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THE STATE CAPITAL. End of the -Carman-Dur- yea Contest. SALARY REFORM. Efforts to Make Uptown Resi- dence More Tolerable, STATE SURVEY REPORT. —+—__» ALBANY, Feb. 6, 1879. The contested caso of George I’, Carman (republi- can) against Charles T. Duryea (democrat), from Suf- folk county, occupied nearly the entire attention of the Assembly to-day, A spirited fight was conducted by the democrats, headed by Messrs. Brooks, Flynn and Grady, to prevent the ousting of Mr, Duryca, but their efforts. proved futile. Their col- Icague was compelled to take up his hat tnd leave the chamber, Carman being sworn in shortly after the announcement of the vote. The peculiarity of this contest consisted in the construc- tion of one ballot, the name of Duryes, as printed, being stricken ont, Carman’s name being written underneath with a pencil, INVESTIGATING NEW YORK DEPARTMENTS. It is now understood that Senator Murphy's reso- lution authorizing an investigation of the local gov- ernment in New York city, passed by unanimous vote of the Senate, will be killed when called up in the Assembly. ‘The reasons given for this action are as follows:—If a special committee should be ap- pointed and a lengthy investigation entered upon at- tempts would be made by certain interested republican politicians in New York city to use tho information acquired for partisan purposes, and it is presumed, also, that such a movement has been started principally to aid’ in retaining certain mem- bers of the Police Commission. in their places and to forward other interests behind them. ‘The oppo- nents to the resolution further point to the unnec- essary expense that would be inourred, and argue ‘that .no good resnits ever follow such ‘investigation. In substantiation of the last statement they point to the lengthy examina- tions made by the Committee on Crime and the Booth Committee, appointéd to investigate all the gity departments in 1875. Mn John I. Davenport was counsel to the latter body, the State being mulcted in a large amount for legal expeuses, luxu- rious headquarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, sten- ographers’ bills and other expenses. SALARIES IN NEW YORK, Dr. Hayes’ Committee on Cities has determined to take wp all the salary bills in relation to New York ou next Wednesday. The committee has invited Mayor Cooper and the heads of. departments or their representatives to come up here on that occasion and ge their views, Every subsequent Wednesday will be devoted to the consideration of all matters apper- taining to New York city legislation. UPTOWN IMPROVEMENTS, Now that easy and rapid trans‘t to the upper por- tions of the city has been securcd the taxpayers of that section are looking for means to make that re- ion. as attractive as possible, so as to induce migra- fon from the lower wards, In the Senate to-day Benator Ecclesine introduced # bil! proposing the ex- penditure of $1,000,000 during the current yeur in im- proving the parks and public places between Fortieth Street and the Harlem River. The bill provides that the Board‘of Estimate and Appértionment shall raise this, money either by direct tax or by issuing bonds runffing for five years and bearing interest at four percent. Itis understood that Comptroller Kelly is opposed to the outlay of any money for such a pur ny at the present ‘The Committee on Cities the bill under consideration. ‘DIVORCE AND BEMARRIAGE, ‘There were three other bills of unusual interest introduced in the Senate and referred to the Judi- ciury Committee. Oue of them propéses an impor tant change in the statutes relating to divorces, ‘whereby power will be given to the Court which ren: ders a judgment of divorce to modify that judgment bo as to Piper the defendant in the suit to marry agein, This permission, however, shall bo granted only upon satisfactory proof that’ the complainant has re: , that tliree years have elapsed since ‘the decree Of divorce was rendered und that the con- duct of the detendant since the dissolution of the marriage has been uniformly good. Senator ducobs is the author of the bill, A sub- ject somewhat similar to this is dealt with y Senstor Hicks, whose bill authorizes judges or referees before - whom divorce eases adultery or any similar case in which testimony of a @elicate character may be elicited, to clear the room of all persons except those directly interesied in the case. ‘Lhe necessity for such a law is evident to all who haye seen the eager throngs of idlers aud half grown lads that besiege the doors of the city court Tooms when such trials are in progress, A COURT OF CLAIME, ‘The establishment of # new tribunal is sought by ® bill from Senator Loomis, It proposes to have three lawyers practising in the Supreme Court con- stitute « Court of Claims, to which shall be referred Dy the Senate and Assembly all cases in which claims are made against the State excepting those which come within the jurisdiction of the Canal Appraixgrs. ‘These judges are to be nominated by the gered and contirmed by the Senate and are to hold office for six years. They Are to hoid their me ys in the new Capitol and are to receive $15 for each of actual service. ‘The Attorney General is to attond the sessions in the interests of the people, and the Becretary of Stat» shall uame one of his clerks to act as clerk of the new court. All claims now before the Board of Auditare to be transferred to the new court, and appeals from the latter may be taken to the Court of Appeals. ‘THE REGENTS’ EXAMINATIONS, Senator Sessions’ bill providing for an appropria- tion to make up the deficiency in the United States Deposit Fund for the education of public school teachers came up for a third reading and gave rise to some debate. Senator Ruines, of Kochester, objected to the spending of one-seventh of the $45,000 appro- Fier ng by the Regents of the University in con- jucting examinations of the Pupils in the pub lic schools. He denounced the system of examinations as ‘a coasummate —umbug,” and declared that it ws sapping the life out of the entire echool system oi the State. In the Senator's own city, where a small amount of money was real- izod by these Regents’ examinations, the latter were conducted by written questions, and the entire system of instruction, from the beginning of the year to the end, I reference to these miserable and fallacious tusts. ‘The qhestions generally were nonsensical and the examinations were contemptible, and the result ‘was that the entire system of instruction was being perverted and destroyed. Senator Haines ended by offering @ resolution, which was at once adopted, re- questing the Committee on Literature to discover whether there was any Jaw authorizing the Reyents to cxamine any persons except the teachers, and Girecting them to report a bill against it. ‘The Commissioners of the State 5 loners ol jurvey—Horatio Seymour, William A. Wheeler, William Dersheliner, Robert 8. Hale, Krancis A. Stout, F. A. P. Barnard gud George to-day transmitted to the Legislature the report of the Director, James T. Gardner, with s map of Eastern and Cen- tral New York. The Board says that “the economy with which the small appropriation has been ¢xpended, the rapidity te Which our survey has been carried into the western part of the State, und the novelty and importance of its geo- @raphical results certainly exceed the most ine expectations of the Commissioners, The Direc- tor'’s plans for future