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I Mltk M. I. i. .1, tb. 1A JVlA tlemen.

They permitted the collection to multiply eleotrio lights and the. profits accru BRIDGE TOLLS. PBIMARIES. TART REPLIES Martin, Herman Olson, Charles Buokloy, D. A.

Houghtaltng Executive Committee Thomas P. Foden, John Brown, John M. Little, John Eagon, Lowoll Palmor, Ronry D. Clark, Thomas Rice, Frank A Moorohouse, Dr. N.

A. Baldwin, James Palmer, William S. Kerr; sergoant at arms, G. W. Hand.

TTHB Dixy WORKS DKPABTSENT. secretary, WBiiam J. LarSIn; assistant secretary, John J. Clark: treasurer, Donis MoNamara, Goaeral Committee John G. Barker, Anthony Barrett, Fraaols White, Patrlok Eagon.

WllllBim'H. Cunnluabam, James. Conion, Thomas H. 'WoodB. TWELFTH WARD.

President Thomas O'Connell; vice presidents, Michael F. Loonoy, Josoph BeDJy, John J. Hurray; secretary, John W. Cahlll; assistant secretary, Thomas Eagan; treasurer, John O'Sheo. General Committee John O'Brien, Robert O'Donnell, Thomas Foran, John Kelly.

Inspectors James Rtordan, William Kane. THnwEBNTH WlllD. President, George Richard Conner; vice presidents, John D. Walsh, Leon Sotvwelne, Andrew McGlinn; secretary, Edmund D. Korrls; assistant seoretary, Peter Mahoney; treasurer, Benjamin Baker.

General Committee William 8. Conely, Patrici Hayes, Thomas Cook, Thomas S. Delaney, John 2. Johnson. Inspectors James J.

HeGInty, wmiara Buck holts. FDtjaTBSNTH WABU, President, Thomas J. Patterson; vice presidents, Jamos Tierney, Edward Scott, John F. Leonard; a Tully; assistant secretary, William H. Hogan; treasurer, Eugene Doherty.

General Committee Daniel McGratb, James H. Holmes, Thomas C. Harden, Thomas E. McGeehaa. lnspeotors Hugh O'Brien, D.

Byrne, Patriot Grace. FIFTEENTH WAM. President, John Etmig; vico presidents, Michael McEnaney.Willlam Hersoman and Anthony Walsh; troasurer, Louis P. Gfroohererj secretary, William MoKee assistant secretary, John T. Shevlln.

General Committee William Johnson, Joseph MoVoy, Frank Dahl bander, John JX AhrouB and Miohael Shields. Inspectors of Election William E. Shields and James 3. Jones. SIXTEENTH WABD.

President, Andrew Book; vice presidents, Charles E. Dower, Joseph Moeller and Frank Zimmerman; secretary, John VanOerhoof assistant secretary, ulrlch Maurer; treasurer, Joseph Orf; sergeant at arms, John Cooper. General Committee Joseph Haye, Charles yes. less than that, even down to $4. Sotoo had said that tnoy couia go to uastie usraon ana gm au the nerp tney wanted at any price.

Mr. Colyer, in a somewhat excited manner, wanted to know, whom tins comntlttee represented; whether they were the representatives of t.io Brooklyn Coach Drivers, or only a portion ot dissatisfied outsiders who wore lnHuunood by the ot Labor. Mr. Carpenter answered that 99 per cent, of the uoaoaxmvers Benevolent Association oerongoa.M them, and that he would not answer whether he or they were Knights of Labor or nob Ho informed Messrs. Oakley, Colyer.

Moffort, Israel and others, that all their men were In his association, which assertion Mr. Ctolror'naUv denied. Mr. Israel sold ho had men In his employ whom his father before htm had employed, and that he was willing to pay as muoh as the next man. He thought It best for all men to go to their employers themselves to existing evils or raako auy honast demands.

Agood man, ho said, woull always command eood mne and ffet them. Mr. Carpenter thought that all livery etableKaep ortj weru wratui tyrantflQQ mas iouycwa moat arbitrarily toward their employes. That was the reason they sent a committee to the bosses, for they woro afraid of being turned out if they came personally or The (committee then withdrew, and after a ahortdobatethe secretary was instructed to inform them that the association, could do nothing for them ot present as a body, as it was not conformity with their bvlawa to regulate prices paid to the employes of the different members of the as sociation. Before thiB conclusion was reached, however.

Mr. Israel said he thought it rather singular that the association could dictate what Its members should charge the public and yet could nave nothing to say concerning the pay of employes. TBE CITS' ASSESSMENTS. Annual Report of President fhouma A. Wilson.

Mayor Whitney this morning received from President Thomas A Wilson tha report of the ax fairs of the Department of Assessment for the year ending November 30, 1885. The main points tf the dooument are appended The report of my predecessor showed the valuations of taxable real and personal property In the city in 1835 exceeded like valuations In 1884 by the sum of $11230,018, being the result oi a credit to real property oi ana a aeon against personal property of M.SR1.704. The Metalled valuations of taxable real and per sonal property ror 1888 ana letsti aresnown in scnea ule of which the following is a summary: Inoraasa irks: 1R88. 188B. Roslestato $311,809,060 $839,022,812 $28,613,752 Personal property 19.375,702 82,086,890 8,710,088 Total $330,081,702 931,324,10 This increase of $31,324,440 prooeeds from sources muiHHflu tuuio rouowing taouiar srwENxr arxTB ward.

Heal estate 98.781.1R0 Personal 53,818,160 Valuations of now buildings, as shmnin6oheduhB jjiorouoj oi omcr valuations various portions of the city 16,467,380 Totalinoresse.i......;;. 831,321,410 The valuations of property in the Twenty sixth Ward, formed by the 'Annexation, during the current year, of tho late Tqvn of New Lots, were made by the Assessors of the town prior to annexation and consequently now appear for tho first time'as a part oi me city's valuations. Nbw BUlLPIKflS. Attention is directed to the Interesting figures presented by Schedule IS, which states the number and assessed value oi now buildings erected in each of the twelve years beginning with 1875 and ending in June, 1888. Obviously from an inspection of this table, the material growth of Brooklyn may be seen at a glance, and surveyed with an advantage pro Bomea rrom no outer standpoint, snowing as li aoes, the comparative prosperity of Jho city at large, and of the several wards of the city, during the several yeara covered by the table.

For instance, it ap pears that Brooklyn erected in 1875, 1,469 buildings naving an aBBOSsed valuation OI ana in 1886, 8,530 buildings having an assessed valuation Of $13,039,710: 'ttin RiirhteBnth. Twontv.socond. Twenty thud and Ttrentflfth wards leading in improvements during the post year, with buildings of an assessed valuation of $8,162,810 or more than one halt both in number and valuation of the city's total increase in new buildings. This schedule also presents tho gratifying statement that In these twelve years Brooklyn (exclusive of the Twentrelxth Ward) has added to her former self 20,458 new structures of the assessed valuation Of $67,773,840, an Increase equal both In number ana value to the edifices of many important cities in our country. SEAL AND PERSONAL ASSESSED VAMJB8, TAX LBVIBS AND BATES Schedule presents a statement showing the population real and personal assessed values the tax levies and the purpose to which they are devoted, and the average tax rate In the citv at large and in the Eastern and Western districts separately lor the past seventeen years.

This table shows tho fact perhaps exceptional to Brooklynthat while the population and real estate valuations have nearly doubled in these seventeen years, personal property valuations can hardly be Baia to have increased at an. The reason or. this striking inequality of inorease finds its solution in the faota: First, lhat a very large proportion of our citizens do business' and are taxable upon their personalty in tho City of New Yorkj and, second, that no adequate system exists for obtaining full offioial knowledge of the personalty of citizens. There are nine assessors; to expect that they, together with the performance of their onorous duties connected with the taxation of real estato amounting to $840,000,000, to Bay nothing of tho performance of many miscellaneous be able to ascertain the amount of personalty owned by and taxable against every taxable resident of Brooklyn is, of course, absurd. This conceded fact, and tho ease ana irequency oi evasion oi tne law nave brought the law Itself into disrepute and made its nominal administration and unsaual and Indiscriminate enforcement a burlesque.

It is matter of very common knowledge that many of our citizens owning largo and valuable real properties in our city, and believed to possoss proportionately valuable personalties, are wllllnc to, and do, make annual oath that they have no personal property liable to taxation. While other citizens, wealthy or co operatively poor as the case may oe, preier to pay tneir personal taxes rather to made the required affidavit. The spectacle of an undoubted millionaire boldly making statement uuder oath that he has no personal property liable to taxation, and that of a green grocer tremblingly and reluctantly paying taxes on a few hundred dollars are of freauent occurrence. This state of things is, it course, most unjust, scandalous and pernicious, and Jeads to 'the irresistible conclusion that the law should either be abolished or so revised mat, its equal euiorceraent will De possiDie. Much couia oe added upon this nuoiecl, tending to show the inequality, hardship and Injustice of personal taxation aa It now stands, but I have con ceived it to bo my official duty merely to point to and empnasize trio condition of tne system as i tiuu it, leaving it to tne wisdom or your uonor to recommend, and to our legislators to apply such reme dies as your ana their equal knowledge and better judgment may suggest The assessment of personal property in 1885 and 18SSmaybo analyzed as follows: Llablo toclty and county taxes but uot to State tax.

lllncroasa or de 1836. II cro33ol886. 1885. proceed, on the plea that resistance would have alarmed the ladies. Of course, they felt no fear themselres.

This ia. another instance to show the impolicy of permitting women to have more rights than they now enjoy. Mrs. Wittick had felt at liberty to take the in itiative there would have been a row on that train, and some of the gentlemen might have been badly hurt. Department of AroemmeMb President Thomas A.

Wilson, of the De partment of Assessment, has mado an excel lent annual report to Mayor Whitney, and synopsis of it is published in to day's paper. There has been an increase of $28,618,752 in realty ralue taxed, and of $2,710,688 in per nonalty taxed in 1886. Of this $3,818,160 increase in both classes of taxed, property comes from the new ward, the Twenty sixth, which as an asset, makes its first appearance on the city books. The report treats the number and value of new buildings in way to enable the development of Brooklyn to be seen at a glance. The number and value of such buildings for twelve years are set forth Brooklyn, exclusive of the Twenty sixth Ward, has in those twelve years 20,458 new structures to her assets, of which the assessed valuation is $67,273,840, a sum equal to that of the totaHaluation of many American eitieB.

The report in this regard will be found ex tremely interesting reading.1 President Wil son's treatment of the question of personal taxation and his argument for the due equali zationof State taxes will attract favorable at tention. His remarks concerning the sig nal success of the arrears collection aot are entirely oorrect, though they modestly omit to mention the meritorious agency of his official associates and himself in casting in their influence in favor of the reasonable and uniform enforcement of that excollent law. The Department of Assessment "has done well during the vear. Its labors speak for itself and contribute not a little credit to the Demo. cratio local administration of which it has been made a part.

