The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1877, Page 5

THE SQUAN BEACH WRECK | Theories as to the Cause of Destruction. THE CAPTAIN'S BODY FOUND No Lookout on the Beach Until Eight o’Clock. A TOTAL LOSS. {Bx TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Squan Bracw, N. J., March 5, 1877. Tho body of Captain Wicks, of the wrecked schooner Margaret and Lucy, was found yesterday. It had been ‘Wasbod ashore two miles to tho northward of Squan Inlet, which is twolve miles north of the place where the vossel was stranded, A boy, while walking along tho beach, noticed the body as it was being buffeted on the waves, and ho ran some distance into the water to- Secure it and bring it ashore. The boy experienced great difficulty in accomplishing bis object, tho man was heavily clad and the clothes wero made of extraordinary weight by their forty, hours’ soaking. Besides this, a large Amount of sand bad found itsway between the gar- ments and the body, By cutting a hole through tho coats and shirt, the burden was relieved of a quantity of tho sand, and after a half hour's labor the remains wore landed. They were subsequently taken in charge of by tho undortaker and this morning were forwarded to Blue Point, L. L, the birthplace of the drowned map, where bis brothors and sisters reside, Captain Wicks was about fifty-six years of age, ONE STILL MISSING, ‘The body of another of tho crew was also found yes- terday and piaced under the care of Justive of the Poaco Chadwick, at whose house lie the romains of the fivo which floated ashore on Saturday morning. Tho bodies which havo been tound bear no bruises to speak of, so it is not probable that any of tho men took to the Figging after tho vessel struck. Their natural appear- ances would indicate that they wore either washed byerboard or attempted to hang on to the wreck or Parts of it until assistance came. No sailor, it is con. sidered, would have risked a voluntary swim to the shore in that tempestuous sea. One man is still miss- ing, the schooner having had a crew of cight men. Jobu S, Piper, who was at first presumed to be the captain of the Margaret and Lucy, has been recognized as the mate, None of the other bodies have been pos! tively identified, Excepting the captain, all will bo buried at public expense in the Woodlawn Cemetery at Squan, unlet y of them are sent for by relatives or friends, WHAT CAUSED IER DESTRUCTION, Two theories as to the cause and mannor of the schooner’s loss are advocated. The life-saving stations on the New Jersey beach ure situated about five miles apart, covering the entire coast from Sandy Hook to Cape May. Between the hours of cight o’clock 1m the evening and six in the morning the crews of six men ‘and a keeper of cach station patrol their districts in burns of two ata time, The purpose of this is to keep a ‘ookout for vessels in distfess, and they are supposed, dn times of storms, to keop up this watch continualiy day and night. The theory which was advanced to me by Inspector Havens 1s that the Margaret and Lucy had gotten down the beach some distance below where whe struck, had spruog aleak ana, on account of the Bevero stress of weather, had put roucd for Sandy Hook. In her run up the beach she had struck the bar socidentally, or had been beached owing to the rapid gain of water, Tho grounds for this opinion are that @ number of other vessels put back for Now York on Friday night, being unable to weather the gale, and that about half-past six o’clock on that evening a three-musted schooucr was seen by oue of the crew of Station No, 15 ten wiles below No, 13, heading up the beach, CAPTAIN MILLER’S THKORY. The other theory, which is that of Captain Charles E. Miller, the representative o: the schooner’s New York agont, seems at the present time to be the more plausible. Captain. Miller 1s of the opinion that tho nodner was beating down the coast in the face of the southerly gule, and was run too farin and grounded po her tuck toward the shore. In support of this, Cuptain Miller agrees with the evideuce of the watch- man Miller, which was published in to-day’s Hera.p. The watchman stated to me th he left the station house to go on his beat, ho travelled northward, and, while going in that direction, he was contronted with the green and red sive lights of the schooner, which to his gaze appeared about on a parallel.” He also asserted that the vessel was then aground, aa ho learned alter several minutes’ investigation, Such could hardly have been the cuso unless the schooner had — struck hard while on a tuck to the southward and westward. That would have been her bead had she been trying to beat dowa the coast, Had sho ran ashore while running north- ward the watchman would have been unubie to seo Doth her side lights from a stern position. Again, the number and warmth of the garments ou the body of the captain go io show that the schooner was sailing ou the wind. Moreover, it is claimed bad the captain had the intention of beaching his crait bo would have divested himselt of all supertluous clothing preparatory to a swim for the shore, which would have been bis policy after the schooner had been run aground. The watchman Miller turther avers thut wien he returned la the wreck, afier notifying the station, he saw no fonger the red light off the port side, but the grgen light = of the starboard —sifte, and a white light somo distunce fram the green, Caplin Mifier argues that had tae vossel struck while ou her port tack into shore some time af- ter her grounding she would have slowed starboard broadside to the shore, and while in that position the white light 1» the cabin would have been visible from the shore through the skylight und thus seen at the same (ime as the green light, NO SENTRY ON DUTY TILL HIGHT O'CLOCK. never be known at what time the vessel ‘The garkness of Friday might was wonderfully and it came on early; yet there was no patroi- Diau on duty along the beach until cight o'clock. When Watchman Miller did start on bis beat the vesset Was Jast aground, and there was no evidence to show how long she had been in her faial positivn. Captain Miller speaks in the highest terms of Captain Wick’s abilily a8 @ seaman, and says that the latter bad al- ways been a sallor by occupation, ‘A PERFECT LOSS, A more complete wreck than that of the Margaret and Lucy can scarcely be imagined. Fragments ot her hull, spurs, rigging and canvass, often as small as one’s hand and seldom larger shun a man’s body, are strewn for many miles along the beach. A good portion of her Marboard side and the Jarger partol her boom, with the trunk standing, however, were washed ashore. Her hull bad evidently xeon rough usage during its fiiteen years of service, and was almost entirely demol- iabed by the powerlul wave: she lay aground that night within a quarter ota of the shore on which a body of mon is paid to stand by to assist such unfor- tunates ag she. Tho appearance of the bits of canvas and gear found on the bench give evidence of having Led 4 ‘been in aterrible gale, Not the slightest rem- ‘want of the luckless vessel's cargo can be tound, RESTITUTION, STRANGE ROMANCE