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Fourth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss O'Neil, for ona month; Miss Lizzie E. Cosby, to Fifth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Murphy, December l. for one month. ill PLYMOUTH. MISS CRONIN.

EDUCATION. municipal government and fidelity to the principle of home rule. Wliatever incentives the politicians may have toward tinkering the charter Bhonld be overcome byrgcogflffion of the steadfast hostility ofBftJSklyn to special. fated for ewa, Taz( pf the congregations, notthe of the premiums, is the guage of a minister's popularity as a preacher, fot nly has the preaching of Mr. iJeeehei never been more impressive and widely influential than during the past year but the son why senators never dry up is because irrigation in that arid clime has been reduced to a science.

It is found upon examination that during the months of July and August each Benator oonsumos three quarts of mineral water a day, which, of course, keeps him in a constant state of exu WEDNESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 0. 1884. Tblat Paper ban Hie tlon of anr Evenlu; Jn tile United Slates. Advertising Media iu parent.

Circnla Paper Published Its value as an fat therefore ap The Assembly and Senate Committees. Mr. Sheard, Speaker of the Assembly, and factotum of Sonator Warner Miller, has composed his committees in a manner entirely pleasing to the log rolling fraternity. He hap a Mr. Koosevolt chairman of the Committee i CitieB, but has been enreful to load him down with associates who will see to it that the jobbing interests are not permitted to suf On this committee he has given Kings onnty two representatives, namely, Nason, not, we take it, so far forget himself as to lapse into sympathy with anything resembling reform, and Nason may safely be counted on to keep a steady eye on the loaves and fishes.

This gentleman, it I understood, owesrthe favor shown him to oe voted to make Mr. Sheard ter having agreed to support Eoose lr. Littlejohn, chairman of the Ways I and can be trusted to handle the polit I calmly. He transferred his strength in the canons to Mr. Sheard in the niek of time, and for this he has his reward.

The Judiciary Committee has for its head that eminently impartial person, Mr. Husted, whose too intimate alliance with the insurance ring was deemed a iho voters for declining to gratify tfmon when he Tan for the office of reasurer 1H8JL. snonia any or our i get into such trouble as befell Judge itbrook, we feel sure that Mr. Hiisted will tt tVfe unfortunate uirist tenderly, ine Jtoilroad Committee is made up so as to allay Vhatever misgivings reco5 anti monopoly agitators may have created in tli minds of the monopolists. Mr.

Scott, the chairman, is a railroad lawyer, and Mr. Littlejohn the next member in order, is a railroad owner. The Committee on State Prisons consists of gentlemon who are either without any record on the subject of contract labor or are pronouncedly in favor of continuing the present system. Mr. Hustod is not chairman of the Insurance Committee, but he is a member of it, whereby it will be observed that the kind of insurance management with which lie is identified is decidedly not without 4avor in the eyes of Mr.

Speaker Sheard. It is useless to discuss the committees in detail. The specimens here pre eented indicate the character of the whole lot. Mr. Sheard is evidently a worthy protege of onr "wood pulp" Senator.

The Kings. County men, with the exception of Coffey and Nason, are placed where they are not likely to do anybody much harm or good. is not a chairmanship given to them. The committees on which they have places are General Laws, Burns Canals, Heath Cities, Nason and Coffey Commerce and Navigation, Butler Insurance, Hodges Taylor Public Printing, Taylor Public Health, Heath Charitable and Religious Societies, Hodges, Public Education, Earl; Mili (Ea, Heath; Federal Relations, Lindscy; State prisons, Lindsay State Charitable Institutions, Burns Public Lands, Kelly Trade nd Manufactures, Lindsay; Manufacture of Bait. Burns and Tavlor Indian Atrairs, aat Tar: Two thirds and Thiee hfth' Bills, Nagle; Engrossed Bills, Farrell Expenditures of the House, Coffey Expenditures of the Executive Mansion, Nnson and Farrell Rules, Coffey, Joint Library, Kelly; Sub Committee of the "Whole, Nason nd Earl.

The Senate committees are made up as was to have been expected from Senator McCarthy. If he does not know how to provido for the old standbys, nobody does. In electing Mr. McCarthy to the chairmanship of the Senate the Republican majority rendered any comment upon their relations to the lobby, the Tnilrnnrls the whole cluster of lecislative NO. 23, JU18S AUDIO JDRgau, 111 .14 ww i una.

uujfB, vice Mil's H. Van Benwhoten, December 3 to 10 Misa Ella Brodon, to Fourth Grade Primary, boys, vice Misa Paean, December 10 to 17; Miss Eate Smith, to Fourth Grade Primary, bove, vice Miss Broden, Dtcemb ir 17 to No. 25, Misa Fannie I Slebort, to Sixth Grade Primary, girls, new class, November US to December 15. 8eo appointment in Branch 21. One half month's pay retsined.

No. 29, Miss Mary A. Kelleher, to Second Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Loughlin, November 13 December 1 Miss Theresa Gallagher, to Fourth Grade Primary, girls, vico Miss Dunne, December 1. No. 32, Mies May E.

Lung, to Sixth Grade Primary, girls, vico Misa Daly, October 1, for one month Miss Thomasina F. MacMuUen, to Sixth Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss Lung, for one month to October 1 Misa Victoria A. North, Sixth Grade Primary, mixed, vice MissMoissen, October No. 34, Misa Minnie Gcale, Sixth Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss Geale. No.

37, Mies Lottie Duryea, to Sixth Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss Kemp, December X. No. 39, Miss Mary Clark, to 8ixth Grade Primary, boyB, vice Miss Leys, October 1 to 22; Miss Helen Ehmer, to Sixth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Clark, Ootobor 22 to 29. Miss lionise Molssen, to Sixth Grade Primary, boya, vice Miss Ebmer, October 29 to Novomhor 12. No.

10, Miss Mary 0. Clark, to Filth Grado Primary, boys, newclasB; Miss Carrie Lloyd, to Fifth Grade Primary, girls, new class Miss Lut lo A. Sweeney, to Sixth Grade Primary, vice Miss Nicholson Miss Maria A. Eldridge, Sixth Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss Lawson Misa Mary A. Keegsn, to Sixth Grado Primary, boys, vice Miss Fryer Miss Belle F.

Dexter, to Sixth Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss Bennett, November 8 Misa Josie M. McGratb, to Sixth Grade Primary, boys, November 8 to November 19 Miss Lillie J. MoElhiuuey, to Sixth Grade PrlniBry, girls, November 8 to November 19 Miss Belle F. Moffitt, to Sixth Grade Primary, bovs, November 19 to November 30 Miss Alma T. Norberg, to Sixth Grado Primary, girls, November 19 to November 39, 1883.

The report Was aled. FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS. The Finance Committee submitted the following report of tho nuaucial transactions of the Board for the month of December, and tho conditions of tho accounts on the first day of January, 1834 Aggregate "amount of warrants drawn $95,508.81 Bpa'rs and urniBhinic. "Wa. ming and ventilating impuluory education.

Expressing books Reronue $3,122.48 2,258.28 978.64 83.33 .462.45 2,243.73 SflU.fi7 1144.44 31 057.74 75.00 839.78 3,571. 1,369.47 10,144.25 4,340.93 8,277.49 85.40 150.0x1 0,152.03 10,371.92 ipphes Priitlng Fuel ealnries Touchers' woges Musio teachers' LibiarUn Em htyes in workshop Janitors' wages books Now building, No. 40 Newbuilding. Branoh 13. New buil ling, loiel.

No. 1... New buildings, 21 and 24. Wings tnr No. 30 New bm'Mins.

Bianch No. 25... Now building, Branuh No. 2G Evening Total $95,508.81 Tho report was tiled. Mr.

HinrirhB presented the following: Resolved, That it is the sense of tho Board that teachers who were in tUo Sixth Primary grades before January 1, 1884, and who coutinne in said grades (hut who havo not served tho time, requisite to entitle them to an origiml appointment to anch grades under the present rules) shali receive tho salary of Fifth Grade Primary teachers. The resolution was lost. Mr. Bowe presented a report recommending that Ap pletonB' reading chart and McVicker's practical arithmetic bo addwl to the text book list, and McVicker's complete arithmetic stricken from it. The report was adopted.

Mr. Clancy offered tile following; Resolved, That it bo referred to tho Committee on Attendance to consider and report the advisability of attempting to secure the passage of a bill through the Stato Legislature transferring the control of the Truant Home from tho ard of Aldermen to this Board. Tho resolution was tabled and the Board adjourned. THE SLATE PUT THROUGH. Organization of die new Republican Oeneral Committee Contest Over the Election of Officers Business mutters The Bepublicfin General Committee of liS81 met for organization last evening in Music Hall, The attendance, owing to the fierce storm, was small, and, as tho work of tho delegates had beon out out at the caucus on the previous night, there was no excitement during tho brief proceedings.

Mr. David H. Baldwin, of the Twenty third Ward, president of last year's com mlttoe, called tho delegates to order, and Mr. VI. H.

N. Cadmus, tho former secretary, proceeded with the roll call. The resignations of G. A. Nelson, of the Twenty third Ward, Georgo Allgeo, of Flatbu3h, and Emerson W.

Koyes and John Bliss, of tho Seventh Ward, were reoeived and accepted. Bridge Trustoo Otto Witte was selected to flU the Twenty third Ward vacancy and William S. Byan that from Flatbush. THE SLATE PUT THROUGH. Major Edward H.

Hobbs said that at a cauens of members of the General Committee who were entitled to seats iu the committee of 1331, to which all members had been invited and which was largely attended, he whs instructed to present to the committee the following report bearing tno names ot olhcors placed in nomination President, Diivid iV. Baldwin, Twenty tnuvl ward: lirst vice president, milium u. Beecher, Fiist Ward; second vice pi erfident, Dr. A. M.

Burns, Seventeenth Ward third vico prea deut, Charles Mailey, Twenty fifth Ward fourth vice president, E. F. Liutou, Now Lots recording secretarj, David Lindsay. Eighteenth Ward: assistant recording secretary. George W.

Bl3ir, Tonth AV. ird correapoudiiigseerotarv T. Randall, Seventh Ward treasurer, Charles Small, Thirteenth Ward sergeant at arms, Samuel Mai shall, Second Ward. Tho report on motion of Major Hobbs, was adopted without a dissenting voice. MB.

BALDWIN HAPPY. President Baldwin 1 congratulate the committee upon their unity of action in this matter. It argues well for tho coming year. In a city torn by actional strife as this has been for tho past two or three veers the fact that tho party citu como together and unite upon a ticket speaks well for the success of the party. 1 oellpve we Keep up tniB reeling or unity lor tne benefit of the party and not of persons and nominate good men for oilko iu tho city.

State and nation that we shall be Buccesef ul in the coining year. Applause. Being one of your newest members, I can say I am very proud of this compliment indeed. Applause. Treasurer Small presented his annual report, showing the following totala $1,129.47 Disbursements 655.92 Otsh bnlsnoe on bind 172.55 Balance in hands of Campaign Committee 312.31 Total cash in bands of tronsuror $785.86 On motion of ex Aldermuu Bay tho money in the hands of the Campaign Committee was turned into tho hands of the treasurer.

