The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1877, Page 5

BEWARE OF THE DOG! Particularly the Wicked Spitz, the Most Dangerous of Pets. L CANINE THAT OUGHT TO BE SUPPRESSED. Spread of Hydrophobia in America—Its Origin and Horrible Effects—Statisties of Six Ycars—Necessity for Action by the City Authorities, ‘The frequent cases of hydrophobia reported Rom Various sections of the country have naturally resulted in some litte popular apprehension of its appearance \p ap epizootic form, and hence all available informa. tion as to the origin and development of the mainay is of popula interest, As suggested in the Henatp ofa tecent date, an exhaustive investigation of the re- corded facts of the last six years offers no margio fora doubt that the growing popularity of Spitz dogs as pets bas beep mainly instrumental in augmenting the 6 lustics of mortality from this source sinee the Ameri. can Medical Association made its first reporton the j subject in 1856. So far as this city is concerned the records of the Coroners’ Office furnish sufticient data for arriving at pretty exact conciusious; while, as will subsequently appear, the origin and European indica. tion of the disorder from the wooded districts of Ger- many, point to the same general hypothesis as that ip- | dicated by the figures collated below. CASES FOR 1876. Frederick F. Troadway, twelve yeare of age, resi- denco No, 1,003 Second avenue, was bitien on the afver- noon of November 5 by a Spitz dog, which was after- ward ascertained not to bo rabid. His upper lp was Dadly torn, and the upper teeth ofethe animal bad pen- etrated the skina little below the letteye. Dr. st. Clair Smitb saw tho patient on the following morning. ‘The boy was very pale, and the flesh forming the lips of the wound had a whitish, boiled appearance, Dr, Smith, did not apply the cautery, He saw the boy again three days later. He had een vomiting for some hours and was very pale. His eyos were wild and brilliant, skin moist, pulse very bigh. Violent convul- sions cnsued on offering the patient a glass of water, Died about ten A. M. on tho following day, Record of tho post-mortem gives no satisfactory physical cause for the death of the patient, and demonstrates no spe- Ciallesion, The vordict of the jury simply specifies bydrophobia as the cause of death, Albert Klomp, agot seventeen, No. 102 Lincoln street, Jorsey City Holghts, was bitten in the ankle and in the fore Anger by a black Spitz dog on the atter- noon of December 3, The dog was ailing, but not as- _certainod to be rabid, and tho young man had bean re- quested by his father to take the sick animal to the river and drown it, On tho way tho dog seized his master by the pantaloons at the ankle, but was disen- gaged by a kick: having inflicted scarcely an abrasion of theskin. Regretting his harshness to an old play- mate and pet the young man stooped and patted the dog on the head, when tbe Spitz turned in sullen fury and caught bis fore finger savagely between his tceth, The wound bled profusely, The infuriated bruto hold on, however, until be had received h number of kicks from bis master’s heavy boot, when he rolied over un- conscious, Thecautery was immediately applicd at the nearest pharmacy, and the dog, meanwhile, recov- ered his senses and went home, where he made a gav- age attack on a white Spitz, which bad been his com- panion for years. The fight which ensued was ended with an axe in tho hands of the elder Klemp. Young Kiemp complained of debility, but was not prostrated until the eighth day after the accident, when his respiration became labored and difficult, and it was only with great eflort that he was able to swallow. At midnight ho was seized with a violent paroxysm and muscular tremor, His mouth was al- most instantly filled with a white, thick froth, which he expectorated spasmodically, with a growling sound, Suggestive of the presence of an enraged animal Ho had no fever, Although his pulse was settled at 150 his skin was constantly bathed in perspiration, ana, save when racked with spasms, he continued con- scious until the last moment, He died of exhaustion at your P, M. on the tenth day. Tho white Spitz died of tho paralysis that constitutes the last stage of rabies in dogs ouly eight days after it was bitten. HORSES FALL VICTIMS, recently deta! by Mr. J. 3. Loomis, cor- ner of Baltic and Nevins streets, Brooklyn, who has lost several valuable horses irom hydrophobia, 1s also worthy of notice as showing an epizootic form of the dis- A dog connected with his stable was bitien, when or bow be canuot tell. Tue accigent was discov- ered during the first week in November, and the aul- mal was killed, his dazed and singular behavior having led to the impression that he was rabid, A large New- foundland sickened and was also killed, November 17 one of the bors manifsstea exiraordipary symp- toms, und commenced to snap at his neigh- bors with his teeth. He was then isolated ana tested with water, which threw bim into violent convul- sions, fhe died in thirty-six hours, emitting thick, Jrothy saliva trom his mouth and nostrils, December 1a valuable Cavadian pony was attacked in the same manner; her eyes grew wild aud brilliant, and she was constantly bathed in perspiration. The exhibition of water was followoa by a spasmodic shudder of the limbs and a jerking of the lips She died during the bight, her body, when examined in the morning, pre- senting the tearfully swollen appearance of an animal | thut bas died of blood poisoning. December 20 u large | truck horse wag attacked, the malady developing it- | self with extreme rapidity, The paroxysms were Bo Violent that Mr. Loomis bad the animal killed atonee, This apimal had been bitten in the nostril by the wounded dog firat_ mentioned, but there ts no evidence that the malady was induced by such an ac- cident in the two cases that preceded. Competent Veterinary surgeons, it should be added, dingnosed hydrophobia jn each of these cases after a careful bludy of the symptoins, FATAL CASES. | Louis Walter, thirty-seven years old, residenoe No. 791 Ninth avenue, was bitten by a white Spitz dog on the evouing of July 3, ‘The wound bled considerably and the cautery was immediately applied. On tho seventh day the Wound was cupped. Mr. Walter first comineuced to complain that Lis neck was very stifl, and ou the morning of the eighth day he wus unable to use his right arm to dress bimseif He weut to business, | however, and did -not return home until evening, when be was extremoly prostrated and unable to swallow, His respiration was lavored and spasmodic. A physi- cian was called aud pronounced the case one of hydro- Lobia. His sleep that night was troubled with starts. | he next morning be was still unable to swallow, During the aiternuon be became wild and incoherent, and drove the doctor from the room, gnashing his teeth and emitting a thick, white troth