work, both in tho. efice. and the field, have been carefull: cot are thoroughly eaproved. The commissioners therefore respectful ues that the usual appropriation of $15,000 ab for “Wxtending the work during the coming season to"the southern boundary of the State and completing the survey in the counties now p:rtially finis! ‘The Director reports that the field work of the year has ween principally in the counties of Oneida, Malison, Onondaga, Oswego, Wayne, Seneca and Yates; = but important prelim inary | work has done in Cortland, ‘Yompkins, Schuyler, Broome, Tidys and Chemung counties, with a view of carrying the triangulation o¢ next year slong the southern boundary of the State to ev-operate with the Board of Regents and the Penn- t minissioners in their efforts to perma nently fx this line. During the past sesson the measurements embraced un arcs of 2,000 square miles in the central part of the Btate. Every one of tho 200 cities, villnyes aud ham- Jets in this region are imisplaced {rom one to two miles on wil existing mapgor the State, The State survey corrected some of these errors by determin- ing the cxact hical positions of the Court House at Auburn and the principal spires of Syra- cuse, togel er with those of Pompoy Hill, Perryville, Geutenl aware, Aimboys Onotidaga ith, iivernes + + Ono b por snd Paice, yi Hill, Liverpo Cay CORRECTING THE MAPs, These Foe are correctly represented for the first time on Maps accompanying the ruport. Accu- rate measurement by triangulation across Onondaga shows that from the old surveys we do not know the area of the county within ton ‘thousand acres. Tho survey —carefi determined the hei of many important elevations in Central York, tneluding Fenuer Hill, one ot the highest suminits in Madison county; Mploy Hl, the high- est in Onondaga; Niles Hill, in Cayuga, and Milo Hill, in Yates. These culminating ints of this part of tho State are almost entitled to be called mountains, for rise 1,000 feet above the neiy’ boring ae, and reach clevations of 1,0u0 to 2,000 feet above the sea, Saxon Hill, near Ithaca, commands view seross the entire State from Lake Ontario to Pennsylvania. ‘There boing no nical map of our State, not only do the mass of educated people grow up in entire ignorance of the grandeur of its physical features, but, the Director says, even to the studeuis- of science the configuration of a part of Central New piled map of Eastern and Central New York ona scale of 31300,000, or shout.as inch t0 five miles, {s appended to the report, which shows that the distance from Albany Syracuse on French's map is a mile and @ half too great, while the distance he ives from Lake to Pennsylvania is hree-quarters of & mile too small. Where French placed Oswego the waters of Lake Ontario roll five fathoms deep. The errors of the best old maps prove to be sO yross that we have no data from which to draw. accurately the courses of even such rivers as the Upper Hudson, the Mobawk, ware, the Susqu the Chemung, the Clyde or Seneca, nor the county and btate undaries; ueither. can the survey locate upon its unfinished sheet Utica, Broome, Binghamton, Owego, Elmira, Canandaigua and hundreds of other towns and villages until the triangulation of: these regions is completed, The map contains only informution the correctness of which can be vouched for and leaves off the re- mainder. The blank spaces are an cloquent protest inst our geographical ignorance, The results of t survey, so far as completed, are given in an appendix, which contains a ‘list of the latitudes, longitudes and intervening distances and directions between some two hundred places in the counties of Albany, Cayuga, Delaware, Fulton, Her- kimer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Ononday: Oswego, Otsego, Rensselaer, Suratoya, Schenectady, Schoharie, Wayne and Yates, It the State survey continues to sup accurate yeographical intorma- tion at this raie it will put an end to the publication of false maps, w! are now sold to our citizens at exorbitant prices. 4 REBATE PLAN OF THE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. Lhe Judiciary Committee of the Assembly this evening gave a hearing in, the magter of the Mutual Lite Insurance Compuny’s rebate plan. George H. Andrews, Robert’ Sewall, Joseph H. Choate, Jr., an £. C. Lawton, actuury of the company, appeared fi the company. No one appeared on the side of the complainants, ‘Mr, Andrews first addressed the committee, saying that the hg mg was anxious that the Legislature should “be fully informed of the fucts in the case, notwithstanding papers had been served on the com- pany the day alter the resolution of tho House was adopted, summoning it to appear in the United States Court to answer complaint in the matter. He | F crigemasee to relate the necessities which fore e company to adopt the rebate plan, It found that, owing to depression in business and the necessities of policy holders, a great many more were withdrawing trom the com- pany under the policy surrender privilege than were coining in, and in order to increase the average vitality of the company—that is, to add new lite to the company by the admission of new members—it was deemed not only wise but creo necessary to mat forth the inducement cont in the rel an. PM. Sewall told how the New York plan was in- itiated, explaining the various circnlars sentout by the company, the effect of which was to change the payment of commission from agents to the new policy holders. He then discussed the power of the company to make the change, citing the opinion of Mr. Foster, of Boston, sustaining the action of the company. le also review the charter of the company, which gives to its trustees power to fix the rate of premiums, and insisted that nothing could be plainer than that they were empowered to do just what they had done. also showed that the company was governed in its action entirely by a desire to strengthen itself with new lite by ‘the addition of new members, for the benefit ot all; and it had succeeded in this respect even beyond its expectations, Its experience wus most ratifying, and its trustees were fully convinced of ‘he wisdom of their action. ‘Mr. Choate reviewed the legal aspects of the case, He said it appeared to him that there was no ques- tion as to the legality of the action of the trustees. ‘The whole case was in a nutshell. These trustees found their business falling off. They had a very irae surplus and could have closed their doors and divided it’ among the policy holders, who are all Members mutually interested, but they determined otherwise. It was their business to do all they could for the mutual benefit of all; not alone for themselves, or for a few stockholders, for there were no stockholders other than the, policy holders. They, therefore, hit upon this rebate plan for the purpose’ of adding new members, and thus infusing new hfe into the company and treating new and liberal dividends, such as had been made in former years. This, he said, was the duty of the trustees, and they had discharged it,with a wisdom Which is to be seen in the increased strength of the company. Mr. Lawton, an actuary, was then asked some questions as to the oxpenditures of the company growing out of the new plan. His answer showed them to be small compared with the benefits arising from them. - : - The committee then adjourned, -THE CANAL BOARD. SHALL COAL BE ADDED 10. THE FREE List ?