The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1879, Page 9

THLEGRAPHIC NEWS cena From All Parts of the World. THE EASTERN PLAGUE. SS aEEEERanineeiee Slow and Steady Westward March of the Disease, USING IT DIPLOMATICALLY, Yakoob Khan in Trouble With the Ghilzais. KINGS DEFIANCE. A ZULU Depressed Condition of the Ther- mometer and of Trade. (BY CABLE 10 THE HERALD.] Lospon, Jan. 26, 1879. The British Medical Journal publishes the follow- ing:—‘Russian and German medical journals state that the East of Europe is in a state of great alarm at the progress of what they-ullege to be the plague, which is rapidly making its way upward toward the North and East of Russia from the Cas- pian Sea along the course of the Volga, Accord- fng to an article, dated January 16, published in the Vienna Medicinuche Wochenschrift, No. 3,it has reached ‘Nijif Novgorod. As far as regards the origin of the disease, it is now ascertained that it was imported by two regiments of Cossacks who had lately re- turned from the war in Turkey, and in spite of ptrict “orders to disinfect everything probably hid &@ part of theit booty, which, without doubt, con- tained the germs of the infection, When the dis- ease first showed itself it was rather neglected and looked upon merely as a variety of typhus fever, and it was not until the mortality began to assume alarm- ing proportions that the local authorities began to feel it to be their duty to do some- thing toward arresting its further progress. Accordingly a strict quarantine was enforced, but the inhabitants of Astrachan, seized with a panic, had begun to flyin different directions, scattering on their way germs of the disease, which advanced to the North over the -provinces of Samura and Saratoff and reached Zaritzyu. ‘This last named place ought especially to have been protected, being 4 very important trading town on the Volga, connected by rail with almost the whole of Russia, and through it with the rest of Europe. Having once passed that place the plague went on spreading till it reached Nignii Novgorod, which is only a few hours’ distant from Moscow, the centre of Russia, IS RUSSIA SUPPRESSING 1T ? “It is acurious tact that some of the Russian pa- pers, among others the Vratschenbuyga Vedomosti (medical news), persistently deny the existence of the disease and simply treat it as an outbreak of malignant typhus, while the St. “Jetersburger Wochenshrift and other papers openly speak of it as the plague. The number for December 28 (January 9) of the Vratschenbuyga Vedomosti contuins telegrams trom the governors of the infected provinces (As- trachan ‘and Saratoff) to the Minister of the Interior, which report the present state of affairs us most hopefal. The mortality has decreased and there are very few new patients. A most energetic quarantine is enforced. The in- pected towns and villages, which are divided b to districts, which gre not allowed tocommunicate with’each other, 4c. In some places it ia stated that only five to ten persons have died within a week. ‘The symptoms are described as being a headache, ac- companied by fever and swelling of the glands. The Vienna Medicinische Wochenschrift, No. 3, drawa a most terrible picture of the present state of things in Russia, Whatever the disease may be—whether merely exanthematic typhoid fever or a febris recurrens, or really the plague, it is certain it would never have assumed those terrible dimen- sions if the government had not treated it at first with unpardonable neglect. It is almost too late now to attempt to stop it, especially as the Russian nation itself has very vague ideas re- garding sanitary arrangements, and the misery caused by the last war and the famine have undermined the forces of the population, rendering it unfit to resist the infection. Another very im- portant thing is a want of experienced medical men in Russia, About one third of the Russian doctors died either during the war, or from typhoid fever which followed it, and a large nimber of young students have been summoned from hospitals and medical schools to take their places, ‘The Vienna Medicinische Wochenschrift insists on the importance, in the interest of the whole of Europe, of providing Russia with doctors and help- ing her to keep down and restrain her powerful enemy, Both Dr. Zoleksuer and Professor Bot- kin have declared the disease to be really the plague in its worst form. They have drawn this conclusion from the extraordi- nary mortality (ninety per cent), the rapid spreading of the disease, and the very few cases of recovery, if any, which have come under their notice, The St. Petersburg Medicinische Wockenschrift of December 30 (Juanvary 11), merely gives a short notice on the disease, stating that, although the gov- ernment persists in calling it epidemic, it can no longer be doubted from the tenor of its communica- tion to the official papers that it is the plague.” AUSERIA NOT FRIGHTENED, In the Lower House, at Vienna, yesterday, Prince Auersperg said, according to the government's ad- * vices, there prevailed in’ #ix villages on the Volga River and on islands in the river an epidemic which was generally considered to be the plague, though not officially described as such, The Russian government by its precautions had succeeded in confining the disease to tain limits. The reported outbreak of the disease at Zaritzyn ix unfounded, and the statement that it had