The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1877, Page 4

4 NEW JERSEY . CENTRAL. Judge Francis S. Lathrop Ap- pointed Receiver. WALI STREET. £FFECT UPO Interview with the Appointee—He Will Begin His Duties To-Day. —— Trenton, Feb, 14, 1877. The Court of Chancery was crowded to excess this morning by prominent railroad men and members of the legal profession, among whom were noticed E. C. Knight, President of the New Jersey Central and the Delaware and Bound Brook railroads; A. G. Richey, director and counsel of the latter corporation; Jobn Taylor Johnston, of the New Jorsey Central; Attorney General Jacob Vanatta, Courtlandt Parker, ex-Chan- cellor Williamson, Abrabam Browning, Thomas N, MoCarter, Barker Gummere, J. G. Shipman and Lud- low McCarter, Chancellor Theodore F, Runyon pre- sided, Mr. Browning addressed the Court, and said that he held in bis hand (showing a paper) a bill of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, which sets forth that the Now Jersey Central Railroad Company is insolvent, He therefore -asked for an injunction restraining the company from further action under its charter, and also tor the appointment of a receiver. He asked that either Mr. Knight or Mr. Williamson be appointed re- beiver, : ‘The Chancellor examined the bill, and said that there ‘peared to be good cause for the appointment of a receiver. The Attorney General asked ifthe granting of tho information would preclude the court from giving parties interested an opportunity for a hearing. The Dill, he said, was important and several great questions arise on it. The company owned railroads tn Penn- sylvania, and the foundation of their debt was alleged to be the result of the lease, He thought the partics should be heard, The leased roads in Pennsylvania extend to the length of the main read, The bill asks lor the continued carrying out of these roads under the management of a receiver, and whotber they should be was a question worthy of hearing, and there, fore further time ghouid be granted. Mr. Williamson said the Central Railroad Company had the authority to make the lease. The lease wasan advantageous one and tended to the salvation of the company. The leased road companies would ve glad to annul the lease and pay a bonus therefor, It was the coal company in connection with the Lehigh Val- ley Coal Company that dragged tbe company down, The Attorney General suid the continuance of the lease might be highly advantageous to the Central Railroad Company. The Chancellor interposed—One point here is, how far is the Court to inquire into the bona fide of the debt, and, further, how tar-immediate action is neces- sary in the selection of the oilicers to run the roads, It is out of the question for the Court to determine now or take evidence whether the claimant is a cred- itor. A DOUBLE-HEADED RECEIVERSIIP. The Attorney General said the receiver should be an pflicer of this Court, notin the interest of any partic. ular person, but one who could see the interests of all puncerned, There was hardly a family of any means that does not bold stock in the company, and many had their all invested in tts securities, He had vo ani- mosities to gratify or pets to favor, He would suggest the inudvisability of a double-headed receivership and would oppose the appointmeat of one not a citizen of the State, He would nommate Judge Francis 5, Lathrop. ‘The Chancellor said he had resolved to appoint but pne receiver, he to be under the jurisdiction of the State. Mr. Clarkson N. Potter, of New York, nominated General Robert B. Potter, of Philadelphia, aud State Senator John G, Schultze, of New Jersey. ‘The Chancelior inquired If he snould appoint a re- ceiver within a few hours. Mr. Thomas N, McCarter said:—“The case demands romptuction. The property of the company in New York is already attached by creditors. For obvious reasons a person well acquainted with the operations of the company would be better qualified for a receiver than an entire stranger. It 18 impossible to consult all the stockholders’ wishes.’ Mr. Courtlandt Parker said the practical resul- ought to be looked after. He hoped the future man agement of the road would resuit im appreciation of stock and the protection of the stockholders. Bond- holders representing $9,000,GU0 worth of stock held in England had asked by cabie for the appointment of Mr Potter. That gentleman bad signalized himself as receiver of the Allantic and Great Western Railroad Company. Mr, Gibbins, ot Pennsylvania, said that hundreds of thousands 0: dollars worth of property of ths com- pany in Pennsylvania would be aitached by creditors, and the coal businyss of the company would thereby be destroyed. He represented about $2,000,000 worth of claiéis against this company. In view of what the Court had said he withdrew the name of Mr. Knight, ‘The creditors would be satisiied with Mr. Williamson, whose appointment would be cminently proper. Mr. Bullit, of Philadelphia, also addressed the Court In favor of the interests of the Pennsylvania stock- holders. He insisted upon prompt action. JCDGE LATHROV APPOINTED. The Chancellor, aiter alittle delay, decided to ap- point Judge Francis 8, Lathrop, of New Jersey, as re- ceiver. Mr. Lathrop isa lay Judge of the Court of Errors aud Appeals, and also a member of the Court of (ar- dons. He resides in Madison, Morris county, in this Brate The bill sets forth the following :— The Lebigh Coal and Navigation Company, a corpor- ation of the State of Pennsyivania, 18 a creditor o1 the Centrai Railroad of New Jersey, and Miles the bill on bebvaif of itselt and other creditors. The biil recites the fact of the incorporation of the Central Ratiroad and also of the Lebigh Coal and Navigation Company, the leasing of the latter company to the former at a rental of one-third of the gross receipts from the tral. fic and- business of the leased company, and to pay the tnt t on the bonded of 2,310,000 semi-annually—in June and December. nut the Central Kasiroad is insolvent, having failed to pay the complainants $234,000 due for rent in January last; also promissory notes amounting in the aggregate to’ $250,000 whicb become duc on March 7, unounting in all to $612,000, besides the 000 purchase money of the rolling stock, &c. s10, ne bill fuather sets forth that the property of the Central Ratiroad ig mortgaged to the extent of $25,000,000, the payment of interest thereon having 'pecn lately made with great difliculty, and that, besides, the mortgages aod the indebtednesa due to the complainants, the Central Ruilroad is indebted to the State of New Jersey in the sum of $181,000 for taxes due, and $800,000 to its em- ployés for arrears of wages, creating in'all the float- jing indebtedness of some $30,000,000, Tlie company is hopelessly insolvent, ‘The bill prays for an injunc- tion and the appointment of a receiver. Attached to it is an affidavit of Edward W. Clark, President of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, corroborating the toregoing allegations, The toliowing 18 the substance of the order Issued by the Chancellor :-— It gives the recciver power, under order of the Court, to sell, convey and assign all the real estate and personal property, and pay into the court all moneys