QMr. Edgerton moved the appointment of au auditing cummittee of two to examine tho accounts of the treasurer. Adopted. APPOINTING COMMITTEES. Mr.

McGeehan moved that a committee of five bo appointed to revise that portion of the bylaws relative to the enrollment of Itepublicaus in the ward and town associations bo that they would be more satisfactory than last year. The motion was amended at the suggestion of Mr. Cadlnns, so that the committee might take into consideration any other amendment to the by lawB that may seem necessary, and wsb thou adopted. Mr. Cadmus suggested that iu tho new bylaws the dues of the recording secretary aud assistant recording secretary be remitted.

Ho added that while he was secretary he hod paid out $150 and hadu't received a cent or a word of thanks in return. On motion of Mr. Edgerton the chair was imitmcted to appoint a committee on pi iuting. Mr. Cadmus called attention to the importance of the Executive Committee orgaidzlng at an early date, iu view of the coming Presidential election.

Tho bylaws gavo the members until April, The committee ought to he organized by tho next meeting and ho moved the delegates bo instructed to that effect. Mr. Edgerton made tho point or order that this could be done only by amending the bylaws. Mr. Maddox said it would bo woll to organize the Executive Committee early "not only because of tho Presidential eloctiou, but for tho reason that they could discuss leglslativo matters pertaining to Brooklyn.

The chairman thought the suggestion a wise one. Mr. Edgertou moved to suspend Paragraphs 1 and 2, Section 1, of Article 10 of tho bylaws so as to permit ward associations to elect members of the Committee within the coming month. Tho motion was adopted. Mr.

Maddox moved that the designation by each town aud ward association cf its member of tho Executive Committee be mado on or before January 20, and that the committee convene as soon thereafter as possible. Mr. Cadmus moved as an amendnieut that the appointments be made by the first meeting in February. The amendment was accepted and the motion adapted. On motion of Mr; Hbbbs the Committee on Revision of the Bylaws was instructed to report at the first meeting In February.

The committee then adjourned. After the adjournment the chairman appointed the following committees On Bylaws Messrs. John McGeehan, F. M. Edgerton, E.

H. Hobbs, Edwin Packard and A. M. Burns, M. D.

On Printing Messrs. David Lindsay, George W. Blair and J. T. Baudal).

On Auditing Accounts of Treasurer Messrs. H. Carey, and H. B. Van Vlock.

THE GROCERS' ASSOCIATION. Discussing: ine Public market Project. A STeetinir in Boston The Brooklyn Retail Grocers Association met last evening at their rooms, No. 462 Fulton street. The meeting was presided over by the newly elected president of the association, Mr.

Schlueter. The committee having charge of the organization of the first invitation ball of tho association reported progress. The question of the locating of market then came up for discussion. Mr. Mettler favored the Wallabout Bite for tho market.

He thought the talk about using the Bpoces under the bridge arches for market purposes was all a blind, and out of the question. The president said as he understood it (he bridge arches were only to bpused temporarily. Mr. Mettler said whether the new market was temporary or not he believed it best to establish it at the Wallabout. A resolution was finally adopted to the effect that tho association favored the Wallabout as a site for the proposed new market.

A committee was then appointed consisting of Messrs. O'Donnell, Beers and Schlueter, to report to the Citizens' Committee one week from next Thursday on the establishing of the site for'a market. Mr. John Fredericks stated that he had received an invitation from" the Boston Grocers' Association extended through him to the Grocers' Association of Brooklyn, inviting the latter to Join the Boston organization in a national meeting to be held la Boston on the 14th inst. It was decided to send Messrs.

Mettler and Schlueter to Boston to ropresont tho association. The new bylaws were then discussed at length, after which the meeting adjourned. THE ALLEGED MALPRACTICE, Mrs. Eenu Evidence. tor Want of The case of Mra.

Augusta Kerna, of No.216 Broome street, New York, who is charged with malpractice, came up yesterday afternoon, before Justice Mossay, in Justice Walsh's Court. Tho act was alleged to have been committed on the 23rd of December. The victim was Miss Martha Smith, a girl of nineteen, residing at No. 106 Franklin avenue. The oharge was made on information and belief, by Detectivo Ennls, of the Thirteenth Precinct, who, with Captain Worth and several ofiloers, made the arrest.

Both women were In court. Miss Smith la quite pretty, though not handsome. She was attired to a rich silk dress juid costly fur trimmed dolman. Her bonnet was of a blue plnsb. material, over whloh was a dark vail jtttat bid her face from sorntlny.

She bad the appearance of a perfect lady, and that she felt the pitiful position In which she bad placed herself was very evldont. It was with great reluotanco that she had appeared to teBtlfy. Mrs. Kerns Is a woman of striking appearauce, having handsomely shaped features and head, aud fine eyes. She did not betray any omotlon until she was discharged.

Then she wept convulsively for some time. Assistant. District Attorney John V. Shorter appeared to prosecute, and Counselor Howe, the firm of Howe Hummel, appeared for the defense. The first witness called was the vlotlm of the mal practice.

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F. C. Manvel, clerk, of the church, Mr. I. A.

Stauwood, assistant clerk, and Mr. H. S. Wold, clerk of the society, kept tally of the liRltres, Pew 91 was reserved for Mr. Beecher, 49 Tor the assistant pastor, liev.

Mr. Halliday, and 28tf for Mr. Weld. ItECAPITOI.ATIOS FOit THIETV YEA US. Tho following are the premiums ami the tolal amounts realized during the last thirty 0110 years premiums Yenrs.

1Kj4 1355 1856 im 18a8 1801 1302 1863 1864 1HU5 I860 1H67 1X68 1889 1T0 1871 1872 1873 I'remmms. ano rentals. 8Il.4S9.0ll 11,490.00 12,4011.00 14, 337. 00 16.254.00 26,0011.00 27, 61,7.00 24.147.00 18,530.00 34663.00 29.199.(10 37.114.00 40. 763.

"0 49.261.0) 60.216.011 54,970.110 68,159.00 58,620. IX) 60, 135.00 49,753.111) 58,608.00 68,997.00 61,5119.00 45.825.0(1 38.068.00 41.306.00 40,422.00 42,344.00 38,172.50 34.839.00 1.316.00 1.75i;.u0 2. 00 4,107.00 u.ngj.on 1B. 219.00 16,000.00 5, 946.00 10,031.00 18,778.00 25,791.00 56,045.00 36,337 00 41,698.00 44,511.01) 44,450.01) 47,017.01) Hi, 48.1. ill) 46.2:16.00 11 f5 1376 61.154.00 1877 34.663.00 25 1878 1879 1880 1381 18 12 1883 1884 28.50C .00 27.6:2 00 35.Slit.00 25,380.50 22,047.00 CCRHENT EVENTS.

The total number of bills intrudnced in Uio Houbo of Representative yesterday tvi 671. The New York Board of Police yesterday adopted a resolution fixiug tho number of policemen for tho year at The Stationers' Board of Trade hold its animal meeting in New York yesterday, and re elrr.tod the old board. Tho general condition oi tho buaiuusa during the year was reported aa good as that of 1882. The President sent a message to Congress yenterdy recommending an iinmedlato appropriation for tho continuance of the work on the MisaisHippi River. Dr.

Willnvd Parker condition is not improved and tho physicians say hero in no hope of his recovery. He may linger an indefinite time or he may dio at any moment. The Poatmuater General has decided to permit tho establuhmant of 100 postal stations in New York City, and will allow au expenditure of per annum for the maintenance of each. The committee having in charge the celebration of Evacuation day announces that it has audited all its bills and made drafts on the 20,000 subscribed by tho city nud $15,000 subscribed by the merchants. The Chinese Consul in New York hoa ordered that no Chinaman ohall open a laundry after February 15, within three blocks of any other Chinaumn onayed in tho Kama business.

The Chinamen are discouraged and dismayed over this order, Two bills are before Congress looking to the establishment of a Bureau i Labor Statistics. Among other duties of this department it la tu invosti gtits tho use made of sidiool aud chinch privileges by workinymen and tho of those privileges, aud tho social and moral condition of tho workiug clauses. George W. Thompson, one of the oldest and best known merchants in Now York, died yesterday at his home, No. 28 West IVcnty nf th street.

He was 79 years old. Mr. Thompson retired from business twelve years ago. His father, Jonathan Thompson, was at one time Collector of the Port of Now York. A heavy fait of snow occurred yesterday in Kentucky aud all the Western parts of Virginia and jPemmylvauia.

Several inches fell iu Northern Georgia. Yeaterday bake Champlatu was entirely frozen over Th river and bay at Baltimore are frozen for nearly thirty mileB. Tho harbor is kept open by ice boats. In Massachusetts the mercury Is below zero. MSyor Edson has completed the organization of the Civil Service Reform Commission for Now York.

The law provided that tho municipal civil service regulations should go into effect on the 1st and the delay of Mayor Edaou in appointing aijd or ganizing the threw boards of examiners may, it is said, operate to defeat the intentions of the act. The latest report from St. Louis gives the dead list of tho Immaculate Conception Convent dis aster as thirty seven. There are still eleven persons missing. A force of thirty men has worked in tho ruins for the past two days.

Tho remains of the mother superior were found yesterday and were identified by the rosary, which had not been wholly destroyed by the fire. None of the othor bodies recovered could be identified. The Eastern nail manufacturers have noti fied their workmen that on and after the 14th th re will be another general reduction of 15 per cent. in their wages. The workmen are determined to resist this fourth reduction, and the likelihood is that their will be a general strike of the Eastern nailers.

A gene ral meeting of Eastern operatives is to bo held on Sat urday, aud It is expected that tho strike will be officially proclaimed. It is said that this strike In the East is just what the Western manufacturers have boen antici pating and desire. It will give them the full control of the nail markets of the country, and then there will be no necessity for shutting down their works. Mr. Charles Ballard was on the stand in the Feuardent Di Cesnolo trial yosterday, in New York, and testified that he was employed in repairing the ob jects that required it in the Metropolitan Museum.

Ho was directed to remove tho traces of earlier repairs, and to this end he took the objects apart by bathing them he then put the parte together under the direction of General Di Cesnola, and used a wash he bad prepared to pro von the stones disintegrating. He bathed the statuette of Venus, and there was a little roughuess on the surface where tho mirror now appears. He washed it again, and a portion of the mirror became visible. He then removed the incrustations with wood. The Ramapo Improvement Company yes terday submitted to the New York Sinking fund Commissioners its pi oposal to construct on aqueduct from the Kamapo water shed, in the counties of Rockland and Orange, to the northern line of this city, and to deliver at that point a daily supply of not less than fifty million gallons of pure and wholesome water, at an elevation of 300 feet above mean tide level.

This aque duct is to be built withont cost to the city, and is to be completed within two years. The boIc condition precedent required by the oompany is that tho city shall obligate itself, and to pay for each and every million gallons of water which shall be delivered according to the contract, the actual coBt during the year 188i of each million gallons supplied to the city from tho Cro ton system. The relatives of Charles Delmonico, who disappeared mysteriously on Saturday last, have offered a reward of $500 for any information that will lead to the finding of the missing man. The Fiukerton detective agency are at work upon the oase, and men are working in New Jersey to find a clue of his where abouts. Yesterday a farmer from the vicinity of Orange came to New York aud reported that on Sunday evening be saw a man answering to the description of Mr.

