The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1879, Page 5

SOCIAL SCIENCE. Annual Meeting of the American Association, MODERN POLITICAL ECONOMY DISCUSSED. Interesting Papers Read on the Diffusion of Kuowledge, Human Companionship aad Methods of Legislation + Bosron, Jan. 8, 1879. ‘The annual meeting of the Amorican Social Science Association was held in this city to-day at tne Insti- tute of Technology, Boylston street, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business. Professor Pierce, of Harvard College, presided; Mr. P. B, Sanborn, of Concord, officiating in his regular capacity as secretary. At eleven o'clock the regular meeting of the association was opened, and a letter was read from David A, Wells, explaining his absence and declining a re-election to the office of president. In the course of his letter he says:— ‘THE IMPORTANCE OV SOCIAL SCIENCE. Never before in the history of the world were so. man; and so important questions—fisesl, economic, educational, sanitary aud moral—pressing thes tion of the public. In-short, social through the force of recent circumstan hi questions of the day, paramount to ul thers; and the ones on which duties and governments are to dand be culled into existence in the future. Indeed, it seems to me, that since the year 1860, or the outbreak of our civil war, change has come over the habits and thoughts of me ethods of doi: busine: very akin to Sime occurred at the of the Uruvades and of the Reformation, or, later, tl ch the Americ French revolutions. ‘Old creeds and faiths are weak ¥ slipping weaylor re-crystalizing, ‘The stoamship, the ruflrond and {ograph aro brouking down the old and formidable 8, und, for the purpose of business, world ‘one country, a condition of u barriers of nationalit ure making the whol things under which the groat fundamental truth of modern political econmy, that nations and individuals are flike benetited ‘and never injured by the pros- perity of their neighbors, will be more than ever Inauifested. “All methods: ‘of production and exchang: ing are also underg ing modi on, with the ce a rosult, which no logislation can prevent, even if it w sirablo that it should, of economising iabor and mat aud the cheapening of production, During, and in Guenco of thewo, changes, und, for yours yet to come, there Wit! be much of discomfort, and undoubtedly wlso of suffer- ing, from the displacement of individuals from occupations ‘and their readjustment in new positions or locations. Mill- jons of capital now usefal and returning an income to their possessors, are certain, in the no distant future, to be also made wort! that they shall b eved and made b order that protection may be cheap- But the ultiinute result will be un- doubtedly greater abundance, less poverty and a higher elevation of the race. ‘To forecast the course of economic agencies and events; to help make the burden of disturbance and chance in dccupation lees grievous to tho peoplo; to help overcome that moral inertia among the Biasies which greatly provents them from helping thoin- selves, and accommodating. ves with rapidity to the demands of progr aa, ure wld questions and problems ‘eminently within the'domain of social science. And if sociated offorts offer anything of advantage in the way of dotermining und disseminating truth, over individual aud isolated effort, then tho American Social Seience Associu- tion hag the largost of opportunities before it tor future public benefaction, ‘Thanking the association for the honor they have conferred upon me by re election to its rst office, and with hearty acknowl t of nctive co-operation on the part of all the officers of the association in the recent manugement of its administratiy 1am yours, most respectfully, DAVID A. WELLS. ages B. Sannonn, Enq., Secretary Social Science Associa- tion,- THE SECRETARY'S REPORT, Mr. F, B. Sanborn, general secretary, next read his report, in which he briefly reviewed the history of the organization, referring with regret to the deci- mated lines of the original members and felicitating ‘the association on the presence of so many of the original band, He called to mind the benefits de- rived by the infant society from the active co-operation and support of the late Goy- ernor Andrew and Professor Rogers. Horace Greeley defined social science in 1869 as the diffusion of knowledge, virtue and happiness. “This definition,” said Mr. Sanborn, ‘does not please the careful, scientific student, who is taught to di- vorce his wishes and his perceptions when investi- gating nature, and to see things as they are, not as they might be or ought tobe. It would not satisfy Professor Rogers, I suppose, to be told that the study of geology is simply # virtuous or an agreeable pur- suit, or that it tends im a general way to the diffusion of knowledge, He finds in it something more definite and important—the record of uncounted ages, written on tubles of stone in no doubtful “hieroglyphics, by the very finger of creative wisdom. Here are the Sybilline books whose infallible characters, as soon as we can read them aright, disclose the future as well as the past, and geology is called a science because it enables its students to predict while they describe. In as- tronomy the same ruie is applied, and that science teaches its students to discover unseen worlds by the observed perturbations of planets and to foretell the eccentric motions of semi-oc- casional comets.” After alluding to the last general meeting in Cincinnati Mr. Sanborn contin It ‘we ure to escape from that subtlest and most time- serving form of slavery—servitude to a low and unworthy public opinion—we must not think only for ourselves and of our- selves, we must take thought for the fon! of others and strive not only for ease and fame put for the general improvement of man’s condition and for human companionship upon the best terms. poner or nothing is social science. - It considers first ‘what is is expedient for all men living in humen companion- ship.” The importance of careful consideration and wise legislation on the silver question was bricfly alluded to, and the existence of a publication devoted solely to the interests of the association was de- clared to be of the first importance. The Secretary closed his report with a recommendation that the American people move forward in science and virtue and morais as became their great name and fame among the civilized nations of the earth. SOCIAL ECONOMY, ‘The report of the department of social econom: ‘was read by the Secretary of the committee, Mr. F. B. Sanborn,and contained some very interpsting statistics and vaiuable suggestions. Mr. Sanborn reviewed the work of this department for the few years of its ex- istence as a sepurate institution. Its most important task, he said, has been to investigate and make known to the people of the United States the condi- tion, in respect to dwellings, of tho industrious population of the chiet American cities. Asa result of all this inquiry and discussion it may be said that the proper sanitary arrangement of tenement houses and other homes of the peop.e in large cities, and their ownership, when feasibie, by those who occupy thom, are now questions that srouse the attention of the most thoughtful persons in all parts of the country to a degree never