The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1878, Page 11

8 care whether it is the coin itself or paper redeemable in coin, THIRD. William H. Melntire, the prospective Tammavy Gandidate in this district, said:— 2 lcondemn it, % 1 will support a fair and practicable excise law. I believe in economy in pudile affairs. & I believe that ihe departments should be under Bingie heads, excepting the Police Department 6, I believe that the Mayur should Lave the power Of removal, 7. As between currency and gold, 1 shall support my party, FOURTH. rd M. Walters, apii-lammany candidate in Tick, replied :— 1, Yes, % Strongly disapprove. 8. Am tu favor of any legislation that will secure a Proper excise law. 4. { am against convict labor. Canals and public economy. 5 Am in favor of reducing salaries of heads of de- Partments, but opposed to any reduction of police- 1 believe in free meu’s or Cremen’s salaries, 6. Don’t belicve in giving the Mayor autocratic powers. 7. Greenbacks. Jobo Gaivin, the present Tammany Assemblyman of the ——— district and a caudidate for re-election, says: Yes, certainly, 2 lconaemn, & 1am in lavor of a proper excise Jaw. 4. lum opposed to the present management of the administration in regard to the coutruct system. The departments canvot be controlled by one head. & Lam op - Lam ia posed to givingone man such power, vor ef the remonetization of silver, rH. the present Tammany Assembly. ¢ Push and a candidate lor re-ciection, Pever Crw artily condemned the partisan and uncon- SUiLulena: coarse Of ibe Majority im that respect and Wy views have noi changed. & 1 do apd whl 4. I shail vote tor economy in public expenditures. 5. | am ig favor of simaic heads to departments With the exception of the Posice Department. 6. 1 think the Mayor should have fall powers to discharge bis duties iearlessiy. 7. Lam with wy party on that question, SRYENTRE Colonel Joba K, Perley, a vrother of Commissioner Perley, 1s to be one of the candiaates for assembly in the Seventh district. He said:— 1. Lum certainly in favor of «just Apportionment bill. 2 Lthink the last three Legislatures failed to com- ply with their oaths of office, 3& The iguor business is a necessity. Ther more drunkenness iu New York when we bad Excise law, Iwould like alaw requiring the sule of pure liquors, 4. 1 beieve in economy, and think it is the duty of she State to lessen the burdens of the people. 5. | believe in the reduction of salaries, apd would degin with those who receive the big salaries. 6. The Mayor ought to have more power, but not fail control—tuat is, there ought to be a sufficient sbeck on him to keep lim from ubusing bis power. 7. in regard to the currency I stand on the Syracase platiorm, and would instract Senators and Represent- Atives in Congress 1m accoruanee With its principles. KLEVENTHL Mr, George Bligs, ov the republican side, replied to the questions as follows :— 1. L always have beea in favor ot it, acd am so still; but the question as to what 1s 4 fair apportion- ment hus to ve decided, The apportionment pro- posed two vears ago gave New York more than her Share of representation, 2. Ido not think that the action of the last Legis- lature was unconstitutional. The truth appears to be that neltuer party wants a new apportionment, The country districts do not want apportionment, lor they believe 11 Would give the cities too much pow & ‘Vhe present law ts an absurdity. I do not think there will be any troubie found in passing a lair ex- cise law, The only diilicuity ig that the liquor dealers ask too much. Only owe sentiment pervades the whole State, aud that bas got to be recoguized and ac- cepted; it is that selling liquor om Sunday will not be authorized by law. 4 Itisnbsurd to say that there has been economy { the uffuirs connected with State prisons, Mr. Pulsbury bas cconomized iu their administration, and the Gov- ernor has requested him to resign, 5. A reduction of salaries is veeded, but I think it would be impossible to put ai! the departments of the cily government uuder a single bead, 6. 1 do not !avor giving the Mayor so much power. The siayor snould have the appointing power wad re- movals ought to be upon detined charges. The inter- venilon of Lhe Governor is ultugetuer wrong. 7, I favor hard money all the time. Mr. James McCouneil, wno 184 supporter of Tam- many Hui, answered us tollows:— 1. By all means | am in favor of tt. The State whould have beeu apportioned long ugy, 80 that this uty could get ber just rights. 2 The three jast Legisiatures were coutrolied by the repubiicavs, and Alvord would not allow any beneficial law to pass. There should ve but one commission to issue liquor licen: od it would be a bad thiug to place 1 wuder (he supervision of the police, us tuey bavo as mach todo now as they can do well in the way of actuu! police business, street cluauing aad so on. 4. Tuis would meet my views exactly. 5& It would be impossivle to piace some depart- ments under a sibgle vead; it would uot answer. For Ingtance, the TaX Commission shoul: uot be placed unuer ove be I think every other commission copid ve placed under ove bead. Tne Tax Commis #160 OUgUt to remain a8 It ts ut present. As for the reducing of salaries, some officials receive pay that is outrageously ugh, principaiiy the Judiciary, 6 [tavor tpis also, It would boid the Mayor re- sponstvle for his appointments, 7. Mr. MeCouneil considered the question too weighty a one to be bostily answered, TWELYTH. None of the numerou- candidates in the Twelfth Aistriet could be found when called for, They were always like Mme. Beuoltom in the play of the “Fast Family,” “just goue out.” THIRTEENTH. Mr, Robert H. Strabun, wuo is expected to rau on the renublican side iu (his district, alter reading the questious cureiully, said:— 1. Yes, of course. 2 itis u question in the minds of many whether the Legislature could coustituioually pass an Apvor- bionment uct ia the middle of a decade atier tus last Ido pot think that suck au act would be un- tutional. I voted lor the passage of the Appur- Ut acl, ahd Would do So aguin, tainly; 1 favor a just, carefully considered Excise jaw. 4 1 would unquestionabiy aid an economical caval poliey. I: was a rupuo jican administration woich first imaugurated caal aud prison reforms in nis tate, & Many ollives im the city goverament can be dispensed with, and salaries might ve reduced. | Would javor every measure Wick wight gaara ond limit the expenditures in the city goverument aud tend to economy tu uli departments. 6. I might favor an amendment of the city charter g!¥ing the sayor power to appoint to ollice without bbe concurrence of the Board of Aldermen. 