The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1878, Page 3

UNDISCOVERED, The Fruitless Search for the Remains of the Late A. T. Stewart. SENSATIONAL STORIES — DISPROVED. Digging for the Body in a Lonely Jersey Road. MIDDLETON’S VISITOR. Was Dr. Christian the Planner of the Outrage? The contradiction in yesterday's Heratp of the va- tious wild rumors set afloat Saturday night about the finding of Mr. Stewart's body, according to one account in Weehawken and another outside of Hobo- Ken, on the Paterson plank road, was sus- tained on further investigation yesterday. The statements given to the public by a majority of the morning papers that the remains were in the hands of an agent of Mr. Hilton, and that detectives Captain Kealy, of this city, and Cap- tain Donovan, of Hoboken, had been successful in tracing the clews they held in their possession, were ull denied in official quarters. The interviews which will be found subjoined between the HenaLp repor- ters and Captain Kealy, Captain Donovan, Inspector Murray and others show conclusively that the stories given of the positive finding of the body on Saturday had no foundation in fact. There is practically little progress made in the search for the remains since Jast week. Rumore are as abundant as ever, and Judge Hilton and the police authorities are still be- wildered with suggestions. There was no let up in fhe prosecution of the still -hunt yesterday tither on account of the character of the day or the fature of the weather. One thing is certain, the body has not yet been found, and no agen tof Judge Hilton stands ready to take charge of the remains at a mo- ment’s notice. WHAT CAPTAIN KEALY SAY8. The denia) of the truth of the wild rumor of Satur- day night by Captain Kealy, of the detective squad, is pointed and emphatic. Said he to the Hrratp re- porter yesterday:—“Thero is, I assure you, abso- tutely no truth in the published reports that I was in Weehawken, Hoboken or any where else on the Jer- sey side of tho river on Saturday night. I have not been west of Broadway in forty-eight hours. I cannot understand how such rumors could get afloat. They have no foundation whatever. When questioned as to what develop- ments, if any, hed taken place during the day, the Captain declined to make any statement, but it was svident from his manner that no advance had been made so far as he was aware in the solution of the ‘mystery. ‘ “THE BODY HAS NOT BEEN FOUND.’” * “I do not understand how any of the newspapers ean afford to publish stories that have no foundation on the Stewart business,” said Inspector Murray last night. He had just taken leave of Judge Hilton and ‘was preparing to renew his active prosecution of the search. ‘‘I.do not understand how they can do it. There have been several ‘official’ an- nouncements made that Stewart's body was found which have thrown the community into a ferment: No good can come of such sensations. Such reports ,, fo not help the search.” , ‘Then there is no truth in the reported discovery ‘of the remains?’ _ .“No,” said the Inspector emphatically, as he put on his great coat and started out in the rain; “the body ‘thas not been found.” * Later on, when’ he had finished his night's work, the Inspector said, “The body has not been found.” Fs! ‘THE RUMOR GRISF MILLS. , Inspector Diiks wat'seated in his office on Four- teenth street last¢vening when a HeRacp reporter called, and the following conversation ensued :— , +t heebeen reported that you asserted [positively last evening that’'you were in momentary expectation of receiving a telegram from Captain Kealy anno unc- ing that he had taken possession of the remains of the late A. T. Stewart. Is there any truth in this re- port?” “I read that story myself,” said the Inspector, “and positively deny that I ever made any such statement, What I know of the matter is simply this:—Last evening, while I was on duty at the Central Office, a gentleman hurriedly entered my office, apparently very much excited, and told me that he had received information from an authoritative source that the body of A. T. Stewart was in the possession of Chief Donovan, of Hoboken, and inquired if I had received a telegram from him. I replied in the negative, but old him, in reply to his request that I should do so, hat if I received any notice from the Jersey au- horities I would willingly give it to the press for pub- ication. I was aroused from sleep early this morn- tg by this same person, who asked me if I had re- eived the telegrarn to which he had altuded. I re- plied that I had not, and that ended it. I deny hav- ing made any statement concerning the recovery of the body, and the only knowledge I had of the affair was the information which I received from the party mentioned.” JUDGE HILTON STILL IN THE DARK. » Shortly after four o’clock in the afternoon Jndge Hilton’s private carriage drew up in front of Police heddquarters. The Judge hurriedly made his way to the private office of Inspector Murray and remained in consultation with him for nearly two hours. During the conference Inepector Murray's atds were observed from time to time bearing telegraphic mes- pager to the operator down stairs, and it was at once conjectured that these telegrams were being sent out by the Inspector at the suggestion of Judge Hilton. When the latter gentleman was leaving the building a ‘Heraip reporter asked him whether there were any w developments for publication in the case. The Frage replied in the negative, and, in answer to fur- ther questions, said, with a fey cae shake of the head, “Ihave no reason to think that anything of amportance will transpire to-d OVER IN JERSEY. Chief Donovan anda the superintendents of the Weehawken, Hoboken and MecPhaler cemeteries wero called upon yesterday and laughed very heart- fly over the idea that any one of them knew where the body was left. Mr. Beek, keeper of the Hoboken Cemetery, when nestioned about the man Mahoney, yesterday, stated thet Mahoney had been employed in the marble yard connected with the Weehawken Cemetery. Some of the police have connected him with the disa| pearance of the kg 2 He said that he remembered & story told him by his foreman, Mess, abit Mahoney, to the effect that he would like to get hoWl of Stewart's remains so that he could make'a “atake,” but he could not remember when the conversation between the men took Nace. reporter found Mess, the Foretsan, at his residence, on Fisher avenue, near the New Durham Town Hall. Besides being foreman in the Cemetery he is a deputy sheriff of Hudson tounty. When questioned in reference to the man Mahoney he said that he didn’t want to say anything, because what Mahoney eaid to him may have been waid only in jest. After awhile he becaine more communicative and told the story aa follows :— i in the gn Mahoney camo to the cemetery to inclose a plot, and, while arranging the poste, at- tempted to place one down a we upon the top of 8 nT told him. that ber conld not flo it, andl, to frighten him, told him that the grave contai A small pox case, He