2Tue Devil Snonld bo Fought With Fire. The case of Mi Christian Homeyer; of the Town of Newtown, which was related in yes terday's Eagle, illustrates the necessity of man providing himself with lethal weapons before undertaking any dangerous enterprise especially where lawbreakers are conoerned, Good citizens, who are accustomed to see the whole machinery of government move on from year to year without a jar or Bhow of opposition, are apt to conclude that this is all done by moral force. Yet, sometimes like Mr. Homeyer they are "brought to a realizing sense of the fact that it is pbysioai force which after all rules the world and that constables, magis trates and judges would be laughed to acorn by the lawless but for the fact that there are clubs, bayonets and cannon behind them. If Mr.

Homeyer had taken this common sense view of tho situation on Monday morn ing he would not now be laid up with a serious wound from the pistol bullet of a burglar. About 4 o'clock he was awakened by a tramp ing on his stoop, and when he wont to inves tigato matters he found that his hotel had been brokon into. Two windows were open and the lower rooms of the house had been ransacked, but nothing of value taken. At this btage of the proceedings Mr. Homeyer might very well have taken Dogberry's advice, called his household together and thanked Heaven they had got rid of a knave.

But he was too zealous in tno interests ot law ana order to take mattei'B so easily, and un dertook to run down the thieves and capture them red handed, as it were. The fact that there were four in the party, two men and two boys, docs not seem to have daunted him in the least. He started in hot pursuit and was presently reinforced by his son, High way Commissioner Homeyer and Constable Freeman. The pursuers, however, soon separated and went off in different directions. At this stage of the proceedings a horse pistol, no matter how ancient, might have been of service as a moral support, or even a cart rung, but Mr.

Homeyer seems to have been full of the idea which Shakspeare places in the mouth of Henry VI. that "Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just," and the result was quite as unfortunate in his case as it was in that of that king. He overtook the bttrglars and demmided tnelr instant surrender, going up to withiD three or four feet of one of them, when his further progress was stopped by a pistol shot aimed straight at his heart. Mr. Homeyer had the narrowest pos sible escape from death, and indeed it is not yet certain that the result will not be fatal.

As the moral of the story has been stated at the beginning of thiB article, it need hardly be repeated at the end. Elderly gentlemen should not undertake, unarmed and single handed, to capture gangs of robbers. The Irishman who, after the battle of Inkermann, brought in three Russian prisoners, whom he said he had surrounded, had no doubt a rifle and a bayonet. Had Mr. Homeyer been sim ilarly armed he might have had equal success, but as matters were that was not possible.

When next a citizen of Newtown is visited by burglars he should arouse a sufficient number of his fellow townsmen to make the pursuit interesting. The young men of Newtown ought to hold themselves in readiness for such emergencies, for if theBe gangs of prowling thieves are not promptly stopped the evil will spread until it becomes intolerable. In some States eaoh young man would provide himself with a rope with a convenient noose at one end of it. Such a prompt way of getting rid of robbers who are ready to become murderers will probahly not be adopted on Long Island, but it is very necessary that by some means or other they should be immediately suppressed. The Democratic primaries, last night, were in the main quiet and harmonious.

In one or two places a profound oondition of animal and of ardent spirits led the boys into some animated exercises just enough to show that Jeffersonian principles can be tempered by a degree of excitement but in the main there were peace, agreement and good order. The results are set forth in our columns of report. Rumors prevail that ue or more of the jurors in the McQuade case have been discov ered to be friends of the defendant" or of those cast by him in the category of suspected men. If that is so and at this writing proof wanting the prosecution will be held to be lacking in vigilance, for the defense, led by General Traey and his distinguished associate, Mr. Newcombo, repeatedly showed that it had no desire to secure" e.

jury, but was content with the panel several times, when twelve seemingly fair men were in the box. The technicalities, inquisitions, obstacles and suspicions with which the jury getting was marked notably originated with the prosecu tion, that had tho whole detective force in its employment. If all its precautions have failed, the blame should be plaoed squarely on. its shoulders. Mr.

Somers thinks Mr. Harteau Is a change ling. Mr. Harteau says he thinks Mr. Somers is orazy.

The Eagle thinks that both are honest men who have been maneuvered by events into taking erroneous views of one another. Each has had his say. We hope both feel better. They were lately the sub ject of some very sensible admonitions from Mayor Whitney which Mr. Somers accepted in bettor temper and more wisely than Mr.

Harteau, who oame as near to insulting the considerate and kindly Chief Magistrate as parliamentary privileges permitted. For Mr. Harteau to construe Mr. Somers' admission of a fault into a confession of wrong doing is more tart than just. He should asoertain how his own truoulency in the premises was regarded.

These two citizens owe to public interest more interviews and to their offioial charaoter more self restraint. He will be the better Commissioner who gives the greater heed toMr. Whitney's advice to both. The London fogs thiB season btb unusually thiok. They ocour at short intervals and Inst for several days.

Collisions between vehicles are common and pedestrians are obliged to walk at a slow pace to avoid running into each other. Last month a nobleman's equipage at Portland Square crashed through the iron railing in front of his residence, fatally an juring the horses and severely bruising the occupant of the carriage. Passers by on opposite sides of the narrow highways aro invisible to each other. Street lights are kept burning all day, but they only make the yellow yellower and afford Bcanty relief. The great Capital is full of Amerioans, who wondor why they havo.

no appetite for mor than one meal a day. ing therefrom to various persons, the Alder men have been ordering more of them than there is money to pay for. The City Works Commissioner had prepared a communication setting forth the faota and showing that the rate of expenditure must be reduced after the first of January or else some provision be made for increasing the amount to the oredit of the street lighting account. Finally, if they had not been busy work ing" in their districts the Aldermen might have taken action on the extension of the water supply. At all events, the obligation to do so would have continued to reBt upon them.

A Professional Politician BeTiros an Old Scheme. Mr. George F. Elliott, whose activity in promoting his own political fortunes has earned for him the title of "the perennial personal candidate," lias recently been di recting his intellectual energies to the ques, tion of the pay of the police. He is of the opinion that these stalwart guardians of the public peace are not sufficiently well paid, and is industriously at work seeking to rec tify what he professes to regard as an in jus.

tice. Ho proposes a new scale of pay for the police, which waB stated in yesterday's Eaoms, and which will add $500 to the pay of police captains, $300 to the pay of sergeants, and about $200 to the pay of the other grades of policemen. The addition which the proposed increase would make to the expenditure of the Police Department would exceed 200,000 a year. So far as is now apparent the policemen have not asked for this increase of pay, which would bo the means of adding so great a burden to the taxpayers of Brooklyn, nor is there any public domand that their pay should be increased. The majority of our citizens are of opinion that, considering the cost of living, the "qualifications required for a policeman, the chances of promotion which a good man on the force has, and the factthat policemen are pensioned at a comparatively early age, 'the remu neration they receive is a full equivalent for their services.

They are exposed to hardships and dangers, of course so are most working men but, take it for all and all, the policeman's lot is not an unhappy one, ns the Sergeant in the "Pirates of Penzance" would have us believe. A pretty good proof that the position and pay of a policeman are deemed desirable is afforded by the fact that there are plenty of men of good character and excellent qualifications ready to fill any vacancies in the force. The Eagle thinks too well of the policemen of Brooklyn to believe that they have anything to do with Mr. Elliott's soheme or with the bill of which he is the father. They are an honest and self respecting body of men, and if they doemed thBir pay insufficient they would lay their complaint before the Commis sioner in proper fashion, so that it might bo discussed openly and in the light of day.

They would not soek to accomplish by a side wind a result which would not commend it self to the taxpayers of this city, nor endeavor to overturn for their own benefit the cherished and excollent principles of home rule which form tho basis of our municipal government. The time is past whon policemen can be active politicians and yet fulfill their duties as guardians of the peace of Brooklyn. We have passed that rudimentary and callow stage of civic affairs and, should any policeman be un wise enough to attempt to revive it, he will find that he has committed a grievous error Wo do not place men in office in this year of the Nineteenth Century to bo our masters but to bo the efficient and obedient servants of the public. As for Mr. Elliott, his interference in this matter is simply that of a moddler who has an ax to grind, and his great professed regard for the police is nothing but a piece of oheap deinagogism.

If the police wanted an advocate they would never look for one in the person of such a self seeking individual as Mr. Elliott, whose conceit, love of notoriety and hunger for office have passed into a proverb. If he thinks he can use the police as a stalking horse to reach the object of his ambition he will find himself wofully mistaken. The only person in Brooklyn who approves of Mr. George F.

Elliott's interference in a matter which belongs of right to the Police Commis. Bioner and the Common Council Beems to be Mi George F. Elliott himself. The only legislation Brooklyn needs as to police pay is this The passago of a bill vesting control of the whole subject in the local authorities and abnegating the powers of the Legislature thereafter to fool with it at all. That is home rule.

It would end the thrifty philanthropy of professional demagogues, who seek notoriety and preferment by liberality with the public's money. Tlio Hev. Sir. Stauuton as a Lawyer. For reasons which the withdrawing lawyers very properly decline to mention the Eev.

Mr. Staunton found himself without counsel the other day, and yesterday was compelled to ask Judge Beynolds for permission to furnish, perhaps, a fresh illustration of the coa tanean proverb concerning a party who pleads in his own proper person. That the Fort Greene pastor was put in this solitary position is not creditable to his denominational brethren. Where was Dr. Spear, the Father of tho Brooklyn Presbytery, who passionately affirmod Mr.

Staunton's innocence and, in order to induce the ecclesiastioal court to take his word for it, broke out into what a mere layman might mistake for an ebullition of profanity? Where were other members of that highly emotional body of triers who, having pronounced the brother guilty, fell upon his neck and wept and told him to go back to his pulpit and do it all over again? Why was none of these by the side of the beloved and forgiven eoclesiastical convict to hold up his hands before the civil tribunal? It Is to be hoped that at least the Presbytery has sent a delegation to observe the trial, for it is clearly the fault of that organization that the case comes on in City Court at all. The Eagle expresses no opinion on the pending suit, as St is neither able nor anxious to anticipate the judgment. It seemed to the Eagle, during the original inquiry, that the folly and feebleness and scandalous insensibility were by no means all on one side. But this much is plain enough If the reverend gentlemen of the Presbytery, after finding Mr. Staunton guilty of conduct unbecoming a minister, instead of gushing away all tho moral effect of the condemnation, had allowed denominational justice to take Its course; if they had resolved that, whatever difference of opinion might exist, it was quite impossible for Mr.

Staunton to be further useful as ft Presbyterian clergyman, especially in the Fort Greene Church in that event, the scandal would probably have come to an end. By reinstating the pastor they had fonnd guilty the members of the Presbytery really stimulated those who thought he should not be reinstated to continue the controversy with renewed bitterness. The unseemly business has its humors. Mr. Staunton exhibits a calm confidence, not to Bay effrontery, in embarrassing circumstance, which suffnests he did not need the profuse tears of the Presbytery to sustain him.