appeared at Nijni-Novgorod is also said to be in- correct. It has not passed beyond the quarantine cordon which the Russian government, for greater sufety, has established around Zaritayn, Within the cordon the epidemic was becoming less virulent, Prince Auersperg detailed the Austro-Hungarian pre- cautions, and added that at present extreme measures @o not seem justifiable. THE AVGHAN CONQUEST. A despatch from Jcllalabad, dated on the 24d inst., states that Yakoob Khan bad seized Fort Vizen, be- longing to the Bababakakhel Ghilzais, taking the chiefs prisoners, in consequence of which the Ghile guis have begun hostilities against Yakoob Khan. The Kohistanis and Gebzais have also deserted Yakoob Khan, ie THE RASTERN INCUBUS. In the Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath yea- terday, during the’debate on the Berlin Treaty, Minis- ter Unger, defending the constitutionality of the conduct of the Ministers, created a sensation by ing they lonued for the moment when they could be relieved. The Russian and Turkish governments have agreed to the clause of the definitive treaty of peace, stipulating that the Russians shall evacuate ‘Turkey within thirty-five days of the signature of the treaty. Somo details ax to the wording of the dovu- ment are still under discussion, THE ZULUS WILL FrowT, A special despatch to the Standard from Natal, un- der date of January 3, by way of Mudeira, says:— “Coty wayo, the Zulu King, refuses all the British de- mands. He has assembled 8,000 men on the border, General. Chelmsford and staf’ will leave Cape Town to-day for the front. ‘The Britivh troops will advance during =the — present week, All the necessary preparations are com- pleted, British reinforcements have arrived.” N EW YORK SERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1879. QUADRUPLE SHEET. A fae dated Cape Town, January 7, confirms [ the report that Cettywayo had refused to comply with the English demands and had assembled a large force. General Chelmsford was actively preparing to cross the frontier at the Tugala River. Another special despatch to the Standard froin Maritzberg, January 6, says:—"A gazette extra- ordinary, published to-day, announces that the High Commissioner has placed all mutters connected with Zulu affairs in the hands of General Chelmsford, but that he gives Cetywayo until the 1th of January to make full and unconditional submissio: REYORM BEGUN IN FRA! . The République Fraugaise of Paris states that G erals Bourbaki, Bataille, Renson and De Lartique, commanding respectively the Fourteenth, Vifth, Six- t.enth and ‘twelfth army corps, have been placed on the retired list. ‘THE VIRGINIUS AFVAIR IN ANOTHER LIGHT, ‘The Spanish government has ordered a muu-of- war to be despatched to Puerto Plata, St, Domingo, to demand reparation for the insult offered to the | Spanish flag by the authorities of St. Domingo in seizing two insurgent generals who had taken ref- | uge on board a Spanish steamer and shooting them. MORE ABOUT THE DISLRESS IN BKAZIL, Advices from Rio Janeiro to the 7th inst. state that drought and smallpox are increasing: in the north- west provinces. There were 473 deaths from small pox in the capital of the Province of Ceara during the twenty days ending December 21. DEPRESSION IN IRADE. Business on the Stock Exchange yesterday was ex- cecdingly flut on rumors of further financial difticul- ties, Tac sam? rumors were circulated on Friday, In connection therewith yesterday's Standard in its financial article said:—‘We are in position to state that the rumor of the absorption of the Metropolitan Bank (limited), by another London establishment is totally unfounded. Such an arrange- ment, We belicve, was under consideration some months ago, but the negotiations fell through.” ‘The news from South Africa published in this after- noon'’s edition of the Standard, just at the close of business, to the effect that Citywayo, the Zulu King, refuses all the British demands, added to the depres- sion. i SEVERE WEATHER IN EUROPE, The weather in Great Britain has been severe throughout the week, and continues so, consequently the applications for relief for the distressed poor have greatly increased. In Paris tho strect traflic is almost suspended by the snow. Reports from Brittany and other French provinces rep- resent that heavy snowfalls are interrupt- | ing telegraphic and railway communication. The Times announces that much of its Eastern news is delayed by interruptions of the wires between Paris and Vienna, A telegram from Frederickshaven says that four lightships have abandoned their sta- tions on account of the ice. The Belgian Pilotage Office announces that the navigation of the River Sckeldt is dangerous, and the office will only grant pilots if masters of vessels will assume all the re- sponsibility. CABLEGRAMS. The first volume of ‘Frederick the Great's Corres- pondence,”” published under the auspices of the Be: lin Academy of Sciences, was issued on Friday, Fred- erick’s birthday anniversary. A despatch to the Pest from St. Petersburg says forty students are still under arrest at Chorkoff, and | the University will remain closed until February 13th, ‘atholic priests elected to cures in Switzerland are now permitted to make the declaration prohibited under Pope Pius IX., accepting appointments on the | the roof were terrible. In the morning the house was conditions prescribed in the law of 1874 on the