enid that he was not afraid of it because he had handled a many bodies. He followed up his words with statement that he wonld like to get the head of Btewart’s body. I asked him why, and he replied, that gets a head of bie body no ! & good stake out of it.” Mess id attention to the words tnd hed forgotten all about them, when the dissp- ance of Mr. Stewart’s remains recalled them to and ho related them to his employer. wad Mahoney was a wild, reckless sort of * (ollow, but where he ix at present he could not tell. VRERUAND AND BURKE, No judicial proceedings with regard to the prison- ore Vieeland and Burke were had yestorany, the examination et ahh Shortly before ‘the counsel, Joseph H. Stiner, called at the prison and at once sought his clients. He remained in consul- tation ith them for two hours. The length of thé interview was looked upon as # significant thet, As the counsellor emerged from the prison a Hraany* Reporter buttono! ed him for jaformation, but his | Wi lips were tightly sealed. “I should be the last to say agything about the case. To-morrow, however, my ¢! ents will have their forma) examination.” “Do you think, Mr. Stiner, that the evidence ad- vanced by the police in the privat: examination will hold good to-morrow?” The lawyer looked quizzically at the reporter as he answered, ‘What ‘ev.dence’ “The evidence connecting your clients with the robbery of Mr. Stewart's remains? “We will see,” was the evasive answer. “Is it true that the men were originally charged with complicity in the Manhattan Bank robbery?’ persisted the reporter. “No,” answered Mr. Stiner; “they are charged with the robbery of Mr, Stewart's grave, but. really you must excuse my talking on the subject;" and the law- yer hurried to catch a car, DIGGING FOR THE BODY. From an old ex-patrolman of this city, now a resi- dent of Jersey, a clew was yesterday obtained by the reporter relative to the prisoners Vrecland and Burke that led him to follow it up with good results. His informant stated that on ursday night last at a late hour he was surprised at seeing Captain Byrn's and Detective Dolan, of the Fifteenth precinct, in Jersey City. They were accompanied by two men, evidently prisoners. The four drove off in a carriage. With this asa starting point the reporter traced the course of the vehicle wntil he located its destination in @ lonely patch of woods beyond Orange. Thetwo men in the coach with pages Byrn’sand Detective Dolan were Vreeland aud Burke. The captain had in the coach two shovels and two pickaxes. It was long after midnight when the coach halted and the four men were seen proceeding along the wood mentioned. They then Lean digg ing assiduously. Soon the digging ceased and loud words ensued ber tween the police and their prisoners, after which all returned to the coach and were driven back to Jersey City. There can be no mistake as to the men. The reporter's informant had known Captain Byrne and the detective for years. The explanation of the mysterious affair is undoubtedly that the prisoners Vreeland and Burke, at first agreed to divulge the place where the body was buried, but afterward refnsed to do 80, That the detectives have some highly important evidence against the men seems positive. One reliable source gives it that the police have witnesses who overheard the prison- ers make statements which go to show them guilty beyonddoubt. They were heard to make use of suc! expressions as “‘plantit stiff’ and “hiding the bag,” and the names and Stewart were also heard spoken by them. This was the day before the robbery ot the grave. Other evidence is said to be in the possession of the police going to positively con- nect the prisoners with the robbery. It is further said that prisoners were away from their homes the night ofthe desecration." WAS IT CHRISTIAN? From the inception of the search for the stolen body circumstances have at intervals come to the au which serve to confirm the original suspicion that the body snatchers were adepts in their nefarious arts. Reference has frequently been made in the columns of the HrEnatp to the evidence _ that sustained this belief and the tendency of several of the most promising clews handled by the police was to confirm it. The ordinary cracksman does not differ from the rest of humanity in hia aversion to interfering with the tenants of thetomb, and there is nothing in his every- day experience calculated to train him in mortuary matters. He is not at all free from superstition either, and would in most instances prefer to take his chances with active blood and sinew and muscle than to delve after putrid relics he neither knew how to handle nor dispose of. The belief that some one well acquainted with the ghastly kind of work they had on hand was associated with the in- vaders of St. Mark's graveyard remains un- shaken in the minds of most people and keeps alive the original suspicion that overshadowed pro- fessional body snatchers. “Happily the ghoul has of late become a rarity in this city, or if he still plics his dreadful craft, he does it so secretly that detec- tion is evaded. But the papers bristle with reports from other parts of the country to show that they are not free from the ghastly Visitants. The possibility of # person with their instincts turning up in this community and suddenly stumbling upon a acheme novel to his calling, but apt to prove far more lucrative than his ordinary ventures, has sug- gested itself ‘to agg and in this connection the name of Christian, Washington resurrectionist, has several times of late come before the public. In the Heratp allusion to his crime and imprisonment has several times been made and the fact of his being at large exposed. As interest naturally fixed upon him among other strange characters whom the B@hastly crime had called to memory, a HERALD man himself of Christian’s portrait taken while a prisoner in Washington. The manner of man he was has already been described in these columns, and the picture fully coincided with the word-paint- ing. He had sat for it in the otk days of his im- isonment, and the lines of the gaunt face had not been softened by the increasing plumpness which marked him just before his liberation. His hair and whiskers were unkempt, too, and his clothes loose and slovenly, but there were character- istics in the face that impressed themselves upon one’s memory. ‘In scrutinizing it the Herat man remembered certain features in common with it and the picture. which, until yes: , sppeared in acs’ Gallery, un number of 1,267, ‘The lotter<was the por: trait of the young msn whom Mr. Middleton Crates as the Allekton-seeking stranger, who led on him the day of the first attempt on the grave. A STRIKING SIMILARITY. It was a very poor photograph of the youth, how- ever, and the dishevelment of ‘his hair and the imper- fection of the shadows and lines of the picttire made the resemblance barely perceptible. ‘The lower por- tion of the face, which was more accurate, furnished the only means of recognition, and by. that he had been identified when