OF EMBEZZLEMENT AND ELOPEMENT—AN AGENT WHO ABSTRACTS TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND ANOTHER MAN'S PRETTY WIFE, BECOMES A MILLION- NAIRE AND PAYS HIS ROBBED EMPLOYER, Om Crry, Pa., March 6, 1877. Tn 1865 Edgar G, Martin, ot Baltimore, was em- ployed as tho agent of a numbor of Philadelphia capt. talists to purchase off land for them in Vevangocounty, Pennsylvania, he boing an expert im that line. He wolected a location near Pithole, and negotiated tor the purchase of twenty-five acres of land at $1,500 an acre, A cash payment of $20,000 was required, and that amount of money was placed in his bands to invest in the property, Instead of investing it, however, ho went to Pithole City, then the motropolis of the oil regtons, where he had formed an intimacy with a young woman named Es- dolla Warren, & chambermaid ina hotel thero, and the two decumped together. No trace of them could be found, although adroit detectives were engaged to find them. Martin was about forty years of ago, and left. wile aud six children iu Baitimore, ENTANGLING ALLIANCE WITH A BLONDE. The chambermaid Wh whom he eloped was about sighteon years of age, and cume to Pithote with a va- | hety show which disbanded there. She was a very | handsome blonde, and was the wife of tho bartender of the bovel, Alter about a year’s search for the laitbless agent his employers gave up the chase. Tue losers by Martin’s robbery were William and James Hurper and Joseph Brower, torming the bardwaro firm of Harper & Co. The two tatier are dead, and the former became a bankrupt in 1878 and removed to Kor+ est county, Where he vow hives. RNUENTANCK AND RESTITUTION, About the Ist of February last Mr. Harper received Bletter postmarked San Francisco, adaresseda to W. & 4. Harper, to their old number in Phitadciphia, trom which place 16 bad been forwarded to him, ie was from KE. ©. Martin, the absconding agent of twelve ac at r, as the only survivor of the three, started for Gallforbia at onceand met Martin at the address he had ar in the Jotter, which was un aristocratic boarding + PERUVIAN suLnosx ares, Martin was living 1» the most luxurious of apart- ments, Which Were shared with hit by the [rid champermaid of Pithole City. elezautly dressed and blazing with diamonds, Martin met Mr. Harper as it nothing had ever happened to alter their friendship, He said that be bad gone direct to Peru after abscoud- ‘ing, and had made $2,000,0v0 thero in opening and developicg sliver mines and building paiiroaus, He had come to San Francisco on a pleasure trip, and bad made some business ongagements that would keep him in the country for some time, and he desired to be ex- pt from apy possibility of arrest, Mr. Harper gladly a to erin fegies, 906 Are Fetarned here with 000, principal and interest, of the stolen mone: Martin's deserted family is in England, Mrs. Martin's native country. THE MEXICAN: FRONTIER, qT USUAL PERPETRATION OF LAWLESS ACTS BY MEXICAN REVOLUTIONISTS—ANNEXATION THE REMEDY. A gentleman from Matamoros, who has for some time past been doing business near New Laredo, Mexico, gives extremely discouraging accounts of affairs down th Describing the scenes of lawlessness and bloodshed that baye in rapid siccession afllicted the Mexican frontier opposite Texat, our iptormant says that when the revolution commnced there a drunken scamp named Pedro Arriola, “pronounced” in company with ix or goven others of the same stripe, Tho act was consummated jn browd daylight, and on the fol- lowing morning the number of the pronunci- ados had imereased to thirty-five. During the succeeding pvight they eutered the houses ond took from thence all tno arins and ammunition they could find, In three or four days afterward the revolutionists numbered sixty men, all mounted and tolerably well armed. Shey then thought that 1 was time to commence tho york of imposing forced loans. “I,’? said the gentiemaa above cited, ‘was put down for $300, but paid only $40." Some residents of Larouo bad to pay two forced ioans the same About cixht days after they first took tne eid the revolutionists left for Lampazos to Join that arch rev- olutionist, Pedro Nargnjo, They bad bardly got seven leagues irom the towh when a strong detachment of government troops, under the command oj Colonel Ordoiiez, met them hnexpectedly, aud im the action which followed they vere completely routed. Many of the rebels reappeated the next day at Laredo, but on the Texas side of the Rio Grande, not having then with them either horses or arms, und some of their number had even ldst their hats. Ordofiez then marched into the towa, When the first outbrenk of the revolution had de- stroyed the comidence of peace-ubiding citizens many fJamilies crossed tho river from Lareav to tho Texas side mo olthem bave since returned, but others atill remain thare, Ordonez 13 for some days at Laredo, and “things were fixed up’? He re-established the legal authorities in power, and then marched for Monterey. GOD AND MANFUL #1GHTING. Since March last antil the end of November several actions of mingt importance were fought in and about Laredo, the revglutiouists having taken the town twice by assault. Onach of these vccasions both parties fought well aud jnantully, both suffering heavy losses in proportion tothe number engaged. - Betore the outbreak of the revolution Laredo was progressing rapidly ; Ube spirit of advancement seemod to pervade all c Now the town wears the us- pect of a graveyard ; in fact the whole frontier of Mex- ico i$ in a ruinoug condition, and the interior at tho country cannot bp much better off.. Revolutions have ruined the country, both financially and morally. It ts not thougut that Diaz can hold on to the Prost dency now that h@ has 1t—vbiained through fraud and treachery. Quiroga was shot ior doing bis duty as 9 soldier, He sustamed Lerdo as the legitimate Chiet Magistrate of the pation, Alter Lerdo had fled the country and Iglesias was proclaimed President by the Tevoluuonists, Generals Palacios and Quiroga turned over to Geporal Tréviiio the troops under their com- mand, receiving a guarantee of protection by the last named officer. THE MURDER OF QUIROGA Quiroga, relying upon the word of Trevifio, went to the former's ‘ranch; but a fow days afterward he was arrested, tried and shot, Diaz alter taking Mexico declarod bimsel{ Presidont and got the other revolutionary chiefs to recognize him as such, Along the Mexican side of the frontier there is hardly any news trom the interior, Treviiio and Naranjo are said to be in Durango. The poople of the frontier hoped that they would see no more revolu- tions; everybody thought that the risings of 1870 and 1871 would be the last. Now, old and experiencoa men incline to the belief that Mexico, as a nation, will never be free from these periodical social outbreaks. ‘The poopie appear to be uuable to hive peaceably hke the citizens of otuer lands arto do what is right and bonest, 1t seeMs that thero is no remedy tor tho country except annexation to the United States or protectorate. Either must mevitably come about sooner or later, the sooner the better, THE POLICE BOARD. At a