He scarcely seems to be of that timid, shrinking, sympathetic nature which should appeal to the emotional susceptibility of the weeping brethren. If he had not chosen to shine in the pulpit ho might have blazed at the bar. His method is described by the report as "quite lawyer like." He professionally speaks of him self as "the defendant." In cross examining his wife he addresses her, not by any titles of domestic endearment, but simply as "Madame," although Mr. Tennoy yesterday objected to it. The Court ruled that "Madame" was proper.

Mr. Staunton showed no fear of tho formida able Stalwart Republican and, with a show of spirit that might start afresh the tears of the Presbytery, hurled back defiantly the writing paper which the plaintiffs counsel threw upon tho desk for his use. He exhibited some skill too eliciting from "Madame" an admission of an hysterical intention of throwing herself from the Albany bridge. But the Presbytery is fairly responsible for tho trial, and costs ought to be taxed against it, Mrs. Wittick, one of the lady passengers on the mail and express train which was robbod yesterday near Bellevue station, Texas, put a very natural conundrum.

She stood up in tho car while tho robbers wore levying tribute and boldly asked if forty men were going to Bubmit to the outrage of being plundered by two highwaymen Tho question was all the more reasonable from tho fact that among tho passengers woro live armed Holaiers of tho Twelfth United States Infantry. But her oourago did not inspire; tho forty gallant gen To Pastor Staunton's Somewhat Ponderous Questions. The Plaintiff While Under Cross Errtmliw tin by Her Own Husband Tells Him He Wonld Make a Better Lawyer Than 6 Minister Why She Palled His Whiskers. For nearly four hours Pastor Benjamin Staunton played tho role of a lawyer and cross examined tho rrltnessos In his wife's suit against him for a limited divorce. Most ot the time was spent in the cross examination of his wife and the spectacle of a husband acting as bis own lawyer and examining his wife, who was suing him for divorce, was so muoh of a curiosity that it drew a crowd, which nearly filled tha Supervisors' chamber, which, for the nonce, had been turned into court room.

Mr. Btaunton made a fair cross examiner, but his rrue3ttons gave hts wife the chance to say somo pretty sharp things in her answers. His Questions were somewhat verbose and not always to the point, but no more so than with some counsel who have had a good deal of experience. The little woman grew weary under the strain of a five hours' examination and showed it in the way In which she Tetortod to some of her husband's queries ust before the mid day recess when Mr. Staunton was questioning her about the incident at the Shufelt house In Albany.

Mrs. Staunton testified on her direct examination that one afternoon she went out, leaving Mr. Staunton and Mrs. Shufelt In the parlor. She was gone a few mlnutos and came back.

On going to her room found the door looked and after a few moments Mrs. Shufolt came to the door of her own room in dishabille. Mrs. Staunton passed through Mrs. ShufeH's room into her own by connecting door and found Mr.

Staunton in bed. Mr. Staunton was questioning his wife about the time that had elapsed from the time she left them in tho parlor until she found him iu bod in Ms own room and Mrs. Shufelt in tho next room. "You were downstairs in the sitting room whon I went out," answered Mrs.

Staunton; "you made quick work of it" Q. You say you walked two blocks before you tnrnod back to the house A. Yob, but those blocks, you must remember, were steep hills. Q. You say you expostulated with the defendant because of his ottenlions to Mrs.

Shufelt? A. You know I have. You know 1 have gone down on my knees to jrou (stamping the floor with her umbrella.) Mr. Staunton We want no tableaux here. Mrs.

Staunton I am not as good at tableaux as you are. All through the examination Mr. Staunton spoko of himself as 'the defendant," but his wife addressed him direct, sometimes saying you and again oalling him "Mr. Stauuton." Mr. Staunton was very digniQed, and, however some of his wife's answers may have cut, he gave no outward sign.

Whon she was making some of her pungent explanations he stood quietly with his eyes upon tho paper he hold in his hand. Taken altogether it was throughout a most curious scene as singular as has been witnessed In any court room In a long time. Nearly all the evidence given was brought out in substance on Mr. Staunton's trial before the Presbytery, and not much new matter was developed. Mr.

Staunton had an assist aut in tho way of taking notes. Mr. Laidler, the husband of the lady whose name figures so prominently in the case, sat at the end of the couusel's table, and took copious notes of the evidence throughout the day. After recess Mr. Staunton resumed his cross examination.

(J. You have testified that on one evening when you returned from prayer meeting you saw something strange in Mrs. Laldler's conduct A. Oh, Mr. Staunton; why don't you say Tight out what you mean? like this.

Didn't you see Mrs. Laidler across my lap? Yes, I did. Q. What was the dato? A. The latter part of September or the first part of October.

It was the night you asked me to get Mr. Chamberlain to take charge of the prayer mooting. You ought to know the date. You were sick that night Mr. Staunton Yes, I was sick that night Mrs.

Staunton Yes, you had a cold you wore so sick Mrs. Laidler had to stay homo and take care of you. 0 Did any one else see this scene. A. Yes, my daughter Winnie.

My brother George was bohlnd. Mrs. Laidler wont Into the kitchen and when I came iu she was coming out as nice as you ploase, as if she had been there all night Q. Do you take tho defondant to bo a fool A. 1 have sometimes thought you wero when you didn't keop the sbades down.

You thought tho outside blind was olosed. Q. Did you leave the defondant or tho dofondant leave you A. Well, you had boen wanting to get rid of me for a long time and I thought I would do as you wished. Q.

Have you heon occupied for tho past twelvo mouths, justly or unjustly, in accomplishing tho defendant's ruin? Objected to. Q. Did you ever say you would ruin your husband 7 A. I never did. Q.

Did you ever say you wishod Mr. Staunton was a lawyer? A. Yes; because I thought you would make a better lawyor. I don't think, Mr. Staunton, you aro fitted for the ministry.

Laughter. Q. Did you ever say you could be a little devil if you tried 1 Objected to and qnestiOD waived. Q. Say if prior to what is called the choking scene 1 Mrs.

Staunton What is the ohoklng scene? You mean Q. Prior to this aoene did you make an assault upon the defondaut A. I pulled out some whiskers. Q. That was an expression of esteem No answer.

(J Did you ask your husband on that day for money? A. I wanted some money and you went away. I wanted to go to tho meat market and you did not come back. I did not wont to watt until night for my meat and sent Wlnnio to the neighbor's next door to borrow fifty cents. You came back and met her with the money and sont hor back with the money with a rudo message, and you sont Winnie up stairs, and when I came back you met me at the gate and begun to abuse me.

When you got in the parlor you called my sister a very mean name. Q. Did I not say you could take your antiquated fat sister back to Saratoga A. Did you think I would care for that (excitedly and addressing the court) Judge, he called my slstor a very mean name and she has been a Very good sister to mo, and I tell you I went for his whiskers. Q.

How many did you pull out A handful A. Well they were scattered pretty well looking at hor fingers. Q. Did you not cry twice "I will kill you" and I said "what, a murderess too 1" A. I might have done so.

Mr. Staunton then took up the choking scene. Mrs. Staunton told him he had taken her by her dress on the shoulder. It was In the kitchen and sho was about going to the range to warm up hor cotlee with some fro8b from the coffee pot, and when he shook her, she threw the coffee In the cup ovor him.

"I did not like cold coffee" Bhe said, "and so gave it to you. It was my only defense and ho, a six footer, was shaking the life out of me. I did uot dance up and down and cry murder. You took me by the throat and dragged me over the floor and when you let me go I went out In the back yard and cried murder. Q.

Did you not run to the neighbors 1 stag gored to tho noighbora for succor. Q. You Bay you woro In fear of your life A. Yes; I was. Why did you not ask tho neighbors to come in? A They advised me to go to the police station; I did not ask them to come in, but to look and listen; I returned to tbe house, and the neighbors were with me and the doors were locked.

The evidence was then brought out that otter the choking scene Mrs. Staunton's mother went to the defendant and he furulshed the money for Mrs. Staunton and daughter to go to Saratoga. Tho defondant went with hor to the depot Q. Did you part with the defendant in tears A.

Of courso I did. I am not aa iron heartod woman. At 4 o'clock Mr. Staunton clOBod hts cross examination, and Mr. Tonney began tho redirect in which the witness stated that when the defendant accompanied the witness to the depot, on the way to Saratoga, he did not bid the little girl goodby, and paid no attention to the child.

Q. You havo been asked about opening tho defendant's desk what did you find there? A. I tound two loaded revolvers and Borne pictures of nude women mixed with sermons. Q. By what name was the defendant known before he was known as Benjamin Staunton A.

I had rather not say anything about that Mrs. Staunton retired from tho witness chair and Rev. Dr. Wells, of the Eastern District, was callod by Mr. Tenney.

He testified: Mrs. Staunton came to me with a very sad story. She made a statement to me in roferonco to the choking scene. Q. What did sho say? Mr.

Stauuton objected and Judge RevnoldB said he was not euro it could be admitted and Mr. Tonney quoted authorities to show tho evidence was ad mlssable. The evidence was admitted. Dr. Wells said that almost immediately she showed mo her neck and it was vory much discolored.

Sho made the same statement which she has mudo here. On cross examination tho witness said he was sit ting eight feet away when he saw the marks on the plaintiffs neck. ueoreo w. t'ratt an oweriy man. wno waiaea with a crutch and cane, was the next witness.

lie testified ho resided at 124 Linden street, next door to the Stauntons. He recollected Mrs. Staunton coming into the house on a morning in last February. Witness was Bitting in the front basoment sirs, aiaunwn oame up and "on, Air. rrait, Ben has most killed me, or choked me to death." She showed me the marks on hor throat O.

Do yon toaow your daughter in law had rapped On the wall A. She had, at my suggestion. 1 had heard the noise, and my daughter in law said Mr. and Mrs. Staunton were fighting, and I said, Rp on the wall." Q.

What was the partition A. It was a lath and plaster waU not filled in. uroas examined to Mr. Staunton i naa neara voices your voles but could not ten tho words upokon. At tms point tno court aajournea umu wis morning.

TWENTIETH WARD REPUBLICANS. A. Primary racket Nainca as a Canons Evening. The Twentieth Ward Republicans held a cauaus last evening In the chapel in Adolphl street, near Fulton, for the purpose of naming a ticket for the primaries, to be held December 17. Mr.

Jesso Johnson occupied tho chair and Mr. Charles F. Hodges recorded. In order to expodlto matters Mr, Beard moved that a committee of sovon bo appointed to frame a ticket The committee was appointed, but as tho mooting was a semi executive one tho names of tho committsomon wore not mado public a After tho committee had retired a roc03S of nitoon minutes was taken, during which Mr. O'Connor, tho ox caudldate for Congress, and Mr.

