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THE BLACK HOLE OF ONONDAGA \ Penitentiary That Is a Disgrace | to Civilization. FIERCE CLERICAL PROTEST. Vaults Within Vaults Used as Cells for Females. SYRACUSE'S BARBAROUS ADMINISTRATION. ABS SSNS Synacuse, N. ¥., Jan. 17, 1879, ‘The Poorhouse and Insane Asylum is not the only public institution in Onondaga county to which com men attention has been drawn. The exposure of the horrors of that institution, in which the HuxaLp took 80 important a part, will no doubt have the effect of setting to rights many of the wrongs which have been practised in the poorhouses and insane asy- lums of the State. The Governor deemed the sub- ject of sufficient importance to make it a salient feature of his recent message, and if something is not done to remedy the evils it will not be because they are not known to exist, In this county the agitation of this subject by the Henarp first brought to our relief the State Board of Charities, through whose influence changes were ordered Which the false economy of niggardly boards of su- pervisors has for years und years considered it would be extravagance to make. These alterations are in the construction aud in the system of management of the Poorhouse and Insane Asylum, When completed the institution will bear a better resemblance to a monument of humanity than a ing likeness to a reiic of barbarism. THE ONONDAGA PENITENTIARY. But the task of the humanitarian is but half com- pleted. In our midst is another institution, penal in its character, but in some respects so tar remote from purposes of reform that it has grown to be a public scandal, The Onondaga County Penitentiary is to- day a disgrace to civilization. That it is so is the pure andsimple result of a spirit of sickly parsimony, feigned by the powers that be, who pander to the hue and cry of retrenchment without giving a thought to the principles which underly the scien ce of true economy. Indignation at the conduct practised at the Penitentiary is now almost ripe, and unless a change is made, and that quickly, guch another storm will be raised about the ears of the supervisors as torced them into an acqui™ escence to the demand made by the humane and in, telligeut portion of the community respecting the Poorhouse and Insane Asylum. The measure which the supervisors haye spurned, in the face of the best eloments of society, is an enlargement of the Peniten- tiary, sought in the interest of morality as well as humanity, The institution has always and docs now receive malefactors of both sexes, its inmates being contributed by several neighboring counties, as well &s Onondaga, The present construction and arrange- ment of the Penitentiary buildings admit of actually non-isolation of the male and female prisoners, a state of affairs which has of late been a topic of gen- eral interest among thoughtful people, The Board of Supervisors, who were looked to for a correction of this shameful system, have been divided in sentiment upon the enlargement proposition, The people, on the contrary, or at least that part of them whose in- finence should have been felt, were unanimously in favor of making the Onondaga Penitentiary a credit instead of a disgrace to the county. AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION. Knowing, however, of what were called the honest @ifferences of opinion in the Board the crusade was @ssumed by a number of ladies, the wives and daughters of the clergymen, lawyers, physicians and merchants of the city, who had at heart the ame” oration of the condition of the less fortunate mem- bers of their sex. Late in November these good ladies waited upon the Board of Supervisors and made known the object of their visit. They presented a brief petition, in which reference was made to the ‘Teport of the Inspectors of the Penitentiary, setting forth that the institution had yielded the county, over and above all expenses, an income of over $9,000 in the year past. This profit had been the result of the contract system, by which prisoners from other counties are received and cared for, The inspectors gave it as their opinion that tho system was a good one and should be continued in force. To do so, however, an enlargement was necessary. This the ladies came in person to urge. Thoy were accom- panied by Right Rev. F. D, Huntington, Bishop of the Diocese of Central New York, who made ‘an eloquent plea for an enlargement of the peniten- tiary. The effect of this was salutary, but not suf- ficient, In spite of argument, in spite of the public sense and in spite of everything, the Board of Super- visors defeated the measure of enlargement. To be sure, they did go so far as to call on the inspectors for additional information, and, although assured by those officials that the enlargement would be a pub- lic benefit and a humane and moral innovation, the cost of which would be more than defrayed out of the past year’s income, the Supervisors dod, the issue by “directing” that a division wall be it in the north wing of the edifice, a wall of brick, “from floor to ceiling,” thus shutting in at the further end forty-three celis, ‘to be used exclusively for female prisoners.” LOCATION OF THE CELLS. To furnish a more accurate idea of the makeshift Tesorted to, the tollowing diagram of a section of the north wing of the Penitentiary and the location of the cells is submitted :— NORTH, *su0pissog sour, A, A. A, A~Colls, in four tiors, one above the other, BW. B—New division wall. ‘Che main enclosure of the north wing is an apart Mout without # cellar, ninety-cight fect long and twenty-eight feet wide from top to bottom, Run- ning lengthwise in the centre, nearly from end to end, and quite up to the ceiling, is a solid strueture in the form of ® parallelogram. In this are the cells, back to back, arranyed in four tiers one above the other, An iron balcony, provided with balustrades, is built out upon brackets, and runs the entire length of each tier of cells, being mounted at the wouth ond by contracted staircases, Between the doors of these ecotls and the outside wail ts a dupressed area fourteen feet wi ‘These two extending the whole length of the wing, turnish mae prisoners, usually over one hundred in number, proathe, Che tatoral walla are each provided with five windows, whieh are heavily sushed and grated Aud the glass is not altogether translucent. The iiain floor is nine teet eiyht inches below the bottoms 01 these windows, #0 that one tier of cells and part of snother are lower than the level ot these sills. ‘Cho dimensions of tho colls are six fect and ten inches high, four feet wide and seven feet deep, It is pro- owed by the — measure adopter by the nna od that the four tiers of teu cells each, the north end of the wing, should con- stitute the female ward. ‘The one great object of separating the sexes is not, hi bserved b; fils cheap expedient. “In. the ares plas che Yonanie inate sereaeter On thelr roturn to the ai Here, the tnales and females are worked in common shops, subject to the indecent influence of the association. 