and securities, deducting such compensation as the Chancellor shall allow; that it ix maue bis duty to run and operate the railroads described in the bill of com- plaint as well as those lying in the State of New Jersey, and algo those connected therewtth and leased; also the ferry at the easterly end of the Cen- tral Railroad from Jersey Cry to New York; that be shall have power and authority to pr erve and protect f property of the corporate privileges, fi the company and of the roads in I Ivania fre proceedings which shall or may be taken by any y lies tending to produce a sacrilice of the property com- mitted to the said receiver as aforesaid, The receiver's bond was fixed at $500,000, AN INTERVIEW WITH JUDGE LATURO! Judge Francis 8. Lathrop is ubout sixty years of ag and is said to be anuiliounaire, Le tune in the mercantile and insurance Atone time ho was President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and he is now a member of the Board of Arbitration attached to that bouy, Chancery Clerk Henry S. Littie and many other lead- ing men say that the Judge is one of the ablost busi- ness men in Now Jersey, and his ex is rarely equalled. His appoiatment give faction, and he 18 one of a few whois tied for the emergency and who js believed to road buck again to asolveut condition, A reporter of the Hxrap bad an interview with the Judge this evonig. Judge Lathrop said that he did not know that his pame would be mentioned in cove fection With the appointment until he received a teles gram at one o'clock announcing that he had beeo ap- able to put the pointed, He accopted the receivership, but his bond Was not filed yet because he had not been able in so short a space of time to get all his sureties to sign it. Ho would enter at once upon his duues. He kuow but little about the condition of the road. He intends going to New York to-morrow to get an inventory of the property, aN account of the assets, liabilities, &e, ation 1D16 Lhe tion he and be will state of affairs. yumMenee wh active inv If he thought the offic: held in the State would coufliet with his duties as re- ceiver he would never Bave accepted it, le would do his utmost to arrangM@matters to the satisfaction of every one, and he was hopeful as to the iuture of the Toul. He was gorry he could not give any more infor- mation to the HaekaLp at present, but in a few days he wil, be enabled todos, [tis reported that the ro- ceiver has appointed as bis counsel ex-Chancellor Will- jamson, Abram Browning and Joho ©. Kuilitt, the latter of Philadephia, His boud will be filed to-mor- row. GOSSIP ON THE STREET. ‘The appointment ot Francis $, Lathrop, to the oilice of receiver of the New Jersey Central Railroad was announced on Wall street at about a W YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1877—TRIPLE SHEET. noon Yesterday, and for s short time made the stock quite active, Judge Lathrop, although not a railroad man, bas evidently the confidence of the cap- italists, af immediately after the receipt of a despatch from Trenton announcing the appointment the stock went up nearly one per cent, though it afterward re- turned to its original price. The present condition of the road was freely discussed on the street and remarkable stories were told of the money that had been made selling the stock stort during tho past month, The day before the report of the business of the year 1875 was made public the stock was selling at 108, and then it commenced to decline, passing below par within a week, and from thence to its present low figures. Some brokers attributed the failure of the Toad to date from the ume when Mr. John Taylo: Johnston, the old President, broke the contract they had with the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad, Everybody, however, appears satisfied that Mi Lathrop would do justice to the road, and if there wi any chance of dragging it out of the difficulties with which it 18 surrounded he was the right man in the right place, na conversation with a weil known banker, who appeared thoroughly conversant with the aflairs of tne New Jersey Central Railroad, the following informa- tion was obtained :— RerortER—What do you think of the appointment of Juage Francis 8. Lathorp as receiver of the New Jersey Central Railroad? BaNKER—I believe it to be a good appointment and it will undoubtedly have a good effect on the roud, Mr. Lathrop is a gentleman of unimpeachable reputa- tion and stands as high with the people as apy man jn New Jersey, RevortER—Do you think that Mr. Lathrop’s want of experience in railroad matters would be a drawback 10 his ultimate success? Baxker—I do not think so, as Mr. Lathrop isa very clear beaded business man and has been successful in nearly every business with whigh he has been con- nected, The task which he has pow before him is one that requires a good financier and J think be would be as likely to re-establish the credit of the road as any man that 1 know. Kuroxrer—Do you believe that Mr, Lathrop is in- terested in the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad? BaNkeR—I heard that rumor on the street, but [ am not prepared to say that be is, 1 believe he ig a friend of Mr, Moses Tayior, GOVERNMENT AUCTION SALE, GOODS REMAINING IN BOND OVER ONE YEAR SOLD AT AUCTION—-THE TOODLES OUT IN FULL FORCE. According to law all goods remaining in bonded warehouses over one year unclaimed are sold at public auction to pay duties and storage fees. These sales aro held semi-annually, and, being well advertised, usu- ally draw an immense concourse of people. In former times these goods were disposedot “unsight, unseen,” but considerable abuse had crept into the practice until recently, when the customs authorities ordered that the proffered urticies should be exposed for in- spection at least one day prior to the sale. ‘The storekeeper of the port, Special Deputy Collec- tor Lydecker, nas charge of tloso sales, and under his direction Mr, John H. Draper yesterday disposed of a catalogue of goods, containing 241 lots, which were eagerly purchased. The sale commenced at Nos. 97 anu 99 Water street at ten o’clock A. M., and lasted until about two o’clock In the afternoon. ‘The prices realized ranged from five cents for lot No, s one case of shrubbery to S. L. M. for two cases of rifles, consigned to E. Remmgton & Sons. ‘Le rifles are the munulacture of the Remington conpeer and haa been sent to Uuba and reshipped; but as the goods had been out of the United States, and no good ground shown why they should be entered duty free, they were held and sold to pay the duty, A lawsuit on this matter is now pending. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES, A large number of trunks and bags, rated as “etfects,”? were among the articles sold, In theso cas “po value’? was the appraiser’s remarks attached to the schedule. ‘The utmost variety existed among the goods thus sold. Mucbiaery was mixed iu with bottles of castor cil; macarop! sandwiched with cases of pickles. An artificial leg came very near putting a “oot” through a case of paintings (?) appraised at $15 and sod for $11 A 10t ol mock jewelry, up- praised at $192, brought $75. In some cases goods were sold at more than twice the government appraiser’s valuation, Buyers of cigars and cigarettes went wild over their bids, and puid at least thirty per cent more than the fresh goods could be bought for. Eight boxes of cigars were sold at $10 each, ana will have to pay an additional fifty cents per hundred as internal revenue tux. ‘These cigars were appraised at $8, which was their value when freshly imported. No one present at that sale yesterday can boast of a bargain, THE STATEN ISLAND MYSTERY, ‘The caso of the unhappy young woman whose lifo- less body was found in a field at Tompkinsville, 8. L, on Sunday last, is still involved in mystery—at least so far aw her identity is concerned. Had sho dropped from some other planct down into the midst of the quiet little town where she was found, the authorities could not be in more complete ignorance of her per- sonality and history. At the inquest, which was proceeded with last night at the Bay View Hotel in the town ali tho witnesses who knew any- thing about the Unding of the corpse and a great many who did not were examined, Nothing more than has already appeared in these columns was elicited except the testimony of Mr. R. E. Wardiaw, a very young civil engincer, and graduate ot the School of Mines in this city, who made an analysis of the contents of the stomach of the dead girl. This gentieman stated that the bottle found in the pocket of the deceased contaiued traces of prussic acid, and that a considerable quantity of that'drug was found in the stomach. Dr. Theodore Waiser, who maue the autopsy on Sunday, testified that death could be produced by that drag without convulsions which would disturb the features, He had been led at first to believe the deceased did not come to her death by poison, as there were no traces wh: ever of any tions from the system such as always accompany death from that cause. Hoping to obtain some information in the meantime about the dead the inquest was adjourned by Coroner Dempsey until Sat- urday evening next at seven o'clock. OUR COMPLAINT BOOK. A DANGER TO BE GUARDED AGAINST. To Tue Epitor ov THe HeRauD:— In the interest of the public and tho militiamen of this city a publication in your valuable paper may possibly avert a second calamity equal to if pot greater than that of Brooklyn, Idesire to call your attention to the Arsenal, at the corner of Seventh avenue and Thirty-fifth street. In witnessing several battalion drills ordered by the commandants of the regiments I have noticed ominous evidences of the unsafe condi- tion of the structure for the execution of military man@uvres by so large a body of men as congregate there for a battalion drill. While the battalion 1s in motion there is a very perceptible swaying of the walls of the building, and in marching around the drill room I have felt a swaying ot the floor. The root of the building being of immense weight, with no centre { | the decrease is the ery of “hard times.’? support, and tbe strain and jar of several hundred men im executing movements tend to weaken the walls and render immiuent peril to the battalion drilling, understand that drills have been discontinued owing to the unsate condition of the building, and although the structure has been once condemned there bas been no effort on the part of the authorities to reconstruct it or render the condition more sale for the use to which it 18 applied, NATIONAL GUARDSMAN, AN OFFICE BOY'S COMPLAINT. New York, Feb, 13, 1877. ‘oO THE Epiror or THE HERALD:— . I hope that you may find this short note an available place In your renowned paper. I beg to call your at- tention to the low wages which office and errand boys are forced to accept, and especially in tome of tho large houses, Before the panic a boy received trom $3 to $5 per weck, whereas at the present time he,does not receive more than $2 per week, and the excuse for The boy has the same duties to perform, to get the mails and any other duties Which are as tedious as ever and remain "1" | the same, despite the panic, The first objection 18, boys cannot allord to work tor week; 1b docs not pay for shoe leather, The rich merchant 1s hoarding up money, and 1s filling his coflers; 18 enabled to live lav- | ishiy by taking this opportunity to deprive the poor | vey’ of a comfortable livelihood. It is mostly the largo tiring Who think a boy can live on theiz name. This is a matter of the utmost importance, that boys should be Jairly rewarded tor their work. — Is there no remedy ? Knowing that you will sympathize with an office boy, | beg space Tor these few words, HENRY G, FOSTERS THAT OUTRAGE DECENCY. New Youk, Feb, 18, 1877, To Tix Eprron ov tHe HeraLp:— Permit me for the first time to encroach upon your valuable space, In the Ninth ward and about the vicinity of the Columbia Opera House, a place where, as I am led to believe, not ove? purticular persons of both sexes often congregate, posters are placed in every conceivable and conspicuous place, tho subjects of which are at once disgusting and obnoxious to the genteel and retined, it must be acknowledged a glaring fault that sach low born and bred characters should be permitted to pursue their nelurious truflic, and by pasting Ou fences thrust, as it Were, Into the very iaces of our wives and duugliters these ‘wnwhole« some and uninteliectual panoramas, Cannot rome. thing be done to clear away and wipe out tis just cause for complaint? Yours, very respectfully, HH. N. O. THE COMFORTS OF THoRST cans, To Tux Eprron ov tie Hernan: Can you tell us why the street car companies do so little to make it comfortable for theit patrous? Straps long enough for women and boys to hold on to would be a help to those who ure obliged to stand, and yet yeur after year passes aud no one speaks, Ii the con- ductors were obliged to cull out the nate of each street it would save many steps and much time and wl tem. per too, Wimt about “Rapid Transit?’ Thavs a jarce, BUSINESS WOMAN. THE DOOMED MEN. Oschwald and Ryan To Be Strangled To-Day. JERSEY JUSTICE TRIUMPHS. Pitiful Condition of the Con- demned Ryan. ‘The little incident which induced Laurence Sterne to write in his “Sentimental Journey” ‘They do these things differently in France,” might have bad a broader significance if New Jersey had been the country to which the observation was appliel. Everything in Jersey is done differently from anywhere else, and “Jersey justice’ is itself a thing so noted and so char- acteristic that it is never spoken of except in quotation marks. When a man ie to be hanged it is a matter of public interest, and the unusual spectacle of two men to be hanged not only sets every tongue wag- ging, but superinduces the most extraordinary precau- tions and preparations, For more than a week the good people of Newark have lived in the expectation of the death by strangulation of the two murderers, Oschwald and Ryan, and when St was at iast announced that there was no longer any hope for the doomed men an audible sigh, half of joy and halt of sorrow, passed ovor the city, for the men, certainly one of them, might be inoocent, but Jersey instincts and traditions had triumphed, ‘THE MURDER OF BROCK, The crime for which these men are to suffer this morning was commonplace enough. They kept a saloon in an out of the way part of Newark, and busi- ness being dull they determined