sought for. But there was & marked though accidental similarity in the upper portion of the face in the Rogue’s Gallery to that which came from the Washington Prison, and which was claimed to ‘a fair picture of “Of all persons,” said he, Christiau, the remrrectionist. If Mr. Middleton identified the «portrait im the Rogue's Gel lery as that of his most. probabl; the one of equally familiar, Wit ibis view the pictnre was taken to Mr. Middleton, He saw at a glance the features common in the two, but said that the shagginess of the hair, the length of the beard and the uncouth attire would natu- rally interfere with identification. His visitor was spruce, clean shaven and | with short cut hair, The salient features of Christian's face, however, corresponded to those of the man who called on him, and the peculiar twitching and aw twist of the mouth, which Christian's keepers acted, was another characteristic he possessed in common with the stranger. “He had a liar way of turning down his mouth,” said Mr. Middleton in speaking of the latter in his first interview with the Henarp ryan, “When talking his large mouth would be worked into different shapes,’ said General John C. Crocker, speaking of Christian, who was in the jail of which he was warden. “There was nothing hard looking about my visitor,”” Mr. Middleton said, during the conversation referred to, “but he could not look you straight in the tace, and kept looking on the ground and all around him while he spoke.” “Christian was aman who had a pleasant address,"’ seid General Crocker, “but while talking he would roll his large eyes in a way which was very annoying to a person conversing with him. The points of similarity, peculiar in their way, will readily be seen and their significance appreciated. The connection of Christian's name with the case has not escaped the officials engaged on it, nor have they been unmindful of the possibilities it suggests. This was illustrated last uight when the Hernan man turned to a police official he was conversing with in the Central Office and “There is Christian, the reanrrectioniat. “send ag the official at once returned, drawing & photograph fréin his pocket, where’ it alone seemed to hive . The new picture was a good W net of Christian, but it was not Christ signent make pt anh unshorn, a wag rs Hook low, with o trim aeetoe tha ‘well cot aie hair—just such a one as Middleton's mssterions stranger might have been. Since his escape from Police Headquarters in Wash- ington Christian has not been seen, though evidences of his sinister hand were reported some time since in Cincinnati. Should he have come East since that a field for the theorist is opened, producing the picture, said ‘aabingtom THE KEY TO ANOTHER BANK. As Detectives Cornish and Wilson, of the Twenty- eighth precinct, were walking down Third avenue from Fifty-ninth street, early yesterday morning, they saw aman entering the Grand Central Bank throngh the window corner of Fifty-seventh street and Third avenue. The officers halloocd to him, but he did not stop. They went to the other side of the street and could see the stranger moving about in the building, and, a4 they thought, acting suspicionsly, Detective Cornish then determined to enter the bank by the window in the same manner as the man had done, while Detective Wilson waa to look about for the man’s coufederates. In a moment he was inside and had the man in custody. On the way to the Fifty-ninth — street police station the prisoner said his name was Morris pec and that he waa the janitor of the bank building, ‘Ho said s woman came there to sernb the office and that he had given her the key. Set nt Smith, on duty at the station, sent for the president of the bank, Mr. Frederick Loew. He identified the man as the janitor. KILLED BY HER HUSBAND. On Saturday evening, during a quarrel at their residence No, 10 Washington street, between Mi- chacl Rossiter and his wife Jane, ‘the former seized a lighted kerosene lamp from. the table and hurled it at the woman, The flame ignited her clothing and she was so badly burned that her removal to Chambers Street Hoxpital was deemed necessary, ‘There she died yesterday. Ros. siter was committed to the Tombs to await the action of the Coroner, IDENTIFIED DEAD. A man was found dying in Buttery Park on FHltaty night last and taken, g,\they First precinct station house. He died while there, and was then taken to the Morgue, where beawod identified yesterday by Dr. —e Pearl street, ae Frederic! x Looking tor, SOCIALISM, WHAT PROFESSOR FAWCETT HAS TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT. To the last number of the Fortnightly Review Pro- fessor Henry Fawcett contributes a timely paper on the “Recent Development of Socialism in Germany and the United States.” There are few questions to-day which assume greater importance than that of social- ism, particularly in Germany and this country. An thing that thoughtful men have to say on the subject is bound to attract attention, Professor Fawcett writes dispassionately and treats the subject with more respect than do most persons who do not heartily sympathize with it. He believes that there is a closer connection than may at first appear between the maintenance of a system of protection and the de- velopment of socialistic ideas, The most marked characteristic of modern socialism is, he declares, be- lief in the State, This subject possesses, he writes, “an importance which is incalculably greater than can be attributed to any of the various communistic schemes which have been carried out simply by in- dividual effort, It has been often remarked that suc- cess has not unfrequently its first origin in failure; and I think it can be shown that some of the economic movements of the present day, by which great results have been produced and from which still greater re- sults are anticipated, undoubtedly had their begin- nings in the unsuccessful attempts which have from time to time been made to put into practice various communistic experiments.” “There has now,” he continues, “been conferred upon the working classes in many countries a yre- dominance of political power; and no one who watches events which are now happening can doubt that if socialism should continue to advance with as much rapidity as it has lately shown in Germany and the United States the day is not distant when the socialists will be able to control the legislation of those countries, The proapect is one that may justly excite serious apprehension, and therefore it becomes of the first importance to inquire what is the attitude which should be assumed toward a movement that may be- come formidable at any moment. “ft will not be difficult to show that no policy can be more short-sighted or more unwise than to en- deavor to repress socialism by imposing legislative penalties on those who advocate its principles. All experience proves that the movement will not be thus suppressed, but, on the contrary, will, in all proba- bility, be made to assume a more dangerous develop- ment. For centuries in