The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1877, Page 3

NEWPORT. ~ Descriptive Sketches of the Cottages Built: this Season. COTTAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND ALTERATIONS Gossip About the Architecture and the Owners. Newport, R. L., March 17, 1877. Bince the season of 1876 but little building has been done at this aristocratic watering place’ compared with past seasons, From various causes several gentlemen ‘who contowplated building, and who in fact had the Plans drawn, did not carry out their intentions; but Dow that times are better and the Presidential problem 1s solved it is expected that they will carry out their Original tntentions and add to the numerous “cot tages’ at this delightful summer resort. The two Oncst houses, though not finished as yot, Brethose belonging to Mr. A. A. Low, a wealthy tea merchant of New York, and to Mr, William ©, Rives, of Boston, whe married into the famous Sears family ofthat city. Mr, Sears represented this couotry io France as Minister several years azo, THE HOUSE OF MR. RIVES. Mr. Rives’ house is located on Red Cross avenne, 0D a part of the Sears estate. Tho ‘house, which is of brick, 18 a five, massive structure, and is tagtefully broken in its lines, particularly in the manner in which the lower roots are managed, Its style is Gothio and it is three stories high, with a gable roof and tower, The dimensions of the house are 60x55 feet, with an L 28x40 feet. It has a Gne open porch, with North River flagging, and granite steps and buttresses, with brick rail- ing, capped with neat stone, The exterior trim- mings are all of Ohio sandstone. The foundation has led drains all around it, and about two feet of stone has been filled in on all sides, The basement is very neatly arranged and contains a large laundry, with set-tubs. made of soapstone, adryingroom,&c, Tho rooms on the first floor are elogantly finished in hard wood, and it is doubdtiul if there are any bandsomer mantels in any of the villas that have beon erected here of late years, ‘The parior is 18x20 fect, and is finished in butternut, With casement windows, opening on to the piazzas that extend along the south aud west sides of the house. This room has handsome cornices, and, with the tasterally carved mantels of the vacobin style, presents a very fine appearance. It has oak floors, Ornamental tiled hearth aod fireplace, as have also the principal rooms on the first floor, The morning room, which connects with the parlor by folding doors, is 18 feet long vy 20 feet wide, and has three Jarge windows. It is finished in walnut and has mantele of ‘the same Btyle as those in the parlor. The dining room 4s 18x20 feot, bas four windows, and is finished in ash, Tthas a massivo but pecullar brick fireplace, with tile facing and bearth to match, 1t bas casement win- slows which open out on to the piazza, The mantel in this room ts seven foet high and is elegantly carved. Theroom is tastefully wainscoted five tect from the Qoor, and has cornice mouldings of a very neat pattern. Achina closet fourteen feet square opens out of the dining room and {1s finished off in pine and shellac, The hall is 87 feet long by 12 feet wide, with a staircase bull 12 feet square, the latter being shut off from the main hall by three carved arches, The main hall is ‘Wainscoted five feet fromthe floor im ash, and the coiling is handsomely panelled with the same material, The stairéase is ono of the finest in the place, and ex- tends from the first floor to tho attic, Tho stairs are & feet wide, with platforms all finished in ash, and on Yeaching the second story it overlooks the ball and has three finely carved arches on either side. The outer vestibule of the front entrance is finished in wal- nut and the inner in ash, tho doors to the former hay- Ing stained head and side lights and the latter plate flass, and, In fact, all the window giass In the house ts plate. Midway in the hall, at the foot of the staircase, ‘here is an elegantly carved Gothic arch overhead, from which drapery will suspend, in order to shut off & portion of the space in the hall should It be desired. The kitchen, which is 14x17 fect, 1s fitted up with all the modern improvements, and has a large pantry con- nected with it, Out of the kitchen 18 a servants’ ball, 16 {eos square, and a ‘man’s room,’ the latter having a separate entrance, In the second story there &re ning large, airy rooms, besides bathrooms, all of which are being finished in pine and varnished. On this floor thero are also six servants’ rooms, In the third story thero aro four large guest chambers, ll having handsome brick replaces, tile hearths and hard wood mantels, with largo dressing rooms and Closets connecting. There is one room in tho towor Qnd a trupk and tank room in the peak, As you de- Beend you will tind on each laading clegant stone case- went windows, looking east, fitted witn stained glass windows, Inecach thero are three lights, the dimen- Bions of those on tho sides being 6 fect long and 2 fect wide, and these are surmounted by an oval one 4 feet in diameter. All the principal rooms on the first floor’have shutiers both inside and outside, and over the doors there are stained headlights, which is some- thing unusual, The dining room, morning room, p: lor and library walls are to be hung with chintz, while all the other rooms in the house are being handsomely drescood. It seems agreat pity that’such a fine bou: @s this 18 not located in a more commanding spot. The Jond ts low and wet, and the viow is as uninviting as One can imagine, save from the south, in which direc. tion nothing but the trceg on Mr. Rives’ grounds can be scen, An experienced ongineer from Boston has, however, drained the land after an outlay of a large sum of money. The drives and walks have been cut @own some two feet and filled in with crushed stone and covered with Somorset gravel. The grounds have beon handsomely laid out, and the whole reflects no Hiutle credit upon the engincer, carpenter and urchi- tects, Mr, Rives proposes to build a stable after the Btyle of the house, but it will not be commenced this feason. Tho cost of the houso and furniture, it is Baid, will be about $70,000, which, added to the ‘vaiuo of tho six acres of land comprising the estate, ‘will make it one of the most valuable places in this "City of Cottages.” Its fortunate owner ts very fond of Newport, and he has occupied a rented house here for several seasons. A. & LOW’S HOUSE, The house for Mr. Low is one ot the largest and most exponsivo houses that have been built here for the past three years, It is located on alot some ten acres in extent, and known as the “Point of Trees,” just off the shore road and opposite to Fort Dumplings. In tact, Mt is far away on the otber sido of the city, near tho cliffa at the mouth of the harbor and beyond the Tines of Fort Adams, a romantic, but nevertheless a Tonesomo locality, The only summer houses in that section of the city aro those owned by Mrs, Edward King, Quincy A. Shaw, Artiur Bronson, Thomas Wi- nans and Professor Alexander Agassiz The site Tikes from the road toa knoll in tho centre of the lot Upon which the villa stands, aud then falls away to the water, which in tl viemity is from ten to twenty-five (ifthoms deep, Yo the right is Fort Aaan (tocond onty to Fortress Munroe), the city om 18 in front are the rocks ta Copan along that surf beaten coast as far as the lighthouse on Beaver Tail, where so 1 ‘© been wreeked and so many preciou: ie house was planned with relerence to its ngs, and although Mr, Low has been the owner of the lot for sevoral y: e delayed building ‘Until the present time, It pre very broken and Picturenque appearance, with its wings, balcon es, oridl und bay Windows, The dimensions main house are 57x43 feet, and the addition 1s 31x34 feet, with a projecting octagon which runs up two stories, Lt Fequired upward of 80,000 feot of lumber to frame tho the beautitu) Narragansett Bay, studded with humerous islands, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1877.