from bis | mouth. He was now removed to the hospital, where | he died, The autopsy, conducted by Dr, Marsh, gave | no clew to the immediate physical cause of death. Andrew Hermaon, fifty-four years old, native of Germany, died at the Roosevelt Hospital about tive | " | July a family owning a pet Spitz, a very pretty litle . ; . i & 2 i is 5 a ary cae aio any oy ie email & or call any inte, of any dog to be a large in amy or oe, 1 of hew York, vriwere i tif 5 manner that any accurate Kansacking the records of which inquisitions were beld the hot in evidence, Three canes we the Spits was specified as the culprit 1874 and 1675. During the three preceding @ Jurisdiction of tatistics therefore by 10 means fairly facts. WHAT SCIENCE ACTUALLY KNOWS AnOUT The origin and progress of hyd: United States and its historical distribution ia curiously confirm the induction trom facts—namely, that, in the great majority of im- stances, the little red-eyed woll of Pomerania ts re- sponsible for the fatality that has recently seemed to end any abrasion of the skin by the teeth of a dog, whether rabid or sane. Although Homer, Virgii, Phny, Ovid aud other ancient writers are abendant in allusions to hydrophobia, the earliest kuropean re- port of real interest describes au outbreak wolves of Frauconia, a German province, curred in 1271. Sinee Ported as prevalent | districts of Germany, France and Switzerland, where it 18 principally limited to dogs, wolves and foxes, it appeared in the Wet Indies in 1776, and in the United States in 1785, The cause of its spontancous develop- ment has never been explained, it bas, ac cording to man observers, three stages, which 1d Tespectively as the stage of per- the stage ot fury, and the Gaal gz which the animai dies, A vo drip from the lips as the Kurope inoculation, Ague and muscular tremor, with spas- modic stricture of the throat and frothing at the mouth, immediately follow. In some cases delirium mercifully supervenes. In others the patient is strangely loquacious. In others he manifests a start- ling and abnormal brilliancy of the intellect, panctu- ated by intervals of despondoncy. Autopsies bave \dded very little to the stock of iniormation current jong médical men, That of Dr. Hammond, in 14873, and the recent one instituted in the case of Audrew Hennanan, describe the general resuit of ali such inqui- ries, Two very important autopsies were pub- lisned in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgic re view during the great outbreak in Edinburgh. Both were vory exhaustive, bot neither was successfal in tracing the origin and dovelopment o1 the disorder. ecting 375 rabid dogs Bruckmilier came to jusion that such evidence was of no value in determining these questions, The two constant facts presented on post-mortem examinations have been Congestion of the lungs, nervous ceutres and mucous mei S, jd grumous ap co of the blood, both arterial and venuous. he disturbance appears to commence tu local irrit: the cicatrix partly, and to be aetly consequent upon the poisoned conuition of the blo Hallier asserts that he has found microscopic germs in the blood of hydrophobic patients, but the assertion bas never been verified, although, when the development of the dis- order is finally traced out, it 1s very probable that tne germ theory will find ono of most convincing ilu trations in this hitherto obscure subject, The romantic *‘tollwarm”’ (madnees worm) theory of Lydrophobia, which has been handed down tor agos as a German myth, and was revived as a sci tific view in Russia bot many years since, has been demolished by the discovery Chat this worm of made | ness or malignant pustule consists merely of a group | of enlarged foilicios, | The only point of practical interest in the literature | | | of hydrophobia appears, therefore, to consist im the fact that it scems to have radiated over modern Ku- rope trom the wooded distri of Germany, where it has existed jor centuries in its epizoutic torm. vious to 1856, before ‘mportation of the Spitz dog as pet, according to a report prefaced by the Am: Medical Association, 102 cases of rabies bad been re- ported and described by practising physicians in the United States since 1785, of which 81 occurred curing the spring months, 21 during the summer, 27 in au- (umn and 23 in witer, A TYPICAL CASE. In the summer of 1873 tho writer of this article was summering in w country village 1m Connecticut, whe no case vf rabies had occurred tor many years, animal, took board a tke hotel for a couple of montbe, Daring July and August of that summer the mad dog wus the standing sensation of the village, and in all 11 dogs showing symptoms of the disorder were shot. The Spitz in question was a quarrelsome little vagabond, liabie to snap at dog or man with or with- out provocation, and was, no doubt, responsible for every instance of rabies canina that occurred iw the Village and vicinity (hat summer, ‘THR LATEST INSTANCE. A German family, near Kingsland, » had a Spitz dog which has bitten the wite and three childron, On Saturday last a son, about twelve years old, died, and fears are now en ined that the other three persons will suffor the same late, TERRIBLE DEATH FROM HYDRO- PHOBIA, i [From the Cincinnatt Commercial, Jan. 28.} Charles P, Wetmore, a young, industrious mechanic, o'clock in the afternoon, September 13, Rosina Her- Mann, wile of the deceased, deposed that abuut three weeks previous to his death ber husband was bitten in the forefinger by a white Spita dog. He frst com- yluined of shooting pains in the arm: a that his | breathing was dificult, He seemed to be in constant dread of going [nto the fresh air, was very nervous ‘and restless, and his finger was considerably swoilen, | Dr. Rice testified that the deceased was unable | to swallow a glass of whiskey which he asked for alter | admission to the hospital, on the morning of Septem- ber 12 Tho next day he became delirious and ex- | Pired at five o'clock im the afternoon in violent con- | yulsions, Drs. Goldschmidt, Rice, Budd and others | were present at the autopsy. The iungs were co ested, the hoart normal, liver fatty, spleea normal, idneys eplarged and fatty, membranes of the ‘brain congested. A copious effusion of murky serum was found beneath the. meshes Of the spider’s-web membrane, but thero was no offu- sion into the ventricles, There were recent abrasions over the two hemispheres, as well as at the base of tho ‘The pons varoln’ was discolored within from | stion, in which the cerebellum participated, The spinal marrow and its membranes were extremely | congested, ‘The interior organs of the mouth were nut examined. ‘Another case appears on the record lor the wock ending September %, which presents the samo general features, with a less thorough autopsy. Death resulted during the second week alter the patient was bitten, | The dog is described as a white Spitz, uot