The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 16

16 THE BROOKLYN DATLY EAGKLE SUST DAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1892. TWElSrTY PAGES. BEAI JESXAXE. row ESTATE.

FOR SALE HOITSES. DARING RIVER THIEVES. A SAIL TO SOUTHWARD. stole there In Staten Island, whore their companions carried on their work. From Staten Island the remainder of the gang sent the goods they seized to their Brooklyn companions, who got rid of them easily without fear of detection.

The combination was broken up by the arrest of George Hoffman, the leader, as he was coming from Staten Island with some stolen property. Hoffman languished in jail for a while, but was finally discharged, as no owner for tho property could bo brought forward. A party consisting of Sergeant Eason, Sergeant Bellow, Roundsmen Harold and Downing, Detectives Roddy and the late Sergeant Detective Lowery and six officers were sent on August 22, to the foot of Joralemon street to apprehend a number of thieves who had planned to rob a lighter. At the dock the sergeant placed his men in concealment and started out to reconnoiter. Ho saw that the thieves were hard at work, but could not tell how many wero engaged in the business.

A signal brought tho officers to the spot, and before five minutes had passed, three pirates were handcuffed, the rest escaping. Tho property recovered by the police in this haul was 16,000 pounds of sugar and two boats, all of which was returned to tho owner. The Smoky Hollow gang is now another thing of the past. Its main headquarters were in the Sixth ward, in the neighborhood of South ferry, but its operations extended as for south as Red Hook and east to Wall street ferry. Few of them possessed the courage of tho genuine river pirate.

The numerous shanties and deserted huts and sheds in the neighborhood, the tall grass of tho salt meadows, Gowanus canal, offered them secure places in which to store their plunder and to dispose of it with impunity. Some of them must have been readers of yellow covered literature, as time and time again, police have discovered dens along tho basins, filthy retreats in derelict canal boats, and deserted huts that were fitted up in the most approved style of dimo novels and that contained odd collections of spoil from their many criminal exploits. One of the successful methods of thieves practiced by tho river pirates beforo the river patrol was organized was to row under the docks, where, safe from observation, they could bore up through the timbers of the wharf Into the sugar hogsheads which wero stored above. Along in the evening two men in a stout white hall boat would slink under the pier and with a larg.i pump augur bore up through tho wharf into tho hogsheads above and then natch the sugar as it ran down in bags which they had provided for the purpose. Four or five hundred pounds could bo car np things, he has put on spectacles, and for the rest of the trip he examines his tongue in the mirror and reads a tract.

In the midst of the loose pine forest, where saw palmetto grows as grass does in. our climate, there are signs, tacked to the trees reading 'A venue "Avenue "First street," "Second street," and so on. This is a city that has been boomed in Northern newspaper advertisements. At present there is not a house, a street, not even a razor back pig, to make a pretense of settlement. The real estate genius seems to thrive down South.

He has transferred the scene of his operations from the West, where they are too well acquainted with him for his own comfort. He recently sold a couple of hundred acres in Florida to a man who did not know what he was buying and who, on going" to see his purchase, found it to be swamp. "You infernal scoundrel," ho roared at the real estate man, when he caught him, "what do you mean by selling me land that's under three feet of water "Calm yourself, sir," replied tho dealer. "I didn't tell you it wasn't under water. Y'ou ought to be satisfied, anyhow, to own 200 acres of the finest climate in America.

The highest land in Florida is 850 feet higher than the tide. It is a hot, wet, bilious, malarial district that you get into unless you go upon a ridgo, where the orangeB grow. The night's are cooled by a breeze from the sea, but the days are nearly as hot as those in New York, though never so en feebling and oppressive. It is the continuity of heat that takes tho life out of one. Said tn orange grower who had gone down there from the North: "It is no use talking.

The stories that they tell about the effect of this climate are lies. Let a man live here five years and he's not ood for anything afterward. I'm not. I haven't got spunk enough to go home. Why, even the snakes die down hore because they're too lazy to hustle around and get a meal.

You have to kick them to make them bite." We como into St. Augustine through an airy station edged by a little park where tropical vegetation riots, and concrete roads lead to tho town, passing those wonderful hotels, the Ponce de Loon, Alcazar and Cordova, that everybody knows from the pictures and that beat the world." They are not open yet, and only one place is, that looks as if it was safe to lodTe in. A new boarder comes shuddering down stairs with the information that there is a spider as big as a saucer on his door, and he gasps at a centipede, the common, harmless kind, that flits by on the walL Presently he discovers tho grandfather of all cockroaches and jumps on it. Then he inquires about scorpions and tarantulas and guinea worms and boring flies and fleas and bed bugs and is assured that there aren't any, so he goes to sleep under a mosquito not and comes down to breakfast scratching his ears. The landlord assures him that there is no trouble "except from these dum ants." A rare town, this St.

Augustine. They haven't reformed the heart out of it. It is Spanish still and its charm is more in Its by streets than its modern grandeurs. Look at the plaza, with it Spanish monuments, hall and cathedral the women with vails the bananas ripening in thickets of huge leaves, with blossoms like an ox heart weighing down the bunches the queer little street seven feet wide the overhanging balconies that almost meet each other the fruits piled in the shops; persimmons, red and big as tomatoes and cloying sweet, making banks of color the 10 year old hoy delivering milk on mule back from a can hanging on his arm tho ibis and crane perched on the long, sloping roof yonderthe high, secretive walls that once were whitje the negroes who have the habit of talking earnestly to themselves as they go about the streets alone: the happiest people in the world. They begin life every morning, yet they never commit suicide.

In the night we wander again and hear the low boom of the sea on the bar. mixed with the sound of guitars that come3 through twinkling windows, and overhead beams the phosphor sky of tho tropics with lambent stars, then clouds como rushing over and in a few minutes a deluge is roaring upon the earth and wo scud away for shelter. In the morning there is the wsedycemethry to see, where Benjamin Franklin Trady has been conspicuously buried, and from there through the old city gates and into gray and ancient Fort Marion is but a few steps. The heat beats up from the soil in waves and monster locusts and grasshoppers flick through the grass. A chameleon darts along the coquina bastion, his sides glowing bronze and green in the sun, and in tho clear, calm sea pipefish are stabbing here and there with their sharp noses, smaller fish are leaping in schools and crabs are crawling up and down the walls and through the moat.

Palms hang their plumes in the heat, the Spanish bayonet spreads its green swords and prickly pears are crimsoning. Buzzards with ragged wings fly overV head. Entering the fort, beneath the half oblit erated royal arms, a sergeant in blue and with prompt spoech and soldierly back, asks if we care to see the place, and of course we do, making a slight addition to his collection of coins in return for the service. He and another man were the whole garrison of the place when 250 murderous Apaches were encamped here as prisoners. We pace the ramps and climb the watch tower, we see the fig tree sprung from the wall and reoently in bearing, and we see the angle of the moat, filled with holes that the sergeant says were made by bullets, for this was the place ot execution.

"But some of the bullet marks are fifteen feet above ground?" "Yes, but some men, when they are called out to shoot a comrade, don't aim as well as they would in a fight." Then we go through the casemates, where soldiers and prisoners and Indians have been quartered, and see tho high, barred tdndow from which the chiof escaped, and the decorations that the red men made, and the irons in the walls whero offenders used to be triced boneath the crucifix, and tho places that used to be chapels and robing rooms and confessionals, and finally the dungeons, one opening out of another and the inmost one containing enough air to breathe for two and one half hours after it was walled up. Here two skeletons, one of a man and one of a woman, were found in chains. They have started a ridiculous story about these places being made for ashes and garbage and they claim that the man and woman were only beef bones. Now, isn't that foolish? Why would they crawl through tunnels and bump their heads and crack their backs to empty a hod of ashes when there was all Florida to dump on Beside, the sergeant lives there, and he ought to know. He hints at darker mysteries.

"Tho floor sounds hollow here, you notice," ho says, as he holds the lamp down, "and I got a drill and went to exploring. In a few minutes I got through the stone and tho drill disappeared in a quicksand. It's my belief that there is an oubliette below that it was convenient to put things into sometimes." We leave the fort, thankfully believing in the skeletons and are confronted with a sign, "Prepare to meet thy God." "That's the work of the Cowboy Preacher, as he calls himself. He's disfigured government property, and if he shows up here again I'll make him wish he was prepared him self." Whow But it is hot. The people are wearine straw hats, quite sensibly, and one of them stops in gratitude before door whore these honest words are written: "We sell rum and lager beer." C.