meeting of the, Poltve Board yesterday Uaptain Hedden, of the Thirty-third precinct, was fined thirty days’ pay tor obtaimiog money trom members of the force iu violation of the rules of the department, and he was transforred to the Street Cleaning Bureau, Captain Killilea was appointed to succeed bim, Cap- tain Ub! was transferred irom the Streot Department and placed in charge of the special service squad, Captain Lowery, of tho Thirty-fifth precinct, was requested to procure new bondsmen, as Edward Cahill had deelined being bis surety any longor. Ser- goants Grifllth, of the Twenty-seventh, and Liuden, of the Twenty-first precincts, were transierred to tho Eleventh and Thirty-first precincts, respestively. Honorable mention was made of the prompt action of Captain McCullagh in seizing a large quantity of stolen gouds at No, 23 Elaridge street, on February 27; and like mention was made of Officer Bell, of tho Ninth precinet, tor the heroic reseue of a drowving man, at the foot of Ninth street, North River. A large number of roundsmen und patrolmén were transterred, RAIDING A LOTIERY OFFICE. Yesterday morning Captain Caffrey, dressed in citizen’s clothing, could be seen standing on tbe steps of No 317 Broadway, apparently waiting for some person, Presently a well dressed man entered and the Captain followed. Tho stranger called tor a ten dollar lottery ticket and tho young man behind the counter handed him a printed slip. “You arg my prisoner,” said tho Captain, reaching over tho counter and catching the astonished ticket seller by the arm. “All right,"” said the young “Dm your game.” The Captain then ‘asked wer to go with him, and the three went to the Tombs Police Court, Detective Hagan remaintng inthe lottery office to await the arrival of the alieged agent, While the d-tective was engaged several elegantly dressed ladies calied in and while fingering their costly portemonnaies asked for lottery tickets, In about an hour Mr. Williamson entered and, learning the condi- tion of aflairs, promptly placed himseit in the custody of the officer. At tue Court Judge Dufly discharged the young man who sold tho ticket, saying that he was merely wb agent, but he held Mr, Williamson in $500 bail, which was immediately turnished, ORUELTY tO A STEPSON. On Sunday afternoon Inst, several people, residing ag No. 16}4 Hamilton street, were incensed at the outra- Michael Nevins, about eleven years Of age, Officer Crittenden, on complaint of the little boy, arrested Eagan, and he was arraignod before Judgq Flam- mer, at Essex Market Police Court, Yester- day. Young Nevics told the Judge thas Sunday his father bad knocked him down om the floor and then kicked him in the face, Nearly every tooth in the boy’s head was loose and his face pro- sented a horrible appearance from the injuries re- ceived. Ragan, in his defence, said that bis wile was in the habit of getting druuk; that she was drunk on Saturday night, and that the reason be struck bis stepson was that he haa broughy liquor to her against his orders. He was held 1 $900 bail to answer at Spe- cial Sessions. A BAD “SPEC.” Mrs, Catharine Canning, of No, 154 Wavoriey place, was walking through Broadway yesterduy n orning, when she missed her eyeglagses from the right band pocket of her jacket, Henry Lewis, of No, 361 West Fortioth street. was standiwg near er and she was sure sho felt his bund in her pocket. Lewis was ar- rested by Officer SicLinn, of the Fifteenth precinet, and held in $1,000 bail to answer, THE INSANE, The case of Octavia Walter, the young girl whom it is alleged was badly beaten and braised atthe Flatbush Insane Asyiuin, botween the moaths of April, 1876, and January, 1877, will bo mvestigated on Tharsday next by the special commitice appoluted by the Kings County Board of Supervisors. PIES AND PUVERLY. Michae! Graus was arrested yesterday on complaint of Albert Ottenbacher, a bakor, at No, 61 Deimonico place, Brooklyn, who accuses him with obtaining from him $13 76 worth of bread, cakes and pres and not pay. ing him therefor, It subsequently turned out that Graus, nowwithaianding he professed to bo penniless, porsessed w bunk account of $400, His restdence be- lokened extreme poverty. WANLON DESTRUCTION. For the past two years tho streets and avenues of years ago. The letter sti tha wgent of his vicum would moet bimin san F; warapteed immunity from arrest ould royey, the $24,000 with int connected with completing the arrangement, Mr, Clitton, 8. 1., have been without gaslight, and daring that time all the lamps have beer destroyed by ma- licious persons known ag the Clifton Mudocs, jany of the lampposts Lave algo beon pulled down, geous manner in which William Eagan beat his stepson + NEW YO ROMAN AND EGYPTIAN. CONCLUSION OF THE LECTURB ON ANTONE AND CLEOPATRA—HIS ATTRISUTES AND HER LOVE AND DEATH, The third lecture of the Rev, John Weiss at the rooms of,the American Geographical Society, con- tinuing the subject of **Autony and Cleopatra,” was de- livered yesterday afternoon. The historic ancestry of Cleopatra aud her general characteristics having been dwelt upon in the last lecture, this one dealt chiefly with the play and the use which Shakespeare has made of bistory, the Professor reading copiously from Shakespeare to illustrate his comparisons, Antony was tho son of Julia, the sister of Julius Cmsar. He was bora B, C, 83 From childhood he bada orilliant and virile career, He was handsome, winning, bud a superb physique, and was full of bonkomie, His sol- diers loved him. Ho had a dup'ex career, ono of Pleasure and one of glory, and the one did not secm to interfere with the other until his last temptation, which resulted in his ovarturow and defeat at the battie of Actium. The traces of his soldiers’ love for him are found ip this play. Shakespeare did not pick up aad vse history alwa: He divined history, and soine Of his sayings have since been discovered to be tacts, Such was the man who married Octavia, trom policy, wad left Cleopatra for two years,who, however, waited for him, knowing that he would come back to ner. Plutarch said she conversed in seven languages, and that her voice was ike one of those Eyyphian which wero strung with twonty 5. eo is compact of passion. Mere historic: ave been omitted by Shakespeare, that the characters ot the hero and heroine might be psychologically broughtout. Antony and Cicupatra carried it on with sv bigh a hand at Alexandria that Rome became more and more incensed, and Octavius Cwsar de termined to put a stop to it ‘Tho two policies met at the naval bate of Actium, which was fongbt at the instance of Cleopatra. After the deteat at Actium Antony and Cleopatra re- volved many jects, She finally thought it best to escape across the Red Sea und get up a little kingdom 1m Judea, to which he consented, ard tuey began to transport their treasures, but when about ball way across the Isthmus of Sucz a Roman envoy tucited the natives to massacre the men and burn tho stores, A SCENK NOT IN THK PLAY, They then returned to Alexandria and Antony moped for threo days and thon walked into Cleopatra's palace, where she had been tranquilly awaiting bim, and