The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1877, Page 3

«Mt. Dis Away the Wreck. mal Work of Clearing THRER ADDITIONAL BODIES RECOVERED imony Taken Before the ithe Test \ Coroner's Jury. { a ‘ ORY OF THE CONDUCTOR AND BRAKEMAN gers on the Train. A HISTORY OF THE FATAL BRIDGE. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. } AsHTABULA, Ohio, Dec, 3, 1876. At an early hour this morning the wrecking party, gounisting of some 200 men, resumed its labors. The gcene of the wreck presents an appearance of the most utter desolation, the piers of masonry looming upon either side of the chasm like giant sentries, alike ‘watchiul and Indifferent to the utter ruin at their base, Pho cold blasts whistle through the valloy, making @ fit requiem to the souls so unceremomousiy hurled to eternity, and the snow falling !ucessantly covers every- thing like @ pall, The picture is dismal in the extreme; even the workers seem imbued with the dread solem- Bity, and but little noise and less confusion attend the labors, CONDITION OF THR WRECK. The wreck is a mass of tangled, broken tron, many of tho heavy girders of the bridge twisted into tho most grotesque forms. So heavy was the fall that the mass lies fattened on tbe suriace, but partially sub- merged inthe shallow creek. Scarcely a remnant of the wood work remained, the flames baving done their work of destruction completely It 18 currently re- ported here that althougt the Fire Department, consist- ing of one jteamer and two hand engines, was promptly on hand md ready to play on tho burning wreck, the railroid officials issued orders forbidding them to do so, Thitis absolutely denied by the officials, but the facttheé no water was thrown and that pumerous respectable citizens assert that they saw people m the bunming coaches who might have ven saved had \be fire been put out must need some fur- ther explapition.. The work of clearing away the débris is of Picessity slow, owing to its tangled nature One Hundred and Thirty-eight Passen- ; at one minute after Ove; ot Buffalo he had 160 passen- gers, distribated in the train as follows:— In the smoking car, forty-two; in the first coach, thirty-two; in the second coach, thirty- nine; in the drawing room car, nine; in she first Chi- cago sleeping car, sixteen; in the second, eighteen, and in the Louisville sleeping car, four. There w: very few ebildren on the train, As far as he knew the employés on the train re three porters, two Drakemen, one sleeping car conductor, one express messenger and one newsboy. THE NUMBER OF PASSKNGRRS. Here followed a series of questions as to the number of passengers who got on and off at the various sta- tions, the answers to which were based upon the tick- ets still held by the conductor, the result of which would indicate that at the time of the accident, there were 138 passengers on the train, exclusive of those who got on weat of Buffalo, destined for points west of Cleveland, and those who may have held return tickets, Of the number of these no report can bo made, No count was made after leaving Buffalo, but after figuring it up, previous to coming belore the jury, the ‘Witness had concluded that there were from 127 to 131 Passengers on the train at the time of the accident, ex- clusive of children; un ordinary coach will hold from fifty-eight to sixty passengers, and none of the coaches Were filled; after leaving Girard witness thought there wore from twenty-tive to thirty in the first coach, abont twenty-five in the second and fifteen or eighteen in the smoker; ho did not go into the sleeper or palace cur after Jeaving Girard; be had never said there were 400 passengers on the train; he had never hvard any ono say the bri was unsafe; knew nothing about it; had never heard that orders were issued not to throw water onthe burning wreck; tho train was Tunning at the rate of about ten miles per hour at the time of the accident, and possibly even slower. The balance of Mr. Heun’s testimony 18 made up-of his personal experience, which is of but little momens, He says the fre broke out almost immediately after the accident, This closed the examination for the day, and the inquest was adjourned until Monday at nine A. M. BODIES RECOVERED. , OF rather fragmente, have been re- although the wrecking party, uuder the efficient and experienced direction of train de spateher Stager, have labored incessantly and bravely through the storm, HISTORY OF THX BRIDGE, ‘The following tacts in relation to the bridge have been gathered from a thoroughly reliable source, and may be regarded as scmi-official. Kleven years ago tho bridge was built, the original pians being furnished by Jon Towlinson, of Canada, who is now director o¢ | Canadian lighthouses. On submitting tho planus Mr. Amusa Stone, then president of the road, insisted upon some material changes in the plans, to which Mr, Towlinson strenuously objec ted, and the discussion on this point grew quite warm, Mr. Towlinson finally declaring he could not hold himself responsible if the proposed changes were insisted upon. The bridge was erected on the modified plans, and when nearly com- pleted it was found that the structure was too short to span the space between the piers, and for three months the work remained untouched, At the end of that time of the Ikige number of bodies yet to be recov- | the bridge was completed. It was built in the ered. ‘BOw!4*, if any, can be reached until this 13 all | car sbops of the company. Numbers o cleared aw: About nine o’clock the body of George | citizens of this place assert that Mr. Collins, the chief the United States Express messenger, d readily identified, he had evi. death by the {all and was but slightly eight house, which has been converted into « morgd&Pas been visited by many who have en- deavored to digpover in the hideous niasses of bluck- encd matter sore mark whereby to identity friend or acquaintance. PRIRAADS OF THE VICTIMS ARRIVING, Intenso expMtement prevails, and scores of persons have arrive-t here from the Kast and West in search of Ymormation regarding missing triends, but little satis- action can be given them, Telegrams are also being constantly received asking for news of absent ones, The voxes in the freight house containing the bodies were numbered to-day and white paper labels placed on those that have been identified, ‘Thete are thirty- six bodies, or masses of charrod and blaxened flesh, 4p the building. Of these the following tre supposed to be identified: — BODIES IDENTIFIED, Mrs. B. Cook, Wellington, Maggie L. Lewis, St. Louts, Mo. Lucy U. Thomas, Buffaty, N.Y. Mrs, G, &. Palmet, Binghamton, Ysanc Meyer, Cleveland, Onto. Urdie Meyer, Cleveland, Ohio, 1D, Waite, Buttalo, N.Y. Chrence Gage, Charluston, Li. MY, Coggswell, Chicago, L. ¥. fart, Akron. Dr. 4, H, Washburn, Clovelang, L, J. Marnard, rector of Grace Butlaio, Noy, Miss Minn Mixer, Buflalo. ently met bruised, 1! \ \ f Mrs, George, matron of Hurou Street Hospital, Cleve- tond. ‘i Mattie George, Meveland. George A, Parrington, expres John Pickering, Cheago. Wiiliam Clemens, Bajevue, O1 ‘THE CORONER'S IN Ata