rabid, | The caso of Henry Keely was reported trom the Coro- ners’ Ulfice during tbe week ending April 8; but, owing | to the departure tor Kurope of the atiending physician, | the inquest was never completed, and no testimony ot fQ reljavic nature is available, lLappears ‘fom the tacts, | fo far as th) can be asceriainon at this ite day, that Keely was b.iten by @ rabid animal avout three previous to his decease, vut the species 18 nor du sorbed. STATIBTICN OF PRECEDING YRARS, Hi ‘Tracing buck the statistics for New York city, it ap- pears that only three cases were reported tu 1840, One | Ol these oocurred early in the «pring und the otter two | monti ot November, In euch case the period pation Was [rem one to two months, am. in all | threo of them the symptoms were consequent npou sight wounds infl ced by fomaies during the rotting period, Uy neith fF cage bud (he animal extibited symploms of Fables previous tw the acciden axes of tue Victims were resyeciively 17, 9 ans y the 3 years. In [S71 seven cases Were reported Irom the Corovers’ The victims Were uli maics aged respectively Hara 10, 31, 38, 40and 41. Ove of these cases oc: | curred tu Janwary, one in May, two in July, one in Sepromber and two in November. The first dur. | ing the year was ib consequence of a wound received in the November previous, and the patient died on the eleventh aay alter the attack came The single case Toported in May was i coHelLyarLeed! & Wound FeCElVved | power to drink water, be thought, but not the power | to get it to his mouth, ofthe irm of Wetmore & Hornebrook, builders at Hartwell, this county, hes now at No. 67 Hopkins | street, the victin of an attack by hydrophobia that ; soems to have assumed the most positive and terrible shape. Wetmore is an unmarried man, twenty-six | years of age, of large, strong trame and good constitu. | tion, On Thursday last he felt very badly, and took a notion that if he could get up a strong perspiration he could better himself, He went skating for that pur- pose, but the violent exercise and the perspiration re- | property. among the | aniiorm hich @c- | deteriorat: ry and # delirious ferocity re- | it places the silent brooding in which the rabies bas its | sold the secre: ef trade to the firm Inception. A tingling sensation of the cicatrix of the | wound, which usually heals kindly, 18 one of the first | others, aud that be (delendant) bad symptoms in cases where tbe rabies is propagated by | to its use from Beards | county, Mississippi, by John 8. Fretwell, a worthle: sulting did him no good, and he went to bed that night feeling worse, Friday morning he went to take adrink ot water. To his consternation be found that he pot only could not take the water into his mouth, but that he could not force his hand up to his mouth with the eup. The effort to do this was met by a terrible nervous irrita- tion that he could not overcome. It is supposed | that he did not, for he camo into the city to attend to | some business. During Friday he (requently felt tho pangs of thirst, but cuaid not lake water “It was a physical impossibility with him, He bad th Feeling very tll he went to the home of bis friend, A. G. Wilson, the young sun of Mrs. Wilson, at No. 67 Hopkins street. He had ap- plied toa doctor, who, not comprehending the symp- | toms, bad merely given bim @ prescription and sent him to bed. At one o’ciock on Saturday morning young Wilson, finding his poor friend in a frenzied and dangerous con- dition of nervousness, aroused Dr. O. 1. Armstrong, of Clark gtreot, just back ot them, Dr. Armstrong went | around aud took charge of the case, Finding it sy re- | markable a cage, he consulted other physicians, who | agreed with him that it was @ case of hydrophobia in a | mosi positive shape. On approaching the house our reporter, while yet fitty feet away, could distinguish the groans and mouns of ihe vioulm, who was even then, although bound With siout ropes, struggling in the arms of tiree men, He | was ghasuing bis teeth And foaming at the mouth, and his groans bad very much the sound of the growling of adog. Svon he seitled down some, onder the inflacnee | ol airesh nyperderinic injection that Dr Armstrong | had just administered, Ten or tweive years ogo, in his native place, Wet- more was bitten by adog. Lat samuer be Was again | unfortunaie in that respect, being bitten four times, | Loree times by One dog anu once by the otner. i Alden's dog wus one of them, and it ran away and | never Was seen again. | dt was Dr Armstrong's opinion that this case must | i follow the fate of all causes of the kind, Death would be the result of it, and all that medicine could do was to relieve, somewhat, the Lorribie sufterings of the victim and the Work of tuvse Upon Whom Was tiie | soldier in the patio | olf was entirely dircomneeted with the | James B, Harvey on the %h of November | than $50,000--should be given to Mrs, M | bloody work by shooting at him | wending her way | and ber throat cut by some unkoown assassin, who | Were pursued next day b ek Wi uous task of watching and hold- attack of Friday morning Wet- able, once or twice, to speak of having Bat he appeared to bave his ite of ten or twelve years ago, to conceal the tacts about the , altbou: hey were well known times when, in hisi fights, bo mand himself enough to collect a he would ask, with an awful is voice and eves, “You don't think out" and “It can’t be that, can 1217? answer would be, “Ob, no; it can’t be that” rier was atthe house ut two o’ciock, ug, Wetmore was in one of bis most Men where bolding him down, bound, His groans were terrible; the loud growls of a dog at times, and copiously at the mouth and gnasbing Injection quieted bits foratime. The returned, how He groaned and ed his teeth. Often his ¢ i 2 At é as -, f i Hi : | : 3 H i = | His with this came beat and ap offensive ed to turn acop- ¢ grew weaker and weaker, like a person and exh, jug disease, until balf-past ‘when he finally breathed his last. jot- the large doses of morphia that had ron him and wbich would ordinarily have contract, the pupils of the eyes wero — The corpse : Frey yg the face, Of a person emaciated by long disease, bu’ feavares were calm and composed, as it the end = i EStd:] il A TEAPOT MYSTERY. i 3 i 2 : DISAGREE--BAMBELDER'S BAMBOOZLING PRO- CRSA TRADE SECRET THAT WILL MAKE THE BLOOD OF OLD WOMEN RUN COLD. All tea drinkers will necessarily take a deep interest 1t which has been com- Pieas, in this city, to dissolve (he copartnership hereto: existing between Jobn Oliendorf and Edward W. Wilson. Tho partner- ship sought to be dissolved was formod in January, one year ago, and in addition to final judgment ot dis- solution, the plaiatlf asks that a receiver of the part- Bership property be appointed, and that Wilson be restrained trom continuing the business of the co- perteership or im any way interfori with the THR CUP THAT CHEERS. The complaint