— A DELEGATION FROM NEW YORK SEEKING FURTHER REDUCTION OF TOLLS. ALuany, Feb. 6, 1879, At ao mecting of the Canal Board to-iay Mr. Dor- } sheimer presented a remonstrance from the Common Council of Buffalo against trans‘errivg the towpath of the canal near Genesee street, in that city. Re- ferred. Also a+ communication from the Elmira Canal Railroad Company requesting a speedy saic of the portion of the lateral caual near that place, Referred, eae Delegations consisting of James W. Wadsworth, James W. Husted, C. P. Euston, Messrs. Mapes, Fas- sett, Kibber, Nichols and others, representing the Produce Exchange, State boat owners and the Boards of Trade of New York, Builalo and Albany, and the lumber dealers of Albany, Troy, Lockport and other places, appeared in relation to a reduction of tolls on the canals. Messrs. Easton and Nichols addressed the Board in relation to # reduction of tolls on shingles. Mr. Dorsheimer said he thought the Board would agree on a uniform rate of tolls oh all products of the forest as well as on breadstutts. A proposition had been made to tax all things on the canals twenty-five cents per ton. The receipts of the canals during the last year were stated by the Auditor to be $900,000, Superintendent Clark said the canals can be kept in repair, with good luck, for $500,000, but he expressed himself as against reduc!ng the tolis, as the excess over that amount was required and should be kept tor any unforeseen accident, such as # bad break. He was also against the sale of the lateral canals; but they could not be put in order, he said, and rup on the present revenues. 7 Mesers. Husted and Wadsworth also addreased tho baoe cd when the following resolptions were ot- fered :— Resolved, That the toll on West bound freight be fixed at one-fourth of » mill per 1,000 pounds pur mile, and that the toll on wil East bound froight be fixed ut one-half a mill por 1,000 pounds per mile, excepting those articles which stand on the present toll sheet at one-fourth of a will per 1,000 pounds per mile, and that the Auditor | reby di- Fectod to prepare aud roport a toll shoot in accordance therewith, . Resolved, That the froo list be continued, and that coal be placed upon the free list. Both resolutions were referred to the Committee on Commerce. NEW JERSEY, LEGISLATURE. THR SENATE REJECTS GOVERNOR M'CLELLAN’S NOMINATIONS ¥OR LAW JUDGES—PENITEN- TIARY SHOEMAKING DISCUSSED. ‘Taentos, Feb, 6, 1879. Another executive session of the Senate was held this morning to take action upon the Governor's nominations for judgeships. It lasted over an hour and there was much speech making on both sides, ‘The result was that ten nominations for lay judge- ships were confirmed, one—Fry, of Hudson county— recomunitted, and those for law judgeships, four in number, rejected, All those coy. firmed are republicans and those rejected democrats. Those confirmed’ will tend to make the judiciary non-partisan, as already there is a demo- cratic representation on the Bench in cach county concerned, If the four law judges were confirmed the Bench would be partisan, all being democrats in the counties for which they were nominated, It is be- Heved that the Governor will not make auy new nominations in those cases, and that the Senate will remain frm upon the ground it has taken; conse- quently, if the Legislature adjourns without couticm- ing, the Governor will have the power of filling the vacancies until the next Legislature convenes. Thero ts very decided opposition, not only among rvepubli- caus but democrata, to the Kesex county nomina- tion, Perbaps, if this ono was withdrawn and an- other name substituted the Governor and Senate might come to terms, But as the situation now is there is be hope of conciliation, and the rare spe taclo is presented in New Jersey of a bitter partisan fight for the judicial LS oy of oftice. The following is a complete list of nominations and the action taken thereon :— Not contirmed,—Law J = county, Lad- low McCarter; Mercer county, Johu H. Stuart; Mid- diesex county, Andrew J, Cogewell; Monmouth county, Alfred Walling. Confirmed,—Lay Tutkges—Durlington county, Will- ian Parry; Comme neeiey Soueph K. Hoe + Cum: berland be bp Alphonso W ; Gloucester county, John Moore; Jdunterton county, James P. Hulman; Warren county, James Somerville; Union county, Hugh H. Bowne; Bergen county, W, 8. Banta; Morris county, Freeman . Hecommitted.—Ludson county, Asa W, Fry, THY STATE PRISON SHOR FacTony, ‘The bill providing for the abolishing of the manu- facture of boots and shoes in the State Prison. the House to-day by a sweeping majority—36 to 19— and a motion to reconsider was lost by ® vote of 14 to 44. Speeches were made in its favor by Messrs. Robinson, Fiedler, O'Connor, O'Brien, Duryes, De- York is as unique and its origin as unknown as thatof any portion of the y Mountains. ‘Tho best map of this State heretofore published is that com *French in 1860, A | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. Witt, Gill,"Felch, Grdy, Van Duyne and Roberts; and against it’hy Mesers, Sykes and Voorhees. ‘The arguinent of the friends of the measure was that convict labor should not be allowed to compete with skilled labor; that 400 or 500 convicts should not be allowed to starve 10,000 deserving 1mechanies; that no one was benefited by convict labor but one or two contractors, and that the State in the long run would be much better off if the manufacture of shoes in the Penitentiary was abolished. Last year ‘was passed prohibiting the manufacture of hats in the prison, and it was contended that this resuited in a benefit to the State, more especially to thousands of hatters in issex county. Kev, Mr. Robinson, the dominie from Paterson, and one of the members, condemned in scathing terms the mode of punishment in the State Prison, saying it was inhuman, and should bring the blush of shame to the cheek of every Jerseymen. Convicts came out of there complete wrecks. He sugyested that the goverument should make a penal colony of Alaska, where convicts could be sent and pi: ab work cultivating tarms and digging saeaens. Mr. Voorhees, in opposition, said that the Legisla- ture had no power to legislate men into idleness. ‘The bill, if it became a law, would entail a great loss to the Staté and injury to the convicts. Mr. Sykes sajd that last year the State had made 71,000 from the shoe factory, and it would be very wise to abolish this great industry. THE LECTURE SEASON. OUR GREAT METROPOLIS—ITS GROWTH, MIS- MANAGEMENT AND NEEDS EXPOUNDED BY WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER, Mr. William Allen Butler lectured before the Me- chanics’ Society at Steinway Hall last evening. His theme was ‘lhe Municipality of New York—Its Past, Present and Future.” Ho traced back ite history to the reed thatched huts of the Dutch traders, who bought itfrom the aboriginals for $24, ‘These worthy burghers, he said, tat, testy and self-loving as they are usually painted, held, nevertheless, many of those ideas ot loval self-government which have since been the pride of Americans, A prison, a'gal- lows and whipping post were among their earlivat public institutions, and their pillory, stocks and fron cage were regarded with much envy by their neighbors, Funds were misappro- priated by the collectors, dominics were cused of getting drunk in the pulpit and The Newark menibers, headed by Mr. Fiedler, en- gineered the bill through, and it will probably pass the Senate and then becomo a law. on houses have adjourned until Monday evens MAJOR RENO’S TRIAL. CLOSE OF THE TESTIMONY