late hour last nighv kK. W. essenger, Buffalo, ST. lows:—H_ 1, Waterson, G. W. Die Mon, H, 41. Perry, Dwight Faulkner, £, G. Perce aly, A, Pettibone. ‘The Jury were duly swe 11, and, mits for the renoyal of $Wo or thr been identified, adjourned to meet y Morning. ‘the jury express a deterthation to inves. tigate the matier thoroughly ana to {i feature of tho disaster, with a view t qwhole truth, Thi THE STOVY OF A BRAKEMA At two o’clock the jury convened {mmediately to the examination of wibssex A. 1, dag was tho first witness caliod. He des in Rip: ley, N. ¢., and wasa brakeman on ray at the bine of the accident, He testified in subance as fol jows:—The train was made up 0¢ four bag < press cars, two coaches, one smnokef,' tha proceeded mes bron outon all sido; the witness immed, Btcly ran to the telegraph office and telegraphed vat i Ways, fonring that atrain which wag following thorn, Might suffer the same us the ill-fated train; ne thé Fevurned to the wreck and gave all the assistance bi Could; all who were in the car he was in wore _ Saved except the porter, who was killed, 3rhe train at the time was running at about the rate ofiwelve miles in hour, which was probably somewhat faster than wey usnully cross the bridge; he could state the num- FOl passengers on the train from hav og seen the Onductor’s report; all of the cars we heated with faker’s patent heaters, using hard Coul, except the moking car, in which there were two vood stoves; he ail ho idea of the wumber of childre. on the train, here were but nine passengers in 4 drawing room r, Lt required four engines te éthe train out of Fie, On account of the snow. . | Lar witness was in ok fico in tho rear end, in the vicinity of heater; witness could ot testify as to ¢ relative position of the vrecked cars; there re about thirty passengers in the two ‘ago sleepers. The rale observed in reporting the nber of passengers one y train 8 to report the vest Dutaber oo board at any one time, and the luctor's report would not show the number on atthe time of tbe accident; the report tor this Owl been made at Budalo; when witness returnod He wreck the fire bad gained such headway that it Mupossible to save any one from the ruts, H TRSTIMONY OF THE CONDUCTOR, | tnbardt Henn, the conductoi fr valied, wr, t ir of tho train, was Henn testified that the train lett Erie Episcopal chure’, hards, a justice of the peace, acting as coroner, sudfipned a jury as tol- No, 254 terday of No, prisonel time | Sixth engineer of the company, bas on several occasions stated that he did not consider the bridgo a safe one, and had protested against Its erection at the timo ot its construction, Upon the other hand Mr. Collins states that he bas considered tt ono of the finest bridge struc. tures in America. REPLACING THR BRIDGE. The Howe wooden truss bridge, but recently con, structed to span Wilson avenue in Cleveland, will bo brought here, as, with few alterations, it will fit this span. Itis hoped to bave this in place within three or tour days, In the meantime passengers will be transferred around the break, and freight will be carried around by way of Jamestown to Girard and thence East, SENSATIONAL STORIES DENIED. The officers of the road now here deny in toto the reported sending of orders not to allow the Fire De- partinent to throw water onthe burning cara, No orders that could possibly be construed in that way wore issued from the superintendents of auy of the departments, On the contrary, orders were tesued to do everything, that could conduce to the safety and comfort of all, and the officers themselves pro.eccdcd immediately to the scene of the wreck. . THK TRAINS. The regular daily trains are running, but with cons siderable irregularity, owing to the storm and snow. i REVORT OF THR WOUNDED AXD MISSING. The wreck has been so farcicared away that it is | expected that all remains will be recovered to-morrow Jndson Martin, of East Avon, N. Y., and his two chil- dren, reported missing, have been discovered in a pri- vate house, Mr. Martin hag bis ribs broken and the hildren are badly but not dangerous bruised. The two children of P. P. Bliss, of Chicago, reported issing, are, it has been ascertained, safe in Rome, Y. Mr. Bliss and his wife were killed. r. Hewitt, of Bridgeport, Conn., ia reported in a a the night these exceptions the wounded are doing well. ne of the bodies recovered to-day there was found atmemorandum bill of rubber goods purchased in New York without the namo of the buyer. A query by wire elicited a reply te the effect that Robert Steindal, « New York, had purchased such a bill and that Steincal was en route {or Cleveland, Livenbroy the fireman on tho engine that went down, died trom thy effects of his wounds to-day at his home in Cleveland, UNFOUNDED SUSPICION OF POISON. A rumor has been aioat at Great Neck, town of Norh Hempstead, that Jonu Burke, (or a number of years # sesident of that piace, had caused the death of by administering poison yo her. The circum, p 3, a8 disclosed by an tnquest held by Coroner RcKee, assisted by Vr, Hoag, of Manhasset, are as follows :—Burke and his wife had been living together id threo sleepers, in tho order given ‘i Since last summer ib anew house built by him on a ere attached to the train; the employs Wovengines | road leading to the steamboat landing. Uno Tues- "Tawi ; pioveS\, the train, | day of iast week he arose early and prepared pes far as he knew, were Daniel McGuire, Cleveland, | $9 take the boat for New York, leaving mgineer; Folsom, of Cleveland, engine, pyiip | Ms, wile tu bed. aceict, feady to start be called Neal! ¥ f vig et i to his wife to come down and lock the door after him, ‘ay gine © master; Barnard Henn); Buflalo, | when she answered that she did not feel well, and ne Bouductor; ‘am Vosburg, of Buffuio, -st brake: | could lock the door trom the outsidé and put the key Ran; AL. Stone, rear brakeman, and Chahyy Kune, | 12 at one ppg AL Lani which he did, On bis re- " ¥ » | turn trom New York tn the evening ho found the door oy of the palace car; the train lett Brie bout giz | Jocked und: tho key in the piece where hes pat it. . M.; thinks there were about 160 PASSCNES, on the | Eutering, he saw that everything was just as he had Grain when it left Kerio, | left it, He called UT Aa Y several times and re- J coived no answer, when ho went up stairs and found THM ACOIDENT. her iymg dewd onthe bed, Anexamination of tho At the timo of the accident witness was in th, for. | brain 4 Dr, Hoag revealed the presen of a consia- ‘Ward stateroom of the car; two Indies, one gent man erable quantity of Water, and the jury returned a ver- E And the porter wore in tho car at the time; MAS few | “i tne rans nee death by congestion ‘was one of the Indies; did not know the other o mere y" rE we frst felt ajar and kuew at once that the train Ww, nip ROW IN A LIQUOR STORE. ,Ahe track, and was conscious that the car was 4 ing }oop at Sieh choneret-atstie, 1 down through Ashtabula Bridgo; he got out throusy hide ally or Sicate i fi Thicars she Window: the wreck was a mass of broken timboy, | Of Henry Everest, No. We 