De and they are hereby instracted not to permit the rebuild: ‘of Casta Garden, or to renew the lease thereof to the rs of Etnigration, if in their power to prevent it; and the Department of Public Parks be and is hereby instracted to take possession of the premises lately known as Custic Garden, and other bitildings connected therewith, ‘and forming a portion of the pnblic place known as the Hint: tery, over whieh it has jurisdiction, ind improve or entirely doinolish the same, ax to that department may appear to be best for the uses of the Battery and its appurtenances by | the public. The matter was referred to the Committee on Land aud Places. ‘The Board will meet again at two o'clock this after. noon. BERDELL IN COURT AGAIN. MURRAY SERIOUSLY ILL—THE DOCTORS HAVE TO MAKE INCISIONS IN HIS SCALP TO RE- | LIEVE HIS PALIN. Gosnes, N, ¥., July 20, 1876. The examination of Robert H. Berdoll for the shoot- ing of Wisner Murray was continued to-day and will probably last during to-morrow, Heary Wilkin and G. F. Akerman were sworn, The latter testified that he | saw Berdell rising irom a stooping posture, with his right hand to his head; afterward saw his hand graap- ing a pistol, while A. 8. Murray held bim from benind; Wisner Murray whipped bim and rotreated; Berdell struggled to get into a position to shoot and fired. Dr, J. N. Thompson, attending surgeon, swore to the Jo of the wound. The frontal bone was frac. tured to the extent of a silver quarter, three-quarters of an ine) from the median line and a quarter of an fneh froin the margin of the hair, Pending his exami- ation the noon adjournment was had. Wisner Murray to-day complained of a severe pain in the back of His head, which indicates the presence dm the brain of a portion of the bal, Physicians think be may hive some weeks The examination was continued after recess, and Drs, Thompson and Robinson testifed to probing the wound in Murray's head, ou Sunday, to the depth of three inches, following’ the course of the buliet di- rectly backward. 'This, with the existence ot severe pain atthe back of the head, indicates that the bullet passed through the brain, The physicians deem the | wound as fatal, Rovert Murray, dealer in firearms, testified to calibre of the pistol Berdeil used, and described the ball asa “Hong 38.” Michael Landes, the oMcer who arrestea Berdell, identitied cards found ov his person as similar to those received by Murray's friends, which e the in te cause of the aflray; also apaper with a Het Of names to whotn they were to be or bad been sent, Freeman Maythorne, clerk m the shen lost Office, testifi-d to Gading cards in the night letter box, nu distributing them, During the aiternoon Murray grew suddenly worse, and the physicians were summoned from the court room to attend Him, and the Court adjourned for a. short lime, with a view tothe fact that the death of Murray Would stop the examination and send the ease to the Coroner. The pliyscians relieved the patient by mak- ing incisions 1m the scalp, removing immediate peril. The examination will be resumed at aime o'clock tox morrow, THE CHOW-CHOW Edward Valentine, better known as the “Chow-Chow man,’’ who for many years has been (he recognized king of the “three card monte’’ gang during thé summer months on the Coney Island ana Rockaway beaches, has made his last bow on the sands for the season, He was tried in the Kings County Court of Sessions before Judge Moore avd ajury for gambling, and, being con- Vieted, was sentenced to the Penitentiary’ for twelve months, The prisoner, who is a short, stout, coarse: looking man, has repeatedly deon arrested, but bas managed to elude indictiwent herevotore, owing to his promise to Abandon the nefarious business and adhere to fis trade, that of chow chow making. He has played three card monte for twenty years in the Soath and on the Mississipp! River, but he says fato banks got all the money be won, Valentine latterly wore MAN'S SENTENCE, green goggles, which gave him avery péewiar and | rather ludicrous appearance aa he manipulated the cards ond tooled his victims. He stated yesterday that there js a certain official im Brooklyn who held the board fer him fonrteen years ago for seventy-five cents aud $1 ver day, | contract | $10 costs. Memorandum