1 taink ibere is wisdom aud justice iu the present plan of re moval tor Cause aod Upon the approval of the Gov. ernor. The present system makes the tou ure of oflice Jess @ Matier Of Jocal politics aud insures greater im- Gepenvence op the ofliciai’s part, Who, under another Bysiem, would necessurily Le coutrolied vy tbe thougat thattoe Mayor Lad the right to take bis political Leas of at auy moment Lom sor hard money always, t, Jobe Clurk, quor dealer, one of the prospec- vo Tammany candidates, replied as follow 1. 1 favor « jair appordonmeat 2 i condema the acuiou of the last Legisiatare in by bew apporuonmenk {win iu lavor of it. ’ [donot care about answering. In the Legisiacure 1 would do according to circumstances. Lnaveu’t avy policy. FOURTRENTH. Mr. P. Henry Dogro is a remarkably youthful as- Dirunt to Ly houors at tue bands of Tammany Hail, He san 1 To tue vest of my ability I would contend jor an dquitabie apportionment % [condewo the partisan and unconstitational ac: Non ol the Inet turee Legisiatures. & Lb tavered +& | would. &. | would vote for the reduction of and Jor the abolishment of unnecessury offices, Lam net Convinced of the advisability or propriety of placing all the departmeuis uoder « singie bead, 6 This is oo repaviican tor me. 7. 1 favor a convertibie curreney. Bir. Jutmes Daly, woo is on independent vicket, and tuerefore opposed to Tuininany Mail, did not wih it be Wadersivod that he isa candidate Jor re-clec- tion, Mis Health is not good and be would uot cons tent to run ¥ record last your is sufficient answer to wb [ have worked and spoke in javor of un equitab apportionment. 2 i doprecated the course of the last three Logis- luiures. & My bill iast year sbows me to be ia invor of a | fair exetse law, It is 4 purt of at nausiip to | Wisely reguiate What Cannot be sto y L approve of logilation that will iavor respec en entering mo tue trullic aud give itan upward rade im pudrie Opinion. The liquor trafic suouia ve wisely reyuiated. stained the policy of the present and she last State adminis: rations. 6 Liuvor the simptilyig of the oity U the Pole would profer t parties huve to be represeuted on it, if the Bureau snoula be continued a purt of it jovernment, | 6. As tatiers BOW stand | Deneve it better to take from (ue Bourd of Aldermen the right of 1aterveu- Hien iv upporntments and removals, bat i au inde. | Peouent Kourd could yearly be eiecied, {| think that (Lem ihvervention would serve a8 & Baluiary eneck te Mayor, Wit regard to the Governor's 1 favor bome rule. © people of the city de« If they do not elect cavable ofties ‘ lavor of the abortion of (he Hal bawks, of their reorg Sbie tuotiog, | wour veri ibie legal tender currevey, FiVreRsTH. Mr James Dimond, « democrat, is spoken of aa & pr omebie cxwdidate im this disirict, thoagu he would wood that be is nota candiate, His a Vue, Goeideaiy. % | deedemued Woo Inst three Legis OF Uw aweatar, uros by vote & Yee uoquestionably, + corwomiy, yoe | frankly Lau notin favor of accepting the second, { would have to kuow who the single heads ure to be. 6. Yes. 7 1 do not sufficiently understand the financial question to er, There ‘able meu to support both sides, I would preter waiting for more tight the subject, [am opposed to the vatioual bank s; tom; the government ought to do itsown banking and gave the interest pew earned by those bauks, SISTRENTHL Mr, Charles Bathe, Tammany democrat, who ac- knowledges bis readiiews to go to Albany from this Gistrict, answered the questions as follows:— 1, 1 worked tp this direction last year. 2. The last three Legislatures did a gross injustice by not having pased an apportionment iaw. 3. Llavor the tinent of au equitable excise law, 4. All possible ccouomy 18 weeded in State offaire, L will support the present admigistration in Albany, 5, The salaries of city officials ought to be gradu. ated; eflcient men to fill all the offices at much lower ri than resent, 1 believe in Placing the departments, feedare the Police, under gle head. This would be better than to have the several departments fighting each other ay they are now. 6 It would be placing too much power im one man’s bands. 1 would favor the Mayor’s power to suspend, bat pot remove irom office, wibout cousent of the A.dernen. Tho Governor's power ought to stand as now; it would not be right Wo abridge It, 7. Lvoted last on for bard money, but think the way things now stand there should be more money jp circulation, so lo afford employment to men who are idie, I’ would now vote for greenbuck-, and favor iustracting Senators and Representatives to vote for paper currency. SKVENTRENTH. Mr. Michael Kelly, of No. 208 East Seventy-sixth street, the nominee of the greeubuck-lavor-independ- eDt party, replied us tollows:— es. 2. 3. Y 4 a 6 LA Greenbacks every time. NINRTERNTHL Mr, Samuel Bissicks, of No. 120 West Fort: street, candidate for nomination by the gri labor party in this diatriet, in answer to the questions replied as tollows:— 1, Yes, 2. Ldo not approve of itatall, aud most certainly favor a reapportionment accorulng to law, 3. Iam heartily i favor of anew and just excise taw, 4. 1 will support apy economy that ta just and proper. 5. Yes. 6. Lam, 7. lam favor of agreenback currency and will Support the policy of the greenback labor party. a TWESTY-FIRST. Mr. Alexanger Thuin, candidate for tbe Tammany nomination, eaid:— 1. I am ubvoubtedly in favor of a reapportionment, 2. Undoubtedly; 1 condemued the unconstitutional action. 3 Y a Y¥ o. Ldo not favor the reduction of the salarii policemen, firemen or school teachers, but ai luvor ol avolishing all sinecures. As to Laving single heuds of depuriments 1 have not entirely made up my wind, | am not sure, however, but that most of the depariments, including tuas of police, could be managed more economieally aud better 10 that way, with the Mayor ang perups some other official ag an auvisory member, Lhe Police Department, ior ex- ample, could be mabagea by a superiniendent io that way. 6. I am not, but do not see why tno Govornor should interiere, 7. L would offer no instruction to Senators or Cou- gressmen whatever, believing that they are us well informed 48 to Lbe Wishes of the peopie as the mem- bers of tue Legisiature. 1 go not believe 1m an uu- Iiuited issue of paper money. I sve no reason why United States notes should not be substituied jor na- tional bauk votes, The interest on bonds deposited with the goverumeut sbould cease, while bunks are en joying 4 curreucy whieh the government indorsed, ‘1 desire to say (But 1 stand on the HigkaLp platiorm tu respect Lo rapid transit, 1 would bave plenty ot it and cheap. Mr. Heury Rattman, of No, 315 West Forty-seventh also a candidate for the Tammany nomination ot paid much attentiin to the matter. B. Most certainly, 4. 1 will 6. Reduce expenses, 6. Lam got; no sir; I would not say yes to that, 7. 