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4 A HUNTERS POINT TRAGEDY, | One Night Watchman Kills Another Un- der Mysterious Circumstances. a word alterward. When I found tbat he | | was deed 1 took up my lantern aud other | | things, closed the door and went down to | & ESR THE SLAYER’S STATEMENT. How Denis Ryer Says He Came to Shoot | Patrick Taft. A STRUGGLE FOR A PISTOL. Two Shots and a Dead Man Left Alone. Long Island City was thrown into a groat state ot excitement yesterday morning by the intelligence that | Sfrightful murder had been committed in the freight depot of tho Long Island Railroau, the victim being a | Bight watchman named Patrick att. Wat lent addi- | Monal intensity to the excitement was the brance that somo years ago a watchman in the employ ofthe company was killed by a desperado who was | Allerward captured and sent to State Prison for hie. | A appears that the first person who learned that Tait | had killed was ove of the employ the named D. M. Carter, On going to we about huil-pest six, he happened to be passing the Ferry street door of the oflice of the freight depot, | and knowing that the watehiman did not leave the premises until seven o'clock, he tried the knob of the | door, Not finding the door locked, ne walked into the building, aud noticed that the watchman’s key was in \ke lock on the inside, The office pro, space about ten feet square, which ts divided of irom the main room by a board partition, The door leading | to the freight platform, where Carter had to work is just outside of the southern front of the partition, | aud in order to reach it he hud to pass the office door | He found the first door locked and noticed that the of- | fice door was closed, Thinking Vaat the watchman } had fallen asleep inside he opened the door, The tirst | pbycct that attracted his attention was Taft on his | Enees with bis head resting on his lett arm, which was | Pxtended ona chair tothe right of the door, his right arm lying over the of the chair, Curter, belie him to be asieep, was about to awaken him | by giving him a push, when immediately behind the knecling man he deseried.a pool of blood, This dis covery sturtied him, and on going nearer Taft he saw tbat he was dead, He immediately gave an alarm, and | {na few minutes several citizens and a police olficer | were on the scene, the Coroner among the number. em- ot been road, Foccupics a arm Qn raising the prostrate form of the watch- | man 4 cursory examination showed that he had been wounded im tho upper lip and | that bis shirt and coat, on tho left side, were stained | With blood, The body was quite cold when found, | showing that the unfortunate man had been dead yome time. What struck everybody who had answered tbe alarm cry given by Carter was that there was no Pvidence of any struggie having taken place. Kvery- thing im the office was in its usual place, and the at- | tachés of the road, who had been summoned shortly aiter, THE DISCOVRAY OF THE rz was mace found that nono of the drawers had been tampered with and that all the books and papers Bad been leit undisturbed. The mystery which Surrounded the case was made all the greater from the fact that the pool of blood on the floor was several feet behind the spot where | the body of Taft was found, nor was there any | evidence to show how he bad met his death, witether he | had been shot or stabbed. A thorough examination of the room after the vody had been removed, however, Bhowed conclusively that he had been shot, for a bullet was picked up’ outside of tha office door aud the track of another was discovered in the par- Mtion pear the duor, Where the shot could have come trom was a mystery, tor the indedtation made inthe | wood was precisely the same that a bullet would make it Bred from the ceiling, The fan t over the door | was open, and it was generally supposed that whoever bad done the shooting must have taken aim througn | it. Buteven this w deemed to be woreasonabie after awhile, for the bullet would not baye taken tho | direction the ball did take which had imbedded tiself in | the partition. The body of the dead man was floally re- moved to an undertaker's, wh st mortem exami- | Qution was made and th ed by a jury empan- ailed by The resuit of tho post- Mortem showed thata bullet had entered the left side of the body just below the heart, and that it had taken an upward and inward direcsion, and that another had le, Coroner Darren. Strick the poor fellow im the upper lip, The ebot nears the heart was, of course, tho one vhat euused death. As the day wore on he excitement over the tragedy became very great, ni the police and the officers of the ward had as mucn | & they’ could do to keep the freight depot free from | he crowds that threatened to invade it ation was rile to how such au atrocious enme could have been committed in such a neighbor- hood, without tke noise of the pistol shots attracting the attention of evon the watchinan who | were ou duty im the engineers’ department and on the | wharf, ouly 800 feet distaut irom the place where Tatt | was foand. However, the police set about to work up | the casé, and, learn ng that Taft aud a fellow | bumed Denis Ryer, with three men trem New York, cuman | Lau veen arivking at the City Hotel barre ferry, late on Sunday vight, they deterinumed to bold er the New Yorkers. Had they done so ti would have only gone on a wild yoose cha THE MAN WilO DID THE BLOODY sarrendered himself to Captain Woods, of Island police, at Astoria, about eight 0 Spec as the Long | lock In the | morning. He was no less a person than Denis Ryer, | the wharf watchs the employ of the rail- | fuad company. told the captain that it was he w Killed Taft, that the that noone Pr he did not econ sretted | give, the | shootmmg was accide r 8 counsel it more than b officer preferring to wait Uli be had Deiore revealing all that had wken pl eon him esbooung lopk place. A Hun reporter en! the Astor station house last eve uy on iearoing that Ryer had surrendered himself, and | found Captain Woods and several of Lis otlied wear the stove ia the main room, A short, stoat 1 chatting with forbidding counte who was {utroduced Feporter entered, au would Ryer. The reporter told ho like | Jo have his version of ‘hooting, but he | teplied that he would preter to wait antl | ae could seo his lawyer, whom he expected every mo- | nent. He finally, liowover, after a littie general con- fersution. answered the questions put to him ina | rank and open manner. He scemed to be quite af- | fected at times, and evidently realized the qreadtet | position in whieh he was placed, STATEMENT OF THE ALLY “I will teli you,” said Ryer, * it and I had been down to th and had taken a drink; vor@ not drunk, either of us. I tad taken mothivg to drink all aay; Of that lam certain, and 1 did vot drink enough that Bight to make mo drunk. Taft, I do uot think, was What muy be culled intoxicated. The -hooting took | place between three and tour o'clock tm the | morning, It wae my casiom to go ino the office at | Bight time occasionally and have a ndly chat with Tait, for we were both friends and never had any dit | This | 1 happened, wou't deuy MURDERRE, | fioulty trom tie time we became acquainted. | morning, betwoen three and four o'clock, as I said be- | fore, we were in the ice, We hud been in | there about an by or a litle = more { should think, talking about business affairs erally. Ho was sitting on @ high +tool near the | « flesk on the porth side of the office, tacing me, and | secupied a chair to the right of the Goor as you enter, my back boing toward the ireight platform. My re- rolver 18 @ large one, and it has always been my habit when siting down in the vilice to take it out of my bind pucket and place jt on the desk. When { down this time I wok it out as usual and pot it on the desk, We had been talkiog a considerable time about one thing Rud another, when, during the conversation, 1 suid some- thing that he seemed to take great offeuce at, and, ina | motent of apparent fury he jumped from the stovl on | which he Was sitting and made @ grasp for the re- volver, exclaiming, ‘That's my pistol.’ I instinctively cintehed nold of the revolver by the handie, as {t lay Detore me, with my rigut hand resting on it He en- deavored to wrench it from me, and fearing that if ho got it he would shoot me, he med in such a rage, I did my best to pull it out of his bands. While hugging to keep possession of it it in sume way or other Went off. This somewhat alarmed me, but Tatt por- gisted in bis endeavors to take it from me. We were voth at this time using our two lands, and, as be was a stroug men, | know | hud to do my best to | Keep bim from getting possession of it 1 could scarcely tell bow long the struggle lasted, it seemed very long to sme, but it must have lasted only a tow utes, = At any rate, a second shot was ed during the tussle, wheo be fell om t partially o» b finally roiling over and ng on luis back, He did notexciaim that le was shot, Bor did | see any appearance of blood ou bis tace or on posth | between | omployés, a general favorite and had an excellent rep- | utation. Tt 'Yy | demolished, but the officers were rescued by th | these patriot soldiers comes the annual appeai tor aid, | them in past years, aud | 28 und 29, to the armory | Hompsbire, 1; Ohio, 5; his clothing, but he asked me not to leave him, say- { ing, “Stand by me; | 1 FORGIVE YOU for what you have done.’’ I then raised bin up and placed him in the position io which be was focnd—that is, 1 took bim over toward the chair in which | bad a sitting. He was then on his knees and by a head down on his arm tn the chair, and never said v his the door, what bad occurred, and surrender rd, Jatterward went out of the Ferry street and when I reached home | told my wile and she suggested that I should go elf to the police at once, Feeling | 4 Taft purposely, that his doath was purely accidental, 1 coneluded to do and 1 started 10 find Captain Woods, in the company of Oificer Menuix, to whom I made no revelation | as to what I wanted to toll the Captain, | simply leading him to the belief that I knew some- toing which wouid enable the police to get a bold of the man Who had done the shooting. On the Captain's coining trom his Louse when Mennix called and told him that 1 might be able to give hun some information about the killing of Taft I told bim frankly that I bad killed him by acerdent and wanted to give myself up. DIAGRAM OP THE SCKXE. ‘The following divgram of the freight depot and its surroundings will a‘tord the reader a clearer idea of the scene of the tragedy than any description :— | -{] Main Freight i | Depor. | | A || || WOES. PL a | | os | iM } | eo | 2 uG ‘'B quis WHat & © | {| 3 MO Sines — paid evaniecads b ' ‘Kk Piuatiorm, | ' | E] ds j s | = Part of Passenger i | & Depot. | A ~Entrance into ty hdipat han grea, office from main building. where Rye where Taft sat. utrance to freight platform, THE DEADLY RRVOLYER, ‘The only question which Ryer retused to answer, ond which the reporter did not press; wus as to the subject matter of the conversation which bad re- sulted in Taft’s getting so enraged, as Ryer had claimed bis victm had become, “I don’t care to speak about that,” was his reply; Tact 1s, We Were conversing about a good mai things, and’ said to him it wag all very to tak, that be had an office to stay in and At this partial explanation Ryer stopped and said nothing more about tnis particular feature of their conversa. | phatically denied that be and Tatt had y quarrel, and said that neither of them had exchanged any harsh words before Taft sprang from his seat to gel the revolver, “His sudden rage,’’ he said, “groatly surprised me, and | could not understand it; for the remark I made he took as olfensive to himself, and it was not so intended.” Cuptain Woods, in whose presence the conversation the feporter and Ryer was held, and who, on receiving from him the revolver with whieh the shooting was done, handed it over to his sergeant, produced the weapon so that | the reporters could have a look ati. “It wasa large | s.ze six-barrelled Colt’s old style weapon and the Ser- geant stated that when he recetved tt there were two exploded caps on it and one barrel unloaded with no cap. Ryer, in speaking of tho revolver, said:—*'I always kept one barrel unloaded, leaving the hammer over that barrel. Only two shots were fired.”? WAS DRINK TUR CAUSE OF THE MORDER? Ryer hasbeen in the employ of the Long Island Railroad about seventeen months, and beara a good reputation co lar as the feporter could tearn. He was once a deputy warden of the Tombs in this city when ex-Judge Coulter was War- dep, and was, previous to being employed vy ‘the Long Isiand Railroad Company, superinien- cent of the stables of the Street Cleaning Department when Hugh Gardrer was President of the Police Board. He is filtv years of age and has no children. His victim was a tine looking man, about thirty years ofage. He had been married only tbree years and leaves a wife, and child five months old. He had been in the employ of the company upward of nine years. He seemed trom the conversations the reporter held with the railroad ‘He was too quiet a man,’ said oue of the to the reporter, “to ‘get into a row, my part I don’t think he was kilied accidentally. He never quarrelled with any- ody.” Be the reprtation of Ryer und his victim what they may have been, it would seem that | they were both drinking on Sunday night in the City | Hotel barroom, near the ferry, with three men from employes and for New York, Tho barkeeper states that Ryer and theso three mon got into a dispute about politics, and became y that he had to order them to go out, wnieh | did, Taft at the time was on the sidewalk, talk- ing with an officer. It was furthermore stated to the reporter that Ryer and aman named Walsh, a mail carrier in the employ of the railroad company, got intoa quarrel about one o’clock in a barroom ‘near the depot, when Walsh told Ryer he was too old a man to tight him, whereupon Talt took off his coat and exclaimed that be was not too old for Walsh to fight. The men were finally separated, it is said, wihout coming to bio This story is given for whatit is worth there is some doubt about its being true in every respect. may vo said that Ryer only — ex- plana jon why he did not give an alarm when he found that Tatt was dead was that he knew “it would create a great fuss,” and he saw no necessity for it. The inquest in the case