of opinion indorsed, THE COURTS. Decision in the Suit of Samuel Treadwell Against Ralph M. Pomeroy and Others. JUDGE LARRENORE DI-WISSES THE COWPLAIT. A Legal Fight Over the Estate of a Bankrupt Firm. Unhappy “Jailbirds” Their Discharge. Seeking A decision was rendered yesterday by Judge Larre- more, in Supreme Court, Special Term, in the case of Samuel L. Treadwell against Ralph M. Pomeroy and fitty-four others, recently tried before him, The plain- tiff became purchaser of one-filtteth of the interest in William Osborn’s contract, made in 1865, with the Atch- ison and Pike’s Peak Ratiroad Company tor butlding 100 miles of railroad and telegraph running westerly from Atchison, It appears that Osborn assigned a por- tou of his interest to Ralph M, Pomeroy and others, and they appointed an Executive Committee and treas- urer to conduct the work, and it was from the membors of this committee that the piaintif’ purchased his in terest in the contract. Mr. Treadwell complains that the line has long since been completed, accepted and paid for, and that the y ed his request fora distribution of the effects and that they are spending the proceeds in the affairs of the road and in purchasing its bonds, Cader these circumstances ho calis forthe dissolution of the partnership and prays the Court to appoint a receiver and order an ac- couuting of the profits, The defendant denied that the with Osborn was carried out at all; that the contract was abandoned and tne road bait by the company themselves, Osbora merely acting as a superintendent of the work at a stipulated salary, In giving a decision Judge Larremore thinks it unnecessary to determine whether the contract was carned out and if so how tar it was legal, inasmuch as he arrives at the conclusion that no copartnership interest existed be- tw the plaintiff and the defendants and that their relation was simply that of a commnunity of imterest in ajoint transaction, The complaint is thereiore dis- missed, A BANKRUPTCY IMBROGLIO, Some time ago suit was brought in the United States Circuit Court by J. Nelson Tappan, trustee in bank- ruptey of the estate of Archibald Baxter and Dancan C. Ralston, against Dwight Johnson and Thomas Woese, In this case the complaint shows that proceedings were brought in the United States District Court by Samuel Freeman and other creditors to have them adjudged bankrupts; that on the 24th September, 1875, they were ors it was decided to wind up the estate and J, Nelson Tappan was appoluted trustee, The complaint then alleges that on the 7th of August, 1875, the firm being ingolvent, they made an assignment of the property to Dwight Johnson, with a view of avoiding the proceed- ings taken to declare them bankrupts and to have their property pat into the banus of an assignee for the ben- clit of their creditors, and that a pretended assignment for a like purpose was made by them to Thomas Boese, another of the defendants, An injunction against Dwight Johhson and Thomas Boese was on these grounds applied for and granted. ‘The deicndants tied answers to the complaint, and the plaintiff took excep- tion to Boese’s answer, on the ground that it was scan- dalous and impertinent The matter was referred to Commissioner Betts to pass upon the sufficiency of the exception, Who submitted his report, holding that, in regard to the matters referred to in the exceptions, they were as complained of—impertinent and scandal: ous—and the exceptions must be allowed, Baylis & Ralston were extensive commission merchants and failed to largo amount, and are now under examina- tion 1n the Baukruptey Court, ANOTHER HABEAS CORPUS DAY. Among the cases disposed uf by Judge Westbrook in Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday were the follow- ing:— Sigtried Wolters, arrested by Anthony Comstock on a charge of selling obsceno literature, gave bail to appear for trial at the General Sessions. By an arrangement with Anthony Comstock the defendant underiook to appear for trial in the Special Sessions, but when the case was called he failed to appear, and a bench war- Tant was issued jor his arrest. The deiendant was be- fore Judge Westbrook on babeas corpus and was dis- charged on his bail to appeut in the General Sessions An application was also made to