Delnionico leaning up against a lamp post between Orange and Montclair. The night was dark, bat ho clearly saw his face and supposed from his dazed and stupefied look that be had been drinking. He thought no more about the matter until he saw the story of Mr. Delmouico's disappearance. It is feared that he did not survive tho cold, If out Monday, and it is thought that he will not be found alive.

Mr. James Stevenson, of the Geological Survey, has reported to Major Powell, as one of tho results of hla last season's field of operations, the discovery of Beveral more ruined cave and cliff cities in Arizona. The most remarkable was a village of sixty five underground dwellings situated near tho summit of one of tho volcanic foothills of the San Francisco Mountains, in the Sau Juan region of Arizona. The dwellings had inter communication beneath the surface and were only accessible by means of square holes leading from the surface by a vertical shaft to toe floor of the main room of the dwelling. Holes cut at convenient distances along the sides of tho shaft served the purposes of a stairway.

Descending the shaft, the explorers found themselves at tho side of an oval shaped, arched roofed room, abont twenty feet in lta smallest diameter. Low doorways connected the main room with smaller rooms. In the rooms were found many curious stone mauls and axes, bono awls and needles and obsidian ornaments. There were signs of intercommunication between this village and a cliff city some fifteen miles distant, which ia also a discovery. This city consisted of a Bingle row of houses, the common rear wall being the lining rock, while the sides and fronl were made of large squared atones, laid ia clay.

Other villagea were discovered near by this one. Articles of bamboo, a species entirely unkuown in that region at this time, wood, corn cobs, pirfect grains of corn, walunts, bones of elk and other animate aufl portions of wearing apparel of a fabrio rosombling the mummy cloth of Egypt and other articles were found In abundance. There were no weapons of war or works of defense, no temples or idols of any kind. A LECTURE POSTPONED. The series of lectures to be delivered in the chapel of the Church of Our Father, corner of Grand avenue and Lefferts place, by Mr.

William Hanson, shonJd hard been opened laat evening with tho one entitled "The Industrie Probleni Considered a priori," but in COBHequonce of the email attendance, owing, probably, to the. vioipnea the storm, the lecture waa postponed. "FIRST AIPQ THK IKJUBKP." A course of five ttures on' 'Krs't Ait? tb Tninnvv will ha by Dr. pelASrergnei'tn building, The Monthly Sleeting in Bed Hook Lane. Considering' the Message of the Mayor.

Financial Transactions for the Month. Resignations, Promotions and Appointments Children who Attend Schools in Districts in Whloh Ther Do Not LIto. The monthly meeting of the Board of Education was held at tho Bod Hook lano headquarters yesterday afternoon, President Bergen occupying the cbair. It was twenty minutes after four whoa the gavel feU, and as there wore then only tvrenty ono members present at that time there was further delay iu Rotting down to business. The Chair presented a communication signed by Albert G.

Lawson, Bcv. J. O. Peck and many other clergymen, asking the Board to consider the propriety of instituting an effort to secure the passage of a law forbidding Excise boards to license saloons within 1,000 feet of any pnblio school building. Tho letter was referred to the Law Committee.

THE MATOB's MESSAGE. Mr. Dresser presented the following Resolved, that bo much of tho message of his Honor the Mayor as relates to the public schools of Brooklyn be referred to.a special committee of flvo and the superintendent for report. Mr. Hendrix said ho scarcely saw the propriety of tho discussion by tho Board of Education of a mcs sago addressed to ine uommon uouncu oi ine cuy.

Tho Mayor had not placed himself in communication with tho Board. Mr. Teaio said that tho mesnane was really presented to the pe pie of tho city through the Common Council, and the Bjard as coming from tho people shonld tako oognizance of its contents. Mr. Rowe believed with Mr.

Hendrix that it was out of order to discuss the message. He had no doubt from his knowledge or the Mayor's interest in rno puouc school system that bis Honor would place himself directly in communication with the Board in the noar future. Mr. Hendrix The Board has already Riven consider ation to the subject discussed by tho Mayor, and has referred it to the Studies Committee. That committee has already taken such steps as are calculated to apply a remedy as soon as possible, li we aro to go oeiore tho uublic in any way identified with the Mayor's mos sage, it ought to be in the position of having virtuaUy settled the questions he allndes to.

Mr. Harkness ventured tho opinion that it was no use to shirk the issue. There were too many grammar schools in the city, and it would lie a Kt eat relief to all around if the matter should be referred to a committee, and dehnltely settled. Mr. Dresser said the aiiflcultv was that the princi pals were too anxious to crowd the children into tho higher grades.

A more thorough training in tho pri mary and iutermrdiate grades was what was urgently needed. There were really more failures in the primary classes than elsewhere, simply because the children were lorced out or tBom before they were really ready for promotion. Mr. Hendrix moved to amend mat tne manor go to tho Committee on Studies. Mr.

Miller Wo hare to day thirty two so railed grammar schools, when we need have no more than twenty. Whut is of more importance to mo is, that tho elementary studies should be more thoroughly pursued. The Chile rou aro rusnea tnrouen oecause oi too urine that is takon in well attended arammar schools. Their education is conseoueutlv flimsy and superficial, and the people's money has been wasted, we suoum Keep our children lone enouch in the primary classes. It Is a crying shame that they are crowded through aa they are.

I hope the matter will go to a special committee Mr. Claucy trusted that the matter would go to the Committee on Studies. The matter was referred to the Studies Committee. AUTHOMTZ TO BELL. Mr.

Dresser moved that tho Board authorize tho sale of one half of the property belonging to tho depart ment, and adjoining tho site of No. 4. Mr. Miller moved that tno matter oe reierrea to me Committee on Bites. Mr.

Harkness It should go the School House Com mittee. They have several piccos of property to dispose of, and they can sell this parcel to better advan tage because ex. tnat lact. Referred to tho School House committee. Mr.

SauHor asked that tho rules regarding the admis sion into schools of children residing in districts foreign to such schools be interpreted for his edification. Ho rited as a caso of apparent violation tho course of the Local Committee of No. 13 in receiving pupils from the district of No. 8. Mr.

Bowe thought the local committees could settle that matter between themselves. I move that it be referred to them. Mr. Martin No. This is a matter for the Board to settle, and let us Bottle it like men.

There is principle involved in this. Let us establish the principle, and make every school disgorge every scholar not neiouging i to it. Mr. Harkness said that he had ronnested one or the transfers alluded to. which he would not have done had he known tho fact that the child lived in the dis trict of No.

a Ut. Ruwo's motion was agreed to, CHANGES IN THE SCHOOLS. Tho Committeo on Teachers reported tho following resignations, promotions, transfers and appointments of teachers, accopted by them at their meeting, Decem ber 1H83 Resignations No. 13. Miss Lizaio K.

Trott. Fifth Grade Grammar, boys, November 9. No. 16, Miss Amy T. Cofiln, Fifth Grade Grammar, girls MiHfl Madelino B.

Holler, Thiid Grade Primary, boys, October 31. No. 21, Miss Ellon G. Wall, Fifth Grade Grammar, mixed. No.

Miss Ada M. mantii, jcounu uraae miliary, girls. No. 23, Mrs. Annio B.

Blank, First Grade Grammar, girls, December 1. No. 20, Miss Mary A. Lough lin, Second Grade Primary, boys, November 13. No.

37, Miss Mary E. Kemp, Sixth Grade Primary, girls. JLiecemoer t. Phomotions No. 13.

Miss Mary E. Farrell, to Filth Grade Grammar, boys, vice Miss Trott, resigned Miss Mangle Mastersou, to I'ourtu uraae urarnmar, ooys, vice Miss Farrell, November 13. No. 18, Miss Laura Tate, to Firth Grade Grammar, girls, vice Miss uollln, resigned Miss Carrie J. Barnes, to Sixth Grade Gram mar, girls, vice Miss Tate miss Eua U.

uraiuaru, to First Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss O. Barnes Miss Mary A Bailey, to Second Grade Primary, girls, vice Mis3 Braiuard Miss Julia L. Barnes, to Third Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss Bailey Miss May M. Calvort, to Fouith Grade Primary, girls, vice MIsb J. Barnes; Miss Alice B.

Dudek, to Third Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Holler, resigned Miss Annie M. Lucas, to Fourth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Dudek Miss Linnie Bush, to Fifth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Jonea, November 1. No. 23, Miss Martha E. Young, toPirst Grade Grammar, girls, vice Mrs.

Blank, resigned Miss Anna M. Nelligan, to Third Grade Grammar, girls, vice Miss Young Miss Emma J. Van Ben sclioten, to Fourth Grade Grammar, girls, vice Mbs Nelligan Miss Helen A. Rowan, to Fifth Grade Grammar, girls, vice Miss E. Van Bonschoteu MIbs Emina A.

Latham, to Fifth Grade Grammar, boys, vice Miss Rowan Miss Agnes M. Monahan, to First Grado Primary, boys, vico "Miss Latham MIsb Ella Mackrell, to Second Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Monahan Misa Hannah Van Benschoten, to Third Grado Primary, boys, vice Miss No. 24, MIbs Annie E. Buckley, Third Grade Primary, boys, grade raised Miss Gertrude Forest, to Third Grade primary, boys, grade raised; Miss Mary E. White to Fourth Grade Primary, boys, grade raised Miss Minnie D.

Lincoln, to Fourth Grade Primary, girls, grade raised Miss Mary L. Huntington, tu Fdurth Grade Primary, boys, grado raised Miss Elizabeth Huntington, to Fourth Grade Primary, girls, grado raised Miss Hattlt E. Hatneld, to Fourth Grade Primary, boys, grade raised Miss Cordelia E. Hughes, to Fourth Grade Primary, girls, grade raised Miss Fanny Scott, to First Grade Grammar mixed, vice Miss Black Miss Elsie ST. Hodge, to Second Grade Grammar mixed, vice Miss Scott Miss Mary Cottior, to Second Grado Grammar mixed, vico Miss Hodge Miss Annie M.

C. Beilly. to Third Grado Grammar, boys, vice alias Cottier Miss Tillio W. Osann, to Third. Grade Grammar, girls, vice Miss Beilly Miss Tillio W.

Corwin, to Fourth Grado Grnmmav, girls, vice Miss Osann Miss Mary A. Hall, to Fifth Grade Grammar, boys, vice Miss Corwin Miss Cornelia B. Benson, to Sixth Grade Grammar, boyB, vice Miss Hughes Miss Julia F. Maaigan, to Sixth Grade Grammar, girls, vice Miss Hall Miss S. Emma Byra, to Sixth Grade Grammar, girls, vice Miss Benson Miss Sarah J.

Brown, to Firat Grado Primary, buys, vice Misa Madlgan; Misa Fannie A. Irvine, to Firat Grade Primary, boys, vice MIbb Byrd; Miss EUa E. Lex, to First Grade Primary girls, vice Miss Brown Miss Ella H. Dnane, to First Grade Pri. mary, girls, Irvine Miss Sarah E.