will be held on Wednesday next The body of the unfortunate man was conveyed to his late residence im Greenpoint yesterday evening. A PATROL BOAT RUN DOWN. Atheli-past five o’ciock yesterday atternoon, while Rowndsman Back and Officers Hand and Rhoder, of ty fourth precinct, were on patrol in a small sito Roosevelt street, their boat was run the ing 8. J. Christian,” The boat was partly | down boat. Round-man Back and Officer Khoder r slight cuts on the bend, A DESERVING APPEAL. The ladies of the Soldiers’ Relief Association desire | to provide a Thanksgiving dinner for the disabled sul- diers and for the widows and orphans of those who fell in the late war. Althongh this association fins no | established home, yet irom three hundred homes of Tho: ladies look hopefully to those who have assisted 11 others whose sympathie are over cnlisted ip behalf of (he wisabled soldier, wntr:bntions of provisions may be sent, November { tho Twenty-second regi- ‘ourteenth street, west of Sixth avenue, and donations of money to Mrs. John A. Kennedy, Presi. dont, No, 135 West Twenty-secoud street, or to Mrs, William F, Hayemeyer, Treasurer, No, 335 West Four. teouth st VACANCIES IN TRE UNIIED STATES NAVAL | ACADEMY. ANNaPouts, Nov. 25, 1876. ‘There aro at present, as indicated by the new Naval Academy Register, issued a few da; ince, a nember of vacancies of cadet midsbipmen in the Naval Acad- emy. Ab unusual oversight or neglect in the Register ‘# that some twenty cadets are down in the Register without the States from whence they are sppointed, ‘This makes it impossivle to determine exactly the number of vacancies; but, “counting them out,” there ure the following appointments to be made:—From Alabama, 3; Arkansas, L; Connecticut, 1, 1; Georgia, Iitisorw, 6; Lowa, K Louisiana, 2; ‘Michigan, 2; Missou M seits, 1; Mississipp! Maine, 3; Maryland, 1; Min- nese 2; North Carolina, 3: New York, 6; New Pennsylvania, 8; South Caro- lina, 1; Tennesse ‘exay, 2; Vermont, 1; Virgint 2; Wisconsin, 8; Arizona Territory, 1; Dakota 1 ritory, 1, Montana Territory, New Mexico ferritory, 1; Wasnington Territory, 1; Wyoming ferritory, 1. ‘The precise C districts trom which thes vacancies are to be filled can be jearned from tue Secretary of the Navy. Each Congressional district, including the Territories, 18 entitled to one cadet mid- ipman atthe academy, Theso are nominated by the Congressmen, and appoinied on their recommendation by the Secretary of the Navy, Every candidate must be between fourteen and eighteen years of age, and will be required (o psss a mental and physical examination vetore he can enter the neademy. The nature of the examination can be learned by application to the academy. If Congressmen do not Oil their vacancie: by the Ist of July of cach year then the Secretary of the Navy is required to supply them Twenty-five cadet engineers are annually appointed jm the havy. Those who desire these apporntinents (candidates must be between the years of sixteen and twenty) must send thelr applications to the Secretary of the Navy, who will authorize proper ones to go to Aanapons to be ex- amined on the Sti of September of euch year, The twenty-five most proficient will be commissioned as cadet engineers in the United States Navy. on singalarities of Our present naval system is that, wh allowed by law but one cadet from the District of Columbia, it bas tour, aud Isiand, that bas a rialt to but two. bas three, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, | a certain force and power in it that reaches the public | best talent of the community, and when it is necessary | most powerful, | that an operation had been periormed and that the | sides 1 THE PRESS AND THE PULPIT. THE FORMER OUTDOES THE LATTER IN ITS IN- FLUENCE. Yesterday the Methodist ministers considered the comparative influence of the press and the pulpit and Dr, B. M. Adams, o! Brooklyn, opeued the discussion. He took what he called the unpopular side—that is, the | side which recoguizes and yives due credit to (he secu- lar press for whatever of good it contains, If it should be asserted thut the press is more powertul and influ- tial than the pulpit it might be dificult to prove the proposition, Nothing is absolutely small; everything hos some meagure of influence on morals and religion, the crops, railroads, politics, &c., are each and all influential! in their sphere aud to an extent more or less appreciabie. They indicate asa spiritual barometer the rise and fall of the moral temperature, Take, for instance, said Dr, Adama, the present muddle in politica, There is scarcely any re. vival going on now in any of our charches because of it; and, whatever be the tone of the secular press, it has its influence on the popular mind. It has pecu- Var advantages and facilitics for reaching the popular mind, You can find the press at every street corner, on every railroad car or steamboat, and at every ferry, hotel or other public place. It makes profes- sion, too, of the bighest religious culture, and there is mind, There is only one thing that interferes with its in- | fluence, and that is that the public does not fully be- lieve in its professions and its teachings to any great But, alter all, the secular press commands tho | extent, to bring news trom the distant parts ef the world no stone is left unturned. Take the case of Tweed, for instance, When it was known that he was expected here a corps of reporters were kept down at Sandy Hook end Highland lights for a fortnight or more to got the curliest news of his arrival Surely the chit- dren of this world are wiser m their generation than | the children of ight, Tbe secular press treats all eub- jects, even religion, in the same spirit, Rich men, no matter how rich or religious they are, receive no more consideration than the poor, The press euts to the quick every time, The Doetor reierred to some of our contemporaries, an arked that the late Dr. Sudy’s able paper on *Missions,” read b@fore tho Evangelical Alliance in this city three years ago, was constructed out of material suppucd by an editorial in the 7ribune. There 18 a cortain crispnese, he said, about the way in which the secular papers treat sub: jects that appeal to the average mind and whieh ac- counts very largely for its iniluence on the public mind. It is the most commanding and the greatest force in this tand and, perkaps, in the world to-day, But while the press follows rather than leads public opinion it does so as the rudder does the ship—it guides aud coutrols that opinion, You ean go through the commuuity and easily tell what papers are read, ‘There 1s 4 certain distinetness in reading that leaves its impress upon the people, and every subject is treated of 1n the press. BOLDNESS OF THR SECULAR PRESS. One of the creaicst influences which the secular press exercises is in the line of its boldness. It hus to be vold to make its intluence felt, The press must ve positive aio, for neutral papers have very little influ- ence in the community, The presa is working an the Ine of aflirmations and not of denrals, Teligious ar below the secular in influence and power, be former lacks directness in ite treatment of stions, We must be rehgious, and the religious press must grind out just s0- much