to add a little house. breaking to their other avocation, if the testimony upon which they wore convicted ia to bo relied upon. Qn the morning of August 3, 1876, they broke into the house of Horace Bedell, at the corner of Clinton ave- nue and Murray street, by removing tho grating of tho window of the coal cellar, and, the family being absent at the time, they ransacked the mansion at their pleasure, They wero incatious, however, and as their work was about completed Officer Stanley Brock, who was charged with Watching the empty houses in the locality, Was attracted to tho spot by the noise which they made, Entering tho house by the open window he found the two men at work and was fatally shot by one of them after inoflectuaily trimg of his own pistol ‘The burgiars then tried to make their escape from the rear, but were seen by Mr. John Fussell, who lived in tho adjoining house and who afterward identificd them, On "their trial belore Judge Depue they attempted to prove an alibi, but failed, and were convicted and sentenced to death, HOPING WITHOUT HOPE, After their conviction sume doubts were entertained to their guilt and strenuous efforts wero made to ve them from the zullows. A motion for a new trial was made before Judge Depue, which was rejused, cellor Runyon on a !go failed. Sympathy was excited, especiaily tor Ry: oven ut he participated in the burglary it was not plaiu that ne had anything to do with the killing, as it was Oschwald who fired the fatal sbot, This sympathy took the shape of a bill providiug for a review of capital cases upon appeal, which was passed by both branches of the New Jersey Legislature, but vewed by Governor Bedle, As a sufficient majority could not bo obtained to pass the bill over the veto the death warrant was signed by the Governor and to-day was fixed as the day of execution, Up to yesterda; med meo entertained 4 hope ot escape, both of them all the whi tuning their innocence = and asserting their complete ignorance cither of the burglary or the mur- der. This expectation buoyed them up; but when all hope was fled they began fully to realize the extremity of their situation, and Kyan broke down completely, All yesterday morning be was illand nothing would remuin on his stomach. Uschwald, who occupied the same cell With him, though weak himself, fanned bis companion all the morning until, strengthened by some stimulants administered by Dr. Kooneman, ho fell asleep. THE FINAL PRKPARATIONS, About five o’clock Sheriff Harrison wok charge the prison and began to superintend the final prepa tions, The prisoners were placed in separate cells, and no further communication was allowed between them. During the day and evening all visitors were rigorously excluded from the prison, and no one was allowed to come near them except their parents and the Rey. Mr. Allen, their spiritual advisor. bly seven o'clock when the gg and testing the gullows was and it was not completed until a lato begun, hour ‘last night. Tne prison was carefully guarded during the night, and this morning’@ torce of sixty po- lice and all the constabulary of the county will form a cordon rouna the jail and no one will be allowed to ap- Pprouch within @ block of the jail on any side. The ex- ecution, it is expected, will take place at eleven o’clock, but it will not be witnessed, it 18 said, by more than thirty-five persons. HOW THINGS ARK DONR IN JERSEY, 8 unpretentious looking building and it 1s as little like a Jail as it 18 possible to imagine. So unlike a prison Ws itthat the HeraLp representative bad passed the dim twilght before he was aware that he was in the neighborhood of the building he was looking for, ‘Turning back he inquired for the prison and saw before him that constabularly budge of authority which is to make a great show to-day. Theawe of the moment was something terrible, but at last the reporter understood that he was to seek entrance to the jail around the block. At the corner a queer looking Jerseyman crossed his puth and looked suspiciously at him as b walked down the street toward the gate of tho War- den’s house, Looking back, the Jerseyman was dogging his step: toward the gate Dogberry threw himself before it in a manner that would have been exccedingly dramatic it it had not been so very avsurd. lt was an exquisite bit of fan that could be perpetrated nowhere except in Jersey. Dogberry led the way, howover, to the warden’s door, and there the reporter was asked if he had ‘the order coantersigned and approved,” The policeman on duty laughed out of a stolid countenance, it such a thing 18 possible, and a long colioquy at the gate ended in just nothing at all except the remen- branco ot the joltiest bit of un ever encountered at the threshhold of an execution. RYAN IN TEARS. Ryan approaches his aeath with evidences of sad distress, Late Tuesday night while out of his ceil tor exercise he gave vent to bis emotion in sobs and tears, ‘To Colonel Johnson, the warden, he bitterly bewailed his fate and the disgrace that 1m consequence would come on his family, His wretchedocss at this time was reflected on the face of Oscnwald, bat not shared by him, Jor Oschwald had nerved himself for a combat with the inevitable, and at this crisis it would not do to evince weakness. But there was a world of expression on his features while Ryan wept. He looked compassionately ut his sulfering coniederate, but set bis own face rigidly and fought down his rising troubles, Ali day yesterday Ryan continued in @ pitiable state of depression, and in the afternoon adoctor was called im to try and rouse him {rom a lotuargy that it was thought would rob the hangman of one victim. After the administering ot sedatives and) stimulants by turns Ryan went jeep lace in the afternoon and dozed until toward nine o'clock at night, During the evening the rumor got abroad that he was dead, With the pecunar rapiditty of such reports there quickly was added the additional explanatory rumor that both men had takea poison, Although there was nofoundation for these stories beyond Kyan’s prostrate condition, 1% was really feared that Ryan would die before the bour of cution, When the Hx. representative last vis- ited the jail, jate last ev , le Was suill very low and talking piteously of his approaching doom, HTERNAL ADIEUX. During the evening Ryan's tather and brother called at the jail and remaived with the unhappy man tor some time, Betore leaving they bade him farewell. Oschwald’s father, motber and brother also called and had their final parting with him, These teavetakings took place soon after nine o'clock, but very little ot their character could be learned through # stone wall or from @ lot of stupid officials who had only ume to say they knew nothirg about it, ‘The gallows was completed at ten o'clock, when Sheri Hurrison quitted the prison, saying he was airaid the newspaper re- porters would be very much in his way in the morning, ROBBING A TAXIDERMIS' Christian Koitel, a taxidermist by profession, hasa store at No, 17 Chrystie street. He lived at No, 312 Sixth street, and at his residence kept on handa quan- tity of stuffed birds and animals, About the Oth of Jast month he locked up his rooms and went over to Hoboken, where he was taken sick, He@was visited