10ibiOaee aeale Mite bine tab ainetes, orice %, | day morning, James*Wild, of No, 1,065 Gates avona after he escaped tho | wag struck on tae head with a chatr by Hugh Koy, No, 84 Stockholm street The accused was held to au. ‘The wound ts not dangerous. PATROLMAN, Dennis Roun, aged twenty-one years, was taken into [| custody yesterday at No. 493 Bultic street, Brooklyn, on the charge of having been engaged in the ault committed on Patrolman William Savage, of the Tenth recinet, on the night of Novemver 7. Three men— ane, Murtagh and McCann—aro at present undergo- ing a sentence of three months’ imprisonment for tho jane offence. ASSAULTING A HAMING “THE FINEST POLICE,” &0, Rome time ago Joseph Joyce, of No. 71 Henry eet, @ newsboy, was struck on the head with tone, irom the effects of which he died seven days ward, Betore his death Joseph told his brother ju thata boy named William Cronin, id geven- bad struck the fatal blow. The police d to arrest Cronin, but on Saturday evening, us ho rough Centre streei, he was met and Jobn Joyce and Daniel Keating, both boy: jekly cotlarea bim and marched him to the MMation house. Yesterday he was taken before the Justyee at the Tombs Police Court, who handed him or o tl justody of the Coroner. AND POWDER, at a att Jo! tee fail was| WHISKEY jeyers, aged twouty-three years, residing at ushwick avenue, Brooklyn, was arrested ye: rhing lor attempting to shootJames Ryan, Ellery strect, while on Broadway, The ho was under the influence of liquor at the mitted the assault, was jocked up tn the clact station house to await examination, He he a NEW YORK HERALD, MOND LIFE INSURANCE. Continental Receiver. TERRIBLE CHARGES OF FRAUD. A Receiver Asked for the Phcenix Mutual Life, pial 2 ES Anow suit is about to be commenced in the Su- preme Court, in which Albert Grant is the plaintiff’ and the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Con- tinental Life Iusurance Company, Luthor W. Frost, John J, Anderson and John 0, Hoyt tho defendants Benjamin F. Butler is of plaintiff’s counsel, und Amos G. Hullis bis attorney. Action against the Conti- mental will be commenced before Judge Davis to-mor- row with a motion to restrain the present Continental receiver from further action until che suit tor his re- moval be decided, The chargesin the complaint and the two aflidavits appended below are of the most injurious character, and Mr, Butler is said to have de, Slared that if one-quarter of them could be proven it would send all the guilty defendants to State Prison:— THE COMPLAINT, The plaintiT alleges in his complaint that on the 29th day of september, 1871, the Continental Lite In. | surance Company issued on bis life two poticts for $10,000, which in the sume year were assignea by the plaintif! tothe Phasnix Mutual Lite Lnsurance Com- Pavy as collateral security for the payment of tour Promissory notes of $10,000, ‘These notes have since been paid, whereby tue plaintif’ has become en- tiled to a reassigumont vi the pulicics, which the Phanix Company has retused to make. He alleges that at the time of the assignment of the polices to the Phoenix, that company, for a yasuable conside: a Promised to pay ali premiums that might become w ou said policies until reassigned to plaintilt, ana this fact was understood by the Continental,’ ‘the plaintifl further says, on information and belief, that About the time of the wegotiations for the sale of the Phomix Mutual Life lusurance Company, heremafter relerted to, tbe two policies aloresaid were by iraudu- lent conspiracy and collusion between the two de- fendanis, the said insurance companies, attempted to bo rendered void, without the knowledge or fault of the plaiutif and without ary notice to him that any | Premium was due,.or about to become due, when ih fuct ho premium on either of said policies was due or Unpaid, but on the contrary the annual premium due September 1875, had been actually puid, and the two insurance companies unuulled ‘and cancelied the payment for the purpose of having Said policies lapse, and thereby defrauding the | plaintiff, The plaintif’ is informed and believes that | the Phasnix actually did pay its co-detendant, the Cou- tinental, the said premiums; but that it was afterward | Agreed between the two that the payments should be | deemed cancviled tor the purpose of lapsing the cou- | tracts, That the umount of premiums already paid on | Said policies 1s over $3,680, THK CONTINENTAL STRATEGY. The plaintiff says on information and beliof, and charges the fact to be thut the defendant, tbe Con- | Vinental Lite lusurance Company, has contracied with the Southern Lite losurance Company, of Memphis, | for the wholesale reinsurance by said Southern Life | Insurance Company, of Memphis, of a large | number of the policies issued = by — aid | Continental in the Southern States, and that | it 18 the Intention of the said defendant, the Continental Lite Insurance Company, to reissue all its risks ip other companies from time to time and then gradually retire from business, alter having converted vo the use of its stockholders and officers all iis reserve assets and other junds required by law to be held for the protection of policy-holders; that a large number ‘of said policies issued by the deiendant—the Continen- tul Lite Insurance Compauy—have ‘already been reis sued by the Southern, which iast mentioned company bas recently gone into bankruptcy or taken stops for that purpose, The pimintifl avers that said company has not made true and correct -reports to the State Department; that for the ten years of its existence there appears an unexplained deticit in its assets of $537,086 43. THR MEANING OF “CASH IN BANK.” Plaintiff says on information and beiief, Toport of the Continental made cn tho 31stot December, 1875, was a and fictitious report in the following particular:—The item desigaated “cash deposited in bauk,’” $450,977 41, was made up as follows :-—The Vres- ident of said company, L. W. Frost, on the Slet day of December, 1875, went to the Loaners’ Bank, an insti- tution then existing im the city of New York, of whic! suid President and several other oilicers of the Conti- hentai were the principal owners, and then aad there deposited, in behalf of the said Con! menial Life Insur- anco Company, his own checks im banks in which he had no accounts, and deposited otuer pretended se- curities and caused the saiue to be piaced on the books of the suid Loaners’ Bank to the credit of the Conti- nentel, and on the following Monday, which was the third day after he had sworn to said report, withdrow All ot sald protended securities trom sald Loauers! Bunk. that the DECEIVING THR POLICY-HOLDERS. Plaintiff says that said Continental Company eon- cedes and adinite that on the 1st day of January, 1876, it had ou(standing tusurance amounting to $51,179, 2: the reserve required on whieh would be $5,323,77 that said compauy reported such sum of money as “net reinsurance reserve; that such report was lalse and fictitious and calculated to decetve the policy holders; that the said company bad no such reserve fund nor