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SUITORS. UNDER OATH. SCHOOLS. TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 24, 1875.

federation. He always studiously avoided political gatherings and hustings, deeming the work of the politician, however necessary, beneath the position of a judge, and its passions unfit to be allowed to disturb his calmness. Firm in his integrity, clear as crystal in his intellect, learned as an Erakine in the law, he was a jndge that would have graced the proudest bench of Christendom in its proudest day and one that it is a calamity to this State to lose at a time when most it needed such minds and hearts as his. wihlng. If willing, lis rntkM tt most absurd and laughable atiompta te undetanoor to give" the correct answers, and at last an interpreter is called in.

If he Is an unwilling deponent, ha takes refuge in stupidity and ultimately refuace to comprehend the plainest when propounded In his own tongue, Eo Is an incorrigible, and the only thing, to be dons Is to get him out of the chair as soon as possible; for of all Btnpld foots, stupid witness, whether real or feigned, la the worst. THE DANOEB0C8 WITNESS la only dangerous to the opposite side. He is a man or woman of clear Intellect, thoroughly aelfpossessed, and yet without the allghteit particle if conceit. Such a one goes on the stand quietly, tens a straightforward story, bristling with fact, and at onoe from their manner oonvinoea the hearers that they are telling tho truth. Cross examination does not shake them, nor are the arts of the acute questioner of any avail.

They teU their story and atiok to it, not because they have told it, but because It la the truth. They are the Joy of the lawyer who sails them and the terror of the counsel on the other aids. They are generally people with that nameless self reliance and possession which education and contaot with tho world alono can give. It is a mistake to auppoea that If a man willfully perjures himself upon the witness stand that he will bo found out. Nothing is more common than for such perjury to go undetected in spite of the sharpness of lawyers until it is too late.

The truth does not always come to the surface. Another peculiar thing about female witnesses is that they never affirm but alwajB Bwear upon the Sorlp tures. They never seem to be troubled with any conscientious scruples about taking the oath, while nothing ia more common among male witnesses and jurors than to see a man decline to take the oath except by affirmation. But there are witnesses and witnesses. SWO SING.

Vlall to the Itletnedlst Camp Meeting. Interesting Commemorative Service xhe Ilrooklynltea Present and Bow They Are Treated. SlKO Siho OxMP Gboukd, August 31. The oldest oamp meeting association in this country Is said to be that whioh for nearly thirty con aeoutlvo years has ooouplod the present and really attractive site two miles east of tha now large village of Sing Sing. There arc very few of the older members of the Methodist persuasion who have not at one time or another taken a deep Interest in tho proceedings here, and the very name of this camp ground, haa become associated with those of Borne of the most prominent men in that denomination in this country In former times the churches in Brooklyn were duly represented.

Of later years, however, Sea Cliff and Shelter Island have been the more favored resorts of Methodist Broklynites. Nevertheless, there are some who bold fast to their first love and annually take up their abode here, remaining for weeks at a time to enjoy the quiot of the woods, tho cool, pure air of tho hills and tho beautiful scenery. To thoae who have not visited the plaoo for a fow yeare past, tho great changes that have taken place both by tho Improvement of the grounds and the approaches thereto from the landing, are, when seen now, roally surprising. The village has passed through two Bovero visitations by fire, which destroyed many of tho old ropulslvo structures, and in their place have risen, as If by magic, flvo substantial briok buildings, and after laying dormant for a number of years, tho entorpriBO of the citizens lias developed the natural beauty of tho location to a considerable degree, by many now and attractive dwellings, paved streets, new bridges and the leveling of some of the steepest hills which wore once Buch great objections to' visitors. At tho landing, as on former occasions, tha visitor meets a mass of vehicles of all descriptions, from the flnost turnout to the inoBt dilapidated and antique looking conveyances Imaginable, behind tcods of all degrees and ages, and one needs to have considerable presence of mind and keep cool, or the chances are that tha voracious JohuB will get him into one conveyance, hia baggage in another, and pnzzlohim to deoide whother he really has anything to Bay about the disposition of either.

The ride TIUtOrOH TgB VILLAGE 4.ND OVER THK HILLS, commanding in places some of tbe finest landscape views In the country, with the Tappan Zeo, Rockland Lako and tho abrupt mountain chain on the west bank of tbe Hudson, fully repays one for the trip. Tho timorous tents are fully ocoupled, and with tho exception of the boarding accommodations on the ground, cvory convenience ia at hand to supply tho familios with whatever ore needed for their comfort and convenience, while many of the regular inmates have made their temporary rosidence mora attractive than usual by miniature flower gardens by the Bide of tho tents, hanging baskets of vines in front, and pot singing birds in cagoa brought from home. Although a large building has been ereoted by the Association for lodgers, which is well filled, many of tho visitors havo taken board at the hotels and boarding houses in the village and vioinity, from whoro they can go to tho ground dally. Many of those who aoourcd tents early have been on the gronnd sinoo tho mid die of July, although the regular services oommenced but last Tuesday, and thoy intend staying a few weeks after the services shall close, to enjoy tho puro air, and tho rustic and economical living during the hot wooks of August. At present all the hotols and boarding houses are filled, and one must be fortunate enough to havo friends to get sleeping accommodations.

The morning services yesterday were commenced, and a congrogation of not less than 3,000 assembled at 9 A. M. around the preachers' tand, Tho tall old trees wore a fair promotion from the heatod rays, but the sunbeams would steal upon tho worshipers now aud then, and with the soug of tho birds and chirrup of the insects, all naturo seemed in gladsome mood. COMMEMORATION HEBVIOES. Instead of preaching iu tho morning, the Rev.

Dr. M. D'O. Crawford, who, together with Hov, Wm. McAllister, has charge of tho admiuiutration of the services, announood that the services woidd bo in commemoration of the death of so many prominent members of the ministry and laity duriug the year past, who had been noted for their activity aud urfefulucjs ou tho oamp ground.

Rev. Dolos Lull, tho first Bpoaker, Bald that Iboro had never before been a year whon thoy had beon called to read such a long list of the names of dopartcd ones who had occupied Bitch prominent positions in tho church for usefulness. Uo spoke particularly of the Rot. Dr. Brown and Dr.

Eddy. Of the former, he said the road to worldly fame had been open to him aud presented iuducoraents which fow men oould have resisted. Ho left the practice of tho bar for the profession of the ministry, whon by continuing at the former he might have boponie an eminent jurist or statesman, or both, ne had pref errc 1 instead to follow the calling of an humble itiuerant ministry, and had now gono to his roward. The congregation then sang "We shall Gather at tho River," with great effoct, making tho woods ring with their music. Rev.