1am in favor of bara money. THE ALDE. MEN. The following questions were put to the would-be Aldermen :— 1, Are you in favor of the contract or of the day labor system in the parks und the Department of Pabiic Works t ‘2 Do you tavor the restoracton of the pay of the city laborers to the old rate of $2 pr t lay the fnil payment of all 3. Are y. vor of enor dues aud owing to the city by the city railroad lines, and of the collection of suet dues aud Heenses in tull ip the future? ‘4. Wili you, ay Alderman, pledge yourself to vote for the confirmation of ali heads of departmeuts that may be nominated by the Mayor, without regard to their political stutus, provided they ure known to be expable and honest? }. Wilt 43" vote against the coufirmation of any demo- erat fur the positions in the Pollee Boxrd now held Monorm Wheeler and Broardt, so as (0 maintain the present emont of the pulice jor wil ordinances for ni us required by the Depa meut of Pav) 7. Ave you in favor of reducing the salaries of the heads of city departiuents In the same proportion that tie Lavor- ers’ wages aud the teachers’ stlarioy linve been reduced, and will you, if elected Aldernan, commenes the refuria by voluntarily senting $2,000 8 Yeur ay your compensa tion? POURTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Alderman Slevin, who 1s seeking @ Domination on the Tammany ticket in this district, said:— 1. Lum opposed to the coutract’ system, for tho Teusou that the city ougttto beable to have work dove as cheaply by the day system as by a con- tracto} 2 Most emphatically, and if possivie @ greater amount should be paid, always remembering, bow- ever, (hat tue Suate or city stould receive @ fair ork for @ fair day’s pay. . ; aod not only ut { would exact every dollar {rom corporations a8 well as individu nd it auy prefereuce were to be madel would give & to the Jatter. 4. To whom may I askamI to ple¢ge myself? My first duty is to my coastituency, and 1 dou’t hesitate to declare tuat my preterence shall be 1m every 1n- Stuuce tor a democrat. 5. Lwili vote to confirm any reputable democrat indorsea by the reguiar democratic orgomization of the city. 6. 1 Shall vote tor ail improvements 1 deem neces. ry, belie that our streets und cthorougblares should be kepi in the best possible coudition. 7. Lean uo nothing in my official capacity to bring about thatresuli, | preter to ieave it to the Legisia- ture, where it properly belongs. rhe reporter t ‘called upon the republican can. didate, Colonel M, W. Burns, woo answere: 1. Lam not in favor of the contract system. Labor- ers ought to be pad aay, avd | would make them Periorm their work. 2. 1 have answered that already. day makes up my piatiorm, & 1 am m favor enurely of that. The qu should have been settied long ago. 4 Ali tuings beimg equal, 1 would prefer a repubii- can, ‘Two doliars a I will vote against the non-partisan character ot + Bourd as at present constituted. 6 Leay yes provided such repairs be necessary. Cortain portious of tue city have been hitherto neg lected in this respect. The Commissioner of Public Wor! should be compeiica to keep the streets to ir order. wh not. A public servant who fultls bis ought to be adequately paid. rk, nuother dnd Vverul \erms iu the Assembly, a 1. | am in favor of day’s inbor as opposed to the contract syste. 2. L consiver $2 a day little enough to give any lavorer jor the work required. 3, The city raiironds should pay all their dues. 1 woud like to inquire why they should not do #0, 4 Lwould koow something avout the man first. You would wot expect me to voie viindly. 5, Lam not prepared to answer that, vat, latter part of the question, I dou's thin The Bureau of Eiectious should be certainly non-par- tisan, 6, If necessary, in my opinion, | would not, The poor people ought to be supported. A iair day’s Javor js entitied to a fair day’s wages. 7. Tbave bothing to say, for that question is reg- ulated by the Legislature. Alderman Shes said i— 1. [ain opposed to the contract system, could be better performed by days’ labor, 2 Certainly. No man cat suppor, a tamily and © ab bouest Living on less than $2 a day, 4. Lom, 4. Lam in favor of a demoerat as long as ho 18 equally Competent with a republican, & Lbave not maue up my mind on that point. It depends enurely on the character ot the men uom- inated, 6 When repairs ore necoseary, in my judgment, I fy iu favor Of repairs being done, 7. That belongs to the Legisiatare, Tho work I will say 00 a your. it costs me $8,000 a year while | bod a pubic poste tion, Lom opposed to @ reduction of the salaries of (enchers aed embers of the Police and Fire depart~ ments, FIFTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT, This district is oF republican and one a to the City Hall, Both the republican imeumbenis——Aidermen Morris and Jacobus—are candidates tot renomination. Alderman Morris, 1a answer to the questions, replied as follows im nding two 1. That would depend entirely on the kind of work to be done uuu tte location, 2. | think 1) @ man does a fair day's work $2 is bat Small pay for @ men to support wtamily op, Lam Satinied (hat (has rate should be restored, provided the laborer gives au equivalent in labur for it, & I have always beeu iu favor of tue city collecting (hing (hat beiouus to 1. My record shows that, igliiing fur the city Wo get ber right. Lot pledge myvell to yowe for unybody wing wieitier Le is worthy to fill the pines. | bave wever refused to vote for anybody pro- Viding Be Is @ good anu cupable mun. 6. [believe thet the Police Board ought to be non- Partisan, bat ! will make no pleuges berorehand. 6 My dear sir, | have aiways navocaved ihe re- pairing OF Lhe sioots, 1 velleve that the city could, Jor (ve lust (bree yeurs, have judiciously spent douvie and trevie the amount it bas in this work, got only giving work to the laboring men Wut proving & Fea! bouellt Lo the city. & Yon, wy swe Gres part of (he question, and as to 7. Lbave not given that any Consideration as yeu NEW YORK HERALD, SUN In conclusion, 1 would say that I bave a public record ot six years, of whieh Iam proud, and I court all possible public iuvestigation of it, Alderman John W, Jacobus, republican, replied:— 1, L Deheve that some work cau be done by con- tract oo the public works and other work cannot, therelore | caruot give a defluite aaswer to that ques- tion. 2 Lam tn favor of all workingmen being paid t their work; Dut there are some luborers who worth $5 a day, while others are pot worth $1 a day, 1 pay my own men $2 a day, aod some of them more, what are worth it. 3. Lam, mest decidedly. 4. They may be known to be capable and honest by some men and not by others. It I know them to be capable and honest 1 will vote for them. & 1 wilh, 6 Twit 7. L believe in the reduction of the salaries of the heads of departments 1m general, Lam willing that my salary should be reduced im proportion as they are reduceg, i Joho Cavanagh, Tammany democrat, replied as 1ol- jows:. 