0 movers for the reform @ new addition to the “with a sufficient itent ofa wing, Soar of from forty to sixty cells on the lower floor abd with workshop and washroom for women exclusively above, ° HIDDEN CRIME HINTED aT, ‘The extent of the harm that has been done by the resent system can never be known, Enough bas, tee come to light to show that it is downright crime on the part of the officials who have 2uthority in the matter to longer defer remedying the evils. Some awful stories have come to tho ears of the Henan correspondent, which have not been further investigated, because, tf proved entirely true, they | could not be given to 4 public print, unless at the | sacrifice of modesty and decency. And all the result of this terrible system of co-confinement of pris- | oners, The action and attitude of the Board of Super- | visors was so directly at variance with popular sen- | timent, as it took shape aud was expressed in various | methods, that Bishop Huntington has promulgated an exhaustive address to the citizens of Onondaga county, in which he sets forth, in no commonplace manner or in no ordinary bapa | the facts in the case, The document is a trenchant arraign- ment of the Board of Supervisors. Nowhere does the respected prelate mince his words. sHe strikes boldly and accurately at the evils as he sees them, and knows full well that they exist. His pen is dipped in the milk of human kindness rather than in | gall. He charges the Supervisors with shirking 4 great duty, He says, in searching for the reasons of their extraordinary action, not so much as a show of any cap be found, pearrthlag is left to a la boring imagination. He can imagine no other excuse tor defeating the enlargement scheme than # desire to curtail the drawbacks consequent upon “convict labor.” While the Bishop does not take occasion to discuss the merits of the system of employing con- viets, he says: Were there is no such thing a8 0 scienve of prison management and reform; had not the ablest minds of jurists and civilians for two or three generations been engaged upon | it; and were it not un axiom in that science that the employment of able-bodied persons in prison is to be universally insisted on, such a discussion might be worth while. When an eulighted commu- nity cun be persuaded that it is best tor its criminals to sit through months or years with folded A their minds left free to all the havoc of idle thoughts or vicious or revengeful fancies, or else to sink slowly into stupor; that industry is remedial aud retormatory; that the iecchanical products of the laber of convicts cannot be regulated and disposed of by the samo satan which pro- vides the labor, and so fairly regulat that goods shall not be’ undereold, or special contractors favored or any injustice done free workmen outside, then it may be that prison workshops will be shut up. At present civilization is moving in the oppo- site direction. We are all under everlasting lew: whichever side of prison walls we may be. It is use- less to beat against the bars that nature has fixed and riveted, If ‘convict labor’ is abused, correct the abuse, but do not rob prisoners, day laborers, taxpayers und your children together by # system which would substitute stagnation for vitality, consumption for health, death for life. If, the Bishop holds, the Supervisors make the ‘convict labor” question an excuse he accuses them of cod- ling and cajoling. The manhood of the working- men rest on a safer foothold than the enforced idle- ness of a few miserable convicts, fed behind prison bolts. Coming at length to the real subject at hand, the Bishop says that the mode of separation of the sexes as provided by the Board of Supervisors in building # wall dividing the north wing would be purely imaginary. A CLERICAL BROADSIDE, ‘The address goes on to say: — Hitherto men and women haye been put into this prison togethor, within sound of each other's voices, exposed to and corruption, and oftua and gestures, Lt ight of one another's 1 i the existing conditi even with the best care. heen und isa disgrace the county. need not say to you how flagrant, inexcusi ton a violation it is of the Brst principles uf & ty. The thoughtful women of Syracuse tho Suporvisors with their petition for an enlargement of the building, Irrespective of the horrible avcounts of ribaldry and hinsphemy, insult and obscenity given thom by those of their own sex who huve declared fiat they have learned more depravity in the days and they hd ever n been an nights of # week in the penitentiary th fore they went there—knew very ny of their own wisdom and ‘deli these filthy contacts al communications mui womanly self-respect and all virtue. A criminal in con: Be finement is the ward of the Stato. The moment that the lnw takes # person out of his liberty and holds him it becomes fespensible for all the influences that work im from without. It is bound by the most , sacred obligations to shield him from needless tomptn tion, and to restore im to society none the worse for his trealment or surroundings. Sowith the woman, Other Wiso the law itself becomes a criminal, abnogates its guar- dian character, and becomes « tempter aud. panderer in- stead of n custodian, and society stultifies itself by edu- ea it back into it Y rts and prisons, by vos and co ii 3 all the costs strat . Whether wo regard the ol Of imprisonment as primitive purely or as reformatory ‘also, there can be no question that to brutalize a prisoner, malo or female, is an outrage. y ‘The necessity for a separation of maie and female con- viets having been pressed upon the attention of the publi your after year in a series or reports und appeals so earn us to be piteous, it ix not very that whon th Supervises atl tentiary i preface their “ GRANT IN IRELAND. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CORK CITY COUNCIL— LOUD TALKING AND MUCH ABUSE OF AMERICA’S EX-PRESIDENT. (Prom the Cork Herald, Jan. 4.) The weekly meeting of the Improvement Depart- ment of the Corporation was held yusterday, the Mayor in the chair, There were also present Messrs. D. Finn, H, Paul, P. O'Sullivan, R. Day, J. Tracey, J. Duniea, B,J. Sheehan, H. Dale, R. Meade, J, Buck- ley, J. Hayes, W. R. Harris, J, Dwyer, T. M'Swiney, R. Mayne, U. Keller, fT. Oreedon, G. R. Barry, W. Haly, D. J. Galvin, W. Hegurty, T. Joues, W. C. O'Connor, D, Ryan, J. Fox and J, B, Sandford, The Town Clerk read a letter—which has been already published—from General Richmond, United States Consul at Queenstown, stating that he had re- ceived a telegram from the Consul General at Lon- dcn informing him that ex-President Grant intended payin Cork within a week, but the date was not yet x ‘The Mayor—Does anybody wish to offer any ob- servation on that letter ? Sir GronGk Pennosk—It is entirely in your own hands, Mr, Mayor, Mr. Tracky—-Mark it “‘read,”’ sir. The Mayou—It is a letter tor me; in fact, I believe, it was addressed to my predecessor. At any rate, it properly comes before the Council. Mv. Taacky—I nove that it be marked “read,” A PLKA Fou COMMON 8I Mr. Harris said he thought the Cor iucil ought to | take into consideration that the ex-President ot the United States represented the governing party in that country, and that the Irish emigrant nation—he might call them a nation in that country—had to be considered. Their fellow-countrymen in the United States were subject to the influence