Dr. M. D'C. Crawford then followed with a true eulogy on Dr. J.

li. Wakoly, whom he pronounced a wobderful man, always carrying ohecr and comfort to tho cheerless and the opprosaod, indefatigable in his labors for tho church earnest, generous, lofty in his nature, the world would nover know all the good deedB he had done, nor how really effective his life bod boen in tho cause of Christ. The speaker rc Iatod Bovoral reminiscences of Wakely's lifo, and visibly affected hluiself, brought tears to tho eyos of many by his impressive remarks. His address wus followed by the congrogation singing with emotional fervor, "My Lifo Flows on in EndlesB Joy." Rev. Mr.

Longaor spoke particularly of tho Rev. Dr. Eddy, of whom, he said, one of the best legal minds of the country had on one occasion, after hearing Dr. Kddy preach, said, that had the latter been a lawyer, he would have been the most powerful and suocessf ul jury lawyer in the State, for he had never witnessed a man having greater pcreuaalvo powers. Sammy HalBtead, the weU known leader of the praying band of that namo, then Bpoke of the members of tho laity who had gone before them, and read the names of Stephen Merritt, James Barton, D.

Roberts, J. B. DickinBon, F. R. Anderson, SlsterB Dickinson and Fhebe Palmer, as names well known for their years of active aervice and great usefulness.

Several others Bpoke also of tbe different persons who had died, and altogether the services were of a very lmprossive nature. At noon the congregation dispersed for dinner. Those who hal tontB repaired to them, while the transient visitors, who bad come In from the surrounding "wealed the names of those with him, and fee Sheriff is scouring the country at present ith a large force intent npon capturing every one of the band. The Governor of the State has furnished the arms, and the farmers are organizing military companies, and warm work is promised there. If the citizens had taken these steps earlier there would not have been so many Ku Klux in that State as are now reported to be yet, even if there are not half as many as are said, the measures the people are taking is entirely right and justifiable.

The thieves traveling the country on foot as on horsebaok demand attention, and the kind, that should be paid them is the sort being dealt out to them by the Illinois farmers. Let them while they are at the work punish every outlaw in the State, and then the Southwest will hear less of Ku Klux in the future than has been the case for many years. Wives and Housewives ol To Day. Modern life demands too muoh of woman. Or, perhaps a more proper accusation could be made in the assertion that it denies her the privilege of defining her work or of being in any sense an individual.

Women are all trained in the same school; all taught to look upon life as a heyday of pleasure in youth; a honeymoon in early life; a time of indolence as maturity comes on. She is deceived and defrauded from beginning to end, and the systems of society that permit of her so being reared, destroy in a great measure the usefulness she might yield. Girls do not care to marry poor men, not because they dislike the idea of poverty, for in its cold, hard sense not many girls know what it is or what it signifies, but they have been trained to consider themselves exceptional in all that pertains to life, and they have imbibed from their fathers' and mothers' teachings a distaste for poverty. And from the literature of the day they have made the acquaintance of only one class of men, and in real life they are on the look out for no other. The superb Augustus who languishes in the parlors of heiresses, and whose wealth is sufficient to keep his futur family in splendid retirement, is the hero of nine tenths of the girls of the period.

And they dream of their Adonis made after the pattern given them in their favorite novel, and they relish the thought that he is waiting for them somewhere. What manner of a man this Augustus is to be, is of less concern than the style in which he comes a wooing, but what his ideas of a wife are they flatter themselves they know exactly. Society has ordained the fashionable school training for them, and they have enjoyed it it has declared that fair hands, clear complexions and stylish makeups should be the requisites of any candidate, and these they have furnished in themselves. The literature they have consulted tells them that these very girls make the best of wives, tho daintiest of housekeepers and the most fascinating of matrons, and so deluded, defrauded creatures they wait in the parlor through the long day for tho company that shall admire them in the cool of the evening. Persistently thoy cleave to romance, and most cruelly do they deceive themselves where self deceit is so easy.

When Augustus does appear it is not always in the perfect style of the model she has so faithfully studied, but the woman nature comes to the rescue; she will bo a heroine if he is not a hero, and forthwith begins the deception, the result of unkind and injudicious training, which makes life to bar as to many of her kind a catastrophe. Modern life cruelly misrepresents the capacities of woman. It bids her prepare for the coming Augustus and to wait with no better understanding of life than shall be gleaned from the shallow, uncultivated mind she possesses and the trash she has fed it upon. When the wooer comes she thinks it is Augustus, and she gracefully droops her head upon his shoulder as she murmurs "yes," and timidly sighs the regulation sigh, as she stands at the altar and takes him for better or for worse. She laughs to herself at the latter clause of the phrase for the teachings of her life have been that she is to be petted, caressed, made much of, waited npon and considered first, last and always.

Housekeeping with Augustus is to be an amusing episode in her life, and the duties thereof are to be performed by model servants in spotless raiment. In after years when she has run the gamut of society and pleasure these same devoted servants are to be the careful nurses of two beautifully attired children who are to be the envy of women and the delight of their proud parents. Augustus, who isn't Augustus after all, but plain John with only a thousand dollar position and any number of selfish tastes and extravagant habits thinks he has found a wife who will wait upon him, work for him and amuse him, soon shocks the aimless, harmless creature he has married, and at once and forever the delusion is ended. Sometimes, and it is all too rare a fact, the woman seeing her place in its true light, and finding her mistake at once, makes era twice, this season 'and came within "an "aoe" the other day of defeating an eleven selected from all the clubs around Jersey and New York. The finest cricket club in America to day, all things considered, plays at Prospect Park.

Tbe JVow managers of tbe Brooklyn Theatre. The Brooklyn Theatre, freed at last from all complications, hag been leased to the firm of Shook Palmer, the managers of the Union Square Theatre in New York. If almost uninterrupted success be accepted as evidence of ability, the success of the Union Square during the last three years would warrant us in believing the Brooklyn Theatre has fallen into the hands of the ablest managers in New York. Of one thing we may be certain, it has fallen into the most liberal and most enterprising. Mr.

Shook entered the managerial career when it seemed a crowded one. Wallack's was in the height of a popular run, Daly had reached that pitoh of prosperity from whioh he has almost ever since been assiduously descending. Niblo's was in the skillful hands of Jarrett Palmer; and Booth's in those of the most popular actor in America. Mr. Shook's first efforts were not 3uocesses.

The little theatre experienced a series of very serious losses. The pluck of the manager, however, was only the mora conspicuously displayed. Each play he produced was better produced than its predecessor, and if money was lost on one, twice as much money was spent on the next to secure a more attractive production. The theatre, therefore, while it often failed to achieve sucoess, never failed to deserve it. The desert brought the reward at last and justified the faith of Mr.