religious news every week, but it 1s necessarily strung out very thin. It is considered good enough reading for Sunday. It is very bold in condemning other people's sins, While it hides its own, That, suid Dr. Adams, is my inarct- ment against the religious press \ Comparing, then, the pulpit with the secular press the Doctor remarked that we bad to get up on a jadder, ie 'e, to ind out what some of our great preacher: The pulpit lacks the mighty force which condenses things and onabies us to see all sides of a subject, There are many who believe that the sbcular press is more religious than the religious press, or even than the pulpit, Onc man a short me ago told him that while he took all the religious papers the secular paper that he took was more religious than any. A Voitck—Was that the Sun? ANOTHER: ;1t was the Heraup! ‘The pulpit lacks the element that makes the secular press 80 powerlul—boldness. Tho press is daily mak- jug its impreasion on the people while the pulpit has only one day for its say. It has pleased God, vy the Joolishness of preaching to save men, and he vel @ great deal of it is foolish preaching. Boldness in preaching is an effect, the cause of which is that great {ting up of a man untt! he can eee nothing but God, Ail else is small before him, And what the pulpit of to-duy needs 1s to be lifted up where other things shail appear ag nothing in comparison with God. It needs a Voldness that is born of the things of the worid to come. Now the question ts as to the comparative influ. ence and torce of those two, the press and the pulpit, when they go together. Is it not God’s order that the pulpit sball be the mouider and leader of the public mind? The late rebellion was brought about by the tomisters rather than by the press or tl Hiticians, And Abraham Lincoln pubhely thanked th thodist Episcopal Church for saving the nation, Now, the pulpit ts only at its middling power, while the frexs is at 18 maximum, The puipit needs tobe lined up where it shall see only Jesus, ‘The fire-tipped tongue ig an enormous aud unquenchable power in this world, The secular press is abead cf the thought of the age. It grasps everything and makes all subservient to its own idea. Now let the putpit take hold of every ad- vantage 10 its possession und then superadd to this the endow ment of God’s spirit and it shall be the moulding power in this world. THE WORLDLY, FLESHLY AND DEVILISH PRESS. Brother Parsons divided she secular press into these three classes, and ke took up the flesbly or the ficen- tious press for his theme, Unless great meu can be sept into our great city pulpits be did not know what was to become of little pafishes like his own lying on the borders. Three huudred story papers ot the class that he condemned are taken and read in his parish, while only eighiy — reli- gious papers are received, Seven of the story papers of this city send out weekly 30,000 coi- umus of reading, while ull the religious papers send out uly 192,000, 1tis astonishivg, and a great deal of the former is of the ragamultin style of stories, nnd our young peoples minds are being turned by i. He has exammed books in his own Sunday school library and had found nothing in the papers indicuted to exceed in vi'eness (he matter contained in those books. This kind of literature is like the Egyptian plague ot frogs The devil has larger audiences every Sunday than the mi asters have, and more hours are epent in roading this trash than in hearing the Gospel or reading the Bi Dr. Adams huving reterred to the influence which vin exercised in G neva and Knox in Scotland as tl. lusirations of the power which the palpit might e: ercise on the mind of the community, Brother Dic! inson remarked that in their day the New York Hxgatp did not exis. No man could exercise the same influence to-day as they did unless lar press was on their gide, The Y. ander MeAlister remarked that the ten- | y of every class and order 1s to magnify ite own . He was disposed to question whether enthor | carry the influence they clam. If the comparison was to be mado between a demented pulpit and an intellectual press, theu the press was more influential, But tf the comparisou was between a demented press and an intellectual pulpit, then the puipit was the Bur ff it be denied that we have | neither, he had seen both. Eighty per cent of all the r of this city ig fiction, Mr, McAtister thought the press should give more attention to this subject. A resolution Was adopted expressing the pleasure of the ding that Bishop Harris is coming to reside | here, The missionary seeretariés were usked und agreed to provide a missionary sermon next Monday morning. ‘ | THE MAIN MALPRACTICH CASE, The funeral of Alice D, Main, the young woman who | died from the effects of injuries produced by a third | party, took place yesterday atternoon trom her hus+ bana’s residence, No. $10 Atiantic street, Brooklyn, On Tuesday last sho Was taken very sick, and Dr, Her- mince, of Fulton street, who was summoned, found He informed her of the the name of the persou ww. She acknowledged eration, but would not woman could pot recover, fact and urged her to re who bad committed the that she had submitted to give the name of the guilt y. Mrs. dtary Gann, 4 German midwife, Was subsequently arrested by Cap- tuin Leavey, of the Third preciuet, at No, 260 Atlanuc avenue, on suspicion of being implicated in the crime. Her daughter, sixteen years, was also urrested, You= terday the prisonors were admitted to bail in tho sum of $2,000. Coroner Simms will hold an inquest tn the | case to-morrow. THE BAYONNE HOTEL WAR. Justice Dilloway, of Greenville, held an examination yesterday afternoon in the case of the persons charged with rioting In Bayonne, in front of the Willow Haven Hotel. Mrs. Miller, the laudiady of the hotel, bas eff- ployed ex-Assemblyman Carey as her counsel, and thé most vigorous measures are to be taken for thé punishment of the gang who tried to drive Mra, Mtiller and her boarders from the hotel. 1t was testified that several persons tried to force the inmates to leave by threatening toset the hotel on fire if they should pore ) OMcor Allen is severely censured alleged connivance with the ro! by arresting Mr. George Millet oo an old charge of sviling liquor without a ticense, Maller 1s slowly recovering trom @ severe illness, und it was found-necessary to nelp bim into a cell aiver lis arrest. That be should be thrown into a ceil in hie prostrate physical condition 1s regarded as an outrage, Charges wil be preterred agaist Allen for bis inbu- ty and practical sympathy with the Miller was released at midnight throu, his counsel, Who procured au ord der M. As thore was no perso remaining within. for his sist in lawl th at counsel had to go to the Police Headtquarte house of Oittcer Kuvanay! 0 took the paper and re- leased Miller, Had be been left in the cell ail might 1b is believed he would have died, as, in addition to nis physical debiluy, the ceils are poorly ventilated and a hoated, A very bitter iccling has beon engen- dered among certain families why have taken opposite this inatier, | tre INSURANCE ASSETS. 