of party, and he considered that it would be for their interest if a proper reception was given to the representa- tive of the United States in Cork, ‘There was nothing in the government of ex-President Grant objectionable to the people of Ireland, nor did he (Mr. Harris) think his directory was iu any way unpleasant to their fellow countrymen in the United States. Probably he would be at a future time again at the head of that country, and he (Mr, Harris) thought it would be to the interest ot their fellow countrymen in the United States if 4 proper recogni- as wee given to President Grant on his arrival in Cork... Mr. ple in America, (Hear! hear!) Mr. Tracky—Hear, hear, And I say that it would bo unbecoming for the Catholic constituency ot Cork to entertain such a man, Alderman Hecanty—I rise to order, I don’t think «| one leather man has 4 right to get up and run down another leather man. (Laughter.) ‘The Mayor—Mr, Tracey is not out of order, Mr. Tracey—I really think it would be ungenerous on our part to refuse him hospitality if he deserved it, but Ican’t see anything in the career ot General Grant—or ex-President Grant—that calls for the s: pathy of the Irish uation. Ihave hud interviows with many persons who spent years in America, and I learned trom them that he never thought of the Irish race as he thought of others, and that he ap- tually went out of his way to insult their religion. (Hear, hear!’”) NO DUTY; NO DINNER, Alderman Dwyrer—Thore is no mistake whatever but there is a debt of gratitude due to America trom the people of Ircland for the manuer in which they were received there, but I would not be disposed tu couple his name with that of America, because while any hospitulity and kinduess and attention was shown to the Irish when they were in want by the American people he showed # contrary disposition and always regarded them as not entitled to the same recognition as the other inhabitant: therefore I really think it would be an act of impro- priety on the part of the Corporation of Cork to go out of their way to pay any mark of respect person- ally to General Grant. Mr. McSwinéxy—I think the tact of ex-President Grant having gone out of his way several times to in- sult the Irish people is sufficient to disentitle him to auy respect from us. (‘Heur, hear!’’) AN EXPERIENCED BIGOT, Mr. OReEDON said that, having spent several years in America, he could speak from experience upon the subject. It wasa very unusual thing for any mem- ber of a government to intertere with Gen religious matters of the people, and, above all other men, ex- President Grant distinguished himself in that’ way with regard to the religion of the Irish. There was no doubt in the world that he went out of his wy to insult the Catholic religion, and consequently he, (Mr. Creedon) considered that Cork, being a Catholic city, should not put itself out of the | way toshow him any respect. (Hear, hear!”’) He (Mr. Creedon) was not # bigot on religious questions, but when @ man who occupied the high position of Gen- eral Grant did put himself out of the way to insuit their religion, acting quite differently to the people who came before him, he held that paying him re- ‘THE SUFFERING IRISH, Banny—Thut President insulted the Irish peo- He got a ‘No Popery” cry up there. sentiment and it a othing be, done, to propitiate a growing — publle ‘The “majority” resolve that the “com: izling of geses is injurions to good imorals and. discipline.” After that firet rally and righteous manifesto we are dropped back into the cisely the majority. may moan by “commingling % certiin; but if they mean that the sexes shall be removed from all sight and sound of each of terchanges of un immodest words are not worth ® straw hit an eterious nature, their ny such end. Observe the’ entrances the wing are at the southerly end; that every female fore bo taken from the'pen at the further end along the corridors, close to ihe grutes of the men's cells, week days and Sundays, rally six times «day; that in some of these walks they t Surry the vessels of their cells openty In thelr hands; that both sexuy and must be so till the washroom is common to so it must be workshops males and femal together, and must be un shop upart sufficient for all t Aliogether pleasant. things to say, but it ina g betver somebody should say them than that you ignorant of them. In the name of Heaven, caunot these women who have one Wrong in one Way oF another and are suffering for it fisve the ordinary privacy of seullery m men in situations of public «there by our tion, who dure say that thoy shall not have itt Then let us Your contrivance of w is Consider hould be not ® ration,’ but it leaves # mixture still, tha: ly er 0 “We are not worst at first. ‘here. any crimes t! leave the chastity of the heart unpoll A femulo th is nut necessarily a harlot. ¢ purer instincts of woman Some of those hood perish not all on peurcn ‘have not forgatten how to blush. Would : de twice that, be tov much for the county to pay, do you think, you thinking rkingmen, for a the: riddance of atl these unclean Vill not the sati tion of the purgat NN) e ppens to is due there. walled in 4s the end- v! female ways shifting. At this moment there females. Ten cells, therefore, if your wall were there would be unoccupied, ‘That would be’ no matter in ; but what if at any time your cells for tales should be overrun, as in the growth of population thes easily may be, is it cortain that these unvecupied cells will be suffered to stand empty? Either thay will males will be put into ther ‘ou wre Lo enlarge nt all, Btunder of the wall is co curred? Why not enlar whieh will bring s wowing the pares to doom daughters of this people to and mental misery as would await them in fickle fortunes, iv the ferce assaults of sin and dissolving en class feds barrers b 10 one of us known whether ‘Think of living ly a xrated pouting, two | oven, with ¢ and wooden , # box within # bo: durknoss, In storms sweltering human forny po SWhy. it would wake the bloud of the toughest Supervisor boll, aud be would go mad. If we wust have it let the courts meud their phraseology and the statutes be written accordingly in honest Buglich. tl when they pronoun ce ob The bar, take the. distinction candidly, “men to t Penitentiary’ and) women Ponstentiary with — agravation, the men txide of the eight-inch wall, and the e vault behind it. Call it what you please—a &® Black Hole of Onon uses aro testimony ; the and dimensions are before you. tance of @ right adjustment of ey question 18 s, but greater than it yooms. ‘Things are ound together, and the tales of a body no greater than the government of an island, shire, or local institu- tion, tell for good or ill ‘on larger interests, the conflict. between the ideas of a bygone Ww age We, Must our place” with juoneus. It is written of the old Sicilian Syrac ax rapidly us tnd. that its vite that it grew in pros woot rity and pow \atine mardiy lako ‘by We oh m od as if they would die to wir “supervisors” everybody knows: bat it is hut related of thom, at their worst estate, that they cooped ip their bad women in « cavern or fastened them where bud tien could how! and swear at them, Pertiaps they did. In inspectors uvigght 80 i a