our own country a succes- sion of statutes were passed, with the object of pre- venting combinations among the working classes, and the chief result of this legislation was to intensify all the worst evils which could result from such combinations, for workmen were thus driven to form themselves into secret societies. It is scarcely possible to make a graver mistake than to allow our judgment of a great social movement to be determined by some circum- stance which may be accidentally connected with it. The recent sepsis ane which was made on the Emperor of Germany's life seems to have cansed many of the leading statesmen of that country to be panic-stricken with alarm about socialism, and they appear to have eagerly rushed to the conclusion that between socialism and political assassination there is @ close and nec connection. Socialists have been described by ince Bismarck as ‘bandits,’ who must be extirpated, as if they were outcasts of society. Nothing can be more unfair or more unrea- sonable than to associate the socialists of Germany and other countries with the crimes of afew fanatics.” * * * “Although I shall endeavor to show that the socialistic programme which is now put forward would, if it were carried out, be destractive of the best interests of society, yet any particular scheme is not to be condemned by simply saying it is socialistic; for if socialism were to be regarded as a noxious weed to’ be extirpated wherever found, the English Poor law system would have to be abolished, use it infringes on the institution of private prop- erty by declaring that all that a man may acquire shall not be appropriated by him for his own use, but a portion of it shall be devoted to relieve the wants of the poor. L have thought it important to consider the subject from this point of view, because nothing can be more unwise than to attempt to check socialism by indiscriminate abuse, and by treating the subject as if every socialist must have some sin- ister object to attain, and as if every proposed re- form which involves a socialistic principle must for that reason be denour ec It ia not by mere chance, lie says, thet socialistic principles aré now assuming increasing vitality. It ‘will not, he thinks, be difficult to show that beth in Germany and the United States the soil has been care- fully prepared for the growth of socialistic ideas. In Germany bureaucratic inciples have obtained their develo} it. The German P inet in their efforts for political unity, naturally desired to make the central government, which was to unite them, strong; the same tendency was increased by the sys: tem of universal compulsory military service which was enforced upon them. These causes have operated powerfully to make the German people believe that the State is omnipotent and should be omnipresent. In attempting to explain tow it has come to pass that socialism is received with so much favor by many of the workmen in the United States, Pro- fessor Fawcett says:—'‘‘I think it may be shown that the maintenance of the system of protection which extends over a great part of the entire industry of that country,-by habituating the people to State in- terference, has made them ready recipients of s0- cialistic ideas. When discussing the question of free trade and protection, I had occasion more than once to point out that the mischief which is done toa country. by protection is very inadequately measured by the loss which is caused by unnecessarily increas- ing the cost of the various products which are pro- tected. People who are perpetually told that the degree of prosperity which an industry enjoys depends upon the amount of protection which it receives from the State are really nurtured in the belicf that the State can remedy all t! is unsatisfactory in their own condition.” “No one,” he thinks, ‘can fail to deplore the in- creasing separation between employers and employed and the widening gulf between the very wealthy and the very poor. In former times there was not #0 complete a line of demarcation between capital and labor.”” ‘an scarcely be necessary to remark,” he continnes, “that the happiest results to a community would be produced if the capital which is required to maintain labor were more generally supplied by the laborers themselves, for workmen would then be able to secure the entire fruits of their toil, and the pres- ent widespread conflict between capital and labor would cease,” Professor Fawcett does not seem to fear the spread of socialism in England. “‘If,”’ he says in conclusion, “the English people are encouraged to depend less upon themselves and more upon the State, centrali- zation and bureaucracy may involve the country in a network of State reguiations; individual liberty may decline, and, as it declines, socialistic demands for State interference ahd State help will advance with sure and steady steps.” EDISON A LIGHTNING INVENTOR. [From the Washington Republican, Nov. 167. J, B. Fuller, of,,.New York, the .electrician, and scientific head of the largest electric lighting com- pany in this country,'is stopping at the Ebbitt. After over 4 year's constant illness, Mr, Fuller comes heré {6 look after His patent mattors, which he has 80 long been obliged to neglect. In a conversation with a Republican reporter Mr. Fuller let out the fol- lowing facts, which are very interesting at the pres- ent time:—In regard to the probability of general electric illumination, he says it must come soon; that it only needs a few finishing touches when gas as an illuminating agent will not be anni- hilated, as some enthusiasts predict, but will take o stand far below that now occupied by oil, Those finishing touches are now being fast applied, and by such an army of clear-headed inventors that, while no one can receive the honor of its full accomplishment, it will all be di- vided among American inventors. More has been ac- complished here within two years in a practicable way than has been done in Europe in the last twenty- five years. I , the latest and most valuable in- ventions now being introduced in Europe are subject to patents there held by Americans—a fact which for. eign inventors seem to ignore, but will fully under- stand in due time. The great bughear—the divisibil- ity of the electric current—which for years defied all acience and ingenuity—will soon disappear forever. There are now at least three distinct methods of di- viding and subdividing the electric current, of even a hundred thousand candle power, into any desired number of luminous points, from the maximum down to the faintest apark, and as easily as to divide a current of water. Capitalists are also now for the first time taking the lead by coming to the front with their moncy to aid the inventors and the enterprise, there being at this moment five large companies or- nized in New York and Brooklyn alone, represent- ing several milliona of dollara capt So we may reasonably look for an early solution of the problem of general electric illumination, ix recent discoveries in electric illumination