tonnd her serene and unmoved, That day they sat down to the table together and Antony would not taste or drink anything woless she tasted it first. In the middje of toe feast she detached a rose from her hair and dropped it into a cup of wine and gave it to bim to drink, He was about doing so when sne took the cup froin his hand, saying— “And do you suspect me? See bow easy it is, That rose 1s poisoned,” She then gave it to a slave to drink, who dropped dead instantly, That is not in the play, but is in hise tory. OCTAVIUS? DISAPPOINTMENT. Alter the death ot Antouy Cleopatra wished to die, She theretore appeared to Uctavius tv be willing to live and go wiih bim to Rome, and gave him an ine Ventory of her treasures, which, howover, only tn- cluded haifof them. (Act 5; scene 2.) in the mean. time she prepared for death. Mr. Woiss then rea the gceue where she put the asp inher bosom, At this moment Shakespeare introduces the rastic, and thereby forms a Wouderiul contrast. Tho clown un- consc‘ously brings her the instrument of deat. While this was. goiug on Octavius was standing in the tomb of Alexander the Great. The tid of the sarcopha- gus was raised up, aud whilo he was looking at the body of him for whom this world was two small the news of Cleopatra's death was brought him, and the lid o1 the sarcophagus slammed dowa upon bis ballled ambition, 7 CLERICAL CONFERENCES, THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC TO BE SHUT OUT OF THE METHODIST PREACHERS’ MEETINGS— THE BAPTISTS ON WOMEN PREACHERS, Tho Methodist preachers had quite a lively time Yesterday morning at the close of an interesting essay read by Dr, Kotiell on “Sanctification.” The mecting bad so stultitied itself a week ago by rescinding a previous invitation to Miss Anna Oliver to preach be- fore it that 1t was ready for the next step, which was to sbut out everybody hereafter excopt ‘travelling preachers,’? Hnco, ut the close of the eskay yester- day, De. Crawlord offered a couple of resolutions look- ing to the appointment of a committee of nine, con- sisting of three ministers representing the Now York, New York East and New Jersey conferences, to bring in a plan for the remodelling of the mecting, 80 as to exclude every person who cannot show good cause, to be classed with the *travellers,’? albeit she travellers are seeking a modification of the discipline which obtiges them to travel. The bretbren spoke ireely on the subject. They all adinitted the necessity for some change or mouitication of the order and proceedings of the moeting, aod favored the appointment of the committee, But while some of them sought by this means to muzzle the press, others thought it would be best if they put the bon themselves.” This wus Dr. Auams’ opinion, Brovber Dickinson tound fault with the press last week cutting up his remarks and creat ing them to half « dozen other speakers, A LOCAL ON THE TRAVKLLERS, Brother Goss remarked that be was glad the travel- ling preachers bud determined to meet by themselves; for in louking over tho reports as printed he noticed that none but travellers had used the course language published, Their proposed action would shut ont every local preacher 1u Now York und vicinity, though not one of them had been qulity of the least breach of propriety. He had been a member of the meeting ior and it would suut bim out, But i the and the reporters are to be punished for the crimes of travelling preachers it was time (hat that should be known, He found no fault with the re- Ports in the papers, but he thought it was a disgrace to Methodism and to this preacners’ meoting that lan. guage should be used by w minister of the Gospoi that would call tor such un editorial as that published in the Heratp of Sunday. Brother Willis, the chairman, was not willing to admit that this meeting had been conducted in a disorderly or improper manner, ‘The only narsh or improper word that he had heard used while ho has presided was the reterence last week totho mother of our Lord, As the majority of the meeting seemed desirous to have the committee, it was appoiuted. It held # preiminary meeting at bult-past two o’clock P. M., and 18 expected to report us plau a week trom next Monday. But next week the question will be decided whether the committee will’report to a general aud public mecting or only to a special me Ing of travelling preachers. The second resolution did not fare so weil, 1t was modilied so as to keep the meetings open as they have been until such time asa decison has been given. Next Mouday tne preachers are to discuss the extension of the pastoral term, The meeting closed with prayor tor the new President. SHALL WOMEN PREACH? In the Baptist ministers’ conterence the Rev. W. H. Leavell read an ossay on the right ot women to teach or preach or to usurp authority over men. Ho took the ground substantially taken by the Newark Presbytery ina recent cane. He argued trom Paul's letters to the Corinthians and to Timothy that women should not teach in public or promiscuous assemuiios, Another argument against it was the universal pro- hibition of the Charch for eighteen centaries. Yer Mr. ‘Leavell coniessed that he was open to conviction on the subject, Dr. Thomas subsequently gave bis third scientific lecture beture the Vonlerence on ‘Sci cave and Providence.” THE SEA CLIFF ASSOCIATION, The Sea Clif Camp Meeting Association are in trouble again, A pumber of the trustees of the asso- ciation formed a steamvoat company, the association giving them the lease of a small dock at the camp grounds, Tbs associauion sold out to an opposition oom of wnother portion of bourd nd threw in the lease, matter is now ubder investigation by the committee ol the board of trustees, elected last Uctover, CHAPIN The fourth avniversary of the Chapin Homo was cclobrated at that imstitution yesterday. The Howe was throngod with Visitors from ten o’cloek A. M. till ven o'clock P, M, The balls and staircases wero prettily draped with our national flag, and the recep- tion room was filled with various articles, pretty, in- genious und artistic, which were made by the old ladies and exposed for sate. Between the afternoon and evening programme impromptu music was tur. mished by different guess» A very bountilul collation ‘was spread tn the dining thoi Tbe inmates number Unrty-tive, and their rooms are models ot neatuess, comfort and, in some eases, of even luxury. Jn the atvernoun the Visitors were addressed by Rev, Mr. Pullman, Dr. Armitage, Rev. H. K. Nye, Rev. J, M. Getehei, of Harem, and io the evening by Dr, Cuapin, Dr. Burchard ind Rev. Mr. Alger, HOME, & DEVICE. AN ELABORA' On the afternoon of tho Ist inst, Mra, Lemertz was found by her busband, Henry, im the back room of thoir dwelling, No, 191 Sands street, Brooklya, gagged and bound ty achair, When uniastened she stated that two men had entered the room trom the yard and gagged and bound her belore sho had time to give ap wiarm, and that while one stood over her, with a pistol pointed at her head, the othor secured jewelry and clothing valuad at $46, aud they had both lett tog Mrs. Lemoriz how says What her statement concerning the robbery