vbyeenities of husthen blackguards {ook forward oc backward had we wot better take cure what monuments and records Wo create as materials for history and tolltales to our children? The Bishop concludes his fearless onslaught with the hope that either the Board of Supervisors will reconsider their action, or that the people will rise in their might and, “preferring # civilized and Chris- Whether we tian to # barbarous pol: will put it twirly and vigorously to death. position taken by #0, high in the estimation of the community cannot but help to elevate and strengthen the cause, which, sooner or later, is bound to succeed, INDIGNANT GERMANS. An indignation meeting cf the German element of Paterson, N. J., was held yesterday atternoon to de- hounce the recent assault on Kditor Stutabach, of the Passaic County Journal, A resolution requesting the Grand Jury to indict the Horandta, and requesting the judges of the Court of Sessions, before whom the Horandts would be tried in the event of an in- dictment, to inflict severe punishment on them was |, and petitions to ® like effect are being eireu- luted, and when signed will be presented to the Grand Jury aud the judges, spect would be somethiby similar to tue doy licking the hand of the man who beat him. (Hear, hear!") He did not think they ought to go ont o1 their way to show ex-President Grant any respect. (‘Hear, hear!") ‘The Mayou sid the proposition before the chair was that the letter be marked “read.” All who were of opinion that that proposition should pass would oy “aye.” here was almost a unanimous shout of “aye"—no one dissenting from the proposition. ‘The letter was, therefore, marked “‘read.”” COMMENTS OF THE ENGLISH AND IRISH PRESS. {From the London World.) The Dublin banquet to General Grant was neces- sarily on Friday night, consequently the new Lord Mayor, Sir John Barrington, had a difficulty to con- tend with, as Inced hardly say the heretics present were in the minority. However, the big knight was quite equal to the emergency; the menu was emphat- ically marine; and from tne oysters and turtle to the anchovy toast @ delicate consideration was shown for both the -appetites and consciences of his guests, The Gencral’s ‘peculiarly reticent, reserved manner seems to have greatly impressed his Irish friends. Thoancient manuscripts in Trinity College are displayed for him on a tabie, but, as one, of the Fellows eays mournfully, he pays no more attention to them “than if they were a row of old boots in a pantry.” And at another scientific institution # garrulous old custodian ot certain prec osities is introduced; tells of his visit to Ame: long ago; how he is “bound to it” by bouds and ties and sympathies and Heayen knows what else, aud how he means one day to go there again. “How long since you were iu America?’ suys the little heavy man, looking out of his keen gray eyes. “Pity years ago. Ah, yes! and I’m sure that in my next voyage—-" “Yes, sit, you'll find the country considerably changed. Good day,” says the General drily, and cuts short the oration, One thing only seemed to awaken his interest. In the Royal (Irish Academy there is preserved Wolfe’s original manuscript of the “Burial of Sir John Moore,”’ aud the General stops short betore it, aud reads it deliberately from begin- ning to end. SHAME AND REGRET, {From the Dublin Irish Times,} Ex-President Grant ought to remumber his visit to Dublin with pleasant teelings. Wherever he has hitherto gone he has been feled and made much of. Learned socivties and commercial bodies have united todo him honor. He has received through the mu- nicipal authorities the highest distinction which it lies with the city to bestow. It is true that there were no enthusiastic crowds in the streets; but this wus chiefly due to the fact that there was really no rallying point for a crowd—no pageant, uo open air plattorm, no set in- terchange of civilities in locale accessible to the public. Wherever the General was seen and reco,- nized he was warmly saluted, and, it publicity had been given to his intended route, thore would have beca no lack of applauding spectutors on bis pas- . We have reason to think that oar illustrious visitor would have chosen just the reception he has got, if it were freo to him to make a choice. Of the strange proceedings reported by telegraph from Cork we must speak in terms of uo- mixed regret. They were undiguified and altogether out of pisee. Nobody attempted to sustain by evi- dence the untenable statement that President Grant | was, When in office, aif enemy ot the Lrish people. ‘The strong opinions which he holds on the questions of the relations between Church and Stacie were cer- tainly at times transfused into his policy in a way caleulated to excite the hostility of many trivia Catho- li but the same result followed with regard to the Catholics of other national origin. General Grant 6 policy was strictly constitutional, and surely a Presi- dent has much right to give legal effect to his honestly held principics as any other man, He acted as an American political man, pot as a member of a articular creed, aud the spirit that led to the intro- uction of dahon American political subjects into a debate on the question of giving an official reception to tho greatest representative of the Western Conti- nent is to be reprobated as well as deplored, FAVORED THE SOUTHERN CAUSE, {rom the London Daily News.) General Grant is now taking Ireland in the course of his travels. In Cork the mere expectation thut General Grant was to be entertained by the Mayor of the city appoars to have drawn down on that official some signs of popular dissatis- faction, General Grant, in fact, is not at all likely to bea hero among the more impulsive classes in Ireland, But General Grant is believed to be a shrewd man, who can obseryo where other men only tulk, and it is quite possible that he may carry back to the United States even froin his Hasty visit to Ireland the impression that the Irish question is hot quite so easily settled as many people in Amorica think it could be and ought io be. Lf he finds that he is not himself particularly popwlar in Ireland, that mere fact may set him thinking over the whoie problem of Ireland's relations to America and to — and may tend to inform him as to the difficulties Which England finds in deal- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEE}. “more Irishmen and their descendants than the Queen of ao oy Coes.” “This was rah Le ht mistake, for the Queen of England represents in 4 pense & good ch Irishmen and the descendants of shinen who do’ not live im Ireland. If the vast majority of the lrish vo! im America could have nad their way General Grant would never have beeu President of the United States, There are some, probably, who have not yet forgotten that he was the principal iustrument in putting down the Southern rebellion, and thus indirectly establishing the civil rights of the negro, The Irish in Americe were, speaking generally, in favor of the Southern States during the civil war, The cause of this was partly because the Irish in America disliked the negro just as a certain class of Lonsloner dislikes fhe German, or a Californian objects to Chinese cheap Or. THE READE ESTATES. A