Albert G. McDonald mado brief addresses, attrlbutinu tho ro. ennt local defeat of the Republican party to tho lukownrmnoss or many of Its rnombors. Both gentlemen urged hardor work in future and promised better results. Tho chairman then said there ouirhi, tn hn n.

ins Instituted If It wore eosslblo to onforoo It. bv which a man could bo fined If was too lazy to transport nis uuuy iu mo pons, no mougnt that this country would not long be governod by Democrats. Colonel Stephenson had been sick sluco election and couldn't make a speech, Uo snld. Ex Aldorman Smith when callod upon, had nothing to say. A number of otliei gentlomon woro called upon and the caucus took tho form of an experience meeting and expressions of mutual condolouco ovor tho recent Waterloo.

Tho room in which tho caucus was held Is sometimes used as a Sunday school room. Above tho chairman's taole hung tho motto "Lord increase our faith." One facetious member suggested that that motto might well be adoptid i3 Iho watchword of tho ltopublioan iwirty. Tho committoo returned at 8:40 oVlookultb the following ticket: For president Robert D. Benedict; first vice pvos idont Fred. J.

Adlor; seoond vloo president, 11. G. Noff; secretary, William II. Thornton; assistant secretary, Frank Malone; treasurer, Herman Llob inspectors; F. Pago andE.

J. InvesugAllnij Corinnltteotloseph J. Heuflrlckson, Charlos 8. Stopftregen and B. II.

Brandon; General, Vnmiltl WHMttrri SinrihnTiSllfll John "JibuJeimssTiljnjrtnSipharles Hodm. William C. TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 14, 1880. TIiSs Paper Iirw tUo liturtrest Clrcnv ion ot any EveuUlK Paper PuWlsneS tn CSlo United States.

Its value as an Adrwrtistiiff Medium la iberefore ap. pnrem. Hoae la Brooklyn's, if Yon Please. The New York Board of Aldermen lately appointed a special committee to sound the iboal authorities of Brooklyn, Long Island Dity and Yonkera on the subject of annexation, to the Metropolis. The ohairman of that committee, Alderman John Quinn, in a letter io Mayor 'Whitney, under date of the 11th asks him, "in case the proposition meets Wife his approval," to suggest the appointment of a like committee for conference on the subject.

The letter contains a provision which relieves the Mayor from the necessity of taking ny notice of it. The proposition does not "meet with his approval." He rightly believes, too, that it does not meet with the approval of the citizens of Brooklyn. This annexation project is not a new one. Years ago. Mi.

Peter B. Sweeny, about the ablest politician of the Metropolis at that time or since, favored it for perfectly intelligible reasons. Ho thought with the two municipalities made one a material and moral force would be assured which would enable the rapacious and reactionary elements in each population to bo Kept under, which would protect the joint city, so to speak, ugainst the rest of the State by dominating It, which Trouia always secure Democratic unity, and which would make the reign of the factions, now called "halls," impossible. Henry 0. Murphy had the same idea, but did not pro claim it on the housetops for fear of offending tis constituency.

Later Mr. S. B. Chittenden and other merchants advocated it from a purely taxpayers' point of view and the fact did not injure Mr. Chittenden's subsequent political aspirations.

Events, however, conspired against the pinn. New York Oity got a bad political name and deserved it. Brooklyn grew so large in size and remained so local in spirit that the idea of making this city either an annex to the other one or of predicating or ere atincr here the conditions of life across the river became impracticable. That is so now. Whatever the original merits of the scheme, a difference of feeling and habit and customs intensely dissimilarizes the two places.

The union would be one of opposites. The moral and political loser would be Brooklyn and the gainer would not be New York. Neither side would gain, in faot. Legislation for di vorcement would oon be tirgoct. The.

subject is capable of treatment from a humorous side, but that side readily enough suggests itself. The serious side of the mat ter is weighty and obvious. Brooklyn has reason to be proud of her autonomy and would be foolish to surrender it. Her municipal life has not been free from mistakes, but her amenability to public opinion exceeds that of almost any other great city. There is no public opinion to speak of over the river.

Spasmodie assertions of popular indignation occur at long intervals over theTe, but soon pass away, conspiracy and flesh pots A politics of prevails, while here, though the tone of not ideal, those who abuse political life is party or public confidence write their own discomfiture in their own errors. Independent men exist in sufficient numbers to hold the balance of power in real emergencies. The qualities which moke Brooklyn a city of homes and which make New York emphatically not a city of homes require no consideration. Experience and observation suggest them at once. There is no aspect in which the matte: can be regarded which commends annexation to Brooklynites, In last solution government is a question of politics.

In last solution politics is a consid eration affecting mainly the majority party. In Brooklyn that is the Democratic party, The interests and instincts of that party con trol Brooklyn, for the opposition is but a 'tempering force, as a rule. The merging of Brooilyn into New York would mean the effacement of the Kings County Democracy as on organized force. That would trie" loss to the State Democraoy of its ally against the aggressive forces of the Metropolis. It would transfer County, Irving and Tammany taotics over here in lien of that unity of the party which has been attained.

Coincident with this political evolution a homo rule sentiment has grown up in Brook lyn, to which New York City is a stranger, Her wealth and culture are as cowardly as they are groat. They run to the Legislature every Winter to bo protected from the consequences of neglected citizen duties. Pluto cratio and proletariat influences are constantly making New York a battle ground, while in Brooklyn numerous examples of extremes of wealth and extremes of poverty do not exist and there is complete harmony between organized labor, that magic and trenchant force, and the party Democratic, whose very name makes it the party of the masses, not of the olasses. lime for talk on behalf of annexation was never more inopportune. Brooklyn is not Pharisaical, but is, nevertheless, thankful that she is not as others are, even as those Now Yorkers.

Moyor Whitney, whose growth under the conserving influences of large re sponsibilities is as observable as his stnrdy love of Brooklyn has always been manifest, is entirely right in determining to take no notice of this overture of the committee of the boodle end of the government of the boodle city. Business Waicb the Aldermen Neglected. A little event oocurred yesterday which must have commended itself to the able and industrious Civil Service Reformers of the City Hall as an illustration of the importance and timeliness of the great work to which, with non partisan unselfishness, they are devoting their lives. It is true that Aldermen do not come within the rules, but if these are beneficial they should exert a moral effect beyond the limit of their legal application. The most obvious use of the new system is to admonish people in public employment that not partisan interests, but those of the govern ment should command their time and labor.

Yet the holding of the Democratic primaries prevented the assemblage of a quorum at the regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen yesterday. It IB suggested to the City Hall Beformers whether, after they have finished with the Park Department, they should not iura their attention to the Common Council. If the paramount duty of putting through the regular ticket had not claimed their obedient allegiance the Aldermen might have found some public business to do. They could have meditated with profit npon the Mayor'8 veto of the resolution authorizing the purchase of $250 worth of grooeries for that mysterious and elusive establishment, the Truant Home. It may be regarded as a small matter, but it indicates sufficiently the carelessness and looseness of the methods of the Board.

The Mayor reminds the Aldermen that there is in operation a contract for furnishing such supplies for such purpose. Groceries ought to bo bought under this contract. If goods of a kind not covered by it are required the varioty and the quantity ought to be specified. This view is manifestly sound because otherwise the very articles included in the agreement might be purchased outside on terms less advantageous to the city, and so the sole object of making a contract be defeated. A more pressing subject which would have come up if the municipal statesmen had not been "working" elsewhere is the oloctrical wire question.

The Subway Commissioners were to be called upon to givo an account of what they had done and neglected to do about burying the strings now stretched upon poles to the disfigurement and danger of the city. Tt is high time that these Commissionors were aroused from sleep by a Common Council call or something else. It was supposed that they woro appointed to find how to do it, but they really have found how not to do it. Instoad of excavating a subterranoan passago for the wires they seem to have burrowed beneath the Boil in search of a comfortable place of profound slumber for themselves. Alderman Coifey may not have chosen exact words when ho described them as a "close corporation," but ho no doubt had a jnst conception of their 6Xoeutlvo capabilities.

Another electrical matter was ready to be Stabmittcd to the Board. In their haste to A Bill for Their Abolishment to he Prepared, The Trastees Don't Like to Act Without Authority from the legislature Me ehanical Devices of the Ballroad. The monthly meeting of the Board of Bridge Trustees yesterday afternoon was tho largest that had been held this year. Those present were Joan G. 'Carls, J.

Adrlance Bush, Henry Clausen, Thomas O. Clarke, Charles Macdonald, H. K. Thurber, nudor Wormsor, William Marshall, Beth L. Keoney, Alfred v.

Barnes, George W. Anderson, AldenS. Swan, James Howell, Mayor Whitney, Con troller Aaron Brlnkerhoff and John Only Mayor William B. Grace, Controller Edward V. Loew, Jenkins Van Scheldt and Edward Anndn wore absent.

Secretary Bean read tbe minutes of the previous meetings and the minutes of the Finance Committee, both of which were approved. A communication, was received (com the Mayor. Controller and Auditor of the City of Brooklyn appointing Qeorfce W. Anderson to the vacancy in the Board caused by of Judge William J. Osborne.

The following statements were ordered filed seohetary'g raiasnta sTAmatzHrron hovbubeb, 1890. Promenade. Carriage! Ways. 1 Railroad. Total.

Reo'ts rom New York Total $755.84 782.96 $32,710.57 37,061.14 j69.771.71 91.538.8UJ 652,444.23 Bitty AVERAGE BEOErfTS. For Novembers $51.29 61.84 94.80 $192.06 198.23 178.86 162.B3 $2,081,471 $228.72 2,918.88 1,603.06 1,020.40 For For 1884. For 1885. 1,329.40 1,711.84 40.23! COMPAEI80N. Kee'ts for.

ajo vomber, 1885 Ueo'ts for No 81,380.70, $4,834.96, 0,788.68 $51,840.34 62,444.23 11,103.89 03,885.01 1,440.78 $57,612.00 vember. 1H8B 1,538.80 162.11: 69,771.71 18,159.71 An increase of Koo'ts for UO' tober. 1886.J 1,901.50 8G2.7ol 204.5o! 71,809.69 A decrease for' November ofl .2,097.98 OABH TARES AHT TIOKltTB. Promenade. Baih osd.

Number of cash faros at 1 cent 123,840 1,188,710 Number of tiokots sold (25 for 5 cents) 150,200 1,131,310 Increase of number of fciok ets sold is Nov. over Oot 3,960 Beoreaso of oash fares for November ovor 30,375 51,326 Deoreaso of number of tickets sold in Noy. over Oct. 29,475 NUMBER OP FA3SESC1EBS. Promonnde.

Rairroad. Total passengers 259,180 2,270,026 Daily average of passengers for November. 8,639 73,227 Daily avoings of passengers forOctiiber 10,034 74,755 Decrease of daily avorage. of Total. 1,262,556 1,281,510 3,960 81,701 29,475 Total.