one-half of it; that the said company has wrougtully and fraudciently attempted to place its ag- ots beyond the reach of the policy-bolders; that, for the purpose of vuding, It traud= wlently combined and unlawlully conspired with defendants, «Luther W. and John J. Anderson, to have a judgment entered against said company by default, aud to bave a receiver appomted with a view ol getting possession of the assets of and sellmg the suine far below their rea! value to their friends and favorites and dividing the proceeds among themselves, That such judg- ment was obtained by deiault and by traud and eoliu- sion; that, notwithstanding reported asseta on De- cember 31, 1 of over $6,000,000, the said defend. auts, Frost aud Hoyt, so managed us to have the de. fendant Anderson give bonds as receiver in the sum of only $200,000, und the deiendant Frost, became ove of the sureties in sud bond, The plamtir says on information and belief that Frost while acting as president, converted to his own use more than $200,000 of the policy-boiders? fands; that the Conti. neptal bas recently threatened and now threatens to reinsure its policies 1m the New Jersey Mutual, the eflect of which 18 prejudicial to piaiutitt’s interest aud destructive of the sume; that the character and rep: tation of Joba J, Anderson as a business man is such as to render him a very improper and unsafe person to act as the receiver of the Continental assets, and that his appointment was fraudulently procu Whereiore the piaintifl prays that a ree appointed for the Phanix Mutual Life Insurance Com- poy, and that John J. Anderson be removed irom the ofiice of receiver of the Contivental; that Luther W. Frost be adjudged to vay over all 10 gully trom the Continental; that ali having control of satd Continental Lite Inga Company at the time of its dissolution be resin from meddling or interfering with (ne assets; that a receiver be appointed in the place of Johu J, Anderson, | to whom Anderson shail account tor all the property of the company which came into his possession, A REMARKABLY AFYIDAVIT, City and County of New York:--Albett Grant, betne duiy) sworn, says he “is plaintiff in the above en- titled action, that he hay two polices of insuran upon bis lite in the Continental Lite Insurance Compan one of the above named defendants, which polleies wre fully set forth and described in the piaintiQ’s compinint, lereunre annexe Deponent further says that on the wth day oi Septomber, | 1B71, the day said policies we te issued, he paid to the sald | Jontinental Life Insurauce Company the premiuai due on for the year next ensuing, amonnti jo the | 60, That subsequently and on or xbout the | of November, 1871, deponent aasizned said policies to | defendant, the | Phenix Mutual lateral for payment | obtained by deponent from the said Wh 1 the ps pany and thal icies were fully pald up to September 9, 1 nen "i j ponent further says that on or about the JUth day of Decem. | ber, 1876, he called at the offies of the Constnental Life | juranee Company, im this city, in ¢ mpany with his xttorney, and was intorn eorge W. Urotut, an ein: Dloye in charge of the bi of said coupany, that said Pollvies tind | pred on account of the noa.payment of the premium due thereon on the 2! ¥ of September pro- + Cri Deponent the: rofut to reter vompany and ascertain the amount of i been paid on said jules, thi aid fut did reler to the books, as requested, at there lad n only four yours vouting to about the suin of $2,000, Jopstios.—Deponent th that he Kuew the premiums liad been M siid policies, aad asked if there lad wot been and nae tween the jendants, thi 1 any. and the C porinit Raid poll tes t ‘That Croft leading question and uld ! deponent then told the gaid George Crofut that he had been intormed that the officers of the Phomix Mutual Life Insuraggs Company hud offered to sell OF reiksure said company In the Continental Lile | Bee and that nexotintions were then penalug to this purpose. He repied, “They have oflered it y rotten we would not says that lo im- and eailed upon Continental Life In- mbia, to whom the been ‘paid, and ob premiums on suid policies had al tained from hity the folowing lette Wasit Captain A. Grant:— 7 ly to your inquiry tn re Continental Lite Insw Tam the to state that potic \ Y respectfully, nt further save (hat suid B. ho forwarded anid premiuni to the company immediavey after he reesived it. Deponsnt says that on or about i rst day of December instant he called at the office of the | jd Continental Life Insurauce Company and there found the said George W. Croiut aesing in behall of the de- fendunt, Joh Anderson, tls receiver of said company, a informed him that who was absent at the tine. NDERSON AS A MR While waiting for Crofut inform 801 premium on bis policy that the 1 strained, by order of rt, from secepting any moro Another Suit to Remove the Present | : | and upon the presentation thereot was paid in tho si | tity of medicine, powders, &c., and AY, JANUARY 1, 187 Premiums, and he refushd to receive the same and thi read from a paper which pe pretended was an order of th Court w cimuse ri the receiver trom recelving Ad & apeny, relat if HeNIN Of suid com argo W. Crofut th He by the Course amd oma proceedings had sm eourt from the appoi lites He then ndmitted to dey ean not wade by the C H issued DY the receiver to the agents 0 . worn to before me this 23d day of December, 1876.— Wittiam H. Mexns, Notary Public, New York city. STILL MORE REMARKABLE. City and County of New York, s8.-— Allston Gerry being duly swo ot December, 1875, and subsequent he had intercourse to the books of the Lonpi city of piliar with mined the account, m 5 ‘and saken by the officers and employes of said bank in the conduct and carrying of the busi ess of said bank ; that on or about the 4th day of Janus I sumined the books, memorandums. with account of with ald the Bhat nk and Lite Insurance of said company did, oF. 187, deposit in suid bank a | yal Bank tor $20,000 and drafts tof $175,000, umounting In the ont was informed by the cushier of sai * Bank that the cnshier of the said Coutinental Life insuranee Company cailed at suid bank dur. Any the suid B1st day of December, A. D. 1875, and inquired of him, the said cashier, how late in the day he could maka | a deposit. ‘That ho, the cashier of the Loaners' Bank, told | hin to tring in Lis good deposit betore three o'clock, and | his “ents and dows” ae any tin during the day the suid cashier did deposit with the said Loanors’ Bank the amount and in kind as above stated: and the same was 2 D ceiver bo instruc: the cheek on the Fourth on individuals to the ate te B195,0 1 entered up. to the creditof the said Continental Life In- surance Wompany jay cash on the of sud Lonners' Bank, ‘That, on the following busine day—to wit., the Sd ‘day of January, a. D. 1 the «id Continental Lite Insurance Company #check on the said Lonners’ Bank for the sum of $1 ited by the said cashier on tho Hist day of December, 1879; that subsequent thereto, reviousto the Ist day of Jung, 1576, the said Loaners’ Flank pussed into the hands uf