reduce the bail of William F. Vietinan, who, it 18 alleged, was concerned in forging a check on the Corn Excbange Bank tor $30,200, The applicant was committed by Police Justice Marray in default of $20,000 bal The Court reduced the bail to $10,000. Jobn Henry Schultze obtained a writ of habeas corpus to secure the rolease of his child, Michael Schultze, alleged to be uniawlully restrained of his liberty. It seems that Schultze and bis wile separated and she is now living with one Martha Swyer, and Uhey refuse to deliver ap the child to the petitioner until he pays its board for two and a halt years. SUMMARY OF LAW CASES. Letters of administration were yesterday granted on tho estate of Marshal Lefferts, late colonel of the Seventh regiment, wno died from the effects of sun- stroke on the 34 July last, on his way to the Centen- nial Celebration in company with the veterans of the Seventh regiment, Mrs. Lefferts, widow of the de- ceased, applied to have her son William Henry Lef- ferts joined with her im administering the estate, which’ was also grantea. The personal property is valued at $34,000. The deceased left no will, Mr. Wheeler H. Peckham, in Supreme Court, Cham- bers, before Judge Westbrook, yesterday made a mo- tion to open the default in the suit of Bussinger against Jay Gould and others. When the caso was called ou for trial seme time ago the plainuil did not appear, and judgment for the defendants was given by dofault Mr Kham stated that he wasunablo to proceed with the trial that term, and had so informed Mr, Shoar- man. After some litte discussion the Court toon the papers, The suit grew outof Black Friday transac- tions, DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT—CIRCUIT—PaRT 3, By Judge Larremore. Vissel.or va, The Greenback Alkali Company.—Case and exceptions settled, SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. By Judge Sanford, Hall, &e., vs. Sturges et al. —Remittitur fled. ‘Yhe Mutual Life Insurance Campany of New York ys. Counor et al; Sullivan vs, Suilivan, and Caldweil va, Keller et al. —References ordered, Fean vs. King.—Order for publication granted. Webb vs Curren; Ernst vs. Langbein, &c., and The New York Needle Company vs" Fower.-—Under- takings approved. Ford vs Stephens et al, and Lockwood vs, Stephens et al—Order cancelling lis pendes of record, Beeard vs, Murphy et al.—Order appointing H. Willis receiver, &¢. Gould eval. vs. Levy et al.—Motion to open judgment denied, Arteaga V8. Leitch.—Orier appointing ©. H. Duell receiver, &6 The Dry Dock Savings Institution ws, Pepper et al.— Motion denied, without costs, Hautsch vs Abraham et junetion, Harper va Harper; Rainey Nutional Bank of the Republic ys. Mathew matter of ; Harper ys. Harper; Neher vs. Don- ough et al; Caldweli vs. Ketler, aud Cornell vs, Schult- heis.—Orders granted, MARINE COURT— CHAMBERS, By Judgo Goepp. McCallum va. Zabriskie—Motion denied. See opinion tiled July 19, 1 Mackenzie vs. Van Winkle,—Witness fees of George Muckenz0 disaliowed. 88 ot al. vs Neuville,—Motion denied. Mem- orandum mudorsed on papers. Arkell ot al, vs, Hancox et al,—Motion granted, with —Order continuing in- Davison ot ‘al; 7 Deady. —Order granted, advancing canse. ‘The Bigelow Biue Stone Company va, Hall.—Petition granted by default, Maxwell vs. Hall.—Petition granted by default, Snyder vs. Dewees.—Order granted vacating attach- ment Conklin vs, Acker.—Order granted to satisfy part of planus claim, aside judgment, Schirmer va. Rosta Motion denied, with $10 costs, Nauland vs Bogert.—Motion denied, with $10 costs, The Dover Rolling Mill Company va, Reardon.—Mo- tion denied. See indorsement on paper, COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. Svrrexe Court, Cnannuns—Held by Judge West breok.—Nos 21, 22. 