to by oue of his former employés, Henry Reickert, whom he asked to go to his novse and briny over some Wwols and instruments used 1 the business. Instead of com plying with Rottei’s request Reickert quietly took pos- session of the vacant rooms, Reitel’s in Ho then appropriated goods and clothing, which be sold Second avenue to a decorating establishment, enting himself as being ‘hard up,’ he pro- posed to seil a quantity of stuifed birds tor $25, The decorator accompanied Reickert to the rooms on Sixth street, and as everything appeared to ve ail right ho paid the $26 and sent for a wagon to remove the goods, They consisted of a large giuss case containing stuffed birds and animals, valued at $100; one stufled eagle, Valued at $6; one owl, valued at $5, and two cases of humming birds, valued at $30, A/few day ago Mr. Keitel returned to New York, and tound his rooms bare, He made a complaint at the Seventeenth precinct station house, and Detectives,Robinson aud Bissert were detailed to work up the case, Yesterday afternoon they found Reickert at No, 261 Second street, ‘be detectives found him in @ saloon next door, but | Joarning of their arrival,rus! to secrete himself under a bed, The detectiv the premises and Uualiv found him bail underneath a mattress and bed clothing, Upon being arrested he ‘squealed,’ and the detectives recovered the goods at No, 18 Second avenue. The proprietor of the store at once gave up the goods, and bo will appear As Complainant against tho prisoner, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC ‘NOTES. Faure sang the réle of the King :n ‘a Favorita” at Nice on January 30, Charles Halle has introduced Verdi's Requiem to the people of-Manchester, " Mme, Schumann plays at the Saturday Popular Con- cert in London on February 24. Mr. John McCullough concludes his engagement at the Boston Museum on Saturday night. ‘The days fixed for the Hande! Festiva! at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, are June 22, 25, 27 aud 29, ‘The Plymouth Rock chimes have been introduced icto the Trinity Church scene in “Fifth Avenue’’ at Booth’s. Mr, Bellew, son of the late J, M. Bellow, the well known reader, bas appearcd as Hamlet at Gloucester, England. j ‘Trotting matches and other equestrian and athletic sports will be the entertainment this evening at Gil- more’s Garden. Mr. A. P. Burbank, the well-known elocutionist, will give s reading at Chickering Hal! next Monday even- ing at the solicitation of many literary gentlemen. Miss Genevieve Stebbin: young actress, will make her first appearance, in this city on Monday next in the play ‘‘uur Boys, ay at the New Broadway Theatre, For the first time in fifteen years Mrs. Bateman’s comedy of ‘Self’? was on Monday presented before a Boston audience, at the Boston Theatre, with Mr. Owens in his great rdle of Jonn Unit, Mr. Hess, mavager of the Kellogg English Opera Company, announces a special matinée of ‘The Star of the North,’ with Miss Kellogg as Catarina, to take place at the Academy of Music on Saturday, Mr, R. Detla Rosa Coker (formerly known as Richard Coker, the boy soprano) has returned to Europe, atter a brief visit to his home in this city, to complete his musical and dramatic studies, He will make his début {u opera in Ltaly as @ baritone, Thomas’ orchestra appeared in Hartford on Monday, and the critic of the Times of that city became seriously affected by Schubert's 8 minor sympbony. “The very first tone seemed the breath of a far-off dirge, and, not- withstanding rapid and nervous movements of winning grace, this sad sentiment prevailed, and was repeated 1p dull and solemn strains, or heightened to agony and despair in the appealing cries of the brasses. But what tender and beautiful gleams between, what peace- fal of plaintive voices! {n the andante there wero broad pictures of lakes, with the moonlight dancing on the waves, or whispering summer woods of star-lit nights, and through and between these again fits of sadness, of despair, abysses of the dark and ghostly— until a lovely finale closed the song—the song of a soul that pulsated between repentance, despair and views of Elysium.’ ‘The caso is pronounced hopeless, LITERARY OHAT, The Por(folio for January contains an etching by Flameng of Rubens’ “The Painter’s Daughter,’’ the first of a series representing Albert Diirer’s art, and an etched portrait of Edward J. Poynter, R.A, by Legros. Henry Holt & Co, publish alist of the books they printed duriug 1876, which is remarkable for its high standard, Miss Kate Field, who is one of the busiest women In the world, has just accepted & permanent position on the staff of the London Hzaminer, a leading liberal hterary weekly; she 18 also a contributor to tho Hornet, bas written a play for Herman Vezin anda blank verso poem, her first attempt, which has been warmly praised, Besides all this she is fulfilling an ime portant theatrical engagement iu London. Mr. Bayard Taylor is writing art criticisms for the Tribune. Mr. Taylor is a good book reviewer, a great traveller, a clever poet, a writer of vigorous prose and an accomplished linguist, but he is not a great art critic. Mra, Fanny Hodgson Burnett’s ‘That Lass 0’ Low- ries,”? which is now running as a serial in Scribner's Monthly, will bo published in book form by Scribner, Armstrong & Co, This firm will tssuo in February a “Life of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby,’’ so famillar to all the readersof “Tom Brown;’? Charles Kingsley’s life, in one volume; a new book on political economy by Perry anda new edition of Norman McLeod’s life in one volume. India now prints sixty-nine periodicals daily, weekly and monthly, in Bengalee and Tamil, the two lan- guages of India in which there is now the greatest literary activity. Gail Hamilton bas another new book in the press of William F. Gill & Co,, of Boston, M. C. de Ribbes has published a ‘Scientific History’ of Domestic Life, Its Models and Its Rules, from Original Documents.” Bret Harte’s California tales continue to be highly popular In Paris in their French translations. M. Langel has printed a little book on Lord Palmer, ston and Lord Russell. Gustave Doré’s illustrated edition of Michaud’s “‘His- toire des Croisards’’ has just been completed in two folio volumes at the price of 150 francs. The latest book of Alphonse Karr is entitled “En Demande un Tyran.” Mr. W. G. Palgrave’s new book on ‘Dutch Guiana,” where its author spent only two weeks, is rathora picture ora sketch book than an elaborate treatise; still, thas mach fresh information about Surinam and {ts dusky population under the Equator. The Publishers? Weekly givos voice to a widely felt complaint about American cloth bindings. The mod- ern improved taste in colors, beautiful stamped do signs and elegant lettering has been accompanied by the shoddy style of putting together, and a tendency to become quickly snabby when handled, which calls loudly for reform, Challamer, of Paris, has published, in French, “An Interoceanic Canal, Without Locks or Tunnels, Across the Territory of Darien.’? A queer publication, termed a ‘Wagner Lexicon,” by H. W. Tappert, is in pros at Leipsic, which will consist of a collection of ‘all the low, libellous and jnsulting expressions which have been printed about Master Richard Wagner and his works by his enemies and slanderers.’”’