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. 16x18 {eet—both connected with the balls by mrssive sliding doors, The library is Gnisbed in mahogany ana hand-| ‘he fin to whit and th fioiog Cage y is 18x23 jn white e, 1e roo! wi! fect, 1m balietnat, ‘The floor of the latter is neatly in. jaid, and, ip fact, each of the principal rooms has is own wood and its own 8! of Unis, and in the foish there Nberal amount of iviaid work and heavy ‘wammacots in various kinds of bard wood. On the first floor there is ulgo a kitenen, 16x2) feet; butler’s puntry, 11416 feet; servants’ hall, 16 feet square; storerocoms, pantry and private stairway, the Mundry, drying room, wine cellar, &¢., being in the basement. In the second vom there are five chambers, all flu- ished im ash, about 18 feet square. Ip the addition there are several servants’ chambers, linen closets, &¢, alt finished in pine. Over the staircase, in the maiu bali, is a richly | stained Blues window representing the four seasons, each light being about three and a haif tect in berght. 1n the centro of tho ball isa plate giass partition with oak frame work, upon each sive of which are uccom- miodations for sitting and newel posts for gas that is to be made ou the preniises, for the house is locaied a long distance from the gas mains, A staircase, with latform stairs five fect wide, extends from ihe lirst loor to the aitic; 1+ Das panel box strings, and from each landing there is an oriel window, while from the contre landing a balcony overlooks the hall. ‘fhe hall ia Ooished in quartered oak, with which waterial the entire staircase ts made, the floor of the former being inlaid with maple and cherry. The staircase rail 18 a goose neck, which ts gracetully carried | into the angles of the newel posts. No woney has been sparcd in the building of the staircase, and it 4s estimated that it will cost upward of $3,000. Tho newel and twelve angle posts are richiy carved and ornamented on the top with a capiial and.on the bottom by an eight square drop, On the capitals leaves and flowers are hewn out, which work had to be done by an experienced workmnan. All tie doors in the house bave silver plated trimmings. It is ono of tho most substantially built houses 1n Newport. ‘A very tine stable bas also been built, of the samo style a4 the house. ts dimensions are 44x47 tect, two stories acd a halt bigh, and it is finished off with acupolaapd vane. It hos six large stalls and one box stail. Like the house, it has a neat iron railing around ‘the roof and copper ligntning rods as well. lt is es- timated that the expense of the house and stable will amount to $50,000. MRS. PRNDLETON’S COTTAGE, Last summer Mrs. George H. Pendicton, of Cincin- pati, made up her mind to nave acottage of her own, as she was extremely fond of Newport and had spent several seasons here, Late in the fall she purchased a handsome building site near the residence of Hon, Witham Beach Lawrence, at Ochre Point, ana which adjoins the residence of Mr. J. F, Kernochan, of New York. The lot was 100 tect front and 390 teet deep, and for which she paid about $10,000, The site for a cottage 14 an excellent one, for itis directly upon tho oceal ‘ith a good view of the bathing beach and tho Atlantic Ocean as tar as the eye can reach to the east- ward and southward. The erection ofa cottage was com- menced duriug the winter, it being vory plain in its outward appearance and in striking contrast to Mr. Kernochan’s house near by. The dimensions of the main house aro 34}9x! and on eithe is addition, one being 21x34 tect and the other 14;x40 feot. On the cast side of the main house are two octa- gon bay windows, und a piazza twelvo feet wide extends ou the south and wi ‘The piazza on the south bay, one story high, and jd much to the general appearance of tho iQ. house fronts on the west and bas un un- usually large porch—large enough for a carriage and two horses to and and be protected trom the sun or a storm, The ball wich is 18x14 fect, is carried through the houge, aud: at the op posite end from the entrance is a largo window, from which can be seen the vcean and the breakers dashing ou the rock-bound shore. The parlor is 14x27 fect, and bas bay window which ts 10x15 feet. Adjoining the parior is a library 14x16 feet, and on the loft of which is the reception room, 12x14 feet, and u stair- case ball 10 feet wide. dining room 1s 16x20 leet, and this, too, is main house. Inone of the ad- ditions is a kitchen, servants’ room, pantry, &c, The dining room and parior have cach large bay win- dows that open on to tho piazza, The second story of the main house contains six Jargo chambors, and in the addition are four servants’ rooms and the ‘buth and tank room, while in the third story there are four large chambers, It has a Munsard roof, and although there 12 nothing attractive about the house save tho jocation, yet the rooms are well connected and the cottage was built purely for & summer cottage, without any regard to outmde show, Mr. and Mrs. Pondicton being of the opinion that 1t would bo useless to spend more than $12,000 for asummer home, Mr. Pendleton soldom geisan oppor. tunity to visit place, but it is thought that he will bo here this season a little more than usual. A stable of the same style of architecture as tho house, 25x54 feet in dimensions, has alzo been built for Mr. Pendio- ton. GENKBAL CULLOM’S COTTAGE, A villa bas recently been started on Cliff avenue, near the bathing beach, {or General George W. Cullum, the United States engineer, who will be remem- bered as the husband of the accomplished widow of the late Major General Halleck, United States army. | dark ‘lead color, ‘The windows are very siali, and He purchased two lots, one costing $6,500 and the other $8,000, which made a wee commodious as weil as an eligible building site, The house is built alter the Queon Anne style, wud will attract considerable attention when it is completed. Tho dimeusions are 61x62 feet. lt has no. It is threo stories high and hus a large and commanding tower, from which ap unobstructed view can bo had of the surrounding country. Tne parlor 1s 18x26 fect; morning room, 18 feet square, with bay windows and folding doors, connecting it with the parlor. .The din- ing room is 18x21 feet and, like all the principal rooms on tho first floor, is finished im ash and has claborate mantel, fireplace, hearth, &. The floors are all laid in marquette style. The second story contains three large, airy chambers, bath- room, closets, &¢, The attic contains six finished rooms, and in the basement there is a large kitchen, laundry, store rooms, &c, Tho builder the cost of the house at $12,000, ‘MRS. WILLIAM CARRY’S COTTAGE, Near the buthing beach Mrs. William Carry, well known in tasdiouable circles in New York, 1s builaing a handsome cottage, which will cost ‘upward of $10,000, The dimensions of the house are 32},x36 fect, with an addition 23x24, teet. 1b wo stories high, with the famous Newton rvof, which is equiva- Jent to another story, Quite a number of the leading houses are supplied with this kind of root, which to tho uninitiated looks like the Mansard or French root, bat it 1s much more desirable. The