Shook. The theatre was run in the line of plays which Mr. Daly most affected, theatrical genre pictures, etudes de rn.mt.ra. One by one the ablest of Daly's actresses were wooed to the Union Square by its repute for equable and just management. Miss Ethel led the way, Clara Morris soon followed, then came Miss Claxton and Miss Fanny Morant.

Ethel brought with her her old Daly successes, "Frou Frou" and "Fernande," and Sardou, himself, finally wrote a play for her to be played first at Shook's Theatre, and entitled "Agnes." Clara Morris followed with her touching picture of the woes of Julia, and the sacrifices for love of the Camilla who had lived by selling it. The house had now become the favorite one of New York. Feuillet's "Tentation," under the misnomer of "Led Astray," achieved a long success, and the Orphelines" of Dennery running nearly the whole of the last season, achieved the greatest paying popularity ever attained by any play in New York, except the spectacle of The Black Crook." In the establishment of this theatre, Mr. Shook was greatly aided by the taste and tact of his manager, Mr. Palmer, who may be considered a nondescript in theatrical matters.

Mr. Palmer undertook the management of the Union Square Theatre, a perfect novice. He seemed to possess none of the qualities that make a manager, save exquisite taste and an intuitive sympathy with dramatic effect. How the taste could be utilized or the effects produced he had to learn. The early failures of the house were his school.

He may be said to have graduated in four years. He gradually drew around him not only the best fenialo artists in New York, but the best actors that other cities could afford. In Mr. Charles Thorne and Miss Bose Eytinge he secured the best resident leading people in America in Mrs. Wilkins, the best comedienne, and in Miss Claxton the best soubrette, and one of the most attractive of lively ingenues.

In every play produced, perfection was aimed at in the minutest detail and Mr. Palmer's keen knowledge of our people showed itself in his directions and suggestions to the translators he employed to fit him matter from the French. The combination of Mr. Shook's capital and pluck and Mr. Palmer's growing skill and tact made the theatre, and has afforded New York some of tho very best theatrical work it has ever seen.

At the close of the last and most successful season, Mr. Shook, for Mr. Gilmore, altered Barnum's Hippodrome into a garden for promenade concerts. In the preparation of this spacious and pleasant place, the liberal use of money and the exquisite taste that had been displayed in the theatre were apparent; and while Mr. Shook was everywhere applauded for his enterprise, Mr.

Palmer was admired for his taste. The place was a success immediately, and has continued one throughout the Summer. These are the credentials of the new managers of the Brooklyn Theatre. The lease of the house was sigued and assigned to them yesterday, and about the 15th of September they will open its doora. The distance between New York and Brooklyn, though an annoyance to the theatre goer, is a trifle to the manager.

Messrs. Shook Palmer, therefore, can command for the use of the Brooklyn Theatre all the facilities of their New York house The best company The Log House of 1792 and the Briok Building of 1875. A School House In "the Good Old Days." Boiidluifs Provided With All the Conveniences of Modern ClvllIztlon. Tho first pnblio school was organized in Brooklyn in July 1661, and is traditionally roportel to have been held In a churoh ntar tha iptorscciion of Fulton and Bridge streets. The second school wu bIbo organized in a church whioh stood near tho cirner ot North Second street and Bushwlck Lane.

Do'h these buildings have long since been torn down, although tho last mentioned rural aohool waa the pro decossor of what is now known as Pubilo School No. 33. In 1603 the third public sohool was established near tho corner of the present Bedford avenue and Fulton street, and in the then village of Bodford. Tho building ooon plod for school purposes immediately prior to the removal of the children to tho Public Sohool No. the oorner of Bedford avenue and Jefferson stroet.ia still standing.

Tho old school houso was for many yearB occupied as a police station house for what was formerly known Bathe Forty ninth Precinct, where Captain, now Inspector, Waddy had oommand. It Is a ono story frame building, twenty flvo feet wide by about sixty in depth, and stands noor tho corner of Bedford avenue and Fulton street. When used for school purpoBoa it was divided into two rooms nearly equal in she. Domtnfa Vandcrroort lived in one, and In the othor ho kept school. After tho lapse of a few years an additional room, or an eiteuslon as It would now be called, waa built, in which Mr.

Vandervoort was permitted to keep a grooery store, for tho purpose of adding a little money to the small salary ho received as schoohnaatw. It will thus be seen the rioNEEn school houses of Brooklyn wero similar in every tospeot to thoit of tho Far a log houso on a farm lano near Forty fourth street aud Third avenue, was the plaoo whora what ia now known as School No. 2, wu nrst known. There were several removals to different frame buildings, and in 1846 it was located in a two story frame building. This Spring there was another removal to a handsome three story briok building containing overy improvement In heating, rontllatlng, olosots, which sclonce and experience could suggest.

Tha log houso was occupied in eighty thrM years elapse and the brick building 1b opened. For many years the Board of Education erected none but two story buildings, but about 1889 the three story plan again came into favor. Public School No. 1, on Ryerson street, near Myrtle avenue, la a remarkably Ono specimen of tbe recent additions made to tho school establishments in this city. It waa conipl etort in 1670 and opened In October of that year by Mr.

Jol lifl'c, who, during the tlx preceding years had been lb principal of No. 8. Tho entire COST OF THE BUILDING, including the furniture and land, oioeeded one hundred thousand dollars. It Is ono hundred and thirty foot in length by fifty six in width, its extreme height front basement floor to tho'poak of tho roof being seventy Boven feot. That is dividod into a basement of ten feet, three stories of fifteen feet each, and an attic ot twenty feet In tho centre.

Since No. 4 was opened, two other school houses, No. 21 and 35, havo been oompleted, and it ia believed that they present many features which are worthy of imitation in tho uluro. One of tha principal advantages is In securing tho reoitation rooms from the intrusion of scholars not membera of the class. That has always boon a source of annoyanco to teaohers and Bcholors wborovcr tho glass partitioned class rooniB woro used.

Iu Nos. 2 and 315, oight class rooms are completely isolated, and two others are only partially liable to intrusion, and thus the quiet necessary for tho purpose of study is secured. No. 35 is Bituatcd on tho cornor of Decatur street and Lewis avenue. Tho front is built of Philadelphia brick, with brown and DorcbcBtor stone trimmings.

The remainder of the building Is bnilt of colabao and bard brick. Jta extrome length Is 113 feet, or which flovon feet six inches is a double staircase, with independent walls. The front width is ninety four foet, of which twenty feet on each sido of the main building ia thlrty flvo foot in depth. The front of those wings ia occupied with class rooms, and the rear with a sot of staircases. Thero are thus five independent entrances to each Btory, and tho security to life, in oaso of flro, la greatly iucreased.