organization of religion. LORD _LORNE HOME. AT Orrawa, Ont., Jan, 25, 1879. ‘The Governor General and Princess’ Louise und suite teturtied to the city this morning at cleven o'clock. ‘The Dominion Board of ‘Trade delegates presented their address, to which His Excellency re- plied in warm terms. ‘The address was accompanied by two volumes of Board of ‘Trade reports. NEWFOUNDLAND, THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF THY ISLAND. Haurrax, N. 8., Jan. 25, 1879. The following changes are to take place in the personnel of the Newfoundland government as a re- sult of the late election :— Mr. Warren, defeated in Banarosta, takes a seat in the Council and becomes Financial Secretary. J. 0. Frazer receives the portfolio of Public Works. Michael Knight will be Chief Clerk in the Depart- ment of Public Works. Alexander MeNeally will be Speaker of the new House, while the ex-Speaker takes a seat on the Executive Committee. Messrs. Charles R. Ayre and Edwin Duder are tobe appointed legit lative councillors. Hon. J. J, Rogerson remains at the head of the Treasury Department. ‘The House will meet on the 6th of' February, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. UNITED STATES VESSELS IN THE HARBOR OF PANAMA, Pawama, Jan, 17, 1879, ‘The flagship Pensacola, Rear Admiral Rogers: Alaska, Lackawana and ‘Tuscarora are all riding within easy range of the city, The Alaska will leave for San Francisco immediately after the arrival of the New York mail, due here January 18, and the Pensacola and Lackawana, leave about the same time for the South Coast. ‘The Tuscarora will await the arrival of the Adams and then proceed north and resume her surveying duties on the coasts of Central America, Mexico and Lower California, A SECTARIA) ONTROVERSY. VIRGINIA CLERGYMEN PUBLISH SHARP CARDS DEFINING THEIR POSITIONS, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Perersnune, Va., Jan. 25, 1879, The comments made by Rev. Dr. Witherspoon, of the Presbyterian Church, on the recent lecture of Bishop Keane, Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Richmond, have induced Bishop Keane to address a letter to the public disclaiming the responsibility for the invitations extended to the Protestant clergymen to sit on the rostrum during his address, and tho further pledge given that nothing sectarian should occur in it, He denies positively that he abused the reformers, or that he uttered a word of insult to Protestants. In conclusion, he argues from the title of Dr. Witherspoon's sermon that the Catholic Church does not put itself in hostility to the intal lible Look, the Bible, } that it plants its claim of authority on those very Scriptures. Dr. Wither- spoon has prepared a card, which will appear to- morrow, defending lis use of the words “clever sell” in connection with the address, but stating that he did not hold the Bishop responsible for in- viting Protestants to the stage. Dr. Witherspoon states also that he did not say “abuse was poured on the Protestants," but that the Bishop “misrepresented the motives of the reformers and traduced the prin- ciples for which they contended, and on which the Protestant Church was founded.” Dr. Witherspoon also criticises the Bi after he knew of the feudance a the presonce of Protestants on the platform. Both cards are courteous in tone, but the interest in the discussion ix greatly on the increase, and other cor- respondence ix expected. Rey. J. P. Garland, of the Market Street Methodist Episeopal Chureb, will also preach to-morrow in reply to Bishop Keane. LUNATIC ASYLUM BURNED. (BY TELEGRAPH to THE HERALD.) Sx. Josnrn, Mo., Jan, 25, 1879, The Missouri State Lunatic Asylum at this place was totally destroyed by fire to-day. ‘The loss is $400,000; no insurance, Nearly three hundred patients were in the building, all of whom strangely escaped alive and uninjured. The Seaman were provided for in the Court House for the present, the citizens being willing to provide: temporary arrangements for their keeping until the asylum can be rebuilt, whien will be Tons as se as possible: MURDERERS ARRESTED. (oy vunfcxarn vo rE HERALD.) Ricumony, Ind., Jan, 25, 1879. Nino leaders of the famous Dark county (Ohio) “regulators” were arrested to-day on indictments charging them with the ihurder of old man Way and kidnapping his son. Ten more agaiust whom iadict- ments Leah been found have fled the country to avoid arre: ‘Three of the gang arrested a few weeks since have been sent to the Penitentiar; il five have had their cases continued to-day. The arrests ‘wore made on the strength of a confession of one of the gang. + reign of terror along the State line is broken, and there is little doubt but that the per- petrators of the nitmerous outrages will be brought to justice. "ROSSESSED, OF A. DEVIL. —— STRANGE PERSECUTION OF A NOVA SCOTIA GIRL BY UNSEEN TORMENTORS—I8 12 ANIMAL MAG- N gris ? (BY TELEGRAPH YO THE HERALD.) Mowrreat, Jan. 25, 1879. The girl Esther Cox, a resident of Amherst, N. 8., who some months ago created a good deal of comment | among citizens aud the clergy, has been quict for some weeks and little has been heard of her, The case, x reported at the time, looked very much as though Miss Esther was possessed of a devil, Some of the freuks of the evil spirit are curious, and one of them | was a handwriting on the wall, warning her that if she did notleave the house of her relative, Mr, Teed, shoemaker, the