? The editor doubtless bolieves that “no man was ever written down by anybody but himself.’? The thirdand last volume of Martin’s ‘Lite of the Prince Consort’? will not be ready in March, a8 bereto- fore given out, nor for some months after. Mohsieur Rénan still contributes his *'Recollections”’ to the Révue des Deux Mondes, They are rather dis- heartening reading. He calls himself “a Romantic protesting against Romanticism—a Utopian preaching slow-and-sure in politics—an idealist giving himself much useless trouble to appear a bourgeois,” Uscar Veschel’s “Races of Man and Their Geographi- eal Distribution,’ translated from the German, con- n immense amount of instructive matter, con- 4 with admirable industry and judgment. CONFIDENCE SWINDLERS. Mrs. John McDowell, of No. 275 East 77th st, was victimized to the extent of $250 by a boguy transac. tion, A man presented a despatch to her of which tho following 1s a copy :— “ALBANY, Feb, 14, 1877. “Joun McDoweLL:— “You willcall at the Central Bank and you will receive my check, amounting to $245, payable on presentution ot telegram in person only, but do not state under what circumstances I becuine your debtor, and oblige me by paying transfer dues of check from here to New York. F ER.’ The duos were $496, bat when the check was given to Mrs. McDowell sho paid $260 The man took ‘tv and departed. It is needless to add the whole trans- action occurred while Mr. McDowell was away from home, The good lady was swindled. READY WIT IN TROUBLE. Twocartmen in Maiden lane were hailed by a young man on Tucaday afternoon and asked to cart a case from in front of No, 24 to the slip at the foot of Rutgers street. They did so, The case contained jet jowelry valued at $700, and was owned by J. Kipling & Brother. Detective Maloney saw the cartinen deposit the caso on tho slip und drive away, Henoticed a young man acting suspictonsly and arrested him, be- Heving the case to have been stolen. The prisover, George Wilson, of No. 23 Monroe street, way re- manded and locked up in the Essex Market jail until yesterday morning. While in.the prison be shaved off his mustache, put on a ‘check jumper” and changed his coat and When the cartinen were produced in court yesterday they failed to identity him, In answer to the questions oi the Judge he said that he worked on the tugboat Guerina, The Judge discharged him, saying be did so with the greatest reluctance, AN ILLICIT, DISTILLER PUNISHED. Arthur Cooney, who was recently indicted and pleaded guilty to ranning an iIlicit sull in Hudson aves nue, Brooklyn, was yesterday sentenced to thirty days imprisonment in the Kings County Peuitentiary by Judge Benedict, of the United States Circuit Court, MARRIED IN THE DARK. 4 MICHIGAN MATRIMONIAL MYSTERY—FOUB CLAIMANTS FOR & BRIDE WHOSE SECOND BRIDAL CEREMONY WAS ARRANGED IN AC- CORDANCE WITH THE WILL OF HER DEAB DEPARTED. Jacksox, Mich., Feb. 12, 1877. The Mary E. Knox case has been discussed by the Berap and other journals as one of the most cur‘ous cases on record, and yet the aust covered legal records of Michigan tell of a case still more singular, Mise Knox was engaged to a young man named Merritt, the day was s¢t for the nuptials, they drove away to- gether and were married, and now Merritt vows he was not the bridegroom, She vows that he wag, but cannot prove it, and both make out a pretty good,case, One may well argue that he ought to know whether he ever married a certain young !ady or not, and the said young Indy may well arguo that she ought to know the man who roae to the clorgyman’s with her, stood up beside her, made his responses in dae form and drove ber’back bome, These arguments are what mystity the Knox case, Now for ono still more singular:— CURIOUS WILL About twenty years ago there lived in central Michi- gan a curfous old Benedick named Dodsworth, At the age of fifty he married a girl of twenty, aud when tho burden of sixty years bore him down bis wife was only half big age, Dodsworth was noted for his pecu- liarities, but the climax came when he found bimself on bis dytug bed. He was worth about $30,000, and he hadn't a vilood relative Hving, $0 far as he knew, He wauted.to leave bis property to bis wifo, as the pair had hved very happily, but yet he could uot leave it without displaying some of his pecularities in the provisions of the will. Some ofd men display a mean spirit when making their wills and draft in a provision cutting the wife off with a shillug if she marries again, ‘This old man wasn’t of that stamp. His young wite was good looking, vivacious, fond of society, and it was folly to suppose she would mourn for her “lato departed’ any great length of time, Therefore Mr. Dodsworth turned hee! on the usual custom and said in his w In case my wife Celia docs not take unto herself another husband withio thirteen months from date of my burial all bequests otherwise made in this will are to revert to the State of Michigan, to be used lor building and furnishing a home for old women, Whether Celia was pleased or displeased at this pro- vision deponent saith not, but the old man had not been under the sod more than six months when the widow was said to be looking out for another man, If it was singular forthe dying Dodsworth to urge his wife to marry again it was still more singular that he should desire the ceremony to be performed under tho following circumsiances, viz, :— yi And it is made incumbent on said Celia Dodsworth that in taking a new busband the marriage ceremony shal! be performed 1n the big barn on my tarm, on the H— road. It shall take place atten o'clock in the evening, on the main floor, witbout lights of any de- scription, with all doors shut, and a free invitation shall be extended to all, The clergyman shall stand in the stables and the bride aud groom on the main floor, and the principal parties to the ceremony shall be dressed in black throughout, 4 WILLING WIDOW, The widow announced her intention to faithfully obey In spirit and letter, the will was probated and the wwelfth month had scarcely passed before sho issued an invitation for the public to attend a wedding at the big barn, Just who the groom was to be no one could positivoly assert, as tho widow had been keeping com- pany with a widower, a bachelor and two young men, and as far as any outsider could judge she loved one ag wellasthe other. Being good looking and talented and having a fortune benind hor, it was not strango that she should have a number of suitors. She seemed to enter inte the spirit of the affair with great zest, as also did the minister; and to furtuer mystify the peo- ple in attendance the bride entered the barn alone at one door, the groom alone at another, and no one knew that the minister bad arrived until his voice was heard in the stables, BOUND IN TRE DARK. There were at least 200 people present, and each one understood that even the striking of a match would break the will. Many jokes were passed and consid- erable confusion existed, but at length tho minister announced that all was ready. The ceremony was gone through with, and at its conclusion, the affair having been a “profound success,’? a rush was made for the bride; she