was untrue; that she mude it forthe purpose of con- ceuling the loss of $10, and also tho pawning o| jewelry jor $6, (rom ber busband, tHE SHAD SEASON. ‘The shad fishermen at Staten Island aro already be- ginning preparations for thoir spring work in getung boals, bets and ishing apparatus in order, If the weather should prove favorable they will vegin to put | down their gill Het poles next week. The veteran tish- erman, Comtnodore Simonson, 18 dead, but his achye partners: sera Van Dusen and Small—will conduct 088 as Usual, RK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARC 8ST. JOHN’S GUILD. THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIXS IMPLACABLE IN 176 DETERMINATION TO DO ITS OWN IN- VESTIGATING, The proposition made by the Trustees of St. Jobn’s Guild at their meeting on Saturday night, to have the affairs of their institution investigated vy a board of referees composed of two members of the Guild and two gentlemen, one appointed by the Mayor and tho other by the State Board of Charities, was yesterday declined by Attorney Geueral Fairchild ov benalt of the Board, ‘That body has decided to go on and exam- ine the character of the Guild and its Master, Rev. Alvah Wiswall, after its own plan; and the work will commonce on Monday morning noxt, when a number of witnesses will have been subpenaed, When the State Board met yesterday morning, Mr. Joun D, ‘Yownsend, senior counsel to the Trustees ot the Guild | OPH the door leading to the room where the woman and to Mr. Wiswall, the resolution proposing the jot board of ret | } and expressing the willingness of the Guild to bave its | officers go before the Board if they were py bring counsel, Attorney General Fairehild perused the (returned in writing the following re ly e will not admit counsel, but we will allow r. Wiawall to be present to suggest questions tor ag toask witnesses and make such suggestions as seem to us reasovable,”” Mrs, Lowell—Do your officers, then, roluse to come here and testity ? Mr. Townsend—I am bound to say yes, unless they aro accorded the right of having counsel to represent them. Mr. Roosevelt—Does this refusal apply to the officers of hing Guild only or to the trustees and members as well? Mr. Townsend—to all, as tho trustees would not pass | the temple irom whieh blood was lowing siowing but A resolution ordering their officers not to appear if they | did not intend to stand by 1 themscives in a like | manner. H 6, 1877—TRIPLE SHEET, Appeared wud presented a copy of ,| Was sald to be dying. ‘eos ited to | latter Wasim a corner of tue room partially hidden Atorney General Fairchiid—Mr, Townsend, is there | aoythiog wrong with this institution of St. Gald? Mr. Townsen!—Nothing whatever, sir; everything about it ts honest and fair, Attorney Gen all como tere nd submit to an Investigation ? — is wo fect they have no legal investigation im such a mauner, and, have resolved to appoint a joint com: ove stated, who can, bold a thoroughly ec, 8 impartial investization, Some debuto and a great deal of good-humorod rafllery occurred among the gentlemen batore they separated, Mr. Townsend suggested that the Board should lvok into the affairs of Trinity church, ‘The Guild, he suid, was obliged to look after a number of the communi cunts of that church, ‘This sally was received with laughter, and alter the interchange of a few similar pleasantries the Board adjourned until Monday, MR. HINDS’ TROUBLES. THE VICISSITUDES OF AN UNPAID THEATRICAL COMPANY—"BLOOD AND THUNDER PAYS BET= TER THAN ANYTHING ELSE.” ‘This is a hard time for a groat many of tho theatres, But fow of them moke money, and most mavagers aro glad If they pay expenses, When people are pinched for their living expenses the purveyors of luxuries have to suffer first, for people will only lay out money for the absoluto nocessities, At the Now Broadway Theatro (formerly Wood’s Museum) Mr, John T. Hinds, “trom the Theatre Royal, Dublin,’ played with his own company “the great Irish drama, ‘Inshavoguo, or the Days of ’98,'’? On Saturday evening Mr. Hinds was to have paid off his company, but he cheertully ani buoyantly said, Come to rehearsal on Mouday morning and U’ll see you then,” und slipped out of the front door instead of effecting his egress by the stage door, where the company were urdently waiting tor thoir salaries, Yesterday morning Mr. Hinds’ company came to the theatre to find the stage door locked and to learn that Mr. Hinds had ett the field to Rose and Harry Wat kins, who would open in ‘*Trodden Down, or Under Two Flags’? that (last) evening. How mucn Mr, Hinds: owes his company could not be exactly ascertuined yesterday, but Mr, Mulligan, who plaved Dennis O'Ral- ferty, aud others declarad with ruciul faces that their pecuniary compensation had not been entirely tiqui- dated. Mr, Hinds subsequently calied and stated to Mr, Ayros, the manager of the theatre, that bis own agent who was intrasted with his share of the reoeipis on Saturday ‘had skipped,” and hence he hunselt was, financially speaking, left in the lurch, Itis thus apparent that Sr. Hinds is decidedly behind—in more respects than one; but a gentleman who plays the rdles of Inshavogue, the Outlaw, Cornelius MeCarthy, tho Sbaughraun, and 3 O'Connell, the piper, in the sane play, may be reasonably expected soon to retrieve his fortunes and those of his company. Mr. J, B. Ayres, the manager, said tho theatro had not yet been leased, und its future was therefore shrquded in uncertainty. ‘“*Whatl think pays better than anything else,’ said he, “is the sensation drama—blood and thunder, as you cailit, You keep a theatre to make money, don’t youY Well, blood and thunder will pay better itan anything olse. ‘New York already bas threo theatres for the first class society play and comedy —namely, thy Filth Avenue, Wallack’s andthe Union Sqaare—while the real blood and thun- der 1s only dono ut the Bowery, bot not at any theatre uptown, As to Mr. Hinds, of course the management of this thentre bas nothing to do with his pecuniary engagements to his company, as he played ona per- centage and furnished his own company.) TOWAGE. CABLE The conference committees of the Now York Cham- ber of Commerce, the Produco Exyhange, the Im- porters and Grocers’ Board of Trade and the Maritime Exchange, appointed to conter with a committee of the Now York Cheap Transportation Association as to tho best means to be adopted to secure the Belgian cable system of towing for our canals, nave submitted their report. The conclusion they arrive at is that tho Belgian cabie sysiem mot ail the vecessary require. ments—viz., the speed of boats will Le increased from one and a quarter miles an hour, the present Tate, to at jedst threo miles au hour, including lock- ages, at leas cost for towing than if animal power was employed; reduces the nomber of hands required, utilizing the canal and Voats in their present condi: dition ; also permitting 41x boats of 250 tons each to be towed 1 traia, thus practicaily increasing the capacity of the canal to thatot passing singie boats of 1 tons each, with the advantage of reaching York with boats of the proper form and for