4 FLUTTER IN THE OFFICES—EVFECT OF THE DECLINE IN REAL ESTATE—SOME AMAZING FIGURES—WHAT TH™ AGENTS SAY. Tho article published in the Henao of yosterday showing the vast amount of money invested by the fife and fire insurance companies of this city in real estate was the geyeral topic of conversation in insur- ance circles yesteMixy, Of course, the tacts were fa- miliar to directors and presidents of these institutions, but policy holders were very much astonished by the revelation, The figures published yesterday showed that the life insurance companies alone had $135, 000,000 invested in real estate securities and the fire companies $12,000,000, To these snould be added the marine insurance and the trast companics and then a full idea of the situation may be obtained. The fol- lowing are the amounts igvested by the marive in- surance companies :— Real Estate Name of Company. Securities, Real Estate. Auantic Mutual . $1z $250,000 G 4 Western. . 20,000 — Union Mutual, 116,150 130,000 $380,000 trast companies are as follows Real Estate e Name of Company. Securities, Real Estate. Farmers’ Loan aad Truss Company... $22,500 _ i 031,273 $0,600 ‘Trust Company, 1,969,892 465,000 National... 56,000 on teal Estate, 445,710 123,596 800,000 TOUIS.....s00seseey creo +9 $5,800,074 $044,596 By uniting these figures with the totals of the in+ vestments of the hie aud fire insurance companies, as published in yesterday's Hekap, the following would be the recapitulation, reaching an amount at once startling and dangerous when tho great tall in real estate is considered :— RECAPITULS TION, Invested in Real Real Estate, Eutate Securities. Cost Value Life assurance companies. $121,311,729 $15,998,282 Fire insurance companies, . 1,404,281 Marine companies. . 380,000 ‘Trust companies, 944,096 Totals, +++ $188,362, 229 $16,817, loo Grand total. . ooo ee $165, 119,388 ‘This sum is invested by companies doing business in this city and chartered by tho State. Deducing the rato of loss from these assets of say twenty-live per cent, and the companies would have appeared to maintain a less of over $41,000,000. WHAT INSURANCE MEN SAY. A Heraup reporter conversed wiih several insurance men on the sabject yesterday. It is avery tender point, aud many poob-hooned the question, and re- marked, “It won't affect our compauy ; all our securi- Ues are worth more than we huve loaned upon them. ‘Then they view any publication of figures calculated to show their tinancml condition as an attack upon them, and it appears that many of the insurance papers attempt to obiain longer advertisements by threateving to expose the condition ol this or that company. One of tue directors of the Mutual company said that it all the corporations were as careful ag hts justrtution in inaking loans they would not lose anything, us they jouned not more than orty per cent of the real value of property and only on tirst mortgages. He believed that few of the companies were now lending « dollar ‘on real estate, In tact, lat- terly there was nothing apparently saf but Unitea States bonds, und the forthcoming report of the companies to the State Superintendent woula show an immense increase of investment in the ua- tional securities, THN DECLINE IN REAL ESTATE, The value of the vest class‘of rea! estate in this city has aec.ined, #0 reai estate agents say, over twenty- five per cent, while “speculative property” has de- clined in many instances over fifty per cent, This is particularly tue case with uptown, Central Park and Fitth avenue lots, Several insurance compauies hay- ing mortgages on which the property owners have de- faulted in the payment of premium, have offered the property for sule, and the amount did bas not been suflicient to cover the amount louned, so the companies have bid im the property and are waiting tor beiter times. ‘The strong companies claim that they can afford to walt botore attempting to realize on the securities, aud in this way they will stem the adverse current, Ex- actly where the property lies that the securities cover itis dificult to tell, The companies claun that not more than one-hall of it is im this city, and that in other parts of the Union real estate bas not undergone such a terrible decline as in New York, and theretore their investments are safer. TUK COMPANIES MAKE NO CiLANGR. One thing 1s certain. Tho insurance companics in preseating their lists of assets dv not make any allowance for the dechac. Prices put upon buildings in war times are still main- tained, and were it not so there would in many fustances be a sertous deficiency on the balance sheet, A short time since the Equitabie’s stockholders were feeling shaky in regard to the cost of the building on Broadway, and the effect of the decline in its value, The company proved, however, that the rent of the ollices made a good profit on the investment, so that the trouble did not extend. ‘Tho life insurance companies are far more safe from any public storm than the banks, A run upon the lacter institutions always reveals any weakness at once, but the former urganizations have time gud op- portunity to tide over a sexeon of mistortunes. THE RAILROAD WAR, THE POLICE PROTECT THE LABORERS AND THEN STOP THEM—AN APPEAL TO THE counts, The troubles connected with the Fourteenth Street Railroad «till continue. Early yesterday morning Superintendent Wallmg gent word to Captain Byrnes, of the Filteenth precinct, to protect Mr. Jacob Sharp im laying down the track on Fourteenth, street and arrest any person who attempted to interfere with the work, Men were-put on the road during the morning and continued to lay the track for the new extension all day unmolested, Super.ntendont Walling issued the order that he did to Captain Byrnes on account of the following injunction which was issued by Judgo Lawrence, of the Supreme Court:— The Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferty Ratiroad and the Coristopner and Tenth street Railroad vs, The Mayor, &c., and Central Cross Town Kailroad.—It ap- pearing satisfactory to me by the complaint in this ac- tion duly verified, and tho aifidavit of Jacob Sharp an- nexed thereto, tha sufficient ground exists for an tu- junction as prayed for in the complaint, and a written uudertaking having been given on the part ol plaintifs I Go herevy order as required by law, that the uclendants, each. and every ot them, aud all theitollicera, attorneys, servants, &c., and all other persons acting by the wathority of the defendants, or any or either of them and dil of them, aud ail police vtiivers of ibe city oi New York Ve aud they are bereby absolutely enjomned and re- straimed uolil the jurther order of this court trom in- terlering in any manver with the plaintitls ia the con- struction of the railroad track apd extension men- Voued in the complaint, and in chapter 199, of the Laws: Of 1873, and from domg why vet, matter or thing, oF taking any other procoedings, the effect or ten- dency of which may be to vbstract, binder, delay, manier interfere with the coustraction, maimtebance or operation of tue said raiiroad or extensions, and jet the defendants show cause at a jai term of this court, to be held at a the Couuty Court House, in the city of the tirat Monday of December, A. D., 18 o'clock noon, or as soon thercalter as coudsel can be Heard, why this Injunerion shail not be & ntinued dure thg the pendeucy of this action. . ABRAHAM R. LAWRENCE, Justice Supreme Court, Datev Novexper 27, 1876. The men employed by the railroad companies went on with their work until about balf-past six o'clock last evening, using a sirong caicium light to enable them to see when darkness had set in, About hall past five, however, Corporation Counsel Whitney, accompanied by His Honor Mayor Wickham, procecded to Judge Lawrence's house and obtaiucd a modification of the injunction which had been issued, ‘The jullowmng ts a copy of the modification; Surkemn Court, Oiiy or New York.