house for Mrs, Carry fronts on the east and has a pinzza on the eant and south sides, The hall, which is 12x153¢ foot, is tastefully finished im bard wood. Leading irom the ball is a parlor, 155¢x18 fect, with a buy window 12 ject wide and a library 153¢x1834; the dining room 18 16x20 feet, which Is urranged with the library and parlor so that the three can, if neccssary, form one room, In the wing is @ sorvant’s dining room 103x114 feet, a kitchen 13x16 tect, a pantry ahd a private staircase. The seeund story contains six large chambers, closets and bath rooms, while the third story contains four chambers. staircase: ‘hall is on the right of the main hall, and is connected with the latter. ‘The house contains all the modern improvements and, like severat of the houses built hore of iate, would have cost several thousands of dol- Jars more to build three or four years ag THE COTTAGE OF MR. HERMAN W. BRUEN, On Catherine street and Gibbes avenue a hand- some villa, of the Queen Anne style, is fast ap- proaching complotion for Mr. Herman W. Bruen, ot New York. It is directly opposite the villa owned and occupied by the late Ubarlotte Cush- man, the well kuown actress, and its handsomo ox- terior appearance js in keeping with the numerous summer bouses in that section of the city. The dimen- sions are COx76 feet, ull of the principal rooms iuce on the south and west, while the main entrance is on the north. {[t has riage rools, with the ends turned up, Capped with galvanized iron fneals and gildea sun- flowers; on the south is a covered balcony opening out from one ol the chambers. ‘The house contains one set of apartments for a visitor, including a parior, chamber and bath room, all of which are compleely isolated from the other part of the house, ‘The parior otthe main house is 16x20 feot; livrary, 15x16 fect; dining room, 16x20 feet, and on'the first floor there is also @ commodious kitchen, butler’s pantry and servants’ hail, The rooms are neatly finished, ana the staircase, which is of white Pine, gaen Is to the third etory, Tho second and third 'e well supplied with light, airy cnambers, The house bas all the attractions incidental to extensive pizzas, One day last week the grim mossenger of death oalled bome the beloved wife of Mr. Bruen, She was a lady greatly esteomed and her death is a severe biow to her , Mra. Matt, Ellis, diedin Belgium a 188 WORMLEY’S COTTAGE. i ig house of “ye aucient’’ style bas been completed on the corner of Beach street and Red Cross avenue for Miss Kaic P. Wormicy, whose tather was an admiral in Her Majesty's navy It ts built of wood, alter the Queen Anno style, and is Painted a contain a large number of small, lead fastened lights, some of which are of stained giass. Its dimen- sions are UBx48 feet, two stories high, and it has oid fashioned window caps, with dentils, The dining room 1s 18x153¢ feet; parlor, 15 feet square; front hall, 10x20 feet; kitchen, 14x18, and bubler’s pantry, Gs4Xlisg fect. In the parlor there are four windows, all containing colored lights, and ip the front hall there 1s a lurge stained glass window, the lights being all three cor: “i, Tho second story, which contains tour chambers, projects ovor the first story, making an Old-fashioned sweep of a kind of a right angle pitch, It has two porches but no bays. The hall ts wain- scoted to the ceiling, and the cefling 1s wainscoted as Well in the second story. A patent floor has been laid in the hall, which is composed of squaro designs of cherry, black walnat aud maple. Tho principal rooms are supplied with elal mantels, Tho huuso 8 ho littie attention, is not another cottage like it int! La Avery neat and much admired cotta built tor Mr, John Carey, Jr., of New York, son-in-law of tho late William B, Astor, It is located on Spring street, and is lor the’ use of his Ite style is of the fifteenth century, and is vory much admired by bouse, to say nothing of that which ia used | e. 48 double boarded, first horizontally and then verti- has three doors laid ll the rooms and the L co of plaster in every room in the the house is after the styte of an English country rosiden 6, aud resembles Mrs, Loring An- drews’ house on Bellovue avenuc, which latter 1s to be oceupied by the Austrian Consul General, Theodore A, Havemeyer, of Now York. With tho exception ot the porte-cockére and steps, which are of stone, and the granite columns under the bay windows, the house is built of wood, These columns have large carvod caps, «and ti are also several rictily curved panels on the exterior represent- ing Jiligs, Water plints, marsh flags, &a The roof is’ slated, and all the chimpoys and that por- tion. of the foundation in sight of Danvors face brick, with black mortar, The bali, 18x60 tect, rans through the honse, th ‘angement a person can ace the blue ocean the front door through tho phe eo windows at the other ond. Wide piazzas ‘extend around the Water front. The main hall has a stairense hall opening out of it, und both bave hand. some inlaid doors, Tho parlor ip 16x26 feet, tbe the arcuitects and builder a by the citizous in gen- oral, Mr. Carcy bas taken a great interest in tho houre, at be wanted it to compare favorably with bis elegant summer residence, which 18 located opposite, dimenston: 1 the hous 80x40 feet, two stories p rool, Notwithstanding that Mr, ivo improvements to his villa h the past r has purchased two summer villas pen oe gp yma $25,000, and another for eee the former being purchased by him trom Mr. ‘titra B, Clerke, of New York, and the latter trom Mr. L. D. Davis and Mr, John Kendrick. One of them will be occupied by bis son-in-law, Mr. John Worpple, of New York. The last mentioned cottage has been extensively improved. {It bas received two additions, one being 26x35 feet and the other 12x16 feet, and the whole house bus been beautified by the addition of a Mansard rool A tower has been built on the east end of the building, which i 24 feey each way on the botiom and 40 feet high, with a crest railing om the top. A parlor, 24x30 feel, bas been added in the new part, ond that, togetnor with the ball room, have elaborate mantels aud doors, which were made in Baltimore, The entrance to the tower is [rom tho inside of tbe first addition and thence up & Winding staircase four leet wide. On the Lop 1s @ landing 6x14 feet, trom which ap excellent view ighad of the beach and surrounding country. The tower contains eight windows, octagonal in fori, A B. Smith, of Phiiadeiphia, bas remodelled one of his estates op the “Point,” and has had it moved back fifty feet north and thirteen feet east, and has also built an addition twenty-three feet square and a bay ou the northwest angle 8),x16 feet, A piazza bas been placed on the north and west sides and two dormer win- dows have also been added. The Hon, August Belmont, of New York, bas had ‘an clegant stable built, costing $6,000, to replace the one burned by an incendiary in May, 1876 ts dimen- gious aro 50x55 fect, with a French roof, It con- tains eighteen stalls, and there is a comimodious car- r bg 3 Stephen Bowen, of Boston, bas materially im- proved his villa on Spring street, ana bas made some extensive alterations and additions, A large addition, two stories high, covered with a Newton roof, bus been aaded to the rear of the house, and the main house bas also been beautified by the addition of a similar roof, A bay window has been built on the north side and a tower and porch on the front, which gives 4 floc appearance to the building. A terrace has also been built ou tbe north, south and west xidos, In the addition there are a large kitchen, laundry, storeroom, butler’s