speedy. delivery of cargo im quantities as wanted, and capable of being placed alongside of ships in par. row or crowded slips, where larger vessels could not be accommodated for want of space. It has been de strated that the cable method of towage will enable a higher rate ot speed than three miles an hour to bo at« tained, but that is assumed to be tho maximum, “THE CABLE WAR.” ablo War,” in the Hexavp of Sunday, Mr, Oliphant, the manager of the Direct Cable Company, was wiade to say, by a typo- graphiien error, that according to the decision of the aster of the Roils the amalgamationists had a ma- jority 01 40,000, What Mr. Oliphant did say was that the decision gave them a majority of forty. BROOKLYN'S AFFLICTED HORSES, The car stables of the Green and Gates avenue line, on Gates avenue, near Throop, Brookiyn, still the scone of much suflering among the horses afflicted ‘with cerebro-spinal meningitis, During Sunday night and yesterday morning eleven more were added to tho sick lst, making Milty-one in all, Botween two a’clock and noon yesterday seven more suc. cumbed to the disease, making the tbtal num- ber of deaths since the first’ breaking out of the scourge twenty-three, So great bas been the progress of (ho disease in some cases that the poor animal has aied fp less than five hours from the first attack, The stables ure Wooden structures, one story high, and are built over alow meadow, which is sev. eral feet below the level of Gates avenue, Lt is sidered by many that the sole cause of the dis owing to the location of the stables, an predict that the Brooklyn Cnty f] pany will loxe their entire number of 260 horses which the Green and Gates avenue line uses 1 the avimals stil well are not immediately. removed to higher aad drter ground, The company has already sustained a loss of over $3,450. Everything 1® beimg done to re. hheve the suffering equines, and the stables have been disinfected with chieriae of lime and carbvoie acid, MISS ROBSON'S BABY. Coroner Ellinger held an inquest yesterday upon the body of the male infant of Miss Henrietta Rovson, which she is supposed to have thrown from tho wi dow of her apartment at No, 560 West Fifty-frse street on’ tho morning of the 2ist ult, A post. mort jon revealed tat the child bad been bern alive an tit had died trom a fracture of the skull, and evidence of a very conclusive nature was adduced to show that the cutid was Miss Robson's and that she had rid herself of the infant im such a sum. mary way in order to conceal her guilt irom her brother, The jury rendered « verdict of death from fracture ot the skull, exposure and neglect at the bunds of its sapposed mother, Heurietia Robson, Tne Coroner committed the woman vo the Tombs with- out bail = THE O'KEEFFE HEIRS, To tie Epiror ov THe HeRaLyi— Having seen im the columus of your valuable paper the claims of Mrs, Modden, of the Bunker Hill district, Boston, Mags., and also of another calling bimseit Daniel W. O'Keete, now acting as waiter in a restau. rant near the St. Denis H tel, New York city, claiming to be heirs to the late Uharles Robert O'Keefe, of Ind who jelt an estate of $25,000,000, 1 bey leave to stw that as far as 1 can learn Lam (he only member ot the ame that bus revetvey any conimuaication trom the solicitors of the estate at Caleatta, Mess! jcorge Car. ringtoa & William Wigley, who huve stated that my claim i tho most perfect yet presonted. Yours, re. spectfuily, STKVHEN DOUGLAS O'KEEFFE, John's | rchild—Then why don’t they | A FIENDISH HUSBAND, A WITE KICKED AND BEATYN BY HER HUS- BAND—HER LIFE DESPAIRED oF, Atan early hour yesterday morning a man, almost breathless, hurried nto "the Oak stres ation house and informed Captain Murray that Mrs, Bridget Cusick was dying in her house, No. 32 Kose street, trom the eflects of brutal beating intlicted by her drunkea hus. | band, Thomas Cusick, tho night previous ‘The informant’s excited manner specdily convinced the Captain of the necessity of prompt action, and ina few minutes be was on his way to the scene of the occurrence, A wretched tenement house was the piace pointed out. The dilapidated stairs creaked warningly as the Captain ascended, and a crowa of dirty faved urchins | followed him, with eyes of curiosity, as he pashed | Entering, he saw a tabi chairs, the 0 of a scanty re; thy floor, a cracked stove and tumble-down bed, a fow t seaitered on The from sight, A person lay motionless anu sileut on the | bed, a torn blanket but partially covering the form, Advaveing neurer, the Captain was shocked at see- ing a deep gash on tho right of the head near Sleadily. The unconscious person was dirs, Her puise was low and faust ebbing and her fy | deahiike in its pall Hee har was tangled and ited with blood and a deep inaeptat told too plainly that the flend had don BEYOND THE SKULL moutance soon arrived aud a surgcon was ex- ng the wounds of the unconscious Woman. He K lis head as be mutter fear sbe Is beyond rele: Her a bret examination she was borne to tho am- bulance and hurried to the Chambers Street Hospital, ‘There Dr. Jane made a careful and critical inspection of the Wounds and pronounced them tatu, The skull was fractured in two places, Meantitne Captain Murray was busily ens hupung up the inurderer apd obiaining evidenc hone of the heighvors appeared to have hoard the wn, and he touad it impossible to ob- any information that might lead to Cusick’s discover, Returning to the station house the Captain ph detectives on the caso and sta tioned himsel! on Rose street, adjacent to the house, tu wateh tor developments, . THK MURDERER ARRESTED, Witbin ono hour Captuin Mafray espied his man and b On the skull his work weil, immediately took him in custody, The prisoner was to the station bouse and char, nthe | He admitted it, In appeara Cusick is y-five years oF age, of medium height, sharp, repulsive luce, covered with alight st beard. His demeanor was that of igpant bri ” Attwo o'elock ho was bet Judge Dafly at the Tombs Police Court, Captain Murray persoualiy being bis custodian, Ho said he bad beaten ais wile becuuse she took §$11.out of bis pocket. He hoped that be had not burt hor, and denied being drunk at the time of the beating, Alter a few moro questions of no import the Judge committed him to the Tombs, without bail, to-aw: tho result of bis,wile’s iujurios Subsequentiy C tain Murray succeeded in procuring dumyging evidence agaist Cusick, the nature of which, however, he will not reveal, Ata lato hour last night Mrs, Cusick was alive, but unconscious, and the physicians were without hope of her recovery. THE FIRE KING, A rather novel exhibition was given last night to Gilmore's Garden, which practically illustrated to a tolerably largo number of spectators that it was possi- ble to walk, stand ana sit in intense heat and a flaming fire with comparatively slight imconvenionce, A wiro Jrame building, about wight feet by twelve fect, covered with sheet iron on the top and hewspapors on the side, had eon erected im the centro of the garden, about ten or fifteen yards from a square tent that was usod as a dressing room, The inside of the wire frame was surrounded with threo