M. S. ONE MUST TOTE THE STRAIGHT TICKET FOR SALE LOTS $1,300 BACH FOR two lota on Warren at, botwean Third and fonrth ve no price for such lota. i GEO. E.

LOVETT 4 GULIOK. 69 Conrt at. TTOR SALE LOTS 39 LOTS IN BLOCK JP bonnded by Eastern Parkway, Montank, At Idas and Ulenmore a.a. D. 4 M.

CHATJNOEY REAL ESTATE 207 Montana, st. FOR SALE LOTS ON AVENUE East Fourth and Fifth ats, Flatbnsh, near Proii pect Park, forty flTe beautifnlly located lota; will be sold at a bargain, on eaay terras. Apply to MARIOS GRIMES, 1.151 Fnlton t. Brooklyn TT'OR SALE REAL ESTATE OR TO LET, 2 story frame (iron clad) stable and carriaire houne, 21jx90. 5 straisht.

2 box stalls and accommodations for eiaht carriages; llTinc; apartments for stableman locat euln Bedford aection. Apply to MARIOS PRIMES. 1.151 Fnlton st. B70R SALE REAL ESTATE A FAC X1 tory on Gowanns Cana), 100x100. eronnd 100x300.

with frontace on canal; suitable for almost any manufacturing purpose; substantia! bnildinu; price low. Apply to W. c. BOSCHEN. Room 39.

140 Jjaasau st, New York. EOR SALE LOTS BERGEN ST, COR ner, lSFixlOO. 8S.00O; Seventh av.corner, 100x100, )00: Fifty sixth st, 80x100. 1,100: Forty sljtth at near Third it. 20x100, 8850 each 3,800 others, all Iocs tlona.

WILLIAM H. GRACE, Wiliouehby at, corner OR SALE LOTS GLENMORE A corner Atkins st, 150x100. $8,500. including build Lnr rterriman at. near astern parkway, UuxlUO! 8K.n inoladinir btiildinr: Berrlroan ot.

120x100, these lots are close to Eastern parkway, corner the station on Kings Count7 EleTatedsnd ar. improviue in vaine every nay. 1). 4 M. CHAUNCEY REAL ESTATE 207 Montaeoe st.

XT' "(OR EXCHANGE 3 STORY BRICK JL' flat, 10x45x100; every improvemeot; well rented well rented MARTIN wui rake iot ana caoa payment CUA8K. 1JI Ralph av. FOR EXCHANGE A 3 STORY AND basement brown stono house, 10.8x45x100. 1 1 room and bath, hard wood finish, furnace in cellar, all modern improvements, for a 2 story frame or brioic honse, ood city location. WELLS, 914A Gates av.

TOR EXCHANGE A 2 1 2 STORY JO brownstonehouse.18x43xl00.il rooms and bath, all modern improvement, newly papered, painted and decorated, choice location, fine order, for a 2 story frame house with (round for stable and garden. WELLS. 014A Gates av. 71 OR EXCHANGE CITY OR COUNTRY oroDertv: small and larire honse for other houses at for nrival hnntia nmnU fnr larger hoine: Ooaan Parkway, beautiful residence for city property country for city large exchanre list. w.

ii. MAOOMBER. 23.5 Reid av. FOR EXCHANGE FLATS, HOUSES and lots, in all Darts nf nitr nftveral frmn and cr country places: 83,000 to send particulars of wnat you nave zor exenange. JOHN H.

BERRY. 371 Fulton st, Arbuckle Building. FOR EXCHANGE HOUSE ON OCEAN Parkwav nunerb modern residence with stable and coach house and large plot of ground; price free and clear; will exchange for one or more txvo story and basement houses. TAYLOR HOOD. 08 and 7U Court st.

FOR SA LE PROPERTY. FOR. SALE HOUSE 2 STORY AND basement bonae and atabln all inmrovementH. haater, cash 31,500: near Prospect Park also plot, 50x100, cash 8900: $300 for block of lots atNorthport; 200 for block of 40 lots at Holbrook'n; ill bargain a. YY J.

"WEEDEN, 02 John at. Now York. TTIOB SALE REAL ESTATE OYSTER hftvn i ltnrn aniortment of fin JL Bay and vicinity. Homes and building sites also, line farms from 5 to 200 acres; houseato let, furnished and unfurnished. J.

vv. UAriiiEY, Oyater Bay, I. FOR SALE HOUSE ON THE MOST beautiful avenue, Panaaic, IS'. within three rain house and lot; all improvements and decorations; for sale or exchange; value 37,000. p.

EL AILES. 410 Qnlncy st, Brooklyn. FOR SALE FARM OR EXCHANGE Very Drodnctive: 110 acres: Oranare conntv: larare. subatantlal buildings; abundance of fruit and not trees; depot one mue price including 9 1 wortn oi stock: mortgage unusual chance; make offer. BRQWa, owner, 1,008 Hancock at, grooklyp.

FOR SALE HOUSE AT A BAR GAIN a fine, new Gothic house, 10 rooms; largo attic for 4 more rooms: extension; hard oil finished rooma; can bo thrown together by folding doors: plate (tlasa front door, wide hall, wide plate full length of houaa nice new harn box stalls wood hoaao, etc. 10 acre land within five minutes of Patchogue depot and the South ttay; )UUH som now; caan SJJjUU win seonro it, balance 100 a year; no farther particular necessary; come and see mo. E. EDWARDS. Patohogue, Long Isiand, a.

Y. FOR RATE FLATS. FOR SALE FLATS 2 DOUBLE BRICK apartment houses, 40xGS; lot 100x00; will pay VZ per cent, on investment. Apply to W. S.

BROWN, ll oom IOR SALE FLAT $1,000 CASH, BAL anue on mortgage, 3 story brown atone single flat, 0x50. on Vanderbllt av, near the park this property has a good fatnre; oan bo bad right or will exchange for free and clear 2o foot lot. S. C. BROOKS, 13JJ Flat bush av.

KOR SALE FLATS TWO 3 STORY AND store double flata, Reid av. near Lafayette thoroagh ell built need no repairs always rented show over 10 per cloan investment: 314.000 each: mortgage 89.000. AUGUSTUt H. MERRITT, 407 Tompkins av. FOR SALE FLATS HERE YOU ARE The best paying corner flat in Brooklyn paying 21 per cent, rtosh on investment 4 story brick, with stone trimmings, containing seven flata of rooms each and large store: fine location and property increasing in value corner Haiaey at and Patchon av.

For particulars inquire of WILFRED BURR. Owner and builder, 690 Haiaey st, next door to flat. FOR SA fco. FOR SALE PIANO EXTRAORDINARY bargain Square grand piano, almost new. fine touo, landsome case.

Apply at 527 Lafayette av. SALE PIANOS $50 EACTIt 30 rood louira Diaoa: 114 xaosthlv. WJShJTHIl. aad20S Fulton at. OR SALE PLAXO A $185 UPRIGHT, nearly new; easy terms; Stelnway; barcain.

WISS 24 2G Fulton st. FOR SALE PIANO A MAGNIFICENT $900 Upright Grand Piano, $175: nearly new; every improvement threa pedals', enjrraved panels great sacrifice for cash. STORAGE, 12 DeKalb av. FOR SALE PIANO A FINE STEIN WAY cheap. Can be seen any day from 7 to 8 in the evening at 111 South Elliott pi, four doors to right of Fulton st.

FOR SALE PIANOS 38 MONTHLY; new uprights one price system cash or time JBo; ten years guarantee. ANDERSON A 509 Fulton st; the Anderson A Co. standard pianos. FOR SALE PI AN 875 FISHER: 35 monthly until paid. ANDERSON 509 Ful ton at.

xnoR SALE PIANOS HABDMAK UP and Grand kinr of all nianoa nrices 8350 rights and Grand; upward. ANDERSON A control Brooklyn and Lo ng Island, 509 Fulton at. SALE PIANOS 900 TO S100 forty square pianos, full size, including many prom inent makes; 36 monthly; gonuiae bargains. vISS NER. 294 295 298 Fulton st.