--lhe Bleecker Street ana Fulton Perry Ratiroud and the Cross Town and Christopher Street Kailroad va. The Mayer, &e — That sad injunction, dated November 27, 1876, in nied, and upon such order and on motion by Will- mC, Woitney it is ordered that said mjanetion be and ig hereby modified by making same returnable on Ue 20th of November, 1876, ut halt-past cleven A, M., us 000 Lherealtor ws counsel can be heard, and that ‘ld iMjanction ordered be and is hereby moditied as foliow ey ot — wplaiotiis shall until the hearing and further order yuri, reirained from incerfermg with the sireet mentioned in complaint, and in chapter 199 in Laws of 8, wnd during said (erm refrained from constract+ ‘or attempting to consiruct the railroad tracks or ens.ous mentioned in said sk Le iu chapter 199 ‘Laws of 1873. ABRAHAM R. LAWRENCE, Justice Supreme Court. When this was obtained Captain Byrnes was notified of its issuance and instructed to compel the laborers to conse their work. A platoon of policomon wero sent to the scene of tho inbor and, the work was Nothing more can be dove in the ppears in the courts, A MURDEROUS AFERAY. Carl Wartgdorf!, an elderly we who keeps saloons at the corner of Park avenue and First t, Hobo. kon, was struck over the jeft eye on Saturday aight by ‘a glass thrown by Frank McCaftrey. He romainsin a very critical condition, The assailant was arrested by Police Officer Stuck and beld by Recorder Bobustedt in default of bail to await result, NOVEMBER 28, 1876.—IRIPLE SHEET, {| moval of Mr, Fowler. A CLEVER SHARPER. A JOURNALIST'S OBSEQUIES. THE EXPLOITS OF MR. ¥. A. ALEXANDER, 4 | YUNERAL OF DANIEL JOSEPH KIRWAN—THB PSEUDO GENTLEMAN OF PROPERTY—HIS TRICKS UION HOTELS, HACKMEN AND HOUSE- KEEPERS. At the close of last week a gentlemanly dressed per- son who was frequently seen tm hotel corridors and who for some time past has infested places of public resort disappeared {rom his reoms in the St. Nicholas Hotel. Very opportunely, too, was this step taken, as the managers of that establishment had just come to view him.with suspicion and to crave a settlement of his bill. However, when the hotel clerk souglit him with the intention of submitting his statement of in- debtedness and requiring the liquidation of the same, the gentlemanly boarder had vanished, leaving noth- ing but bia vvercoa’ to appease the wrath and satisfy the claims of bis creditors, Tbisarticle was held in hopes of ite owner returning in quest of it, but he had evidently scented the danger and was shy of ven- turing. Mr. E. A, Alexander was the name be wrote upon the register, and while inquiries were set on toot relative to his whereabouts there came various ladies to the hotel in quest of him, who, it appears, have been very adroitly victimized by the missing boarder, The story of one of them will suffice to expluin the modus operandi of thie gentlemanly knave, On Friday an advertisement appeared in the papers stating that a gentleman of property required the ser- vices of a housekeeper and those of a gardener aud his Wile, the latter to attend to the dairy, Unexception- able references were looked tor from applicants, and the same were to be turnished by the advertiser, In reply to this a respectable ledy, who was looking for the position of housekceper in some hotel or family, wrote, giving her references and soliciting an inter- view, The advertiser answered bor communication, iving his card—*E, A, Alexander, at the St, Nicholas Hotel’’—and promising to call aud eve if she was qualified for the position, On Saturday Mr, KE. A. Alexander appeared, faultlessly attired aud wearmg an overcoat of noticeably fine material and tashio: cut. He conversed with the appheaut, told her that he Was a gentleman of means, wus the ‘possessor of a fuecouniry residence and waxed eloquent in his de- scription of a conservatory, Which seemed to engross his uttention and which he ventured to say was the finest in all the country around. He also spoke of two Jitte chiidren of whom be was the futhor, and referred cusnally to the governess, who was an old lady of inapy endearing qualities and who was also the only person with Whom the honsekeeper would be brought in egntact, Every adaitional statement of Mr, Alex- ander seemed ‘to augment the desirability of the situation, and the applicant’ was very much gratitied to have such a proposition made to her, especlaliy ag the terms offered were ex- coedingly liberal. ‘To gain time tor deliberation, how- ever, she aid that she would not enter into aay agrec- ment until she was furnished with reliable reiercuces, At this Mr, Alexander assurea her that. he was widely acquainted in the city and bad a large circle of personal friends in the St, Nicholas Hotel, to any one of whom he could refer ber, Ts was calculated to satisly her, but she requested time to confer with her sister. Mr. Alexander accorded ber this on ¢ondition that she would communicate with bim before five o’clock on Saturday evening. Sbe consented to this arrangement, and, aiter submitting the proposition to her iniends, concluded to accept it, and telegraphed her acquicscence, ai the same tme inquiring how svon she wou'd be required to leave the city. To this he answered tbat he would leave at ten A. M. on Monday and wished ber to yo away with the gardener aod bis wite woom he had employed. He himself was toaccompasy them. On Sunday morning, how- over, Mr. Alexunder appeared at the home of the ap- pheant and said that the storm would be ikely to rum lus conservatory and she must get ready to leave with hem that afternoon. She demurred a little at this, but finally agreed to it, amd about four o’elock Mr, Alexander drove upto the doorin a carriage, He had not bis overcoat on bim now, and she remembered that at bis moruing call that part of his apparel was missing, although the rain made it a very desirabie gurment at the time. She forebore, however, to draw uny deductions from this shedding raiment on the part of Aiexander, and prepared to actompaty hin to the Grand Cencral depot, where he said the garconer and nis wife wero awaiting them. ‘The curriage drove away, and the lady, who is not familiar with the streets, was unable to notice what direction it took, The rain was coming down fast, too, aud when they reached a@ large white building, which he said was the depot, she wus unable to assure hersell whether 1 was or not, When the carriage drew up Mr. Alexander alighted and turning to hor inquired if she had any small change. She was surprised at such a question, but almost involuntarily taking out her pocketbook she saidsbe had a little and asked how mach be wanted and what it was for. Witha quick movemout Alexander snatched