Cassidy, to Second Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Lex. No. 29, Miss Julia O'Connor, to Second Grado Primary, boys, vice Miss Loughlin Miss Julia A. Tuomey, to Second Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss O'Connor; Miss Julia A. Doyle, to Third Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss Tuomey Miss Mary B.

KeUy, to Fourth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Doyle Miss Kate M. J. Col ins, to Fifth Grado Primary, girls, vico Miss Kelly; Miss Jnlia A. Dunne, to Sixth Grade Primary, girls, vice Misa Collins, Decomber No. 32, Miss Edith S.

Daly, to Fifth Grade Primary, gir'a vlca Misa Shotwell, October 1. No. 88, Miss Irene A. Greene, to Third Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Kelly, transferred M'ss Theresa B. Began, to Fourth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Greene; Miss Katie B.

Kavanogb, to Fourth Grado Primary, boys, vice Miss Began Miss Maggie G. Brady, to Fifth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Kavanagh; 8tertefeldt, to Fifth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Brady Miss Lizzie O'Grady, to Sixth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Stertefeldt Marietta Kiley, to Sixth Grade Primary, girl9, vico Miss O'Grady MIbs Lizzie W. Malono, to Sixlh Grade Primary, boyf, vice Miss BilBy, February 16. No. 10, Miss Henrietta F.

Barker, to be Head of Department Misa 'Agnes T. Boone, to Fourth Grade Primary mixed, vice Miss Barker Misa Clara M. Moore, to Fifth Grade Grammar, girls, vico Miss Moore. No. 50, Miss Mary J.

Fifth Grade Grammar, boys, now claas. No. 40, Miss Mary A. Urell, to Sixth Grade Grammar, vico Misa Urell. Miss Kate Hasluck, to Sixth Grade Grammar, boys, vice Miss Doyle Misa Marion B.

Cogswell, to First Grade Primary, vice Miss Cogswell Misa Jennie C. Gibbons, in lrirst Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Hasluck Miss Manirie E. Mathias. to Second Grade Primary, boys, Maggie JS. "JiatiUBO, uisuu A.uuujr, wjd, vice Miss Gibbons; MIsb Kate Hudson, to Second Grade Primwy, girlB, vice MIbs Boone; MIbb Mary Allshiro, to Third Grude Primary, mixed, now class; Miss Margaret Moran, to Third Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss Monro; Misa Maggie Davidson, to Third Grade Primary, boys, vico Misa Allshire Miss Jennie Nicholson, Fourth Grade Primarv, boys, vice Miss Mathias MIsb Anna Davis, to Fourth Grade Primary, girls, vice Miss Davis; Miss Mary Lawson, to Fourth Grade Primary, mixed, new class; Misa Julia M.

Fryer, to Fifth Grade Primary, boys, vice MIsb Davidson; Miss Agnes Bennott, to Fifth Grade Primary, girls, vico Miss Hudson, November 8. Tbasbpebs No. 4, Miss Znra E. Byder, from Fifth Grade Grammar, boys, to Sixth Grade Primary. No.

16, Miss lonnio C. Jones, from Fifth Grade Primary, boys, to Fifth Grade Primary, girls, vice Misa Calvert, November 1. No. 22, Miss Annie O'Neil, from Fourth Grade Primary, boys, to Fourth Grado Primary, girls, vice Miss Marsh. No.

29, MIsb Sarah McQuado, trifth Grade Primarv. boys, to Sixth Grade Pri marv. boys, vice Misa Williamson; Miss Jessie WU1 lauison, irom duw uwuu wjo, i. jiu Grade Primary, boys, vice Mias McCue Misa MaryF. McCue, from Sixth Grade Primary, boys, to Fifth Gnuta Primarv.

boys, vice Miss McQnade. No. 34, Miss Ella Barlow; from Second Grade Primary, boys, to Sixth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Morgan in Branch. Branch 34. Miss Mary E.

Morgan, from Sixth Grade Primary, boys, to Second Grade Primary, boys, vice in Main School. December ArroiHTBBijtTS No. IS, Miss Ida Coo, to Sixth Grado Primary, girls, vice Miss Coe, November IB Miss Mary A. Loughlin, to Third Grade Grammar, boys, vico Misa Loughlin, November 27. No.

18, Misa Mary A. Abrams, to Sixth Grade Primary, boys, vico Miss Lucas, November 1. No. 21, Miss Mary F. Corloy, to Fifth Grade Grammar, mixed, vice Miss Wall.

No. 2, Miss Lydia A. Sherry, to Third Grade Primary, girls, vice Misa Caa aidy, grade raised. Branch 24, Miss Emily 3. Blaok, to be Head of Department, uecemcer Tempohxbv appointments No 24, Misa Bose Sogers, to Fifth Grade Primary, boys, new class; Miss Leopoldiue L.

Sohmitt, to Fifth Grade Primary, girls, new clasa Miss Lizzie W. Watson, to Fifth Grade Primary, boys, new class; Miss Julia Pentlarge, to Fifth Grade Primary, girls, new class Miss fiosina Russell, to Fifth Grade Primary, boys, transferred from No. 24 Miss Lettle M. Martin, to Fifth Grade Primary, girls, new classs Miss M. E.

Dennen, to Sixth Grade Primary, boys, hew class Miss Mary F. Sixth Grade Primary, boya, new olaaa Misa Fannie Beibert, to Sixth Grade Primary, boys, now class Miss Alice E. Strong, to Sixth Grade Primary, boys, transferred from main school Misa M. A. McClcary, to Sixth Grade Primary, girls, new class; Misa Mary B.

Knapp, to Sixth Grade Primary, girls, now olara Miss Annie F. Beeston, to Sixth Grade Primary, girls, now class Miss Madeline B. Holler, to Sixth Grade Primary, girls, new class, December 1. Appowtmehts So. 21, Hiss Kettle J.

Griffin, to First Grade Primary, girls, vice, Mius Dickie. No. 34, Misa Ma L. Arnold, to Sixth Grade Primary, boys, vloo Miss Arnold, December Tehpoiuby Appointments No. MIbs Agnes Bennett, to Sixth Giade Primary, girls, sen class, October 1.

No. 4, Mrs. Susan P. Nilson, to Fifth Grade Grammar, boys, vice Miss Byder, December 1 to January 1, 1884 Miss Elizabeth. M.

Wood; to Sixth Grade Primary, boys, vice Miss Orfteuaeb, December 1 Misa Mary A. Loughlin, Third Orade raisrvboys, vice, Miss Howe; Miss Estell M. Howe to Fifth Grade Grammar, boys, vice 'Miss Mssterson, November. 18 5 MIbs Kittle Luke, to. Fourth Grade Primary, Hirfs, vico Mlas Eukev, NoVemberiM to December 22.

No. 16, Hiss Claii Keenan, to Sixth Grade, Primary, glMS, VICO 1U1BS IIIHU, nOVOUIlTOI 1. aift. 1 L. Griswold, to Slxtb Grade Primary, girls, now I Septembor 25 Mies' Mar uraae jrnmary, oepteuiuuc 4u9 Minnie L.

Grotty, to FJlth Prtaryj 24. to to C. to Her Suit Against Father Florence McCarthy on Trial. She Swears to an Atrocious Assault and Is Corroborated by Another Alleged VictimThe Reverend Pastor as Sworn to, that He Xissetf the Plaintiff. The suit of Bridget Cronin agrunst the Itev.

Father Plorenco McCarthy fur damages for assault, came on for trial yesterday aftoruoon in Part II. of tho Circuit Court bofuro Mr. Justice Cull en and a jury. When the case came on for trial in the first instance a default was takon, the defendant failing to appear, and the Jury assessed the damages thun at $10,000. Tho dofault was opened on payment of Bonio fifty dollars costs.

After an hour's hard work the following jury was chosen: Petor A. Merriam, William Borliug, Martin Elbert, Horace Nichols, L. Zachmau, a. Ford, Henry Aldon, August Voego, Peter H. Humph, William IJ.

Weeks. James Hugginn, Isaac Cole. Mr, William J. Gayuor opened for tho plaintiff, explaining that the action was brought for assault aud battory by Bridget 15. Cronju, organist of St.

Cecilia's K. C. Church, against the pastor, who had attempted, but failed, to commit a crime. THE rLAINTIFP'B 8T0UY. The stoutly made girl of ladylike bearing and speech, toklhur story.

Sho had known Father McCarthy for ten year as her pastor. On January 12, IH), she went to his hoiirfe ou Humboldt street about 3 o'clock in tho afternoon. Sho was let in at Clio b.tae nient door by the Kcrvaut, Kate Dixon, who went upstairs ami told Father McCarthy. The latter came to the head of tho sfafrs and told her to come up, at tho same tune telling a small bo' whom she had taken with her and was going to take upatnlrs with her to stay down. Miss Cronin went upstairs aud followed Father McCarthy into the parlor.

She sat on a ofa opposite the door, which he cloned. He got a chair and sat opposite to her. Mhe had gono to know whether the tii'ki'ts were ready for a musical vespers which sho was going to give. He told )u to go into a small room adjoining tho parlor, and close the blind. She refused andarose to co.

Tht he thrpw her on tlio ouoU anrt kisseU nor and was only prevented from ptrpet rating the crime attempted by her struggles and outcries. Sho said it waa a fin and he said it was no fin. Her hair was disordered and he brought a comb aud brush, but sho declined to use them aud when she attempted to go he stood between her aud the door and would not permit her to leave until Bho had promised to tell no one. CROSS EXAMINATION. By Colonel Charles S.

Sponcer Will you Bwear this occurred on January 12, 1883 A. Ko. Q. Have you ever so sworn A No. Q.

Whou was your eighteenth birthday A. Yesterday. Q. What day of the week did thiR occurrence tako place A. I think Friday, but I won't swear.

Q. Was it bofore or after your birthday? A. Bo fore. The witness evidently meant her eighteenth birthday. Q.

Didn't you toll a reporter it occurred February A 1 A. No. Q. When did you call on Bishop Loughlin about this matter? A. April 24.

Q. Did you tell him it occurred on February 4 7 A. No. (The witness (a answer to several questions admitted that Bhe did not relate to Bishop Loughlin all tho par. ticulars of the assault, but did tell him that the defendant kissed hnr.

Q. Did you eay anything except that Father McCarthy biwd you A. Yen. Q. Von had often been in tiie parlor A.

Yes. Q. When did you first tell anybody A. February 7. Q.

Were you living with yonr parents when this occurred A. Yes. Q. Where 7 A. fifr Graham avonuo.

Q. When dirt you first tell yonr mother 7 A. April 24. Q. To whom did you llrat tell it? A.

Carrie Mahoney. Q. Who is she A. A member of the choir at the time. Q.

Did you play on the organ the next Sunday after thw occurred A. Yea. Q. And for a grert many Sundays after A. Yes.

Q. In the open meeting at the church were you not deprived of your office as organ! 1 7 A. To. y. jjju ratner flicuarcny never discharge you? A No.

I ceased to bo orranist on Awril 22. 1 nlavM th organ hut I did not go to his mass. Did you not repeatedly call on Father JleCarthv after this 7 A. Only twice. O.

you not go to his sister and ask to see him A. No. Q. And didn't she say ho would not sua you A. No.