THE MAIN BUILDING, excluding the wings, is one hundred and five feot in length by fifty four foot six Inches in Iroadth, and tha extreme height is sevonty cight feot, dividod into baeement, threo stories and attic The front rooms in tho basement aro occupied by tho Janitor and his family, while tho remainder of the apace serves as a sheltered playground, and is used by the childron during stormy woather. Evory recitation room ia provided with a pupils' wardrobe, and overy department with a teaohers' clothes room, stationary wash basins, and water closets. Tho large attio servos an important pus pose in ventilating the building. It is heated by indirect radiation, the apparatus being in the basement, and the heatod air is carried through each room by meanB of tho pipes. The above description also applies in a groat measure to No.

21. This is tbe Bchool wblch was organized as Bushwlck District School No. 2, at tho Bushwlck CrossroadB. The building Is still standing on Flushing avenue, near BuBhwick, in which the school was held until 1817. Its dimensions aro twenty two by twenty four feet, with coilingB bo low that any person of ordinary stature could reach it with extonded hand whiU standing on tho floor.

The Beats woro formed of slabs, pierced for legs, which protruded through the flat side, on which the pupils were dally tortured, and tho desks wero equally rude and inconveniont. That Bchool house has been rcplacod by a building, such as is described above, and provided with all the conveniences modorn civilization affords in the way of healing, ventilation, sewerage, wardrobes, dressing rooms and water closets. A SHARK ON ROCKAWAY BEACH. Tho visitors to Eockaway Beach on Sunday had the satisfaction of looking at a shark that measured flcvon feet and weighed two hundred pounds. It waa exhibited on Billy Wainright'a dock.

It was oaptured during the morning by Captain Alf Monroo whilo fishing outside. Ho played it long enough to drown It, and then drew it into the boat by hitching a rope about its tall. There was a sohool ot them. HARVEST HOME FESTIVAL. The third annual Harvest Home Festival of the Farmers' Union of Jamaica will take plaoo at Matthew's Sea Side Pavilion, to morrow.

As farmers or a very jolly class of peoplo the festival will of course ba a good one. Bequeath to Tour Children The habit of brushing their teeth daily. They dnn't liks daBty powders, but they need no urging to usa Lyon's Tooth Taulets. There is Nothing TOvttertous About the disappearance from the skin of eruptions, bums, saalds, bruises, ulcers and sores through the Influence of Glkhn's Solfhur Soap. Sulphur is a potent purifier and heller of the skin and la most bene fioially utilized in this form.

Depot, CRITXEMTON'fl, No. 7 Sixth av, N. Y. To renew your Youth use HILL'S INSTANTANEOUS BLUB) Dye, itUSINIWS NEW PARK MATINEE. LADIES WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

TAKE THE CHILDREN. Admission only 15 and 25 oonla and orchestra 50 cents. THE WTLLCOX fc GIBBS SEWING MA CHINE CO. have just placed upon the market their NKW Silent Sewing Machine, with AUTOMATIC TENSION. This is the most marvelous improvement of tbe day la Sowing Machines.

In practloal utility, it eoUpees everything hitherto invented. There is no care of Tension ca quired on this maonine, and perfect work is fruaranteod on any kind or thickness of maCorlai. Brooklyn Office; 19 Court st, cor. Livingston. RUPTURE CURED.

Dr. MARSH, of Clinton and Fulton its. for many years eelobratod for tne numerous cures wroughV in ruptures, may be consultod dally, from:) A. M. to 7 P.

ol. Ofiicoon second floor. sy0 BRANDY, 81.50 per bottle 87 per gal old and mellow. Over 100 casks bought at half its value, and sold as a lead log article by us. Also, Martel, Hennessy, Otard, Renault, Saearao Bran dies Imported In casks and oasaa.

Blackberry and Cherry Brandies. The Pleasant Valley Wine Brandies are perfectly pure, and line, fruity flavor. H. B. KIRK eg Fulton st.

N. Y. ELECTRO SILICON Has received the award of the American Inatltato the best article known for cleaning and Dolishing sllrer wars. and all fine metals. Sold by drugglste, jewelers, hooM furnishing and grocery storee.

NOS. 34, 36 38 FULTON STREET. THE JOB AND BOOK. PRINTING DEPARTMENT OF TIIK BROOKLYN EAOI.K Has oonneoted thereto a nrst class Bindery, where they era proDared to do PAPER RULING, BLANK BOOK BINDING, PAGING AND NUMBERING, PAMPHLET BINDING, JOB BINDING. Second to none.

Hating all tho modern Improvements ia lachinerj required In this department, with a corps th ompetent mechanics, tbey can guarantee first olass worb FINE PRINTINti. For eleganoe and orlginalUy of design, and a guarantee jf good work, go to the BBOOKLYN HAULS JOB 0 RTMHNT for your nrintlug. CRICKS REDIX'KD. Not J4. Si ind Fulton Street.

BOOK BINDING FOR THE TRAM. Stage Business in Our Courts of How Witnesses are Got Up for Effect The Maimed Suitor Exhibited to Advantage. The Widow Artistically Attired and Posed The Doubtful Youth Transformed Into the Hard Working Boy The Old Bummer Cunningly Fixed and Upholstered. Some people have the faculty of dropping Into the witness box, as other people have tho faculty of dropping into poetry. They do it without the slightest provocation and because they oannot help It, A mallga fatality seems to attend them from childhood, and fortune eeema to Insist that, like the "special artist" of the pictorial weeklies, they shall always be "on the spot" when anything Is going to happen, If there ia an accident and a suit for damages resulting therefrom they are bound to be on hand when the accident occurred, or does one person bring an action to reoover for some real or anoied loss Fate arranges it that they shall be cognisant of all the circumstances; and thus It happens that they are forever committing legal blasphemy and pledging themselves to teU aU they know about it, which "all" frequently turns out to be little enough.

Witnesses may bo divided into two general classes the civil witness and the criminal witness. By this division it Is not intended to convey any idea as to their moral or social characteristics, but only to define the kind of oases In which they are deponents, la each of those grand divisions tho same types exist, only they are accented by the condition of lower or higher life. The frequenters of courts of law who possess the habit of observation, have probably noticed the distinction that exists in the character and method of those who are called upon to give their testimony on the witness stand. In England they would Bay, 11 In the witness box." In olden times tho deponent was placed in a sort of inclosed pulpit, called "the box," and under tho old methods of unscrupulous lawyers it becamo too often a moral and mental sweat box for the unhappy inoumbent thereof for the time being. But the march of American improvement has dona away with this method, and has snbstituted an armchair upon a pivot raised upon a platform.