of Mr, Ollendort presents matters of much pubiie interest, diminished only beoause not dis- closing the seeret which has become the basis of tho ection, and in Whic® the public has so decp an interest ‘It alleges that in January last he became acquainted with Edward W. Wilson, then doing business at Nos. 192 and 134 Front street, as a “tea packer,’ that one, and the priveipal, branch of such business consisted 1g them to certain processes known to those engaged im the trade as recoloring aud refining, thereby giving to the teas wich are in bad condition, or have suffered change by transportation or have musty, wew and better color, removing trom them au; ustiness and sialeness, and mal 74 them fi end tender; that, as he (pint: ts informed sud and believes, ail teas prior to importation are in some manner or other to euch pro- cesses, but that io Coina and Japan such sare often impertectiy carned 7 od primitive j and the object of business, as carried on by deiendants, was tv supply the defects of said methods, to produce in teas of poor color a good color, and to fender those which had becot ed more Valuable and marketable; that as or intormed and believes, prior to one Heary Bamberger, of Philadelphia, & pew application of vegetable coloring utetter for recoioring ‘ens, and devised certain new ty plaivtif to purebase bis business apd go into copartuership with bim to carry defendant representing that Henry Bamberger bad of Beards & Cottrell, tea dealers im this city, with the right to impart it to acquired the right & Cottrell; that by its use he had wired a valuable —, the sctual pet ae a during the year 1876 being more than $15,000, lying OM thene PLayous the piaintill entered the partnership, paying to the defendant $7,500 ball imterest and making the ip for a period of dwcovered, he says, statements 1 Fight to the use of the secret ory used therein, but had acquired bis knowledge thereof by having Leen he employment of Neards & Cot- treil; that while in their employment he was employed by them to go to Philadelphia and obtain, as their Agent and according to contract, from Bamberger a knowledge of the process and invention. A FEARFUL PROMISR. fefused to communicate itto bim 1 to ent of Beards & Cottrell, be as. without their consent right, The plain- « that defendant poe on pr sem to bim the value of and income ved from the secret, even if be had the right to its use, He alleges that neither the defendant jurtwer nor ho nor the thea firm have any right to the use of defendant bas no right to profit by a aud the conlidence reposed in pt has bo desire to do so. the secret, that of pled, liha Root, counsel for 4 ceived from Jadge Joseph F. Daly, of tne Court of Common Pleas, a temporary injunction restrain, fendant from iuterter th the partnership erty until ing this Injunction was should not mornii order to show cause why it @ made permanent, returoatle t Cr Growing out of this same berger, of Philadelp! to the trad nis profits trom Wilson, and the repay: money received by Lim from Oliendor! a8 a cousidera- tion for a share tn the business. In this action also @ “SOMETIMES COUNSEL TAKK, SOMETINR® Tra." tit | ir order of the Court, Accompany | | the diteen ounce cock was given the fight. Mr. Bamberger, the alleged original holder of the | secret, will be represented in court by Mr. Simon | Sterne, Mr. Ollencort by Mr, Eliia Root, and Me. Wilson by General Roger A. Pryor, whose duty is wiil be to convince the Court at the junctions should Not be continued, but stioeld, on the coutrary, be solved, DIED WITH HIS BOUTS ON. The Memphis avalanche of the 26th inst.’ dereribes the killing of Martin J. Manoing, late Sherif of Tumiea fellow who bad previously made tm about the Sherif’s stepaaughter, FF had also attempted to assinate Manning some before, for which he was sent to jail, bat, because bis health Was poor, the Sherif let bim out and bought b W guit of clothes. Then F el] watched bis eh 5 and, wile Manoing was being shot at by another Tufian in a store, Frewwell openea on him wih a revolver and put five buliels inio him, each making & mora) wound, The assassin abd bits aceompl made their escape, loaving the commanlty in a stato of intense excitement The clique of kilers are the two Fretwell brothers, Who originally came trom Richmond, Va, and Ming rewarks round Manning was Jersey ‘and after the war setiled in His murser ant, & which Manning planned and perpeirated with Apparent lack of fecling a& was shown by th shot hiw Hetore him decease Manning , Morivages, of more € ordered that his envire estate— y national bonds aud curre MURDERS IN MEMPHIS, [From the Memphis Appeal, Jan. 27.) Only about ten days a man namea Herbert Jef. fries was beset on Front street by rufians, who, after beating and stabbing their victim, tried to finih the * he ron away, 7 man is dangerously wounded, the cuts being deep and ugly. A week aA worthy hue! “- fof the Popiar sir \ home, she was seized by the bair fled into tue bayou aud bas pot been detected The old Women died in less than twenty minutes trom the eflects of ihe wound, As yet not even the name of the assassin has been ascertained, Last Monday might another foul and unprovoked murder was eo eet in a house ON Madison street by a hegre Hamed Heor: Cox, bis Vietita being Ben O'Neal, colored, murderer nade good tis escape and has pot « beard of, Tuesday afternoon Mr. L Kaulmau's re | fourth miaute, | ton 6 on The fight commenced with some pretin- dence, on Exchange street, was robbed of $8,000 | worth of jewelry and $3,400 in money. The thieves the police and detectives, and one of them, Ja Wiams, colored, traced Ww a how No, 209 Linden street, urrest and shot Detective Pryve in the shoulder, prov ducing an gly wound, Williams then fled the city, Dut was captured on the Chaerieston Railroad ¢ when uear Banton station and br back to this wig. i The thiet resisted | COCKING ON LONG ISLAND. | 4 RATILING SERIES OF BATILES ON NEWTOWN CREEK. A large number of lovers of the sport of cock fight- tng met in a barn on Newtown Creek on Monday even- mg and enjoyed a series of battles between the feathered savages, which lasted far into daylight yes- terday morning. The hour set for the beginning of the coutests was nine o’clock, but it was fully ten be- fore the first birds were in the pit, the spectators in- creasing meanwhile in number. Carriages, light wagons and pedier wagons brought anxious sports, eager not only to witness the matches, but to invest money on the result, until upward of JOO men, young and old, thronged the old barn, Serried rows of seats surrounded the pit, which latter was a ‘mall octag- onal platform, about eight fect in diameter, surrounded by a stout canvas frame eighteen inches high, to prevent the birds rapning in among the spectators. The scene during the fighting was an exciting one. With the birds pecking and bit- ting one another, according to their