2,529,206 81,868 84,789 passengers for 1,895 1,528 3.923 Henry Beam, Secretary. The following report was then read To the Trusters of th Mw York and Brooklyn Bridgt We. the nndeTslened. a committee appointed De cember 16, 1835, to Investigate the mechanical de vices of the railroad, with power to employ experts and to report to the Board of Trustees, do respect fully suomtc our nnai report, as rouows: us April 12, 18SS, your committee submitted an ad interim report, in which they stated that they bad examined lis plana or gripe ana prases, una mat tnoy naa authorized the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, of Flttsburg, to attaoh, at their own expense, their system of brakes to two cars, arranged to work the grips aiso au oy compressed air. I.

Brakes It was at first proposed to work all the brakes of the train by one person, leaving the band brakes to be used In oaso ot failure of the air orako. Practical difficulties prevented this sohoine from being oarried out, and the Westinghouse system was applied to two cars, to be worked by a man on oaca car, as ts now aone wun tno nana brakes. At the Batne time, the Eames Vacuum Brake Company obtained permission to fit up two core with tholr system. After oaref ul testa, extending ovor 0vo months, the superintendent, Mr. C.

O. Martin, reported thar the Eames system answers the reaulremonts of the bridce most comnletelv. The vacuum chamber In the Eames system is kept at tho proper vacuum by a pump, worked by tho axle of the car Itself: hence, it is always ready. without outside assistance or detention. The west inghouse system roeulrod, first, a reservoir to be niioa witn oompressea air, ana secona, tne air from reservoir to be transferred to tho reservoirs on each car.

This detains the train long enough to bo objectionable dur ing the crowded parts ot tho day, when trains run ninety Boconds apart. Whother a pumping system on oacncarcouia oo appiioa to tne westing house system, your committee aia not think It nec essary to Investigate, as they found a satisfactory system at work; hence, they coincide with Mr. Mar tin in nis opinion mat tne names vacuum system, as now applied. Is satisfactory; and they recom mend that it be applied to all the cars. When this Is done, no dangor need be roared from trains run nine away on down Grades.

11. urips xour committee, alter carefully consid ering the 112 new projects submitted to them, report that the present system, as invented by Colonel Paine and developed and improved by your superintendent and chief engineer. C. C. Martin, and his assistants during; the post three years, is better than any other which they have seen and that it answers its nurnose perfectly.

The proof of this is: First That the cablo Itself has lasted three years and two months, or tnroe times tne mo or caoics in other places. Second That the average life of the rub ber ana leatner lining ot a grip now is 145 days, or 5,031 round trips, or 11,320 miles run; and It costs less than $13 to replace it Tho grips themselves have never worn out. Third That the working of the grip causes no more delay than is inseDarable from any kind of machinery. In February last. one of the worst months of the year, as regards wet and lco, tho grips caused a loss of seven minutes in eighteen days, being an average of twenty tbroe seconds per day out 933 round ips, or 8,312 miles vun.

xottr coraumuH, luoruiuru. rccommourt nn change from the present grip. 11L Terminal Arrangements Many suggestions nave neen raaae to your committee ror improve ments in tne terminal arrangements, oy wmcn the trains could be switched from the incoming to tho outcome tracks by gravity, and thuB dispense with locomotives, which are noisy and expensive, cost ing fully one nan or tne total expenditure for moving, the trains. Notwithstanding these objections the present system, the undersigned are not prepared to recommend any change, for the following reasons: 1st No system of swltohlng by gravity, or bv auxiliary cables, can compare in certainty and freedom from delay, with the locomotive system. Snd.

Any gravity system Involves the use of "flying switches," and does not insure as great safety to the traveling publla as the present system. 8rd. Locomotives can now be used to take single cars across tho bridge when necessary; and even If the trains could bo moved without their assistance, they would still be required to move the SBparoto cars to and from the shops and storage yards. For these reasons your committee recommend that no change in the present system is needed, nor is It desirable. Your committee baa received much val uable assistance from your Superintendent and Chief Engineer Mr.

C. C. Martin. Your committee respecttuiiy ass to po aiscuargea. OAMEU HOWELL, Charles aodonald, Thouas C.

Clarke. On motion of Mr. Marshall, the committee was thanked and discharged, the report standing adopted without a dissentiiig voice. On motion of Mr. Macdonald.

President Howell's action In ordering new vacuum brakes at a cost of $4,060 was ratified. uenerai tsornes, trom me uoraraiuee on iraprove report of the work done which has been printed from time to time in the Eagle. The committee bad decided not to recommend the immediate con struction of the outside gallery at the New York station, as it mignc not oe neeaea ror another year yet The president and superintendent were authorized to build it whenever it should bo needed. Tho committee further recommended that the oars bo switched back on the Brooklyn elde to allow oie vated passengers to make use of the new connection when completed, and this was adopted. An agreement prepared 'by tho bridge counsel, licensing the Brooklyn Blevated Company to make the connection above Prospect street, was referred to the pn jident and superintendent, with power to sign for the Board.

Mr. H. K. Thurber, or wow xork, then moved that the tolls be removed from the promenade on Feb ruary 1. Mr.

Bush ottered an amendment that a committee of three be appointed by the Chair to draw up a petition to tne legislature asking aumority to make the promenade free. He thought It was tho duty of the Board to make the carriageways free as well as the promenade, but it must be dono in a legal way. The question of throwing open the promenade free had been frequently discussed, but after a careful examination of tho law by the Corporation Counsels of both cities, It had been decided that the Board had no power whatever to abolish tolls. He did not boliere In doing, as some enthusiastic mom Dors naa proposed, passing an act now ana trusting to the courts to declare its validity afterward. The Legislature will not dare to refuse the petition of this Board.

At ths reauest ot Mr. Macdonald Mr. Bush said that the law gave the trustees power to fix tolls but not to abolish them. It gave uo power to make a free bridge, and to attempt to do this even in part would put the Board In a peculiar position. Mr.

Tnurpor i nave no great ooiection to reier the matter to the Legislature if Idld not think It mlsht be delayed, but notwlthstandlne ODlnlon of counsel I have had the law interpreted, and I be lieve we nave tno rigni io regulate tne tons, une law expressly says the bridge shall be for the public Mr. Bavis Brooklyn has paid over for tho bridge, and is paying $750,000 annual Interest. It was promised that tho tolls should go to pay the interest All works of this nature pay their Interest by tolls. See the Erie Canal and Creton Aqueduct, they havo paid interest or years. It is wrong to our trusts to make the bridge freefor it was always tho intention to get the tolls.

Mr. Davis had written speech on the subject, out becoming too excited to deliver it he gave it to one of the reporters. Mr. Clarke amended Mr. Bush's amendment to Include authority to free the carriageways, finally Mr.

Thurber ncsoptod both amendments, and tne rouowing was carriea: Kcsoivea, xnato, committee ot three be appointed to the president to prepare a bill for presentation at the next session of the Legislature giving authority to this Board, if they shall decide it advisable bo to do, to abolish tolls on tho promenade and carriageways of the bridge or either of them. The meetine then adlournBd and President Tlnw Oll appointed Messrs. Bush, Marshall and Thurber to draw up the bill and report to the January meeting. COAOH QUIVERS' GRIEVANCES. Tbe TLirery Stable Keepers' Association Sayci it Cannot Interfere.

A. regular meeting of the Kings County Livery Stable Keepers' Association was held last night at the Evorott Assembly Hooms, Fulton street and Gallatin place. Alter President George. W. Oakey had asked the association to allow represen tatives of the press toromain in the room, a courto sy which was granted for the first time, the regular business of the evening was begun.

Mrs. BHzaboth Martin, whose name had been proposed and reported favorably npon was duly elected. Tho president proposed for msmborshiii the Brothers Henshaw. When tho Committee on Candidates had been an. rjolntod and tho readincc of communications was In order, the lively part of the entertainment began.

A letter from the Coaoh Drivers' Protective Union No 1 was road, stating their grievances. It asked for $12 for drlvors, $11 for grooms per wook and that no groom should take caro more than twelvo horsos; also, that drivers and grooms should havo an afternoon off onco a month. A committee from tho Union waited In tho ante room while it was dobated whothor or not they should bo admitted to sr oak for thomsnlves. un motion oi Air. nowiunu it was ordered that tho president proooao and auswor all auostlons and tho committee were asked to enter tho room.

As soon as thov woro seated tho nresldont loft his chair in cUitrgo of Mr. Moffat and addroSBod the haok drivers. Ho. told them that he had men woi lnc for him for twenty nine years, some for twenty and not one for less than throe, and that ho thought inoy woro porieouy sansiioa wun meir wages ana tho treatment they had received Ho hoped that they esteemed him for hts Kindness to them as oho did for their He explained to the committee that as an association the Livery Stable, Keepers' could not regulate the wages lntho different establishments, but as individuals they were all in favor ot doing the Tight thing by their employes. Ho also thought that to obtain redroBs no society, bo Its hams whatever it might, should resort to mlotatemouts in, regard to oxrstlug grlevahoos.

Mr. Carpenter, of the commlttoe, who acted as: spokesman, retorted thai he saw to the room "'Am. Democratic Contests is Wards and Towns. Snecess trf tho RemilarB Many Chaoses in the Composition of tho General Cora miUee TOiy John W. Flaherty Was Defeated.

tvlth one or two exceptions tha Democratic primary can tests la tho Twenty sixth "Ward and the four county towns passed off uneventfully last evening and resulted In every Instance in the election of the regular ticket Tho volume of the "kicking" olemont dwindled perceptibly as the time for the definite preparation of the' tickets approached, and by the time they were deposited In the baKot boxes most of the klckora, except la tho Second, Fourth and Nineteenth wards and Flat bush, were "ready to throw up their Hats for tho choice of the majority. The character ot tho Democratic General Com' mlttee will be materially changed, as the successful tickets reprinted telow indicate, aha in Beverol instances, without any reflection on past representatives, the ohanga Is an Improvement, so far as commercial and Social standing is concerned. In tee Fourth this change is material and something oi a new departure. Four gentlemen havo boon elected to the committee who ore not la any sense oi the word politiolans, each of them belDg engaged in Business on his own account TVard and Town Contests, There was a lively contest in the Second Ward, where the regular party, headed Dy George a. sterling and Alderman Dwyer, beat the Patrick Wiggins wing of the party.

The Fifteenth Ward Primary opened at 1 o'clock. In Graham avenue, north of Grand street, there be ing then in tho field only the "reg'lar ticket," neauea witn tne name of Fire Commissioner John linnis for president of the Ward Association. The anticipation of opposition caused the leaders of the dominant faction to bestir themselves, but with evl dently indifferent success, for at about 5 o'clock not more than 800 votes had been deposited. Knowl, edge of this fact having reached the leaders of the recent revolt, no time was lost In getting out a rival ticket and sending it, with workers, to the polling place. It bore the namo of James H.