1, 1 am im favor of the day labor system, 2 i1do, 3% lam, 4. Providing I know them to be capable and honest, 5. Li he comes up to the standard, be he democrat or republican, 1 will vote for him, will, 7. Lam willing that my salary should be cut down in Proportion as the salaries Of all heads of departments are cut down. Joun J. Burns, Tammany democrat, replio 1. Law ta favor ot tne day labor system, 2 Lam in favor of toring the pay of the city la. borers to $2 a day und much more as the city can afford to pay. 3. 1 um certainly In favor of that, 4 No! 5. No! eS wtp they are necessary in my judgment, Yes, . No! Alderman William Bennett, at pre ing the Filth district, now candidate at Large (fammany democrat) repli 1, Lum in tavor of tue day labor system. 2 Yes, lam io tavor of a luvorer receiving a fair day’s pay tor nis family’s support, 3 1am, most decidedly. 4 Ido 5 14m in favor of a non-partisan Police Board, 6. When | tuink it necessary | will, 7. 1 am tn favor of reducing the salaries of all heads 0! departments, Jolin De Vries, republican, replied :— 1. 1 um in favor of the day tavor system. 2. Yes, 1 want to see t Get enough Lo live on, 3. Most decidedly, 4. Most cheertully, 6. Yos. 6 Certainly. 7. Yes. nt represent- yr Alderman SIXTH SENATORIAL DISTRO"? Alderman George Hall said :— 1, 1am in tavor ot day labor, 2 Yes 3} Yes. 4 1 decline to answer. 5. Lum in favor of u partisan Board, 6. I would certainly vote for all nec of the streets, 7. 1 am in favor of reducing the heads of city departments; but as far as the Alder- mani salary is concerned, that 18 already fixed by the Legislature and 1 bave no right to alter it, Alderman Johu M, Guutzer, wuotber adherent of the wigwam, said :— 1. 1 am 1 favor of the day labor system. s. Yer %. By allmeans. 4. 1 wouldonly pledge myself to the confirmation @f democrats, because I beliove we buvo as good una bonest men iu var party as can be ound 1m apy other, 5. Lam in favor of a partisan Board, 6 Yes. 7. Yor. Mr. Jacob A. Hatsel, a Tammany! 1d:— 1. 1am in favor of the day labor system, 2 1am in favor of paying the laborer what ho is worth. : 3. Yes, 4 1 decline to answer. 5. 1am in favor of a partisan Board, 6. 1 will voto for necessary and judicious repairs of the streets without reference to the source irom peek the requesi emanates, 7. Ye Mr. Frederick Finck, real estate operator, of El- aridge street, 1s regarded as the choice of many of the republicans tu that locality. He suid:— 1, 1 pave been twice in the fleld for Alderman. I like to be irce and to be the Officer of the people. I am for justice, right and the benefit of the country. 2. 1 dm not prepared to answer. It all depends on circumstances. 1 believe in the motto, “Live apd Jet live.’”? But, then, I wouldn't say for certaia. There ure so Mavy that promise everything be ore- hand, 1 wisn only to do justice and to barm nobody. 3. Time enough to decide about that when | am elected. 4. I must have to make my mind satisfied, 5, ium alwaya ready to be advised regarding the interests of Lue city, 6. The Board has tull power. 7. Alter my election 171i bring my frienas together aod consult with them, Mr. Bernard Keuny, a stalwart blacksmith, of Nor- folk street, 1s looked upon as the provable choice of tho anti-famorany ites of that district. Ho replied:— 1, 1 am tn favor of the aay labor system. 2 [believe in fair compensation for jor. Itis unfair to speak of the old rate of wages when times are so vard @ present thik that railroad companii as well jhould 3. 1 certaiul, pay their du the poor man. eo wysell, but at the same time lum in tavor of wakiug po distiaction in regard to arty. ; 5, y am in favor of a non-partisan Board. 6. The streuts ol New York are a disgrace, 1 think that more movey should ve expended on them to put them 10 proper Condition, Cemmussioner Campbell capable, good man 10 his place, i. Yeu, SEVENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. : Alderman Bigho, repuviican, cust side, replied as follow: 1L Lam not opposed to the contract tem, pro- vided the contractor pays the jaburer a fuir duy’s 2 Yes, 3 Yes. 4 My record in the Board answers that question. 6, Lam in favor of w poa-partisun Police Board, 6. Yes. 7. L would be willing to have tho salarios of the Aldermen reduced iu proportion to avy reduction tu 1D the saluries of tue heads of depart- erman Sauer, Tammany domocrat, cast side, re- plie 1. | preter the day labor system, Yes. 3 Yeu 4, That would all dopend as to who was Mayor. 5. 1 believe that the party 12 power suould incur all the Mer ea aed 1 am, therelore, in tavor of a ‘de OU Made in the Sularies of Uh me time Ido uot think tbat the Aldermen, At tue salaries of the Ald rmen arte (oo large at present, Peter McGowan, liquor dealer, Tamimany democrat, West side, replied us iollows ;— 1, The javore: day Invor system. 2 Yes. should be paid by the city on the Es 4. L think the party to which I belong would nomt- nate none but efficieut meu, cud of course 1 would ex- ercise my best Judgment, 6. In politics a man mast stick by bis party, I would vote as 1 thought best under ull the circum- stances. 6. Yes. There is a goda deal of difference between the Salaries of beads of departments and tue tularies of Aldermen. I should not object to u proportionate re- duction i the salaries of aii wore to be reduced, James Campbell, Tammany democrat, west side, a workiug nan, repied:— 1. Pm oot fa tavor of the contract sy: 2 1 beheve in the day’s work system, 3. 4 6. 6 Yes. 7. 1 decline to answer. ‘Thomas W. Byrnes, clerk inthe Pax Office, Tam- many democrat, vast side, replied :— 1 cong 4n Javor of the day’s work system, 2 Yea tthe democratic purty ought to b responstole tor all tue depurtmeuts, As it is th no respousibility on eithor party, o You: 7. Yer. Frederick Hilbeg, barber, Tammany democrat, west side, replied :— . Lai tu favor of paying by day’s work, 3a ¥ 4. 1 could not answer that question at present, tion 1 will nut wuswer, not answer at the present time, Hiugh F. Farrell, liquor dealer, anu-Tammany, east side, replied as follows 1.'L Would favor lavorers’ pay by day's work if tl system Were properly managed, but the trouble ways was that Ineumpetent overseors were appointed bat system was tu vperation, partisan, to vous ior a democratic Homing on who te man was, 6 You. 7 You. Rove east side, replies i, Lam in tavor of paying laborers by day's work. 2 Yes. 3, Yos ay Hall, livery stablo keeper, anti-Tammany, provided they were capabie and honest 11 we were 10 the minority, I enou jt ied Upon to oppose ihe nyminee of a democra 1 mysell repubiean Mayor. & Tt the dewve Voliow Board snoula be democratic. If the rey party were in power, they would not give the demo- ofats mace of a show. O by all means. T believe that laborers ought to be employed on the streets to-day iu larger mum- bers than they . You, Jeremiah Marphy, liquor dealer east siue, replied :— L 1 am tu tav antt-Tammaoy, of tue day lavor system, 2 Yes, 3. Yeu, 4 Feconge answer, as Ido not know who the Mayor may be. 5, 1 am in favor of having @ non-partisan Police Board. 