pantry und private stair- case, apd in the second story there are a bath room, linen closet and two bedrooms. Tbe third story con- tains four large chambers, ample closets and # largo drying room. lenry S, Fearing, of New York, has had an addition built to bis stable on Annandale road, in which there ig a One harness room, with glass casings. The main ball in his villa, near by, has bad a new inlaid floor, and the tront doors have been replaced with new o} made of black walnut. Edwin U, Cushman, of St. Louis, nephew and adopted son of the late Miss Chariotle Cushman, the actress, proposes to make some extensive improve- ments to his pretty villa on the corner of Rhode Island avenue and Catherine street, wuich was built for Miss belure her death, An addition, high, with a roof to correspond will be built, ‘The room un the with the main hou first floor, 28x24 ¢ eiling with hard wood, after the Eastlake theory. room above (there is but one room on cach floor 4m the addition), 1934x2434 tvet, will also be panelled, and there will be wwochambers in the peak for ser- vants, The rooms on the first and second floors are to be elegantly finished with mantels and tiled hearths, ‘The fireplaces, also, will be of a peculiar design, but, nevertheless, will look very neat as well as being odd, “Clover Patch,” in Narragansett avenue, owned by Mrs, William H. Rasseil, mother-in. of the new French Minister, M. Max Gutery, is being put in order for the use of the laticr and his accomplished wite, New inlaid floors aro being laid on tho first floor, and inside as well as outside it is beautified with a coat of int, It bas not been occupied lor several years by rs. Russell, she living in Paris with ber tamily. Owing to the death of her son io Paris, a few weeks ago, sh apd Madame Outrey wili not mingle toa great extent in fashionable circles during tho season, Charles H. Russell, ex-President of the Bank of Com- merce, of New York, bas hud a large greenhouse built, Wilttam &. Travers, New York, has bad bis stable newly floored aud had several new stulls added, ‘A greenhouse, any foet ong, has been built for Mr. Fairman Rogers, of Philadelphia. Mr. Royal Phelps, of New York, has oxtended his Piazza uround tho front of his house, and has made some minor improvements to tue interior, Froderic Sheldon, New York, bas had an addition bailt to bis stable, which contains a tine harness room. Some repairs have ulso been made to bis bouse, Quincey Shaw, of Boston, brother- yr Alexander Agassiz, has bad a piazza built on the cast side of bis house, u Castle Hjll, Tho dormer windows and front steps bave been cut down and some alterations bave been made in the interior of the house, The grounds have been exiensively improved, ana the whole outlay will not be far from $4,000. The house, which ig 8 new one, was built last year, Mr. Shaw was, however, in Europe, and has never occupied it as yet. He proposes to reside here the coming season, Protessor Aloxander Axussiz, of Cambridge, Mass, whose residenco is near Mr. Shaw’s, bas built an adai- tion for a worksbop aod playroom for his boys, the dimensions being 23x24 feet, He has also laid out con- siderable money in grading and otherwise improving bis grounds, Before the commencement of tho season Elbert J. Anderson, of Bostun, proposes to build an addition to his cottage, of Cottage strect, cighteen feet square, two stories high, W. W. Tucker, also of Boston, will build a gate house at an expense of $2,000. ‘ho estate owned by Frank Squire, of New York, has had $3,000 expended for a new ‘plazza, dormer windows and some ulterations inside. It 18 to be oc- cupiod this season by Miss Blatchiord, daughter of the late Hon, R. M. Blatchtord, of New York, Frank W. Andrews, ot)Boston, has bad an addition built to bis greenbouse and also to his stable on his estate in Maple avenue, near Coddington Cove, ‘The following well known summer residents havo lila atta thoir estates, costing all the ma way from $500 to § HL Ives, Protessor estate of the late Dr, dence, RB. 1. ; Dr. J. General R. B, Potter, Mrs. a. Gi. ing, Mrs. Loring Andrews, Mrs. Mary Burn: otf New York; W. W. Tucker, Robert ing, Thomas F. Cushing, Boston; Judge H. T. Chicago; George ¥. Tyler, Philade Stuart, daughter of Mr, Stuart, the tate of the lute Robert Gammell, Jabez U, Knight, c Hartshorn, all of Provi- Ogden, Herman T, Livingston, Stout, C. F, Chicker- E. A. |. Cush- roll known artist, THE HERRIOT ESTATE AT YONKERS, New York, March 17, 1877, To rum Epitor oy THe Heraup:— In your issue of yesterday allusion is made to the suit now pending in the Supreme Court, Speoial Term, before Judge Van Brunt, in the matter of the Herriot estate, at Yonkers. In connection with shat quarrel it may be well to ask the question, How did George Her- riot become possessed of that large and valuable estate at Yonkers? Iwill answor it in brief, Some forty- five years ago John P. Groshon, of this city, and tne father-in-law of George Herriot, became temporarily embarrassed, and in order to reliove himself from such embarrassment borrowed of his son-in-law, George Herriot, $8,000, and to secure the same gave him a deed of his Yonkers country seat and farm of over two hundred acres, Herriot promising to return the deed to him when such lvan should be repaid. A short time after suffi- cient of the northerly end of suid farm , was sold, con- sisting of several village lots, and among them Kellin- ger’s hotel lot, producing more than sufficient to repay the whole loan which Herriot received, He was ro- quested by the father-in-law to restore to bim the es- tate that he might divide it among his children, Mrs, Herriot being one of thom, but he refused to keep his romise, and the heirs have repeatedly proffered him 18 $8,000 loan in addition to his former payment, and which he has steadiy refused to accept. The re- sult of all which has been to wrong the remaining heirs out of an estate estimated to be worth from $500,000 to $1,000,000, and which has really never cost him one cent. This is a simpie, truthful statemont, and the fact alone of George Herriot possessing this deed of trust is all tho right or title the Horriots have to the estate at Yonkers beyond their rightial share in common with the otbor grandchildren of the Jato Jobn P. Groshon, who are many, and who have’ never’ received’ any share in ‘tho same, Suit was brought by the children of Sr. Groshon against Mr. Herriot to recover back the property; but through the ‘law's delays” and trickery of counsol doiault was taken, till finally the case became out- lawed, when it was out of the power of the courts to give any remedy. A GRANDCHILD OF JOHN P, GROSHON, A CHURCH PANIC AVOIDED, As & panogyric on St. Patrick was being concluded last night in the Catholic Church of St. Mary at Filth street and Willow, in Hoboken, by the Rev Father Corrigan, the pastor of the churcb, he an‘ nounced that a fire had broken out in the stable near the church, and requested the congregation to leave the building quietly and not to get excited, Mr. Bryan Smith, a trusteo of the church; Mr. Timothy Foley, a builder, and Polico OMcer Whalen, seconded the ro- quest of the priest. ‘The congrogation heeded the good advice givon, and tho best of order was main- tained, while the people numbering about a thousand filed out quietly, The firo was io the immediate rear of the church, in Father Corrigan’s stable. A hand- gome two-year-old colt, worth about $300, was burned, although every eflort was mado by the police and fire men to save the animal. The stable was situated be- tween the church and the residence of the pastor Had the firemen