strength or ca- pacity, their two handiers in the cuclosure walking around and watching the birds, the spectators, frum those kueeling around the immediate circie to those on the highest row of benches, sitting with our stretched neck and eager glance, watching the contest, the scene was an exciting albeit brutalizing one. 0 to 4on the pyle,’’ “$2 on the blue red," “Make 1v10 on the pyle,’ “20to 1 on ginger,” “1’ll pound him,” aud similar expressions, like a fusilade of small arms, caught the ear in every direction, Bat from first to last there was no disorder. On one or two oc- casions high words wore heard, but order was instantly restored. The main match of the evening was between three pairs of birds, between New York and Brooklyn cockers, the stakes being $100 per fight. They wero three good, rattling battles, and were followed by seven scrub battics at catch weight, some of which deserve more than mere mention. “CUTTING AND ‘*HRELING." At ten P. M., whon all who were expected wero pres- ent, the signal for the commencement of the sport was given, and while the “cutting down’? was done in one portion of the barn the ‘heeling’’ was done in the pit, Yet with all these facilities tho waits between the battles were excessively long, ard there was no or- except a rough who whistled **The Tempest of VIRST BATTLE. New York placed a duck-wing gray to a brass back, | from Brookiyn até lbs, 602, At the first buckle they | flow at cach other ina very lively mannoer, but tho gray proved the cleaner cutter, and after several throws both birds lay down together. They were the scratch, whence tho gray, in every ring the fight, sought its opponent, and the birds, freshening up, gave cach other somo vad throws, each falling heavily, until they weukened aod commenced droop. After x» moment's cessation the = bra: back returned to the charge and gave the grayan ugly bit between tho shoulders which seemed to ‘couple’ him, especially as tis head fell forward, but railying, he caught his opponent by the neck and flung him’ heavily. Both resting, ab this stage, after fighting twenty minutes, were again placed to the scratch, and neithor seeming anxious to continue the fight, they were placed breast to breast. A very lively break ensued, in which tho gray suffered severely, his :hroat being cut sufficiently to cause ashight rattic. Still they contiaued the fight, the gray g he better of it, though more severely cut. Three times were they placed breast to breast, and almost Iifeless thoy made a rally, though weak- ness rendered thom unable to injure cach other. Claims ‘of the battle were made by the handlers of both birds, butas smail poinis wero ruled out they wero not allowed until the brass back succumbed and was counted out at the end of thirty-eight minutes, the victory going to New York. SECOND BATTLE, New York placed a red pylo toa duck back gray from Brooklyn at 4 ibs. 10 oz, These birds commeuced with @ prett; id jumping wing fight, which | lasted tweivs rapidly weakenod, | tytng down and only making occasional effort. he gray was scarcely injured, and at the end of | eighteen minutes, the pyle being unable to stand, the | gray gave him the coup de grace at the scratch, 'Vic- tory scored tor Brooklyn, THIRD BATTLE. New York placed « red pylo toa muff pyle (balt Darby hall Stonewall) from Brooklyn at 4 tbs. 6 07. This was a rattling fight; the breaks of Loth birds were excellent, the red rising equally well, but the muff bern, toady cutter and making no wild hits, the red | ehiy succumbed, being strack dead with's brain stroke at the ond of eight minutes. This victory was also scored for Brooklyn and evded the match proper, BCRUB COMBATT. A series of scrav matches at catch weights was next commenced, a biue-red and a brown-red being placed tm the pit at at 5 lbs. 9 o7., but as the betting of the holders of the blue was $10 to $5 against their own bird it was declared, in the delicate euphony of the | pit, ‘sucker fight,’’ and the bird was ordered killed, POURTH BATTLE. Two black-reds were placed in the pit, one weighing ba. 13 0%, the other 4 los. 1502, In the first bucklo rds menaced and evaded each other with mui tl however, they ta be . When they were eepa- rated the light bird was totally blind, abd for the re- mainder of the fight, which lasted fifteen minutes, the poor bird bad to peck aroung until, feeling its oppose nent, it would fruitiessly attempt to strike, recaliing poetical Hunter's Point rowdy the “Samson | ally the bliod bird received , though abie to etand, Agot so much punishment th FIFTH WATTLE, Are pyio uckled to a brassback at 4 Ibs, 7 oz, both being neat, well built chickens, though the | pyle was rather too long in tho legs. The fight was at | trata sw oe, each bird seeming to throw the | other iu ture, until the energetic handling of the brass- | back turned the fortune of the ight. The party was | wo enthastastic that even betore ‘fast? was called he | took it tor granted, saved bis bird from punishment by | catching it up whi tthe same time he pushed the other bird clear across the pit, Much laughter wus caused by his action, M by common consent the wopped. Th le punished tne black bird unable to stand the amount of punish. | and was siruck dead at the end of SIXTH BATTLE. A blue pyle and a biack-red chicken commenced a dancing fight in which the pyle was biinded oarly. He made a plucky fight, however, tecling around for | his opponent and cutting keevly when bo encountered k gns of weakening every hed the pyle so that at fr) fF soven or eight good spurts, the pyle was counted out. SMVENTH BATTLE, Two grays were matched at 4 Ibs 7 on, one having 4 dark-bive and the other a white hackle, They commenced with a dignified exchange of courtestes, giving and taking punishment without an apparent eflort for two minutes, Then the dark got the light by the peck causing the later to run, The | dark folio’ it and struck it dead at the end of the HIGHT BATTLE, | This was Most exeiting Aight of the series, t oes of the battle Varying so {requently and the im betting berng first’ on one bird and then on the other wntil bad Lurice ehonged during the coatest, ‘The birds were a bifeh Liack and a ginger-bluc, at 4 inary sparring, cach bird slaking the other weil. A ERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. Michael Landy and Joba Sheridan, the score between | them at tbe conciusion being — Landy—I6, 19, 21, 21, 2 [rena = 2h, 14, 1, Dy Kelly—ls, M4, 1 MeGrath—13,'15, 9. A DOCK LABORERS’ sSTRIK Yesterday morning about seven o'clock # squad of | thirty laborers arrived to take the pisces of the grata — beavers carriers who are on strike at Masieton Brothers’ warehouses. [i appears that there are 160 men usually employed at the Pacife and Irving mills, who have been paid at the rate of twenty Gve cents per hour of labor, Last Suiurday the ewpoyers seuled their workmen that on Monvay and twenty cents