kuown before. New York was held to need more improvement in the housing of her bog-oy] than any other American city. Philadelphia is far in advanco of hor sisters in this respect, Boston holding the middle ground. ‘To the question of the distribution of State and city aid to the suffering poor the committee devoted a consider- able portion of the report. METHODS OF LEGISLATION. At four o'clock Mr. Simon Sterne, of Now York, wead a paper on methods of legislation and some of their results. After laying down the proposition that improvements in legislative machinery lave not fo 4 pace in our own country with the financial and industrial development during the past century, Mr. Sterne said that the purpose of his address was to show how the jucreased responsibility in legislative and be ge roe matters arising trom the changed condition of social organization had been met in other countries than our own, and to contrast therewith our methods of dealing with those subjects. The Kistine- tion between general and special legislation, which, be claimed, is being rapidly lost sight of, but which ‘was by them well recognized and expressed in the maxiin, “Jura enim non in ‘persunas sed general- iter consti(uunem.’’ Hence in France, Germany and all countries where the Roman law prevails legislation ts strictly confined to the making of general laws. ‘The extending of special privileges under those iaws is lodged in the administrative departments, and they are surrounded, as a yeneral rule, by such sand generally removed so tar from temptations of the vul- war type that the concessions, or constitutiones persunales are neither corruptly nor arbitrarily given. Tho Yast power of conferring special privileges was lodged in the hands of our Lg ee a Justat# timo when the Corporation was beyirming to develop from @ very eredond into an enormous growth, to take possession of and to a degree to control the supply of commodities which labor machinery euabled us to proruce, individuai wealth was accumulating in hands of people at a rate fur beyond the de- velopment of refinement, svif-restraint aud virtue, ‘There is no ministry responsible for the public leg- islation; there is no examining or dratting committee; there is no Speaker's counsel or counsel of chair- man’s committees—-nothing but confusion and uncertainty at the beginning of the ses. sion a8 to) what laws are to be passed br what is to be done either of a public or pri vate character, Indeed, lawa can scarcely be said to originate at the capitals whore they aru paxsed; (re- quently do not originate even in the States where suey ure acted upon, but are dratted in thy offices of counsel to the various corporations or special inte ests Which ute to be benefited by their passiy Whey are then, pell-mell, put into the hopper to be ground out as we have written coustitutions, but it in 1 business particularly to see that they are served, and if objection ix made that a meastire is ui constitutional, the flippant reply is made that the ws will ti ‘are of that, while, when tho n ie brought before the courts, they cxeuse them: from an examination by saying that the fact a bill's pussaye through a legislative body is ®& presumption in favor of its von situtionality, Thus yast quantities of bills ace pastud every your iu this country, torming iu the saving and = wi the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. Aggregate about thirteen thousand in the va- rious States, with about five hundred more of Congressional work, as a volume of tion from. which the courts are to fish out the unconstitutional muecasures after an infinite amount of mis- chief and violation of rights has been done. Mr. Sterne attributed the backwardness of our ma- terial development to the fact that we have allowed private Togislation to assume such puge proportions that special interests havecreated theniselves into monopolies, which in their turn have con- trol of our legislative halls, and directly and indirectly tax the community at their own sweet will, There is much hope for us, he said, in the fact that we have not exerted ourselves as yet to remody this evil, unconscious of its source, Bince the organization of our governimont we have improved in all other things; we have carried divi- sion of employments further than it ix done else- where; we muke cotton cloths, machinery, watches, pianos as well as aud better than anywhere on the fae of the earth, But in legisla- tion—the most important and far-reaching of all ogeupations to society—we are still in a cross road country store condition, whose proprietor sells silks and molasses over the same counter; does w little cobbling aud 4 little doctoring; is in one cor- ner of his store a druggist.and in another a batter. As civilization and population increase these tunc- tions become the business of many indi- viduals, each one performed with — greater skill than this cross-road country storekeeper. attended to them all, Thus with our legislation. Assuming it to be well intentioned, which is a violent assumption, in many cases it is cross-road legis- lation, and its consequences are to be found in the Wasting of our resources, in the over-taxing of our communities, in the trampling upon private rights and in the contusion of the moral sense of the com- munity by giving to spoliation and confiscation the form of law which, but for this government of legal justification, would be recognized as unmitigated robbery. PUBLIC HEALTH. Mr. George T. Angell, of this city, read an interest- ing paper on “Public Health Associations.” After alluding to the restrictions placed by the French gov- ernment on the sale of poisonous medicines or drugs he said:—Perhaps no stronger evidence of the com- parative freedom in this country can be adduced than that millions of dollars’ worth of quack medicines, which no Pecpestale physician would prescribe, “are widely sold; that most dangerous poisons can be bought at hundreds of places in any of our large cities, without restriction, and that it was shown to a committee of the Massachusetts Legis- lature in February, 1878, that more than three hundred ignorant and uneducated persons wero ractising medicine at that time in the city of Beaton, and that the Ly of thirty-four of them were on the doors or walls of houses of ill-repute. Fpeeting of the adulteration of milk Mr. Angell said that it is not water alone that is put in it, Thousands of gallons, and probably hundreds of thousands, are sold in our cities which have ‘passed through large tins or vats in which it has been mixed with various substances. I am told that after being drawn from these vuts it tastes better and will keep longer than pure milk. Re- ceipts for the mixture can bought by new milkmen from old on payment of the required sum, I am assured, upon what I believe to be reliable authority, that thousands of gallons of s0- called milk have been, and probably are, sold in this city which do not contain one drop of the genuine article. Probably this kind is principally sold to the or. Pontier still further elaborating the adulterations of milk, butter, meats, &c., the essayist proceeded to discuss the wine, spirit and drug business. The use of arsenic, co! ive sublimate and other poisons has become common in ladies’ , in veils, in sewing silks, in threads, in