FOR SALE PIANOS AVTSS UP rights finished in all the fancy woods; these famous instruments are the only high grade pianos sold on easy terms. Warerooma 294 2915 208 Fulton at, the largest pianoostabliahment lu America. SALE PIANO A GENTLEMAN Jtl havinir no use for beautiful Bteinwav A Sons' nnriirht piano, good aa new, will aell very cheap for cash; roai denco 103 Cumberland at, between Myrtlo and DoKalb avs. TTOR SALE PIANOS 4, RENTS JT magnificent Upright pianos bargainn in celebrated makea, Chickorinn. Fisher, Weber.

Biddle, QliiO. 9100, $L75, $140; every improvement; caah or instalment; lejcant Upright, a great $175. Call and examine. BIDDLE, o.V? Fulton st. FOR SALE PIANOS GREAT SPECIAL sale; extra inducement this nek: our uptown atore has facilities not possessed by stores downtown consequently we can aell 'cheaper and give easier term elegant uprights aa low as 9150.

SUMMERS, 1,235 Fulton at. FOR IOR SALE FURNITURE A WALNUT bookcase donble door, two drawers, cood order: Nf. books, standard authors, uniform bin din library edition; books all new; 975: folding bed, desk style; brie a brae shelves. Address B. Eagle office.

OR SALE FURNITURE A HAND some black walnut cvllnder doak also black walnut book took 4i( both in excellent condition hat in cost S120. will trl for S25 each. Can be aeon on Monday at private resid ace, 73 H.r.cock et. lOR SaJE KURNITUKR 5 0,000 worti of hen a some and well made fnrnitnr of very deac iotion, from Brooklyn's finest residences; also, 500 aocond band and xoiaUt carpets, at HYAMS. jui to iuu ueurt st FURNITURE WALNUT bedstead, springs, large dresser, stoves, extension ranle, chairs, large hall stand and other furniture all in food order will he sold very cheap If called for to day or to morrow.

SJt.3 Bedford av. TT'OK SALE FURNITURE BLACK JL wa alnnt bookcase, elaas doora. leadlnir authors. noeta works calf bindino. few miscellaneous mnolca.

and law worka, 100 voiiimes. price, $75: folding bed, large size, writing desk style, glass back, brio a brae shelves, price 35U. Address B. Eagle office. IjlORi salenituiuP pTaTr lor 1 suit, $30.

in red satin, cost 8200; one iu rag, 325; handsome oak sideboard, $35 large oak bookcase, worth $75, $45: pier glass, 320; bevel plate mantel cabinet, $15; oak dining set, $30; hall raok. thirty hvo mintit carpets, velvet, bruaaels and ingrain, cheap. METROPOLITAN STORAGK HOUSE, 178 Fuitoa at. two blocks above entrauoe to Brooklyn Bridge, FOIt SAM r.l.UVKlMi.S FOR SALE OUTFIT LADY HAVING lost her baby will eel! entire outfit very fine; at aacri noe. Call at 2,200 Fulton st, near Rockaway station, 17OR SALE GUITAR FRENCH, ROSE wood cnltar.

inlaid with mother of oearl in anlendld condition: Coat resent owner S50: for sale at a vraat bargain. Address J. H. Box 0. Eagle office.

OR SALE FURS ELEGANT SEAL militarr canes. 820. worth ft 50 seal and all kinds of fur shoulder cape, SH; gents' seal caps. $2: seal gloves, fnr carriage robes, at naif price; furs repaired. 753 Macon at, near Ralph av.

FOR SALE BILLIARD TABLE BILL iard pool combination Brnnnwirk Ballce table, medium size: cues, racks, balls; complete outfit; almost n.w $195. UORDOX. Box 17. Kag.e olfice. FOJ Or IOR SALE CEMETERY PLOT IN Greenwood: 126 superficial feet: on Fir avnnnn: fleasant snrroundinirs and ffood location; price, 5oU0.

C. SIMONSON. S59 Court St. OR SALE COAL AND WOOD markut M. 1 wee kly payments: best qnality i CONSUMERS' COAL Address COMPANY.

Eaxle omoe. FOR SALE JACKET AN IMPORTED beara fnr jacket, London dyed has not been worn cannot be diatinffuianod from a sealskin, except by an expert: latest style; bust 23 inches; length 3( inches; will mII for coat $100. 170 Seventh ar, corner First at, first tlat. OR SALE HOUSE 887 LAFAYETTE kt. eles antlv decorated 2W etorv brawn stone house ne location; convenient to stations; owner on prem FOR SALE HOUSES M5 449 MACON St.

handsome hardwood houses: will be sold at very tic are. F. O. SWIMM, 451 Macon at. FOR SALE HOUSE S3.000 BUYS A 3 story brick on Fourth at rent.

8408 per year. TAYLOR 4 HOOD, G8 and TO Oonrtat. TCOR SALE HOUSE 34,650 BUYS A 3 JL? story and basement brick: downtown; good nelffb Dorhood; contains improvements. TAYLOR Jk HOOD. 68 and 70 Conrt t.

SALE HOUSE SIXTH AV, BE twern Berkeley Ttl and Union at 3 story and base ment brown stono all improvement; Kood order: price SS.0O0. Apply at Court at or 27(1 Flatb it. LKONAUpMOODY, Real latate. FOR SALE HOUSE NEvTi9X 10 rooms: hrotra atone; excellent neirhbor oit: one block from twenty inn toe from City 1111, York. Vernon ar.

BrooLclrn. V)R SALE HOUSE A 3 STORY AND J. brick dwelling, 20x40x100, for 94.7ii0 ed at $52R "VVa.rra nt, dowu town. GEO. ELO VETT A GULlpK.

59 Conrt Bt. OR SALE HOUSE OR LEASE 212 Qiiincy st; 3 tor and bjisemrtnt brick; 11 rooms; rfoct ordor: conrrnient to principal linos of transit; I'xHr. Owner. ,7 Water st. New Yftrk.

JOR SALE HOUSE $7,300 FOR A 3 JL story brown stone flat on Gates in fina order: all rented and paying 13 per cent. $1,800 cash: balanco 5 per cent. UK. K. LUVE1T wUILiCK, SiYf Conrt St.

FOR SALE HOUSE $1,000 CASH FOR li otory and hanomant brown stone hon, modern improvemontR and in first cia.a order, sittiated In good location; prico 7.500. A.pp.yto owner, 687 President etreet. F6iTS AXBHOUSE TORYBRICK all improvement good order will sell below cost to (inick buyer. Apple to LEONARD VAUfiHAN, 824 Fnlt oo st, near Vanderbitt I station. "lOR SALE HOUSE MACON ST, EAST jL of Totrand av Elejcant 3 etory fancr stone front, 0x45; bard wood trim; all the latest Improvements; neat station bargain.

JOHN WpODGE, 1,210 Falton st. EOR SALE HOUSE $5500 MONROE at, near Bedford av 3 utory baaniftnt and cellar very denirable location; all improvements mort Ke, 83,500 only $2,000 cash required, JOHN W. DODGE. 1.210 Fnlton FOR SALE irOUSE BARGAIN THE Twenty sixth War.1 2 story framo: 25x100 busi nwfi forces my morirjK down town will aoll very low 3300 cosh: will eichflnen for honf.e nnnrflp bririsrs or Particulars with my attorney, A. F.

DUCKET, 114 Na assar. st. Nevr York. FOR SALE HOUSE FINE BARGAIN; notaiea to pay for a year to come; only 88,500 for 47" Greene nr, near Knlton at, 3 story brown stone dwelling, ffft wide, 12 rnmna and extension laundry; double floors throughout In good order. F.

J. UKACE, 3(jl Fnlton st. OR SALE HOUSE OR TO LET; 885 station story 11 story rear brown atono.fi rooms and bath: nicely papered and decorated; plate iflaas doora. Open Sunday. FOR SALE HOUSE JEFFERSON AV, near Tompkins 3 tory and basement brown stone, with dininjt room extension, inclnding sacond floor elcKantly owner removi ne from city: will sac riilco at 1 AUGUSTUS MKHRITT.

lompttns av, near Hancocic st. FOR SALE HOUSE STERLING PL between Fifth and Sixth aves, 3 etory and basement brown Atone, in good order, 20x42x100; sold to close estate; asked want oner. Apply at 20 Court et or 270 Flatbush av. LifcUAAKU MOODY, Real instate. EOR SALE HOUSES FORECLOSURE I will aell three desirable brick dwelling at auction prater 25: don't nesloct chance to bnyaliomeat 91, 500 less than value: only reasonable cha payment needed full particulars by mail.