are unknown except by a few of his trusted triends, With all the facilities of his complete laboratory and of scientific and skilled assistants there can be no doubt but that he will produce a valuable system, creditable to himself and to the company which bears his name; but that he will produce the sine qua non recent discoveries of others have rendered absolutely impossible, Tn regard to Edison and his recent discoveries Mr. Fuller says that if a person hae witnessed the per- formances of the “Lightning Calenlato: they can form some idea of the manner in which this man in- Verts.. You make a suggestion, and before you half explain what is wanted he says, “I've got it!” There itia, but edvered with all sorts of torcign matter, which. héeéon clears off, leaving the invention per- fect. Nor is this all, He then sifta from the chips he has thus made @ dozen inventions which he was not | MIDNIGHT WEATHEB REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, Ovrice oF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasnixGron, Nov. 18—1 A. M. Indications, For New England, warmer, cloudy weather, fre- quent rains, winds mostly northeasterly and gene- rally lower pressure. For the Middle Atlantic States, cloudy weather and light rain, followed by clearing weather, northeast, backing to northwest winds, and stationary or lower temperature, followed by rising barometer. For the South Atlantic States, partly cloudy weather, rain areas, northerly winds, stationary or lower temperature, followed by rising barometer. For the Gulf States, partly cloudy weather, rain areas, followed by clearing weather, winds mostly northerly, stationary or lower temperature and pressure, For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, partly cloudy weather, possibly light rain, followed by clearing weather, northwesterly winds, becoming variable, stationary or lower temperature and pressure, For the lake region, partly cloudy weather, westerly winds, backing to warmer southeast, stationary or falling barometer. For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri val- leys, warmer, partly cloudy weather, southerly winds and falling barometer, ‘The rivers will remain nearly stationary. The temperature will remain above freezing in the canal regions. Cautionary signals continue at Port Fads, Cape May, Atlantic City, Barnegat and Sandy Hook, and are ordered for New York, New London, Newport, Wood's Hole, Boston, section 8, Portland and sec- tion 7. Cautionary off, shore signals continue at Indianola and Galveston. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- parison with the corresponding date of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's pharmacy, Henavp Building, No. 218 Broadway :— 1877. 1878, 1878, 3A.M.. on 47 3:30 P.M 49 OA. M. 48° 6P.M. 49 9A. M. 48° 9PM. 50 12M...;...... 57 48 12P.M. 43 Average temperature yesterday... o 20 4835 Average temperature for correspanding date last his WANTS A DIVORCE. Twelve years ago Mr. and Mrs. James A. Smith, of Newark, became man and wife. To them have been born three children. Recently Mrs, Smith filed with the New Jersey Chancellor an application for a de- cree of absolute divorce, In her sworn petition Mrs. Smith describes her husband as a very monster of inhumanity. She alleges that for the first six years of her married life she ‘was treated as a good wife ought to be—with kindness, consideration anil affection. Since 1872, however, her life with her husband has been, she avers, a perfect hell upon earth. She gives day and date for numerous cruel beatings. When one of her babies was only eleven days old Smith, she alleges, beatand flung her and the little one out of doors. Subsequentiy he came home one day intoxicated and beat her shockingly, kicking her again out of doors, Another time, she alleges, he brought home with’ him a lewd woman and outraged decency in his wife's presence. Still at another time, when she was enceinte, and knowing that she was greatly afraid of dogs, he LN id acouple home, and, despite her protest and pleadings, made the dogs jump upon her bed where she lay. Herscresms alarmed the neighbors, who came in and drove the dogs out. Upon the with- drawal of the neighbors he rev. himself on her in a most brutal manner, she alleges. Other indig- nities and cruelties were heaped on her, and now she ay to the law to be dissolved from all association with the man whom once she loved ardently but now hates with all the energy at hercommand. She claims provision for the children, also charge of CITY NEWS ITEMS, > At Jefferson Market George Livingstone, sin ‘Wiliag Wart, of Wackingion was bad for el sewing» thingy di “ store of (0. 432 Sixth avenue. ‘The steeenahip. ‘Ludwi led from this, port six weeks ago for Antwerp, and has not yet been heard from, although her usual time ia only ten days. This vessel does not belong to the line, as hag been stated, but to the Antwerp line. William Machin, twenty-six years old, of No. 336° Fast Twenty-sixth street, while playing with a re-* yolver last night at his residence accidentally shot himeelf in the mouth, inflicting a severe, but not fatal wound, A lecture on the work of Stanley and Livingstone in their great Central African explorations will be given this evening in Dr. Crosby's Church, Fourth avenue and Twenty-tecond street, by Dr. Prinney, president of gs College, who has but recently returned from. Africa, The obsequies of Frederick C. Schmidt, the ship broker, took place, yesterday at St. Ann's Church, in Eighteenth street, near Fifth avenue, After the usual impressive offices had been performed the Rev. Dr. Gi det, rector, delivered a brief discourse. The remains were accompanied by a large number of car- riages to Greenwood cemetery for sepulture. A young man who gave his name as Francis Mur- of No, 19 Mniberry street, was held in $1,000 bail, ut the Tombs yesterday, on a charge of burglary. Murray was barefooted when arrested, and was found in the neighborhood of John O'Brien's liquor store, at No, 72 Oliver street. He had with him $3 which O'Brien identified as hia money and whi had been obtained from the store by a forcible entrance through. the side door. “s SUBURBAN NOTES. Ann Ronnan, 58 years of age, residing at No, 14 State street, Brooklyn, while temporarily insane, fortendas afternoon, swallowed oxolic acid, and slight jopes were entertained last evening of her recovery. Frank L, Taylor, the Lager, ae" who jumped from the second story window of No. 183 Montague street, Brooklyn, while Inboring under a fit of insanity, on Saturday evening last, died from the effects of the injuries sustained, during the night, CARS FOR THE MARQUIS OF LORNE. [From the Chicago Times, Nov. 14.] Two palatial cars, one the private sleoper of the Pullman Company, and the other anew dining car, the “Brovoort,” just turned out from the shops of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Company, at Au- rora, will leave here this afternoon for Canada, for special sertice in conveying tie Marquis of Lorne andpther English dignitaries on their trip through the Dominion. These cars are forwarded on requisi- tion from the Grand Trunk Railway Company. They will be in the service indicated for at least two weeks. i eet g A VALE OF TRAGEDIES. {From the London Globe.