artificial flow- ers, in gentlemen’s underclothing, in socks, in gloves, in hat linings, in linings of boots and shoes, in paper collars, in colored enamelled cloths and doubtless in many other articles. A child in Troy, N. ¥., recently died in convulsions by tak- ing arsenic from @ green veil thrown over its el to keep off e flies, He noth- ing but the severest penalties to recommend for those dealers who, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, would prefer to sell dishonest , and enrich only those manufacturers and adulterators some of whom, regardless of the laws of God and inan, |+ are little if any better than the pirates that plunder our ships on the ocean, or the highwaymen who rob and murder on the land. Laws should be enacted aud enforced prohibiting the manufacture and sale of these poisonous und dangerous articles under severe penalties, and compelling the manufacturers and sellers of adulterated articles to tell buyers the pre- cise character of the adulterations. ELECTION OF OFFICERS, ‘The following officers were elected for 1879:— President—Daniel C. Gilmore, of Baltimore. Vice Pre H.W. Lee, of ‘New Haven; a ter; J. M. Bernard, of a WwW. White, of Wyoming; Isaac Sherman, of New York; Rufus King, of Cincinnati; W. H. Ruffner, of Rich- mond, Va.; H. L. Trenholn, of Charleston, 8. C. Tveasurer—Hamilton A. Hill, of Boston. The nomination of secretary was referred to the Executive Committee. Mr. Sanborne declines a re- ssible, then what is right, and finally what | election. fis MME. ANDERSON. THE PLUCKY LADY. PEDESTRIAN GOING HER WEARY ROUNDS—2,224 QUARTERS OF A MILE WALKED LAST NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT—KIND ATTENTIONS OF LADY VISITORS. Mozart Garden was a little more comfortable yes- terday, as there was not quite such a tremendous crowd as on the previous day. Financially, however, the receipts were about half as much again, as the fifty-cent admission came into force yesterday morn- ing. There is still considerable doubt in the minds of many people as to the honesty of the feat that ‘Mme. Anderson is now concluding. This mainly arises from the plucky front that Mme. Anderson presents ‘to the public every time she makes her appearance on the track. The public fancy that because they see this lady pedestrian come out of her room witha smiling face and walk around the track without ex- hibiting any kind of suffering that she cannot have performed every quarter of her allotted task. If, however, they were to see her lying on her couch iti her room, sometimes writhing in agony from an ac- cumulation of sufferings, they would appreciate the pluck that brings this woman out before them with a smiling face. Mme. Anderson does not believe in avnoying her patrons with an exhibition of a broken down pedestrian, limping on one leg and with a face all drawn up from pain, and has the courage to hide what she feels from the outside public. Anybody who has ever seen her blistered and tender feet can appreciate the pluck that plants those feet solidly on the track without any outward evidence of the pain that it must entail. Again, people think that » woman who can step on the stage and sing a comic song could, never have gone | through the three weeks’ work with which this lady has been credited. It is a relief, howev to ber to gratify the ublic and relie her miud from the thought that the public are waitin, SPORTS ON THE ICE. INTERESTING GAMES OF CURLING AT CENTRAL PARK-——FINE PLAYING BY NOTED CLUBS. The click of the curling stone was heard on the lake set apart in Central Park for this grand outdoor game of Scotland from early yesterday morning wntil darkness set iu last evening. Five rinks were marked off, as two matches were to be played, ‘The first was between the Albany Club, of Albany, N. ¥., and the St, Audrew’s Club, of this city, for a gold } medul, presented by Mr. TI. MeCredie, the wealthy brower of the former place. The second match was between the Caledonian aud Empire City clubs, of New York, the prize also being a gold medal, The players had been selected with unusual care and the arrangement of the men was such as to insure an ex- cellent record, Albany and St. Andrew's, with Mr James Stuart, of the Yonkers Club, as umpire, went to work at half-past ten o'clock in true curling spirit. Until twelve o'clock the game progressed with vigor, when lunch was taken, an intermission of an hour being ordered for that purpose. ‘To the un- initiated this sport may seem devoid of zest, but there are but few things in-life that animates a Scot with so much genuine enthusiasm as the beauties of curling. Armed with brooms and their hand- somely finished and decorated granite stones, the men opposed to each other always seem to ‘com- mence and continue their games with a determination to be the victors, The skips, or captains, who direct the movements of the sides, afford much amusement to the spectators by their peculiar cries and the deep interest they take in the result, ‘The Albany players did very well during the early stage of the game, but after dinner the St. Av- drew’s men pulied up finely, and when time was called were ten shots to the good, thereby securing the coveted prize. Time of game, 4h. 30m, CALEDONIA VS, EMPIRE CITY. At one o'clock the home curlers were called to their rinks and hg sor playing, Mr. C. McKenzie, ot the ‘Thistle Club, being the umpire. Here was a “fecht.”” ‘The excitement at times was intense, and the ski kept the spectators in broad grins by their friendly directions. With brooms in hand, they would take their bearings and then give directions to the play- “Do ye see that stone, John?” one would say. “Well, elbow in to the broom there and don’t be too the play was s good one, “Thank ye, John, thank ye,” came with a heartiness that astonished all hearers. “Tam standing on the tee, Mr. Gillis; do you see it? Well, I want a guard for that stone,” pointing to one previously played; ‘just a nice turn will go it,” cried Skip Templeton. Mr. Gillis did what was asked of him, and ‘Well played; that’s a beaut; came from the skip in tones of commendation. “Fill up this port!” “Elbow in and be careful!” “I want you to break an egg on this stun!” “Just die right here!” and # hundred like expressions made the time pass v quickly, Every yood shot ‘was vigorously applaud , and when the stone hid not been sent with sufficient force,‘‘Play the broom !"” or “Sweep it, sweep! Why don’t ye sweep? It will do a’ the thing!” could be heard all over the ice. When time was culled it was found that the score stood:— Empire City, 74; Caledonian, 58. Time of game, four hours and fifteen minutes. Interesting details are given in the following full scores :— ST. ANDREW'S. ALBANY. Rink 1. Rink 1, R, McClintock, William Manson, Major Ferguson, J. Weidman, J. Henderson, C. Gardiner, §. McConchie, skip.....20 Rink 2. i A. Dalrymple, 'T. McCredie, T, Nicholson, A. Simpson, G. Henderson, W. Kirk, 45 R. Harrop, skip. J. Russell, W. Carmichael, J. Heai J. Thompson, J. McNish, J, Gillis, W. Symmers, skip..... 23 J. Templeton, skip.... 15 Rink 2. Rink 2. + J. Waldie, W. Winterbottom, P. Foulis, M. Baxter, skip........ 18 Rink 3. A. Walker, A. Young, G. Crawford, J. Fisher, A. Shaw, skip.......... 28 D. Muir, skip.... Majority for-Empire City, 16 shots, GAMES TO COME. To-day an interstate match will be played at Cen- tral Park. Ten rinks will be laid down, and the State of New York will be represented by the Albany, St. Andrew’s, Caledonian, Thistle, Empire City, Manhat- tun, Yonkers and Caledonian Thistle (of Brooklyn) clubs. New Jersey will send players from two Pater- son clubs, one Jersey City club and one Newark club, Interésting sport is repel aed On Saturday of this weck a game will be played be- tween picked Americans and Scotchmen. Other games are to be arranged and so long as “‘cauld winter's icy blast comes rattlin’ frae the north,” the pastime of cua err beamons the chief attractions at Cen- t . 