6 Yes. 7. 1am in favor of reducing the salaries of all heads of departmonts, and I would be willing to begin * reform in the Board of Aldermen. \derman Sammon, contractor, uotl-Tammany, West side, repiied:— 1, I bell the day labor system Is preferable. 2 Yes. 3. Yea, 4, Lam & party man. 5. Laecline to auswer that, 6, Yes. 7 You EIGHTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT, The first candidate in the field for Alderman from the twenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards was this your Mr. Joun L Burnett, a real estate dealer of 145th street and Third avea’ Mr. B: considerably past middlo a almost n of the district, nominal 1m former instances he himself as candidate, ‘The last cat this was when be rap agniost Messrs. Flanagan and Angell for Justice of the Peace, when the vote stood, in round pumbers, Fianagav, 1,100; Burnett, 1,000, and Angell about 900, He was Justice of the Peace for twelve yours, aud a member of the school boara for twenty-three yours He says ho desiros no party nominatfon, and 18 confident of clection, He 1s, he says, a democrat, but vota partisan, Ho sald:— 1, There are two sides to this. I think thut when there 1s any considerable piece of work to be done tt spould be doue by contract, but lor current repairs I would bire men by the day’s work, : 2 I believe wages should settle themselves, and T am most emphatically ia favor of paying men ac- cording to what they are worth, I would grade the laborers and pay according to their ability. 8, lam strongly to favor of compelling the strictest compliance with whatever the companies are obliged by law or contract to do. All dues should be paid in 1ull, whether back dues or not, 4. Lean say yes fl anderstand tho question aright, Tam nota partisan and would not accept a pi nomination. 5. L won't use the word democrat or republican, but 1 sbould vote to maintain the non-partisun nature of the board most assuredly. 6. Yes, ior all repairs that were necossary in my Yos, I’m de- judgment, 7. Now you've got exactly my point. cidediy 1m favor of a reauction of salaries, und if I could I would reduce the salary of an Alderman to $1,000 a year, Ui couldn’t do that 1 would bring it aown to $2,000, ‘The second candidate to be announced was “Cap- tain’? James Bowen, a gentleman of considerable means und leisure aud u large real estate owner in tne vioiity of Hariem Bridge, “Captain”? Bowen is also a democrat und 1s also running without a party nomi, nation, though be bas not said, as Mr. Burnett has, that he does not want onc. When wked the first question on tho reporter’s list he loo! puzzied and Lesitated. At length answered ull the ques- oes promptly. His auswers were as follows:— am ip favor of the laborer, 4. Twill, 6 law opposed to having a partisan board, but 1 will vote tor a yood man RAG time, no matter what his purty 1% I’m a democ: 6. L will 7. Lwill, 1 do it for nothing, june house Where ho vow sells lager beer, on the corner of 162d street and Courtiand avenue, He looked bothered aud said nothing when the reporter declared his intention of examiutng him as to his opinions, When the first question was asked he kept silence for some time, At iength ho said be not answer it, ‘Then be seemed to think e impolitic, and asked what the reporter thought was the vest, contract work or tne day labor © reporter had no opinions, but said he 1d some peuple advocate the contract system g jobs. “Phat’s 1, said Mr, Haffen. ‘For big jobs I favor the contruct sysiem. Uuly for big Joba,” Then he answered as tollows 1, Contract system for big jobs, 2 Yea 3. ——— 11, that ought to be paid. 4. 1 woulan’t pledge myself to anything. 5 1 wouldn’t pledge that. 1’m in tuvor of a non- partisan board, but 1f I see a democrat going for'any- thing, l’a svoner help him than anybody etse, 6, Yee, and we wunt 4 good deal doue up he 7. 1 wouldn’t answer that. I wouldu’t like to mix myself up with the pay busioess anyway, I wouldn't care anything ubout it for myself, though. I don’t know wbat pay the Aldermen get anyway. Is it $4,000 a year or $5,000? Mr. Cuarles Monk, a resident of West Morrisania and a sign manatactarer, doing business at the corner et Broadway und Spring street is to be, some people think, the candidate tor Alderman of the greenback party in thedisirict. Mr. Monk was pertectly willing to auswer avy questions, He said:— 1. 1 wm aeotdedly in favor 2 Y¥ 8. Yes, deeidedly, and I consider that a most im- Portant point. 4. L will, certainly. 6. Twill That's my idea exactly. bave a partisan Board, 6. 1 wilt, 7. lam. I will That 1s one of our grand plat- Jorma, to reduce the city expenditures so ag to take a portion of the burden off tue workingman ond euable him to live. Mr, Jordan 1. Mott, formerly momber of the Tam- mavy Geveral Committee in this district, but lately a rebel agaiust the wigwam, Las been nominated by t tiefaminuny party. He listened curefully whea reporter read bis qdestious and thea suid, emphat- ically. 1 be drift of those questions exactly, and like the tdea very much; but when | was nomivated L Made a certain speech, and the beat auswer | can mako {8 to quote Iruin it, 1 said, ‘Gentlemen, I don’t want this nomination, but I can bardly deciioe it in consideration o! the way itis offered, But I want it distinctly understood that 1 snail bo lett tree to do exactly what I think best. | witl study your ioter- ests, and act according to my best judment, but una © circumstanoes will 1 make a promise of any kind to any body,’ So you see I can’t very well ane swor your questions.” And the Alderman looked wise a8 au Owl us he enthusiusticully quotea bis own remarks, the contract system. We should not DISTRICT ATTORNEY. The tollowing questions were put to the candidates for District Attorney :— ‘i 1. If elected wii! you pigeonhole any indictments? 2. Wil you consent ty straw bil % What are your views on the entoreement of the Liquor and Sanday laws? pi ist ouglit to be done for the suppression of gum. iy 9. Do you thing the law: be enforced? Mr. Benjamin K, Phelps, the prosont District At- torney, suid in reply to the above questions :— 1. Ob, bosb ! 