GEO. C. CASE. Referee. 139 Montague at.

TLOR SALE HOUSES ALL DESCRIP nicp. new cabinet finish, brick. 8 JL tions, all prices rooms ana bain, MH brick and stone, cabinet finish, decorated. SN.aOO; atone front. 3 atorv.

Twenty third ward, new, liuely iinished, burjrain others. MACOMBEJl, 235 ReldaT FOR SALE HOUSE OR TO I.ET ON account of death of owner, 271 Adelphi st; zrand 4 Htoryaud basement brown stone, 17 rooms, all im Srovements; terms easy and cheap rent. H. W. HO ELL, 300 Myrtle av, corner Adolphi at; open even inffs XTtOR SALE HOUSE S600 DOWN, BAL ftneo to pnit pnrchaaer: av, near Suxuner; story and basement brown stone: decorated and in ood order; or won Id nTchanpn; price 36,500.

AUGUSTUS H. MERRI'iT. 407 Tompkins av, near If ancock st. OR SALE HOUSES'. NEW 2 AND 3 fltorS1 baenmeut fltone fronts: all diHrTf nt modern imps; open riro plumbinir.polished cabinet trim, furnace in cellar: tbrse minutes to Union or Kings vounty eievatoa road, Saratoga or Hahay at station.

Inquire PETKR AKD ER.owner. tj 1 7 Decatur at. TpOR SALE HOUSE FIVE MINUTES walk from the brtder and near Plymontb Church a story and basement briok honso in excellent order; is 2o fet wide has 1 1 larc rooms, with high ceilinga, and is solidlr built will be sold at a bargain to close estate, lor particulars ad Irees J. I Eagle office. FOR SALE HOUSE AT A SACRIFICE 2 story basemi'it, and cellar frame hone.

1S.4x42x 1O0; arranged for two families; upper flat rented at la all improveinontH price, 4, 50. Inquire at 1,035 JUadiaon st, between Kvergreen and Central ava, Brooklyn. ITIOR SALE HOUSE $6,000 BUYS IT: eiHmiva thi bsrraln A ntarv nnH )auamnt brick, in very crood order: cOTtvenieut to rid re and fer ries every improvement In good neighborhood; near Heights taxes allowed. LEONARD MOODY. 20 Court st.

JpwR SALE HOUSES HANCOCK i and Reid av 3 story frame honse and 2 story stable, 3 Marcy sv, 4 story doable flat, aafo In Teatment. PLNCKNEY BLAKE, 342 Sumner av. OR SALE HOUSE 117 HALSEY ST A3atoryand basement brown stoue: cabinet trim. very comfort. 24EM.

Madison et, story and base rnont blown stone; 12 rooms and bath; decorated, eaay terms. nura DACO 1,250 Bedford av, near Fulton st. FOR SALE HOUSE GOOD HONEST value. 83,300: 8300 cash, balance as rent; 2 story, rooma bath all imprivement Baltimore heater caa two blocks from station: best section of Twenty alxth ward, on Park slope. Partlcnlars at Weston's real estate PAILIOX, corner Fulton andJerome eta not Sundays.

FOR SALE HOUSE ORE ATBARG AIN Worth 87.000; will sell for 8B.500; new 2 story nd basement brown stone dwelling; decorated thronjth mwurrii luiproTements: caoinet tnmuiea os Burn and examinp this house thoronghly befcro buying; be seen to be appreciated t27 Macon at; key in cor ner or at UUKATiU O. STiS WART'S, ro t.m rrooiciyn FOR SALE HOUSE GREAT BARGAIN for party with 3500 cash; 3 awry frame flat, fliled in with brick 25xr0 lot S5iia5: rented for 850 per month: price SU.000 morteago $3,000, at termB $o00 cash, balanco on eaey term, znnst be aold this week. EUGENE E. SEAMAN. (JJ oates ar.

corner Toraptina. FOR SALE HOUSE 333 JEFFERSON av, between Marcv and TonmkinR 3 stors anrt basement brown stone front, with all improvements; electric bells and cas lighting; gas hxturea, hardwood xloor.t; decorated throughout moderate prico and easy terms Apply os premiaes or of ARTHUR G. STONE. l. tc Dean st.

OR SALE HOUSE BARGAIN NEW 3 Storv. double flat wnti hnilt. nnrl lonrvtlnn En nahwick av has 5 room huth nil cavniaiauy; cnanueiiers, speaxing tnoes, electric Dells, OUmlnTliltT. IllflT vIjikb ir. frntit, dnrtr cKllr nml M.

walk cemented, ic. renta for $900 yearly. Price $7,000 W. H. AG RICO LA.

1,505 Broadway. FOR SALE HOUSES THE TWO HAND somcBt ana bent hoases for the rnorter (63.700 in the Twenty bi.xth ard all imprOTementa are perfect in finish and are planned for one and two families respectively torm. very small amonnt of cash and balance In monthly paymentB. Apply to E. R.

TICHEXOR, owner, on premiMes, tieimont av, near Warwick at; near an Mution, Kincs onnty eievat od. FOR SALE HOUSES SOME OF THE choicest homes on the Park slope, finished through oat c.ioinet iruu oi poiinea narawooqn nave electric eervice complete; nric a uruo mantels, conaois. library, refrigerator and extension lauudrv: uric modei At terms to sair. pui chjintr; within, one block of Prospect aru. in'iiuru ou premises, rirat st, near r.igntn av, Brooklyn, of JOHN MAGILLISON.

"ITIOR SALE HOUSES ONLY TWO LEFT JL of those tJ story artistic stone front, with 3 atorr ex tensons; laundry and library, tuo story fancy stone xrontn. hardwood tiuiah: open fireplaces, fancy stair ways; exposea anitary piunioinc Damroom naruwoou and marble floors; plumbing nickel plat finish; solicit your inspection; neighborhood tirat clasa. Apply on premiaea 445 tn 449 McDonough at, abort Reid av; taxea paid to December 1. C. REYNOLDS.

Owner: open Sundays. FOR SALE HOUSE OR TO RENT, A 3 ntory and basement brick and brown stone on iatoa av, near Franklin, lot 33x100 houne 20x45; 11 rooms with all improvements; sanitary plumbing; perfectly heated and ventilated; ret ontiy decorated; fiarquet floors; wirod for Kdieon current; electric gaa ighting burirlar alarm, and conveniently arranged for a doctor's olSce; hoap will bo sold with or witlio Jt extra ot at a very low tiger" and on nasy terms, or will be rented cheap to a tenant. For particulars address Iledford branch. EOR SALE HOUSES I HAVEJVr finiahed and ofTr for sale ten of the handaomqt and 2 story and baseniPnt houses in Brooklyn, on Van Bnren ft, north Midi, between ixwla and Stuyvesant ovs, center of city, near TonipkhiB Park they are com Jilete in every uetil attractiv nud raried designs in rooma ana bath: cathedral glass windows; special plumbing vood open tireplaoea gas fix threa and electric bolls: two blocks from Sumner av artation of Union Eievatfd railroad: twenty minutes lront the bridge tornis to txxit look at them before buying aod you will giad you did no; open every day for inspection, and criticism. WM.

ROWE. Owner, on the premises, rOK r. ST' 't I RTt lfl gE IIT FOR SALE ELATBUSH LOTS. $30TrUP rapid transit to city; aeweri, water, gas and tlaggod aide'valks; location Flatbush and Ocaa aa and Avenuea C'audD. etc.

JOHS H. SDERVEEU. owner. I81i and 191 Montague st, Brooklyn. TJOR SALE BATH BEACH," LONG ISL i' aud handsome new utory itore and ilat honee, with Plate elans fro.it: yitu ttod rloae to railroad dfi ot on principal bupinsa tret aiz 20x40x100; all modern Improvements wevv r.

and sidewalks no rrnt vi ed for 3740 ter year; nnt oaid iiuarterir iu adrance price ju tnus will py von 1 0 per cent, net. Apply to W. (J. MORKISEY, Bath Beach. OH 'Rf PFICTV.