3h, 43, 44, 62, 64, 66, 82, 106, 107, 113, 130, 16, 147, 152, 155, ‘191, 195, 196, 199, 207, 21 POLICE Leopold Kauffoan, a clerk of No, 8 Broadway, was held for trial at the Washington Piace Police Court yes- terday lor forging two checks for $200 and $150 on his employer, David Kolins, of No, 216 Broadway. | At the Washingion Place Police Court yesterday | Elizabeth Mitchell, of Mitcheil’s Hotel, charged Louisa Brell, of No. 66 Allen street, with stealing $290 from ber while in her empioy as servant. Tho prisoner was | held tor tru, Heary G. Ham!m_ was bronght before Justice Wan. dell at the Tombs Police Court, yesterday. charged Ranney vs. Lichtenstem,—Order granted eetting | tising in for a partner 1p bis be Foner, deren ) Richard B. Reading, of 95 Cedar si givi us security therelor. He was committed for trial in dotault of $1,0C0 bail WOMEN HIGHWAY ROB! ad While Ellen Cantrell, of No. West Twenty- t, was lerday morning, she was accosted by Am ‘o, 71 Thompson street, and Rosa Carpen: ter, of No. 51 Thompson street, who invited her to have some refreshments, She eutered the basement of the house No. 57 Thompson street, where the wo- man Parker knocked her down and Carpenter cat away ber pocket containing $2 75. Sbe gave an alarm and Officer Larkin, of tne Eighth precinct, arrested both of the women thieves, who on being arraigned betore Judge Duffy at the Washington Place Police Court were held for trial in detault of $1,000 bail each. A NEWSPAPER PLUNDERED. At the Essex Morket Court, yesterday, before Judge Bixvy, Edgar T. Esguerre, a young Cuban, employed by Messrs. J. J. O'Mahony and James W. O'Brien, pub- lighers of the Catholic Temperance Union newspaper, at No. 97 Henry street, was held tor trial on a charge of embezzling $60. ALABAMA CLAIMS. Wasuinctox, July 20, 1876 In tho Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims to-day the following judgments were rendered:— Case 1,944. John B. Underwood for loss of merchan- dise on the Tycoon, $1,051 50, Case 1,913. Jacob Ber- win, Boston, Mass. for same on Electric Spark, $450. Case 1,911. Jnines W. Gallison, Rockville Contre, Long Islund. for loss of W. B. Nash, $200, Case 1,932 Augustus H. Badger and Alinira A, Badger, executrix, New York city, for the same, $900, ‘Also the following for the loas ot wages by the destruction of various vessels:—Case 1.340. Thomas Post, $1,400 Case 1,500. Jacob Febr, 75 Caso 1,621. Ann Maguan, administra‘ 10, Case 1,640. David W. Goodrich, $508 50, 1,908, John H. Albers, San Franciseo, $600, ‘Tho Court announeed that after to-day no cases would» be heard during the present term. “PACIFIO MAIL. THE HEARING OF TESTIMONY IN THE CIVIB SUIT AGAINST RICHARD B. IRWIN. The hearing of evidence in the civil sult brought by the Pacilic Mail Company against Richard B, Irwin was yesterday concluded before the referee, S, B. Brow. nell. Mr. James D, Smith, who was a@ director of the company from the year 1871 up to the last election, in May of this year, and who was examined before the Congressional Committee, was sworn ond examined by Hon, Andrew Boardmao. He remembered that there wi which existed between the company and Stockwell. * Mr. Boardman—What was the nature of that difficulty. and what was the proposition? Mr. E, ¥. Crowell, on bebalf of the detandant, objected to’ the question, but the objection was overruled and exception taken, ‘The witness then stated that Stockwell had deposited certain notes on the Wiilamsburg Sewing Machine Company as a set off aguinst indebtedness to the Pacitic Mail, One or two of these notes were paid and the others protested, and then Stockwell offered to give up 10,000 shares of Pacific Mail stock if released from his obligations; he did not recollect ever hearing, a that time, of checks to the amount of $750,000 having beon delivered to Irwin, nor was he present at the meeting of the Board when the release was granted t¢ Irwin. Iex-Judge Fullerton being absent, the defendant un- dertook the cross-examination of the witness himself, under t advice of Mr, E. P. Crowell. The witness said he was not present at the mecting of the Boara when the settlement was ordered to be made, and at the next meetung he expressed his dissent from that. course of action, but did not give any reagon for bis dissent; he did not know at time that large amounts of money bad been drawn for legtslative pur- poses by Stockwoll; he never had any conversaty with Frederick Billings relative to the latter’s resignation February 25, 1873, nor concern- ing tho expenditure of the company; he did not know that Edwards Pierrepont had received the sum of $10,000 for services rendered at Washington, He did_ not know that the oilicers of the company wel compelled to produce their books in Washington. He ‘was acquainted wita Irwin