FAMILY EPISODE THAT HIGHLY INTERESTS THE AUTHOR OF ‘“‘A TERRIBLE TEMPTA- TION.” {Vvom the London Standard.] A very extraordinary case is down for trial next term. It is in its present phase a simple action of ejectment, wherein Sir Stanhope ©. Loskyns Reade, seventh baronet of his line, secks to recover landed estates in Oxon, Berks and Gloucestershire, valued in the bulk at £200,000, together with Shipton Court, the ancient residence of his family, and & number of heirlooms, such as pictures, plate, jewelry, &c. The story is in every respect a ra- mance. ‘The last baronet, Sir J.C. Reade, was not only eccentric but of dissipated Labits. He’ was sc- customed to drink with his servants, and when in his cups was extremely violent. Inthe yeur 1843 he had in his employ # butler, named Sinden, und a footman, one Joseph Waketicld, a native of Leeds, 1t was announced one sumer err that the butler, ® mun under forty, was dead, and also immediately afterward he was buried, no less than forty nails being: driven into his coffin, A tort night later it was hinted abroad that the poor man had met with foul play, aud had, in tuct, been done to death by hin master, the baronet. Upon this the body was exliumed, aud the Coroner's jury returned an open verdict, the chief witness being Joseph Wakoticld, who deposed that the man tell down ina state of inebriety and died from the consequences of the full. Shortly after this ocet rence the baronet severed himaelf from all society, including his son, who died duriug his litetum und his daughter, an epileptic patient, and until his death lived in absolute seclusion, his) only ate being the atorementioned Joseph Waketield. After his death his will was proved, wherein le bequeathed ail his possessions to fosepht Waketleld, who has since assumed the name of Reude, and has during the past ten years rece:ved a considerable sum in rents, the mansion itself bring- ing in £50) a year. The present baronet, who is the greatucphew of his predecessor in the'title, has al- reudy proved his claim tothe baronetey by u suit in Chancery, and now seeks to recover the estates which formerly xppertained to his family. Sir C. Reade is 2 relative of Mz. Reade, thy celebrated novelist and dramatist, SHERE ALI AT HOME. {From the London World.] ‘The following portrait of the Ameer at home ap- pears in an Italian paper. 1t is taken from a lecture by an Kuglish missionary, Mr. Hughes, who speaks from his own experience. The Amecr can neither read nor write, “What is tho use of reading or writing,” he asks, “when one has hundreds of people to do it for on He is, however, well up in his tory, the result of conversations with learned men, by whom he liked to be surrounded, as do most In- dian princes, In a conversation with Mr. Hughes he told him he considered Napoleon as the greatest gen’ eral the world ever produced. In public he is frugal and sober, but in private he is a drunkard, He is bellicose, aud athorough warrior; those who saw him at Umballa say he has all the qualities of a good general. His instincts are decidedly cruel; when he recovered his throne atter the civil war he owed his success to three persous—h.s brother, his nephew and his son Yakoob Khan. The first thing he did ‘was to cause his brother to be strangled, to send his nephew to Lahore, where he died in captivity, and to contine his son ina prison et Cabul. “Lhe Ameer,’ concluded the lecturer, “is not an interest- ing character in any way, and I, who know him per. sonally, have uo hesitation in calling him a savage.” SIR EDWARD THORNTON IN CAN- ADA. {from the Montreal Commercial and Gazette, Jan. 18.) Some of the papers have it that Sir Edward Thorn- ton’s visit to Ottawa was made for the purpose of submitting an American project for reciprocity. Sir Edward may have had any one of several objects in calling at Rideau Hall besides that of mere courteous ceremony, which is alone sufficient to account for it. As to the reciprocity project, however, we think it is quite sufe to disbeliove the story. There is no rec- iprocity treaty likely to originate from the Ameri- cun Executive fof several reasons, some of form, others of substance, Now, would the acceptance of such a treaty, if proposed, be at all consistent witn the wishes of those to whose policy the govern- ment at Ottawa is pledged to conform itself? It has, indeed, been said at various times thut the true pur: port of the national policy is to force the Americans to grant reciprocity to our manufacturers, but that, when & treaty was negotiated which would have made a large class of manufactures common to our- selves und to the Americans, free on both sides ot the lines there was an outcry from Canadian as well as from American manufacturers that this freedom would work their ruin. And this was reasonable, if their main theory is a sound one, What they profess to want is what they call their own markets ior themselves, and reciprocity breaks down the barrier. The Americans offer, unofficially, reci- procity in the shape of a Zollverein, but, except Mr. Goldwin Smith, no one yet professes to be ready to admit American goods and shut out those of a vountry which, without any bargaining, ulready re- ¢ ‘tree of duty, almost everything we have to send her. We should be very glad to see a reasona- bie reciprocity treaty, but the power of making ove does not rest with the American government in the present state of popular fecling, and whatever may be said for effect it is not what is wanted by men here who assert that they are ruined by the import of goods that have to pay seventéen and a half pec cent oi duty, A DYING WOMAN'S APPEAL, {Prom the Cincinnati Star, Jan. 18.) Lovrsvitur, Jan. 17, 1879, This morning about three o'clock the inmates ot Hannah Daley’s bugnio, on Lafayette street, were aroused from their slambers by a wild ery from Mand May, a lady boarder. A dozen persons of both sexes rushed to her apartment, and, to their aston- ishment and horror, discovered the woman in the last agonies of death, She turned to her female com- panions and in a feeble voice said :— “Lam dying; dying the happiest death that a sin- nor can die, Before L leave you take this as my part- ing gift. Those of you who have parents, yo to then, If you have homes, no matter how humb! cave this life of sin.” Here she sank back upon h pillow exhausted, “she is gone sobbed one of the women. “oh! . int voice from the b yet. Not until I have suid beware of oprum dovil’s nectar, Beware of morphine, the prime min- ister of death, It is the friend of sorrow und the foo to pleasure, Beware of it." Her voice fuilod at tis uucture and she sank quietly into a peaceful sium- per, from which she never awoke. 