3 CARNIVAL ON THE CAPITOLINE. An immense crowd assembled on the Capitoline Lake, Brooklyn, to witness the first grand fancy dress carnival of the season. The events comprised a skate race between little boys, a sled race between larger boys, without skates, who ran on the ice, drawing after them smaller boys upon sleds; a wheelbarrow race and a walking match. All the contestants were in full costume. The skate race took place first, the boys skating three times around the area staked off for them. The match was close and exciting and young Knox and Hackett, dressed respectively as scout and Indian, were even = the a ie Ey Norge were seven Dboys engaged ‘contest. Follow- ing this was the sled race, in which there were four entries. Thomas Brush was the win- uer. The wheelbarrow race was very amusing. There were four entries, The boys were not on skates and the barrow would frequently turn on them, and con iderable laughter was indulged in at their expense as they scrambled to regain their footing. It was a common occurrence for them to fall in rounding the stakes. Will criticised by the many shooters and rifie- men present. Kleiman, on his first hulf dozen shots, displayed some nervousness, making two nusses but he completed his first hundred in good shape, aud the two lapses were all that were charged to his account until in his second hundred he put in an- other couple and in his third hundred also failed to hit two of those thrown. ‘The last hundred was a clean one, and before eleven o'clock the Garden was deserted atter an announcement that the first day's work would be repeated to-day. PIGEON SHOOTING. ‘The regular monthly handicap meeting of the Fountain Gun Club took place at the Brooklyn Driv- ing Park, Parkville, Long Island, yesterday, Tho attendance wus not large and there were only a fow members present. The prize offered by the club to be competed for was a beautiful gold badge. Four- teen members entered and each shot at seven birds. The afternoon was yery pleasant and the shooting about the average. Messrs, J. Lenikin and M. J. Kearney killed seven birds straight and tied, In shoot ing off the tie at three birds Mr, Kearney captured the badge by killing two birds to his opponent's one. The following is the SUMMARY. Bnooxt RIVING PARK, PARKVILLE, L, L—PiGKoN SHoorisc—Wepxespay, Jan. 8, 1879.—The regular monthly handicap shoot of the Fountain Guu Club for a gold badge; shot for at 7 birds, handicap dis- tance rise; 80 yards boundary; 14 0%. shot; trom Hand T traps; ‘ties shot off at'3 birds each, Yards Rise, Killed. ms 2111111—-110 9 1111111-010 3 11011190 ed 212¢*11 5 11leo011t 5 *OLLILL 5 1O1l1i1itv 6 1011100 4 101*01* 3 *OL10LG % oLd1l0OLY 3 10010*0 2 W. R, Hunter w ovoooitl 2 Jones. oo*0110 2 * Fell deud out of bounds, Referee—Mr, Skidmore. THE NEW YORK HUNTING CLUB had a meeting yesterday at the Sea View Driving Park, at-New Dorp, Staten Island. The shooting was at 26 yards, 10 birds each, und the scores were ax tollows:—H. Ficken killed 8 birds; J. Bowling, 8; C. £. Brown, 6; C. Schiller, 6; F. Sohn, 6; Messrs. L, Bramer, L. Maisch, C. Klein, B. Souter and H. Hammer, 5 birds cach, and I. Kuntz, 4. Messrs. Ficken and Bowling shot off, cach killing 3 birds, and were obliged to shoot off again, Bowling killing’ 2 and Ficken 1. ‘fhe prize was a gold badge, and, as this was the third time Bowling has won the same, it became his personal property. Ficken was the last winner of the medal, and struggled hard to retain possession of it. AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB. The spring meeting of the American Jockey Club will begin with an extra day’s racing on Friday, May 30, which will be Decoration Day. This arrangement will not interfere with the programmes of any other racing club or association east of the Alleghanies, and, with five or six liberal purses for short distances, concluding with a short steeple- chase for this extra day, there will bs plenty of horses ready to run for them at that time. The idea of choosing Decoration Day— ® national holiday—for an opening of the spring meeting is a capital one. The programme of the races bas not yet been arranged, and one thing should be considered before that work is begun. There should be no purses given ‘‘entrance free,” as there are few owners of valuable horses that will be likely to take the risk of running them among those that would be entered free merely for a trial spin to see how they would act in company or to try new jockeys, as has been done in many cases since the inauguration of “entrance free’ purses on our courses. It is very dangerous to have a large field of uutried horses and riders on # course shaped like that at Jerome Park. MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB. The spring meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club will be held as usual May 20, 2ist, 22d and 23d, con- cluding one week before the Jerome Park extra day, and two weeks before the regular meeting at that place. Extensive improvements have. recently been completed on Pimlico track, which in the early spring will be thrown open free to all stables desir- ing to make the Eastern circuit until their engage- ments call" them away, The sweepstakes now open, and to close on the 1st of March for the spring meet- ing, are the Rancocus Handicwp, the Vérnal Swoep- stakes and the Peyton Handicap Stakes; for the fall meeting, the Breckenridge Stakes, and for the fall of 1880, the Dixie Stakes. BROOKLYN YACHT CLUB, At a meeting of the Brooklyn Yacht Club held last evening at the rooms of the club, corner of Montague and Court streets, the following officers were elected for the erfsuing year:—Commodore, John 8. Dickerson, of the schooner Madeleine; Vice Commodore, James D. Smith, of the schooner Estelle; Rear Commodore, R. 8S. Huntley, of the sloop Niantic; President, Henry W. Turner; Secretary and = Treasurer,” Will- iam Lee; ‘Assistant Secretary, W. RB. Wads- worth; ‘Treasurer, J. . | Saw Judge Advocate, Henry C.'Place; trustees, D. 8. Hines, P. y. Ostrander . Wood, ti gether with the flag officers: Committee on Member- ship, J. L. Blood, ¥. W. Jenkins and J. F. Ames; Re- gutta Committee, J. F. Anes, P. W. Ostrander and A, C. Washington. PUGILISM. “Squire” McMullen, of Philadelphia, has been se- lected as the stakeholder in the coming fight between John H. Clark, of Philadelphia, and John King, of New York. Arthur Chambers won the choice of Windslow got a good lead on the third round, which mateh gave him the race. The walking created great sport among the shouted at the top of th it, Westo “I bet on O'Leary; Sport.” One contestant was dubbed “Mme. Ander- son" on account of his hland dress. After