I never went to her house. O. Did you complain to Father McCarthvabouta ffon tleman whom you had asked to help ym with tho tick ets 7 A. On February 4, In the church. Q.

Who was tho man 7 A. John Coyle. Q. Did Father McCarthy tell you at the time of the trouble to get a youtm man to tako the tickets? A. I don't remember, but be told mo before ami at tor.

O. Didu you talk a number of times to him in the church A. On business. 3HD DID NOT CONFESS TO HIST. O.

Did you go to confession to Father McCarthy aa much as twice a weekafter this? A. No; I went to St. Q. Didn't you take supper at Father McCarthy's on tho night of the festival; A. With the rest of the choir, but Father McCarthy was not thore.

Miss uronin tun not Know tnat rather McCarthy said in presence of tho choir that sho could not stay thero as organist, bho resigned of her own accord. Q. Was thero anything to prevent your nuittit.ff the room whou ho went for tho comb and brush? A. No; only I was fixing my hair, and my bonnet was hanging down. Hhn went home, but she said nothiutr about it until she told Mina The Sunday before sho told her mother something happened which made her angry with Father McCarthy, aud tho Sunday after she told her mother there was a disturbance in tho church.

In April she went to Father McCarthy's house with another girl, Jennie Lace, whom she had also told of the assault. She also told Mamie Doyle, AnastaMa Hunt aud a married lady. Sue made no complaint before a magistrate about Father McCarthy. In redirect, Miss Cronin said sho thought it was January 12, as a young mau brought the tickets to her house on January 18, and it was about six days before. She gave up tho keys of tho cnotc because the bishop said she must do so.

Fattier McCarthy said she ought to have givon notice and she said she luul takeu enough of Insults from him. She had a particular reason for not tilling her mother. She knew that her mother would be very angry and did not to have it made public. On hpr two visits she took a girl with her each time. Sho id not tell her mother because she was an Rry with Father McCarthy.

The plaintiff began to tell a.story about another scene at Father McCarthy's In December, 1832, but was stopped. Then sho related something about the assault on January 12. ANOTHEB ALLEGED VICTIM SPEAKS. Kate Dixon, aed 19, knew both plaintiff and defendant in January, 1H83, she was living with Father 11c Carihy and had been with him back and forth for seven years; hoforo tint sho was in the orphan asvlum; she saw Miss Cronin at Father McCarthy's house several times two or three wei'ks before February 4, 1883, M)s Cronin came with a small boy, and as the boy was following her upstairs Father McCarthy said 'Leave the boy downstairs while in thu kitchen she heard a noise, a sort of tumble, as though the boy was in some mischief; she went forward aud saw the boy sitting quite still; just then she heard Miss Cronin say "Now, let me dowu," and then Father McCarthy said "III havu tho tickets ready for you Misa Crouiu came down stairs and witness let her out and saw that her hair was disordered and her hat on one si do her eyes seemed as though she crying a few days afterward, whilo at dinner. Father McCarthy said to the witness "Havo you seen Bridget the Tudget I kissed her on her mole, and I guess she won't come any more." Miss Cronin has a mole ou her chin.

Rep. By Mr. Spencor You were aceusod by Father McCarthy of stealing? A. Yea, and he shall Buffer for it. By Mr.

Oayuor Was this after you had mado a charge of criminal assault against Father McCarthy A. Yes. Mr. Spencer objected to the question and ttw objection was sustained. By Mr.

Gsynor Were you discharged by the magistrate? A. Yes. Colonel Spencer opened briefly for the defeuso. Tho wholo story, ho said, was a fabrication and an attempt to injure an innocent man. The secret of it was that the plaintiff was discharged as organist ou the ground of incompetency, and sho sought to revenge herself fa this way.

Tho court adjourned, at five o'clock, until this morning. BUSINESS NOTICES. TWELVE MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS (12,000,000.) OF H1GGINS" GERMAN LAUNDRY SOAP CONSUMED DURING THE YEAR 1883 I I 1FYOU ARE NOT ALREADY USING TRY IT AND YOU WILL BE CONVINCED OF ITS SUPERIORITY. SEE THAT EACH WRAPPER AND UAKB BEARS THE NAME OF CHAS. S.

HIGGINS. TRADE MARK THE COLORED WOMAN AT THE WASHTUB. SALES OF REAL ESTATE SOUTH OF FORTIETH ST, THE EIGHTH WARD, DURING THE YEAR 1883. 18S3. Feb.

844th at, 3rd and 4lh avs, 20x100, lot Feb. 3 5th av, 4 tth 4 4'fh sts, 18x100, Fob. 24 52d Bt, 4th and 5th avs, 40x100, 3 lots. Marcli 3 43d st, 2d 3d avs, 20x100, house A lot March 10 4 4th st, 2d avs, 00x100, $440 350 700 850 1,100 1,683 3,000 1,600 1,100 1,500 1,600 2,400 3,100 3,500 1,300 2,600 1,800 760 400 2,600 COO 275 1,050 2,560 2.455 3,150 1,200 500 1,000 650 2.100 1.300 2,200 1,450 750 000 1,600 1,500 April 34 3d av, 50th and 65th ats, 60x80, lota April 21 2d av, 45th and 55th at 50x100 April 28 43d st, 1st and 2nd avs, 20x100 April 28 53th ot, 1st and 2d avs, 50x100 May 6 corner 3rd av and 54th st, 25x100, lot. May 12 43rd st, 3rd 4th avs, 20x100, May 12 65th Bt, 2d 3rd are, 25x100, house A lot May 19 53d st, 3d A 4th nvs, 16.8x100.

4 I. May 19 53rd st, 3d ft 4th avs, 10.8x100, A 1 May 19 2nd av, oor of 53th at, 40x100, lots May 2G 44th st, 3rd A 4th ars, 16.8x100, hi! June 2 49th st, 8 s. 3d A 4th avs, 15x100, A 1.. June 9 54th st, 8 8, 1st, A 2nd avs, 50x100, Jane 9 53rd st, a 4tb 5th avs, 20x100, lot. Juno23 4thav, es cor 54th st, 100x102, June 26 49th st, sa, 2nd and 3rd avs, 20x100, lot.

June 30 42nd st, 3rd and 4th avs, 20x100, lot July 741stKt, 1st and 2d avs, 25x100, July 7 41tb st, 3rd A 4th avs. 10.8x100, A i July 14 44th st, 3rd A 4th avs, 10.8x100, hl July 21 3rd av, nw corner 44th st, 25x100. July 28 4Ietst, SB, 1st and 2nd avs, 20x100, hAl July23 55thst, 8, 2nd and avs, 2oxl00, lot Aug. 4 56thst, B9. 2nd and 3rd avs, 40x100, lot.

Auk. 18 42nd st, 2nd and 3rd avs, 25x100, lot Aug. 18 43rd st, 2nd A IG SxlOO, Aug 25 3rd av, 42nd 43rd tts. 25x100, lot Sept. 842nd at, 170 ft 2nd av.

20x100. Sept. 846tht, us. 3rd and 4th avs, 10.8x100... Sept.

8 2nd av, 55th uGth sts. COxlOO. lots Sept. ln52d st, ss, 3rd and 4th avs, 20x100, lote Sept! 29 43rd st. 3rd and 4th avs, 19.6x100 Oct.

6 47th fit, 3rd and 4th avs, 25x100 ft. Oct. 6 52nd st, 3 3rd and 4th ars, 40x102 ft Oct. 6 1st av, 55th str 25x100 ft, txa 2 ys A asta 900 600 Oat. 6 4th av, cor 5'lntl at, 2,000 Oct.

6 Rt. of way far sewer abv 1st av, 44 to 49th 30,000 Oct. 13 42nd st, bet 2nd and 3d are Oot. 13 42ndstsecor2ndav. lR.UxlOO, AloV Oct.

13 3rdav. ws, 40th and lltttst, Oct. 27 42nd st, 2nd and 3rd avs, 25x100, A lot Oct. 27 50th Bt. of 6th a Oct.

27 55thst, 1st and 2nd avs, 25x100 Oct. 27 6th av, cor 40th st, 300x100 Nov. 3 45th nt. vru, 6th AGthava, COxlOO. 2, Iota Nov.

10 54thst, as, 2nd A 3rd avs. 25x100.2, lot. Nov. 17 49tb st, bs, 6th A 6th av, 300x100.2. lota Nov.

24 57thst, ss, SthAtithavs, 20x100, Nov. 23 57th st, a b. 5th Gth are, 20x100, lot. Nov. 23 57th st, 5th AOthave, 20x100, Deo.

8 44th st, ss, 3rd A 4th avs, 20x100, Duo. 8 49th at, 5th Cth avs, 300100. lots. Deo. 8 53rd st, a.

3rd A 4th avs, 20 1 100. Deo. 8 64thst, w2ndav, 10x100 Dec. 8 67th at, 5th aud IHh ava, 40x100 1,200 2,600 1,000 1,600 200 GOO 1,200 340 600 4,600 250 2o0 250 450 4,500 600 125 600 CANCER AND TUBEKOULOUS DISEASES Of the Luna a and disease of women and children peciaUY ittmlii to by Dr. OTTO ROTTON.

20 Hanson pW MdhoJdt certificates for aaven yMrsdlhniattetidancf al St; Bartbolora9w opltal. The Annual Sale of Pews Last EveuSng. A large Attendance Mr. H. B.

Clafliu Secures the First Choice of Seats The Sam of $34,839 Realized iu the Way of Rentals and Premiums A Decrease of 3,333 as Compared With Last Year's Receipts. The thirty seventh annual sale of the pews In Plymouth Church took place laat evoning, and, notwithstanding tho exceedingly disagreeable weather, there was a very large attendance. Among the prominent members of the church prosent were the Rev. S. B.

Halliday, Horace B. Claflin, 8. V. Wnite, B. B.

Duryea, Charles Dennis, Augustus Storrs, D. S. Arnold, F. C. Manvel, H.

S. Weld, F. T. Nntt, Horatio C. King, John T.

Howard, W. B. Boornm, R. 8. Benedict, 0.

E. Bigelow, E. Spicer aud John C. Glbbs. Promptly at seven o'clock Hr.

Beecher stepped to tho front of the platform and mado the following happy little speech Our anniversary has returned, and we are all hero together, in spite of wind and weather. I think that iu all the thirty seven years in which I havo witnessed this scene I havo not known one night worse than to night, but I am very glad that the wind aud the chill and the trouble are all outside, and that you are all'inside, aud it makes me believe you will bo very patient, and that you had rather stoy hero until midnight than to veu ture out into the streets. Still it is not an anniversary or a political meeting, therefore I have reason to believe that you will all Ret home safely. People that are not familiar with tho spirit of Plymouth Church are accustomed to look upon this auction as a public sale of the minister. What he is worth is supposed to be indicated every year, aud the price, of course, goes up or goes down, 'i hey know very little about it.