But the occupant gets roasted all the same, and he haB the added suffering of not knowing what to do with his legs. The novelty of the position of course disqualifies him from a graceful position two minutes in Bucces Bion. The majority of them aot as if the pivot upon which the chair turns ran clear through their bodies. Theodore Tilton was the only man this deponent ever uaw who comported himself with ease and grace on the witness even he had too muoh aelf consciousness about him. That rarest of all witnesses, a child of tender years, when once placed at ease by the ready tact of an aoute lawyer, has probably the least Bclf oonatraint and the moist naturalness of any occupant of the judicial gridiron, and children make splondld witnesses too, sometimes.

IN THE OBIMTNAL DOUBTS the witnesses are chiolly drawn from tho lower classes, for the reason that thoy arc the ones who are generally getting into trouble, and the result is that the argot of the Blums and the idioms of the street corners are heard from the witness stand, as frequently as anything else, and some of these vernaoulars are curious in the extreme, and the examining counsel ia frequently obliged to ask for an interpretation of their meaning. It la in civil actions that the idiosyncrasies of witnesses are tho most marked. A prominent character in that dreary class of literature known as "lunny anecdotes," is tho sharp witness who, in the language of the prize ring, sends an opposing and oxamining lawyer "to grass" with a keen retort or a biting sarcasm. The truth is, that this class of witnesses is very rarely seen so rarely, in fact, that he may be said not to exist. Tho writer has seen hundreds of poople on the witness stand people of all ranks and conditions of life; has seen them browbeaten and badgered until the court interfered, and never yot has ho seen a counsel "doubled up" with a keen rotort; a joke is somotimes attempted, but it is generally tho very ghost of a witticism, and ia straightway ropressedby the lawyers.

They never allow any one to bo funny in court but themselves which accounts for the fact that legal proceedings are so terribly dull and tiresome. Humor there is in court, and sometimes of the rarest kind, but it is fleeting and evanescent, muBt be seen to be understood, cannot bo described, and springs not from any interest on the part of the witness, but from s'ome peculiarity of words, language, conduct or situation. It is like the gleam of a meteor, must be seen to be comprehended, and cannot be describod; or like the perfume of a flower ia caught upon tho wing, and in gone in na instant, and neither brush nor pen oim paint it, unless it be the PEN OF A DIOKENS, and hois the only writer in the language whose subtle sense of hnraor was koen enough to adequately catch the spirit of the thing, and his genius alone could fix it upon paper. Take the case of Bardell vs. Pickwick Americanizo the Incidents and tho surroundings, and it is an admirable caricature of what is almost daily aeon in our courts of Justice If an American Dickens should ever arise he would find enough humor ready to his hand in judicial belongings to keep tho world laughing for a century or until the civilization from which it sprang had passed away.

But when DickenB put Sam Weller in the witness box he created a new legal character a fresh coin from humanity's mint, sparkling with genius and bearing the stamp and itnurima turo of pure originality. The othor witnesses in that famous case are only caricatures of froquont There is another kind of witncBS which popular opinion imagines to bo frequent, but which in reality is SELDOM SEEN, and that ia tho lovoly witness of the gentle sex. For some reason beauty is not often brought uuder the glare of light that beats upon the witness stand. The higher bred and more refined women seem to avoid its publicity. Now and then one is seen, but they are rare.

Tho finer instinct of women seems to understand intuitively that in the hands of an examining counsel they are at a disadvantage, and they avoid the position. Nothing but diro nocosslty and an uttor inability to avoid the isBue oven brings a lady upon the witness stand. The class of females seen then are not, as a general thing, noted for culture or high breeding. In the quiet of a lawyer'a office, and the limited audience of a rofcrencc, they appear to better advantage. Breach of promise cases are popularly supposed to produoe the type denominated, "tho interesting witness." As a general thing, tho wonder in uuoh cases is, not that the defendant should havo broken his botrothed pledge, but that he should have ever mado it, and in giving her testimony, the fair plaintiff will generally show that she possesses a grammarlesa tongue and a sordid soul.

But as to individual types: Of those, perhaps THE ONOEiiT.UN WITNESS is the most numerous, and stunge to say, they are generally men. A woman almost always knows what she believes about a transaction and with them, belief, very often, takes the place of knowlodgo. They give as evidence what they believo instead of what they know, and do it unconsciously, too. Tho uncertain witness is, of all others, the most unsatisfactory. Not all the coaching of counsel can carry him through safely.

He goes on the stand under the firm impression that he will swear to a cerlatu state of facts, and that nothing shtll turn him. But even upon the steps of the witness stand, his uncertainty asserts itself. He Is in doubt whether ho will take tho oath or affirm, and by the time tho clerk is half way through with the formula, he blunderingly does ono or the other. Then tho counsel for whom he is a witness takes him in hand, and deftly leads him along the flowery patha of testim ony, elicits the story with which he has crammed him before coming to court, and then turns him over to the tender morcies of the opposing counsel, and if he is a man who understands his business, when he gets through with that witness his testimony will be riddled and shot through and through with his own contradictions. It would be a mental impossibility for the man to remember one Item of what he had said the hour previous, and the cross examiner's point is gained when by deft insinuation ho loads him to doubt whether he ever did make a real or hypothetical statemont put to him.

Then tho counsel sternly reminds him that ho is under oath, and straightway visions of damnable perjury, which he thinks he may have committed, loom up before the uufortunato man, and he ends his career by saying no to every question that is put to hiiu. IKE CONFIDENT WITNESS is another character very dangerous to his own side, but the delight of the opposing counsel. He goes upon the stand not only firmly determined what ha is going to say, but also firmly convinced that under no circumstances will he say anything else. Ho puts on a confident look, folds his arms, presses up his lips, and looks ont of the corners of his eyes. Ho gets along swimmingly under the direct examination, and when that is completed and be 1b turned over to the cross examiner, you would think the aide of the case which he represents was bo thoroughly buttressed with his evidence that nothing could change it.

But wait a few moments (always supposing the other Bido to havo a Btnart lawyer), lot counsel get fairly at him. He toyej with him at first, pats him on the back aB it were, apparently regrets that he is called npon to ask him any questions, and thereby appears to donbt even by implication, the correctness of his story. At last hiB auspicions are lulled, he ia thrown off hie guard, and he carelessly answers some unimportant questions. But suddenly the smooth tongued cross examiner explodes around bim in a series of interrogatories that fairly bristle with danger. He is not allowed time to think, and when the din ia ended he la a total wreok of contradiction and irrecon, cilahle and all done without the slightest idea of tolling anything but the exact truth.

Another bete noir of counsel is TBS DISOUItSrVE WITNESS. This party is generally a woman somewhat advanced toward the autumn of life, and whose attire and speech show that she belongs to the lower, middle or uneducated class. She never hesitates about becoming a witnessin fact, is generally glad to do it, as it affords a novelty whioh she enjoys. She ia requently of Milesian origin, and If Bhe be In any way oonnected with either of the parties to the suit or considers herself and rights aggrieved she breaks out, and instead of testimony gives a long, rambling, incoherent statement that "little meaning, little relevancy" bears to the matter in hand. And the worst of It is that you cannot stop her.