"ST'OR SALE STORE PROPERTY BAR. gain A 3 "Tory hrlci more in good location suitable itr couiectiunvry atsa stationery opposite pnoiic acnooi. 51i Stt st. nar ar. Apply on premises.

FOR SALE STORE" PROPERTY RONl at 'ultn 4 story briclc store and flats rented for $Wl year; price mortcgo to autt. TAYLOR HOOl, fW and 7l Court at. ''UK SALE STORE PROPERTYTHREE 2 story frame 1 on ulton st, near Held over hftv leeL will be nw. OWNER, care of w. F.

Jloore, 14S liroadway. Now SOR SALE STORE PROPERTY MYR tie av. near Tornnkins: two storv brick and frame uaildi izs, plat kIssi fronts and in fine condition plot COxlOO; leaseo at 514,700 for all. utu. LOVifiT a an uourt sv BENSON" HTJRST, THE VSIQVB OBURB OF NEW yoRK, Is desirable for both Summer and "Winter.

It has sewers as wedl as atsr, ras and all other city conveniences without city nuisances. It Is accessible either by the new ferry from the Battery or by elevated R. from Brooklyn Bridie. Tims 45 minutes. Fare 10 cents.

Land and houses for sale. For illustrated circular apply to H. CARLOUGH. 41 "Wall at, Now York. LOTS POK SALE ON FIFTY THIRD, FIFTY FOURTH, FIFTY FIFTH FIFTY SIXTH AND FIFTY SEVENTH STS.

BETWEEN SEVENTH, EIGHTH AND NINTH AVS. ON LINE OF BROOKLYN ELEVATED R. R. $200 EACH AJsD UPWAED, 25 CASH, 10 MONTHLY. Titles Guaranteed by tho Title Guarantee and Trust Company, vrithont oxpense to purchaser.

APPLY TO A. B. POTTERTON, 4 1 WALL K. Y. list roi LOST OCTOBER 2G, A DIAMOND, 3 1 2 and 1 32, in screw setting $100 reward for its ro tnrn.

J. D. W. SHERMAN. SO Water St.

Nevr York. A LIBERAL REWARD EOR RETURN JlM. of a white fox terrier DOG to 169 Gates av; baa brown head and answers to the name of Jack. OST BETWEEN WASHINGTON AV JLi1 and Park Theater Saturday November 5, a diamond CROSS suitable reward for return. RONALDS State st and Boeram pl.

OST STRAYED FROM NO. 42 FORT Greene nl Fridav evenlnir. a Ynrk.Yiire terrier TCH. aft will he Tiairl fnr it. return tn WILLIAM METELSKI, 42 Fort Greene l.

LOST ON i'HEHEIGHTS, THURSDAY, a brown leather PURSE, gilt top. Finder will be rewarded on presontine suns at tho office of BERGEN DYJOIAN, IKS! Montague st. OST ON MONDAY AFTERNOON A eentleman's PLATIJfA and gold LOCKET with taglio stoue. lta value will be paid for its return to C. L.

WOGLAM. Leo av academy. REUCIOVS NOTICES. EIGHTEENTH ST M. E.

CHURCH NEAR Fifth av The pastor. Rev. Charlos H. Buck will preach at 10:30 and 7:30. Evening subject, "The Monster that devours Men." Sabbath school at 2:15.

Seats free and a cordial welcome to everybody. THE USTtEDPRESBYTERIANS WILL worship on Sabbath, November 13. in hall corner of Hopkinson av and McDononcb st, Brooklyn, at 3:30 P. LfJjd Ti30 P. BRev.

A. H. Crosbie gill preach. MOUSES. (AltKUVliS, Ac.

ALARl. VI? OF TRUCKS AND BUS NESS WAGONS TO SUIT ALL PURPOSE3 CONSTANTLY OJ. HAND. ilNE FURNITURE VANS AND MOVING TRUCKS A SPECIALTY. ALL GOODS SOLD ON EASY TERMS IF REQUIRED BARRETT.

SON 4 JOHNSON ST. CORNER NAVY. Branch Loot ATLANTIC AV7 OOODi CHESTNUT GELDINO, 15 3 4 hands, perfectly gcutlo and kind, will be Bold for isuu; oxeeptionsl bargain; Brood family horse: set of new single buggy harness, never been used, ilO double light harness, solid leather collars, worth 835, for $15 must bo sold. Call at 211 Alonroe st, near Nostrand av. THIRTY GOOD WORK AND BtrefNESS horaes.fonr nicely matched teams, onehtiavy matched tsam weighing 3,200 pounds, color dark chestnut, for sale: several cheap horses.

WILLIAM S. FORD. 05 Willonghby st, corner Lawrenco. HORSES AND CARRIAGES SOLD ON commiBslon by ANDREW MOWBRAY, horse and carriage broker; established 187G. Ovor JJ00 carriages of every description and 40 horaea fnr sale at bargains, at the Palace StabloB, 237 and 230 Schenner horn st.

A EAIMILY SURREY, SEATING TWO OR tSLfonr pereonH, to let by the day on account of not having the time to drlvn every day; kind and gentle horse Ljcood roadator; terms reasonable Apply or address WILKES coal yard. Fulton at and Lewis av. 75; FOUR BUSINESS HORSES SUITA vi7 bio for doctor, business or family use, 7 and 8 years old, one 875; three at $100; all warranted sound, (uiet tingle or double: fearless of anything. PETER BRE VOORT STABLES. 1J.1W Atlantic av.

BROUGHAM, ELEGANT NEW CAR rlage, latest styln, on or pair of hacknev horse, to let smart, sober driver in full livory: the finest turnout in Brooklyn; low fignren. Apply at PETERS' Bre voort Stables, 1,100 Atlantic av. POSITIVE SACRIFICE, FAST TROT tine horse. Princo trnt a Tnil in hum nkn side bar wagon and phaeton also spindle wagon andhar ness in prime condition sound businesn horse, StiO call itu irmRtou st, near nmiiu. A PAIR OF BAY HORSES FOR SALE cheap can bo examined at ROWLAND'S Stable, DeKalb av, near Franklin.

A. E. DbBAUN. 41 Liberty st, N. afternoons.

ITTER OF ST. BERNARD PUPS FOR JLJaale; blooded stock; pedigree nivon; prices reasonable. Apply at Dr. CATLXN'S stable. Greene avenue.

EXTENSION FRONT BROUGHAM for sale: new: run onlv about turn mnnt.hu hnilt iiv CurTey. (ran be seen at private stable, li Ciraco court, A. iv a vt ro A GREAT BARGAIN; SIDEBAR TOP JL buggy, with pole and shafts, in fine order; 875. T7Si and lhO South Portland av. INSURANCE, TLANTIC MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, NJiW YORK.

OfBoe, 51 WALL ST. ORGANIZED 1842. INSURES AGAINST MARINE AND INLAND TRANSPORTATION RISKS And will lasne policies making loss payable in England Assets for the seonrlty of ita policies are more than TEN MILLION DOLLARS. The profita of the company revert to the assured and are divided annually upon the premiums terminated during the year, certificates for which are issued bearing interest in accordance with its charter. J.

D. JONES. President, W. II. H.

MOORE, Vies President. A. A. RAVEN, Second Vice President. T.

H. CHAPMAN. Secretary. J3HEN1X INSURANCE COMPANY, BROOKLYN. N.

Y. CASH CAPITAL. 81.000,000. Gross Assets. December 31, Liabilities 35,008,315.08 3,444,010.64 urplus as to policy $1,033,704.41 Losses paid since organization.

339,633,332.79. OFFICES BROOKLYN: PHENIX BUILDING. Court st, i 114 Broadway, E. D. CITY OF NEW YORK: 47 CHOAR 8T.

TUE MEANING OF TCESDAVS VOTE. How it Is Regarded by a. Boston Com lucre ia.1 Journal, Boston, M.i&s., November 12 This week's Issue oi tho Boston Commercial Bulletin, in an editorial discussing the meaning of the oleption results, says that "Massachusetts supported protection, but tho cour.try has turned from Massachusetts. A number of influences have been at work to throw down the party in power. There is, however, 110 disguising tho plain fact that tho main Isue was the tariff.