A thousand circumstances may change the result of the public vendue, but yon that havo been frcquentor of this place look at it simply as your reallotment for tho purpose of raiting tho necessary revenues for the work and tho charities of this great church. I suppose that nineteen out of every twenty who think about the income at all do so in relation to our schools, our music and tho general public service, and that the perineal eloment does not enter into it at nil. If tho sum raked was to be left to many persons tliatlknowoutsiJoin tho com nuuiiy, it would run very low, aud if my ortlv xy wan bid off there are quito a number of churches thnt wonld put it at a minimum price, but among you, with whom I have lived aud who know tho drilt of my ministry, although I may not be te. hnically as orthodox lissome, yet in the great work of lifting nin up from unbelief into a higher life, and into the fervor of a true Cluifctian faith, 1 think there will be but one voice, and I think I can Bafely appeal to my congregation to mo witness that I have never sought anything by flying kites, and never sought favor iu anyway except by right living aud I stand here sure of the affection of my own people, even when they differ from me, even when iu matters of administration they aud I differ. I have never had any reason to doubt their co operation in all things iu which I represent tho spirit of Christ, and further than that I ought not to desire their cooperation.

This evening yon are making your annual investment in tho work of Plymouth Church. If wo went around with a subscription paper to your house you would understand that, and this is another way of doing tho same thing. It is a nuoition of what will you do for the cause of God among men for, the year to come And with these few remarks I will give way to Mr. Hoyt. Mr.

Hoyt then read tho terms of the sale and the bidding became very lively as tho most desirable scats were selected. Mr. Clafliu secured first choice and named Pew 89, for which he pays a premium of $575 in addition to a regular rental of $120. Messrs. S.

V. White, S. B. Duryea, W. B.

Boorum, E. A. Seccomb, E. H. Van Ingen aud Charles Dennis secured the six next best Beats respectively.

Tho prices realized wero as follows PRICES PAID. Jiame 57 90 60 S19 103 134 100 65 102 87 B6 101 104 H. B. Clallin S. V.AVnito S.

B. Durvua $1 20, itm stiHj 1101 5(0 W. a. llonmm E. A.

Seccomb E. H. Van Ineon 400 375 375 850 330 325 300 300 305 300 300 275 240 240 240 235 235 230 235 215 230 230 225 230 225 225 230 110 105 12 2 2j 110 Oh'irles Deniiia J. B. Hutchiuun O.

K4 Bigolow Aar. ii Healy Jt. lirnsii R. S. Benedkt in: jO.

A. Gager Storrs 110 100 100 112 100 1031 110! 70 Gl 1 85 50 KM 102! 100 1171 102 1 05 un CO, 41; 50; 35 41 96 no! 41, SI 41! 95! ir.i 47; 80, 6fl 01 S'J 58 88 43 42 01 62 1. H. Ai noia F. T.

H.itt Mtiaea Bench W. N. fJolor F. D. Bl iko C.

Howard H. B. Baftcher M. iT. M.

fSuctlman IUrs. Liusltam A. K. M'tssur .1. Wmnln.

254 1J2 133 118 130 131 4 1 135 84 53 11 209 2 3 2711 278 120 4 288 31) 45 256 203 189 105 26.) 232 13 83 100 46 14(i 04 234 92 117 136 140 52 03 0i 47 144 209 137 48 218 148 147 173 82 65 119 207 280 207 51 277 16 281 200 287 141 210 201 270 270 271 143 172 208 206 107 150 236 219 252 256 25T 138 108 142 217 140 230 151 2GG 221 152 153 128 81 174 175 13 15 127 17 88 126 80 109 235 230 37 154 36 282 220 A 272 285 2:0 237 238 125 251 79 78 225 211 229 139 202 20a 35 212 110 18 111 112 111 276 228 170 215 258 66 227 IJ.iJm Arbiirkle it. A. limlov C. Liwronce M. Omlen O.

H. 230 215 205 203 205 200 200 205 '205 2K) 200 180 165 165 155 165 105 160 155 150 155 155 155 150 140 130 125 125 125 125 125 120 120 125 120 115 116 110 110 106 105 105 105 105 105 105 100 105 110 100 100 95 95 95 100 95 Schoppor 111 Smith J. 1'. JImvjird Spacer John liiiley (Ballard A Mm ray iL. A.

P. irsonn H. C'. llins H. K.

AJllry i(J. T. flonvin 1. Bencher T. G.

is. Rfilchor Hunrv A. CJlsifiin J. R. Michaels Hill Jfc Hull C.

Vi.BbnrKh F. A. Van Idenatoin Sydney Smith Dr. J. T.

Conkling iTuttlo Smith tKneeland A Brunt) H. J. Bnlay B0 00 80 70 A. A. fQCK J.

M. B. Uarrathors F. Baker 75 451 Henry Hodge: Mrp. ThiilJon I).

W. Van Ingan H. A. OviDKton 8 001 73! 61, HO1 J. PartridRO William liarre Horstio (J.

King (i. P. Miino Roasiter W. Jlnymond John LaontU'd 60 70 75 35 63 ij. h.

Howitt 50 A. K. I'oweil RuB.ils A Ctelinn 35 60 63 63 85 69 i 60 40 30 30 35 35' 63 A. fatudwell K. AV.

Ropes K. Ropes L. C. HnpKin Hale Halst lutund J. H.

Watson H. M. Messenger n. v. wneeior W.

M. Thomas H. L. Pratt H. O.

Keeve W. H. Cox W. H. Gibs L.

Manchester H. d. Cooinb J. IT. Anderson Churlns A.011I Chvittensen Brush S.

C. Kaymond S. T. Skinner J. M.

Learitt H. D. Haven H. S. Jewell Keuhler A Benson H.

S. Glbs in H. O. Williams 11. W.

Shipman A. 25 35 35 50 35 85 90 90 85 80 85 80 29! J9f 30 25 80 57 41 80 25 85 60 261 40! 46 80 80 75 80 80 80 W. V. Tnppcr Pries Hosgland S. V.

Scndder IE. B. Ketcbain 80 80 75 44 as so 70 30 50 44 55 39, 30 60 35 1 A trod uuurenman L. C. Wanamaker Haley 75 70 70 65 65 65 6a 60 60 60 65 85 65 55 60 6(1 55 55 55 65 55 60 granK Knaa E.

D. Phelps HnlmnR A Cjook. T. R. McNeil Ives Mcusrl E.

Ij. Snow iWilliam Foster iW. D. Bogue W. J.

Kntnn 01 iRullins Bates 80 1 E3i C2j A. vvneeiucK Ijeiizbton Judson J. 8. yes, N. 61 Yf.

iu. uromwen Van Wag oner William3 Thomas M. Andrews O. O. Bollard G.

II. Adams Wm. O. Snmner D. Lewis W.

B. Bunker O. E. James MoClellan 63 85! 57 55 80 73 75 40 35 50 35 60 60 65 BO 60 50 48 A. 1.

Urmsbee w. R. Smith 35 101 W. H. Chandler H.

U. Burroughs I. A. Stanwood 40 25 25 20 28 25 47 J. M.

Smith 40 47 CI. IJ. bpooner Edwnrd williama 47 N. Oooiier 47 4G Thompson Winter 18 75 33 65 65 15 40 46 runn a vnapin B. M.

Pettengill IA. O. Smith Thnrber Minton 46 45 46 47 JJ. tfettis E. E.

Hovt James Donnelly IT. Jacobson 29 48 18 SJ 15 20 35 23 65 62 55 40 43 44 44 H. 1). Wakeman W. M.

Shipman B. H. Stone W. H. Bradley H.

Halraer H. Haekler F. O. Manvel U. H.

Allen D. Smith iW. G. William C. O.

Church 0. S. Scott John Wyburn W. Bassett J. O.

Gibbi J. A. Lincoln T. D. Bougbton J.

Cai Ritchie and Whaney S. M. Griswold Edward Oatrom B. M. Briggs Mrs.

O. G. Lockwood Gue and Swavel 'Staarand Lswis A. L. Barch H.

G. Coombs J. Fenton 1. S. Forbell O.

O. Skilton a. P. Tooauo 40 41 40 37 35 85 34 as 32 30 30 28 27 28 26 27 26 25 25 21 20 21 20 20 19 19 18 18 18 17 17 17 16 IS 15 16 11 12 13 10 13 12 12 10 11 10 10 10 10 11 11 10 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 8 7 8 7 7 6 6 A 52 231 11 471 20 641 11 25 216 222 226 123 203 209 60 202 259 260 289 224 243 244 26S 231 274 283 284 198 213 261 34 123 9 11 10 12 8 182 181 67 155 7 169 176 197 33 290 18 18' 44 17 10 30 23 11 11 25 10 15 15 18 40 17 15 17 251 171 O. H.

White E. V. Cone W. H. Townsend A.

T. Skerry A. P. Smyth Finney and Law W. L.

Burke G. A. Moore O. Morrow 'John Wiley 18 so! .47 42 41 47 U. u.

wearnm A. M. Dntoher W. Lawrence 0. J.

Mills IS. S. Ferris I A. B. Davenport J.

J. Bond: 45 36 25 301 47 Lewis Yeiland M. Blinding H. Harris .1. M.

Graff 80 2b 41 61 IS 25 15 30 20 20 TrReevo U. A. Marcm F. J. G.

M. VanOlinda W. W. J. Warren neks B.

u. Book F. S. Hsllidaif 10 O. H.

Woodland G. B. Gul'ick O. G. Martin J.

W. Fackleton G. L. R. F.

Ooffln G. Gossert A W. A. Bardwell Henry B. Davidson A.

Lamb George Smith 111 77 180 76 30 40 42 30 10 8 117 100.H im 242 113 186 204 68 291 20 10 80 20 15 35 11 30 IS 6 5 u. jjavioson. S. J. Veeder 8.

W. France G. H. R. W.Powell J.

Procht. J. A. Wilson J. Matthews 114 339 167.

393 241 191 214 177 22 246 247 21 US 179 249 196, 27 24 23 120 195 156 161 249 15 16 45 Hodine I. Stewart William Westcott 301 6 u. v. i William Eoclos, Jr u. w.

Talmage H. Hand Newman and Hnll S. O. Newman P. Van Everitt H.

L. Yoniui H. 8. O. Coverly 86 20 47 10 91 21' 30 at.

jarvie O. W.O. 24 .12 0. O.Finob...... 12 Martin 25 18 Ul! 20 20 2tt 5 doim A.

O. Hitter H. B. congregations have never been larger or com posed of more intelligent and eager listeners. A good account may also be given of the condition and progress of the Sunday schools of the Bethel, whose services under the ministry of the Rev.

S. Giffard Nelson are creating an increased interest and much larger attendance in the neighborhood, than formerly, and of the several other branches of the work of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. Some dissat isfaction has been expressed with the music of the old church since Mr. Camp retired from the leadership, but Plymouth is not the only church in Brooklyn, where the musio is in a transition state and has not reached the per fection which would satisfy everybody. As it may be said of the world famous preacher of Plymouth, that time has not weak ened the energy and originality of his thoughts the power they exercise over the intelli gence of thousands of the people of Brooklyn and of the United States, so of the practical work of Plymouth Church it may be said with truth that there is no falling off, nor any indi cation of it, so long as Mr.