If once that double Jointed tongue gets started it must go on until Bhe pauses from pure lack of wind, and then, if tho Court or tho lawyers are on the look out, they may manage to Blip In a word edgeways and stop for the moment the flow of "aaya I to him," "says sho to me," whioh the stenographer has boeu vainly cn deavoring to follow for the last ten minutes. Another witness belonging to the discursive class is tbe man who la determined to make hia own statement of the case, when he goes upon the stand. is asked to tell all about it, and ho does to, and the result is that a pretty mess he makes of it; and the chances are that he gets a hearty cursing when Mb hvwyor geta him alone, for having made Biioh a perfeet ass of himself. He la the delight of opposing counsel, and they riddle him with hot shot, and metaphorically leave nothing but a "grease spot" of aim. He 1b always of a nervous temperament, and easily flustered.

A Unci of wltneas whloh In these days of emigration is frequently aeon in our courts. Is the WITNESS WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND ENOIiISH. lie is generally a Teuton, and is either willing or un Character Sketches in Court. The Trnth, the Whale Truth and Vothing but the Truth The Different Ways Wit nesses Have of Telling It. Jurors are men subject to like passions as the rest of men.

They can weep, but it is seldom that the briny slulooa are opened. They can laugh, though there is a recent authority to show that it is a risky thing for them to do. They can appreciate eloquence, and divest it of the forensic spittoon. That occupant of the box with immenBe knuckles and horn beneath them may bo content to hack timber for a livelihood, but there Is no wood in his cranium and no corns are on his heart. His neighbor may boil tho pot with awl and wax end, but his sensibilities don't resemble leather.

The next man may be a country Hank, and the boys on the corner may yell after him, but there 1b manly sympathy beneath tbe odd gear he wears, and tho pulae beats straight though the logs are awry. The lawyer who has certain oases in Court knows these things, for he haa studied human nature if he is half a man. He don't take as a line for his argument the style of a man's collar or mustache, for these may bo accldonts attributable t0 a wifo or a barber. Ho planta hBnself on the square ground of experience, and bauds up his case thereon. John Doe works for Richard Boo in a faotory.

The maohinory ia Improperly guarded or badly constructed, and John Ioo loses a leg. Ho sues Richard Roe for damages. John Doe appears In Court with the maimed limb well displayed. Counsel furnishes him with a seat where tho jury can get a good view of him and bis stump. When counsel puts him on the stand to testify he helps him to rise, hands him his crutch in most effective style, and tenderly assists him within the railings to the witness chair.

If John Doe has a wife and children dependent on him, they are there in Court, poorly but deoently olad, spotlessly olean, nicely oombed, and arranged under the eyes of the Jury, ready for an effectlvereferenoe. If William Dash 1b killed on a railroad, and hiB widow sues for damages, sha appears before the jury in bo coming weeds, with tho appropriate sorrow on her countenance, and the appealing handkerohlef in her hand. Children and a goodly array of friends, all in tbe profoundeat mourning, are in the background to give effect to the general picture of bereavement and grief. If Thomas Black sues a wealthy employer for wagea or other money alleged to be due, the suitor steps humbly forward and seats himself diffidently on a chair near hia counsel. He wears clothes soiled with labor, though for an oxcursion down tho bay, or up tho river, he would appear in good broadcloth, with a fine linen Bhirt and studs, and muoh cuff and nocktie, and, mayhap, a watch and chain.

If Billy Button, a youth who passes his days on the corner and his nights at pokor, is wanted as a witness, he takes the Btand in the character of a hard working boy. Tho pants with tho blunderbuss bottoms are skimmed off, and a pair of well soiled, ill fitting bags take their place. A dingy striped shirt or a blue flannel vest iB arranged with skillful disorder, and his hair is cunningly rumpled. His face and hands are becomingly smeared, and if ho can bring into court, and illng under the witness chair while he testifies, a hammer or a ohisol or a lunch can, all the better. When the presence is required in Court as a witness of that old bummer Toby Tospot, he 1b put through a course of preparation, tho undesirableness of which is but inadequately compensated by tho high old drunk on whioh ho Is permitted to sober, after having served the ends of justice.

Roohelle Baits, warm baths, strong coffee and promises, razors, brushes, etiff linen, second hand clothes, and hoaven knows what else, are applied to the venerable renegade, and he iB brought from the guarded seclusion of home In tho care of interested custodians, whoso anxiety is in proportion to the number of gin mills they have to pass on tbe road. On the stand ho appears as a staid, respcctablo citizen, somewhat pimply as to the faco and shaky as to tho systom gcnorally, but nevertheless a wonderful work of art and on tho whole creditable, If a scamp who has eluded Juetioo by bribery and luck, and sports a big diamond as large as a coat button, is constrained In his own interest to appear in a court a place he has a wholesome dread of he puts his gem in hiB pookot by advice of hiB counBol, who knows the jury will look with suspicion on tho glittering five thousand dollar appendage. When a Booundrel who haa perpetrated a bloody and unprovoked murder 1b put on trial for his life, the ingenuity of his lawyers iB oxercisod to the utmost to mako an impression on tha jury by externals. Wife, Bister, brothor, female relatives of all grades, are grouped around the murderer. Kisses, and hand clasps, and tender looks aud affectionate little solicitudes are freoly indulged in, and if there is a baby or a young child, it is a very effective instrument indeed.

Are the jury always deceived by theso tricks 7 Do they never see through the dodge Some of them do, no doubt but there can be no quostion that on the whole, the theatrical preparation of a case is a great point, and that tho lawyers know what they are about when they dress tho characters in their oouct drama, and arrange the stage business. TTIE AMERICAN RIFLEMEN. A Splendid Reception Given to 'litem In New Ifork, Yesterduy. After the reception of the American Rifle Team at the City Hall, Now York, yesterday afternoon, tho military escort under command of CoL John Ward, of tho Twelfth Bogimeut, formed in the City Hall Park in this order Colonel John Ward, Twelfth Regiment, National Ouard, commanding brigade. Aids, Colonel Clifford A.

H. Bartlett, of the Governor's Stall; Lieut. Col. Montgomery, of tho Ninth Regiment; and Major Taylor, of the Twelfth Regiment. Ninth Regiment, Sixty ninth Regimont, Officers of tho Twenty eoventh Regiment, and officers of tho National Guard.

Twelfth Regiment. National Rifie Association and Amateur Rifle Club. American Off Hand Rifle Club. New York City Schuetzen Corps. Tho Team entered their carriages In the following order: Loft.