It was clearly understood, and a majority of the people of the United States have aeci that they do not wish a continuation of the present tariff. "We look for no further extension of mills or industries until tho new congress has framed some substitute for the present tariff. It must framo a substitute, for there is a surplus of but nine millions. If certain goods are made free, therefore, and the revenue to that oxtent cut off, either the pure revenue duties on eofToe, tea and suttar must be restored, or the duties on other poods made unprotective in order to secure large imports and a corresponding increase in the revenue. 'Legislation that is positively unfavorable is better than a long ueriod 6f uncertainty and suspense.

We coll upon the President elect to summon congress as proposed in special session at the earliest possible moment, that there may be some definite basis to Tho Jidletin goes on to say that the chief Now England supporters of free manufactured iron, free jute bagging, free binding twine and free machinery have been defeated by their own constituents that a tariff hostile to New England is to be expected, but that tho full measure of hostility is likely to bo restrained by the Northeastern wing of the party in power and that the best safeguard of the manufacturing interests is not Mr. Cleveland's courage, not his party's political acumen, but public opinion. KIBE IS A IiTXX BOARDING HOUSE. Lynn. November IU Firo in the Tucker block this morning, damaged the sto.

of M. E. Tucker, furniture a 000. William M. Foster occupies the four upper stories as a boarding house.

Fifty lndsers were tsleep there at the time and many narrowly escape suffocation. During the lire tho Bangor extension ladder fell from the bnilding. severely injuring William Avery and Frederick Tucker of steamer No. 6. Tho total loss will be about S5.000; fully insured.

FORT DCCnESXE WILL X0T II ABANDONED. Spccinl to the Associated Pres3. Denver. November 12 Yielding to pressure from the settlers the war department has revolted the order for the abandonment of the military post at Fort Duchesne and the garrison will be increased to four companies of calvary and two of infantry. The country is more or less full of cutthroats, desperadoes and uneasy vagabond Indians who would certainly make it hot for honest settlers were the troops Th.e Exploits of Some of the Most Notable Offenders.

A Cool Marandep Who Stole a Hawser While the Captain of the Boat Looked on Tho Judge Moore anil Its Crew Boring for Sugar and Coffee Stealing a Canal Boat. Tho recent nervy exploit of tho thief who borrowed a regularly licensed custom house truck," and with its aid procured admission to the government pier and stole and receipted for eighteen bales of Havana tobacco, with duties added, valued at $40,000, brings to mind some of tho bold thieveries that have occurred along our river front in recent years. This river piracy is almost all done away with now. since the advent of the river police. The police boat gives the river thief no rest, and it is a bold man who will attempt to do nny large stealing with the lynx eyed police ever on the alert to catch wrong doers.

A few of the more notable cases aro given and a short sketch of the first police boat. On November 18, 1835, the steamboat squad was established. A boat, was purchased and named the Judge Moore, in honor of tho distinguished magistrate of the court of sessions. It has been in daily use ever since and has become an invaluable protection to the vast water front of the municipality. Tho vessol and crew or squad aro attached to the Fifteenth precinct and are nominally under tho command of the captain of that precinct.

It takes a little daily rest at the foot of Atlantic avenue, but nearly all of tho time, day and night, it is cruising along the water front. It leaves usually at 8 A. M. and returns at 4 P. when the crew Is changed: it then leaves again and returns at midnight.

In summer it cruises all night. Its crew numbers ten men. Beside all other work it has driven out of the business of river piracy such gangs as the Smoky hollow. Rod Hook, cannlers, Gowanus and Bay Ridge, the Eighth ward hard scrabbles. Bofore tho steamboatsqund was instituted it wasadlfflcult thing to apprehend thu river thieves in the act.

The moment they wore discovered they took to the water, and it was an impossible thing to catch them. Under the pier of the Cornell property they had constructed a floor and rude walls, in which they lived, played cards, drank and consummated their plans of robbery and even murder. These river pirates displayed great boldness and cunning in their undertakings and would stoop to any crime to furthertheirends. Instances of their cunning aro shown on every hand. On one occasion a number of men concocted a plan to steal a cargo of sugar from a vessel lying in the Erie basin woll off shore.

To cover their work tho thieves caused it to be noised about that they would that night rob a floater, anchored at a ooint in the river fully a mile from the vessel they were aiter. mo ponco were on nana at the wrong place, and after waiting for the pirates, who did not arrive, went back to the station, only to discover the next day that they had been cleverly hoaxed. A sharp watch was kept for these jokers, but up to tho present day they have not been discovered. One of tho most notorious of the river pirates was Frank Schmidt, or, as he was more familiarly known, Dutch Frank. For years ho carried on his operations without interruption.

His exploits were of a most daring character and nis name became familiar with all vessel owners and consignees. The authorities tried every means in thoir power to capture him. but without success until July 18, 1885. when they caught him and placed him under look and key. On tho day of his arrest Dutch Frank, accompanied by Bernard and Patrick Martin, two well known dock thieves, visited the British steamship Salisbury, which was then lying at the foot of Pacific street, and stolo a'hawscr valued at 850.

The Martin bovs boarded tho vessol and mingled with the crowd of visitors and managod to secure a quantity of rope and the hawser, which they passed over the sido of tho vessel to Schmidt, who had remained in a rowboat at the stern. The captain, who was on deck at the time, saw the act, and as Schmidt rowed off called to the tugboat James A. Garlleld and set off in pursuit of the fast disappearing thief. Officer Martin Casey, in charge of tho police patrol boat tho Judge Moore, recognized in tho fugitive the notorious Dutch Frank, and getting up steam followed in the wake of tho pursuing captain. Frank made for Governor's island and landed two minutes beforo his pursuers.

He struck inland for a hiding place, but was overtaken before ho had gone a quarter of a mile, and after a short struggle made a prisoner. While this case was pending another of stealing S250 worth of rope was brought against him. This latter case came to trial and Schmidt was sent to prison for Ave years. Another successful thief was Edwin Perry, who also eluded the vigilance of the police for a number of years, but was finally arrested and sent to Sing Sing for life for murder in the second degree. Perry built a small house on a float, and anchoring it at the foot of Montague street, carried on tho business of receiver of stolen goods.

Perry transacted his business with such openness that it was suspected that Watchman Hayes was in league with him. A raid was made, but the bird had flown. Nothing more was heard of Perry until tho early part of 1870, when he was arrested as tho murderer of Hayes, who was shot through the heart while patrolling his post in front of Watson's stores. The prisoner declared his innocence, but the evidence was too strong against him and he was convicted. Ho was afterward pardoned and is now, to all appearances, leading an honest life.

The boldest deed ever committed by Brooklyn river thieves was the attempt by five men, to steal a canal boat. This quintet of dare devils consisted of Walsh, Sullivan, O'Neil, Bell and Callahan, who having learned that tho captain of the canalboat, the John Bates, had gone to the theater, seized a rowboat on the Brooklyn shore and rowed over to the Wall street ferry, New York, where tho Bates was anchored. When they arrived there the thieves found the canalboat lashed to tho side of a steamer; but this fact did not trouble them as they quietly cut the ropes which connected tho two boats, and hailing a passing tugboat were towed over to the Boston dry dock, where they commenced to unload a valuable cargo of wheat. Uoundsman JleMahon of tho Eleventh precinct was an interested spectator of what had passed, and recognizing in Walsh an old time river thief ho made up his mind to stop their little game. Going back to the station house, he secured the assistance of Captain Reilly and Detective Looney.

The three arrived on tho sceno just as tho bags of wheat were being put upon a wagon and the sudden appearance of the officers upon the spot so surprised the thievcB that they wero overcome with but little resistance. At the trial which followed Callahan assumed all the responsibilities of the erlm.0, saying that ho had hired tho men to do the work. On this testimony Walsh, Sullivan, O'Neil and Bell were released and Callahan was sent to the penitentiary for four years and eleven months. After serving three years of hi sentence he esoaped, but was oapt lirod three months afterward in Now York and brought back to serve out the remainder of his time. Almost as bold a robbery was experienced by Luther Westerbrook, a truckman, over thirteen years ago.