sev- eral rounds Wetman was declared the victor. In the evening the sport commenced in real earnest, when, notwithstunding the rain, hundreds of skaters in fancy costuimes glided about. BOGARDUS AT WORK, to hear her xing. This question was thoroughly tested pte icmm 9 afternoon by the beating of her pulse. With r mind casy the pulse beats about sixty-four, and when excited it sometimes rises to eighty. Yesterday afternoon she asked for some beef tea, saying she did not get half enough nourishment. Her friend, Mrs. Sparrow, said, hy, itis not twenty minutos since you ate a cho} Mme. Anderson, however, would not be satisfied and insisted on hay- ing her beef tea. Dr. Merritt was sitting beside her, and, tecling ber pulse, counted seventy-eight. She was was given the beef tea, and three minutes later her pulse was down to sixty-six. Luter on she wanted to sing & song, and her fri did not think it prudent. She was determined to have her own way, and her pulse ran up to eighty; but after the song was sung and her mind relieved it returned to sixty-six. CONTINUED INTERESE IN THE VLA. The spectators remained very late on Tuesday night, aud at two A. M. yesterday there were still a number of ladies present in the garden. Shortly ufter that Mme. Anderson became very sleepy, and it was pretty hard to keep her awake; but’ she has such # kind and gentle disposition that it is only necessary to make her understand what has to be done and she immediately goes ou with ber work, She started at 3h. JUm, 54s, yesterday morn- iny on her 214d quarter, after walking three laps sound asleep slipped behind her attendant and walked into her room. There she Vecame rather obstreperous and begged not to be taken on the truck aguin, but as soon as they got her back and proved to her by the number dixplayed on the scorers’ stand that she had not accomplished the requisite number of laps she quietly continued her work and finished the quarter. This was one of the heaviest sleepy tits that she has yet exhibited, and on the quarter 2m, Gus, elapsed before she was put on the track. Atter that, however, she began to wake up and did her work without any coercion. There was a good attendance, and during the afternoon the garden was comfortably filled. ‘Lhere were severai doctors in the room, and at their request she promised tu vat no niore ed eels, 80 that now she has banished stewed eels, pork pies and peanuts from her Di of tare. Lt was until about five . M. that she felt strong enough to sing a“ Kes 4 and = the she gave @ plaintive little batiad entitled iny Tim,’ supposed to be the dying words of the child ot that nume that appears it Dickens’ “Curiosity Shop." Mme. Anderson is vory much pleased with the interest that the L take in her success, und it is rare for an hour te without her receiving some little pr ot her own sex. Sometimes a be and then perhaps ket. Last evenin qu te night, Mine, Anderson conipleted 2224 quarter miles, loay: ing hor ouly 476 to complete her task, ROSS IN ENGLAND. Sr. Joux, N. D., Jan. 8, 1879. ; fracture. A private letter from England say, ‘Tarryer hay- ing declined to row Wallace Ross, the latter has chal- lenged either Luinsden or Nicholson to row for £100 a side, the race to be on the Thames, and to take place two mouths from siguing articles,” THE CHAMPION SHOT BREAKS THREE THOUSAND GLASS BALLS WITHOUT MISSING ONE—QONTEST WITH KLEINMAN, THE CHICAGO CHAMPION— INTEREST DISPLAYED IN THE MATCH. Captain A. H. Bogardus yesterdey again gave evi- dence of the justness of his claim to be considered the champion wing shot of the world. The task which he had set out for himself under heavy forfeits against great odds was that of breaking 6,000 glass balls sprung from a trap and fired at from the ghoul- der at fifteen yards rise. Gilmore's Garden was selected as the place for the exhibition test. Instead of tossing the object high in air, affording the marksman time to trace it up and cover it steadily, the strong spring of the Bogardus trap has a spiteful way of tossing the balls off in low, raking lines, just as game might rise from the stubble and make off on the approach of the gunner and his dog. At five minutes past eleven the Captain thrust the first curtridye into his gan, and first with right and | then with left barrel began the demolition of the | glassware, ‘To the few hundred spectators there present in the garden it seemed # yery simple feat, the pointing of the picce was followed so cortainly by the breaking of the bali. In an hour and seven minutes he had broken 400 stratyht, and bis deliberate and regular way of firing showed that he was in no haste to make time at the expense of accuracy, THE CAPTAIN TAKES A REST. With 587 consecutively broken balls to his credit Captain Bogerdus went off to lunch and spent o leisurely hait hour. After lunch the endless baug, bang, beng was resumed, and up to tue T16th shot the balis fell without a break in the list of smashes. There was some slight difference of opinion about | the 622d ball; but when picked up the referee's decision of ‘broke’ was confirmed by finding | a piece knocked out of the neck of the bali, ‘Tho Captain had left the record far belind, but he kept | on following each “pull” with a shower of glass until | the people, now crowding about him on either side, | wondered whether he would ever leta ball escape | The conditions of the match were that 6,000 balls should. be broken out of 6,200, on an even bet of $1,000, or $500 to $1,000, that 6,000 should be broken out of 6,100, and the Captain went even further and wagered $100 against $1,000 that the score would be aclean one. All of these offers have | been taken ap. The last 500 rounds was closely watched, as upon them depended a contest with Abe Kleinman, the | Chicago champion,.and now the holder of th - | pionsiip of Ant Bayardus gaye him 200 balls | Headway in # 1,000-ball contest, balf to be fired off | cach evening, Bogardus to take bis last 600 on the | count and Kleinman to shoot at 400, The Captain, | however, went on with his wnvarying break! break! break! and the Westerner n to wonder how he was going to got ahead of periection even with his liberal handicap. KLEINMAN'8 SHOOTING. It was just nihe o'clock when Captain Bogardus completed his task, and but a few moments elapsed betore Abe Kleinman was at the soratch, — His differ. euce im style of huiding and shooting was closvily ground for King, but this will not be “given away” except to the parties immediately interested in the affair. ‘The battle ground, however, has to be in Can- aia, within 600 miles of Philadelphia. Clark's weight is now 1274; pounds, while King turns the beam at 123}, pounds. King is a big-little man, with broad snoulders and of good build, He was born in Man- chester, England, June 9, 1855. He is an iron puddler by trade, and came to this country in 1872, going to Fall River, Mass., where he we for a time, and’ afterward to Cohoes, N. ¥., where he was employed in a rolling mill. His first appearance in public was on the ith of January, 1877, at Cohoes, in sparring match with a bruiser named Caffrey. He appeared in the rin, against Walker, at Cohoes, the following month, ud won the fight in twenty-two minutes. Next he had a draw with Tim Driscoll, on the Mechanicsville atter an hour and twenty minutes battle. ‘The