receiver, curing. which time—to wit, between the Int day of January, 1876, and the Ist day of Juno, N76, oF subsequent thereto, one’ Jobn J. Anderson, now acting ax receiver of tho said Continental Life Insutance Company, oxamined the aMirs of the sitid Loaners’ Bunk, and that on or deponent in w conversation with said A Attaution to tho deposits made y 4 Continental Life Insurance Company id Lomners’ Bank, and to. the character of the amber, A. D. 1878,— TON GERRY. drafix on idividunls, de cS transaction. Swhen before me this 21st day of Ds Joux G. HM, Mevens, Notary Public. BERGH’S CRUSADE. RECORD OF THE NOBLE KNIGHT'S ACHIEVE- MBNTS DURING THE YEAR—DISMAY AMONG HIS ENEMIES—JACK KNIFE AND ACONITE QUACKS AVAUNT—‘'DUMP OR GO TO JAIL,” During the past year the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Aniunais has done an im- mense amount of work in defending our dumb servants trom cruelty, inflicted either wantonly or through neglect or thoughtlessness. The following totals ana summary are not quite complete, as several agents and branches have not yet sent in their reports :— FROSKCUTIONS. Tho society has prosecuted 872 cases of cruelty in the courts. In looking over the records many of these cases prove tho utter hearticssness and want of the smallest degme of mercy on the part of the porpetra- tors. The cases are detailed as follows:—For beating horses and mules with clubs, hammers, whips aud other instruments, 164; carrying animals in acruel mannér, 60; working horses with sores on their bodies chafed by harness, 261; overloading, 30; lame, 181; sick, 15; glandered, 1; worn out, 3; reckless driving, 11; salting streets, 10; cruelty to cattle and other ani. mais, 29; dog and cock fighting, 62; using “burr bit,” 1; starving and abandouing animals to die, 7; mali- ciously killing with knives and other instruments, 4; dragging diseased horses through tho strocts, 5; caus: ing and procuring disabled horses to be worked, 33, WHITH BAVAGKS, Among the foregoing wo find human brutes who deliberately lashed and cut their horses over the head and eyes until one or both of the latter were cut out, Parts of the tongues of horses torn out by the most fiendish means. Hundreds of cases where liorses were worked with raw and bleeding ulcers and sores on their bedies under the barvess; clubs, iron hooks, cart rungs, staves, hammers, used by merciless drivers and others’ to beat their horses; knives and Weapons used in mutilating animals out of revenge to their owners, the wretches sneaking cowardly into } stables ay night time, to either cut, maim or poison some defenceless creature; abandoning to dio in open lots and of the strocis old, worn out, sick and disabled animals; starving to deith in stables while their ownera spent the poor beasts’ carnings in the “bucket- shop.” TORTURE BY QUACKS. The needless torturing, muiilating and killing of domestic animals; tho needless crueities intiicted upon avimals intended for homan food while in transit and m cattle yards and slaughter houses; the results of | ignorant quack vetermary surgeons who, with ‘‘shin- gle” over their doorway, jackkntie and bottle of aconite in their pocket, and plenty of assurance, in- flict the most horrible tortures upon their dumb pationts as long as the bill stands good. ‘These vul- dures do not evon have the excuse of the vivisection- {at, for in nine cases out of ton they don’t know ono Done from tho other, and has been proved in court, when the quack could not spell the word “veterinary.” This last mentioned important subject ‘Veterinary Practice,” the society intends thoroughly to ventilate, with the view of rooting out tho evil if possible, “PREVENTION WETTER THAN OURK.”” Mr. Bergh next favors us with the details of 1,802 cases where the abused animals wero ordered out of harness, being unut for work, and sent to their stables or to the hospital. No arrests were made in these oases, the drivers and owners heing warned and ad- vised. Most of these cases arose more trom want of thought or knowledge show to properly manage their animals, Also of 200 4 where the horses were found overloaded, and the drivers, being given the choice of going to the station house or dumping some of his load, invariably choose the latter wise course, DESTRUCTION OF ANIMAL LIVE, Tho agents were cailod ov during the year to destroy 2,264 auimais of all kinds, and this, Mr. Borgh says, is the most unpleasant part of the work, but they do it m order that all unneces-ary suffering and pain’ may be prevented. “Tho lives of a Jarge proportion of these = animals. might, no douvt, bave becn saved if some proper place was provided by tho clty authorities, or i the society had the means to build aud control a public veterinary hospital, where all sick or disabled animals belonging to persons who either had not the accommodation ip their own stables or the ineana wherewith to pay for the saine, might bo treated and given all the care and attention nec ssary. In short, this city requires a ‘home and shelter”? for suftering and homeless animals, COMPLAINTS, Over 200 complaints from citizens and residents of tate bave been investigated and the evils com- ned of remedied without taking to court, the Oflendors readily following the instrugtion and orders | given by the society. AMW NOR WORK. ‘rhe ambulances of thejsuciety removed from tho disabled animals, and mauy recovered py reason of the prompt ald thus afforded. During the yeur the society has given away to poor truckmen and others who owned horses a large quan. uistributed over 27,000 pamphlets, lectures, books, &c. WHERE IS DICKENS. PHOE: HANAFORD ANTICIPATING THI? JUDGMENT Day, “Rey, Dr. Fuiton, of Boston, said that Charles Dicks ons is in hell, but L say he isin heaven,’ said Phebe A. Hanaiord, in the Churel of the Good Shep. herd, on Jersey City Heights, lastevening, “Dickens performed a great work for humanity, a biessed work THE REY. for old aad young—cspevially for ebildrex, Our Heaveniy Father oes not punish his chil. dren through —Vindictiveness, but in order that they may become better, Tho greag controversy in rogard to the future of Dickens teaches the lesson that wo ought not to estimate the character ofa man by his religious belief, Tho Bereaved widow would say, ‘I would rather bem hell with my hus-t band than in heaven without him,’ The kindly spi ri of humanity displayed to Little Nell aud Puul Dombvey shows that Dickens must be in heaven, St, Paul says that men will be saved bot Abrougtl their sins, but from their fin Region im mere tauth is as futile as religion in mere works. Some of the greatest benefactors of the worl have becn ac- cused of being the enemies of the Chureh. so it may well be said that a great ma very anxious (o go to heaven, These remarks do not apply to any particular sect; for Fénélon, Thomas a empis and others have ail preached tue doctrine ot spiritual progr I was born a Quaker anu was atter+ ward & Baptist, but now, of a ‘Univermulist, [ ean. not believe In eternal punishr II Dickens be nos in teaven, where can he be? This ruler in the realm of such literature Wil! sit apon the throne insuch a kingdom, that, judging by a proper Christian standard— that of faith anu works aud hot protession or opinion— we can joylully anewer that Charies Dickens is in heave! And back of all this tesumony and question we have the rock vf God's revealed purpose in eren- tion. [tis fitting that the press should vindicate the memory of this great man who did so much for tho benefit of mankind.” ‘ BALL FROM ALOFT, Coroner Simms, of Brooklyn, was notified yesterday to hold an inquest on the body of Joha Krricksou, aged twenty-six years, who was Killed by afall from the topsail yard of the brig Henry B, Cleave, The captain Feports that about three o'clock on Sasurday afternoon, Wiiic the Urig Was Gulside of Sandy Hook, on het Voyage from Rip Janciro to this port, the deceased waa eD gaged in fect, when he missed bis footing and fell he deck, The ve which belongs tu Port. land, Me,, \s lying at Martin’s docks 7. | new year, zealously as saint doos the Scriptures. 