not been as promptly on hand as they were, it is considered certain that the residence of the priest would have been burned, and very likely the church. Several charch bauners and flags, which were in the stable, were badly damag: The total loss is osti- mated at $600. The tire ts believed to Lave been caused by an incendiary. SAFETY IN CHURCHES. An announcement was made yesterday from the pul- Pit of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, corner of Erie and Second streets, Jersey City, that a special collection will be made at all tho massos next Sunday, In order to IMPROVED COTTAGES, ‘ Tho above includes a! new houses that have deen built; but, as will en below, considerable money has been expended in improvements and alter- ations to many ot the summer residences, The list of these 18 as follows: The Gould cottage, on Promake which was pur- chasod Inst fall by Professor W, H. OC. Bartlett, actuary of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company, for $18,000, bas Lad its interior almost cntirely remod- elled at an expense of $4,900, 18 hus also reevived new carry out certain improvements in the construction of ‘the building, securing greater saloty. WHISKEY AND POKER, Captain Mount, of ‘the Nineteenth precinct, last eventng arrested Louis Lindeman, of No, 1,002 Second avenue, and Michael Bligh, of No, 1,032 First avenue, for violation of the Sunday liquor law, The police found twenty-five boys in Lindeman’s saloon and thirty boys in Blich’s saloon, m ot them engaged mantels, new hall stairs, ninid floors, &c, . Mx-Governor jomas Swann, vf Maryiona, witnip, | in tho exeiting game of poker, Those found pla; wore locked up. e Liebe THE CLANK OF THE CHAIN. A Pardoned Convict Attempts Burglary to Avoid Starvation. “NOTHING ELSE. LEFT How an Honest Man Became a Noted Criminal. FOR ME,” SCIENTIFIC SAFE-BREAKING EXPLAINED The melodious chimes of old Trinity were just be- ginning to peal and Broadway in the neighborhood of Wall street wore its usual Sunday morning dress of silence and solemnity, The usual number of church. going pedestrians were proceeding to their respective churches, apd an occasional policeman was in sight. The time and piace were certainly not propitious for the committing of a burglary, and none but a fool. bardy criminal would attempt one under such circum- stances. So reasoned Officer Kennedy, of the Church street police, as he wonderingly watched a shabbily dressed middle-aged man suspiciousiy trying the doors of the business houses within the sbadow of Trinity Church, Tho man tugged at the knobs, placed bis sbonider to the doors, looked through the keyholes and examined the windows and gratings in desperate efforts to cfect an entrance, He did not seem to care particularly whether he was noticed or not; indved be looked round once, and see- ing @ policoman watching him, ronewed bis efforts with oven greater vigor than beloro, “This is the oddest burglar I ever saw,’’ muttered the officer, crossing over to tho strange mau, “Hello, do you belong here"? , 1 don’t,” was the gruff and emphatic answer. ‘Then I arrest you on the charge of attempted bur- glary,” said tho mystified officer, placing his hand on the man’s shoulder, “You struck it right tbat time,’’ said the man non. challently, ‘1 was attempting burglary, ana you caugbt me in the act.” 2 The seeming staction with which the words wer uttered only increased the policeman’s astonishment, and he burried his prisoner to the Tombs Police Court as if anxious to get. so strange a customer off his bands, When the prisoner was arraignod at the bar there were prosent on the Bench Judge Kilbreth, Alderman Morris and Dr, Elisha Harris. OMcer Kennedy took the stand and sworo that he caught the prisoner, Christian Hanson, attempting to feloniously enter tho premises Nos. 111,113 and 115 Broadway, at Mfteen minutes past ten o'clock in the morning. ‘The prisoner stood upright and listenod in silence to the charge. In appearauco he was avout fifty yoars of age, over six feet in height and proportionally built His cheeks were pale and sunken, showing unmistak- able evidence of physical suffering, His eyes were bright and bis countenance was one of intelligence. His clothing consisted of a torn and ragged coal, a pan- taloons with large holes in the knees, a dilapidated hat and shoes well nigh soleless, ASTONISHING THR COURT, “Hanson,” said tho magistrate, “you are charged ‘with attempted burglary; what have you to say?” “L am guilty,’ quickly responded the prisoner, ina strong Danish accent, ‘I did it so that l would be sent to State Prison."” “Ana why do you want to goto State Prison, Chris- tian?’? asked the Judge in astonishment The man hung his head and scomed for a moment disinciined to answer, but encouraged by a kindly word, looked up and said with an earnestness that was deeply impressive:— “Jadgo, I have only just come from Columbus, Ohio, where I served ten yoars in State Prison tor burglary, 1 was pardoned out by Governor Hayes, now President of the United States, My original rontence was tor twenty y My Mite {s wasted and Iam a wreck, God knows I intended when I came out of prison to hve an honest hfe. {was pardoned out on the sth of last month. lwent to Cincinnati and tried to get work, but failed. From there I went to Pittsburg and met with no bettor success. Then | trampod it all the way to New York, where I had friends, trying to get work from farmers on the way, sleeping where 1 got an opportunity and eating whenever a charitable per- son gave moacrust, My friends here who know me before I was a criminal refuse to recognize me I can’t get work; | bave lived in the gutter and been kicked about. I dread to kill myself, and so with the horrors of prison life still before me 1 am obliged to go back. Thore is nothing else left for me,”” T heard the carnest words him to stop aside until after the adjournment of the court, when his case would be disposed of, LIFE. While tho prisoner was thus waiting a Heraup re- porter questioned him as to the leading incidents of his eventiul hie, Ho gave them freely, concealing nothing except the numes of his associates, “[ was born,” said be, “in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1834, My parents were poor, but respectabie peop! and thoy gave me agood academic oducation. Hour- ing of the advantages of tho Now World 1 came to America in 186%, landing in New York. Two days afterward I enlisted in Company K, Seventh Volune teers, and went to war. 1 served in soveral engago- and was under Generals Grapt and Meade, 1 ‘was wounded in the snoulder before Richmond. Alter the war f went to Cincinnati and obtuinod employ. mont as a laborer oa a railroad. Up to this timo 1 was an honest mi Losing my employment I began to frequent the “‘Backeye” Saloon in Cincin- pat, where I fell in with rgiars. Be out of work I listened to their proposals to join ther number, They had pienty of moncy aud yot me to drinking, and I became one of them, Our tirst job was tbe robbing of the First National Bank of Cincin- nati, at the corner of Walnut and Fourth streets, We got $400,000 in United States bonds and $5,000 in greenbacks, “Well, you want to know how the job was done, eh? Wo hired a basoment adjoining the bank, ‘giving it out’ that we wanted it for a saloon. On tho tenth day afterward we bad everything in readiness, and on tho night of February 3, 1866, we cut a bole through the wall into the basement of the bank building and then dug our way through the ceiling to where the sate was, At this point the bank watchman camo upon os, but land another of the gang quickly bound and gagged