1 t the bedside of the fallen woman would tudy for an artist, an inspiratic r poet. The face of the corpse was calm, but ne pallid than those which bowed over ail that was © mortal of their departed # ‘The dim light £ a coal oil lamp cast the grotesque and sombre shad- ows of the picture on the biank wall, and a ghostly atmosphere pervaded the room, Sw deathbed reene Las seldom been recorded. Women, dyed in sin, gavé way to their better nature plodged therr souls to a lite of rectitude hereatter, Maud May was # contirined morphine cater, and her death by an overdose of the deadly drug. was about twenty-two yeurs of age, and was to moment of Ler demise a beautiful and intel gent woman. She was born in Ohio, and, according to her former statements, was brought to a lite of shame by a young man in Cincinnati. ‘he influence of the poisonous drug led her to petty crimes, and several times #ho was arrested for stealing siuall ar- ticles from her associates, Six times she has at- tempted her lif A SHORT HONEYMOON, Turee weeks ago, yesterday, John Berwig, twenty- three years of age, and Miss Annie Beddinyer, of No. 200 Spruce street, Newark, were married, Aunie is a fine looking girl of seventeen, large tor her age, and with a decidedly prepossessing face. John ts an industrious, rather well-to-do, young German. Rev. Father Prieth tied the matrimonial knot. Before twenty-four hours had passed the young couple began to regret the step they had taken, Annie's mother stepped in and suddeniy discovered flaws in the bridegroom's character, Other kind friends of the bride told her that ho was not good looking enough for her, and still others informed her that he in- tended to ste for a divorce. ‘The result was a spocty and soparation, Last evening the bride called on Judge Otto and stated that John had retused to let her take away the wedding ring he wave her, likewise @ plum colored silk dress, with which he presented her. Lhe Judge, after hearing hor story, advised her to go home, woe mind her re- lations or triends, but tmske up with her bust She said she would do so, but feared the ridicule abuse of her friends. Finally, she agreed to mect her husband in the Justice's Court and endeavor to Be with Ivish grievances, General Grant said jad, When in offlve, the hovor of representing weldbet @ reconeiliation. COCK FIGHTING, ‘THE CONCLUSION OF THY INTERSTATE MAIN BE- TWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA-—NORTH CAROLINA THE WINNER. Cuantovre, N. C., Jan. 17, 1879. On this the third day of the main the crowd in at tendance upon the fighting was somewhat larger than on either of the other two days, and a keener interest was shown on almost every face. The pitis a small | enclosure in the rear of one of those “hole-in-the wall” barcooms which one occasionally sees in { Southern cities aud towns, and the only entrance is through the barroom, The outside of this gives no more idea of what can be seen within than the door of the caye of the Forty Thieves indicated the character of the treasures it concealed, but # gentle knock and a fifty- ceut piece had all the charm of the his toric “Open sesame.” Your correspondent had ov- casion to use these charms about cloven o'clock to- day, when it was announced on the streets that the fighting would begin, and he found on entering that everything was yeady, ‘The pit is covered by a shed, through the rafters of which gas pipes are run, by means of which the pit is lighted whenever it is desired to use it at night, In a little cellar on one side of the enclosure a wheel of fortune is whirling in response to the sound, ‘Let her roll,” and there is also the rattle of the dice-box on wu chuck-luck table. These,” one of the tellows on the outside said, ‘were for the benefit of those restless spirits who could not content themselves during the twenty minutes which intervened between the fights.” ‘The place was not liberally patronized during the day, however, and the man at the wheel finally left Lis post to try his luck in tho pit. Jt is @ uoticeuble fact Uhat a lerge majority of the crowd in attendance at the fights are meu beyond middle life, the most of whom are not enguged in ae- tive business and many of whom are purely sporting men, No judges; tew colonels and no officers of public institutions ave amony the crowd, pro- portion of farmers, too, is small, and excellent order is kept without the assistance of the police, ‘The following is the record ot to-day’s tights :— Yast Ficuy.—North Carolina showed a ginger-red Sim Jenkins crossed on the Dusty Miller strain, 5 lbs, 3 04.; South Carolinaa ved Rose Comb, They were rather slow in their work and fought evenly through five deliveries, On the sixtn the ginger } natled the other through the brain aud he was car- ried out of the pit. ‘Time, 10 minutes, iS i.—Noxth’ Carolina showed up a 5 Ibs. 8 04, against a dark red Pink How The tighting was even and lively, and by the end of fitteon 1ainutes the red had lost first one and then the other eye. He was still game, however, and hit che spangled cock whenever the lat. ter came in his way. 1u the course of time the blind bird mude things so warm that the other lett the pit in a brisk trot. Time, 2a, 30s, Tu FicHr.—North Carolina wes represented by adark Red Horse, 5 lbs, 10 0%, pitted against a red Rose Comb. They flew at cach other upon reaching the ground, the dark red planting « well directed blow in the breast of the Rose Comb, but did not es- cape unscuthed biuiself, On the fifth delivery he hit the Rose Comb @ blow in the heudl, when the latter jumped higi and fell dead on his back. ‘Time, 4 min- wi ‘OURTH Ficitr.—North Carolina, avilver gray Sim Jenkins and Kted Horse, 5 Ibs. 14 04.; South Carolina, another red Rose Comb, ‘Che cocks flew high and worked hard, watil the gray drove a gaff through the head of iis antagonist, leaving him adead cock in tho pit, ‘The Aght was short, sharp and decisive, —North Carolina, a handsome bright rea Flary Kye, from which great things were ex- pected; weight, 5 sbs. 15 04.; South Carolina, a silver gray, Cross on Sim Jenkins, ‘The gray was the stronger bird and got in some murderous work. The red revived after severe punishment, but on the fitth delivery was hit in the head and scumpered ignomin- iously trom the pit. ‘The pitter claimed another fight, but the rea would not come to the scratch. 9 unimutes, Sixt Picht.—A North Carolina red Dominique, Georgia bir 6 Ibs.; South Carolina, a silver gray, cross on Sim’ Jenkins. The gray was us game as ever fluttered, but a poor hitter. On the sixth de- livery he was struck through the lungs, tell, tried to come, but taiied, Time, 8m. 30s, SkVENYH Ficux.—A North Carolina dark gray, siue breed as above, 5 lbs. 15 0z,; South Carolina, a dark red Welsh legger. The gray was cut down in the first buckie, but he stayed with his antagonist, not minding the cuts all over the head and neck, and in uineteen minutes was carried out in a ndition. a dark red Sim Jenkins, mixed breed, 6 Ibs. 3 oz.; South Carolina, a red Tartar. Both in tine conditivn and in all respects well matched. The Tartar received two severe cuts, but rege and on the fifth delivery brained the ‘Tin sray bird of John- ina, # Rose Cunb, crossed on Yaller Gal, ‘This was the last and the best battle of the day. They tought hard aud fast, and punished cach other badly, Lhe gray received all his cats in the buck. On the fifth detivery he ratiled the Yaller Gal, who flagged and finally fled the pit. ‘Time, 22 minutes. This was the first and last South Carolina cock to make a rua. ‘This fight ended the mein. On the day it stood:— North Carolina, 4; South Carolina, 5, On the main, North Carolina, 10; South Carolina, 8. ‘Lhe backers of the North Carolina cocks yelled uproariously over the result, and with all