} Only two or three miles from Mentone, in @ valley traversed by the famous Cornici road, there is a apot which the Débaty describes in cloquent and pathetic terms. It is “isolated, wild, far removed from any animated centre. Only a few stunted pines grow up from the clefts in the slaty rock. ‘The aridity of the place is completa, A horrible silence reigns in it which is hardly interrupted by the cries of ill-omened birds or by the cracks of the muleteers’ = whi as they pasa along tho road. ais is dead and = the sbrupt orges arout t jugubrious purposes for which the spot haw mn. chosen.” For this ia the vi Mortola, and here it is that the affairs of honor of the neighboring French heroes are decided with the aid of sword or pistol. “Can any reader,” asks the Dédats, “guess what dramatic scene has lately been enacted in thin valley?” Evidently not; and then follows a touching tiption of tho terrible tregedly, Two ronng men, inhabitants of Nice, and once intimate friends, but “separated by the ardent passion which each of them had for a lady,” had agreed to have a hostile meeting with pistols in tho Ingubrious valley already described. They mot, and had for some time been discharging their firearms at one another without any inconvenient result, when they were startled by the tolling of the neighborin chapel bell. They interrupt their terrible wor! and began to meditate upon the wickedness of angry passions, ‘Then appeared upon the scone an unex- pected witness, It was the clergyman of the afore- said chapel,” whore counsels promptly reconciled the two quondam friends, and who, as it appears, has reconciled many pairs of duellists in the same way. AB & « the report of firearms rings through the valley of death the good man always sets his bell tolling and hurries to the scene, One is tempted to think that this humane Moog is pretty well known at Nice and some other places, and that the pngnacious young blades who repair to the Mortola Valley are not always so mightily surprised to hear the sound of the chapel bell and to see the “nnexpected witness” ap- ron the scene. There must, however, very often bean anions period of euapenso while te frst few shots are being exchanged, lest 8 too clumay cham- pion should chance to hold his pistol straight and shoot his advern incontinently before the “benefit of clergy” is obtained, ~ DROWNED. An unknown man, dressed in dark clothes, fell into tho North River yesterday, at the foot of King street, ond was drow: His body was not recovered, ure NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. IN RUINS. The Fulton Wholesale Fish Market Destroyed by Fire. HEAVY LOSSES SUSTAINED. ——e—_——— Magnificent Spectacle Offered by the Buming Building. The edifice in South street facing toward the north- west running between Fulton and Beekman streets and known as the “Fulton Wholesale Fish Market,” is a mass of ruins. Shortly before three o'clock yester- day afternoon while two men named John Fisher and Charles Kranck were standing on the corner of South and Beekman streets they saw smoke issuing fro the top of the northerly wing of the market. Kranck rushed across and informed the watchman, while his companion ran to Engine House No. 32, in Burling slip. By the time the engine arrived o1 the ground dense volumes of smoke were pouring out from the roof, but particularly in the rear. A second alarm was sounded, but in an incredibly hort time the whole upper portion was in flames and streams of fire were pouring out from the windows and portions of the roof. A light drizzle was falling—not enough to extinguish the fire—while a strong wind was blowing from the north toward the Fulton ferry house, from which the market was separated by only a very limited space. From the first there was not the slightest hope of saving the building, and the efforts of the firemen were directed mainly toward preventing a spread of the flaines to the Fulton Market opposite and to the adjoinirg shipping. Sergeant Fitzgerald, with a force of forty police- men, was early on the ground, and the police boat Seneca was telegraphed. Subsequently twenty more men came on the ground from the First precinct, the entirs force being under the control of Inspe:tor Murray. THE BUILDING. In order to intelligently trace the course of the flames it will be necessary first to describe the build- ing and its location. It was erected about nine years ago on the site of the old fish market, which was so long a reproach and nuisance to New York. The floor was supported by 247 spiles, some of them being sunk to a depth of sixty feet. It was built entirely of wood, two stories high, had a frontage of 199 feet and was 60 feet deep. The roof was surmounted by three cupolas, each surmounted by a flagstaff, the centre one bearing a weather vane in the form of @ fish. The interior, on the ground floor, was divided off into what are called stands. These were eleven feet wide, and ran the entire length of the building except three in the centre, two of which were ten feet and one seven feet wide. As one of the directors said yesterday, ‘each man owned his stand from the floor to the roof.” Above each stand was an office or counting room seven feet by nine. In the centre was an elegantly fitted up apartment designed as ageneral meeting room and for the use of the di- rectors. There were eighteen entrances to the front, and over each hunga large globular lamp. At night it was lighted by 144 gas jets. The original cost was $123,000. The institution was formally opened by an elegant entertainment on Monday, October 18, 1869. The present stand owners are John Lynch, J. W. Campbell & Co., Campbell & Storms, A. L. Rogers & Co., Caleb Haley & Co., Rogers & Edwards, Wooley, Lamphear & Co., Wallace & Keeney, Mull & Eldridge, Powell, Clark & Co., 8. B. Miller & Co., D. Haley & Co., John Comstock & Co., E. B. Rogers & Co., J. M. Harris & Co., Moon & Lamphear and Benjamin & West. As stated, the fire broke out in the west end of the building, but exactly in what portion it is as yet impossible to determine. Mr. Haley, one of the directors of the association, said to a HERALD reporter that-in his opinion it was occasioned by the gnawing ‘of matches by rate, with wifich the building had ‘been overrun of late, and measures were abont being taken to exterminate them. This theory would appear to be the only one that could be reasonably advanced, as it was stated positively that there was not o stove for heating purposes, nor 8 portable light in the building, and not a jet of gas was lighted at the time the fire was discovered, ‘It is an ill wind. that blow, nobody good” is an old adage, and it certainly proved true im this case, At the pier west of the market were two immense ships—the Alexander Marshall,.of the Black Ball line, and the Transit, owned in this city: In the rear of the