him. Wetben blew open the safe. The Concussion stopped the clock. It was ball-past three A.M." “What tools did you use in drilling tne holes?” asked the reporter. “Good crackstnen don’t usetools,’’ auswered the burgiar. “I'll show you how to blow open any sate {n pas York without any tools, Just take mo to a safe.” Private rooip, and the writer acquainted the magistri with tho prisoner's proposal, ‘By all means,’ said he, ‘et us learn;” and in a moment the room was filled with spectators, HOW SAF! ARE BLOWN OPEN. ¢ prisoner knelt ide the sale, which was locked, “Look,” sald ho, ‘at this door. It tits so tightly that 0 Instrument can be introduced in the cracks and powder canuot be inserted. Sv far so good, burglar,” continued ho, “simply sticks putty all along the cracks except in two places, one at the top of the door and one at the bottom, where be leaves about an inch of spice ancoverea vy the putty. At the lower placo he puts a quantity of powder and he sucks ont the air from the upper place, either by a suction pump, which is the better way, or by his mouth, The vacuum created in the sate draws in the powder through the small crack below. The entire work does not occupy more than five minutes.”” ——/| | | | | = ‘Tho above diagran: illustrates the method described, D 1s the safe door; E are points left uncovered by the putty. Tho powder is placed at the lower point, the suction pump at the upper one, Hanson then continued:—''We got $400,000 in bonds and $5,000 1» greenbacks out o! the gale. We thi 6 in one ot la course night 1 wi to Eph Ho! lomt $1,000 In gaming. On the necond day the fi tt oy Thero happoned to be a safo in Judge Kilbreth’s | ¥ ana cry a that be 5 Hovarmined to leayo town, ‘The booty waa divides | pines euurebs ‘earth after its tedyous pilgrimage {rom tho land of his us, but J being & novice they cheated me, and jot only $10,000. iG 4 MAIL CAR xo! “We wentto Richmond, lod., where we remained until the 7th of March following, when our leader Planned the job of robbing the mail car on the Van- dulia Ratiroad, We got on board the train and ata sinali station where It siopped the opportunity oc- curred. The agent left the car, leaving ihe door open, We stole quietly in and dumped the safe, which was a smail one, down the embankinent. We ‘neu carried ita distance of mile ip the woods, where we blew it | open in the way | bave described’ to you. Tho salo contaived only $5,000 After hiding awhile and | Kawbiing away our money we started for st. Louis. 1 was druuk and rode to the bridge. My companions | kot off before reaching the city and lett me to my ‘ate. A detective awaited me at the bridge and arrested me." “How was it tbat bo knew you?’’ asked the writer, “1 don’t know, unless a Clew was got in the Cinein- pati gambling house Where | fost my money. The matl car robvery was supposed to bave been commit. led by the James Brothers, and 1 was not suspected ot {hut until alterwara. When arrested | had only $300 Jett, 1 was tried im Cincimaati, my counsel bein, Judge Cox and Emil Roeder, and Judge Taft, who, see, has since been in the President’s Cabinet, sen- tenced me to twenty years’ imprisonment, and J richly deserved it,’ “Did your ‘pals’ try to get you out?” “Yes, they put up’ considerable money for lawyers; but my guilt was too wel) proved.” *‘How did Governor Hayes come to pardon you?” “Weill, I servea ten years, aud bad made up my | mind trom the first to bear my punishment like a man, 1 complied with ail the prison rujes and was never sub- Jected to discipline. I bad nq friends in the outside world, and the Warden told me good behavior did it, “L tried then to get work, but couldn’t; | bad earned $65 while in prison, and I lived unts! the present time | on this sum, but threo days ago tt gave out and | nade up my mina to go back to prison, as 1 was starving.’’ SYMPATHY IX COURT. Dr. Harris bere interposed aud asked Hunson if be would live an honest life if he got work. The ex-convict raised bis eyes to heaven ana fer- vently called God to witness that he would. “Then,"’ said the Doct will see that you are placed in honest employment." Alderman Morris gave Lim $2 with which to buy food and promised to furnish him a suit of clothing to- day. Tie man’s gratitude was profoun Ho seomed dazed at the kindness of those about him, [t was so different from that to which he had beep accustomed, and the tears filled his eyes, He could only tind ut- terance tor a “God bi you all, You have made a man of me." He was temporarily committed to the Tombs and to- day he will be provided with employment as promised. O’MAHONY’S OBSEQUIES. FULL DETAILS OF THE GREAT POPULAR DE- MONSTRATION IN DUBLIN-——-LAID IN IkISIL EARTH — POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AFFAIR—PERFECT ORDER OF THE MASSES— 4 TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD, Duntty, March 5, 1877, ‘Tne body of John O'Mahony reste at last in Lrish exile. Dublin has seen many remarkable spectacles during tho last (ourteen years, but none more strik- ing than the demonstration of yosterday. It is note- worthy that the first of those great democratic gather- ings was connected with the funeral of a banished Irishman, who, escaping from tho hands of British Jallers, found a generous welcome and warm shelter beneath the flag of the United States. And now this latest assemblage came to reotive the mortal remains of another Irish exile who had fled to avoid inevitable captuye and peril of lite, who bed also found a place of refuge beneath the same sheltering flag, and had | thas won time and opportunity to weave ingenious | schemes and move mighty agencies for tho regenera- | tion of Ireland. 4 Tho republican and the royalist, the home ruler and the Fenian, might here find common ground. Any one who mingled among the musses yesterday, listened to the questions and remarks interchanged and Jearned | who Were somo of the men conspicuous in the proces. sion, could not bave a doubt of tbe real character of tho proceeding. It was an assertion of the undying vitality of the Irish national sentiment—a protest jainat English rule in all its forms; but it was not any declaration of adhosion to one particular mode of abating this secular grievance. AN DIMENSE TURNOUT, The day was begutitul, and doubtiess this helped to swoll the number of spectators, The number who actually marched, in regular marshalled order, was | about eight thousand. They were not 6o many by half at first starting, but contingents fell in at varions points, Similarly, all along the line of route, various persons joined, walking alongside the main column, sometimes filling in spaces between its ranks, An ex. perienced judge of such matters: who watched the procession os it passed through Sackville street esti. mated the number walking at between twenty-five aud thirty thousand, This was not as great a display as at the McManus {uneral, or at the procession in memory of “the Manchester martyrs,” in November, 1357. If we remember that John O'Mahony was a silent worker, wbo did not attract to himself in any marked way the popular gaze on this side of the Atlantic, tho marvel is that so many came where so fow can have | known much about the man, And thus we come back | to what has been already said. The thousands came | to manifest their love for Ireland as an independent | nation. John O’Mahony’s name was uo more than the watchword for this sentiment. As for the thor- oughlares through which the procession passed and all the approaches to them the sidewalks wero filled with spectators along the whole length of the six miles, Hore, again, It 1s bard to estimate, The crowd seemed