Beecher is its pas tor, although, like all other organizations in which the financial element enters, it reflects 01 its income the material conditions of the year. Kgypt and England. Although the British Government has de cided to send such reinforcements to Egypt as the condition of things demands, it has also decided upon another thing, and that is that all the vast territory which the Egyptians call the Soudan but which on our maps is divided into Southern Nubia, Senaar, Kordofan and Darfur should be lost to the Khedive and forever. In other words, while England is willing to assist the Egyptian army in the defense of. the Egyptian frontier proper, she insists that the Khedive should give up the idea of reconquering a mutinous people inhabiting a territory as large as Fronce and England put together.

The people of Soudan have as much right to be independent of Egypt as Egypt has a right to be independent of the Sultan. Egypt is only a small State on the fringe of Africa, and her importance in due rather to her polit ical and geographital position, be! ween the coast of two seas than to any other circumstance. Europe desires to pass through Egypt from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and Egypt as a Power governing tho territory through which the Suez Canal passes is important only on account of the canal. But it does not follow that because Egypt holds this position she is entitled to make conquests and to seek to create an empire in the heart of Central Africa. It is announced from Cairo that Lord Granville's note an 1 nouncing the terms on which England will assist Egypt has raised a storm of indigna that the Khedive's Cabinet have resigned.

The truth is that the position of tho Egyptian Ministers has for some time past been a rather humiliating one. They are compelled to do as the British Resident tells them, as the Khedive tells them and as English opin ion tells them, and very often are utterly surprised at the wishes of all three. But it is equally true that the first use to which the ministers put their administrative powers was to send an expedition to the Soudan upon an utterly hopeless enterprise and the failure of which has reduced Egypt to a condition of danger equally, if not more dangerous, than the anarchy under Arabi Pasha. The plain duty of Mr. Gladstone's government is to tell the Khedive and his Pashas that in coming to Egypt the English accepted him rather than Arabi Pasha, and if he wishes to prove that tho English did not make the wrong choice ho must give up in the Soudan the game which the exiled patriot" wished to play in Egypt itself.

General Grant, who once remarked that the Democracy could invariably be relied upon at a critical moment to commit some blunder, was well enough to observe, when ho heard of the result of tho Ohio Senatorial caucus: Didn't I tell you so The zealous champions of orthodoxy in the Episcopal denomination must not be too importunate. The pigeonhole in which the charges against the Rev. Hebcr Newton were filed is not accessible without a step ladder, and there is no step ladder handy. With ex Speaker Littlejohn at the head of the Assembly Committee of Ways and Means and the Bald Eagle of Westchester and Rock land in the role of chief counsel to the lower branch of the Legislature the friends of retrenchment and the enemies of sly games in that body will have need of more vigilance than is implied by sitting up all night playing poker. Tho counsel fees paid by the Government in tho Star Route oases do not represent the largest portion of the expenditure.

The sums disbuised for procuring the attendance of wit nesses for detective service and for 1 inciden tals" will probably foot up over $100,000. Nearly a quarter of a million outlay on a mere comedy of errors! Professor Perry, of Williams College, very justly entertains a high opinion of General Butler's abilities, but we think 1io has fallen into error in saying that the General is a free trader. If we are not much mistaken, he believes in a tariff for the protection of American labor. General Butler has a great affeotion for the laboring masses, and he would not allow any merely theoretical predilections to stand in the way of giving them all necessary protection. Two esteemed contemporaries, the Albany Evening Journal and the Neto York Sun, simultaneously introduce Mr.

Henry Watter son as a suitable person to succeed Cerro Gordo" Williams as United States Senator from Kentucky. Mr. Watterson cannot re gard with indifference an introduction aocom plished under auspices so flattering, but the editor of an influential journal, who is at the same time the leading spirit of one of the greatest reformatory movements of the age, would scarcely consent to abandon these posts of power and responsibility for any less important trust than that of the Presidency. The value of a Georgia wife with childish "pranks "is roughly estimated at S100.000 At least that is the amount for which the Hon. James T.

McCormick, of Atlanta, sues Mr. William J. Garrett, a heavy produce deal er" of the same city, whom he charges with having enticed Mrs. McCormick from her marital duties. This suit derives no little justification from the fact that Mr, McCormick was born about a quarter of a century before his spouse saw the light.

It may be laid down as a general proposition that a man who is twenty five years older than his wife enjoys a measure of happiness in the contemplation of her kittenish ways, for the loss of which $100,000 is not an exaggerated compensation. There is a disposition to believe that the moral effect of the publication of the Hunting ton letters will be strong enough to defeat the schemes of the lobby at Washington this Win ter. We are not so certain of the stability of moral effects in that latitude. The Whisky Ring expects this Congress to a bill extending the time for the ment of the tax on whisky in bond. pass pay The amount falling due next July is $26,000, 000.

An eminent authority has expressed the opinion that $1,200,000 judiciously placed would be sufficient to convince any Congress of the propriety of gratifying the wiBhes of parties willing to appropriate that sum. Experience so far confirms this opinion as to make it, in our judgment, very unsafe to rely upon the moral effect of the Huntington let ters to defeat the passage of the Whisky bill, One of the chief obstacles in the way of detecting fraudulent undervaluations of im ported merchandise ia the fact that many of the fabrics are manufactured exclusively for exportation to America and have no market value abroad. There is, for instance, a certain grade of silk shipped to this country to be sold for what it will bring. The commercial agents of the American Government are at a loss to advise our customs authorities in regard to auch a product because there are no quotations to guide them, and they have no means of ascertaining what the market value is. This is true in respect' to many other, kinds of merchandise, the appraisement of which, whether, made by our Federal or merchant lemslation BntUesfEsan interference at Al bum At to a 'temporary Market.

Attention is again directed to the subject of market for the City of Brooklyn oy the con ference held by tho produce growers and retail grocers as to the advisability of securing temporary quarters for a market pending the cquisition by the city or private enterprise of the Wallabout lands, which are universally conceded to be the best site. The case stands at present thus: The grocers and farmers and people of Brooklyn have resolved that market is necessary; that the Wallabout is the place for it, and that there it must be es tablished. The Navy Department has recom ended the sale of land sufficient for a mar ket to the city on certain conditions. Thnt recommendation is yet to bo acted upoD by Congress then a commission is to bo appointed to value it then the City of Brooklyn is to be given a year in which to determino what action it will take. Then, if the city decides to secure the property and build a market, which would be the most expeditious course events conld take, the structure must be designed and erected.

Consequently, however well the scheme may progress it is unlikely that the Wallabout market which now exists only as an idea will become a practical fact within three years. With these conditions before them more or less dimly recognized, the grocers and farmers have been discussing the ad visability of securing temporary quarters under the bridge pending the erection of the market. This project is opposed by some upon the ground that if the need is thus temporarily supplied the spur of necessity which now impels the people will be withdrawn that they will settle down into listless content ment and, satisfied with what they have, they will make no further effort to secure the best that can be obtained. There is nothing in this argument. It as sumes, first, that the need of a market proper is not so pressing as it seems, and second that the people of Brooklyn are only children who can be satisfied with toys and promises, and third that tho interests of the city will permit thein to enjoy the bridge arches unmolested for an indefinite length of time.

All these assumptions are baseless. If the arches are surrendered temporarily for market pur poses our friends may rest assured that the arrangement will bo made with a direct and unmistakable understanding that they are to be vacated in a specified time, and are loaned only as a convenience. There is precious lit tle danger that property so valuable for other purposes will be suffered to go by default or that tho market men will gain a residence. Moreover, it is manifestly essential to the best results that the market should have a water front, that it should be central in position and should have ample space and easy means of ac cess, such as the bridge arches possess in only a limited degree. Such temporary quarters would be acceptable upon the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread, but will be unde sirable the moment the other half of the loaf can bo had for tho taking.

The Eagle en tirely disagrees with those who think the project should bo allowed to slumber until the Wallabout lands are ready to build on. The way to resume, as Mr. Greeley said, is to reBume. Let tho people of Brooklyn once have a market, and accus tom themselves to making use of its lim ited advantages, which will be a great gain over the present arrangements, and they will not be satisfied until they have the best that can be secured. In tho firat place they would not be satisfied with a permanent mar ket in tho bridge arches, if they could have it in the second, they could not have it if they would.

The better way would be to put the project in shape to the best advantage without delay. Board of Education. After some little debate as to the propriety of noticing any part of a communication ad dressed to the Common Couucil the Board of Education at its meeting yesterday referred so much of tho Mayor's annual message as re lates to the schooLs of the city to the Commit tee on Studios. The objection that the mes sage was not properly before the Board, was met bv Mr. Teale's remark that the document was really addressed to the people of the whole city, and that the Common Council is simply used as a convenient channel of communica tion.

It does become the Board to give the Mayor's recommendations earnest and speedy consideration. There are, as his Honor has shown and as every member of the Board ought to know, at least twelve grammar schools which can with great advantage be reduced to the primary grade. Whatever the princi pals of these schools may think or whatever tho opinions be of those members of the Board who still chorish affection for the an cient policy which gavo us a vast amount of higher class room for which there was no use. hile thousands of children were kept on the streets bocanse there was no space tor them in the elementary classes, the city has made up its mind to enforce the policy which the Mayor has, with so much intelligence and force, espoused. It is a burlesque on the Common School system to maintain even one grammar schoolsolong as there is a single child in Brooklyn who cannot be provided for in the prima ry departments.

For the members of the Board who are of a contrary mind, there is the simplest kind of redress imaginable they can resign, and they ought to resign. When the Mayor comes to fill the places in Juno next of the members whuso terms will then expire he will, we trust, take care not to return any man who diners from mm on this matter. Two points ho must, in justice to himself and the city, insist upon as cardinal namely, an honest desire to maintain the free book system and subordinate the grammar classes and all other Bort of classes to elemen tary education. Plymouth Church. The premiums for pews in Plymouth Church last evening amounted to $22,011 as against $25,338.50 paid last year, showing a decrease of $3,327.50.

These premiums are exclusive of the annual rental of the pews and sittings. which are assessed at $12,833. The inclement eather may possibly have had some influence upon the financial impulses of the bidders. Mr. Beecher declaring in his opening remarks that it was the stormiest he bad 'ever known on such an occasion during his thirty seven years' pastorate of Plymouth Church.

The real secret of the falling off, however, is the financial depression of the post year, and the wonder is not that there was a decline in the premiums, but that it was not more consid erable. As Mr. Beecher stated, the members of the church look at this annual auction of the pews simply as their contribution to the work and chanties which Plymouth Church carries on, The missions, schools, church music and bene factions of the church are maintained by the funds derived from this income. That the income itself should be variable follows as matter of course from the variations of the financial thermometor. A good business year makes the merchant more liberal in all his ex penditures, whether it be for pleasure and luxury or for philanthropic and religious en terprises.

The year 1883 was a very bad year in tho commercial world. "Vast fortunes were lost and many business honses fell with crash. When one member of the commercial body suffers all the members suffer with Depression iu trade produces economy in social outlays by an inevitable law, and the price a man pays for a pew in a crowded church for his family is one of these social outlays for which he makes provision every year according to his financial prosperity, The rise or fall, therefore, in this mode of supporting the numerous and beneficent outworks of Plymouth Church has nothing to do with the efficiency or popularity of the pastor. In a church where the same method was adopted of raising the income for church work, and which had changed its pastor, the amount bidden for pews wonld no doubt indi oate the value set upon the new minister by the congregation. But Plymouth Church and its pastor are not an experiment, asking a fair start at the hands of the families who attend tho services.