Right. Second Carriage. First Carriage E. H. Sandford, Colonel Mitchell, General Dakin, General Bhaier, General McMahon.

Colonel Gildcrsleeve. Fourth Carriage. Third Carriage Colonel Wingatc, A. Alford, Colonel Bodine, D. W.

Judd, Captain W. C. Casey. Major Fulton. Sixth Carriage.

Fifth Carriage. J. T. B. Collins, General Knox, G.

W. Yalo, Col. Coleman, Judge Stanton, Eighth Carriage. Seventh Carriage. Robert Johnson, G.

A. Schermerhorn, L. M. Ballard. A.

V. Canfleld, The Twelfth Regiment formed around the carriages with division front on all sides, and the procession took up its line of march up Broadway. The drizzling rain after a while increased to a heavy, drenching shower, yet the sidewalks were lined with people who enthusiastically cheered the Team as the procession began to move. At A. T.

Stewart's wholesale place a large American banner bearing the words "Welcome to the American Team" was suspended over the street. Ball, Black was decorated with American and Irish flags as was the Olympio Theatre. On reaching Fourteenth street the procession turned toward Fifth avenue, passing the Seventy first Regiment, commanded by Colonel Vose on its way to Rhode Island, whioh was halted to salute tho Team. After tho members of tho Team and the Reception Committee had arrived at the Army and Navy Club they took a position on tbe balcony fronting on Twenty seventh street, and the three regiments were marched past in review, the officers saluting as they went by. Tho parade was then dismissed and a large crowd gathered iu the street, and a speeoh from Colonel Gilder Bleeve was vociferously called for.

After some little time the Colonel steppod forward on the balcony, and when the cheers had subsided spoke as follows: Feixow Citizens The American Rifle Team are much obliged to you for the oarnest welcome you have given thorn to day. They know that It is sincere or they would not fiee you here in the rain. Thoy beg you to accept their sincere thanks. In the evening the Team were tendored a reception at Gilmore'B Garden. General Shaler introduced General Sharpe who delivered an address of welcome Ho said that that wonderful andionoe, surely larger than any which his friends had met abroad, testified how full was the heart of America to those of her sons who had Just returned to her.

Their steamers arrived weekly bringing back Americans to their country but whon ho aaked, did they bring back any who had reflected such honor on the American name 1 Modestly as they had borne themselves, he should tell them that this was not the only reception which would be ten tered to them. Through the boundless generosity of the proprietors of the garden they wore in a position of priority, nut he Bhould teU them that that reception was only one of many such. He could recall now tho modest words with which the Team went away. We will do," said thoy, tho best we can." They knew now that the best they did was better than anybody else did, and as subsequent events led them to believe, better than any one else was able to do. Gen.

Sharpe then recapitulated the history of the match, referring to the Irish thaUcnge, the match at Creedmoor last year, and finally the victory at Dollymount. He described the incentives which these matcheB had proved to rifle manufacturers to improve their woapons. and said that as a result it was fair to claim that the American rifles wero the best on the face of tho earth. But, he said, they had to congratulate tho members of the Team not merely on their victory, but also on their modest and gallant bearing. There was no Irish gentleman, or no English gentleman, or peer, but had met his match in the oourteslea and civilities of life.

He again thanked them for tbe honor which they had done to their country, and assured them that whenever the name of Dollymount was mentioned, it would send a tingle of pride through the American heart. Colonel Glldersleeve replied on the port of tho Team. There was no occasion, he aaid, when he more sincerely wished they had another spokesman. He could hardly tell them anything actually new of what had happened abroad, hut he could assure them that aU they had heard of tho bounty ang munlficenoe of Ireland failed to adequately represent the reality. American citizenship was a passport on every railroad and every steamboat; the doors of every public building, theatre, and opera house were open to them, and as they entered, tbe audiences greeted them with such choera as only Irishmen could give, while the next thing they heard was the "Star Spangled Banner," The warmest feeling, be said, was entertained by the Irish toward America, and their one cry was how muoh more easily could they take defeat from America than from any other na tion on earth.

But he could not take his Beat without saying a word on behalf of the English. They had gone to Dublin and Belfast by invitation; not so to Wimbledon. Nevertheless, they had not been five minutes there when they were waited upon by Lord Wbarncliffe and the officers of the Rifle Association, aud treated from beginning to end with the utmost kindness and courtesy. The English people, in fact, had tho kindest feeling toward their younger brethren in the United States. He then alluded to the probability of an international match at the Centennial next year, at which England would be represented, and, In conclusion, again returned thanks for the honor which had been conferred on the Team.

fViL RnrHnA rtn TJnlrin Malor Fulton and MesBrs. Yale, Coleman and Canfleld, were in turn called fort and bowed their acknowledgments, xixe muaieaiyw grammo was then performed. Among the Brooklynites present were Lieut. Colone1 P. H.

Briggs, Captain A. R. Bamuells, Captain John PedroncoUJ, Lieutenant Parker, Colonel Thompson, Colonel Prescolt. Hon. Thomas Klnsella, Mr.

William O. Kingeley, Mr. Thomas Wilaon, Mr. J. Naughton, Mr.

William B. Overton; Major. Schnrig, Adjutant Treat, Captain George P. Thomae Barring ton, Corporal Frank Munn, Corporal'F. J.

Evans, Mr. William a. Watson, Lieutenant J. F. Dillont, Mr.

Sidney W. CurUayMr. Adolph Magnus, Colonel Rodney O. Ward, Captain James a. Story.Oaptam Albert Williams, Lieutenant Bourdette, Lieutenant Albert Cox, 8u.

perviaor Stears and Captain Bogardus. This Paper baa tbe Circulation of any Evening Paper PubJUued in tbe United states. Its value as an Advertising Medium is therefore ap parent Equalizing State Assessments. The present Board of State Assessors have done more to equable the State burdens, borne by the various counties of the State, than any of their predecessors. It has always been the duty of State Assessors to insure such an equality, but like many other obligations, it has, until recently, been more honored in the breach than the observance.

By law the local assessors are required to ap praisa property at its full value, but this, like many othor enactments, lias long been practically a dead letter. In some counties property is assessed at its full value, but in others, it is as low as 7 and in the majority under 30 per cent. Inasmuch as each county is required to contribute to the support of the State, according to the value of its real and personal property, the necessity for a Board of State Assessors, who shall see to it that every county bears its fair share of the burden without regard, to these local undervaluations, is apparent. For instance, in Long Island City, property is assessed by the local authorities at less than ten per cent, of its real value, while in this county property is assessed at nearly sixty per cent. If these figures were taken by the State authorities as final, and the tax for State purposes levied according to them, it is patent that Kings County would be paying five times more, proportionately, than its neighbor.