5 regards every woman he meets os a sphere ree list. He keeps a city directo from address of any aay, whose card ‘he hare He dr. fash! : HAPPY NEW YEAR. vides the city into two portions—the fashionable, where he visits, and the ‘ntarhionsble where he does ; ‘ ‘ nob. bagged aut posite, 10 which he faithfully | Ring Out the Old—Ring In | reeisters nis cats ot rena ptaprbee rede f tions in @ commonplace book, or as a pious Christian would note O18 religious experiences in bis diary :— “Monday evening, bad a refresuing cali ou Miss Snooks, ‘Tuesday evening, enjoyed @ delyutiul experience in the New. my (éte-d-téte with Miss Brown. Wednesday evening, THE GREAT AMERICAN CALLER, | Bittstoe®°rhursany ovauing. posed pregiatie evening with Miss Haltamillion.” And so on for six foaniee ie a simiar strain, Fally believing that, as the old hymn says, He is a pilgrim and a strangers Le can tarry but # might, ae ‘ he makes the voluntary pugrim of society an passes bis life in journeying from house to house, tar- Tying & portion of the night in each, He takes hiseano with bim for affand bis card case serves him for A Pen Picture of a Characteristic Institu- tion of Our Country. eae nies serips and, thus, ecoutred, round the social “SECOND ONLY T0 THE AMERICAN EAGLE." | “{t'ty'tulcaiated that, next to a postman or a lightning rod agent, the patent chainpion American caller wall more than any otner class of men, Weston ts outdone, Hoe waiks only bp spurts, but the P, C, A.C. walks alithe yearround, save on New Year's, when he rides, Ho is a hard-working wan, too, this P. C, A.C. None but those who bave tried it and failed can realize We do not riso as early on the morning of New Year's Day as we do on Christmas morning, qnd for two | 7 , to “keep up” a visitin, reasons; first, tbat there are no stockings hung by the | how ard, 18 18 19 eee ae eats chimaey to tempt us, and second, because we were up | over 400 names down on st, and as thei so late the night before. dead to all sentiment that they do not wait up to sce the old year out and the new year in. On the strike of twelve we take our stand, giass in band, and with a Sigh for tho past and a smile for tho future we drink the health of the new year—that is, some of us do, while others again are found on their knees in church or in their closets asking the Divine blessing on the Perhaps the more universal custom is to see the old year out with merry making. We do not Stop to think that another year has passed and that our span of life 1s just that mach shorter, nor do we part with our old friend very sadly. Le roi est mort, vive le rot! is the toast of the hour, Tho old year poes | out mid the ringing of bells and tho new year 1s ushered | in with the booming of guns, The wassail bowl flows freely on New Year’s Eve. Why drinking should form 60 important a part of New Year's festivities wo do not know, except that it is acustom of long standing and dates back in England to the old Saxon days, Let us hope that tho New Year’s drinking will be more of a form than a ceremony. We should improve upon the customs of our ancestors, The old English way was to a es pe so | are only 366 days in the year and one-lourth of that pies Abie, alse time people areoct of town and at least one-third of the remaining three-fourths tho weather is feartul, some idea o! the necessiues imposed upon our subjoct can be guessed at. Poor fellow, be ts a sim wartyr to modern social oustom. Such as he is, the ©. A. C, 18 a great American institution, along with ine pealer and the quack doctor and the American eagle and the rest of our institutions, In fact, our Awerican girls could spare all the rest better than they could spare him; for what would become o! our patent champion American girls without their patont champion American caller? ut callers aro not all auke. “One star diflers from another star in glory,” and one man who makes cails differs greatly in Dis styie fram another, Sone call as if they were paid for doting it, as if it was a more matter of route, and these say the samo stupid things every Lime they call; others are so en- thusiastic that really you begin to think tlaat they are going to propose to” you each call; some every week, always on the same Hight and always at (he same hou Like'a ratiroad train they are due at 8:30 id like iraad train they will leave at a spe some have the great charm of variet they are in a philosophical mood and call like a college professor; sometimes in a sortive mood, aud call like a schoolboy, or rather bebrve like one Now he will alfect the swell and out d’ ndy a danay; then / ut his next visit he will bein .0st free and e apd undress style imeginaole en he will beina time fll the wassail bowl, trim it with ribbons and pass it | sentimental mood ana bend pel At his d ‘ next call be will probably hu is bus oap on, around among the guests, while song and laughter | and tale nontiitg: AY senyel Aart Vabopt awoke the echoes of the baronial balls, and ail feuds | Jess adopt these various moods t Odd and were settled and good feeling prevailed. In Scotiand | interesting, a ‘ tho day is one of the merriest. ‘The sober visaged Scot Then there is Mr, Wiseman, ¥ a makes his | calls inthe evening. As he tol) forgets himself for the night and enters heart and soul | Ward in conlidence, Who told ge into the festivities, Special cakes are made for New | | toll the reader now, in couft } Wiseman, ‘it you call on a | prepared lor you; ste is a \ evening she ta stomed to tight ‘er armor un; Pha! Wyou Year’s eating and special drinks are brewed for New Your's drinking, | Guuer the pashignt; she mec The custom of making Now Year’s presents is not so | she has the advantage of tt common in this country as in France and other coun- | call upon ber tn the morning and she meets you disarme: tries, Inthe days of Elizabeth gioves and pins were | culling upon her inthe muri tho prevailing New Year's gifts, and they wero con- | youina dyfferent ‘igh froin ks not : com. | WmMp you with tho herd of cyerowtl Fr, DU sidered very fino, for gloves and pins were not as com- | give you, in Lor mind, a plete by. yo It’ And thes mon then as they are now. In Paris confectionery is | you can tind out the real character olwwoman so much the great New Year's present, and no man makes | better in the day tm . Bi are Cathey at stor but they are doubly so by gaslight. Gaslight goes wit! @ call empty handed. It cannot be that enils | samour; remove the one and you often get rid of the are as frequent there as in New York, or a gentlo- other, man would bave to carry a small shop around with “Call upon a beile at eff ht in the evening, you will him, Calls in other countries than ours are generally | only see “the belle; bit visit hor at, ray eleven made between relatives. Itisanold English custom | A. M., you won't find the belle; she isn’t up; but, take to unbar and throw open all the doors ot the house on h my werd for it, you will stumble upon the woman hei the stroke of twelve on New Years Eve, 80 that the | seif, You learn more of a woman’s teal nature in one old year can get out and the now year come in. morning than in a dozen evenings, And as lor oppor- THB AMERICAN COLONIES, tunity, there is more acuity lor sentiment at noon Tp no country In the world is tho custom of making | than at midnight, if men did but know it, At mid- New Year’s culls followed to the extent that it 1s in | night you are but one man among hundred others; the Unned States, and particularly tn this city, It is | at noon, out of ail the hundred, you are the only one @ time-honored custom, and comes to us through ar | with ber. Dutch ancestors, Lady Washington's New Year's “TL would rather make @ morning call foran hour Day receptions were among the moat delighttul gath- | once a week on a woman if | wanted to win ber than erings of the time, and that amiabie lady did a great | take my ebances ou evening calls every evening for a deal toward perpetuuting a pleasant custom, It is So said Mr, Wiseman, and I really do think very charming sentiment this celebrating New Year )au Was Wise in saying it, Butho had an ac Day with making calls, We, as a nation, do little | quaintance, a Mr. Open Air, who was with women enough in the way of sentiment, and that we should | wiser still, This Mr. 0. A's’ style of making calls devote one day in the year to our iriends i8 bo more not to inake calls ut all a8 Buch, Yet his visits were than right. Allover the world wherever there is an ys satisfactory to all parties, The way he mal American colony, be it on the banks of the Thames or aged it was this!—He was a philosopher and bad tho banks of the Nile, this custom te honored, In studied human nature, He would just “drop in’? and Paris, where there are so many Americans, it makes ask tho lady to accompany him for a ride or to the quite a little stir on New Year's Day. But in New theatre or the opera or to Delmonico’s for Junch or York the observance of the day 18 a matter of to [bigot’s for ices, of somewhere for somethin , $0 18 business 4s well us pleasure, Peliticians as well was a sort of pic r 4 pleasant party, or anytning as the ladies receive calls, and the sidewalks except a tere formal call, Consequently the lady are gay from nine o'clock in the morning always associutod him witn something ugreeavie, and until twelve ab night with neatly are wasu't he sucecssiul! Why, he made more progress pedestrians, whilo the streets are biack with swift mov- in ber good graces in one “call” of this kind than be ing crria A lady on the streets of New York on Ni woud in a course of ordinary “house visits” w Your's Day 18 a rara avis, and if one is so unlor- “Always gota Woman out in the open air with you if you can; never make oatis between walls,” said this youthtul sage; and really | beiieve, trom what I know about myseil and others of my sex, that this Tabey- rand among the ladies was iu the right Ut Ll werea man I suould practise his precepts, A LADY WHO RECEIVES TO-DAY, tunave as to be caught out she hurries along in the shadow of the ho hoping thereby to escape ob- servation, There ts a great deal of rivalry among the ladies about the numberof calis they receive. It is the ambition of each to swell her list, and the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker are often num: bered, though not numed, among the swells. Drink- ing to excess is seldom known now on Now Year's aaa days. It 1s no longer considered necessary to drink a BINGING THE CHIMES AT OLD TRINITY. glass of wine at each of your 200 calls, If you simply The scene in the neighborhood of old Trinity ehur.b Taise the glass to your lips or toy with the stem that is enough. Fewer people set tables than used to, Some five or six years ago every one who could afford {t, and many who could not, set a ‘reguiar table, and evory gentleman was expected to eat at least’ the wing of a bird. By the time he had reached his 160th wing ho felt less like tying than be ever did beiore. There are certain ladies who are known by their genilemen friends to spread a luxurious repast, and there the well regulated caller wends his way about dinner time, Wine ts nowadays the average New Year's Day offering, though wo have secon whis- key, but only in Botemia, Full dress is not imcum- bent upon the ladies, but if i ts worn the blinds about midnight was a curious, interesting and su; gestive one, About haif-pust eleven P. M. the sido walks of Broadway near the HrnaLp office began to bt throngea with people of all ages and conditions in so ciety. Every street car arriving at the downtown ter. minus was full of passengers, all intent on bearing the centenary year rung outon the sweet chimes of old ‘Trinity, and the youn: New Year asherod in with melodious music on the tuned bells in the dear old Iretted spire of the historie church so dear to evory should be closed and the candles lighted. Gentle. loyal heart, But it was not alone the oars thit carried oo usually iene it eth to jneot the additions to the multitude, Every ferryboat was full compliment of the ladies, hous! walking dress a would be much more’ appropriate. We do of people who came trom Brooklyn and Ja hot know what those poor follows are going todowho sey City to bear the chimas, Theso came | have no carriages to take them on their rounds, for trooping up Wall and Fulton street, up | goloshes are not admirablo with pintai! coats, ‘he Cortlandt and Vesey and Barclay, while as poor wretch cannot get through the streets in this Weather without them, and be cannot wear them in the presence of the belle, who honors him by evening dress; he is only supposed to be in the house tive minutes, so he caunot leave them in the hall, The ouly thing for him to do is to hire a small boy to follow him about and guard the goloshes on the tront sleps. Tho fashionablo limit of a New Year's call ts tive minutes, but “friends of the family’ oiten pass an hour or more Witn a charming hostess and help to criticise each departure, The substance of the conversation during a New Year's cail is not Emersoniap. It re- svives itself 10 about this:— Happy new year, Miss Brown.” Thanks, Mr. Jones; happy new year to you.” ry kind, Had may calls?” “Yes, quite a number, Made many calls?” “Yes, about