FOR THE PROSECU- ION—CAPTAIN M’DOUGALL SAYS THEY WERE ALL BRAVE MEN ON BENO'S HILL—OPENING OF THE DEVENCE—RENO'S OFVIGIAL REPORT READ, (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Cuicaco, Ieb, 6, 1879, The Reno inquiry opened this morning with Cap- tain Thomas McDougall, of the Seventh cavalry, on the witness stand. The Captain certainly gave a more concise account of the Custer battle than has been given by. any previous witness during the inquiry. He briefly and rapidly described how he, being left in charge of the pack train, led it, along with a rear guard, on Custer’s trail; how the mules got stuck in the morass; how the train came along at last to the “teepee” with a dead Indian in it, and how at last they all arrived on the hill where Reno was; here he saw Reno and reported to him that the pack train had come up; then Reno told him he (McDougall) had lost his lieutenant; McDougall called Reno’s attention to the dull sound of firing down the river, and then went away to throw outa skirmish line; the next evening he was walking with Reno, and Reno told him that he (Reno) would haye to make a change in the line for the filth and stench were be- coming such that the men would become sick; a little later that evening the Indians drew off, and “then thechange in position was made; it was about a quarter of four in the afternoon when the witness first arrived on the hill; tho command was quiet and orderly, so that the witness did not know that any- thing had occurred; the attempted movement down stream was made abgut half an hour after the wit- ness arrived; he did not see Reno atter reporting to him untilthe next day, when walking with him; the firing of the Indians at that time was very severe. “EVERY MAN SHERE WAS BRAVE.” In reply to the usual question relative to the con- duct of Atajor Reno witness said:—When I'found him he didn't appear to be particularly cool, of course; I didn’tsee him again until next day and then he appeared to be perfectly cool; I think he was brave; every man there was brave,” ‘The’ Recorder—State whether his conduct was cal- culated to inspire his men with cour Witness—I do not think Major Reno’s conduct would especially do that; there was a difference in men; some were irritable and some not, and some hada quiet, calm manner that would inspire their troops. the Recorder—Did you see enough of his conduct to justify you in forming un estimate of whether he manitested cowardice? Witness—I did not see much of’ it until the next afternoon, when we were walking the line; I formed a better opinion of him then; 1 thouyht he seemed to have a good deal of nerve; the bullets were tlying pretty thick, but he didn’t seem to mind them. SAW NO WHISKEY. Captain McDougall then gave a description of the Indian village and the Custer battle field; the general conclusions which he arrived at were in accordance with those of the preceding witnesses, and his de- scriptions substantiully the same, On the cross-ex- amination witness testified that he saw no whiskey during or after the Set and did not hear of any one being intoxicated, RENO'S REPORTS, At the close of the witness’ testimony Lieutenant Lee said that he had no more witnesses to introduce us Recorder, but he held in his hand official copies 9 Major Reno’s official reports of the battle of the Little Big Horn to the department and to General Terry, both of which he desired to read if it should be so ordered by the Court. Major Reno said there was no objection to the introduc- tion. of the reports, and Mr. Gilbert made brief re+ marks to the effect that the reports made, as they were, hastily after the battle, must be received with’ some degree of allowance for estimates of time and so forth, The report to the department recounted the movements of the command under Reno’s control, saying that when he entered the bottom he soon discovered that he ‘wai being decoyed into a place where he would have been cut to pieces, ‘The very ground seemed to grow Indians,” and he saw that’ the only way to pro- serve his command was to charge to a high hil acroxs the stream, which he did. The report then described the position of peril on the hill, and vaid that the fire of the Indians was such as the writer had never seen before. It gave a very graphic description of the circumstances of the two days’ siege, the desperate fighting of the men and the reckless daring with which the savages sallied to within a few fect of the intrenchments. It made special mention of Colonel Benteen’s gallantry. and said a great deal more, all of which the public are familiar with, After reading the second report the Recorder declared that his side of the case was closed. MAJOR RENO'S DEFENCE. Mr. Gilbert, addressing the Court, said that he wished, on behalf of his client, to express his recog- nition of the very honorable manner ig whieh Re- corder Lee had conducted his partof the case. Major Reno would surely be able to close his defence by Satut . He desired, that as a new charge of drunk- enness had been preferred since Girard and Heren- had been on the stand, the Recorder should be instructed to telegraph them for an answer to the inquiry whether they had ever heard anyhing about jor Reno's being intoxicated? Lieutenant ‘Wallace, who had been on the stand in the early part of the investigation, was then Hod to the stand on behalf of the defence. He testified that he kept the time record on the advance, and read the docu- ment for the edification of the Court, After recounting much that is already proven -he svid that he had never, until reaching COhi- cago to attend the present investigation, heard any intimation that Major Reno was drunk during those two days ogduring the whole advance. He next dr@w a map of Reno's Hill, laying belore the Court the topographical relations of all the forces under Reno during their beleaguerment—the first such hap that the Court has had before it, ‘THE CUSTER BATTLE PIELD. Lieutenant Colonel M. C. Sheriden, military secretary to Lieutenant General Sheridan, now stationed at Chicago, was the next witness, He testified that a yexr after the Custer massacre he visited the scone of the couflict to see to the buried dead; -he knew the nature of the country, and gave considerable information re- garding it. He produced © map showing the placo where Custer and his men were killed, ie estimated that the point where Custer was was about the only place where any resistance was’ made, and judged from the nature of the ground that the straggie could not ipsa meg hyve an hour. one Gace adjourned until half-past ten to-morrow, when jor Reuo will probably take the stand, i The first hearing in the matter of the contest for the svat in the Assembly from the Eighth district of this city was had in Albany on Wednesday, Daniel Patterson, the Tammany nominee, is the sitting member, and his right to tue seat is contested by John EF. Brodsky, the anti-Tammany candidate, who claims that it can be shown that the majority of seven- teen by which Mr. Patterson has received his certificate is based upon grors irregularitics. Tho contestant claims that a number of votes were cast at the alec- tion by persons who were not residents, and also that persons voted who were not citizens. At the preliminary heartny before the Committee on Contested Seats Mr, Patterson was represented by Mr. Ambrose Monell, and the contestant appeared in bebalf of himself in the absence of counsel, Mr. John L, Davenport, who was detained in the city by the