Powell for president of the Ward Association and ignored little Alderman McKee for secretary, substituting Hugh McQoldrtck. The success of the Powell ticket, con sidering that it made its appoarance so late In the day, 1b regarded as sufficient reason for believing mat had It been brought out at the start it would have boen victorious. As it is, only 334 votes Dut ot nearly 1,000 were cast, of which the regular ticket received 267 and the opposition 07. All things con sidered, the men of the opposition are satisfied and are more hopeful than ever. The voting In the Fifteenth Ward was vory peaceably conducted.

There was a lively contest at the Nineteenth Ward primary which was held at Haggerty's Hall, Rod ney street and Wythe avenue. The polls were opened atl o'clock, and Thomas Stanton, Mr. War ren and William Drlukwater were tho inspectors, the latter being a minority one and A. M. Stoddart and Henry Bauer were the clerks.

The Supervisors were Jamos D. Bell ana Henry Bohnelder. The regular or O'Roilly ticket was headed by James D. Bell for Supervisor and the opposition or the County Clerk Rankon, Deputy CoUeotor of customs Samuel Guthrie, Deputy Auditor Cornell, Assistant Water Purveyor Horfrnlre ticket nad Counselor William B. Lynes for president It was openly stated and not denied during the voting that the opposition ticket was really tho City Works Department one, tho man behind ths throne want ing in his vaulting ambition, It was claimed, to con trol tho well as the Thirteenth Ward, The narrow boundaries of the Thirteenth Ward are altogether too small for the powerful mind of such a statesman, so he stretches out his gloved hand, with the much talked of iron grip, to grasp us small folks withlu it," said a Nineteenth Warder humbly.

"AsslBtant Water Purveyor Hon mire," ho added, "acknowledged that he had instructions to get all tho men In tho (toard of City Works, resld in the ward, to vote the Hankon Guthrle ticket" Captain Thomas Madge appeared at the polling place as an entirely disinterested person. I have no interest in tho primary," said tho captain, "but of two evils I would choose the least andvoto for tho O'Reilly ticket Luke O'Reilly Is muoh more manly than the pack of office holding, office hunt ing fellows who are fighting him. But It's no affair of mine anyway, when they get through fighting I'll show them what a oontest at a primary means." The captain's name was on tho roll and he was In vited to vote, but ho declined. Thoro was no excite ment around the polling place until the balloting had ceased, when an outhusiastic young man, who, as the O'Reilly people claimed, had been promised a position as fireman by tho opposition, created a disturbance and struck Mr. Haggerty.

A pane of glass was broken In the store. It was conceded on all Bides that the primary was an eminently fair one. Tho regular tioket won by 825 to 167. In the Twentieth Ward Justice Courtney came out victorious with very slight opposition. At the lost meeting of the Twenty fifth Ward Democratic Association ox City Works Commissioner John W.

Flaherty was one of four nomi nated as delegates to tho General Committee. James (i. Fitzgerald. (Big Fltz), one of that body, did notlike Mr. Flaherty's nomination, and Informed that gentleman of the fact after the meotingwas ovor.

Who are you said Flaherty, sarcastically. IU show you in good time," said Fitzgerald. Fits kept his word. From the time ihe poUs opened at 4 o'clock yeBterday afternoon until the close a coaoh was kept running to and from the wigwam at the corner of Bold and Jotforaon ave nues. The coach carried none but antl Flaherty Jtes who cast their votes for John Kelly.

In the wigwam some very lively tlmos woro witnessed dur ing the day. Tom Haggerty and ex Supervisor Fitzgerald had a wordy quarrel, la whloh Haggerty acoused tho other of being crooked." Yon never voted a straight tickot in your life," was his accusation. Joseph Devino informed the weighty John Harri son, in language more forcible than elegant, that ho (Harrison) was a prevaricator. When the bal lots were counted it was found that Kelly had beaten Flaherty by 8 majority. "We've got 'em," said a greasy looking individual who appeared ready to drop at any moment Rats," answered one of Flaherty's adherents and the greasy Individual started and gazed around the room.

The Flatbush primary was held at Mechanlcsi Hall. Although it was a bitterly contested one, no breach of the peace occurred, consequently tho active services of the Ave policemen on hand wore not needed. Owing to the pending charges against 8a. pervisor Peter Plgott, Theodore Bachaus and John gammons, and in order to influence tho action of the association on the matter when a final report is made by the Investigating Committee, both factions did their utmost to show their full strength. The Lynam faction had for its leaders Supervisor elect William M.

Lynam and Road Commissioner H. Hes terberg, Adam Balzer, James Ryan, M. E. Glnnigan, Adrian M. Williamson and Judge Henry Bornkamp, who supported tho regular ticket headed by James F.

Kelly. The opposition, headed by William Flood, was led by Supervisor Peter Pigott, Edward Mas terson, John Sammons, Patrick McCanna, Justices Cox and Curren, Peter Mcklnney, Edward SInnott and Peter Murphy. Both Bides up to the close of the polls claimed tho victory, but when the votes were counted It was found that the regular ticket, headed by James F. Kelly for president, had received 239 votes and that of the opposition ticket only 99 votes. Snccessf al Tickets.

PIEST WARD. President, Alden S. Swan; vico presidents, Louis H. Leonard, George F. Peabody, Thomas MoNoble, Robert H.

MUey; secretary, Andrew McDonald; assistant secretary, Jeremiah Rowan; treasurer, Will lam A. Corr. General Committee Robert T. Canning, Henry J. Cullen, William F.

Gilbert, James J. O'lSeil. Inspectors Peter J. Scully, John MoKenna. SECOND "WARD.

President, Jnmes H. Smith; vice presidents, Hugh C. Doherty, Hugh C. Malloy, James O'Keefe; treasurer, John McAndrews; secretary, William J. Carr; assistant secretary, John J.

Doherty. General Committee John Gettons, John J. Biggins, Joseph S. McClean, Bernard McBrlde, Richard Nagle. Inspectors Prank Campbell, Patrick Ward.

TUMID WARD. President, Thomas H. Lowery; vice presidents, P. H. Quinn, Henry McLean, Robert W.

Oliver secretary, Lawrence J. Tormey assistant secretary, Hugh Reld; treasurer, Joseph Oversold. General Committee George Oakley, Hugh Mo Partland, James Keating, William Ef, Davis, John McNamara. Inspectors Thomas Moran, Joseph Callahan. FOUltTH VATID.

President, John McKeown; vico presidents, Andrew J. Robinson, JameB Dooner, Gilbert E. Stovon son: treasurer, Bartholomew McQowan; secretary, P. J. McGurrln; assistant secretary, Andrew A.

OoUviUe. General Committee John H. Martinhoff, George Russell, Wllllom A. Robinson, Arthur Murphy. Inspectors Thomas Duiisworth, Jeremiah Mc uratn, juawrence Aiorsamara TOTH WAKD.

President. Andrew Walsh; vice presidents, Thomas O'Neill, Samuol MoDormott, J. E. Rowland socrotary William U. Jordan; assistant secretary, John F.

Frost; treasurer, James Bridges. Gohoral Committee Edward Fitzgerald, Thomas FarreU, John Cullen, Thomas Magulre. Inspectors John J. Carey, William QIassoy, Thomas J. Farley.

SIXTH lVABD. President, Peter Fagan vice presidents, John L. Deveivny, John J. Smith, James Hodden; secretary, Hugh A. McTernan; assistant secretary, James Clyne; treasurer, John O'Toolo.

General Committee Michael J. Cummings, Fat rick Nallin, Kdward Murphy, Edward ToohllL IhBpeotors Joseph Cnhiil, George Stoddard. SEVENTH WARD. President, James B. Bouck; vice presidents.

William Kearney, Richard Kenny, P. E. Cullahao48ec retary, William A. Powers; assistant secretary, Daniel J. Rorko; treasurer, John Bulwlnkle.

Gouoral Committee Joseph H. Moore, John P. Adams, Jamos Kelly, Thomas Traoy; to fill vacancies, Thomas C. Delaney, John Schlieman. Inspectors Matthew Martin, James Brltt, John Foley.

EIGHTH WARD. President, Patrick McCaffery; vice presidents, Michael Quigley, H. B. O'Connor, William Redmond; secretary, Robert T. Blohin; assistant secretary, Henry A.

Hiers; treasurer, Philip O'Korke. General Committee Daniel Kyan, Jamo3 Kon nedy, Johu J. Sellhorst, George W. Tyudull. Inspoctorsr Thomas Lowory, Josoph Sommers.

NINTH WAKP. President, Thomas M. Kolan; vico presidents, Patrick Tlernan, Daniel Gallagher, James Lavollo; secretary, James B. Koys; assistant secretary, Frauds 0. McGulre; treasurer, Jamos Shanuon.

General Committee Edward Buddy, Edward C. Murphy, Charles J. Foley, William A. Furoy. InspectorsEdward F.

Carney, Samuol Welch. TENTH WABT). Prosldent, Jamos Tlgh6; vico presidents, Pat riok Butlor, James a. Lahoy, Francis Devlin; secretary. Daniel II.

Colomon; assistant secretary, Baldwin F. Strauss; treasurer, Timothy Mailer, General Com it tee Ed ward Smith, Edward J. Borgon) Michael O. Heenan, Edward Lyman. Inspectors John H.

Fan oil, Thomas McCoy, KnBVBNTti AfitC President Honrv F. Hoary MoArdlo, John gtyure William Goodwin, Somo ot tho Heretofore ItaptlbTSsned Portions of Coram issionor Conner's Report. The Eagle has already published anil Commented upon a number oi matters of hnpertanos which City Works Commissioner Conner has included in his report for the eleven months ending December 1, inst, which was iBaued to day. Prominent among these were questions connected with the water supply, street pavements, street repairs, eewer work and electric lighting. Commissioner Conner will enter into a fuller discussion of these and other matters in his annual report, which hs will not have prepared until February next The eleven months' statement has been prepared for the Mayor for whatever use he may want to make of it in connection with his message.

The principal features of this statement which the Eagle has net heretofore published are appended: The receipts of the department from all sources aggregate the sum of $1,575,938.65, which Includes $1,539.84, balance on hand at tbe close of 18S5. The disbursements aggregate $1,564,961.19, leaving a bait ance, November 30, 1886, of $10,977.46, which represents contractors' sidewalk and other deposits, petty cash and conduits' extension contingency. The sum of has been paid to the City Treasurer. Tho increase in the receipts from water rates for corresponding period of 1SS5 has been $101,200.09, 1 that of $48,407.05 belonging to the Bureau of Water Rates ot this department and $33,733.94 to that ot arrears. The present condition of tho water revenue Is that having added the receipts of $1,455,46294 to the balance at tho olose of 1885, via: tho amount would reach tho sum of $1,638,630.21, from which transfers and payments have been made aggregating the sum of which leaves a balance in the Treasury November 30, 1888, $770, 008.74 to which add the estimated receipts for December (that of December, 1885) $55,432.91, making $825,440.65, after deducting from which the interest about being made payable amounting to $338,225, will leave a surplus on December 31, 18S8, of $487, 216.65, an inorease on that of 1885 of $304,043.38.