police caused the draw. Last June he whipped Johnny alias McGinty, in one hour and twenty-two minutes, He has been training for some time past with Arthur Chambers, on Kidye avenue, Philadel- phia, and is regarded as in good condition match is for $1.0U0 a side and the a weight pionship of the United States, aud must take place between the hours of eight and ten A. day of this mouth, next Tuesday week, THAT MAN FROM PE: Toy, N. To rae Eprror or tHe Heranp:— Tnoticed in # recent number of your paper a com- munication from your reporter in regard to the carcer of Louis Ramei, as he calls himself, and pare ticularly in reference to his operations in Easton, Pa. ‘That the porson in the town, whom your reporter in- terviowed, had worked himself into an agony of mind is apparent ffom the manner in which he gave the juformation as well as by its one-sided character. ‘Thore was also sufficient imagination manifested to cudanger his occasional betrayal into a slight stretch- M. on (he 2ist » Jan, 6, 1879, | ing of the trath, ‘The comparative extent to which Ramel sold the persons with whom he came in contact may be judged from the following facts:—Ho came to the college with @ letter of introduction from a gentle, ian well known to the feeulty, and on Saturday ping Was introduced to me as an engineer from , in charge of extensive silver mines there, and visiting this country to purchase mining machinery. Ou Mouday it was known that he had donated $5,000 to the college for the founding of two scholarships. In the afternoon [ spent some time in showing him models, charts and minerals, aud took supper with him in the evening. On Tuesday one ot the professors spent the day in taking him on an exeur- sion to Maueh Chunk and over the Switch Back, On the sume day it was ascertained that the check tor 5,000 was Worthless, Karly on Wednesday morning uel appeared on the College grounds, and fl at the house Of ono of the professors borro' overcoat to protect hun from the storm, Soon after, on being tmormed that his check was uot honored, he said he was surprised and felt quite “embarrassed,” and would go to New York on the 90.4, M. train and see about it, He lett town soon atter, taking with him the borrowed overcout, a letter of introduction from one of the taculty, also neglecting to pay his hotel Dill. Hedid not ‘Visit Easton agvin until brought ‘k in charge of a detective. Among those who can “smile pon one another” as having been sokl we have the following, viz.:—The one who took the $5,.00 choek to New York, the one who was at the ex- pense of the trip, the one who took supper with hin, the one who took iim on the excursion and the one whose overcoat Ramet bo wed. WOU, de My Ska ALA. OBITUARY. THOMAS BERLY HORSVALL, M. P. Mr. Thomas Berry Horstall, late conservative mem- ber of Parliament for Liverpool and Mayor of. that city, died at Torquay, England, on Sunday morning, December 22, at the age of seventy-three years. He at one time occupied a very prominent place in Liv- erpool politics, business aud chavities, but of late years had retired from active life, residing chiefly at his beautiful country seat, Bellamour Hall, Stafford- shire, He was the eldest son of Mr. Charles Hors- fall, a prominent merchant at Liverpool, once Mayor of that city and chairman of the West India Associa- tion at the time of the anti-slavery agitations fifty years ago. Mr, B. Horstall was born at Liver- pool in 1805, and became a partner with bis father in the mercantile business under the firm name of Charles Horsfall & Son. Like his father he was a stanch conservative, actively op- posed to the attempt of- Mr. Ward, M. P. for St: Albans, to reduce the establishment of the Irish Church, and was largely influential in 1893 in pre- venting the disfranchisement of the freemen of Liverpool on the charge of corruption. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Liverpool Council in 1437, but was elected Alderman in 1844 for the term of six years, He was Mayor of Liverpool in 1847-8, during the agitated period of the French Revolution, and distinguished himself by the claborate military precautions he took aguiust a threatened demonstra- tion of the Irish ‘‘Repealers” on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1848, for which service he received the thanks of an intiuential deputation. He was clected to Parliament for Derby in 1852, but unseated on petition. In July, 1853, he was returned to Parliament at the head of the poll, at a special election, his liberal competitors being Hon. Henry Thomas Liddell and Sir Erskine Perry. Mx. Horsfall retained his seat at every election until 196%, when, after the passage of the Disraeli Keturm bill, from which he dissented, he retired trom the representation of the borough and was sueceeded by Viscount Sandon. During his fifteen years’ service Mr. ‘I. 8. Horsfall was a notable man in Parliament, and, though not a skilled orator, always commanded the attention of the House by his thoroughly practical views on many subjects. He was # mcuber of the first Royal Copmission on Rail- ways and the leading champion of Mr. Daly’s project for uniting the Customs and the Excise un one management, and of tue immunity of commerce from the consequences of war at sea. Mr, Hors- tull was a strong Protestant, und “blended an uroma of sincere evangelical piety with the faithfulness of an unquestioning toryism.” Naturally he was not tree trom the prejudices which accompany decided convictions, and he made a gallant and suc- cesstul fight against the vills successively introduced by Sir Joshua Walmsley, in 1956, and by Sir John Shelly, in 1857, to throw open the British Museum and other public institutions on Sunday. The Liver- pool member presided ut a public meeting at St. George’s Hall, at which a numcrously signed petition against the bill was upon. Mr. Horstall took a deep interest in religious and benevolent institutions, toward which he «lways displayed great liberality, He was vice president of the Church of England School Society, the Lancashire Female Refuge and the Liverpool Church of England Magdalen Institution; patron of the Liverpvol Benevolent Society for Re- claiming Fallen Women and of the Liverpool Sea- men’s Orphanage; ident of the Church Associa- tion and of the’ Liverpool Workshops and Home ‘Teaching Society for the Outdoor Blind; member of the committee of the Liverpool Church Building So- ciety, the Liverpool and West Lancashire Church Missionary Society and the Young Men’s Christian Association. Among the institutions in which the deceased gentleman took & special interest was the Bluecoat Hospital, the children of which every year, by invitatiou, paid a visit to his residence in Staffordshire, where, we need ly say, he entertained ‘them ‘well, besides paying | the cost of a special train’ for their conveyance. He was one of the founders of the Liverpool Cham- ber of Commerce and its first president; was au hon- orary member of the Mercantile Marine Service As- sociation and was a trustee of the Liverpool Licensed Victuallers’ Association. He was a justice of the peace for the borough aud county and deputy lieu- tenant of Lancashire. He was four times married, his last wife surviving him, but left no children, Im- mediately utter his death became known at Liverpool flags were hoisted at half