the more zest since their spirits had sudiy fallen under the influence of tour straight victories for the South Carolinians, ‘he fighting was much better to-day than yester- day, and was ended with a shake bug for $120, which was won by the South Carolinians and by several fine hacks, in which the South Carolina birds showed superior fighting qualities, winning # majority of the fights. ‘The betting to-day was highly spirited from first to last, and big money changed hands on every battle. A MATCH WITH O'LEARY. ‘To rue Eprror ov THE Heratp:— Tam glad to find in your issue of to-day thatacertitied cheek for $500 has been placed in your hands on behalf of Mr. O'Leary to.cover adeposit of alike amount that you hold in my behalf, I regret that Mr. O'Leary did not take up my challenge for a twenty-four or a thirty hour walk, as I understood, through the col- Wins of the Spirit of the Times, that he was anxious to test my spoed during that space of time; but as he setects the six days’ contest, in order to thoroughly try our staying qualities, I shall be happy to mect his representatives aud arrange all the prelimmaries ior the contest. Mr. O'Leary appears to be in favor of waiking in Boston, and I have no objections to either New York, Boston or Chicago, provided satisfuctory arrangements cau be made tor a good track and building in either of the three cities. 1 wish it distinctly understood that it ix Mr. O'Leary who stipulates that the winner shail take three- fourths of the gate money, as in my direct challenge Iproposed that the winner should take the entire gate money. 1 merely state this as Ido not wish to be accused of maki pital ous of any man’s reputa- tion, If Mr. Classy representatives will name time and piace I will be glad to mevt him and make arrangements for patting up the balance of the moncy and all necessary preliminaries, C. A. HARRIMAN, EQUESTRIAN CHALLENGE. New Youu, Jan. 18, 1879, To suse Epivor ov ran Heranpy:— 1 will bet $1,900 that L can beat any man or woman in this city or in Brookiyn in riding on horseback If any one wishes to accept of the challenge they cun do so. Mre. M. A. PUTTS, No. 202 Mast wenty -seventh street. SPORTING EVEN AQuaTics, + Exarr axp Wan.ace Koss.—An agreement has at jelasé Leon come to with reference to the proposed match between Wallace Ross, of St. John, N. B., and Frank Emmett, of Jarrow, Oa Wednesday, it will be remembered, we published a copy of articles sent by Wallace Ross for Emmett’s approval. March 3 was suggested for tho decision of the match, which was to be rowed over the Tyne championship couzse for £100 a side, and Ross stipulated that he should receive £15 expenses. Emmeit's supporter objected expecially to the last named condition, which objection elicited's reply from the American seuller, through our columns yesterday morning, in which he siated that he would aliow Emmett £15 ex penses to row on the ‘Thames, Our reporter called upon Mr, John Simpson, of the Quecn’s Arms, Union strect, Jarrow, last evening, and that pentleman, act- ing on behalf of kmmett. stated that the latter would accept Ross’ offer of £15 expenses and tow over the championship course on the Thames avvording to the conditions named in the articles drawn out by the Canadian. He also wishes it to be understood that the supporters of Emmett are per- fectly wiling that the editor of the Sporieman should act a8 stwkeholder when the march is to be de- cided on the Thames, —Neweastle Chronicle, Jan 7, : CHAMPIONSHID Marcu.—John Higgins, of Shadwell, since his arrival at Patucy, has been doing sirony work as preparation for the forthcoming con test on the Lyne. He takes two long spins on the river each day trom Chiswick Charch to Putney, or sometimes trom Barnes Kailway Bridge, accompanied by Harry Thomas, and afterward has # good spell of walking exercise with Thomas, George Drewitt is superintending his papery Porno! ba eng ern tha: he will be able to bring him into the best of con- dition. Higgins at the present momont is in the best of healt, his weight bemg Li st. 81. He is practis- ing in his old wnd well tried evatt, the Bishop Bur- ton.—Veweastie Chronicle, Jan. 7, COACHING, The new boards at the White Horse Cellars are filling fast, and several more will soon be required, as the forthcoming coaching se@ron bids fuix to be 5 one of the busiest known since the revival. Already the strollers down Piccadilly are informed that the “Old Times,” which has been put on as @ winter coach by a few ardent admirers of the road, will rum all the year round; that a couch will leave Oxford alternate mornings, running through London to Cambridge, returning uext day by the sume route, aud that “The Dorking” will commence early in the spring, while an opposition to the above will go io Box Hill, starting on its daily journey op a Sporting Gazeltc, Jan. 4. - THE TURF The. Sportsman, January 4:—Of the Newmarket trainers, Willian Brown, wo trains for Mr, Loril- lard, hus nine American-vred ones at his place, and I regret to say that most of them have been amiss sinee they reached England, but it is to be hoped, for the sake of the reputations they enjoyed in America, that both Duke of Magenta and Uncas will be all right by the summer, THE TOM-RI-JONS. A RAMBLING LECTURE AT HARRY HILL’s ow VARIOUS SUBJECTS, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY oT ‘ALIATOR AND AVENGER. At hulf-past nine o'clock last night the entire Tom-Ri-Jon family, of Vulcano notoriety, stepped on the stage of Harry Hill’s variety theatre, There was the familiar figure of Susi H. Donli (Mrs. Tom-Ri-Jon) dressed in a suit of biack, frock coat and well fitting trouserg—the coat being ornamented with brass buttons. ‘There also was Dr. om-Iti-Jon, a heavily built aman, with a full biack beard, hair that stood up from his forehead like an array of bristles, Retaliator L, aged four years, and Avenger I., aged two years. ‘he younger members of the redoubtable family were accommodated with baby chairs, but seemed to be ill at ease and evinced an inclination to roam about the stage. When the family of lecturers was introduced the audience broke out into applause, in which Harry Hill’s pet dog enthusiastically joined. The Doctor, who looked as if he hud just == been awakenei from a sound sleep, began # rambling discourse upon everything in general. He said that he had considerable experience of jail lite in Boston. Some people ure sent to jail because they deserve it and others because they have done nothing wrong. The prison fure gs not good; but then it would be very nard for the oflicials to discriminate Detween prisoners. “I want to say something,” suid the Doctor, with a spasmiodi ssticulatio: At this moment venger left his seat and an an investigation of u pile of papers on the table, evi- dently thinking that they contained candy. Failizg in the object of his search he was about to set up a howl, when his mother drew him away from the Doctor's side. “We have no petticosts in our house,” continued the Doctor, stroking his beard, “and consequently there cu be uo petticoat govern: Here he paused, but the audience did not seem “My companion—there she is— When she commenced lectures there I weighed only 129 pounds, and now I we gh from 175 to 185 