market waa a fleet of fishing smacks, at least fifty or sixty in number, which were at anchor in the basin formed by the piers jutting out from Fulton and Beekman sireets. Had the. wind been from the west they would certainly have been destroyed, while had it been from the east the collection of rookeries on the opposite side of the street would have disappeared. In fact, it was blow- ing from a quarter whenve it could do the least harm, as the nearest building southwest is the Fulton ferry house, which is built entirely of iron. ‘The upper portion of the’market was packed with old barrels and dried fish, the barrels, than which there could not have been any easicr food for the flames, burnin, like tinder. The centre cupola was the first to go, ans as the flagstaff was seen to totter a wild rush of the firemen and spectators was made for a place of safety. It fell in a southerly direction, however, on the roof, and no one was hurt. The cupola fell next, and the Inst to fall waa the one on that portion of the build- ing in which the fire was aupposed to have originated. i stated above, the original cost was $123,000, but $75,000 of this amount was expended in the erect: f a bulkhead, Up to Friday last there had been $75,000 insurance on the building and stock, but the directors had decided that there waa no necessity for keeping so large an amount, and so two days before it was de- atroyed the insurance on the market was reduced to $50,000, This was placed by the Mechanics’ Insu- rance Company ‘and apportioned among nine other companies in risks of $5,000 each. VIEW PROM A FULTON FERRYBOAT. The Fulton ferry house was the objective point for many sightsecrs, Thousands of persons crowded the wet and dirty pas in South street leading from the Fulton Ferry Hotel to the ferry house. Iediea, accompanied by gentlemen, remained under cover of the house and viewed the fire as it madly swept the roof of the market, and cagerly watched the drenched firemen. The boats leav- ing the slips every ten minutes were filled by... many sightseers. An old — gentleman, whd was prevenied by the police from view- ing the fire. from the sidewalk, crossed the ferr, id said to the HenaLp rter on his re- turn: er have [ween a finer sight. The Never wink as she was towed up the river was nothing to it. L atop at the United States Hotel, and » taken great delight in looking at the large fires that have occurred in thix neighborhood, ve ween many, and the scene presented by this one is superior to all. When I came over to the New York slip, a few minutes ago, the darkness was mingling with the light. With the blazing fish market ss a background and the tall masts of the fishing smacks in the fore, the reflection from the fire upon the water and the glittering sign boards on the side of the slip, the tall masts of those giant ships on the north, the atrug- gling firemen on the firebouts, it was a picture grander than any ever painted. The drizzling rain rather added than took away from its grandeur.” FORMATION OF THE FIHMONGERS’ ASSOCIATION. Thomas Crocker, an old Fulton Market fish dealer, it was said, was the original projector of the scheme for the erection of the buil ie. ty the ideas furnished by him in July, , it waa decided to form a stock association, to be known as the “Fulton Market Fishmongers’ Association.” The stock was placed in 1,155 shares, and it was originally intended to keep it among the dealers to be located in the market. But time and circumstances prevented this. Each share was valued at $100, and paid a quar- terly dividend of two percent. It was eagetly sought for and held in great demand by the large fish deal- ers of this city. ‘The stock was all held by the fish dealers located in the market, as was said heretofore, till a failure of one of the dealers two years ago. Each dealer had his seventy-one shares as apportioned to him by the asso- ciation, but the failure of this dealer threw his seventy- one shares into the hands of # president of a Brooklyn bank. As timo wore on other dealers, pinched for | money, . dispored of some of — theirs, Outaide of the dealers at the Market there were owned seventy-one shares by the bank president mentioned above, twenty shares by Misa Jennie Pearsall, thirty. five shares by C. F. Lawrence and fifteen by Eugene D. Blackford. THE EXTENT OF THE FISH TRADE, ‘The trade in fish is not the smallest of New York's businesses, There are engaged 200 vessels, and 1,100 men. Inthe busy seasons sometimes these numbers are even doubled. Mr. Lamphear, the treasurer of the association, when called upon to give in figures the extent of it said he could not, It would require much calenlation, and as cach dealer is jealous of his trade he does not wish to give it for publication, or even to his competing tradesmen, ENGINES AT THE FIRE. When tho alarm was first given by John Fisher, who was standing with Charles Krauck at Beekman street, corner of South, engine No. 32 was qnickly on the ground. A second alarm was given soon after, | negro, Dutch and Irish comedians, were highly ies 10, 1, 8 Gorman were well as Chief together with hook and ladder com; and 6, Fire Commissioners King an early on the ground, as Engineer Bates and his assistant, Mr. Shea, Chiefs Rowe, Bonner, King and Miller were in command of their respective battalions. The police boat Seneca, in command of Captain Schultz, poured two effective streams into the fire from the river. The fireboat W. F. Havemeyer, known as En- gine 43, was on the scene of the fire promptly at threa o'clock, and three heavy streams were poured from ANOTHER THEORY AS TO THE FIRE'S ORIGIN. The Suygday watchman, William Cuddy, was busily engaged when Krauck ran across the street to in- form him of the fire, Both went to the upper story of Benjamin & West's, but could discover nothing mt smoke. They poured a few pailfuls of water, but a wild cry from Fisher informed them that the fire had broken out on the roof. A different theory from that advanced by Mr. Lamphear, treasurer of the ass tiou, was advanced by a man first at the fire. le thought that one of tho fish runners, while intoxicated, had gone up to the upper loft to sleep, He had a lighted cigar in his mouth, and dropping it set fire to the fish barrels piled about. ‘This man said he saw the young man running up Beekman street shortly after the fire. But M t believe in this. There are upper loft. There might be ht, but nothing else. AT ‘THE FIRE. When the Hremen were pouring streams upon the fire from the fish cars in the river in front of the market tive men stepped upon the cars at once with a hose pipe and were submerged. They lost their. fire hats, but all were rescued. ‘The hose pipe, however, kept playing water upon the scrambling firemen, ‘The water was finally shut off, and they recovered the pipe. Mr, Eldred, of Mull & Eldred, recovered $1,500 from the money drawer in his office while the tiremen were playing upon the fire in the loft above. fhere was $350 in the safe of Moon & Lamphear, but they decided to leave it there till after the