per hour would be the lowed, TI the laborer® decisred, would sot maie tain themselves and — their therefore, retu to submit to Other laborers, chiefly emigrante o German navonaitty, wore eugaged im this ety, and the strikers have since loitered about the premises, tureat- ening to assuult the bew comers who are working tor twenty cons an hour. Sergeant Cadden ond a strong detactimedt of juen of the Third police preemet were on duty in the Vicinity yesterday to preserve order and guard the meu at work. About noon, while at dinner, one of the men was struck on the back of the bead by astone, which inflicted a severe wound. man, Whose vame J Wala Greenwich street, New York. He wa Long Island College Hospital. Seve declared their desire to return 10 work yesterda: they were atraid of their associates, Who persist in Feimaining idle rathor than accept the low price now | paid, 5 nn - | THE PUBLIC HEALTH. } MEASURES TO BE TAKEN TO PROVIDE AGAINST THE SPREAD OF DISEASES, The Board of Healt: wet yesterday afternoon and adopted the following resolutions :— 1 Resolved, That in order to prevent the spread of conta gious diseases tho Sanitary Superintendent be direered— Firet—'To send u list of persons sick with contagi i residences to t Education e sick with conta, Hability to the spread of ch families should net be allowed to attend any school Third—That the Secretary notify the Board of Ed and those in charge of the parochial schools that t orders that ghildren of temilies where sickness with gious diseases exist siail not be allowed to attend scl during the time of Hiavility to the suread of disea eontazion, Fourth--That the Secretary be directed to communicate with the pastors of the diferent churches and the Arch- bishop, in order to secure compliance with the provisions of these resolutions, ‘The following 18 a synopsis of the weekly report of Dr. John T. Nagle, Deputy Register of Records, to the Board of Hea.th:—Four hundred and forty-one deaths were reported to have occurred in this city during the woek ouding Saturday, January 27, which was an to- crease of 25 as compared with the number reported the preceding week and 90 less than were reported during the corresponding week of 1876, The actual mortality for the week ending January 20 was 410, which is 1482 less than the number that occurred during the corresponding week of the past five years, and represents an antual death rato of 19.92 per 1,000 persons living, the population estimated at 1,070,276. The deaths irom scarlatina were 25; diphtheria, 18; membranous croup, 9; cough, 7, typhus fever, 1; typhoid fever, rai diseases, 6; diarrheal diseases, 14; phthisis pulmonalis, 81; bronchitis, 27; pneumonia, 2; heart diseases, 21; ail diseases of the brain and nervous em, 44; Bright's disease and nephritis, 14; deaths by suicide, 2; deaths by drowning, 1. Of the total number of deaths reported tor the week 82 | occurred in institutions, 124 in houses containing three | familios and leas, 218 in tenement houses, 9 in hotels and boarding houses and the balanve in streets, rivers, on canal boats, kc, The following 1s a comparative statement of cases of contagious disease reported at this Bureau for the two weeks ending January 27, 1877:-~ Week Ending Jan 20, “Jan. 27. whooping Typhoid fe zy let fever... 78 oeapinal meningitis 38 Measl ; n 14 Diphtheria. 32 Smailpox. — 3 WAS BYS The Brooklyn Police Commissioners were called upon yesterday by a number of the lately indicted liquor dealers, They stated to the Commissioners that Cotter’s most active assistants in tho crusado on Sundays was John Byson, had obtained various sums of money trom the liquor dealers whom he had caught violating tho Exctso law by promising that he would fix their cases for them in such a manner that no prosecution would follow. It was rumored yesterday that Byson had | suddenly left Brooklyn, and if such is tho case the | complainés pending against the thirty-nine liquor | dealers will probably be discontinued, a8 Byson was | An important witness against them, “IN. MEMORIUM, | At the monthly meeting of the Church of the Strangers yesterday, on motion of Mr. John W. Down- ing, seconded by Joseph J. Little, it was moved that a committee be appointed by the pastor to procure a suitable tablet to be placed on the wall of the church, bear the pulpit, in memory of the late Mr. Vanderbilt, A LAWYER'S MISTAKE, Mr. Francis C. Nye, a lawyer, doing business at No, 16 Murray street, gotonacarof the Seventh avenue fine, and tn payment of his fare tendered Frederick | Van Der Lender, the conductor, acounterteit Aifty-cent piece, which tho latter declined to receive. Mr. N. refused to pay his taro with anything else and deelti to Jeave the car. The conductor then caused his arr When he was brought to the Washington Place Court, yestorday, the Judge sent for a jeweller, who tested the fifty-cent piece and found it to be a counterieit, Mr, Nye was then fined $10, which he paid, BRIBED? A SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR. Charles Kalor, a sewing machine dealer, of Grand strect, swore yesterday at the Tombs Police Court, that Robert Siebert was guilty of swindling him out of | three sewing machines by falsely representing him- | self asa man of business at No. 17 Sixth avenue. Tho prisoner pleade fot guilt nd went to prison in detault of $1,000 ball to answer. THE SUICIDE RICHTER. Coroner Flanagan held an inquest yesterday on tho | body of August Richter, who cut his throat with a | 232 West Twenty-eighth sireet, His wife she had for some timo believed that the deceased was out of his mind, Tue jury’s verdict was suicide during a temporary aberration of mind, The celebrated Jersey City malfeasance trials, which | eroated such excitement four years ago, are to be re- vived alter a few days, Indictments were found two ears ago against members ot the Board of Public Works and ex-Mayor O'Neill for paving away largo sums raitiing eXchange of bits then took place, which ended | in @ fasten: of the ginger to the head of the | wext bu k fastened on | for the inju pid hb birt giving ing changing as they | as coded the black The ginger then H cutting hits were ex «ol saffering, the odds were sored, bul When the buckle jay down aud was pounded.” puntebed him terribly, though during a slight rally the sufferer returned titior bil. The battle ended in | Iweive minwies ih a Tiolory for the ginger. \ vi BATTLE, } K were next pitted atdlos. | doo fight. The | thrashed bim Aened his own leg, gt terribly, yet hue opponent war too inactive wunity. The dgbt, which asted Lhitty-Gve minutes, was given to the pyle, THE Laer RATTLE. ihe tooth and last battle was Delween two black- reds, With gray and Wlee hackles ¢ tively. The Highs Wasa bvely ope, but the bine bad a sore head wenger, and lost by attempted | euster, bat “ id to rive | 118 death stroke at on diepersed, congratulating each | orderly sport HANDBALL