pounds. Women shou!d lecture their husbands, I have been married before ; but the lectures of my first wife were calculated to reduce my weight ratner than otherwise. “A WALKING ADVERTISEMENT.” At this point Retalistor took Avenger’s chair from him and attempted some feats with it not set down on the bills. {couldn't get into Central Park when York at first,” continued the Doctor, rat his head, “becunse 1 was a walk- ing advertisement, Neither could my coupanion there, for we are both of us advertisements, Now, why ‘do women wear trails? You never see eutleman with one, no matior bow rich be may be. A trail costs money to repair, aud it is also dangerous in getting off and on the cars. Then why should po- licemen escort ladies across the street? Ladies should be able to take care of themselves. My com- panion there was arrested when she first came to New York use she adopted a dress that suited ner. Now she wears her own clothes and I wear mine, although sometimes T borrow her overcoat. Why shouldn't a gentleman wear his wife’s overcoat when he wants to? We came late to-night through the fault of my compan- ion’s tailor, who was afraid to measure her tor her suit of clothes. Iam a great talker, but I must now give way to my companion, who will speak to you.” MitS. TOM ON HER AvTIRE. ‘The Doctor then stepped to the rear of the stage and undertook the care of the young 'fom-Ri-Jons, while the lady advanced to speak her piece, She said tuat she had wosn her present style of dress for five yours, und would recommend it highly to ladies instead of the fashions from Paris, which are adopted without any thought us to whether they ure sensible or not. “it may be considered,’ said the lady, “as too masculine, but I don’t care what people may think. What matters it it | be mistaken for # gentleman in the strect? The dress is easy and co! table and not so‘inconvenient as that which ladies generally wear.” She denied the insinuation that Ketaliator aud Avenger were adopted chi.dren. They were her own, and band bas taken care of them since they were siz weeks old. Business has not been good with her since the novelty of her dress has worn off. Gen- tlemen now prefer to take ont their tobacco pouches instead of their pocketbooks. Consequently she proposes to give up her occupation as Voicano vender and to take to the lecture room, with the Doctor and the youthful Tom-Ri-Jons. Her mission will be to urge the adoption of trousers by all, irrespective of sex, “AFTER THE OPERA.” While the lady was holding forth on the question of dress the Doctor occupied himself in aimlessly promenading the stage, evidently, trom his abstracted manner, in search of some idea that had esca) him. Mrs. Tom-Ri-Jon then retired to Lt her street dress and to carry her bundle of papers among the audience, while the Doctor continued in his musing mood. Not even the tender strains ot the xylophone in the orchestra could arouse him, Retaliator then came forward and was, apparently, about to make afew remarks, when his father dis- covered him and ruthlessly thwarted the young orator’s ambition. “What dol think of the Demijohns?” answered Harry Hill to a number of questioners, “if. their paper is like their lecture, it won't set the public on fire.” BROUGHT FROM SCOTLAN D. BANK TELLER ARRESTED IN EUROPE FOR FORGERY COMMITIED IN MARSHALL, MO. William E. Johnston was a clerk or tellerin the Saline County Bank in Marshall, Mo., in August last, He had lived in Marshall for ten years, and enjoyed an excellent reputation for honesty and sobriety. ‘The bank officials trusted him impiicitly, and busi- ness men pointed him out as a model of commercial enterprise and integrity to their sons. He was a tall man, rather prepossessing in appearance, dressed as plainly as he lived, and devoted every moment of his time and all his energy to the affairs of the bank. In this fatal month of August Mr. Johnston obtained @ leave of absence for two weeks from the officers of the bank, He did not return at the expiration of his leave, but that tact did not for a moment weaken the confidence of his superiors in his integrity. A little later notice was received from the First National Bank of St. Louis that a difference of $4,000 existed in their ac- counts, The St. Louis bank was the correspondent of the Saline County Bank, and the account of the luttor was responsible for the deficiency. An inves: tigation followed, the immediate result of which was the discovery that one of the blank bills of ex. change upon the St. Louis bank had been neatly cut from the book which contained them, and no mark or number was lett upon the stub—for, in tact, the stub had been cut out with the draft, These bills of exchange were signed in blank by both the president and cashier of the bank, and all that remained to be done was to flilthem up with the amount required and make them payable to A, B or order. VOUND ovr. Comparisons of bills returned as vouchers with the draft book of the bank led to the discovery of the missing bill and the fact that it had been filled out with an order for $3,' tthe amount of the difference in the bank's accounts. The nonapee ance of Jobnstoh led to the first suspicion ‘was the culprit, and the cashice of the bank, Mr, J. H. Cordell, in issuing circulars to the chiefs of police in the different cities, sent one to the police anthorities of Dumfries, Scotland, near which town Johnston was born and bred, The Chief of Police et Dumfries found Johnston and sent # cablegram to Marshall, Mo. Com deil, the cashier, armed with the necessary legal docu- ments, went to Scotland after his late fellow cler! starting on the steamship Russia on the 20th of No- ries on December 1 and a (WO; vember. He arrived at identified the prisoner. case was brought ap tor ‘a hearing before the local magistrate on December 10, aad Johnaston was remanded to jail for fifteen days, in compliance with the British law of extradi- tion, which giveg the aecused that delay in order te prepare an mswer to the charges. The case was brought before Parliament, and on the 24 of January Johnston was handed over to the custody ot Cordell. On the 4th inst. they sailed from Liverpool on the steamer Algeria, of the Cunard line, and they arrived at Jersey Vity yester- day morning. They at once repaired to Taylor's Hotel, where they remained till late in the afternoon. They then took @ stroll about the town and finally eettied down in the Pennsylvania depot, where thoy waited patiently for three hours, Johuston reading a serial story and Cordell walking about with the reporter. dobnston, it is claimed, was drunk at the time he comtnitted the forgery, and is not only very penitent, bat willing to endure whatever punishment may be inflicted by the courts, WAS HE INSANE? Henry Gibbons died at the Brooklyn City Hospital yesterday afternoon from the effects of a wound upon the head, which he received Friday evening last by _ faiJing on the screet. Soon after the accident he was found aud taken toastore. A physician was sum- moned, who stated that he thought the man imsane, Gibbons was then taken to the Tenth precinct sta. tion house, but, becoming violent, he was removed to the City Hospital,

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