2. Lt would be atrange if I consented to do that now after holding tne office so iong. ainst State lotteries ought to 3. I velreve al 1s placed on the statute book to be enforced, 4 Gambling Hike drunkenness I think can never bo The only thiug to be donu is to entorce farus we can, lotteries the game remark will hold good, I beiteve in eniorcing them, but have been un. avie to do 80 for a somewhat curious reason. All those lottery fellows, when arrested, insist upon being tried 1n the Court of General Sessions; that Court is so busy with more important causes tuat the lottery cases ate pinced atthe bottom of the culenuar and Y ever reached. In order to enlorce the Against lotteries we need legisiation to permit of ng tried at Special Sessions, Freaeriex Smyth, maby candidate for Di trict Attorney, said, in answer to the above quo and the term pigcon-holing it means pluctug indictments iu euch a Way that they cau be used as a political engine. Such proceeding incets with my bearty con eunation. w 2 Most emphatically no. 3. Lam opposed to all sumptuary laws, beiioving that (hose thatters should be adjusted 1m somo other way than by legislation. 4. While these laws romain upon the statute bouk At witl be my duty to entorce them. 5, All tue sLuLutes should be enforced. Ex-Judge Avram J. Dittenhoeter, who is spoken of as probable nomince of th paviican sod anti Tammany comOioat sar 1. I would neither 'pigeon-hole indictments nor “railroad”? prisovers, 2 No. . The liquor laws should be enforced. 4. Tho stacntes should be enforced, 6. My oath of office would require me toseo that they were exec'ite WHATZTIRY WILL PROMISE, Augustus Sebell, the demucratic candidate for r, lige ino was requesied by a eveulng to give au expre ministration of the office expects to begged to be excused, saying that be tue matter tho thought 1 In # fow days he would be very happy, be said, to communt bis ideas upon the maoagemont of (he executive department of the city woverninent. Mr, Kaward Cooper, spoken of as the probable com- bination caudidute, thougut it would not be Wise of in good taste (0 express any Opinions at the present mo- ment, Mr. Shepherd F. Kuapp, bie combination candidate, reporter last 80 spoken of us a possi- Hougbt at would be rat promacure to discusss the duties of tho office. STABBED IN THE THROAT. Angelo Sparo, thirty years of age, of No, 26 Mulberry street, quarrelied last night with Joseph Labana, at the corner of Mott and Worth ste avout thirty. two cents. They camo to blows und duriag the # fle the former was stabbed tn the throws, Labann aped arrest and the iojured man was sent to St. Vincent's Hospita THE KINGS WOOD MYS!LERY, A few days ago the dead bouy of a in King’s Wood, newt Guttenburg, N. J. The ad- anced state of decomposition showed that the man had been dead for a jong time, The coroner's jury ro- {armed a vordict that the decensed bad died at bis own hand, @ pistol Having been found at lia side, Cor. onor Crane bas found that the dead nian Was Albert Caylia, a Pe Missing since Sep. vomuer 20, in Power's Field, an was found DAY, OCTOBER 20, 1878.—QUINTU PLE SHEET. ARRESTED FOR PERJURY. AN IMPORTANT WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE IN THE BILLINGS MURDER TRIAL LOCKED UP, [py TELEGRAPH TO THE HELALD.| Saratoga, Oct. 19, 1878, George W. Jones, the witoess iu the Billings u who testified that be was fishing from a boat and saw Billings coming to Washburne’s at the time the mur gerous shot was tired, was to-day arrested for perjury, and 1s now confined inthe lock-up here. ‘The prosecution claim that the boat he claims to have been using waa on the day of ihe murder nowly painted and 1ying in tho boat yard, ‘The arrest causes considerable excitement, and it 18 Rot improbable that more arrests may be made, as it is generally believed there was much false swoaring atthe trial, The prosecution 18 very active ip pre- Paring for the next trial, The applieation for a writ Of haveas corpus or lor the reloase of Billings on bail will be made betore Judge Landon, at Schenectady, Thursday, October 24 Billiugs’ lawyers have been holding consultations here, DBTAILS OF THE ARREST, The arrest of Jones was made by Detective Langdon at hall-past two this afternoon. Oflicer Pennock wens along, but, for leur Jones woula suspect something, remained &@ short distance trom ine Louse. Lang. don told Joves he bad a warrant tor bi aud Joves told bim to servo it, be did, Jones was bandcuffed and broug' He will be examined beiore Police Justice Left to morrow moraing. Joues was one of the most im- portant witnesses in estavlisuing the alibi tor Bil- dings. He testitied tbat he saw Billings come out of the Jane upd hitch bis horse at Wasuburne’s betore the ehot was fired, As his evidence did not fix the exact time, but covered the event, Stating positively that Billings was ut Wush- burne’s house at the moment be — beard the shot firea it doubtless bad great woicbt with tho jury 16 estavlishing the reasouable doubt upon which the majority favored acquittal. Whether Jones snail be convicted of perjury or not bis arrest will have a considerable moral effect upon the other wita y many of Whom were thought Lo be rather careless 10 tboir statements, The prosecation is determined, and Mt 18 probable the most exciting part of the trial 01 this celebrated case is yet to come. In bringing the prisoner througu tue village of For. Miller Bridge a pumber of people viewed bim with astou- ishment, und be was very anxious to stop there a woile, but the officers quickened the pace of tueir horse’ and reused to hut, Tho wews of tue arrest quickly spread through Saratoga and it is the talk of the town this evening. THE STANNARD MURDER, New Haven, Oct, 19, 1878. Some oxcitement has been occasioned by the ree cent rumors and statements in Madison that, 1mme- diately after the Mary Stannard murder, Benjamin Stevens, who bad bearsuy knowledge of the where- avouts of Mary Stannard at the timo of the tragedy, had a pair of bloody pantaloons washed immediately . thereafter. Stevens is a witness on whoin some suspicion fell ut the time of the trial on, aécount of bis inability to prove an alibt, but whose story was generaily believed when he had campleted his story. A Uxnatn reporter to-day -Vagited North Madisun, where Mary Stannard lived, where a majority of the witnesses ut the prelimi BAY Nearing re: Grand Juror Sherman Bu Copstavie bred Dowd, who were given the siory publicity, denied r y truth in the allegations concerning Benjamin Stevens, but concluded by saying, after a cousuitativn, that it was not wise to tell ali they kuow, aud that tue story Ought not to bave got into the newspapers at all, JESSE KOGERS’ CRIME. THE GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY CALLED UPON TO SECURE HIS PUNISHMENT, Nasuvitix, Tenn., Oct. 19, 1879, Tne American, the loading democratic paper in Tennessce, will contain the following editorial article to-morrow morning :—“'he terrible crime comimitied in Koutacky by a Tazewell county (Tennessee) poll tician upon one of hig negro supporters, the atrocious detailsol which have boen brought to light by the Nsw York Hexanp, shoald move Keatucky to bring the perpetrators at once to justice. Our owa Execu- tive cau do nothing but respond, und upon a requisi- tien from Kentucky he wiil seo that they are pun- ished. That a busband should avenge himself upon the jucer of bis wi 1s the