the pocketbook trom her hand, atthe samo time saying:—‘Ob, I'm only going to buy your railroad ticket. I’li pat it in this and return it to you, as I have to look atter the baggage.” As ho spoke he turned around und entered the building. The _ lad, though surprised at tho — excessively blu manners and pecuhar conduct of her employer, did uot at first suspect his intentions, but as ii |, and he fatied to return, she became anxious and called the car- Triage driver. Grand Central depot?” she asked. uch,” returned the driver, “This the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Twenty-third strect entrance, hint § js that gentleman friend of yours going to ‘wait ?” “He went into buy mea railroad ticket,” she said, ‘Don’t you know him ¥”” “Know him! How would I know him? He engaged mein front of the hotel over an hour ago, and he hasn’t given me a cent yet,” Inquiries were then set on foot, and it was found that Mr. Aiexander, whose taco was familiar to the door boy of the hotel, hud entered from ‘'wenty-third street aod nurried out through the Broadway entran: leaving the duped cabman and the victimized hou keeper to wait for bim in vain, The latter yesterday went 10 the S&L Nicholas Hotel to inquire aboat Alex- ander, and there she encountered five other tadies who had been victimized as she bad on the came day and in the same manner. The hotel clerk looked grimly at the empty overcoat on the rack and felt that the St- Niéhoias might also be regarded asa portion of the sharper’s prey, The gentiemanly Mr. Alexander 1s bow mach cought alter by the police, COMMISSIONER FOWLER ACQUITTED, THE TRIAL CONCLUDED BEFORE THE BROOKLYN COMMON COUNCIL—-HE DID NOT DISOBEY THE Law, NO DID HE CONSPIRE WITH THE RESERVOIR CONTRACTORS—THE VOTE, The trial of Commisgiouer William A. Fowler, who was suspended September 5, 1876, by Mayor Schroeder, asa member of the Board of City Works, on charge of non-teasance in office, ended yesterday. The wrial of the case has occupied seventeen days, and a vast amount of testimony has been taken showing the con- nection of the Commissioner with, the construction ot the $1,400,000 siorage reservoir at Hempstead, The presecation has labored to show that thero was no necessity for the reservoir at all; that there was collosion between defendant and the contractors, W. C. Kingsley and A. C, Keeney ; that preper competition was not invited for bids for the work, and tuat the amount paid for excavation on the reservoit was exeessive. The defence was a gen- eral denial, The eost of the somewhat unusual trial bas been large, tesumony beg taken verbatim and printed in jul, It would require a two-thirds vote of tue Common Council to remove the suspected Vom- missioner, WOO 18 a demvcrat, and as the republicans have a majority of four members in the present Board, which consists of twenty-four Aldermen, no little party teeing has been awakened pending the foal result, For a jong while the republicans expressed contidence in their ability to secure upon the evideuce which they promised to produce a suiliciout number of democratic votes to effect the re- Tt will be observed, however, that the minority party was remforeed trom the m: Jorily, that the suspended official was reinstated by the vote ol the Aldermen. President French called the meeting to order, when Alderman Burnet moved to divide the two general charges on which the case1s based, avd that eacn Alderman give bis reasons for bis vote, Carried. Toe Cler« then re ‘Charge First. I charge that the sad William A. Fowler nas been guilty of non- teasance in offic persistently reiusing to obey the directions of th mmon Council, when he was re- quired to obey the same by law.” Alderman Burnet reviewed the chai at length, and said that he did not fod the wet of the respondent in regard to the resolution of the Common Council thus fur culpable, Tho respondent “was not permit. ted, by his suspension beture the Order Was entered and the mandaius granted, to either comply with or disovey the ortier uf the Supreme Court.” Alderman Rowley said that ne held the chargo is proven, and sv voted. Alderman Arbot voted not proven and Alderman Martha the sumo way, Alderman Gutiaer voted not proven. Aldermun Griswold, proven; Alderman Don- ovan, not proven; Alderman Ray voted proven; Al- derman Reardon, sot proven; Aldermen Parker and Acker Voted proven; Aldermen Cottrell, Guthrie aud Jenpison, not proven; Aldermen Williams, French, Fisher, Sigrist and Hili voted proven. The Clerk announced the vote on the first charge— Proven, 10; not proven, 13; Aldermen Burnet, Arnott avd Cotirei, three republicans, voting with the mi- nority. ' ‘The question as to the second charge was then pat. The charge was “that said Wiliam A. Powter has dis+ oveyed the directions of the Common Council for the purpose of benetitvag Wilhain G, King eg Abner ©. Keeney to the injury of the eity.”? ‘eral of the oe ay Again explained be votes, the result bemg—Proven, 10; wot proven, 1 Aiwerman FFitz, who bad been absent when the vote Was taken on the first chargé, was given permission 10 be recorded as havi recorded as having voted “proven. we Aldermen Acker the democrats on the taster © ae sident bi h a we charges not in woven the case 1 ‘o uynouuessens fas received with upplause, and Commissioner Fowier was mgm» 8 frienus, bia. He will re- ume his duties in tue Doaraot City Works vo-morrow, SERVICES AT ST. JOSEPH'S. The life of tne journalist—the worker on the daily Press—is passed in the full blaze of public events, witD the glare Dut rarely falling upon his entity. He it part of everything which arrests public attention, but is seen of the world only by deputy—through the lines he writes. Few who read the thrilling stories, the humorous or pathetic incidents of the times, the Tough campaign, the political feud, the great crime or the great good deed, pause to picture the patient man with pen or pencil sitting down to body them forth. He is hidden, with few exceptions, behind bis work, and aims so to hide himself. But he moves upon his mission through the world with # Drisk subs‘antiality; he touches fingers with the highest and lowest of humanity, and somewhere or other he hes an anchorage in society where be is known not the writer but the man. He is to the world at large an influence, a sound, the vibration of @ string, over which the wind of time passes, drawig many delicate shades of tone, Whi ‘uch a worker passes away the brief obituary notice tells the story of a snapped string. Its music has ceased, but in the unbroken tumult of the harps that fact ja scarce moted, Around the journalist’s bier the mourners are often few, The little home circle he was loved in and & sprinkling of the craft say farewell and he ia forgotten. Stat nomi- nis umbra. If to the tolling of bis passing bell could gather all whom he has seen face to face, shaken by tho hand and brought belore the world, what a follow. ing he would bave! It isaspecial delight to picture the poet, the dramatist or the novelist surrounded by the weird, the beautiful and the odd creatures of his imagination; but the muster of real men an women whom the journalist bas made famous in telling their Stories would form an interesting spectacle, In the unpretending church of