house would be torn down | about her cars. She asked who made the threats, and the writing on the wall an- swered, “Tho evil spirits.” That night she slept in the house and the noises of pounding upon xet on fire in five different places and Esther was forced to leave. She went away trom the village and the spirits ceased to trouble her. A month atterward she | came back, This was about the end of November, | and she had been but a few days in the village when the manifestations commenced again, and the poor girl was distracted. A press reporter vis- ited her at Amherst and received corroboration of the above stories from the Rev. Mr. Temple, the Methodist minister of that place, und from Dr. Car- roll and from the’ first citizens of the town. Since that time manifestations have been heard of from time to time. SYMPATHY OB COINCIDENCE, Ashoemaker, who was well read in mesmerism, was blamed for the girl's trouble, and it was called a case of animal magnetism, ‘To-day a telegram announces that “Esther Cox, who has been suffering from diphtheria, has recovered.” Her friends have ascertained that the young man con- nected with the early history of the case, and who is now in a distant part of Cumberland county, had the disease about the same time, an thus account for her illness. RECENT MANIFESTATIONS. ‘The evil spirit hag been remarkably lively during the past week, at times terribly so, arousing the fears of Mr. ‘Tecd’s tamily so as to make them, us well as the principal, victim of the imani- festations, objects of sympathy. The developments have been most curious. Matches have been struck and the premises very much endangered, while threats of the most appalling kind have been made by a mysterious voice, Though closely watched it has been found impossible to connect Esther with the manifestations which have occurred night after night. On Monday night the unknown became extremely accoinmodating. By raps it re- peatedly, in all case: 0 far as asccrtainable, gave correct rep.ies to all questions, which in most cases could only be answoted by one among those present. “How many dollars have I in my hand?” The person did not kuow how many he had, but veritied the correctness of the answer by counting them. PRODUCING STRANGE SOUNDS. Both Mr. Teed and the young man to whose influ- ence are attributed the troubles, are shoemakers. ‘Teed says, “Can you make us a boot?’ Answer, “Yes.” ‘eed then directed the modus Mr. operandi, in order, from lasting to finishing, and throwing the last on the floor, and the distinctive sounds in the various operations in detail were audible to every one in the room. Both parties have worked in the Amherst shoe factory, where the Pegging is done by a ponderous machine, which loud and peculiar clatter. Mr. Teed declares that the sounds throughout were most perfect. NERVOUS PROSTRATION, Mr. Teed’s family foel very much worried and prostrated by the constant excitement and terror. Mr. Teed, although willing to maintain his sister-in- law, does not feel able to bear the additional expense incurred by her being a member of his household. They do not feel that there is any danger from fire except in the house while she is an inmate. SHOCKING CRIME. A VATHER KILLS HIS DAUGHTER IN HER SLEEP AND SHOOTS HIMSELF. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Davenport, Iowa, Jan, 25, 1879, A despatch from Washington, Iowa, gives the parti- culars of a terrible and revolting crime, ® double tragedy, which occurred in the northern part of Washington county, this State, early yesterday morn- ing. The innocent victim was Miss Emma Hull, and the murderer her futher, 0, P. Hull, who split her head open with an axe while she lay asleep, and then shot himself ‘with @ revolver. Hull was a highly respected and wealthy farmer, and Emina a young lady of good education, seemingly the {dol of her father’s heart. It was his pleasure up to the hour of the tragedy to leave nothing undone which vould minister to his daughter's comfort and happiness. This feel- ing seemed intensified so much of late that Emma's absence from the house at any kind ot an entertainment seemed to worry his mind. Thursday night she attended a spelling school in the neighborhood in company with some other members ot the family, which seemed to give her father more than usual anxiety. On their return at alate hour he arose from bed and met them. Soon atter all re- tired without anything unusual being noticed. KILLED IN HER SLEEP. About one o'clock yesterday morning one of Em- ma’s sisters, who was sleeping with her, called her mother, saying that something was the matter with Emma. The mother, on going to the bed, was star- ted to find her daughter lying in a pool of blood. THE FATHER'S SUICIDE. At the same moment Hull, who had been the house, came into the room, and with the mation “Oh, mother!" instantly fired, the ball from. the revolver lodging in his brain, aud causing in- stant death, Emima was found to have been struck on the head with an axe, just in front of the ear, almost severing her head through the temple. The ‘mother and five cnildren are left sufferers by the tragedy. ‘An in- quest is being held to-day by Coroner Wilson. BLOWN FROM A> CAR. A PRINCETON COLLEGE STUDENT KILLED ON THUY TRACK. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Baurtwonk, Jan, 25, 1879, Shortly before seven o'clock this evening, while the express train from New York was nearing Ijn- wood, on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti- more Railrvad, between Chester and Wilmington, three students of Princeton College attempted to pass from the car in which they had been seated to a car in the rear. The wind was blowing fiercely from the northwest, and the first student was nearly blown from the platform. He lost his hat and had to hold on tightly to the brake wheel. The second student, a son of Dr. Vaughan, a prominent physician of Wilmington, Del., was not so fortunate. ‘The wind blew open his overcoat, aud the garment filling by the flerce gust the young man was blown backward and hurled with terrific force over on the Delaware River side of the track. ‘The train had gone on about four miles before the conductor was. ap- prised of the accident. He waxtrged to return, but INSTANTLY thought it safer to run rapidly to Wilmington, and despatch the particulars to Linwood. This wax done, and when the express train reached Perryville ich from Linwood awaited her, stating that had been sent ut and that’ the dead body of young Vaughan had been picked His death must have been instantaneous, owing to the velocity at which the train was going when he fell. He had intended to take dinner with his father on Sunday and return to college on Monday, Ho was about twenty-five sears old and of slender bulld, FATAL RAM. WAY © COLLISION, FATAL RUNAWAY ACCIDENT. (sy TeLwonare ro THE HERALD.) SpaixcrieLy, Ohiv, Jan. 25, 1879. At Donaldsville, about six miles west of this city, on the national road, two farmers, Frank Lefitt and a companion, who were return- ing home from a business visit to this city, this evening, met with 4 1most distressing weci- dent. They drove two spirited horses, As they | approached Donaldsville the horses became frightened and suddenly started = forward at @ mad run, Mr. Leffet found it impossible to reguin control of the animals, though incessautly striving to do so. In the streets of Don- aldsville the spring wagon to which the horses were attached collided with another wagon, aud one wavel | of Mr. Leffet’s wayom was twisted C yet he and his companion clung to the wre « the team | attempted to turn w corner the; vali ed with a heavy wagon, throwing of its bed, Then the horses dashed mudly forward aud ran against « lamppost, knocking down one horse, bruising and injuring him so badly that he had afterward to be killed. A FATAL ENDING. Mr. Leffet was thrown against the lanppost with such force that his breast war crushed and mutilated horribly and his bowels torn open. It is announced | that he cannot and his death — ix hourly expect pmpanion was thrown from’ th the wagon to which he was clingmmg against the brick trout building on the corner, # dis | tance than twelve feet. Such was the force with which man was thrown and the position in which he struck the building | that his skull was broken into three divisions. His shoulders and back were terribly torn and mangled, Ho was killed instantly. Mr. Letfot did not realize the extent of his injuries, and such was the intensity of his excitement that he helped to cut the harness trom the dead horse aud began to give directions about the wagon, when he fel! faint from loss of blood. POISONED 1 HER 1 Any ot frantically of & of uo! HU SB AND. [By TELEGRAPH To ‘Tenne Ha HE HERALD. ] , Ind., Jan, 25, 1879. This morning officers arrested Mrs, Ishmael Man und Miss Minnie Price for the murder of | Ishmael Manuel, husband of the former. Manuel | was found dead in his room on the morning of December 13, and was at the time thought to have taken aii overdoge of morphine. A brother of Manuel arrived in town yesterday and has succeeded in discavering that an intant born to Mrs. Manuel somo'tine ago was the cause of deep suspicion be- tween husband and wite, and it is charged that to marry her paramour she gave an overdose of mor- phine to her husband, She is also held on a charge Of poisoning Manuel's sister, Who was aware of her unchaste conduct, The police have takeu the cuse in hand, andl serious disclosures are expected to take place. ARKANSAS’ NEW SENATOR. Larter Rock, Jan. 25, 1879, A joint convention of the Legislature to-day elected J. D. Walker United States Senator by a vote of 68 against 47 for Robert W. Johuson, his chief competitor, and 5.scattering. SOUTH AMERICA. TROUBLED CONDITION OF COLOMBIA—PERU AND CHILI. Panama, Jan. 17, 1879. ‘The reports previously received that a revolution had broken out in Santa Martha have not as yet been confirmed, though a paragraph from a Carthagens paper of the 6th inst. would indicate that such is not at all unlikely. It is stated that a considerable quan- tity of arms is be!ng purchased in the United States for the State of Magdalena, which argues badly for the peace of that sec- tion. Political troubles are aluo reported from the State of Canca. President Garces has been suspended from office on a charge of complicity in the late election trauds, and is to be tried by the courts. Itis reported that a battalion of the Colom- bian Guard left Bogota for the Cauca on December 27 to be stationed on the frontier between Colombia and Ecuador, for the purpose of controlling or prevent- ing disturbances between the citizens of that Repub- Heand of Colombia, which, it is sald, are of frequent occurrence, PERU AND CHILI. Politically there is nothing of interest from Peru. Business had been at a complete standstill