greater criminal, would not be startling, but that be should dissemble, endure through a Gunvass, in order to pregerve bis support, and theu destroy in a manner eXceoding in {orecity ull the known Crimes 10 suyage annals shows the man such a monster that no wrong done him can excuse or puiliate. For the sake of bumanity ho should be brought to speedy puaish- menttor the bouor of Kentucky aud the good name of our oWa race. A mau Who could so sordidly en- dare his wiie’s disgrace aud dissemblo hia just anger is abrute, who might be expected to commit such a crime, accompanied by such sickening detoils ag those so gruphically und radiantly truthiully por. traycd im the Huratp,”” FATAL KAILKOAD ACCIDENT. (by TELEGRAPH TO THE MERALD.) Kiyaston, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1878, Early yesterday morning, @ truin on the Walkill Valley Railroad, when about six miles from here, struck and instantly killed John Lee, aged about wixty-flve years, who lived where the accident oc- curred, and was engaged iv driving a cow from the track, An inquest is being held to-day. MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. Wan DepantMest, Ovrice oF THX CulKy SiGgxaL Ovricer, WasuinGtox, Oct, 20--1 A. M. Indications. For New England, raio areas, following by clear- ing weather, southwest, veering to northwest winds, stationary or lower temperature aud higher pressure, For the Middle Atlantic states, clear or partly cloudy weather, northwesterly winds, stationary or higher pressuro and temperatare. For tho South Atlantic States, clear or partly cloudy weather, light uortherly winds, becoming variabiec, and nearly stationary temperature and pressure. For the East Galt States, warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather, northerly winds, becoming variabie, and stationary or fulling baromover, For Tennessee, the Onio Valley and lower lake re- gion, warmer clear or partly cloudy weather, variablo winds, shifting to soutborty, id stationary or falling barometer, For the Wost Gult State, upper lake region, Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys, warmer clear or partly cloudy weather, southerly winds and lower pressure, Tho rivors will remain nearly stationary. Cautionary off-shore signals continue at Lewes, Cape May and Sandy Hook, and cautionary siguais continue at Bostoa, sections No. 8 and 7, and at East- port. THE WEATHER YeSTERDAY. ‘The followtng record will show the changes In the temperature for the past twenty-four bours, in com- Parwon with tbe corresponding date ot year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudoul’s pharmacy, Herald building, 215 brouaway :— 1877. 1573. 1877. 1878. 3 of WHERE WERE HE POLICE? While a young woman, whe lives at No. 203 William etreet, Was walking along Park row last night sho ‘was set upon by two young ruffians, who tried to tako a ring from ber floger, A Frenchman, who wit- nested tho assault, rushed to her rescuo and pummollod her assatlauts, In the scuiflo one of them drew a revoiver, where- upon the youug woman set up a seream ot “Police ih started the Fronehinan, who thr Ing one of the fugit This Irightened the a sing the pursued Vougeance. They © take his lie, 0 their minds the Frenchman id bite into & saloon the but the crowd increasing wey cha and made their escape. TWO PRILSTS INJURED. Father Senadier, of No, 112 First street, and Rey, F. A. Sebveningor, of No, 425 West Forty. ninth street, were riding yesterday afternoon through Highty-mioth street, when tne horse took irigut at some goats passing ana threw bow gentiemen out of the buggy. Fath Sehadier was thrown down the embankment on one side of t walk and wile Father huried againet suminoned rt wi Ho was token to an amubulance to St. Josep! phan Asylum, where a number of phystciaus attenued hin, His recovery ts thought dowotial, Father Scheeuinger bas tor some time been assost- ated wich Catholic Journalistic tmteresis in America. When the Presse turied he established the Katholi che Volks Blatt, ot whieh ts assumed ediorial cu Mo is tue Secretary of the German Catuolic Union found that his skull wa lace ANNIE GLOVEL’S SAD FATE, DOMESTIC TROUBLE, DRUNKENNESS AND DEATB IN A HOSPITAL. A woman, whose wretched attire and pailid coun- tenance gave uamistakabie evidence of want and suffering, was admitted to Bellevae Hospital on the Sth gay of tast month, The patient wi assigned to ward 28, im the First Medica! Division, where she was attended by severa’ of the most accomplished physicians in the institu: tion, Kor some days her arrival at the hospital it was believed that sho. would recover, but toward the latter part of the month she began to decline rapidly and died at a a ter past two o'clock yesterday morning. While ia the hospital she w: visited by Mra. Higging and a young man who is said to bave been her nephew. ~ Sbortiy after her deato her body was removod the Morgue, Last evening two mysterious inaividuals called at the dead bouse and requested to be shown the corpse, saying that thoy were friends of the deceased, After their departure, the following entry, ‘Retain Annie Glover’a body until Monday, ag the friends were bore,” was made on the blotter by the Morgue keeper, und tully explains the result of the visit, STORY OF HER LIFE, Annie Glover, wn the hospital, tn- formed the authorities there that the obly triend she No. 221 bad in this city waa Mre, Higgine, of Mercer street, who, although having a large family of ber own, tad actod the part of 4 mother toward her. That lady wheo spoken to last evening, mado the following statement in relation to tho deceased, Sho was born im Albany, ber maiden name being Annie Gould, and w the youngest duaghter of a well-to- do and ble family. Some years ago she was married jam broker of this city, They did not live happily, and two y affairs culminated in a di Being tn tho city and without friends or money and fearing to return to her relatives the young wo- man became despondent, and indulging freely in alcoholic stimulants dually began to decline, Rutocd jin bealth, she at jength conclud to go to a hospital, and as her fas jojunction begged of me to soe that hi body wag not buried ina pauper’s grave, 1 was in formed of Anne’s death this afternoon, and bave tuken steps toward securing for her a decent burial, Her nephew informed me that be would send word to his mother, Mrs, Glover's sister, who is at present on visit to albany. Tho man to whom sho, married prised of her death, but I canuot tuke avy interest in the matter or vot, deuth, I believe, 18 supposed to have been caused by heart disoase. Sho was once a handsome woman, SWIMMING IN THE GUTTER. Charles Sims, whose years of inebriation have been many, was very drunk during the storm of Friday night. Tho officer on duty, ashe shook the wet from off bis heavy coat, heara a faint cry of ‘Help! Help! For