In connection with the "vater supply question the Commissioner briefly rehearses the measures already taken for the extension of the works ten miles easterly from Rockville Centre, and expresses tho anxiety which thB matter has caused him. He shows that he is powerless to proceed without authority of the Common Council and adds The policy pursued by my predecessors of tiding over present necessities by procuring such water supply as was possible from within the linos of our present works was a narrow ono, and should not govern us in the present emergency unless the plans now under consideration in the Common Council shall lie in abeyance iu the future aa they have in tho post. Tho Commissioner strongly favors the substitution of granite blocks for cobblestones for repaving. He says: "The immense amount ot property im provernenta in tho outer wards, brought aboat mainly by the construction and operation of the Elevated Itailroad, have largely Increased the demand for grading and paving of streets, construction of sowors and the sotting of street lamps. The money placed at my disposal for the repairs of cobblestone streeteis totally inadequate to tho keeping in thorough repair 330 miles of streets, but I have endeavored, and think succeeded.

In placing most of the stroots in a passable and safe condition. Concerning street cleaning Mr. Conner makes these highly interesting remarks: "The street oleauing has been dono, so far as It could be dono uuder the present system of mileage, to my entire satisfaction; the contractor under tho schedule receiving only tho money which he absolutely earned under tho specifications. The apocilTcatious were prepared some three years ago and through lack of knowledge streets wore put down to be cleaned but once in three months which should have been in the schedule to have beon cloaued nt least odcb in each month; hence arose the cry of dirty streots, which was neither the fault of the contractor or of this department" On another Important subject he says: During the current year the demands of the people upon tho Common Council for electric street lights were so great and continuous that the number of them erected and lighted carried us for beyond the appropriation for tho year, and apeclal provision had to bo made by the Common Council to meet tho extra exponse incurred thereby. The amount allowed by tho Board of Estimate and the Common Council ro meet the expense of lighting tho streets of the city with ga9 aud by electricity lor the year 1887, will not be adequate for tne purpose, should the of electric street lights now in use be continued to December 31 and ujiless some further provision be made than tho amount in tho tax levy for 1887, either the number of oloctria lights or tho number of lamps now lighted will have to be reduced on that date.

An increased responsibility has been added by reason of the annexation oi tho late Towa of Ifow Lots. The necessary maps aud surveys are now being mado aud when completed the wants and demands of the people of the Twanty sixtli Ward will receive tho attention that the public necessities may require. THE HEW MAOAZISK. The new Bcribner's Magazine will appear to morrow simultaneously in New York and London. The first number, January, 1887, will start with an edition of Hereafter the magazine will, unlike most of its predecessors, be on time, rather than ahead of time, and aome out on the first day of the month whose date it bears.

For frontispiece it has a fine engraving of Gambetta, his dork figure in tho bright outer light of a large window, proclaiming tho Republic of France to the Parisian crowds below. This fitly introduces tho first article by ex Mlnistor to France Weshburno, "Reminiscences of tho Siege and Commune of Paris." The second will be a story, chapters I to the third of the same kind, entitled "The Story of a New York House," with Illustrations, among them a fine one of the western front of old St. Paul's. There will bo an article on our "DafenBeless Coasts," with abundant maps, sketches diagrams by a young author who has already a reputation on both continents, Captain Francis Vinton Greene, author of a well known work on the last Ku3S0 Turkish war; others on Mexico, the seals of ancient Babylon, Gourer neur Morris and Socialism, another story and a due admixture of sonnet and other poetry. BUSINESS XVOXICE9.

DIAMONDS. Beyond qontioB tha most beautiful diiplftv of JRWELS ever shown in this oity. All of the Gems below enumerated are selected aud ar PRE EMINENTLY SUPERIOR for BRILLIANCY wd RARE PERFECTION Diamond and Ruby Hoop Bins, No. 624, IH ttaxats, for $100.00. Diamond and Sapphire Hoop Rins, No.

643, 1 1 16 karatij, equally fine as above, for $100.00 something new in mounting. Three atone Diamond Hoop Rine, No, 533, 1 32 karats, for 080.00. Four Stone Diamond karats, for $170.00. Hoop Bin, No. 604, 1 35 Two stone Diamond Hoop Ring, No.

542, 1 karats, foi $180.00. Solitaire $160.00. Diamond Ring, No. 1,010, 1 karats, foi Solitaire Diamond Bins, No. 1,014, 3 4 1 16 1 32 karats, for 90.00.

Solitaire Diamond Binjr, No. 825, Vi karats, for $130.00. Solitaire Diamond Ring, No. 1,061, lfi karats, foi 200.00. These choice Diamonds axe all lichlj set in hand mid mountings of 18 karat cold.

JAMKS H. HART, S13 AND. 315 FULTON STREET. Opes evenings daring tha Holidays. WILLIAM WISE SON, 239 FULTON ST, OPPOSITE CLABK.

DIAMONDS, WALTHAM WATCHES, FINK JEWELRY, STERLING SILVERWARE. IIBW GOODS FOB CHRISTMAS ON HAND. OPEN EVKNINGS IN DECEMBER. SEAL JACKETS, SEAL SACKS, SB AX WRAPS AND ULSTERS, BILVEB AND BLUB FOX MUFFS AND BOAS, FUB TRIMMINGS, Etc. BALOH, PRIOR A Manufacturers, 376 AND 37S FULTON STREET.

WATCHES FOR THE HOLIDAYS. WALTHAM AND ELGIN WATCHES, IN GOLD AND SILVER OASES, FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 14 karat.caaes, of the very uowBSt and prettiest designs, stem winding. Examine our stock. We Ul rnak prices specially low lor tne Holidays. P.

W. TAYLOR, 621 FULTON ST, corner Duffield. MASSEY'S FLORENTINE VIOLET ORRIS" AND OROHID Impart a dolightfnl fracrance to GLOVES, LACKS, LET TER PAPER and intended tor HOLIDAY PJtlMJSNTS. CASWELL, MASSKY 4 CHEMlSTa. 1,121 Broadway, 578 Kiftli r.

N. and Newport R. 1. 1886. CHKISTMAS.

1886. THE GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS, In Rare ami N' CONFECTIONS AND OHOOOLATE8. NOW KIvAUr, In $1, $2, 3:1 and So boxes. Choice K.ihday STEPHEN F. WHITMAN SON, Southwost corner of Twelfth aud Market sts, Phils.

THlFisPKNSOHEID HAT. Nothing sots off tho souiino cnuntenoueo to advaiitagu than a boc.nmin, lint and tho plaoo to obts'i Itioat ESl'KN'SOHEID'S, US NASSAU STREET. NEW YORK. COItOXliltS' NOTICES. fJ OUND ON NORTH CENTRAL PIUR, JL Atlunltc lmok, the body of an nnkno mm, annus.

dark hair aud mustache, red shirt anil draworj, check jumper, Ivon tncKyjoan pants, tirosvn coat, stray nocks nna brosans, in India ink on lovfc hand, liouy now at Morguo awaiting identification. HKiSRY J. MRNNINOFB, M. HENRY J. oronera.

TIOUND ITOOT Off. TWBNTx THIUD St. the body of a drowned man. about 4C Tears of 8 Inchon in heighti psndj hair and muataoho, black; overcoat, black ouiwiur un4rcot, blast pnute and: vosti MS uuBugst, isawara urown and Thomas A. Kelly.

Inspectors Anton Meyer and Conrad Thompson. SEVENTEENTH WABD. President James J. Dillon; vico presidents, William Dress, Patrick Monahan and Theodore Van Vol Bor; secretary, John McGowan; assistant secretary, William P. Gladdinc: trBnsurnr.

Willlim Elhnrt General Committee John Callan, Bernard Lamb, j. uuriua. Dcuuon, uoairey ana imaries Kennedy, Jr. Inspectors James Fay and Thomas Ferrltor. EIGHTEENTH WARD.

President, John Cottier; vice presidents, James Fletcher, Charles H. Katt, Henry Keller; seoretary, k. u. mersnon; assistant secretary, John u. unmes; troasurer, William Blanchfleld General Committee Isaac S.

Waters, George G. xruvTu, uoua jueenan, oonn u. a. nisquiroie. Inspectors Thomas Lanahan, Henry Eckert HINETKENTH WABD.

President, James D. Bell; vice presidents, Henry Schneider, John C. Rapp, Frank Bringman; secretary, Allan M. Stoddart; assistant secretary, Henry Bauer; treasurer, William HoUmire. General Committee Andrew Conrad, Andrew Manaeviue, Owen F.

Campbell, Walter Van Vol kenburgh, Herbert Smith. Inspectors Thomaa Stanton, August Warren. TWENTIETH WABD. Paul H. Kretzschmar, Michael Marlborough, Har mauusB.

Hubbard; secretary, William H. Rogers; assistant secretary, WUliam J. Courtney; treas urer, JNeil McuoldricK. General CommitteoPeter J. Doyle, George M.

aiicuois, micnaei c. aiouoiaricic, William a. Davenport Inspectors John Brady, John Ford. TWESry TlBST WARD Presldont, George W. Anderson; vice presidents, William H.

Goff, Raymon G. Crow, John J. McGulre; aeoretary.JFrederlck Wolz; assistant secre tary, uonu tvoenier; treasurer, Denis .1. iiagerty; sergeant at arms, John F. Kane, John Devls.

General Committoo William Fanning, Charles Froeb, Michael Fagan, Thomas H. Reddy, M. Koeley. Inspectors, James Swoetraan, William Ouch. TWENTY SECOND WABD.

i President, Thoophilus Olena: vice presidents, Charles E. Vaughan, William H. Sloan, Daniel Buckley: troasurer, Henry S. Lanadell; secretaries, John F. Neeson, Joseph W.

Duffy. General Committoo Thomas K. Pearsall, Jamos He C. Gray, James Thoubboron, James F. Dene nan.

Inspectors, Charles Hart, John J. Shaughnessey. TWENTY THIRD WARD. President, John A. Qulntard; vice proaidonts, William L.

Howard, Daniel M. Somers, Robert Hines; secretary, John H. Hennessy; assistant secretary, Charles H. Nuller; treasurer, Theodore isastman. General Committee James P.

Graham, George C. Hennessy, G. W. Donohue, Frank J. Jones, unmvL inure, jMiivara wnuesiae.

Inspectors Daniel Casey, Georgo Tutty, Will iam u. uiiauo, TWBNTT roCIlTH WARD. ProBidont. Adolph Simla; vice presidents, John McFarland, Owen MatheWB, Philip Euners; secretary. William Hatred: assistant secretary.