mast on the Town Hall, po- lice buildings and the Dock offices out of pene for his memory, a similar tribute being paid to him by the steamers of the Inman line, of which the de- ceased was one of the proprietors. ~ PROFESSOR THOMAS THOMSON JACKSON, SCOTTISH THEOLOGIAN, Rev. Thomas . Jackson, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Glasgow, died at St. An- drews, Scotland, December 24, after a short illness, He was born about 1796, was educated at Glasgow and was for some years uinanuensis to the celebrated metaphysician, Dugald Stewart. He was appointed by the Crown as Professor of Divinity,and Biblical Criticism ut St. Mary’s College, St. Andrews, in. 1836, At that time he had never been heard of in Scottish theological circles and his appointment occasioned much surprise, According to custom it became the duty of the new professor to preside at the next ordination of a minister in that presbytery and to preach the sermon, which he did “in a strain of such philosophic elevation as to take away the breath of D. D., the listeners and greatly impress the breth- ren of the presbytery.” To the day of his death he was’ never known to preach but once more, and he was long famous in Scotland on the strength of his single sermon, He brought to his professional duties that reverence for the forms of philosophic speech which he had learned from his great master, Dugald Stewart, was a profound thinker and animated by one chief desire—namely, to identify the study of theology with that of phil: osophy. Naturally enough he was, in 1 ded as something of @ portent in the thcolo of Scotland, and there were many whispers of the strangeness of his teaching, all the more since the students did not well understand him, and he be- came to them a sort of “theological” phantom a living impersonation of the “general _prin- ciples” of which he spoke so much in his lectures. He was trained in the tradi- tional Scottish school of litical liberalism, and it was claimed for him that his theological vie ook of a similarly liberal and tolerant spirit, but e had not the gift of clear expression, and many of the vagaries of modern thought seemed to him so in- describably absurd that he could only convey a timation of his meatal attitude by fiercely spoken de- nuaciations of the “modern spirit” ip politics and He was transferred in 1851 as professor of tical history at Glasgow, and resided there during the winter sessions, but Was always more at home at St. Andrews His quaint Old-World figure had a remarkable affinity with the city of his sum- mer residence, where his venerable appearance and high bred dignity made him one of the local celebri- ties and will hand down his fame to future geuera- tions of Scottish theologiaus. rc HON, JULIAN HARTRIDGE, MEMBER OF CONGRESS FOR GEORGIA, Julian Hartridge, member of Congress from the Savannah district in Georgia, died at Washington, at six A.M. yesterday, of puoumonia, after a brief ill. ness. He had been treated by hypodermic injections | of morphine, which, in the opinion of some of his friends, hastened his death. His family in Georgia had no intimation of his illuess, which was not con- sidered dangerous until Monday night. Mr. Hart- ridge was @ native of Savannah, and was forty-six years of age. He received @ collegiate education, studied law at Cambridge, Mass., and was admitted to the Georgia Bar about 1855; became Solicitor Gen- eral of the Eastern Circuit of Georgia and member of the State Legislature and was 4 member of the National Democratic Convention at Charleston in 1860, At the outbreak of the war of secession he re- ceived @ commission in the Confederate army, in which he served for about a year. Early in 1862 he took his seat in the Contederate Congress as a mem- ber for his native State, In 187l he was chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Georgia, and was chosen elector at large in 1872; was elected Congressman at large in 1874 and re-clected in 1876, In Congress he was sidered one of the most brilliant of the Southern members. He was clair- man of the sub-committee lately appointed to investi- ate the proceedings of John I, Davenport in Ne fork city. Congress yesterday adjourned in con- sideration of his death and appointed a committee to attend bis remains to Georgia. EDOUARD MOREAU, PAINTER. ‘The death is announced from Paris, at the age of fifty-tour years, of Edouard Moreau, a water color painter in miniature, He devoted himself chiefly to the decoration of fans, in which branch of art he was 3 ned, his work being of a high order and in nt taste. His fans are to be found in most of pean courts, and are exhibited in many public and private collections. One of the most cele- wated is in the South Kensington Museum, OLIVER EE, HOSM Oliver B. Hosmer died yesterday at his residence in Nyack. The deceased, who was a son of the late Chief Justice H , of Connecticut, was in his seventy-second He had been for a long tin in business in this city but retired a namber ot years ago. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. Mr. Stewart L. Woodford lectured last evening ou “William Cullen Bryant, the Poot and Citizen,” at the Brooklyn Lay College, corner of Clinton and Amity streets, for the benetit of Frank Head Post, @. A. B., war veterans. Bryant's poetic life, the lecturer said, began at the age of thirteen and ended at eighty four, Ho was, in some respects, a very singular compound or mixture of man, He was born at once to be a poct and politician, Like every noble man he, lived within himself, ‘The great poet's interpretation of nature was in accordance with his own medititave thonylits, ani he patuted it as no other American owe wyes did, f ee HUNTERS LAST HOURS, A Change Coming Over the Doomed Man. HIS FEARFUL POSITION REALIZED. Threats of Suicide and Means Used to Prevent It. PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXECUTION PaiLaverrul, Jan. 8, 1879, On Friday, before the hour of noon shall have struck, Benjamin Hunter, the murderer of John M, Armstrong, will have expiated his crime under the . gallows. His bloody act is too recent to have been forgotten by the reading community, and the sensa- tional and horrifying revelations of the trial are fresh in the public memory, Hunter is the man of wealth and position who insured the life of his old friend und partner, Armstrong, for $26,000, then hired a man to kill him, and when the nerve of his accomplive tailed hun, himself lured Armstrong to Camden and struck the fatal blow, He afterward, by a cunning plot, endeavored to cast sus picion on sn innocent person, and, while pretending the decpest sympathy for the dying man, visited the house where his vietim lay, surrounded by his mourning family, and found an opportunity to tear the bandages trom his wounds and hasten his death by a second attack, under circumstances so fiendish as to be almost incredible. ‘The revelations at the trial were overwhelming and damning, showing no other motive but greed of gain, and since his conviction Benjamin Hunter has enjoyed the distinction of being the author of the most devilish and supers naturally wicked crime of the past decade, HUNTER IN HIS CAGE, He has been a carefully guarded inmate of the Camden County (N. J.) Jail, at the little town of Camden, opposite Philadelphia, for over eleven