fifty; a pleasant day for cails,”” “Quite so," 1 must bid you good day, Miss Brown.” “Good day, Mr. Jones"? (Exit Jones.) How many of us start out with good resolutions on New Year's Day, and how many of them do we keep! But tt is better to acknowledge our past errors und make at ieast the attempt to right them than not to give the matter a thought, Let us all pray for botter times and that the new year may be a prouder one in our history than the past bas been. That the chimes last night “rang out the false’ and “rung in the true’? is the sincere wish of the H that the readers ol this paper may have a very happy New Year, fur ug the eve could reach in the clear moonlight denso masses of people moved joyously toward the charch, THE LISTENING THRONG. The crowd, though de although the botsterous spirit of boyhood manif itself by the deafening din of the horns, which ga' them tumultuons joy but to those of mores: tive nature. A few carriages stood in the roadway and gave variety Lo the scone, their occupants saugly ensconced while waiting in seclusion to hear the belis in sweet unison announce the old, old story. The od year has gone; welcome to the new, Precisely at ten minutes betore the midnight hour, crossed the threshoid of time, the chimes an to ring A lusty cheer greeted the first tow notes, then adeep silence fell pon the assemblage; evon the horns were still, and all listened reverently to the music as it floated inthe air, Chime after chime was rung, and then even the belis were hushed. lt was the hour of midnight, A breeze, chill as the fanning of Azraci’s wing, passed through the throng in Broadway as Trinity's miduight bell told that 1876 was near ita end, and is the vibrations of the last stroke resounded far and near it was as though the icy thrill of physical death affected every one. With hysterical speeu the sad emotion gave way in another instant to a rhapsody of loving welcome as the wild clangor of the chines clashed outon the air, and the stillness ofdeath, which amoment betore had had such saddening effect, w: succeeded by rapturous exelamations and hearty greetings—so hearty that strangers, who had stood silently near each other when the moments of the old year were becoming tower and fewer, clasped han like old-time friends aud gave vent to kindly exp sions whep the new year was but the jniant of a Second’s growth. In atew seconds an Impressive silence prevailed; then the initial belis clanged, and ag each followed in refrain all know that the new year had come, Cheers of we je rose higher and higher, until the chimes were drowned, only to be heard again as the throng Krew out of breath. For ten minutes longer the bella nse, Was orderly in the main, ed HOW WH, MARE CALLA, To tHe Evirox or tae Heraup: Man i said to be the only animal who can laugh; he alone of that great kingdom, according wo the theo Jogians, can ein; he may also be defined as the only Avimal so far as Known who makes calla, We bave all become familiarized with this custom of paying visits on New Your's Day; but the idea of everybody calling | continued to ring out melody after melody, bat ? wi id daughte arta the charm had been broken, and the peo gn tis neighbors wives agg daughters.on s certain day-| TIS EL” send GO. Wend ahah nevereh ik en Of the year 18 really In itself very odd. homeward, ‘To ferryboat and street cnr they hurried “Making calls’’ impties from the very nature of tho term an absence of either pecuniary or seutimental motives in our callé; they are simply social acts, and often moro of routine than of pleasure. Thero is noither passion nor mousy nor amusement, pure and simple, in making calls, yet everybody almost mukos them, They aro the result, the outgrowth of our social necessities, Of our desire for tho society of our kind, and viewed in this light and used rightly, the habit of making cails 18 decidedly beneticial, partiva, larly to the men who muke them. For ali men do net make calis; many rogard them as of marched in steady columns up Broadway, until at Jength the streets grew quiet and deserted. The now year bad come at last, and one and all wished the fellows all happiness inthe dim future beyond, The your 1877 has come. Will it bring us peace and prog. perity? Let us hope so as we welcome ite coming. MIDNIGHT IN BROOKLYN, The church bolls in Brooklyn were rung at mianight, in keeping with the ancient custom of ringing the “old year out and the new year in,’? In the Methodist Episcopal churches ‘‘wateh meet ings’’ wero held from eleven until one o'clock this The public offices and schoo! bore, hence the club, where removed trom the | MOrHina The public o| ee ee closed during the day, ond the indications Testraint of female influence the lords of creation can aro that the time-honored custom of making ealis assert their proud prerogative of playing draw poker | wil) be duly iudaiged. Mayor Setroed will and staying out tll two inthe morning. mm the City Hall from ten A. receive calls at his office M. ulltweive M. Comptroiter Wiiham Burrell and ex. Comptrotler Samuel Powell will also be at the City Hall to shake hands with their constituents. Keeper Tormey Will be in attendance upon the banner table, ‘This being tho Feast of the Cireumerion there will be masses colebraced aball the Ontholie churches the samo as on Sunday. Jo such @ club creature as this, woman, unless in the shape of a housekeeper or a washerwoman, is « myth. But there is the average man of tho world who is not quite #0 confirmed a clubbite ax this, and who makes calls occasionally on Now Year's and after a party, just enough to keep himself on the books of society. But beyond and outside of these positive aud comparative anchorites there is the great mass of the day, the mon who mako cails regularly, It is of this class that this article troate, and it would treat of thom THe COLORED METHODISTS, Conforming to the general usage of the denomina tion, a watch meeting was held at the First African Methodist Episcopal church on Sullivan stroct, to gi respectfully, at least trashiully; for a ¢ before re- | Me old years farewell and the new year a roligtous marked, visiting is @ good social institution and | | Welcome. The meeting commenced at ifveen minutes rather like a man for making calls. before midnight, but the regular e services wh And now for the porirait of the most inveterate ca | Preceded It wore thomseives only prelude to thi reaver event anu Were attended by at ieast 2,000 peopia, maker | over knew, the paient champion caller of the | Tne pews were packed, the alsies Glled and th Vobbies Whose pon picture will be recognized by | erowded, and (hough the colored psople predominat all who Know bim, there Was a pectiarly large proportion of whites, life closely resembien that of an orthodox Chris. , Im belo Perpetual “cali,” though there is no “raipt’s rest’ about it, His “pockes Bible’ is sub- stituted by # ‘visiting list,’ which consults as the audience ali complexions, itom the moat pro hounced negro to tho purest type Of the blonde Saxon, wero seen, and offen iu such juxtaposition as to form ¢ strong coutrase