Westerbrook had a commission to deliver H00 pounds of sugar to tho captain of a vessel King at a dock near the South ferry, on the New York side. It was in tho afternoon when ho undertook to deliver tho goods. When he arrived in New York he could not find the vessel and leaving the truck ho went in search of it. He found it, but when he came to look for his truck it was gone. A diligent search failed to discover it and Westerbrook returned home with a heavy heart.

Ten o'clock that evening tho truck was found in South Brooklyn with all its load of sugar gone. Tho perpetrators of this robbery were never discovered. Another style of river piracy, where tho cap tain oi a vessoi comumeu ita tne tuiei to roo the owner, was unearthed by Roundsman Mc Mahon. Jack Walsh and his brother Mike one dark night boarded the John Cody, lying in the Erie basin, and with tho assistance of Captain cameu on rwoivo oags oi wneat. Mc Jlahon watched the men unload their boat at the dock and saw them go away for a truck.

One roturned a quarter of an hour afterward and was arrested and taken to the station. The roundsman eamo back just in time capture tho other thief, who had roturned with the truck. Mike Walsh was discharged from custody, but his brother did not fare so well, being sent to tho penitentiary for threu years and six months. Captain Lacken, who was afterward arrested, was sent to jail for twenty nino days. The Silver gang was broken up some eight years ago by the arrest of its leader, Thomas Hunt, for stealing some block rigging, valued at H6, from the Boston dry dock, and was sent to the penitentiary for three years and six months.

The arrest and conviction of Hunt broke the gang up. It was composed of a dozen young desperadoes. None of the gong followed the river business alter the disband ment, with the exception of Burns, who was arrested in about a year, but was not convicted. Another gang, known as the combination gang, was made up of seven men. Three lived in Brooklyn and disposed of all the goods they Random Notes of a Recent Trip to Florida.

A Pause at Charleston Jacksonville Northern Ways and Spirit and High Prices St. Augustine and Its Old Fort The Skeletons. A Paper Town In the Woods Doings of a Cracker. South bound through two days and three nights of brisk weather at sea, with phosphorus scud flying at night, Jupiter climbing Blowly overhead and a terrible dark, opening through the star clouds on the Southern horizon. Porpoises pilot us by day playful dogs of the deep running just ahead of the ship in droves, belly upmost sometimes, and never seeming to move a fin.

Beforo dawn on the morning of the third day the chugging of the screw ceases and the sudden qniet wakes up all the passengers. Then a grating and running and shouting and glare of electric lights through tho bull's eyes prove that wo have tied up at a wharf. Then begins a prodigious running of trucks up and down, along the pier and into the bowels of the ship and a black Stentor on tho plank whoops while the others work. Occasionally ho breaks out with, "Now! Got in! My son, my son Outside This way Yow Go on Oo ow (Great anguish.) Outside I My son! Ow!" That is his way of guiding and encouraging. There are lots of people in this world who get pay for grunting while others toil.

There is no sleeping with him in tho neighborhood, so there is nothing for it but to tumble up and see how and why he does it. He does it very eaBily, and the black and yellow roustabouts are supposed to move faster because of him. A light is gathering in the east, with a sickle moon and a planet shining along the still harbor, and as the dawn increases the white walls and red tiled roofs of Charleston become distinct on the other hand. It is but a stop to shore and it is pleasant rambling in the gray of the morning through the streets of low houses with high garden walls where cane, palmetto and roses peep over, past the old churches with steeples skewed by the earthquake, through tho Battery with its live oaks and its monuments and porticoed houses facing it houses made for old fashionod families and retinues of slaves. Here the people orowded thirty one years ago to see that low.

rude block, silhouetted on the sunrise, fired upon. That is Sumter, ruined, earth filled, our memorable monument. At first the streets are empty, but dingy tenements and alleys begin to yield their contents and a cloud of human darkness spreads about the city, for the entire population of the byways is black and the business streets alone have white men walking on them in early morning. They are oheerful and polite, these negroes. Their women smoke pipes and wear bright kerchiefs, but, oh.

what a huddle of dirt and grease and rags and what it blight of poverty in thoir cabins 1 What's tho odds. They don't feel it. Still, in the event of cholera Here is the market, a quarter mile in length, with stalls where the sellers are shut in like horses. A sign declares that they shall all wear clean aprons or pay a fine. Buzzards look at them ton, twenty, thirty, squawking through the streets outside, hurrying at a gamo legged run after some bird with a bit of butcher's offal in his beak.

They are the scavengers and the law proteots them. An imposing custom house is almost the only modern thing in town until we reach the littlo brick city where some favored recipients of charity are kopt, each in a handsome house people ruined by the freeing of thoir slaves, may be. A big square, with Calhoun gesticulating in bronze before a citadel where cadets are drilling, a village of board cabins inclosed by a fence, each cabin costing $200 and renting to a negro for $3 a month a phosphate crusher that is turning long, unregarded rock to wealth, are things we see as we ramble on through the negroes and the dust and tho checkering tree shadows to Magnolia cemetery, a place of perfect beauty and one of the few such spots where the thought of death is lost in outward charm. The live oaks throw out branches for ten and twenty feet, low and parallel to the earth, thoir upper boughB curtained with gray moss. Flowers blow at every hand, lilies, roses and new, uncommon things that have bright color.

The birds aro mad with the light and tho perfume; they try to sing their heads off in the trees and the people are happy too; at least, the black ones are. A horse car runs back to town and a Northern man on board catches his breath when the driver stop his rattletrap and lifts his hat as he says to a woman passenger: "This is your street, madam." But they are acquiring Northern ideas all through the South and before long the Charlestoner may expect to hear the conductors shout, "Mblaa street Now, den, is yous gettin' out, or is yous goin' to ride all day?" They used to kill that kind of people down there thirty years ago. The graceful girls who are coming from school, and some of the boys, wear kid gloves. That is the only relic of those old times that is not architectural. Charleston people read a country paper and pay 5 cents a mile on their railroads.

They also lock up and go to bed at dark and for a while in the afternoon, and at 9 o'clock at night Philadelphia is a roaring metrollopus to Charleston. I hunted for miles for something to eat there one night and finally had to buy some boiled oysters of a Chinaman. Earthquake marks are nearly obliterated now, but a fow swayed walls, ruined chimneys and cracked facades are seen. Some people say that the stories of the quake were exaggerated, others declare that nothing can picture tho horror of the time. The negroes were convinced that the event had a supernatural significance and a resident told me that in ono church he heard an old colored man pray, "Come down, Lawd Come down hyar yo'sclf.

Please doan' sen' down that son o' yourn. He's a pow'ful good man, but he hain't had 'spereunco an' ho doan' uud'stan de situation." Most of the citizens agree that the quake was a good thing for the city and that it is sounder and safer than it was before. They say, too. that it is bigger and is growing faster than its rivals. A Charleston man said, "Savannah is nowhere.

We're away in the lead." In Savannah a man said to me, "What Charleston? Why it amounts to nothing alongside of this town." One big thing they have in Charleston, anyway, and that is a cat. I formedhis acquaintance ou a eurbstono one night. Ho is a gray Thomas and his boss told me that he weighed 11) pounds 13 ounces and that he was trying to fatten him up to 20. He is a conservative cat and never goes courting, never scratches and never sings. Still southward by sea: moro porpoisos, flying fish, great turtles, swimming under the surface, miles of wormliko jelly fish, with scarlet heads, lying in hoops and spirals and hanging pondent.

Birds blown off shore and hopping on the decks, flying away to look for land or food, trying vainly to catch up with the steamer, sinking lower and lower in their flight, growing frightened when they touch the water, but doomed to flutter into it and drown ere long. Through a welter of fog we enter St. John's river next morning, and as tho mists break up, the flat shores, with their pines and oaks and Infrequent houses, come insight. The sun is hot and strong as we land at Jacksonville and end the sea faring, but by taking the shady sido of the streets and walking at a moderate pace, ono may endure it. This is a town of North and South together: Northorn ideas and energy (that survive two or three years of transplanting) and Northern shops.