St. Joseph, in this city, there gathered yesterday a congrogation of mourners at the mortuary services over the body of a young reporter, Daniel Joseph Kirwan, which almost realized this idea, His brilliant reportorial pen had ottener been dipped in the miik of human kindness than in gail, As ‘Dan’ was beloved in the profession so “Kirwan” was widely esteemod out of i, There was something of native kindliness in the man whicb fixed his pleasant face in men’s minds. Those whom he professionally met on the heights of society and down through ite facile descents tothe very val- leys of sin and shame seem to have felt as if they had known him for years and that they would be giad to know him again, Hence, when the high priest, in his sombre robes of black and gilver, turned from the altar to whe catafalqae reon the flower. laden coffin’ rested to 1 @ prayer, he looked down the Diack draped church upon a@ full congregation, which was quict, sedate and sad, but composed of strangely heterogencous, elo. ments. The mass was intoned; the celebrant priest paid an eloquent tribute to the man that was; the last prayers were chanted, and while the curling fumes of incense floated gently on the air the mourners passed slowly up the aisle to look their last upon tho dead. There were tears, real teurs, for a dead reporter shed vy men of hard natures and bard professions, and sighs and pityiug monosyilables from men of higher, gentler natures and cultured pursuits, It was only the coffla of a young reporter of thirty-three years, who had started in life a poor boy, with a limited stock of learning, who, by sheer study and a force of character not always exerted to the full, that the men of so many dispositions and callings passed by with lin- geripg step and dimmed eyes. There were fully a hundred of bis profossional brethren in the throng who need no chronicle here, but in tue other hundreds were men whom no one knew or cared to know, but who came to thank the dead with a pitying glance, for some ser vice which bad passed for months or years perhaps out of the memory of him who renderedit, Well known faces were recognized, The acts of the reporter’s career wore typified in them. They came by, as his life went, in every variety of social standing. Among them were 8. L. M. Barlow, telling of legal battles and great rail- road schemes, P, 8, Gilmore, telling of the blare of orchestral marches; ex-Congressman William R. Rob- erts, telling of the statesman’s wordy battles with ap echo of Fenian raids; Joe Tooker, recalling pictures of Assyrian ballets and stage effect; Justice Kasmire and Police Clerk Finley, bringing manifold visions of t little dramas of the courts; Harry Hitl and Billy wards, with reminiscences of the ‘fancy’? stripped and panting mn the fistic ring; Captain Kennedy, with the visibie terrors of the law to evil-doers; Major Haggerty, with the last apt campaign anecdote fallen dead upon his hps; Edward Stokes, with the shadow of three prisons, a feurful tragedy and a lovely wom: behind him, now woeping for ‘Dan’? as he never wept for himselt; Eugene Durnin, recalling od Tam- many and the merry Americus ¢ ui days; Ed. Don- nelly, a personification of new Tammany and. retor: Mayor’s Marshal, Johu Tyler Kelly, representing th poiential official; Philip McDowell, ex-City Hall clock winder; Alderman John Retliy, the incarnation of ward politics; Denis O’Donobue, the young man of social city life; ex-Assemblyman Peter Trainor, of hard political strivings up at Albony; Commissioner Brennai gressing; Thowas Pittman, Denis Spellissoy and Jo- seph Stiner, three young Jawyers of different father- lands, and so on through almost every walk of life that is known and many that are unknown. It was touching and suggestive tribute. The coffin was borne down the aisle preceded by the pallbearers, with the tall and stalwart forms of Colonel Roberts and Joseph Elidtt, the ove brown and the other snowy bearded, at their head, and with the lorn relatives zollowing those who bore the dead. There ‘was scarcely a dry eye within the sacred edilice. The funeral procession moved away headed by fifty of the deaa journalist’s fellow craftsmen marching two and two to Waverley place, where the ranks were di- vided and the last salute of uncovered heads was giver to him who had gone to fil! his last ‘‘aetail.”” ‘The remains were interred in Calvary Cemetory. The following were the pallbearers:—William R, Roberts, Joseph Ethott, Jobn A. Green, William H. Stiner, Thomas Robinson, F. F. Millen, J. B, Fisher and Harry MacDona, THE DOUBLENESS OF THE BRAIN. Dr. T. S. Lambert lectured at Steinway Hall yeater- day afternoon before a limited number of the Toach- ors’ Association on the ‘Doubleoess of the Brain.” The subject, said the lecturer, was the most interest- jog and valuable to teachers that could be brouybt bo- fore them. Wo find trom necessity that our brains must be dual. It does not matter whether the mind the activity of the brain, or whother it acts of its owa volition it is all the saine; its duality remains, Should the machinery of the right brain be paralyzed its func- tions would be performed by the left brain 1 every essential respect. Thore should be two head centres to controi us, We have two eyes and why not twa brains? The brain.that 1 used in the proper way de velopes very rapidly, and when it does not receive the Tight treatment it remains dwarfed and inferior, Di Lambert dwolt at iength upon bis new realm of funce tions, a8 shown in his chart of systematic physiology, anatomy and hygiene. His reference to gangliati and nervation—that ts, the activity of the ganglia and nerve: attended by consciousness or not—was lis- to with great ae, The nutrition t to gangha. for their changes, acts oF tanetons, sone of wi are attended with jusness in its various forms of conscio sensation, emotion, intellection and volition, aiso re ceived attention. i education of the brains was then retersed to. Derves aro set across the brains, but aro not & ut One or the other of the brains, tight or left, can be used at leisure, The i. witl tend to develop the right braim, of the might hand will cultivate the left brain. the of the right or leit foot. Mol kinds ot ly bray 1a : thea ane te. ers were told to cat enough, to cat oy Ti daigest, “As brains lier, so desomeche. Kec should select food adaptéd to himself. tich. aro to be sought. Oysters, sardi when liked, are excellent brain (ood. lobsters, is tt and Oaumne advan jus of the grain toods, and brotled beef- ete \Tonsubee! ft ore, ‘oxecllent and co prulermnerer stages and ‘The practical hints of the leccurer embraced mauy vainable points. A BAD HUSBAND AND SON. Joun J. Kuppler, a saloon proprietur on the Paterson plank road, North Bergen, N. J., has disappeared, - leaving bis wife and chilaren in destitnte circum stances, He is believed 10 have been accompanied j= his flight by a woman namea Lucy Brown, with whom he bad become infatuated, and on whom he spent s large amount of money, Betore Kuppler raa anay he juced bis ayed tather to mortguge hie property and Jena him the proceeds. The wi Kas BY Joreciveed and the oid man rendered UD» pier leaves bebind bia debte amouating to several qt

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