rows of gas pipes avout three inches in diameter, After the patience uf tho spectators had been fuirly tested and a band had performed a couple of selections the Fire King emerged from the dressing tent, and, carrying a lighted taper, walked across into the wire structure, Tho gas was turned on, and in a moment the place was ina blaze and its newspaper cgvering reduced to ashes. He remained in the centro of the fire, vccasioually lying down against the gas pipes, leuting the Hames curl and twist all around lus head and shoulders. He was evidently not in tho slightest inconvenienced by the heat,-as he passed his b#uds and arms backward and forward through | the flames without any nouceable annoyance. Alter | Temuining in the heat ‘about minutes ho returned to the Gressing tent, During the evon!ng he gav several other exhibiions of a similar nature, lot tr works off ail around him, moited lead, drank lager, and finally went m attired in woman's dress, and uilowed it to be burned from off bis back, of courso still retaining his flreproot garment, ‘The dress consists ot a belmot, tho frame of which is. | made of thin stee! spring, and is covered with layers | ot leather, wadding, india rubber, and on the outside | moleskin, The frame of the beimet has in front a round hollow metal disc, which | fis airtight, and has three or four holes | moved by mvans of handles, and ten other bo! three set with glasses, three closed by stoppers of some non-conducting material, and the remaming four, one of which 13 in the centre, ieftopen, The lower part of the helmet consists of a metal ring, from which Jong springs hang down over the chest and back, The lower part of the dress 1s a complete suit allin one ptece, made of india rubber and covered with moleskin, The soles of the feet are strengthened by cork, thick ‘feit und wite gauze. Between the outer suit and an inside suit of rubber is on air bag, which 18 kept supplied by an air punip and is provided with clastic binds, which aro stretched when the bag is filed with air and forces the uir out when the valves are open to supply the wearer with air tor breutbing, the spent air being force out at the open- ing in front of the helmet, provecwng the eyes irom heat and smoke, Betore entering the tire the entire dress was saturated with water, and during the pere formance both air and wiser were pumped io trom a sinull hand pump in the dressing room, through pipes that connected with the back of the dress. The experi- nt Was a@ complete success, but would hardly be practicable for use in tho Fire Department, A sale of foreign gna Amorican paintings was begun at Keeler’s art xallery yesterday, at which no very | largo prices wore obtained, The sale will be continued to-day, when the best pictures will be disposed of, Among them are examples o( Willian Hart, George H. Story, Arthue Parton, Wiliam Huston and other well- koown artiste, BROOKLYN WORKINGMEN, A meeting of German workingmon was held last evening at No, 200 Court street, Brooklyn, ior the purpose of giving #0me expression to their views concerning the present depressed state of labor im the United States, The meeting was pro- sided over by Mr. Charles Ackerman, and an adaress was made by Dr. A. Otto Watator, The tri bles among lavoreri said, and the imsiguificant wages which they received, was all owing to the cor- ruption in both political parties, and he advised them to form asocial democratic government of their own, SMALL AMOUNT OF CENTS, ‘rwo lads——Bartholomew Lynch, aged thirteen, of No, 405 Kast Sixteenth street, and James MoWonald, aged eleven, ot No. 103 East Sixteenth street—were ar. raigned before Judge Smith, at the Fifty.seventh Street Court, yesterday afternoon, charged by Mrsj Rose Gormley, of No. 159 Elizaveth street, with nav ing robbed het of ler pocketbook while she wa k- ing in Central Park on Sunday afternoon, Lynen McDonald not guiity, They wore held in The pocketbook contained oniy eleven cents and a pawn Ucket worth $5, | PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTE, Mr. James R. Cumming, who fatied to qualify as school trusteo of the Twenty-second ward on his first nomination last December, was renominated yester- day afternoon by the Board of Education for that posi- tion, Mr. Cumming’s nommation will be confirmed, it is thonght, on Wedoesday, his torm of office to fast five years, QUEENS COUNTY SESSIONS, The Queens County Court and Court of sions, Jadge Armstrong presiding, convened at the Court House, North Hempstead, Long Iviand, yesterday, Tho civil calendar Was taken up and will occupy the attention of the Court the remainder of the session, fe critninal business for the Sessious, T Mm that will be held at the old Coart House. The Oyer and Terminer will be beld im April, at the new Court House, Long Leland City, wheo Ryer, Mmdreted for the murder of Patrick Tett, will bo placed on trial, SEIZURE OF CIGARS. ee | Captain Brackets mon yesterday seized eleven boxes, containing fifty cigars each, from on board the | steamer City of Mexico, and eight boxes of similar siz0 Ou bourd the steamer Colambus, RUFVIANISM IN BAYONNE. A murderous assualt was made on Sunday night by four ruflians on a young lawyer named Thomas Cle. mons, in Bayonne, N, J. because hoe bad commenced Proceedings on beball of Mrs. Dwyer against Joho Baker for seduction, Mr Clemons was knocked down, kivked aud stabbed, after woich the scoandrels Jel, toiling Me Clemens to leave the city within twonty-lour hours, The punee are on tho track of ent it ts hoped they will bo in custody LIFE INSURANCE TROUBLES, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CASE AGAINST THR CONTINENTAL~-CAN THE COMPANY BE MADE SOLVENT ?—THE FAR AWAY ASSETS OF THS NEW JERSEY MUTUAL. The Security stockholders are experiencing consider able trouble about the dividends that have been ime properly paid to them. A few wreks azo they were politely requested by Receiver Wickham to refund such sums a8 they bad received, and about balf their number comptied, Now papers aro being served on the remainder, the aggregate amount pending in. the individual suits being aboat $35,000. Abraham V. Do Witt, appointed referco in the sult of the Attorney Geuveral vz, the Continental Lite Insur- ance Company, held a brief sitting yesterday afternoor at No. 22 Nussau street, lt was uoderstood that the meeting was called merely as a matter of legal form, it order to comply with the terms of a former adjourn ment and to terminato the reference properly. The Attorney General had already proved by previous tes timony that the company was inseiveut, the only tact essential to bis application for the appointment of a receiver, It is probable | that this application will have to be made at Aibany, bolore Judge. Osbor owhow Mr, De Witt muatre- port, It is geverally believed that another receiver will be appointed, and thatthe Court of Appeals will have to decide between the mghtsof such person and William K, Grace, the present receiver, who was ap- pointea by Judge Pratt, of Brooklyn, From all that 2 bo interred irom Mr, Grace’s attitude it appears likely that he will submit the case in a {riendly way