Congressional investigation of cleetion irreg- ularitics alleged to have taken place last No- yomber. No testimony was taken before the As sembly Committee, who adjourned tho Curther hear- ing to Taesdayy at eleven A. M., at the Fifth Avenue Ho! when the examination of witnesses will be had, oi q A WIFE'S COMPLAINT, Dr. James A, Duggan was arraigned at tho Fifty- seventh Street Police Court yesterday for the second time within the last eighteen months on a charge of abandonment preferred by his wife Susan, now re siding at No. 925 Second avenue. The last time the doctor was arrested he was alléwed to go on his own 1, promising to give his wife at least $6 a week. i 1 Mrs. Duggan alleges he has failed to amination in the case will be had to- directors of open” peculation in their offices with a freedom that clearly foreshadowed the future of New York. They took especial prido in their irredeema ble currency of beaver skins. They built « ricketty City Hall, which tumbled abont their ears one morn- ing. They moved it further up town and filled it with officials of questionable character. The Collector of New York, owing £50 to the Collector of Albany, sent him s negro boy, said to be worth that sum, as payment in full; but the boy ran away and furnished, said the lecturer, the first instance of a running account in the annals of the city. Nor did matters improve ander English rule, for the famous John Adams, though he admired the Bowling Green and the statue of George Il., in “gilded lead, said there was not one real gentleman nor well bred man in the whole town. Yet it was here Nathan Hale regretted that he had | only one life to lose for his country. André, too, said the lecturer. came from New York; but if we are to raise a monument to the foiled accomplice of Bene- dict Arnold loi us search out and consecrate the spot where Nathan Hale died for the liberties we now enjoy. From this time forth the city bean to take on a metropolitan air. Stage coaches ran from Philadelphia ‘‘with sober drivers;” the tirst steam- boat, dubbed Fulton’s Folly, plied upon the Hudson; newspapers were born ard the puise of the greut world was first heard to beat against our own; patriotic citizens lent buckets to the Fire Department, and even refused to sue the government when the buckets were lost; and the seeds of many future blessings were sown. But the tares were freely planted with the wheat. New York was from the first cosmopoli- tan, She refused to persecute witches and Quakers. She welcomed all the refyzees from ‘toreign sheres, ‘Che confusion of tongues, the commingling of races, have never ceased in her territory; and the result we have all seen. The result was Tweed. When Tweed came miasma and maiaria rose from every crevice of the public. service. We had made immense material progress, but none whatever in the science of self-government. The public purse was at the politician's mercy, and public opinion sank to the dead level of indifferentism. It was @ joke to call the city’s representatives the Forty Thieves, a witticism to assert that they had stolen Broadway. Benevolence became a cloak for fraud. ‘The new Court House was St. Tammany’s Grand Co-operative Orphan Asylum. One of the orphans ud built it, another plastered it, another furnished it, a fourth supplied it with frescoes, anda fitth sends in a bill of $5,700 for its thermometers. The city staggered under a floating debt ot $20,000,000, But, luckily, the fibre of our free institutions was strong, and we survived. But who can suggest fitting remedies for the evils that still encompass us? ‘The constabulary of poli- ticians weras us off the ark of universal suffrage; but in the limited suffrage which has freed the office of city Comptroller trom popular election we may yet find cur safety. When $1,000,000 is yearly Bet aside for philanthropic purposes, why should distress prevail? When ey per cent of our public scholars leave school before the age of fourteen, why should the Board of Education receive such large appropriations? These questions, like the school- rooms, require to be ventilated. What we want is a non-partisan police, an excise law gencrally respected, the injurious burden of State taxation lifted from our shoulders, that New York may wield justly the sceptre of commercial supremacy and wear the wreath of civic virtue, BANITARY SCIENCE—INTERESTIQG PAPERS READ BEFORE THE JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS’ ASSO- CIATION ON THE MECHANICS OF HYGIENE, The addresses delivered by Messrs. Bayles, editor of the Jron Age, and Wingate, editor of the Plumber and Sanitary Engineer, at Trenor’s Hall, under the auspices of the Journeymen Plumbers’ Benevolent Protective Association were listened to by a large and very appreciative audience. From the fact that the associution above named numbers among its members only journeymen plumbers, it was evi- dent that the affair was purely an honest demonstra- tion intended to enlighten the citizens of New York as to the terrible dangers that threaten by reason of the vicious practice of house building speculators, who eacrifice every sanitary principle in order to increase their own projits, On being introduced by thechair- man Mr, Bayles proceeded as follows :—‘A long and somewhat varied experience in what may be called the missionary work of sanitary reform has taught me many things, among others that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to create a popular interest in anything which pertains to the public health, When iny attention was first called may be called the mechanics of hygiene. startled to find how general was the ignorance of health laws and of the precwutions which the experi- ence of centuries has shown to be necessary for pro- tection against a large class Of maladies known as zymotic or filth diseases.” The speaker then illus- trated the mun who was reclaimable from the bonds of scepticism as to the Ing ton of bad plumbing and insufficient ventilation ‘ause of his disbelief | in all things sanitary, andthe one who, by a passive accoptance of the obvious truths of what people have learned to call sanitary science, coupled with perfect satinfaction with the present atate of things in general is only roused to # tardy but vigorous action to defend himself when he‘ finds his constit nm shattered or when some dear-one has succumbed to the destroyer. “Our ancéstors a century or more ayo,” continued the speaker, “had a superstition which had come down from earlier times, that every sewer or cesspool had within it a rosi- dent evil spirit. Like many another superstition which people forget when they grow wiser, the idea rested upon a truth whien is every day becoming more evident to intelligent people of all classes. ‘The | evil spirit of the sewer and cesspool is that nameless something which we call organic vapor. Analysis not determine its composition nor can the micro- pe find its poisonous fangs.” He then stated that there was no means of finding out anything that would account for its subtle power of mischief. It is known that in sewer gas, beyond the range of cheniieal test or mécroscopic investigation, there are innumerable, intangible germs which are the seeds ot disease and which bear within themselves the power and potency of death. There is a8 much use in trying to hold this invisible enemy in suppression as trying io chain a ghos. Tthe oniy chance 0” con- | quoring it is to let it loose to the pure air, when it will be quickly destroyed or