For thirty seven years under the same great preaoher and pastor, the church has been constantly widening and deepening its activities in Brooklyn. One might as well argue the decadence of the city itself from a time of business depression as infer that Mr. Beecher is losing power or popularity because the last two years have shown a deolina on the premiums dation, and as it escapee into the atmotphen surrounds him with ft speoies of fog. This accounts partially for certain phenomena which have not been otherwise explained. To keep this amazing quantity of mineral water at a proper temperature before consumption each Senator required for two months 3,000 pounds of ice while another long bill for an article known incuscriminately as quinine, soap, cologne and bay rum, requisite by admixture to prevunt evil consequences from theintroduotion of bo much iced mineral water into the body politio further illustrates the copiousness of the fluid supply and the exactions of the climate.

One cannot help noticing, however, the intolerable disproportion of ice and mineral water to the quinine, cologne and bay rem. Is it ossible that the Senate supplies of the latter articles find their way during the closing hours of the House to account for Mr. Keifer's extraordin ary collisions, or is the bulk of it turned over to Mr. Cameron Rapid 'Transit. Mr.

Herman Liebman, of the firm of Loeser Co. differs from most of the merchants on the lower part of Fulton street in that, while they oppose rapid transit there, he favors it. Mr. Liebman is a remarkably level headed man, and will, we are confident, see his neighbors come round before long to his way of think ing on this subject. If they prove right it will be the first time on record in which a business street has been benefited by the di version of travel from it.

With Washing ton street as a background for carriages there is not the slightest daneor of travel being driven from Fulton street by rapid transit The great danger is that the stream of travel from uptown will be checked at Hudson ave nue or extended across the bridge. Between walking from the railroad on Adams street and going over the river there is much less margin in favor of Brooklyn than the average Fulton street merchant supposes. For the time being, however, the Adams street route must be ac cepted as settled upon. In this relation there was evidence of sol vency submitted to the Mayor to day by the directors of the Kings County Company, which seems to cut the ground from under those who have questioned the financial standing of the company. With the case as it stands now, we do not see how the Mayor can refuse in the public interest to approve the resolu tions.

Public sentiment, as he remarked yes terday, is all in favor of rapid transit. The only serious dispute is as to what routes shall be chosen. To the routes projected there is as little objection as we can over hope to see offered to any line or lines. When to this state of feeling we have guarantees of good faith added such as seem to have been secured it is difficult to understand how anyone can oppose the company now in the field who has any serious intention of favoring any practicable rapid transit scheme for Brooklyn. Of mere objections there is of courso no end.

If wo do not act till some course is devised which nobody will find fault with we shall never do anything. American tiraln in Two American Since the prosperity of our country is due. according to our Protectionist friends, to the beneficent influences of the tariff and since by all odds the most important commodity sold abroad, to bring money into tho country, is grain, therefore, by all correct reasoning the good and very good harvests wo have en joyed for several years past are due to the pro tection of our agricultural interests against the pauper seasons of Europo, by heavy duties upon drought, excessive moisture and the intense cold of the North West territory Corn, wheat and their kin being our glory, as well as our chief export, it follows that if we have any mercantile navy it ought to be looked for iu the list of vessels that carried American cereals from New York across the Atlantic It appears that there ore 1,190 steamships of all nationalities engaged in this business and 1GG sailing vessels in 1883. as against 1,056 steamers in 1879 and 1,798 sailing "ves sels. This, while it shows how largely steam has driven sail out of the trade, contains other suggestions of value.

It shows how. in addition to the remarkablo har vests which protection has guaranteed, and to the great encouragement given to agri culture by taxing the agriculturalist about forty cents on every dollar he makes for the benefit of a favored ring of manufacturers without giving him any compensation at all, the tariff has benefited our commerce by ship ping our cereals iu foreign vessels. This can be found in the figures just published. The 1,190 steamers earned off 44,205,000 bushels of grain the 1GG sailing vossels transported bushels. Of the 1,190 steamers the nationalities were as follows British, 786 Belgian, 93 German, 170 Dutch, 52 French, 45 Danish, 28 Italian.

14 Portu guese, 1 Spanish, 1 American, 0. Of the 1GG sailing vessels tho nationalities were Austrian, 51 Italian, 47 Norwegian, 24 Portuguese, 17 British, 11 Spanish, 5, Swedish, 3 Danish, 2 German, 2 Russian, 2 American, 2. Of tho 48,457,945 bushels of grain grown in this country and sent abroad, 25.G50 were carried in the two Amer ican ships, or about one nineteen hundredth of the whole amount. Great Britain carried 15,000,000 bushels more than all the nationali ties of the world coubiuod, by steam alone. From this exhibit two conclusions are inevit able.

One of these is that the protective tariff is building up the American commercial navy with dazzling rapidity the other is that Great Britain, jealous of our immense carrying trade of two ships, is expending mountains of gold to break down the superb system of pro tectiou which has done so much for our ship ping and has so deeply injured her own. So long as those two American sailing ships come into competition with her 786 steamers and 11 sailing vessels in the grain carrying trade and transport 25,650 bushels, while she is rermitted to carry no more than 29,704,042, it is painfully evident that any American who is dissatisfied with the division of profit is a traitor to the flag, whose object is to build up Britain's feeble marine and whose incentive is a fat and ponderous chunk of British eold. Either that is true or our present tariff is an infamous system of brig andage, whose principal advocates are a set of robbers who care only to line their pockets while they can at the sacrifice of their coun try's prosperity. Tho City Republicans. Having signified their adhesion to the new and unique political firm of Daggett, Dady Company by adopting their list of officers at a preliminary caucus, the delegates to the new Republican General Committee last night went through the formality of organization.

The managers absented themselves, leaving to their lieutenants the work of registering their decrees and the machine, lubricated with the oil of patronage, was set in motion for the Presidential canvass without jar or complica tion. There is something pathetic in the reference of President Baldwin to the harmoni ous relations between the delegates, in view of the fact that they have, with few excep tions, cheerfully accepted the leadership of the Senator from the Third District and the Federal Building Superintendent. The dissensions of the past, however unseemly, were indicative of a vitality and independence for which reform Republicans will look in vain to the incoming body. The conditions of party management, as illustrated in the new committee, are more than sufficient to justify the continuance of the Young Re publican Club and the application of such corrective influences as it can briug to bear upon the regulars. In their haste to secure an early organization of the Executive Committee, the delegates evince a determination to enter upon the Presidential canvass with an alacrity highly encouraging to the patriots who are already beginning to shout for the grand old party, the flag and an appropriation.

It would be well, however, for the leaders to restrain their followers from a too ready acceptance of the suggestion that the Executive Committee devote its energies to grinding out legislative measures for the oity. To say the least, it is indisoreet for the committee to attempt, at this early period, usurp, ing the functions of the Albany legislators and iutiniations of party legislation, emanating from such a source, are wofully at vari ance with tho repeated utterances of local Re 1 DUDUsftUi conventions ia mvor or uou psrusaa Tings superfluous. Mr. Baker and Convict Labor. Reference was made recently to the annual jeport of Isaac V.

Baker, Superintendent of Prisons, which in summarized form was presented to the public in advance of its sub mission to the Legislature yesterday. The es sential points were included in that synopsis. It will be seen that Mr. Baker has two ob jects iii his mind beyond the bare presenta tion of facts upon which others may estab lish theories. He points out first that the miE of the State have been more than self supporting aurmg ine year, ami uuvu mutcu yielded a profit of 9, 106.23, and sceins to think that the achievement of this renilt dis poses of every other question, and is a sting ier Tpbulte to the maioritv of voters, who last all determined, so far as lay in their power, bring about the abolition of the contract ttcm of prison labor.

The fact is clear Mr. Baker either entirely misconceives lr misstates the case, both in its aspect as problem and as a finality. He seems to iuppose at one time that the solo business of 9 prison is to be described in figures with dollar mark before them and that the question ji humanity has nothing to do with it. Sub jiequently ho talks about the moral and industrial sides of the matter, and that, too, in a way that, as we have pointed out, is peculiarly unfortunate. In the face of recent revelations which the public has not forgotten nd will not forget, although he seems to fan ev it is imbecile in relation to memory, that the physical and moral condition of the pris fitters is steadily improving there was plenty of room for it, surely that their number.is diminishing and that the corrective potency of penal imprisonment is visibly augmented.

These moral observations are sandwiched be tween the upper and nether slice of financial achievement. Observation No. 1. is that the productive energy of the prisoners is increasing which may mean that coercive torture lias been reduced to a science No. 6 tells us that an annual deficit has been changed to a yearly surplus He then proceeds under the heads of "La "bor a Double Aid to Convicts," "Labor is for "Reform" and "Labor Most Salutary," to repeat any quantity of facts with which the world is familiar and which the late Dr.

"Watts long ago summed up in the condensed statement that "Satan finds some mischief still "for idle hands to do." The poetic divine an v. "TbcipalecHbiiportion of Mr. Baker's report con raselv and with the advantage of brevity. The superintendent reminds one of Dr. Holmes' katydid, he "says uncontradicted things in such a solemn way." "We all know that labor is beneficial and that to teach an igno rant convict a trade is to furnish him with the means of earning an honest living.

That is why the public insistB that he ba taught a trade. Mr. Baker tries to convince the world that the contract system thus forti fies the discharged convict against temptation io crime by giving him a trade. In this Mr. is disingenuous.

Ho deceives nobody who has given the subject the least atten tion. The people know that so far from tASfhinc the convict a trade the contract system actually prevents his learning croft, and by breaking down his consti tution prevents his practising it at the end of his time, if he have one. It is because the contract system does not allow a convict to learn a trade that the people of the State have ordered its abolition. Not all the elo qvence of Mr. Baker about the value and beauty of labor in the abstract can alter the fact that the system now in vogue is a fraud in bo fnf as it pretends to educate the convict as a mechanic.

It induces conditions which tend rather to make him a demon, TZte Dry Climate of tVashitiffton. It is notorious that the atmosphere of "Washington is the most arid in the United States. The humidity of the alkali plains of the West is excessive compared with that of Washington. It is notorious that the human system at the Capital is exposed to such conditions that unless one's glass is replenished frequently there is danger of one's drying up almost instantly. Such a calamity in the House or Senate would paralyze the country.

It has long been a matter of wonder why some of the more effusive members of both Houses do not occasionally dry up and so mummify themselves into the condition of Mr. Holman, of Indiana, but certain revelations in the report of the Acting ii i nuuxemry or uo Douaw uuw uiauiuao iu. na to thnt dimiified bodv. Tba sift. ed, new cisss, aeptomoor tp io iH; of 310 uroonio street, new.

xore 8' Miss Gertrude Troai to Fifth Grao 1 I toe rooms 01 'l. 'Tjrrpv I commencing on I onnn uxi 111 in mirth nanon tmt nf tan ttirirn I newu.so,uoui: vivuhdwuiiju.