to the courts, and not seek to delay a proper settlement of the point in dispute, FROCERDINGS BEVORK REFEREE DE WITT, Yeverai attorneys were in attendance upon the ret. erence yesterday, all of whom Were more or less non plussed by the singular situation of aflaira. When At General Fairchild howevor, thotr 1 mofe atease by the unfolding of the The Attorney General announced that he ke pO testimony, as be was already in what he needed, possession Mr. Raphael J. Moses announced bis demro to take little evidence bearing upon the distribation of the assets, as & question which would come before the Court, He accordingly called apon Me, Seth G Chand. ler, the former Aciuery of the Continental, who teste flea that bo bad found tho outstanding Labilities of company to ve about $5,300,000, calculated upon tl ican table at four and a halt percent. He nad jated tho future premiums on the same basis and had uiso estimated them on a commercial valuation of SIX per cent, On this plan the habilities of the corpora. ton would be redur by more than $2,000,000, Thi oruinary life poticies, he bad actuully no reserve up Lo Wie sixth year and $32,000,000 of the $52,000. of the outstanding tusurance of the Continental was of Ubis class. ‘Ihe closing out cost, Mr. Chandler thought, would be (en per cent upon the annual pro- ips; and be had no doune that if the funds pany were beld and the expenses limited to the bare coll ns and disbursements there would be suiticient to meet all msurance 4s it matured, Mr. William Barnes then qaestioned the witness Upon another lead ot this uovel proposition and suc oveded in patting the project in a less favorable light, Iy has been a favorite theory with some insurance wee that whore ouly #ixXLy per cent of premiums bad to be hold, and the remaining forty per cent was ‘loading,’ that running an msolvent company at an expense of only ten por cout must eventually bring it clear of its abilities. On this supposition the moro outstanding policics an tusolvent company had the more money 1b would make. Mr. Barnes showed in bis examination that this theory is pretty well exploded by practical measurement, Reeviver Grace was called by Mr. Moses and testified | that he toought the expense of running the Contine tal upon the above plan would be about $50,000 per an: bum, The reference then adjourned. Referee William Alien Butler will bold a sitting at two o'clock this after.oon at No, 22 Nassau street, ‘The hearing upon Mr. Anuerson’s accounts, which was to have taken place yesterday, has been postponed tor afew days. THE NEW JERSRY MUTUAL William Geasa obtained an attachment upon the office property of the New Jersey Mutual, at No. 160 Broadway, which yesterday was to hav in sold at auction, but the sale was postponed until Satarday next. The Sherif applied to the National Capital to see if they claimed any Utie Lo tho property, but found they did not. Goveruor Parker, the reoviver at Now. ark, hag petitioned that he may be made recetver of ull the assets of the comp ny in New York as auxiliary to Ins appointment in New Jersey. Ln caso. this be not granted he asks that some other person in Now York may be uppoiuted. ‘The uxsets in the possession of the two absent prosi- dents—Stedwell, of the New Jerse; Mutual, ai of the National Capital—aro still bono of co: aud a very lofty bunch of grapes to Receiver Parker, Benjamin Noyes was in towu on Sunday and bas now gone to Now Havou, Conn. Stedwell’s whereabouts unknown. William Fullerton, the latter's cous. el, suid to the writer yesterday that he had seen Noyes in Washington afew days since, and that he thought both he and Siedwell would appear at a favorable ting and give bunds toanswer the summons against thea, Ho did nov ipink the matter of the return of the ase sets was ax feasible or as soon to be accomplished as is supposed ident Walker, of the yesterday that Pri nt Noyes had st ‘bis toten- tion of coming to New York somo time during the prea ent week and effecting some sort of a settlement with the New Jersey authorities, BUSINESS TROUBLES, Tho Nabilities of Daniel Titus & Brother china at No, 44 Barclay street, will amount to upward of $80,000, A member of tho firm said yesterday that the tatlare was duo to depreciation im values and the failures of customers, An inventory of the mock 1s being made, and itis expected thas the assets will amount to about $59,000. ¥ Mary Jennett Tallman, who has carried ona livery stablo at No. 313 West Fifty-ninth street, bas beon adjudicated a yoluntury bankrupt on her own petition betore Register Williams, Her liabilities amount ta $10,489 57. The assets consist af sixteon lots in the Twenty-third ward, which cost $58,500, and are mort. giged for $23,646, and debts duo ber to the amount of pital, aaid editors of tho National Stove ike Nos, 241 Water street and at Peekskill, N. Y., have ogre to accept seventy cents ou the dollar and give the company two anda half years to make the payments, ‘Chey suspended recently with liabilit‘os amounting to over $100,000. ‘The assets exceed the abilities, but are not tinmediately available, a portion being 1p real estate, Notice pus been received in this city that Emanuel nwerin, one of the largest wholesale clothiers ta ilndelphia, whose suspension was reported recently, aie an assignment to Emanuel Kobo. His Hae $s amount to $374,000; assets, $193.000, The following assignments were yesterday fled im the County Clerk’s offico:—Ferdinand Reiss and Wills jam Reiss 10 Moritz Meyer, Andrew Simpson to Stew. art J, Molver, and Sigmoud Goge and Charles M. Weye aut to Simon Pinner. ‘Two-thirds of tbe crediturs of Abner W. Dieter, the restaurateur, who formerly kept a saloon under the ill-fated Brooklyn Theatre, have consented to accept twenty per cent on the doliur, in two payments, at nine and eighteon months Mr. Dieter was put into bankruptcy in December Jast, bis Mabilities being em timated at $12,000. THE WHIP AND THE KNIFE, In Kearney townabip, opporite Nowark, on Saturday night, William Harpwell and John Connelly became in- volved in a quarrel, the result of which was that the latter was severely but not fatally stabbed. It seems Connelly remonstrated with Harpwell for cruelly beat ing bis borse. Hence the afiray. Hurpwell bas fined, WHAT MICHAEL DID FOR PATRICK. Michaol Desmond was orrested in Newark yosterday on a ch of having furnished tools to bis brother, Patrick Desmond, by which be managed to cut bis way out of the Caldwell Penitentiary, where be was contined, LATE, REAL & TRANSYERS. Ths. of Sith st, 201g der and wile to Mary B, ave. TROXOO Sminck . ot DEIth wt, 2087, I Jenkins David 1. Sherman and wife C Lyre een ‘ 1. Nom, Roth wb. 4 Wille iam Vorn Hote to Kagenie Vorn RotN at. fh, we fam Vorn f ‘ nh, @. of Gth av in Weber MORTGAGES. Youle, George, to FE. D. Brown, sncob and wite, ad of 6th ‘Byeurs. ve of 6th ay. nn, Ls Wasbaind, to stom rance Company, 8 ut 22dat, w, of OO ay g 1 yene ++ 8,500 Simpson, Maria, to Mary J. MoLean, & & We OLDE, LOWE ee cece Konnes, Peter and wile, to Raphn Maloney, Patrick G.. Washington st., between Murray and Warren OMEN cs cs Mevatfrey, John B.. to € dealers In: Es mn acct tae