was kissed by a hundred wen, and was then carried home, a distance of a milo and a half, in a big arm-chair, ‘WHO Is TI HUSBAND? Now comes the mystery. When the lady was set down at her own door the widower, the bachelor and the two young men each claimed to be ner true and lawiul husband. None of tho crowd could say who was the lucky man, the minister was at sea and the bride herself seemed to have doubts. The widower was the man of her choice, but in the confusion he could have been hustled aside, and he did affirm that an attempt was made to choke him and get him out of the barn, The bachelor vowed that she had promised to marry bim, as also did both young men, and each one was sure that he held the widow’s plump hand and was legally married to h The four men hada fight, but that didn’t mend mat- ters, The crowd ducked two of them in @ creck, but that didn’t decide the question. A COMPROMISE, Just how it would have terminated had not the wid- ower been u man of nerve no one can tell, as the other three had already appealed to the law, when the wid- ower stepped in and took his place as husband and settled with the others for $2,000 each, One of the young men, now over forty years old, and having all the wife he wants (sho weighs 230 pounds), is living in this city, and, during an inter. view had with him to-day, he solemnly and earnestly assured your correspondent that he was legally mar- ried to the Widow Dodsworth that night in the big barn, Another of the parties lives in Ciinton county, and he has time and again asserted that he is the woman’s true and lawful husband, so help bis God. The bachelor is dead, but were he alive and kicking he would renew his oft repeated protestations— “I married her, by gum! and, by gum, I ought to have her!” A WONDER UL INVENTION. AN OPERATOR IN BOSTON HEARS HIS AUDIENCE APPLAUD IN SALEM EIGHTEEN MILES AWAY, Three years ago the Hrnaty predicted that the time would come when the human voice and musical sound could be carried long distances over electric wires; that the prima donna who sang in New York could be heard jo the music halls of San Francisco, The Boston Globe of Tuesday, the 13th, has a despatch three-quarters of a column long, which was spokea in Salem and heard and printed In Boston. Professor Granam A, Bell, the inventor of the wonder- ful system, gave a iecture about the telephone in Salem, and to illustrate its working capacity he had the operator in Boston give the audience the news from Washington, Every word was heard all over tue hall, and the spectators were so astonished that they broke inte applause, and, what 18 marvellous, the applause Was heard in the Boston ollice, eighteen niles a fhe Globe says:—“Coughing and singing were then heard and a variety of questions were then asked from the Salem end, and among them, ‘What | pews rom the Electoral Commission?’ lollowed by the distiuete answer of ‘I don't know of any.’ Bui the news cume ficeting along that the engineers of the Boston and Maine Rairoad bad struck. “General Cogs- wellasked if trains wero running; the answer was clear and distinet that they were nob at ball-past tive o'clock, Professor Bell introduced tho Rev, EB, C, Bolles, who said, ‘I shuke hands with you cordially in imaginution twenty miles away.’ Tho Rey. K, 8. At- woud asked, ‘Does it rain?’ ‘It does not in Boston’ was Mr, Watson’s answer, Professor Gage, the elec- trician, thep spoke through the telephone, endeavor. ing to hate tris voice recognized. This coula not be done, as Mr, Watson was not jamilur with the’ voice. Mn Shaje Zsawa was rocognized, Watson beimg pertectiy tamiliar with bis tones, fe of the assistants in Boston then satd that ‘Hold the Forw’ would be sung ip Boston, aud the tane which followed was readily recognized. Professor Beil closed his lecture by brietly stating the practical uses to which he was contident the telephone could beapphed, Hearty applause was afforded the lecturer as be fine ished, and people flocked about the stage in large numbers to more closely examine tho wondertul in- strument that had placed them in audible communica. tion with peopie nearly twenty miles away. The lec- ture and experiment were an unqualiled success, Among those present were Dr. Henry Wheatland, President of Kssex Institute; the Rev. I. 0. Bolles, Ph. D.; Professor D. B, Hagar, of the State Normal School; General William Cogswell, the Rey. B. 8. At. wodd, Protessor , Dt. Amos H. Johnson, ex-Mayor Williams, Dr. George B. Loring, A. ©. Good- ell, Jr., and many others who are identified or partice ularly interested in scientitic pursuits, potas —p—-—— ALERT BUKGLAKS. J. Hamilton, Jr.'s, place, corner of Wall street and Broadway, was entered last night by burglars and ropbed of $160 worth of umbrellas, They wi not arrested, WAUGHTY NICHOLS. - ‘What an Antique Paul Pry Saw With an Opera Glass. HARD SWEARING TO SOFT TEMPERS eb sass ok Something Which the Chamber. maid Remarked. ‘The Nichols divorce trial was to have been resumed at Bridgeport on Tuesday morning; but when the counsel on both sides—all but ex-Judge Fullerton— were assembled and waiting for the commencement of the proceedings, a telegram from New York arrived stating that Mr. Fullerton was too ill tocome, Mr, Nichols’ otber counsel then desired that the trial should be postponed until Mr. Fullerton was able to at- tend; but this wish was not complicd with, Judgo Foster deciding that the case must go on without fail next day. Yesterday morning, therelore, the trial was resumed, Mr. Fullerton being stillabsent Mr, Childs, tne junior counsel of Mr, Nichols, seemed to defer the production of the more important toati- mony until bis associate should sufficiently re- cover to be present, and occupied all the foronoon with the reading of depositions taken in New York, Hence the proceedings were not go interesting as on the previous days of the trial, Sheppard Homan’s deposition was first read. That genticman 18 the well known life insurance map, re sides in Englewood, N. J., and testifies that Mr Nichols was perfectly temperate, never swore and that his temper was always ‘‘gontlemaniy.’” Some of the fair friends of Mrs, Nichols smiled incredulously at this. MORE ABOUT ‘DR. WILSON,’? Another deposition to the samo effect by aNew York lawyer, David J. Dean, was also read, Then came tne story of Patrick McKevitt, who was a coachman at tho South Orange Mountuin House when Mrs. Nichols passed the summer there; he remembered bringing “Dr, Wilson’? (Lyman) in Mr, Nichols’ phaeton from the depot to the hotel, One of Mr. Nichols’ indus- trious detectives took Dean to Lyman’s house in New- York, and when Lyman came out Dean recognized in him the “Dr, Wilson” who visited Mra. Nichols at Orange. George 3, Adams, a clerk at the Metropolitan Hotel, remembered that on Sunday, March 6, 1876 (tho day on which it was previously testifled Lyman and Mrs, Nichols had met at the South ferry and boen driven to the hotel), a lady and gentleman came, who wore ag- signed to room No. 124 The gentleman registerod, ‘Thomas Cowles and lady,”” Ho was also taken by a gevaoulve to identity Thowas Cowles as Lyman, which e did. Thomaa A, Bird, a New York lawyer, who often mot Nichois as a fellow yachtsmap, never made Mrs. Nichols’ discoveries about