as great as at the celebration of the O'Connell cen- tenary. Good judges have set down tho number of spectators yesterday at about 250,000, PERFECT ORDER OF THE CROWD, The good order and bearing of the people were beyond ail praise, It proved that any confusion which existed on the night of the torchlight procession was maiuly attributable to external elements of disorder always to be found in a large city taking advantago of tho favorable occasion. Sometimes yesterday contusion was inevitabie, For instance, as the procession passed from Sackville street on to the northern line of quays the whoie of that great space of Lower Sackville street and along to Grattan Bridge was one mass of thickly packed poople, through whom a parsage could be mado only slowly. "The police were posted at numorous points, but their services were never require, Not a single drungen person was visibly; not a single breach of the peace is reported this morning at the police offices. The crowd was 80 dense in Abbey streot that thero was much delay in forming the procession. It was again difficult to obtain sufficient clear space jor the re- moval of the coffin and placing tt in position. The weight also made this a ask of difliculty. At length beautiful casket, whose silver mountings shone orilliantiy in the sunshine, was placed on a’ funeral car specially prepared by Mr. Lulouette, It was covered with wreaths’ of immor- telles and shamrocks, Behind it hung the green flag which had been brought trom New York. At noon the funeral cortége began to movo. 1t was marshalled by Mr. W. F. Roantree, of the American delegation, who wielded a black baton, wreathed with green and white ribbons, asa symbol of autbority. He was as- sisted by about thirty mounted atdes, contributed by the Carmen’s Association. A body o1 500 tine looking young mon marched in front, bearing wands tipped with green streamers, They agted as general we ards. Later on, at appointed spots, other dotachments foil in, 80 that when passing by the Gencral Post Office, in Sackville street, at hail-past three o'clock, tis vanguard swelled to 1,500 men at jeast, although | the stewards had now fallen out and were guarding the line of the column. Three good bands came imine- diately in front of the funeral car, ai the THK PALL WEARERS AND MOURNEKS. ne the collin, alongside which walked the er, vizi—Charles J, Kick- nor, J. 8. Casey, D. F, MoCarthy, J. D, @. Dordn, M, Cusack,’ J. Torley, J. Lovey, . 1. O'Farrell, M. Halioy, N, Falioon, W. M. stack, Jobin Daly, . O'Byrne und A. Nolan, They wore mourn: ts und the usual ro ‘The ciel mourners nephews of the deceased and the remaining Dr. D. D. members of the American depuration, vi Mulcahy, Capain Cusack, 8. J. O'Kelly and’. J. Gill, Tho provincial delegations followed, Tipperary (the Dative county of 0’ Mabony) holaing the place of honor, Delegates were present trom ths following places:— Tipperary, Cork, Dungarvan, Loughrea, Limerick, Dundalk, Castlevar, Nenagh, Mailow, Tramore, Custie: | reagh, Nowry, Clure, Hellast, Tempicmore, Charleville, | Clarerorris, Ballinasio, Droghala and Longtord. The chiet English delegations wore from the lollow. —London, Manchester, Suliord, Glasgow, Neweastle-ou-Tyne, Gateshead, Farnsworth, Scots- wood, Preston, Sheffield and Duntocher. Mr, Martin Moore, of New York, was also present. Messrs P. J. Smyth, M. P., and Francis Morgan, the City Attorney, were present us representing the mon ol 1848. The provincial delegations were followed by the mombers of the Dublin Committee, Next followed the trades societies with. their bands. A body of horsemen from the Carmen’s Assuciation broughi up tho rear, Black banuerets were the only flags dis- fy Ae a@ruid, and some of them were very taste- juily orvamented. Several Amorican flags were borne along. Few mottoos were visible, Any “Wextord, 17985" “Gr aud 1752; 1798;"’ “The Young Bivod of Irejand,”’ Almost all who walked wore a handsome rosetto of white and green ribbons, with crape streamers, Ex. cept at the O'Connell celebration there has been no such “Wearing of tho Greon,’? it would have delighted tho beart of Sir, Boucicault. There were green dresses, freen shawis, green feathors and ribbons, green velvet (hroat-claspers, green searfs—uay, even tuere wore green boots, emember AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE, As the procession passed through Thomas street tho © Was peculiarly impressive, The place teems with irrect Fecollections. Close by is tho house Lord Edward Fitzgerald was shot down while in the open space tronting St, Catho- hem were | inthe Hekatp at the time, by this Jatter place, man uncovering hig per he trod the pope bdignee by the young rebel’s blood. The effect of this spontaneous tribute, combined with the mourntu! music of the bands so mach im unison with the seand, wee sivyeue touch. ing, and many persons were visibly affec! At their rate of progress the procession should have reached its destination belore ve o’ciock. But all the roads leading to the great cemetery, and the open Bpace iu front, were by that time thickly packed with eople desirous of witnessing the closing scene. When Marshal Roantree and bis a! came up they found it’ bo easy task tO make their way tothe gates Much contusion followed, There were some ugly squeezin, but fortanately no accident occurred, At last the fun ear was brought to tho gates. The fastenings which held tne coffin were loosened, so as to allow of iw being lowered, Tuen THY FUNERAL ORATION, Mr, Charles J. Kickham mounted a carriage to deliver the funeral oration, A respectful silence fell on the crowd—and within that uarrow space there could not have been less than ten thousand people, hao Indeed could be scen but a seaof upturned faces, hats removed respectfully, Very few could hear « word, but the earnest appearance of the orator, who dn his own person bas suffered so much for the cause of which the deceased was 4 chieftain, was quite suf- Gicient to rivet attention. Mr. Kicktham said it was pot an Irish custom to speak at interments, and he hoped this would con- tinue to be the usage; for the cemetery, whieh is “God's acre, seemed to him like God's house,” He would bave declined to speak, but be did pot wish to embarrass by a refusal the committee who have labored so hard and successfully to organize this im- posing wanifestation of a people’s gratiude and s people's faith, This was really pot a proper occasion to delineate the perfect patriot, the carnest worker, the able and prudent leader, or to speak of bis labors and gacrifices im the undying cause of this unbeppy, but unconquered nation, Although ho waa meyer chains, never knew the Crueltics, the insults, the o: told horrors of a Britiah convict prison, nor was he hanged trom a British gibbet; but no patriot ever dured more prolonged suffering ior the land that po him, The generous Irish people loath ti id-blooded sug jon that honor shail be acco! only to the successtul and the victorious He wished to “go ho! and die.”’ Bat tn this be was less happy than Mitchel, But he knew he bad uot lived in vain, ‘The Movement of Tone and Fitzgerald aud Emmet became & memory, The movement of ‘48 became also only Amemory. Butthe movement founded by Dobeny, O'Mahony and Stepbens 18 not a memory, it 16 3 isting thing, (Great applause.) ‘The proot is the way in which the precious relics, Which have been borne hither over the ocean, bave been received by the Irish opie, His bag been no wasted lile, Every man ta relund seems to be invited to join in honoring him, as all would be sharers in the Ireedom the road to which bo pointed out, AN RLOQUENT APosTROr a ‘The following eloquent apostrophe made a deep tm: pressio: “You who expect to obtain from an alien Parliament some semblance of self-government, some security for the tiller of the soil, some right to edacate your children in a way of which your conscience can ap- prove—why can you not see, Why will you a the justice to acknowledge, that you dare n peak even With bated breath of these things, if the country had not been lifted out of the slough of hopeless ness, into which vonality and condoned treachi had plunged her, by men who knew bow to dar. suffer, as their fathers belore them bad dared and sguf- fered, and who have demonstrated to friend and foe alike that, thanks to the progress of education, our People are at length capable of carnest, vering, intelligent, sel!-sacrificiog endeavor for the attainment ‘of a possibly remote end. (Great applause.) No, we have not failed! Jobo O’Mabony not lived and labored tn vain. (Cheering.) Let us dry our tears, and standing round the bier of our dead ‘ch! us resolve to watch and labor, and unite, always trusting in the justice of God, who bas Implanted the uomortal Jonging for nationhood im the hearts of our people and bopelully remembering that Preedow hat risen 103. His travels aro now all over, and gently he will rest in the bosom of his motherland, which be loved and adored, As yonder sun goes down, willions and mil- Hons of men of Irish race will remember tuat its last beams will restoo Joun U’Mahony’s grave, and will join in our prayor—God rest the soul of the true and the brave!” It was worth noting that while Mr, Kickham war speaking Mr. McAlister, tho Seoretary of the Home Rule League, stood by bis side, and Mr. John Fergu son, the Vice President of the Home Rule Con! tion of Great Britain, was close.by. This inet is quite suficient t ark tho jy Universally national character of the demonstration, At the conclusion of the speech the cofliu was lowered from the car, Wille ing bearers boro it revercntly on tbeir shoulders to tha vault where the body of Terence Bellew McManus lies, Into this it was lowered and tresh flowers were poured upon it, Then the last pravere having id—the many thousands who iad Oiled the cemetery kneeling with one impulse—the curth closed over the common krave of the two patriots of 1848, And so the founder of the Fenian Brotherhood, the man who shook the British Empire, sleeps at peace within the national cemetery, verifying tho eloquent words written sevon justres ago in the columns of Gavi uffy's Nation, by young Ingram, now a Trinity Col then an ardent tricnd and sb: vews:— MARVELLOUS RICHES OF THE SAN JUAN, [From the La Piata (Col) Miner.) Aroporer of the La Plata Miner recently visited the Ajax lode, Sultan Mountain, tor the purpose of in. specting a reported big strike, That the reporter wag pleased is evident from the foliowing:—A grander sight in the shape of a bedy of rich mineral we never saw, and those who have bad long experieuco and extensive observation iu tho richest silver mining distrets on the continent pronounce the display of rich mineral equal to anything they ever saw. The drifts in which qhe rica miueral is found extend from the bottom of shalt in either direction, In the west drii the rich, pure gray copper, while in the east drilt i¢ found a two toot streak of coarse galena, carrying gray copper, ‘The mineral in the gray copper streak will run from 600 to 1,000. ounces ia silver to the ton, aud two men can take out a ton every ten hours, This ts really a strike that should causo every well wisher of camp to rejoice, es. pecially a8 it positively proves the richness of one imine tipor a mountain Where there are over fitty well defined leads, and at present nine tunnels are bein; run to strike many of the most important leuds, at depths varying from 100 to 1,000 feet, Nearly all the veins curry gray copper at the surfaco and all have proved rich as development progressed. While this Und secures to H. L, Rogers, the fortunate owner of the mine, a competency, tt also assures mines of rich mineral that will build up and sastain a population of 10,000, backed by a business secund to that of no chy im the San Juan country, The Ajax lode is located not over twenty rods from Melviile’s mill, and within forty rods of the mill are six tunnels being Fun to strike lodes which they is every reason for behey- ing will prove equally as rich, The Light» ning Amalgamator is especially adapted to the treatment of that character of ore found on this mouutaim, and the manner in which work upon the wines is LOW progressing guarantees sufficient ore to keep the mill in constant operation after it starts ia the spring. Since the visit of a Miner reporter to the tunuel of the Cocktail lode work bas progressed some two feet through the vein, and ou Wednesday after- noon the buys struck a rich find in the sl three-inch sireak of decomposed vein m resombies black sulphurets, They are not yet across the vern, but will be in a few day: coming season cannot [ail to be one of uup led PPusverity for our town and the whole San Juan country. Tho very clemonts of wealth that will give us a growth ang prosperity hover vefore equalled ina ave at last boon uncovered and are 1 seen them. Each blast pat int Jode will throw out $500 wortk of m itty lodes that will, when further developed, prove ag rich as the Ajax. SUDDEN DEATH. Eliza Jones, a chambermaid in the Mills House, cor- her of Tweuty-seventh street and Fourth avenue, yes: terday discovered the dead body of Witham Sutton in room 26 of that establishment, She rapped at the door, and, there being no answer, she turned knob and found that the door was unlocked, On entering the room she saw Sutton lying with hia feet touching tho floor and his body across the bed, Su; ty that he was asicep she went up and Pibook him, One look into the upturned fuce con. vinced her that the man was dead. She called for assistance, and the proprietor, Mr, Mulls, notified the police at the Thirty-fith stroot station house, His death must have been very sudden, as there were no indicativns of a siruggic, The deceased was a carpenter and had resided io the house for three years, Lately he has complained of being sick, and ‘regularly visited the Twenty-third Street Dispensary, On Saturday night he gut iu the Fe. ception room, quietly taiking with some friends, and reired to bed about cleven o'clock. He bas a sister living in Tremont, but no other relative, THE MURDERER OF HIS SON. Povankanese, March 18, 1877, Tho trial of Stephen Cooper, sixty-two years of age, charged with the murder of bis son in Ocwber Of last year, by shooting bim in froat of his own door, will commence im the Circuit Court in tnis city to morrow morning. The details of the marderas do veloped by the Coroner's investigation were published nd excited the terest from the fact that the wite and moth murderer and mother and grandinotoer of te vieum wore the only witnesses of the deed. The son was of feeble intellect, and bad been driven trom the house by his father, who, exasperated at bis return, in despite of the remonstrances of the women, took down his gua and coolly shot him, inflicting a wound from which he died within aa bour. Captain William &, Wooden, the District Attorney, will conduct the case for the people, the prisoner's counsel being ex-District Attorney William L Thoree and ex-Jastice Ransom Baker. It is thought that the entire case will be concluded in one 5 Cooper is six fect high, bas gray hair Was hanged, Slowly +hecolumy | hood and a countenance pot ef tl Ray ma the season ihe momoers of the tamily gained @, by picking mountain borrien, ha