in conse- quence of the holidays. Exchange was quoted at from 251,d. to 26d., the demand being small, In Chili. the’ ‘Argentine dispute still occupied the public prints, to the exclusion of almost all else of interest. DELAYED MAILS, The Pacific Mail steamer China, from San Francisco and Central American ports, on an extra trip, arrived here this morning, but not in time to connect with Fae ane No later news has been received from Central America by her. The royal mail steamer due at Aspinwall from Greytown on the morning of the 17th, did not arrive in ‘time to connect with the Ac: aplon. ‘The Greytown mails and freight and mails from Nicaragua through Greytown will there- fore have to remain in Aspinwall for the ' next steamer. The Acapulco delayed long beyond her time in order to make the connection. CENTRAL AMERICA. INDIGO TRADE OF SALVADOR. Panama, Jan. 17, 187! The amount of indigo shippe@ from the Republic of Salvador from May 1 to December 31, 1878, by the steamers of the Pucific Mail Steamship Company was 10,200 ceroons. The amounts for each connecting er) as follows :—Royal Mail Steam Packet Com- | pany, 3,921; General Transatlantic Company, 1,3 South Pacific, ee it Indie and Pacitc ship Com) 338; Hamburg-American Packet Com- pany, Set Panama, local or for reshipment, 1,125; New York, 1, ROSE ISLAND LIGHTKE Steam- EPER. (Bx TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Newrons, Jan. 25, 1879, An important petition signed by leading business men of Newport has been forwarded to United States Senator Burnside to-night, asking that gentleman to use his influence in behalf of the widow of G. C. Williams, keeper of the Rose Island lighthouse, who is an applicant for the position, and who is at present receiving the revenue from the same. Her husband served with distinction during the war. A ants for 1ug brought number of able-bodied men are also apy this position, and a strong pressure is to bear against the widow CALIFORNIA RAINFALL. “SAN Faaxctico, Jun. 25, 1879, Within the last three days a general rain has pre- vailed throughout the State, except in the extreme south. In the northern and central portions enough has fallen to insure fair crops, with the usual spring rains, ‘The weather is stil unsettled, and reports ym the southern counties indicate a prospect of the storm reaching there. MIDNIGHT Wi EATHER, "REPORT. War DEPAWTaEN, OPVICE OF THE CHIKE SIGNAL OrFice Wasntveton, Jan, 26—1 A. M, Indications. For New England, lower temperature, clear or | partly cloudy weather, except in the northern por- tions, hght snow, rising barometer, northerly to TWO MEN KILLED BY REASON OF A MISPLACED SWITCH, (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) TRENTON, N. J., Jan, 25, 1 An accident on the railroad at ‘Tullytown early this morning, by one freight train running into another, caused the death of two men, Byron Wright, a conductor, and David Jame: firema: It seems that at twenty minutes past six A, M, an ex- tra freight train,} No. 618, stopped at Tullytown to take water, No flagman was out, A through freight train came along and ran into the rear of the standing train, smashing up a flat car, The loco tive of No, 63% was badly — damaged H three cars demolished. Frank Farrell, the en- xineer, jumped off and called upon ‘the fire man ‘to follow, On account of the great rush of business the former had been working since Monday almost without rest. David James, the fir man, in jumping off, had his chest and ley exush: and both avnis broken, He died at twenty-five min- | utes to ten A.M, He leaves # wife and two child ‘The conductor, Mr. Wright, received injuries while putting the brakes on ty stop the train, | His leg was amputatd and a short tims atterward he died fro the effects of the shock. ‘There was a general wre and trate was delayed for about three hours, Am placed switch was the cate of the calamity, No one else was injured excepting the two men who dist, A NEW BISHOP, Monrreat, Jan, 25, 1 ‘The Very Rey, Dean Bond was to-day consecrated to the Episcopal Oversight of the Diocese of Montreal in 8t,.Geoige’s Church, Lhe Bishop of Frederick. ton, who is now the Senior Bishop of Canada, pre- sided, and was assisted by the Bishops of Quebec, Halivae; Ontario ane Algoma, A jurge mim er of the ergy Ot the divcese took part in the ceremony, ‘Lhe church was crowded with worshippers northwesterly winds, shifting to easterly and south- erly during Sunday night. Vor the Middle States, rising barometer, clear or partly cloudy weather, slight fall followed by slowly rising temperature and northerly winds, shifting to easterly and southerly by Sunday night. For the South Atlantic States, cooler partly cloudy weather, northeast to southeast winds, stationary or slowly rising barometer. For the Gulf States, Tennessee and the Obio Valley, easterly to southerly winds and partly cloudy weather, followed during the day by falling barometer, rising temperature and, possibly, local rains west of the Lower Mississippi. The Mississippi will rise at stations below St. Louis. Cautionary offshore signals continued at Smith- ville, Wilmington, Macon, Cape Lookout, Cape Hat- toras, Kitty Hawk, Cape Henry, Norfolk, Baltimore, Lowes, Cape May, Atlantic City, Barnegat, Sanay Hook, New York, New Haven, New London, New- port, Wood's Hole, Boston and Section Eight, Port- 1 land and Section Seven and Eastport. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY, ‘The folowing record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- parison with the corresponding date of last your, as indicated by Shag srmomoeter at Hudnat’s pharmacy, HeRaLp bec No, 218 Browlway :— 1878, 1879. | 2 46 49 | 3 6PM v7 wu OOPM 36 40 1PM Pi Average temperature yesterday. ‘ Average temperature for corresponding ‘date last Weekly average EFFECTS OF RAPID TRANSIT. WEST SIDE PROPERTY OW) MENCE IMPROVEME RIVERSID: A DRIVE—-THE OPENING UP A HILHERTO NEGLECTED SECTION OF VHE CITY. Although the influence of rapid transit has not as yet made itself visible on the west side of the city ERS READY TO COM- AVENUE AS ROADS uptown, as it has on the east, there is a greut degree | of excitement and activity amou property owners | the Fifth Avenue. Judge J. M. Woolw D. 4 | at. the and real estate operators. ‘The completion of the Metropolitan "to Harlem will give | an impetus to building transactions that will far surpass anything ever known before in that line. ‘There ate no immediate indications of building in this part of the city at present, and many ot the property owners say that they will be their projects for improving their property by the | progress made in the completion of the rapid transit road on the west side. But speculators are eagerly looking out tor every chance of securing property in | a district so long neglected. will be complete, and few will be able to recognize in a year or two the former wilds of Manhattanville in the myriad blocks of elegaut residences. A significant result of rapi'l transit in this quarter is | that very little real estate is now in the market, the owners preferring to hold on to it and improve it themselves. A few years ago they would have been glad to sell it at any sacrifice, Recently Mr. E, Higgins bought the entire trout from 124th to h street,on the east side of Kighth avenue, aud the tront from 125th to 126th streets on St. Nicholas ave- nue. On 135th street and Eighth avenue, and on 10th street and Tenth avenue, a large umount of real estate has also changed owners. In the vicin- ity of Carmansville property has advanced over twenty per cent in value even within the pust few weeks, and a great deal of it has been withdrawn from the hands of agents who | have been vainly endeavoring to sell it. Only those whom necessity compels are inclined to part with their real estate in this quurter of the city. ‘There ix a widely expressed desire on the part of ‘those prop- erty owners that the city government shall lose timie in opening the cross strects near Harlem Ri so that there will be no difficulty in reaching th of the Metropolitan “L"’ when it is completed. Some would have every tenth street, ut least, opened and graded. They say that now the property owners will cheerfully pay any assessment that Will improve their property. GME WEST SIDE JUBILANT. Mr. R.V, Harnett is of opinion that the Grand Boulevard will be entirely devoted to apartment houses, which will be constructed on a scale of mag- nifcanee fur surpassing all former eff ine. thoroughfare of the west side up town, and Eighth avenue will present an array of elegant private resi- denees from Fifty-ninth to llth street. “Why, eople are now coming over from Brooklyn and jersey,” said Mr. Harnett, “to make inquiries about property on the west. side. They are impatiently awaiting the time when this noble district of Manhattan Island will be opened up as a néw city of residences. I am con- vinced that capitalists will be eager to invest t money in the colossal building transactions whic the completion of rapid transit wiil usher in. The superior, accommodations of the Metropolitan ‘L’ and the absence of Harlem fluts and other malaria breeders will draw thousands to the west side. The property owners there have suffered terribly from excessive taxation and the depreciation of real estate, but the long expected change is now at hand. Only think of it.” In the old Ring days the opening and grading of a strect entailed an assessment of 800 on each lot. To-day it would not exe PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS OF PROPERTY. ‘The following property owncrs propose putting up buildings ax residen a will commence opera- tions at an early da Seventy- second and Seventy-third streets and Eighth avenue; George N. Mille econd street, near Kighth avenue nrg, on Sixty-ninth street, between ighth and Ninth avenues: H. B. Claflin, on Sixty-#ixth street and Grand Boulevard; James’ Reed, on Eighty-third strect, near Tenth avenue; David H. Knapp, on 05th street; Rudd, on the old Carrigan estate, aide street and Riverside avenue; Bernheime: Schmitz, about ‘thirty houses,’ on Ninth ave between 106th and 108th streets: the heirs of the niss estate on Grand Boulevard and Riversi nue, from 1024 to ith streets; Max Weil on Seventy-third street, near Eighth avenue; R. M. Waterson Wist street and Hiverside avenue, and many others, have signified their intention of erect- ing residences in this quarter of the city. A lary number of these houses will be suitable for maa families, like those of Philadelphia and Boston, and will be let at reasonable rents. A singular feature of this of the city is that schools churches, which generally follow the peopling of a district, are already here in advance. RIVERSIDE AVENUE. It is confidently asserted that Riverside aveuue, ex- tending from Seventy-second to 127th street, will, when completed, be