Daniel J. Madden; treasurer, John E. 3roany. General Committee Frederick Sheole. Patrick Monaghan, Daniel J.

Langton, James Ruddy, Denis Inspectors Joseph Parrell, Thomas McDonald, TWENi rttin ward. President, Rufus L. Scott: vice oresidonts. James u. jiusLuu, uonu r.

i oioy, Davia a. moias; secretary, Goorge W. Leete; assistant socretary, Jamos P. McAtoor: treasurer, Charles J. Linrjman.

General Committee William Shields. James Fiti uruiu, iiuurew juciieuuan, jonn Inspectors James McMahon, William J. Shee nan, dames u. Harriott TWENTV SIXTH WARD. President.

J. K. Powell: first vice nresldont Georgo W. Bassett; seoond vico president, Benjamin B. MoCIaue; third vice president, C.

Washington Colyer: secretary. Emil Schlellein: assistant vincent warren; treasurer, ireaericK urzuA. General Committee Thomas W. Cnmmlnes. Mi chael J.

Bourke, Thomas E. Pennell William Do ran, Walter E. Smith, E. D. Benedict inspectors or Election James P.

Sinnott. Stenhen u. uouover. FLATBUSH. TQ rr ntreierDBrg, iosian m.

urew auu rarrics: Manor; Matthew Sheerln; treasurer, William Brown. uenerai Jommiiiee, nawora awoeney, reter os uiuu, uuuu u. u'jsrien ana Tuoraas uoyno. inspectors, atricK woods and James D. Walsh.

NEW UTRECHT. President Adolph Qubner: vice rjresldents. 3. Holmes Van Brunt, Edward Parker, T. V.

W. Bergen; seorotary, Holmes Van Brunt. General Committee Garret T. Barron. William J.

Coouey, Otto Haas. T. V. W. Boreen.

John uouruu. Inspectors Peter H. Gates. Henry Martin. John Furnian.

ORAVESBND. President, John MoMahon: vico Drealdents. Fred erick C. Bodor, Robert Buckhardt; secretary, Richard V. B.

Newton assistant, James Jamison. General Committee Henry OBborn, Benjamin CURRENT EVENTS. A report has been presented to the Central Labor Union by a committoo of that body, that the boycott proclaimed against Ehret, the brewer, was unwarranted and unjust But a majority of tho Union were of a contrary opinion and laid tho re part on the table. uongress ib ii.if.eiy to De cauea on to pass upon tho complaints first officially made in the re port of the surgeon who aocomponled Captain Lawton's Sonora expedition, and subsequently in charges brought by General allies, as to the quality of the shoos furnished to tho infantry from tho Leavenworth Prison. Tho Army authorities mako affidavit that the leather was poor and tho stitch ing worse, while the commission appointed to investigate the charges report that care was taken to Belect good leather and make the shoes properly, but the cacti and rocks of the Sierra Madre region put the shoes to an exceptionally hard test The Cohoes lookout 18 practically ended.

Eleven more knitting mills began operations yesterday, making sixteen out of twonty six belonging to tho association now running, and it Is thought that the other ten will resume this week. It is reported from Dnblin that wholesale evictions are threatened on the Stackpoole and Westrop estates in Kllkeo, County Clare, and that the tenants aro preparing to resist The threats of the Nihilists, according to the Berlin Tageblatt, that they would wait no longer to deliver the people of Russia from bondage has compelled the Czar to order his Council to prepare constitution suitable to tho condition of the em pire and providing for an annual parliament at Moscow. The Hon. 5eoige Foster, Mimster of Ma rine and Fisheries of tho Dominion Government, is reported as saying that "as soon as the temper of United States people permits them to think that Canada should havo a fisheries treaty, then the American Government will concede the The brother of Bee "Wilson says that the golden seoret of the latter, which extracted some $300,000 from Philip L. Moon during the past twelve years is an awful crime relating, to a young girl who mysteriously disappeared from Worcester, about the time tho bleeding of tho mlUlon airo began.

"Doc" Wilson's counsel, George J. West, has withdrawn from the case. Two eons of H. 'Weddeil, a Cleveland banker, have begun suit against their father to compel the restoration to them of property aggregating nearly half a million dollars in value. The student agitation in St.

Petersburg con tinues, and although numerous arrests were mado by tho police, they are unable to discover where tho manifesto issued dally condemning the brutality and senseless severity of the Russian polloy are printed. A convention of Kentucky tobacco growers has recommended that in order to regulate produa tion and relieve tho present distress In prices, at least 50 per cent of the 1886 crop should be with held from the market indefinitely. Judge Ayres has refused to grant an injunc tion restraining the Seoretary of State from certifying to the Speaker ot tho House the vote cast for Lieutenant Governor ot the State of Indiana last month. Although the State Treasury is empty and overdrawn, Controller Plckard announces that tho interest on the bonded debt ot Tennessee, amounting to 65,000, will be paid on the 1st of January. Catholics in Quebec ore prohibited from attending tho meetings of tho Salvation Army by a mandament of Cardinal Taschereau.

Salvationist tracts and hymn books must be thrown into the Arc Four now racers are to be built by American yachtsmen to meet tho Thistlo and defend the America's cup. New York capitalists have secured a oon trolling interest in the New York and Now England Railroad and a change in tho management of the road is stated to bo certain. It has been decided in the case of Mrs. Wilbur F. Storey, who ia suing in Chicago for one third of her late husband's property, that a divorce bars dower.

Tho Evangelical Alliance of Cincinnati ministers has resolved that tho ballet in opera tends in favor of irr'ollgion and immorality, and should reoelvo no countenance from any one Interested In the welfare of tho population. Henry C. Kingsley, treasurer of Yale College, is critically ill. Henry George denies that an agreement had boen made between him and Cartor Harrison, wherein ho was to push Mr. Harrison's re election as Mayor of Chicago.

In Baltimore yesterday a permit was granted for tho hurial of a colored man, Henry Jonos, whoso ago, as vorltlod by tho.rocord paper, was 118 years; A granite monument has been erected over the graveof Jbba B. Gough, the famous temper anoe lecturer, in Meant Hopo Gas companies. $4,204,600 $4,135,500 IriBarancB 145,000 182,560 18,040 Ferry oos 481,400 392,400 89,000 Railroad 8,170,400 2,851,700 824,700 210,400 327,300 86,900 Total $7,839,460 9408,940 Add tc shares of banks belonging to corporations axarupt fromStatotax 25.SG7 29,624 4,287 $8,273,767 $404,653 LIABLE TO CITV, COUNTY AKD STATS TAX: I Incroase or do 1885. I 1886. I oreaae 1886.

Manufacturln $377,800 $1,072,200 $392,400 Stockholders of ba 1 a amount do duo ted corporationa." 1,788,885 1,085,106 216,221 8,653,250 11,122,970 2,469,720 Total $11,101,935 $3,078,341 Liable, to oity and county taxes $8,273,767 $7,839,460 $404,853 Liable to county and State tax 11,101,935 14,180,276 7B.841 Total 819,875,7021322, Corporate property $10,722,452 $10,926,420 $203,968 Indivdaala 8,658,250 11,122,970 2,469,720 Total personal property $19,872,702 $22,049,390 $2,673,688 The assessed valuations of some of the larcest corporations have been reduced, notably in the case of the Union Ferry Company because of the competition of the bridge, and of the city railroad companies because of unusual expenses and losses caused by labor troubles. LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. Schedule consists ot preliminary estimates for grading and paving in twenty seven eases, at an estimated aggregate cost or fisy.vou. Schedule sets forth assessments that have been levied for the estimated cost ot for various local improvements. ooneauie sr snows various assessments ror local Improvements in which tho estimated cost has been revised, after contracts for the work have been awarded and the exact cost ascertained.

EQUALIZATION OP TAXES. The annual contest with the State Board of Equal ization for a fair and eonltablo valuation of oroner ty In Kings County with valuations of property in counties outside or. new xorc ana lungs, was renewed during the current year, and it is gratifying to report, notwithstanding thefaet that In ray judgment the existtatt valuation of Kings County oron erty by the State Board as compared with its valua tion of rural property, is suon that in round numbers every $3 of property in Kings County pays to the State as much tax aa $5 of rural property; that a reduction of $18,482,508 in KingB County valuations was secureda result whloh is appreciable rather for the direction in which it points than for the re lief which it arrows. ABRBARAGX9L The arrearage eusBtlon. bo familiar to yon and all citizens of Brooklyn, wan, as stated by my pre decessor in nis last report, pracuoany compietea in Ifnn 1 0ZJZ FThnna bwa Mrfia thana mv hn In January, 1887, a few cases, less than one hundred, to bo oonsidered, of whloh the Board ot Assessors could not take earlier cotrnlzanoo.

These cases are some of them passed upon by the Arrearage Com mission appointed Dyxne. Legislature oi ltfti, aua the time, after default in payments, when the Board of Assessors, acting under the statute of 1833, may assume junsaicuon oi suan cases, win not eiapso untllJanuary, 1887. It mar not be lnobportuno to observe that the successful outcome of Brooklyn's scheme for the collection of arrearages of taxes and assessments has far surpassed public expectation, and the bo neSoent results of legislation In that behalf and the promptexecutlon of the law have not only Borvod to adjust the arrearage question as existed at the time of the enactment of tho statute, but havo resulted in tho establishment ot the salutary public conviction that taxes, at least on real estate, are collectible, and that payment can neither be indefinitely nor profitably postponed. FOURTEENTH WARD REPUBLICANS. Resolutions on (be Death ot David Lindsay Adopted.

A meeting of the Fourteenth Ward Repub lican Association was held last night in Hancock llollj on North Sixth street, near Fifth. John L. Cavanagh occupied the chair and Fronds Canboy rocorded. On motion of Mr. S.

T. Maddox Julius Trlppausoe, Rogers and S. T. Maddox were appointed a committee to select a tickot for tho prim ary. The following resolutions were then spread on tho minutes on motion of Mr.

Maddox: Whereas, It has pleased the Almighty to remove from our midst David Lindsoy; and Whereas, The community has lost a true and upright citizen, a most efficient and painstaking public official, one who was never found wanting whon called upon for service; and Whereas, Wo have lost one of our most eealous, stauuoh and consistent Republican loaders, one whose counsel and wisdom was at all times to tho benefit and advantage of our party and In the interest of good government, Hcjolucrl, That we hereby attest our sorrow at tho loss we have sustaiuod, and extend to the widow and children our heartfelt sympathy in this their hour of great distress. Reiolved, That a copy of these resolutions bo forwarded to the stricken family and also spread upon aar minutes. Mmc. Pfttti will go to Mexico and sing. It is stated from tho City of Mexico that but few private citizens bought tlokets of the swindler representing hor manager, but they wre taken by speculators in blocks of 1,006 at the rate of 0 tlokoS, expecting to swlndto the mt)5Uq in tholr towjl rtallng.thara a inon higher 1 it.

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