AND KACKE'TS, A large wumber of expertarn the games of handball and Americnn rackets met at MoQuade's court, No. 404 Madison street, yesterday, and played o nomver of gemes for prizes oBered by MeQuade. The principal match war for & valuable medal The contestants by Kegan ond 016 The seoond od, an een ite by 2) aime Was closer aud tavor of Arthur Moqua he third game Was al * a” Arthar Mequace and W. Kogan vy a & »woR | of Zito | mt in and by ekiiful | their favor by a score if game Was Well con- | © the victory oF Artbar ore of ZL to la Ameri an rackets between Wiliam Puseb and Ta Quig tn one side and James MeVermott and James Burin on the other, The “ame Wat Watched with great imierest, the [our players were very closely matched The first game, afier some hard Kaocks, Was won by Dermou and partner, the feore bemg Mtoll T second and third games and Quigly aw wext mateh when Kegan and partner w play Marked ihe fourth pame of Tw The Gt na deed ¥ seore: layed Was & content at | betweea -Wo boted players irom the Seven ward. Raown as | Jane Miller and hor boarders out of the Willow Haven | a moat shocking and shameitl murder was committed of money for the construction of the new reservoir in violation of a contract entered into | by the city with the firm of Mitchell & Bridgford. The contract was for $169,000, pended has been nearly $1,000,000 and the reservoir is | far trom being Gnished. No work has been performed | thereon for the past two years anda ball, After con- tosting the validity of the indictments in the courts tt has ai last been decided that they are valid, and the r |, therefore, take place in the Husson county i Terminer before Judge Knapp, BAYONN HOTEL WAR. The trial of the rioters who attempted to drive Mrz, ° THE Hotel, in Bayonne, has been set down for next Mon- day in the Quarter Sessions, at Jersey City. dndict- ments have been found against all the persons who | participated in the attack on the hotel, and, as the law in New Jersey i very severe in the case of riotous ase romblages, 11 is likely that an example will be made of the guilty partics, A U. 8. MARSHAL TED, According to the Memphis Appeal of the 27th inst. in that city on Friday, the 20th. Tom Drury, an vid man, bad been arrosted and gent to jail tor passing counterfeit money, through the cflorts of Canted States Marshal Albert Gibson, Gibson was brother to Drury’s wife, but that did not prevent him | from doing bis duty. Lesage J Robert Drury, the aged counterfeiter’s son, came to Memphis and stopped at a boarding house, bi said to be near his father, whose sentence bad expired. On Friday evening M jal Gibson was calling on «ies when young Drury made his appearance, | mn as the al entered the parlor «nd asked one of the ladies to piay tho violin Drury drew a revolver and began fring at Gibson, Two of the shots took fatal eect and the faithful officer wax soon a corpse. His clothes were stained with blood, large pools formed on the floor and con- Wasted irightiaily with the ghastiy face as it lay so still woder the gaslight Mr Gibson resided in Curroll 1 e ‘ eo) where he hos a wite and five chil- dren, He wae tnirty-six y of age and bad been deputy marsuai for montis, daring which’ time be had always discharged his duty | prompuy. | yearg of ng | After the murder Drury returned to Lord’s boarding house, oo Promenade street, where he was stopping, | and procuring Lord's gray Horse made haste to leave | the erty. He was discevered by Officer MoeCail und hiuhiy and His sepbew, Rovert Drury, is twenty-two and unmarried, | ory, with impartial zoal, but the amount ex- | 1 WHO WAS THE GROOM? THE SENSATION OF PUTNAM COUNTY—MARY KNOX MARRIED, BUT TO WHOM ?—THE MER. © RITTS OF THE CASE. te sometimes happens that the wildest romance which the ingenious author of flection can weave is completely outdone by extraordinary domgs in real tite, and that the complexity of motive by which ite mimic characters are swayed falls {ar short of the in- tricate subtiety that guides living actors. This propo- tion receives ample ilustration in a case which has for some time agitated Putnam county, New York, and through which justice essays now to grope its feeble way. The case bas two elements of certainty—namely, that on the might of November 8 a marriage ceremony was periormed between two persons and that the bride is Mies Mary E. Knox, of Putnam county. For the all is allegation, denial, speculation, sur- mise, suspicion and general contusion. It may seem qasy to answer the question, “Who did Miss Mary E Kacx marry?’ but that is precisely the question which stirs Putnam county to the core; which every one would fain have an- swered and yet which nobody can auswer; which the mipister who performed the martiage ceremopy can- not respond to satisfactorily, and which Justice Greg- ors to determine, AN INTRICATE STORY. Mies Mary B. Knox basa theory of ber own inthe matter which she endeavors to sustain, with the aid of the counsel acting for the people, Her claim is | that the man she married is Jonn A, Merritt, a youth of twenty two an bows Ave years, her junior, wags gone through = owith = her Knox, and the cler- gyman, Dean, who performed the ceremony, thinks that both’ resemble tue bride- groom in some respects, that neither resembles bim im other particu adds that in the afternoon of Lhe fret session of the Court he saw a man standing in the rear oF Lhe room who Was more like the bride groom than either one or the other, As Sir Lucius O' rigger would pat it, “it's a mighty pretty quarrol aa it stands,” bal it becom or to add some other particulars for the information of the public, DETAILS OF THE ORREMONY, As bas been stated, the m. ceremony was pot formed on the night of November, Tue bride saya that on the might in question Merritt came for ber in a carriage, 1d pursuance of an agreemeat made on the Friday evening previous; that she obtained $20 from her mother to pay the necessary expen: that they drove together to the clergyman’s house; that they were there and then marricd; that they immediately drove back; that she, Bor out of the carrmge at her father’s house; that he drove away, ana thatshe nover saw him afterward, except as he was driving A singular teature ip the case 14 that on the riage (November Mr. A. J, Mitier, alawy procuring a divorce in t haat Suid be could not prove any misconduct on the lady part; that he talked about baving separation papers drawn up by mutual agreement, and that im parting he enjoined strict secrecy as to the nature of this conver. sation, Here com ‘D the suggestion whether, if Mer. ritt, a8 alleged, married Miss Knox on the evening of the ‘Sth of November, he was con- tempting a divorce trom a union which wae yet to como on the evening of the 7th. Be that as it may, the conversation concerning which secrecy Was enjoined on Mtr, A. J. Miller reached the o! bis tatoer, Mr, Johuw G, Miller, whom the bride had