months, and during nearly all that time he has occu- pied the murderers’ cage. This cage isa box made with thick iron bars at the sides and top and has a floor of heavy plates of iron. It resembles the cage in which a lion or a tiger is kept at a first clasa menagerie, only that it is a little larger and stronger. It stands in the centre of a good sized room, which is otherwise empty, on the top floor of the jail. ‘The interstices between the heavy bars are quite large and permit the guards, who are present night and day, to watch the convicted murderer's: every motion, in whatever part of his box he may be. Night and day he is supposed to be under the less eye of a jailer, and never for one moment does this vigilance be relaxed, for the prisoner is = Scametts man and he has sworn to cheat the gale ws. HUNTER’S VISITORS, No one is allowed to visit Hunter but his immes diate family, a clergyman and his lawyers, and no one is permitted to spproach close enough to shake hands with him. One of the last persons to take hit hand was George M. Robeson, his senior counsel. He called the other day to bid his client adieu fore ever, and on leaving said :— “Well, goodby, Mr. Hunter; I shall probably not see you again?” “Oh, well, goodby,” rejoined the doomed man, carelessly, “I shall meet you in hell!” THE PRISONER'S MANNER CHANGES, From the time of his arrest until day or so ago the conduct of the prisoner has been that of a man of iron nerve and perfect self-control, who had re- solved to effectually conceal his emotions under @ manner which was at times hard and bitter, but generally carcless and trifling. But now there’ is a change in the prisoner, and Benjamin Hunter is no longer the man he was. He _ realizes at last that death stares bim in the face; and on Monday, to the amazewent of all who know him, he dropped his musk for a moment in the presence of the Kev. R. H. Allen, of this city, the ¢leruyman who visits him us the solicitation of the prisoner's brother. After Mr. Allen had prayeé with him and urged him to prepare for death by confessing his crime, the prisoner, who. had up to this time acted peevishiy and resented the pastor's presence, seemed for « moment to be strongly moved. “Yes, I will make my confession,” he said, “but it will be only to Christ.” His emotion was only momentary. He quickly changed the subject and refused to listen to the good clergyman’s appeal. But Hunter is a broken man. He is pale, restless, fretful, and no longer affects a reckless case, He has little appetite; his sleep is broken; he 1s moody and sullen, and can no lounger conceal that he realizes the shadow of the gallows. SUICIDE THREATENED. He has sworn to commi icide, aud has been overheard by his guards. Every precaution ix taken to prevent this, aud every article by which he contd injure himself is kept from him. His watch, his personal trinkets, his eyeglasses, every- thing that could be turned to suicidal ‘purpose by the ingenuity of a desperate man, is carefully ex- eluded from his cage. His family, who are eminently respectable people and have the sympathy of many friends, ure with him every day as the end ap- proaches, and to-day spent several hours with him, THE GALLOWS. Meantime the Sheriff and his deputy are engaged im fitting up the peculiar machinery which is to be used in hanging Hunter. There will be no gallows, and the doomed.man will stand in the corridor of the jail, at the intersection of the only two passages of which it consists. These ca form a cross, and Hunter will stand at the point where the arms of the cross intersect. It is directly under the court room in which he was tried, and is on the ground floor of the jail, The apparatus is a simple contrivance, doing away with the heavy uprights, &c. A hole has been made through the ceiling through whieb a rope will be passed with a noose on the end encircling the neck of the ge who will stand immediately beneath this ole, in the centre ot the hallway. Above the ceil- ing, and on the floor on which the court room is. situated, will be a picce of joist with a pulley at each end. The cord will pass over these pulleys, and then descend through a second hole in the ceiling about: three feet from the other. It will then pass on through the floor to the basement, where the cells of the jail are located. At this end of the rope the weight, weighing about four hundred pounds, will be attached and elevated about six feet, eld in place by a heavy rope. The noosa will then be placed around the neck of the con= demned man, and, atter the usual religious cere- monies have been pertormed, on a given signal the rope holding the weight in position will be cut, instantly lifting the convicted man into the air a distance of some five or six feet. It is thought that the rapidity with which the weight will fall will send the unfortu- nate mau about two fect inte the air after the de- seending force ceases to operate, when the weight of his descending body will break his neck, produc- ing instant death. The space in the corridor is so contracted that very few persons will be permitted to witness the execution. N ALLEGED CONFESSION. Since the above was written Sheriff Calhoun, of Camden, was visited to-night by a reporter in refere enve to the hanging of Benjamin Hunter on Friday, tor the murder of Armstrong. He stated that Mun- ter had made a private confession, but that it would not be published until after the trial of Graham, his accomplice in the murdér. He refused Innod to make known the confession, but said it would be used in the trial of Graham by the State. DOUBLY SURPRISED. Patrick McCann, whose curly locks and olive comm. plexion indicated anything but Hibernian éxtraction, was quite indignant wien Judge Wandell fined him #10 and committed him to the Workhouse, yesterday, at Jefferson Market Court, in default of $400, for tampering with a gate leading to a liquor store. Ho was in the act of leaving the bar for the prison, with & look of injured innocence upon his face, ‘when Francis Harris, a colored watchman on the Metro- politan Elevated Railroad, stepped up, and in open court positively identified him as a man whom he tried to arrest on the Ist inst. while escaping from No. 50 Grand street with booty which he nad stolen there. MeCann was recalled, and, very much erest- tallen, heard the former order of the Court changed to commitment for trial on a charge of burglary in defwult of $1,500 bail, COUNTER ALLEGATIONS. Mrs, Ida C. Banta was before Judge Frambach, ot West Hoboken, N. J., yesterday, charged with threat ening Jonn Hutton. Tho complainant alleged that Mrs. Banta had throatenod either to shoot hin or commit suicide aud leave a letter charging bim with murdering her, Mrs, Banta’s narrative was, pew her — owned a bostelry at . and that he became involved and was to leave to avoid prosecution by his euettee Bt. ton, her accuser, was the ‘Wartender, and, as sho alleges, he persuaded Ler to save her prop: erty from the creditors by making tt over to bite, lt Was 4 mere matter of form and she was to retain the papers. She says she did have possession of them until @ few days ago when, she alleges, they were stolen by Hutton, She claims that he has tu stituted the suit to frighten her away, 80 that he eo get possession of the hotel and Keep it without A mvivstations