the most magnificent drive in the world. From the Orphan Asylum to the home of the Protestant Epis ‘pal Sisters of St. Mary there are some notable residences. North of this aorat is the house of Leopold Eidlitz, the Mali property, Schef- flin’s elegant home, the house of Dr, Alexander Mott, Stryker’s Bay, the Furniss property and the Carrigan estate, At the corner of 11sth street is Clarcmont, which formerly belonged to the Post estate. Mr. Dwight H, Olmstead anda number of his friends proper putting up costly residences on Harlem eighta, on 16th street and Morningside drive. | When this avenue is built up it will resemble the famous Belle Vue avenue of Ne tim the number aud richness of its residences. The contract for lay- ing out this beautiful avenue amounted to $540,000, which is considered a very low figure for such a great work. It ix expected that the drive will be completed by the Ist ot September and that it will be one of the chief ornaments of the city. One real estate operator made tho.assertion yesterday that when the spring opens property in this quarter will advance nearly one thousand per cent in value. ‘THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. When the Park Commissioners shall have improved and completed the Museum of Natural History, which will occupy the ground from Seventy-seventh to Fighty-first street and from Eighth to Ninth ave- nue, another feature of attraction will be added to west side, The work will likely be completed in a short ti Last May there was a large sale of real estate in Carmansville. The purchasers have recently been offered an immense advance on their outlay, but refused to part with the property at any terms. The prospects of the New York “L" being extended on Tenth avenue to 117th street will act as an additional spur to the real estate excitement on the west side, Regarding the water supply, residents there say that the high surtace improvement entirely removes all fears of a scarcity of the Croton. The com- pletion of rapid transit facilities to this long neglected and little known quarter of Manhattan Island willbe looked torward to with eagerness and impatienc and the coming summer will likely witness a sce of bustle, labor and enterprise rarely known even in the metropolis LITERARY CHIT-CHA T. A volume of Hans Christian Andersen's letters has appeared in Denmark, Gustave Masson thinks that French poetry, plays and novels have been much below the average during | the past year, but that in philosophy, history, philol- ogy and natural science France has insde wonderful progress. It is naid that Germany does not possess a chief city of literature. ‘The memoirs of Prince Metternich are announced for publication. Those of his amiable Princess would be entertaining reading. sagene Schuyler says that it is impossible “not to note the falling off in literary production in Russia, Mary Wollstonecraft’s letters to Imlay, recently published in London, have created a more than usual interest. Thoy are edited by Mr. Kegan Paul. The Atheneum wonders if there is “any other instance on record where a husband, on the death of his wife, has coolly published her most sacred letters to another man, giving the story of her love and his desertion Elmund W. Gorse has written @ poem to Henry Irving, in which ho implores him to Contrive no tricks to charm the pit, nor bend thy face to win ‘Phe vaptures of a groundling and the suffrage of his grin. Behind the scenes, as on the stage, forswear all trivial thing And move as one whose heart believes the noble lines he sings. Let gorgeous shapes of tragedy pass on at thy com- And wave the Phrygian flutes to thrill the uplands of the Strand, A new “Dictionary of English Dramatic Litera- ture,” to be edited by Mr. Theodore Watts, ix talked of. Edmund W. Gors uburne, J. Knight, Pro- fessor Nichol and others will contribute articles, The Duke of Argyll’s “History of the Eastern Ques- tion” has been postponed by the outbreak of the Afghan war, Frederic Locker has collected a number of his re- cent vers de aoci*te and will publish them under the title of “Patehwork.” On dit that Mrs. John Bigelow has kept a full diary of her experiences as a diplomat's wife, which will be given to the public at some future day, Mrs. Higetow is a woman of quick observation and ready wit, and what she has written will doubticss make & bright and graphic volume. Kdwall’s New York city guide map for pocket use gives a great deal of information about local lines of travel and places of interest, which makes it good , for the visitor and not unacceptable to the resident. ‘The transformation | rtk in this | Ninth ayenue will likely be the great businces | 9 MRS. ELIZABETH HANCOCK’S DEATH. Winaasxeros, Del., Jan, 25, 1879. Mrs. Elizabeth Hancock, the mother of Major Gen- eral Hane: , on Priday, aged sevent HOT EL AL A ERIVAI ALS. Senator, William Pitt Kellogy..¢. Louisiana, and Representatives W. P. Lynde, of Wiscousin; W. P. Frye, of Maine, and W. H. Forney, of Alabama, are at , of Omaha, nited States Navy, are Boujamin A. and Surgeon 5. Kenn St. Nicholas, ¢ Willis is at the Albemarle. E RELIABLE LIFE L a berg L POLICY. take pleamure in co ) our readers » and reliab roxsman Pebters (wl nyatom sgeinnt All the prii erate 6b Warre % BRUN ays mii ve A.—SE! Mise PHANT & €O., arse Ww eget + COUGH AND BRONCHITIS cured or Hoxey axp Tone. 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