applied tor legal assis Teprescntation was thaton the night of the marriage Merritt had told Mits Kaox of the conversation of the preceding evening. A SURPRISED BRIDEGROOM. Another potable feature of the case is that onthe day after the performance of the marriage ceremony Merritt shaved off his mustache, and he aimaelf says u be act of performing this tonsori operation when the father ol Mary Knox camo to house and iniormed his people of the marriage, and ho Adda (hat he was greatly surprised at the soit impeach to ment tha he was the groom, It is certain, too, that be called at Rev. Mr. Dean's house tn ning, de» nied that be Was the person who was married to Mies Knox, and toid the clergyman that be should nov give the certiticate of murriage to the bride. FURTHER COMPLICATIONS. So farthere seems tobe sutnething to eonnect Merritt with the marriage, but now comes in the allega- Uon that Merritt was personated, and that the person who went through the core Wy the brother of Miss Knox. On this point, and, indeed, altogether, the lestimony ot the clergyman is delightiuily per: piexing and is rather caleniaved to render still‘more intricate the already complicated ture of the story. He describes with some minuteness the person whom he married to Miss Knox, and adds that there is quite a considerable difference’ between the groom and Mr, John A. Merritt. Touching George Knox, the brother of the bride, he says that there are some points that Tesemble the oridegroom and some points that do not mbie him, and, as to whether Kuox of Merritt mos! resembles the bridegroom, be finds it avery dimct question to answer. His best judgment, however, is that her is the groom. Take off Merritt's chin whiskers and the resembiance would bo greater, There 18a marked diflerence, however, in their fore- heads, Merritt, he says, has'a rounder face than the man be married. On the other hand, he thought that the stranger whom he had observed at the rear of the court room resembled the groom more than any man he nas seen, but yet he does not think bim altogether like this mysterious person in the fact that he had darker aud beavier mustache, a steruer expression und a clearer eye. And so the mat! shall have delved through the obscurity rounds the case. Whether it 18 an evasion of hi tal duties vy Mr, Merritt, or whether it 1s « 60 on the part of the Knoxes, or whether the mysterious straager is mixed up m the affair must be determined hereafter. The endeavor to solve the question, whom 1s Mary E. Knox married ?”’ will be resamed to- morrow in the Court Hoase of Putnam county, stands until tardy, Lerrange ie ab Sure A CLEVER BOARDER, ARREST OF AN EXPERT AND SYSTEMATIC BOARDING HOUSE THIEF WHO KEPT A DIREG TORY. An admirable arrest was made in Brookiyn yesterday of an expert boarding house thief, The rogue giver his name as James Joy, About three weeks ago the prisoner called at the boarding house No. 84 State street, which is kept by a Mra, Hildreth, and engaged board, agrecing to pay liberally. His affabie and insinuating manner soos made him somewhat famihar with the gentle men whom he met at the tea table, and he complained that he had been deceived by the ex- pressman, who was to bave left bis trunk and eflects at the house duriog the afternoon, The foliowing morning he was first at the breakfasy table, and en- tered ireely into conversation with those about him on general topics. Exeusing himself, he was aise the first to leave the table. He was seen no more af that boarding house, When Mr. Samuet Haynes, whe rds at No, 84 State street, entered the parior, a $60 overcoat fe going to drenkinst, he his coat had disappeared. W: ir. Joy’? engaged board there he gay s bie of business the Atlantic losurance Company, corner of Clinton and Ailantic streets. Inquiry was made at the latter address for the missing boarder, but of course he was not known there. Avout egut o'clock yesterday morning Mn Charles G. I boards al H yoes, observed Joy. izing bim rather uncere- by exclaimed ;—"*You man, come along with me 1 have Iriead who isanxiousiy waiting to seo you.” further ado the prisoner, who though he ch: color fur a moment offered no resistance, accompanied his custodian ashore, where he was handea over Oficer Kiely, who took him to the Washington street station house, On being searched by Sergeant Kasos a large number of articies, such as pockotoooks, cob lars, kid gloves and sleeve buttons were found on bim, 1p one of bis pockets was a note book, on which were wriiten addresses of fifty-nine Brooklyn houses, sup- posed to be boarding houses which he intended to visit. Some of them had been evidently visited, the addresses being systematically checked off, so that might not through inadvertency revisit the same house. He admitted to the Superintendent of Police that tho Ulster overcoat and the opera glass found in his possession had been stolen from No, 228 Wart street by him that morning Ho said had travelled about the country, visiting Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Washington am New York. cused was arraigned betore Police Justice Walsh, yhes appearing as complainant, and was com- mitted lo the sation house, where be can be seen for a fow days by persons who may bave been victimized by bim, He gave the police the address of a second hand clothing store m this ety where ho said he sold the clothes, and it is possible that another “fence” may be uncarthod in the course of the mvestigation, THE MILLER CHILDREN. Dorethea, aged five years, and George, aged thres years, children of Mrs. Margaret Miller, who bas lately figured as defendant in an interesting divorce sult and in whose favor the case resultod, were produced before Jastice McCue, in the Brooklyn City Court, yesterday, on a writ of habeas corpus, sued out by their mother, Since the separation of the father and mother, whick ocourred in August last, until Witten the past two weeks the little ones have been im the custody of the father. At the conclusion of tho divorce suit the father, against whom the case was decided, suddenly disappeared trom Brooklyg, and Dorotnes George were cared for bY thelr grandparents, Grandmotver Miller appeared in court yesterday with the ehilufen, aceompa ¥ a paper covered bundic, supposed to coptain the children’s wardrobe, When their mother came into the court room the little ones expressed great denght. Mrs, Milter was questioned as to ber ability to support ber chifiren, and shes! that she bad intely sceured a situation at $10 per week, and as a friend had ofered to board ber itis non tor = Weatheriord, who firea several shots al itive, Captain Weatherford porsued Drury tor a mile, bat was soon distanced by the murde: whose Dorse was deetor than the oflicer's, othing she thought she could succeed. “The chilaren were then given to their mother, and her tace wreathed in smiles she a trom the carry: imu one and leading t by the hand