Southern dust and moss and flowers and butterflies; generous space abbut the houses, private ease and public discomfort. With everything obtainable that we have at the North, and with lower rents, cheaper land and cheaper labor, everything is charged for at double Northern rates, not merely in Jacksonville, but throughout the South, and little of the good things of tho land find their way to the visitor. Railroad fares are high and service slow. Hotel rates are S4 and $5 a day and Northern landlords treat their guests moro kindly for But there is nothing to stay for in Jacksonville, with St. Augustine only $3 distant.

Everybody who goes to Florida goes to St. Augustine as a matter of course, and really it is the gist of the land. A wood burning locomotive pulls a couple of cars slowly through the long pine grown levels to that town and stops at evory excusable place Jiy the way. The season is not open yet and 'Bnativos are tho only passengers. One sitsopposite me, a man of bilious nature, with wiry board, eyes close together and narrow face that has gone mostly to nose.

After tho train starts he extracts a pocket mirror from a bag and running out his tongue to an alarming extent studies it with grave interest in varying lights. Then he explores his mouth with his fingers and sucks his teeth afterward with aloud, chirping and superfluous noise. Afterward he takes out a yellow tooth brush and cleans them carefully, without dentifrice or water. Then he moves to a seat in front of me, where I can see that he has forgotten to wash his neck, though, to even ried away by this means, nnd as the pirates never took the trouble to plug up the holes enough sugar has been wasted in this way to sweeten the East river. Coffee was occasionally stolen in the same manner, aud it is not extravagant to estimate the loss at hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen and wasted.

Things came to such a pass that there was an investiga tion one line morning and the consequence was that a number of the dock watchmen wero dis charged and a wharf patrol was organized. GRATESESO GOSSIP. Tlio Reformed Church to Itlovc After Two Centuries. The Gravesend Reformed church, which has attracted the attention of thousands of passengers over the Culver road, on their way to Coney Island, for many years past, will soon be re moved to a more secluded spot though tho site on which it now stands has been sacred as the location of a church building for more than two hundred years. It was as far back as that when the littlo settlement of English and Dutch took amicable possession of the town, together, and because of Lady Moody's special interest in the project of the settlement, named tho place Gravesend, the only English namo given to any of the early settlements about here.

On the site where the old white, shingle sided edifice now stands, at tho corner of Gravesend avenue and tho beach road, the first church and block house was erected, for they needed both in those days, being members of a militant society. The present edifice has been erected about sixty years and was counted one of the handsomest of its character in the county at the time of its erection. The reasons for the intended removal are two the first is that the rush and roar of tra vel to Coney Island, which passes right in front of the door at intervals of two or three minutes in the summer time and especially on Sunday, interrupts tho service to such an extent that it is almost impossible to conduct it at all. This has long made the consistory of the church anxious to go somewhere else, out the project was voted down several times, because tho love of locality was too strong for tho members of the church. At last the second reason has come for the removal.

The town of Gravesend, having acquired the right to expend an amount of money for a town hall which shall be a credit to the community, concluded that they would purchase the site of tho Reformed church, provided it was to be sold. The consistory has been offered $10,000 for tho property and is now considering the advisability of selling, with every possibility of agreement. The church will then locate on the beach road, about a block in the direction of Gravesend beach and near the town burying ground. The change will not begin until the spring and this is the first official information of the aot. Another landmark is to be removed in the town of Gravesend.

This is the cyclorama on the Sea Beach railroad property at Coney Island. It has been there since 1886, attracting public curiosity. Its exceeding height and its peculiar rounded shape made it noticeable. It was originally constructed by a cyclorama company about the time those picture exhibitions were all tho rago. A great deal of money was expended on it, and the particular pictorial display was a battle in Algiers between the Moors and tho French.

The picture was a strong and spirited one, but the people apparently preferred to look at nature and other thing on the outside, and the exhibition lost money from the start. It has struggled along, however, since then in vain hope, until at last it seems to be too weak to stand long as a building, aud the Sea Beach company have concluded to tear it down. Work of destruction has already begun, and as soon as the sheathing is taken off a locomotive will be hitched to the big structure and it will be pulled down at once. The building is 90 feet high and 180 feet in circumference, and contains nearly 2.000 feet of timber. It has been tottering for several seasons, and the health board has threatened it as a menace to public safety.

The town board of Gravesend has decided to appropriate to each of the six school districts in the town tho sum of $15,000, the only question in the matter being whether the district or the town authorities shall have the expenditure of the money. There were hut five deaths in the town of Gravesend last month and one of the deaths was of an infant. This is ten less than died in September and the same number of deaths as October. 1801. This makes the death rate in a thousand 7.05, a state of healthfulness it would be hard to beat.

The eighty first anniversary of tho birth of Mrs. Elvira Gargill of Gravesend was celebrated Thursday night by a gathering of friends of the venorablo woman. Many of those who attended included tho nephews and nieces of Mrs. Gargill, and none of them were brighter or in fuller possession of their faculties than she. She received many gifts aud pleasant wishes that tho anniversaries and tho health to enjoy them might continue for years.

There was present Rev. and Mrs. A P. Stockwell. Mrs.

Nellie Houghton, Mrs. K. U. Stoner, Mrs. N.

R. Stillwell, Miss Georgine Stillwell. Miss Mary E. Cortelyou, Mr. and Mrs.

J. D. Wyckoff, Miss Nettie Wyckoff. Mr. and Mrs.

E. K. Bennett, Miss Florenco Bennett, Rev. and Mrs. P.

V. Van Buskirk. Mrs. J. R.

Stillwell, Mrs. Sarah B. Lake. Miss Fannie Lake and Dr. and Mrs.

Van Kleek. The gathering was at the homo of Mrs. Harmon Y. Storm. HE KNEW THE PENALTY.

A Prisoner "VVbo Wanted to Relieve Justice WnlsjU of Work. Among tho prisoners in the Adams street court to day was a middle aged man, named Phoenix, about 40 years of age, and poorly dressed. Ho was arrested for intoxication. While Justice Walsh was disposing of a batch of similar charges, tho man stepped up to the bar and said: That's all right, judge. Y'ou go on with your business.

I was drunk and will step up to the clerk and pay my dollar." 'What's that you said?" asked the judge, eye ing tne man irom neau to toot. Art aA TinanSv givo mo is a dollar or a day. and I'll pay tho dollar without tne trouoie Doing tried. "leu dollars or twenty nine days in jail is tho sentence," replied tho judge. The lino was not paid.

WILL HIS ELECTI0S BET. There will bo a large gathering of Democrats at Kreicherville, Staten Island, on Monday night to witness Abrain Cole, the Republican supervisor of the town of "Westfleld, pay his election bet. Supervisor Cole made a bet with Murray Andro votte that if Cleveland was elected President he would wheel Audrovette through the streets of the village in a wheelbarrow, seated on a keg of beer. Xo Rank SL9 a. Democrat in tne Twenty.

Sixth Ward. The regular monthly meeting of the Twenty sixth ward Democratic association was held Thursday night. President George W. Palmer, who had the chair, congratulated tho members present on the great victory won by the party Tuesday in city, county, state and nation. Dr.

J. K. Powell, an ex president of the association, referred to the ante election rumor that tha party leaders down town would order a re enrollment in the ward at the request of the French faction, and offered a resolution that any Democrat in tho ward who had voted for the head of the ticket be invited to join tho association. P. J.

Kennedy of the executive committee, ex President Thomas O'Neil and ex Judge Schiel lein spoko in opposition, and tho resolution did not go through. That kind of Democrats were not wanted, said they. Police Captain French, Daniel J. Cos and Peter J. Collins were at the) meeting but took no part in the discussion.

AN ALLEGED POLICE OUTRAGE. A Young Woman Stopped on the Streat by a Patrolman. Shortly after 10 o'clock last night a servant girl in the employ of T. J. Dyson of 769 Lafayette avenue was returning from the home of her sister, at 2G2 Floyd street, with a dress and two aprons in a bundle.

When near the corner of Throop and Vernon avenues she was accosted by a policeman of the Thirteenth preoinot, who asked her what she had In the bundle. The girl replied that it was a dress, whereupon, she alleges, the policeman grabbed her by the arm nnd dragged her to a lamp post near by, where she was compelled to open tho bundle and show its contents. She was then permitted to go. Mr. Dyson said the, girl was suffering, from shook to day, due to the rough usage by tha officer.

He looks upon it as a polios outrage..