fire, ‘The Bleecker street, South street, and Canal street and Broadway cars were prevented from approaching their stands at the ferry. Mr. Lamphear said there was but $2,500 worth of fish in the market. They generally run out of fish on Saturday. As to the continuance of business, he thought they would remain at the old stand. It would only inconvenience them as to having cover for the fish. Many of the 200 fish cars in the river were filled with fish. By nine o'clock P.M. the fire was completely exe tinguished. FIRE IN MERCER STREET. The six atory brick building No. 177 Mercer street, was discovered to be on fire shortly after four o'clock yesterday afternoon. It broke out on the fourth floor and quickly spread to the upper portion of the building. On the arriva of the firemen three alarms were telegraphed, which brought out an unusually large force of firemen. ‘They quickly set to work to combat the flames and after an hour's hard fighting succeeded in extin- guishing them. The fourth, fifth and sixth floors were rented by a dealer in silk trimmings, whose name the — police wero unable to ascertain. The property stored on thowe floors was damaged to the amount of $1,000. John Pasher, dealer in hats and caps, who occupied the third floor, lost $300 on stock. e lower floors of the building were damaged by water, but not to any con- siderable amount. Mr. Durker, the owner of the building, estimates the damage done his property at $2,000, which is fully covered by insurance. FIRES ELSEWHERE. A SLEEPING CAR ENTIRELY CONSUMED—ESCAPE OF THE PASSENGERS. CUMBERLAND, Md., Nov. 17, 1878, Alamp overturned in the St. Louis sleeping car on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad West bound express, at two o'clock this morning, about seven miles cast of this place, setting fire to the curtzins. There wore thirty-five passengers on the car, several of them being ladies and children. All escaped in their night clothes, losing all their smaller baggage, money and jewelry. No one was hurt. The car was entirely . destroyed. A number of the passengers were New Orleans refugees returning home. DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION AT TYLER, TEXAS. GaLveston, Nov, 17, 1878! A special despatch to the News, from Tyler, says:— Afire here on Saturday night destroyed five large stores and the United States Court rooms, together with all the court documents. The loss is estimated at $100,000, which is insured for about $50,000, princi- pally in northern and foreign companies, STEAM SAWMILL BUBNED. Warenvitte, Me., Nov, 17, 1878, Anstesm sawmill at Fairfield, Mo., owned by D. A. Pratt, wes burned on Saturday night. Loses $7,000; insured for $4,000. DEFILED BY COMEDIANS. PASTOR CRAWFORD REDEDICATES THE METHOs. DIST CHURCH OF ARLINGTON ON ACCOUNT OF A VARIETY PERFORMANCE. ‘The Episcopalians of the villago of Arlington, N. J., have been giving: a nemberof lectures and concerts, for the purpose of raising moncy to build a house of worstip. In the-latter part of October they arranged for a concert, and secured the Methodist Church from the trustees for that purpose, The concert was 8 suc- cess financially, and everybody seemed satisfied except the Rev. Mr. Crawford, who created a sensation last Swmday by declaring that the church had been desecrated by the performance and it was necessary to reconsecrate the edifice before religious. services could be held. He thereupon called the trustees to come forward and assist him in the “re- dedicatory” services, but they heeded him not, andi Mr. Crawford performed the act alone. Af- ter the “Amen,” Squire Fickett, one of the trustees, arose in meeting to explain. He had been a Methodist, he said, beforo many in the church were born; he saw nothing in the. concert that could be objected to by any reasonable man, and inasmuch as the action of Pastor Crawford. reflected upon him, he would resign as a trustee. ‘There was quite a commotion throughont the church. | During the week the trustees held a meeting, and not wishing to spread the scandal, deci to let. the matter drop. The Methodist Church is: the. only pl of worship in Arlington. pple of all denominations contributed! ita erection, and the general opinion among the villagers ix that the Methodists should in. turn assist the Episcopalians, and that the action of | Pastor Crawford savors of narrow-mindedness, Mr. Crawford says that portions of the entertainment cou- sinted of dialect performances of the vartety onder by legis and that it was absolutely necessary to rededi. cae church before it could be again used as @ house of worship. A WOMAN'S TRIUMPH.” Some months ago the details were given im the Henatp of s curious case of wife desertion and What, followed—how one John Wink, of Newark, six years ago, deserted his wife and was no more heard of; how she struggled and sv in bi wa pen web siness for herself in atreet, and hére one fine day last summer Wink suddenly turned up and attempted to oust her from her store, Mrs. Wink turned tho tables on him by having him ma . She then brought snit against divorce on the ground of desertion and other misconduct. Recently her application was considered by the Chancellor and an lute bill of divorce granted, she to keep the children in charge. There is great rejoicing among her friends over her victory, SUSPECTED OF ROBBERY. On Saturday Sergeant Oaks, of the New street sta tion, noticed in front of Mr. Southwick’s jewelry store, corner of Maiden lane and Broadway, James White, of No. 343 West Forty-third street, and Thomaa King, of No. 145 Thompson street, well known to him as thieves, ees wee He arrested them on suspicion. On the way to the station house King threw away a gold neckchain, which was subse- quently recognized asx the property of R. M. Tripp, Jeweler, of No, 12 Maiden lane. The prisoners, at the Tombu yeaterday, were remanded until this morning, when Mr. Tripp, who,resides in Yonkers, will make & formal complaint. A HUSBAND'S ANGER, Michael Rossiter, a mason, who lives at No. 10 Washington street, quarrelied with his wife Jane, on Saturday night. In his anger he seized s burning Jamp and threw itat her. The lamp broke and the ignited oi! spread over the unfortunate woman, burn- ing het severely about the face, arms, back and abdomen. She was taken to Chambers Street Hospital, and the husband was locked up. At the Tombs Court yesterday morning the prisoner was committed to await the result of hie wife's injuries, which, according to a doctor's certificate, are of a serious nature. UNITED IN AFFLICTION, “A year,” said the Judge in the Fifty-seventh Street Court yesterday toa couple with red nosea and in- flamed eyes, The woman cried bitterly and ran her hands through her hair, The man, who appeared to be her husband, with a display of affection that waa ridiculous, patted her on the back and “Oheer up, ol woman, don't go on that wa She paid no attention to him, Maria,’ he continued, “don't fret; I'm going with you.’ and engine companies 4, 2%, 12, 6, 10, 7 and &k “Ob, go to the devil,” she at last reanonded