rendered harmless by the oxidation of the organic cells, which show such malignant activity when mingled with the confined air of living and sleeping apartinents. “The poorest kind of economy,” said the speaker, ‘is that of put- ting bad plumbing work into a house and then having to pay lurge interest in the shi doctors’ and un- dertukers’ bills." Mr. Bayles detailed account of an examination he made in the house of a friend. It was & cliffs brown stone house up town, well built, but having an execrable cirain pipe that was pot even well jointed, and wh! deal ot sickness, ‘Laking up s showed that the percentage of death» fron: zymotic diseases Was we | great in this city and that the an- nual number of malignant foveré in Great Britain ‘was immense on account of the imperfect sanitary system, and concluded with aie. of the educated plumber “who,” he said, ‘should have a knowledye of every kind of trade and be conversant with saui- tary laws. Mr. Bayles was followed by General Wingate, who, although he went over almost the same ground os the previous speaker, had by him many unique specimegs of house fixtures that were acted upon the acid and gases generated by the decomposition of vegetable aud animal matter. His remarks were anything but complimentary to the genias displayed by the Board of Health in its treatment of defective sewerage, THE AMERICAN PRESS, Mr, Harry H. Marks lectured at the Jewish ‘fem- ple, Lexington ayenuc and Fifty-fifth street, on “The American Press.” ‘Thero was a large and distin- guished assemblage present, including the ministers of the congregation and other prominent people, After sketching the birth and rise of American news- papers from the time of Benjamin Franklin down to our times Mr. Marks said that the journalistic vo- cabulary contained no such word as fatl, and he in- stanced the case of the Hrnatp, which he described as “thearistocrat of American journalism.” “Its im- mense wealth,” he said, “gives it the power—power well used—to scan the world from Ohn and it stands to-day foremost among the 1 pet in enterprise and pluck. What could exceed in en- torprise and ingenuity ita scheme to secure by cable from Europe vin, illustrating the shots made by our American riflemen at Dollymount? The smoke of the shotsmmen’s guns had hardly died away in tho clear Irish sky when the targeis were eagerly scanned by the porns of New York on the Hxraun bulletin, and the shots were as distinctly and intelligibly shown as if they were being viewed on tho field of contest, It has ever been in advance of the tyes rather than behind them, Before the laying of the cable, When our European news reached us only by steamers, the Henaup, in ogder to got the start of its contemporaries, used to send # boat down Buston to these anbjects I began a systematic study ae en} | was | Harbor'to meet the incoming Cunarder and secure the late papers. These would be sent by special ssonger to a point on the Connecticut shore, an agent Inet them with a steamboat ready to cross the Sound to Greenport, and thence by the Long Island Railroad to New York. At the same period the H#iaLp ran its special pony express from hiladelphia to New York, passengers on the trains and coaches "being interviewed for news, Lfmagine the expense, Inbor and ingenuity needed to carry out these schemes! Verily, the French author was not sumption in America ix news. Atter devoting considerable attention to the re- | porters of the American press, illustrated by au lotes, which were urextiy relished by the audience Bir. Marks turned his utiention to the hymorous fe: tures of Aimerican journalixm, aud spoke of its obituary poetry, &e. He said:—Piough, as a stump ‘speaker once ‘said very truly, posterity ha done nothing for us, we ure al ested in knowing What posterity will think of us. The Henap, which originated the custom of inter- viewing, has nade a feature ot obituaries.” In con- clusion, Mr, Marks claimed that the American press was thoroughly representative of the American peo- plociust, as good ‘und just us bud aa ite supporters, fe denied that it wax, as some claimed, prejudiced against the Jews, and cited its position in the Hilton- Seligman affair ay proof to the contrary. He held that there was. no other institution ia t world of which it could with truth be ‘said that “it prospered by reason of rather than ip spite of its taulte and {Hint people 1 x for What they most blame jm it.”” REV. JOSEPH COOK ON THY CHINESE QUESTION, Association Hull was literally taken by storm by people desiring to obtain admittance, The attrac- tious were the “prelude,” @ discourse on the Chinese question by Rev, Joseph Cook und a stereoscop- ticon exhibition by Rey. D. C. Potter, illustra- tive of the last metaphysical lecture of the course, “A Night on the Acropolis,” also by. Mr. Cook. His remarks upon the Chinese question were, however, the feature of the evening. The lecturer referred to Sun Francisco as a brave city, but whieh hardly dares utter her mind on the Clinese question when her sand-lot opators threaten conflagration, riot and murder. ‘Joafers and rough id he, ‘ied by gang of shallow and foul- cheap Jacks, mostly of toreign birth, fill the ears of Californians daily with threats of fire, blood and devastation, I am afraid of the working- man, but not of rioters, tramps, thieves, sneaks and thugs. Anti-Chinese clubs cmek the defiant whip of lawlessness over the heads of California's Mayors, Governors und Senators. San Francisco is afraid of her sand lots. Massachusetts isnot. She has scen their chief orator. oratory, by bis odions advocacy, sunk an astute popular leader beneath the seaot Massachusetts poli- tics. No political party can swim in Eastern waters with Kearueyisn: hung around its neck, It was the same in the great city: of New York, where the sund lot orator made himself h¢ The crack of the hoodluim’s lash in, Shational politics is too much like that of the slave driver’s whip to be popn- lar. The snap of the slave driver’s whip has passed t of hearing, and so will that of the hoodlum’s lant thongs. The groatest orator of New Eng- aud regards the anti-Chinese crusade as one of the most heartless and contemptible attacks that one class ot low paid laborers hus ever made on another. ‘The regeneration of Asia is the greater Eastern ques: tion, and the Chinese question in California is an outlying portion of tho greater Eastern question. Calitornia is a door to Asia and canuot evade com- mercial intimacy with China. The necessity, there- fore, of cultivating friendly relations with China is plainly manifest.”” MINING AND ITS MISTAKES. Professor L$, Newberry lectured before the Bullion Club at their rooms, No. 1g West Twent, fourth street, on “Mining and Its Mistakes.” He ‘commenced by stating that to fully Uescribe the monuments of folly in regard to mining he had scen in Nevada would require more than one evening; but that the conditions of success or circumstances of failure were not necessary to note just then, He had been over a great deal of the western country where placer diggings were most actively worked, and spent two years in Nevada, Mexico and Arizona, and he considered them the most productive mining regions on the face of the @lohe. It was not the fauitof the mines that they were not more remunerative, but of the men who had charge, of the different enterprises. The operations had not been conducted on business principles, und therefore could not succeed. The Professor exhibited a number of