bis bad temper, He consil- ered Nichols mild-tempered mun,’ thoroughly saturated with the milk of human kindness, AN IMMORAL HOUSE VISITED BY MES, NICHOLS. Joseph Cottrell, a detective of the Twenty-second recinol in New York, testilied thata certain Louse {n West Filty-first strect was used for immora! purposes, A previous witness, Mrs, Susun Smith, of Hartford, had testified that she gaw Mrs, Nichols and Lyman come out of this house, James H. Breslin, the well known hotel keepor, was one of the proprietors of the Metropolitat Hotel in 1876, when “Thomas Cowles and lady” stopped there. Ho Was asked to produce tho hotel register so that the dofonce might prove thi ‘homas Cowles and lady’? really bad registered there, but, strange to say, ho ‘was unable to say whore the register now is, it had mysteriously disappeared, NICHOLS’ SWEARING PROPENSITIES, A recess for dinner was now taken, after which the testimony regurding the sweetness of Mr. Nichols’ dis- position was resumed. G. W. Brown, a Brooklyn Teal estate man, testified to the remarkable fact that Nichols, as he grew angry, became yenerally as quiet and gentile x8 o lumb. ‘This statement seemed to afford great amusement to Mrs. Nichi Brown also declared that he had never ueard Nichols swear, but was sharply cross-examined on this point. He was asked whother, during tne trial of Lord & ‘taylor’s suit against Nichols ior dry goods turnishod to Mrs, Nichols, in the Marine Court, in New York, last week, he bad not beard Nichols sweur st the opposing counsel Srown aflirmed that he had not, while Nich- ols’ counsel violently objected to these questions as rT They urged th it made no difference whetber he swore at those lawycrs or uot, and Mn Seelye, one of Nichols’ local counsel, even impe exclaimed:—“I don’t care it he knocked their heads ott)? TRYING TO IMPEACH CALENDER, Julius N. Kelly, another Brooklyn real estate broker, niso testified to Nichols’ good temper, &c. Mra. Nichols’ counsel tried, through this beh yb im- peach the character ot William £. Callender, the hero ‘ot auotber aivorce case, who bad testified tor Nichols, Mr, Doolittio, leading counsel for Mrs, Nichols, has been very sorry that he did not read the Heratp’s account of the Callender case. Had he read it he would pave asked Callender whether he was not the same individual who prosecuted suit Jor @ivorce against his wile in such a manner that Judge Donohue enjoined him from using a confession he had procured from her. Having failed to improve that, uplortuuately, Mr. Doolittle now, with a copy-ol the HekaLp before him, asked Kelly whether he knew Calleuder, and, upon bis reply- ing tn the alllrmatiye, be put the question ;—' ‘Do you know whether this witness, Callender, 1s the same man who prosecuted lis wife for a divorce in such an out- rageous manber that Judge Dononue, of the New York Supreme Court, bad to enjoin him from using a confession which he fraudulently obwuned from bia wife?” Mr. Doolittle explained that he did not _kaocw the circuin- stanco when Callender was on the stand, and now de- sired to show up the character of the man. The ques- tion, however, was ruled out, NICHOLS), AMIABILITY, Tuen came tho deposition of Thomas Coulter, who was one o! the innumerable coachinen in the employ of the Nichols family. Touching the testimony given by Mrs, Nichols’ witnesses as to his cruelty, bad tem. per, profanity, &c., more.testimony was now offered as to his amiabie and her vile temper, And, by tho way, it was a curious coincidence that all her witnesses whe found him cruel und bad tempered also discovered ap angel in her, and thut his witnesses not only acquitted hin of all such tinpatations, but were also equally positive that she wus as bud us he was good. And ag the result of this warfare of contending opinions the deposition of Coulter contained questions and answers like these :— Q. What were his habits as to kissing his children ? A, Why, ho’d kiss them regularly; he’d kiss them all round. Q What anxiety did he manifest about tho dress of hischilarenY A. He once saw tho children wear too short dresses in the winter, and said to Mra, Nichols that be wanted them to wear longer dresses than &eo,, &e, THE DRIVES TO CONRY ISLAND, Coulter deposed that Mrs. Nichols was a “loud” and ‘fast’ talker and of boisterous disposition. Coulter also deposed to twice driving out Mrs, Nichols aud Lyman to Coney Isiand, Sirs. Nichols started and returned alone, but took up Lyman in Flatbush av- enue, where he also got off, Uriah Baker deposed that Nichols the most affectionate father he ever saw, and that “he never heard an oath jn his mouth,” Q What can you say about his dieposition? A. I can say more about it than Ican about a good many peop (Laughter. ) Bukor had some business with Nichols at the office of the Jatier, when Madame burst in, and the scene h followed is described by the witness as fol- “'$he acted like a savage dog. She abused him with her tongue, Her tongue went so fast toat I could not repeat what she said. I think sho ted to pro. yoke him into striking her. I never heard any lady speuk so to her husband in all my life.” The deposition of Josephine Carleton, a servant girl, stared that “she was sumetimes very nice, but sometimes very ugly.’” A VIRTUOUS PACL PRY, Edwin Ferguson’s deposition, which was now read, related to the immoral house in Wost Filty-(irst street, Ferguson 1s a Custom House broker, at No, 41 Pin street, and, although a man of over sixty years, ne had sailicient curiosity to perch himself on the roof of his married daughter's residence across the way, and there to peer through an opera glass into the rooms of this immoral nouse in order to watco the edifying proceedings within, What he saw covered three pages of the deposition, but, boing unfit to be road aloud, the Judge silently perused it, This seemed to be a grievous disappointment to the audience, who eViuentiy thought )t was very wrong to deprive them of any of the Indecent testimony, This virtuous Paul P! Was 80 cager to bring the nuisance of this house befor court that ho assaulted the driver of one of the carriages Which brought patrons to the house im order to get himeel! arrested and thas to bring bis complaint against the house before a court, He watched the couples as they came along, and used to sit on the steps of his own house, which was on the same side of the street, and which they bad to pass, Whenever he raid of catching rheumatism he would sit often as four times a week. TA CHAMBERMAID KNOWS, The deposition of a chambermaid in the Metropolitan Hotel was now read. She made up the room in which Lyman and Mra, Nichols are alleged to have stopped, Her evidence is unit tor publication. The Court adjourned wll this morning, when Judge Fullerton will be present and when some interesting developments are expected. AN UNRELENTING FATHER, Even up to the last moment Mr. Bernard Mohan, et No, 441 Canal street, wished to have his son James, & young man, twenty-three years old, prosecuted for burglary, in breaking into bis residence and stealing two blankets, valucu at $10. Jastice Murray, at the Washington Place Court, directed the complaint to be taken for petit larceny, thus saving James irom Stave Prison should he be convicted of the theft,