God’s sake help! 1’m drowning!” He hastened down Third avenue, and nour Forty-second street saw Sims in a smail sized mud stream trying bis best to swim, ‘The water was rushing down the muddy streets, and the rain was pelting from above. The poor fellow, who had lain cown tn the gutter ta sleep off bis drunkenness, awoke to tind himsell, as be thought, drowning in the river, Sims got six months 10 t Filty-seventh street Court yesterday, CITY NEWS ITEMS, The police arrested 1,552 persons last week. Sixty-three emigrants arrivod yesterday at Castle Garden, Marshal Kelly, ‘of tho Mayor’s Office, issued 1,442 Ieonses last week, and collected $2 324, Five hundred and five deaths, 539 births, 161 mar Yinges and 40 still births were reported at the Bureau of Vital Statistics last week, Mrs, Marie Antoinette Pollard, of Virginia, will on Friday evening next lecture before tne Liveral Club, in Science Hall, on ‘Life iu California,” William MoManus, four years of age, of No.7 Har. rison street, diod yesterday of burns accidentally re. ceived at a bonire by his clothes catching tire, Mr. Willis 8, Paine, receiver of the Bond Strect Savings Bank, will pay a dividend of five per cent to tuo depositors of this institution to-morrow, Mayor Ely was at his offico yesterday, During the afternoon, however, he teft the cr expect te return until Tuesday or We Lizale Adams was sent to the Penitentiary, yester day, in the Court of Special Sessions, for having ate tempted to pick @ ludy’s pocket on pier 33, East River. The Deparment of Public Works received, during the past week, $26,959 13 10 paym of Croton te. A penalty of ten per cent will be added to all rents remaining uupaid op November 1. ‘The sentence of Michael Tobin having been com- muted to five years’imprisonment in the K! County Penitentiary the prisoner was yi moved from Ludiow Street Jail to tnat in: John Hultigan, of Nw, 425 Wost Twonty-oightn street, wis held, in defaalt of $2,000 vail, at the Yombs Poiice Court, yesterday, charged with baving obtaiued clocks from the Waterbury Ciock Company by means of forged orders, Thieves forcibly entered 11 College on Hast Twenty-sixth street y tng by prying open the windows, They sawod off the locks of the contribution boxes for the Fuadof the Yeliow Fever Sufferers und took nearly $10. Mrs, Joho Whalen, of West Forty-sixth streot, threw a sugar bow! at her husband's might. eet Ci Friday In the Filty-seventh di ot blood wore viaibie on hia tu PI ntifl, but was sown to be more to blame than bis wile. The annual cxamination of the Nautical School of the Port of New York, by the Caounoil. appointed by the Chambor of Commerce, will be held om Wednesday next, at two o'clock P, M., 0a board t schooisuip St. Mary’s, at anchor in the East River, off South Ferry, August Wagenfuhr, a clerk at No, 1,062 Third ave. nue, was heid tor trial in the Filty-soventh Street Court yesterday on a charge of embezzlement pre- forrod by bis employer, W‘liiam Van Dwingion. ‘The clerk ucknowledged the crime, but said that he had d it on @ promise tbat he would not be ar. Wit J. Austin, the light weight wrestlor and athlete, will bonellt by an athletic entertainmont at Clarendon Hall, Nos, lid and 116 East Tuirteenth street, next Wednesday evening. Vrotessor Laflin, Joe Goss, Mons. Th. ir, Professor Dwyer and other favori bictes will oxbibit tueir strength aod skiil. Ata meeting of the oll trado yesterday resolutions were adopted cxpregsive of regret at the death of Mr. Daniel P. Ketchum, a member of the firm of Ketchum & Reid, manufacturers of otls, and a committee of six was appoioted to attend bis funeral, which tukes piace at two P. M. to-day from Trnaity Chapol, 126th ‘eet aod Filth aveuue. The examination inthe Do Grieff case for alleged conspiracy, which was adjourned tor further exam~ imation betore United States Commissioner Shieids torday, was further adjourned to Thursday next, attwo PF. M., in consequence of tho abseuce of the witness Brettiugham, who bad not been iaformod yesterday of the hour of adjournment, ptroiler Kelly yesterday approved the suretics following contracts:—Charlos 8. Higgins & Co., lor supplying the Department Pablie Cuarte tios and Correctiva with soap; George B. Robinson* jor supplying the same department with 260 barrels of flour, at $5 07 por barrel; Robert Blair, for rega- luting Sixty-secoud street from Tenth to Bleveath avenues. ‘Tho Polar St anoual meeting at Masonic Tompi reports presented by tho secretary and troasuror show the business of the past year to be as follows Cash on hand ober 1, 1877, $1,401, recoipts roi all sources, 23 55; total, $14,62055. Death claims paid vy assessment, $11,377; death claims paid 909 ; big eed $500 81; total, $15,086 81; 42 74. Motual Benefit Association held ite Jast night. The of mercnan« and perfumery, arriv= ing by tho stean France from Havre, and consigned to G, Banout, of this city, were seized o1 urge that the owner had attempted to bribe the customs officers. The case was appealed to Washington, aud, on ao investigation made by Captain Brackett, the Seoretary of the Treasury orderea a re! of the goods yesterday on payment of the duty, SUBURBAN NOTES. Brooklyn’s Buroau of Builaings last week granted ghteen pertnits for new struct The body of a drowned man was found floating Buttermik Channel, between Governor's Isiaud and the Brookiyu shore, yesteroay, by two boatmen. James C. Dougherty, aged ubout sixty-five yoars, who k a private 100 Northwest street, Paterson, N. J., yes 7 to commit suteide by cutting his throat with a razor, A motion to coufirm the report in the McAdams lunacy case, which was in favor of the defendant, dirs. McAdams, was made befure Judge Pratt, of the Kings County Supreme Court, yesterday, eoision Was roserved. The compiaint A, Thornton, pring; of the intermediate dopartment of jvlic Senool No, 12, to Brookiyo, who was a da short time age on the charge of severcly Whipping Percy Rollins, a pupil, was withdrawn yesterday, ‘The New Jersey Hattors’ Association are thoroughly organizing to arive vot hatting from tho State Pris notouly of New Jersey but of the Union. they urrapging lor & gfeat mass meeting of workingmen to be hold im Newark tusmorrow evening. Caroline Bender, forty-three years of age, committed rday 10 a barn in the family of six children, surerds James Sinnott and William Johnson wero yosteraay heid for the action of tue Graad Jury by Judge No reason is koown for the Walsh, of Brookiyn, on the cuarge of obtainiun mouey #0 pretences, ey had represente that the: making collections for a Carnolit monasiery. A largely attended indignation mooting was betd ia Paterson, N. J., last night by the Adams strikers to protest against the inureiment of J. P. MeLaughie lor stigmatizing (he bon-strikers a8 avs.” Reso~ lutions denouncing the Grand ro adopted A Tue trial takes place to-morrow,