specimens of different ores found in this country and explained their qualities. He also exhibited some native parat- fine found in Nevada, of which there has been di covered u tract sixty miles long and twegty miles wide and which, he said, will eventually prove an immense source of wealth. OUR SOCIAL PROBLEM, Mr. Parke Godwin repeated his levture on “Our Social Problem,” delivered at the Cooper Institute some time ago, at Anthon Memorial Chapel in West Forty-eighth street. It is a scientific and exhaustive discussion of the labor question and of the relations of capital to lsbor in all their moral, political and social aspects. Advocating the intelligent organiza- tion of labor, Mr. Godwin treats capital as a dead thing to which onfy labor and production can give lie. He was listeved to last night by a large and at- tentive audience, almost every seat in the chapel being oceupied. AMERICAN INSTITUTE. A stated meeting of the American Institute was held at their rooms in Cooper Union last evening, Mr. Nathan C. Ely, president, in the chair, and Mr. Charles McK. Loeser acting as secretary. The report of the Board of Mauagers shows the receipts for the forty-seventh exhibition to have been $41,692 73, to which there is yet to be added $2,215 69 (appro- priation from the State), making total receipts $44,008 36, ‘The expenditures shown by the same statement have been $33,796 11, which includes the amount donated to the yellow fever sufferers’ fund, giving as the balance earned by the forty- seventh exhibition the sum of $10,212 25. The work of the Farmers’ Clnb was also noted and appro- ciated, ‘The property in Broadway and Leonard street has all been rented for 1879 to the same tenants who now occupy it. The report of the Finance Committee shows the receipts trom all sources to have beon $29,864 78, and expenditure: | $23,651 74, leaving # baiauce in bank of $6,195 04, » | gain for the past year of $3,69249. Since the last anuual meeting sixteen persons have been elected members, \ » TALMAGE'’S FAME. In speaking with a reporter yesterday concerning the committee appointed on Monday last by the Presbytery to investigate Rev. T. DeWitt Palmage, that gentleman said he thought that the appointing of a committee to mvestigate a man's ‘common fame’ is # thing unprecedented in réligious af- fairs.” He would, he said, treat the committee with the utmost kindness and affability, and would afford them every facility to find out what they desire. He courted the fullest investigation, When asked “whether he did not think there was a good deal of venom shown in the remarks made at the Presbytery’s mecting,” he replied :- ndoubt- edly there was; and the time may come when I may deem it proper to reply in the same strain. ff [had spoken #t the meeting of the Presbytery I should robably have expre my feelings in pretty strong unguage. But it is probably better that I did not do | He thought a good deal of the feeling against | him was caused by jeaiousy, and econ likely that he might refor to the action of the Presbytery in a sermon. He had boen treated so fairly by the ncwspa- pors, he said, that he felt quite sate in placing bim- self entirely in their charge. ‘If the papers had gone ayuinst hiin Le should have epoken out boldly be- fore this time, As it was, let fifty or @ hundred com- mittees come, and he would treat them all kindly. "HE “NICEST” CAPTAIN, In the Catholic Church of the Annunciation, in Mauhattanville, on Wednesday ni the ladies took # vote as to which was the “nicest” police captain among the uptown precincts. Captain Davis, of the Twelfth; Captain Leary, of the Thirtieth ; Cap- tain ‘Tynan, of the Thirty-tirst, and Captain Steers, of the Thirty-second, were the competitors. Out of 1,553 votes Captain Tynan teceived a majority of 600. The lucky official was then presented with a gold badge valued at $100. The votes were twenty-five cents each. ‘Thore is some talk uptown of getting up a contest most useful member of the Street Committee of the Police Board. ‘The gen- erous public will doubtleas be only too glad to pre- sent the three members with o leather medal each pending the contest. POLICEMEN’S PAY. Delegations of policemen from each precinct met yesterday at Military Hall, in the Bowery, and heard the report of the committee that had been appointed to confer with the inspectors in regard to retaining counsel to dispute the legality of the recent reduc- tion in the salaries of the force. The report of the comniittes, advising that the whole matter be put ip the hands of the inspectors, was adopted, CORNELIUS VANDERBILT'S CLAIM. In the suit brought by Cornelius J, Vanderbilt against William H. Vanderbilt for $1,000,000, claimed to have been promised him if he would interpose no objection to the probate of Commodore Vanderbilt's will, the at counsel met yesterday, before Judge Donohue, in Supreme Court, Chambers, to settle the order as to a struck jury for the trial of the case, Mr. Scott Lord objecting to having Commis- sioner Dunlap draw the ade After some diseus- ston had matter was atjourned until to-morrow morning. far wrong when he said ‘the favorite article of con- | more or less inter- | ‘The leader of sand lot | PANGS OF POVERTY. | PITEOUS STORY OF A STARVING FAMILY—-THE MOTHER FOUND INSENSIBLE HOLDING HER DEAD CHILD LN HER ARMS. Matthew Flanagan left the cheerless room which he | called his home in the rear buildiag of No. 17 Ludlow strect at noon on Weduesday. He had been for a | Jong time out of work, and every day for weeks past | he made the same fruitless search after something to | do, something that would put food in the mouths ot | his starving wife and children. His wife, Bridget, a comely woman, met with a severe accident in the summer of 1877. While going up the sioop of the house in which the family then lived,No.27 Desbrosses: street, the rickety wooden structure gave way and precipitated her to the sidewalk, injuring her spine insuch a manner that she has been partially para- lyzed ever since. The helpless condition of the mother has ulso paralyzed the efforts of the father to provide for the family, especially since he has met | with nothing but cold deniais this winter in all hia applications for work, Thee were three children— aboy of cight years, a girl of six and a baby girl of two months, At four o'clock on the same dey the father climbed up the dark, forbidding stairways in the wretched teno- ment to his room. On opening the door he fonnd his wife lying on the floor, with her dead baby tightly cluxped in her arms, Hunger and weakness had done their work, aud the white hue of death had eushrouded the pinched features of the child. THE ABODE OF POVERTY. : When the gray dawn struggled through the cur. tainless windows yesterday morning it lighted up the pallid, attenuated form of the dead baby, placed on’ an old froning board, supported on the backs of two chairs. ‘Che tiny body was covered with a well worn shcet, which the in- valid mother with a pair tf scissors had made into a shroud, The skel a arms were outside of the shrond aud the little Angers were joined to- gether, as it werg, in supplication, The sunken cheeks and the tightly drawn lips told the sad story. ‘There was no other light than that of the dawn in the wretched apartment. Father and mother sat beside the baby’s core as the sole watchers, without food, without fire. ‘he boy and girl lay on the bleak floor asleep. Devoid of furniture, except a few dilapi- tbode of dated utensils, the room was