for live yoars, having bees introduced to him in the office of the Pacific Mail, but by whom he did not recoliect. He had an interview with Mr. iewin after that time and asked him to call te his office, ‘The conversation that occurred in his office was entirely concerning another corporation and other people, and, being utterly irrelevant to the in:ttor in hand, he dectined to repeat it, At a meeting of the Executive Committee in February, 1872, he remem- bered Stockweil stating that the entire amount require¢ for legislative ‘poses would not exceed $10,000. He was not present at the meeting in which the Board de- cided to take proceedings. ‘Tho defendant then stated that he wished to supple ment the evidence he had given before Judge Bixby, at he had since recollected other disbursements made by him and not previously mentionet, Mr, Boardman making no objection, Mr. Irwin that he had expended for a Senatorial election in No vada $2,509 iu currency and an 3g ioe amount in gold, ‘On a banquet to certain Japanese dignitaries he laid out $2,018. On February 27, 1872, he paid through Alexan- der Randall $6,000, the amount agreed upes, couiin gent on a favorable report {rom the Committae on Com merce. He also paid to Samuel A. Hatch $4,006 mom than he had betore mentioned, making in al) $20,0%% The case, so far as hearing of evidence is concerned was then declared ciosed. Jt is not expected thal counsel wiil sum up until the weather becomes cooles, prolahly late im the fall. REAL ESTATE. The sales of real estate under foreclosure at the Ex- change Salesroom yesterday were as fol ows:— A. J. Bleecker, Son & Co, sold the lot with house, No, 221 East Seventy-eighth street, 25x102.2, for $15,025, to George W. Chamberlain. Adrian H. Muller & Son sold the Jot, with house (08. 50 and 52 Madison street, 83x53,9, for $6,000, u Catharine Coyle. Richard V. Harnett sold the plot of land on the eas side of Fifth avenue, 50.4 feet north of Eig! ninth street, 50.4x102.2, tor $28,500, to William Wyckoff, plaintig, ~ . FE. A. Lawrence & Co, sold the plot of land on the northeast corner of Madison avenue and Kighty-eighth street, 108.8 on the avenue and 36.8 on Eighty-eighth street, for $11,500, to Heury P. Degralf, 1, 8 8, 100 tt, . 8 @ corner G5th st. 190 fy. 6. of Sth av., 4 e. corner of Gbth at, / Hudson st. 'w. 5 MOXBOxitrege wiar; William nner (Sheriff) to Jesse Clark... Sth st s.8., LOLS fw. ay, of A, 201004; Alex: ander Bingteimer and wife toJacob Schwal $ 128th st. nes, 150 ft. w, of 7th av., 50x9911; Sarah K. Raynor to David I. McAlpine, 9 Sth st, n. 9.175 ft.e. of Madison av. 2hxidi 10x irregular; 8, E. Itnynor (exeutor) to David H. MeAipin St. Nichol ot ieivington st. Tiieht to L. I, Dish, Nom, 102.6 ft. un. of Rivington: he i) vata Nom. 11th st.,s. s., 192.6 fe. eof 4th av. 1aBx100i1; A. I. Wagner and wife to N. Wiedersum 10,000 43d) st., No, 131, . 4 M. Bostwick. 17,000 . Bostwiek and Brook, 25x13 (25d wite to Frank Siers. so ud to F. W, Boocke: Mhay, sw. corner Glst at. Weber and wife to M. H. Cashm: Inwood av.. w. s, 128 fn, of Clark pl Cromwell av, x 150 (23d ward) ; Be. jorge Bh AW. 0h, 42 ireferes) to I. MORTGA Barrett, Ellen and husband, to M. A. A. Woodcock, 2d st, w. of ay. +. of Clarke pince (23d ward) w. 8. of Inwood a f w. &. of Essox at., & of Kivington at.; 1 year. Blinn, Christian and wife to Uulved States Cotmipany, no 8 of 52d st..e. of Sta Davis, Henry G. and wit ner of 4th av, and 23d Dominick, aad wife, to William P, b. 5 of Division st, west of Forsyth st; three erick and wile, to 4. trostees, s,s. of 44th st., five years. Same io samo, & & of Hth st, w. of Loth Same to same, n. 5. of 43d st.,w. of 10th av: 5 Same to y imo. m. & OF AKL xt. Ww. of LOth wt Hyland, Thoas J..40 J. Cohnor. ns. of dash oe, ee ©. of Lincoin av, (2d ward); 5 year if Anderson, Edward Ul. and other rity se Of W pine, No. 24; 5 yenrs Lesiey, Alexander M. and wile to i of Hench ste, w. of Mt. John’s Alley; Byeme 2.600 to same, ms. of Beach st, w. of st. Joba's ale months § oe . 2,500 1,000 8,006 years... ‘ 1d wite, to Washiugte: Company, s. 8 of Kivington Sk erat Beet yours mreshoehan Staiturd, Charlotte and husband STt wt + ame passing through Thompson strect sonal effects and a proposition made in reference to a difficulty « x!