indeed the al poverty. Last night a Henan reporter visited the suff family. Kind hands had been there before him. little girl, oue of the poor neighbors, brought in a barket filled with food, and said that she would return again with more when her father came home, A fire was in the rusty stove, a candie placed in a broken kerosene lump, snd two synipathizing neig! bors were there. The poor mother was sitting on chair near her dead baby, groaning in pain, her tearless eyes und hagyard face telling in the most eloquent terms the terrible tale of poverty. The father sat down, and while the tears trickled down his wan cheeks he told the reporter his story. THE FATHER'S STORY. “I have tried all that a man could do this winter to get work. The sight of my poor suffering wite and her starving baby almost drove me crazy, Ever since she met with ber mistortune in Desbrosses street she has been almost helpiess. Yesterday sho tried to do, some washing, holding the baby to her breast to keep it warm, for, sir, we had no food nor fire, When Lcame buck, after tramping everywhere in the storm in search of work, I found her lying there, with the poor baby dead in her arms. Oh, si: it is better off than we are in this Thai two children buried in Calvary ery, and Lown the grave, It will break my heart if I cannot bury the baby beside them. Yet, what cau Ido? Without money Potter's Field is the only piace lett for it. I am driven to desperation, At the Eldridge street police station a sergeant told the reporter that Flanagan told the poli that he came home on Wednesday and found wife lying on the floor in a beaytly state of intoxication, with her dead child b@&ide her. He said that an officer who was sent there contirmed the statement of the father. 's that true 2” inquired the reporter of the father. od knows it is not, sir. I said that my wife was paralyzed, not drunk.’ Why should they say such a re thing. We liave suffered enough without at.” Coroner Woltman called at.the house yesterday to investigate the cause of the death of the child. The sight of such extreme suffering almost overpowered him, and he gave the poor parents money to relieve their pressing necessities. WITH YOU.” ‘The Henatp has received from “Anonymous” $2 for Mrs. Lovell, of No. 26 Broome street, and §2 for Julia Walsh, of No, 425 East Nineteenth street; trom ollege Point,” $1 for No. 437 West Twentieth strect; from ‘‘Boy with the Jim Jams,” $1 for No. 26 Broome street; from “B, B.,” $1 for No. 26 Broome $2 for No.425 East Nineteenth street and $2 50 for No. 413 Hast Ninth street; from “A Friend to the Helpless,” $2 for the general fund; trom “M. W. H.,” $1 tor No, 26 Broome street, and .»" $1 for No, 26 Broome street. Total, CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. In the Surrogate’s office there was filed yesterday awill made by Margaret D, Stelle, wife of Isaac Stelle, both deceased. The will recites numerous bequests, both charitable and otherwise. To her husband she gives her household furniture and $2,000; to the American Board of Conimissioners for Foreign Missions, $1,000; to the American Bible Society, $1,000, and to the City Missionary Society, $1,000, Out of the rest of the estate enongh is to be set aside for investment to yicld her husband $1,200 a year income, She bequeaths to her grand- daughter Georgrana Stelle $8,000 when she becomes of age, and to other of her collateral relatives various smaller sums, The will is dated March 4 1571. In a codicil, dated June 9, 1873, she bequeaths that portion left to her husband for in- vestment, after his decease, as follows: —To the American Home Missionary Socicty, $5,000; to the American Board of Commissioucrs for Foreign Mis- sions, $5,000, and to the American Bible Society $5,000, the balance to go to hor granddaughter Geor giaua. In a second codicil, dated July 24, 1876, ihe says that in consideration of the death of her husband she revokes the bequests in favor of the missionary societies and gives to her grauddanghter Georgiana $16,000, She also revokes some of the smaller bequests and increases others. Of the re- mainder of the estate she gives to Georgiana one quarter, the other three-quarters to be distributed equally between the Home for the Friendless, the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, the New York Orphan Asylum and the Presbyterian Home for Aged Women. In @ third codicil she makes provision for the erection of & monument and exempts her executors from the ue cessity of filing a bond. GENEROUS DONATIONS, In the will of the late Mvs. Jane &, Miller, who died February 2, 1879, at No. 172 South Second street, Wille iamsbury, leaving pbout $35,000 worth of property, appear the following charitable bequests:—To the New York East Conference of the Methodist Kpisco- pal Church for superannuated and worn oat min- isters, $1,500; to the Central Methodist, Episcopal Church of the Eastern District, $6,000, made payable on condition that $4,000 more may be raised to pay ot the debt thereon, im caso the $5,000 bequeathed should not be suflicient to do to the Brooklyn Industrial School Asso- ctation, $500; to the Union Missi Chapel Assqgiation, $600; to the trustees of the Union Mix sion Chapel, to be invested for the aidot the poor, $4,000; to the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, $600; to the Eastern Distriet Hoxpital, p50); to the Ladies’ Union Aid Association for Aged Women, $1,600; to the Dis- to the Ladies’ Home Mission Society, Five Points, New York, $600; to the New York and Vermont Methodist Protestant Church Conference, for superannuated ministers, $1,500. After making the above bequests and willing various amounts to members of her family, the decedent divides the residue of her estate between the Brook- lyn Industrial Aid Association and the Union Mission Chapel Association. Letters of citation were ordered to be issued in the matter of the will by Surrogate Dailey, Kings county, yestorda; WHY HE WAS DISCHARGED, Professor Brewster ®axton, of Swan River, near Patchogue, was engaged last November in teaching the public school in district No. 10, in Northville, L. L, atasalary of $33 a month. He was advised fnot to go there, as the place was noted for rows with preachers and pedagogues, Mr. Saxton had some forty pupils of both sexes under his charge, and matters went along satisfac: torily until near the close of last week, when Com- missioner Elmer revoked the license to teach which he had granted a fow months before on the recom- mendation of ex-Com missioner Benjamin. Mr. Saxton was accordingly dismissed by Trustee Downs, The canse assigned for this action is that Saxton became parents refused to intrust their children to his care, until but seven remained, It was said yesterday that when Mr, Saxton began teaching he was no worse mentally than he had always been, and there seems to be @ pretty gon feeling in Rivers head that he was not properly treated at Northville, bout fortnight ago a religious revival was begun by the Congreg jatioualists, and Mr. Saxton took an active part in it, ‘The metings were crowded nightly, and so many conversions were made that the news brought in people from the adjoining vik lages, and the academy being too small to accommo. date them, it is said that prayers were in the open air and the crowd joi in the hymus thet were sung insid Saxton’s as & prayer ion, itis said by revealed the first faker and exhorter on this those who believe him to be insane, evidences of a disturbed wind,