An understanding of these primary facts will clothe the proceeding of the State Assessors with interest for our readers. These Assessors and a committee of our Supervisors will hold a conference on the equalization question today. We have had ample reason for trusting to the justice and good sense of the Board. They have traveled over every county in the State, and come, by investigation, to very clear conclusions concerning the actual value of property. Last year they recommended the local assessors of every county to assess property at its full value; and we believe, in two or three cases, the recommendation has been favourably acted upon.

There can be no good reason, no honest reason, anywhere for disregarding it. The only purpose of under valuation is to deceive the State Assessors, and thereby throw upon less mendacious communities more than their fair share of the State burdens. Such under valuation can have no possible effect on local taxation. It cannot decrease the tax levy any to understate tho value of the real and personal estate upon which it is levied. if, instead of calling the real estate of Brooklyn worth $200,000,000, we called it just half that sum, the expense of the local government would not be lightened the eby a single dollar.

If this single and ludicrously apparent fact could be driven into the head of the average taxpayer and average Supervisor, we should have an end made of a very discreditable muddle. In Massachusetts all property is assessed at its full value. The Assessors are sworn to do so, and they decline to trifle with their oaths of office. The gentlemen who compose the State Board of Assessors are for nothing to be commended more than for this thev have made the old and dishonest trickery of under valuation useless. The county that states the full value of its property is as well off as the one that puts it at a merely nominal figure.

This subject of assessed valuation has of course been seized upon by demagogues and used for their own purposes. Not long ago we had the knavish mouthpiece of professional reform in this vicinity arguing with all his might that a gross outrage was practiced upon the people the city when the assessed value of their property was raised from forty to sixty per cent. Of course he did not undertake to show that the increase added a dollar to the taxation of the city for he could not and he was shrewd enough to avoid remarking that any advantage obtained by the lower assessment would have been a dishonest one. With Board of Asssessors such as we now have and with a Board of Supervisors intelligently alert, Kings County would not lose a dollar if every foot of real estate in the county ware assessed at its full market price. On the other hand, it may be noticed that a county whose property is assessed at a reasonable figure enjoys in the matter of reputation a decided advantage over its more deceitful neighbors.

In Long Island City, for instance, the rate of taxation is 7 per cent, on an under valuation, but the aot of its rate being 7 per cent, will travel further and faster than any explanation about valuations, and investors will be kept away from the place, who would, perhaps, be drawn to it if they clearly understood that the rate of taxation is not more than one and a. half per cent, on the real value of property. Not many days ago we noticed a statement in one of the Western papers that property in Brooklyn was taxed nearly four per cent. Of course the paper did not explain to its readers that the tax was based on an under valuation, and that the actual rate of taxation was less than two per cent. Reputation is nearly as precious to a city aB to an individual, and, as those who have to borrow money on bond and mortgage know, the reported rate of taxation in a city assumes a decidedly material aspect.

To argue, therefore, that Brooklyn would be served by reducing the assessed valuation of its property is to contend first, that we may properly swindle our neighbors, and second, that it is a good thing for a city to bear the reputation of being extravagantly taxed. So far as the meeting to day is concerned, our Supervisors have simply to state facts. We have confidence in the Assessors. There is not the slightest danger of any injustice at their hands. Of this Board it is an especial pleasure for the Eagle to speak thus highly, beoause they are Republicans, and are by their good work strengthening a party which, as a whole, the Eaoms has been constrained by conviction to oppose in the State.

Judge Martin Graver. Judge Martin Grover died last evening at his residence in Angelica, New York. Martin Grover should have cLed hereafter when there would have been a better time for such a "word." Such judges as Martin Grover are not given to a State every day. And at this day New Tork needs such judges at almost every hour. Corruption and fraud are being unearthed in almost every department of the State service, and so infested are we with them, that the time of the Governor of the State is more than half swallowed in the execution of the work of a detective trailing the schemes of men who should be examples of public integrity in lien of being objects of suspicion, scrutiny and surveillanoe.

Jndge Martin Grover was a lawyer, and a ripe and good lawyer. Not one of your lawyers skilled in technique to find law to protect lieu of punishing crime; but a lawyer skilled in the application of the letter of the law to the principles of justice which law was devised to protect. As a Judge Martin Grover was the very ideal of justice personified. His mind though keen, was large. He was gifted with ithe great academic or judicial intellect that looks down and sees all sides of everything in a case, and all sides of the whole case itself.

Politics had but little charm for Martin Grover. save where, in their operations they came to trench upon law, then he would awaken to an interest in them and whatever side he took tor he took severalhis weight was felt in the balance, for be carried with him known integrity of purpose and a mind freighted with learning and with thought. Indeed, iu his district, no candidate for tho Legislature could be elected against his opposition. He was slovenly in hiB ways, slovenly in his dress, slovenly in most things save the law, and there uo beaver could match his industry. Originally Mr.

Grover was a Silas Wright Democrat. But at the time of the Kansas Nebraska bill he took ground against the party leaders, and denounced the repeal of the Mis wjuri Compromise. Ever after that he might be found on the side of the Democrats or of the Bepublicans, independent of all party organizations, acting with either according to Lis own estimation of the issues under con Klnss County Hospital Exposures. The utmost vigilance on the part of the officials of the Kings County charitable institutions will not avail to suppress the statements coming in from former patients, nor will their refusal to hear the testimony these people offer prevent the public from learning it. The inhuman abuses at the County Insane Asylum, exposed by Mr.

Magee, have aroused the people of this city to an intense degree, and the mote recent account of the brutalities practiced upon the sick in the Hospital at Flatbush will still more shock them. Investigations have been so frequently made and with so little success that the majority of people have but little faith in anything of the kind. Politicians engineer such investigations to suit themselves, and the result is that no satisfactory evidence is ever given by those examined. But when the proofs come from patients who have been the victims of such institutions, the array of facts, verified by other patients, have to be met by something more satisfactory than the excuses made by nurses. The abuBes at the Hospital require something more than a mere denial of facts, and the testimony, coming as it does from such patients and not crazy people, will have to be treated with more respect than Commissioner Norris paid to Mr.

Magee'6 case. The narrative published yesterday in the E. D. Times is one made up from the simple story of two patients, who spent some time in the Flatbush Hospital and who tell such straightforward stories that an investigation will assuredly have to be made, and the testimony of all the patients in the Hospital at the time will be taken to substantiate the proofs offered. Mrs.

Pennington, one of the patients, a resident of Williamsburgh, was an occupant of Ward No. 22 for two months, and a fortnight ago was turned out. She was paralysed and was Buffering from general debility, which was aggravated while in the Hospital by insufficient food. The nurse who had charge of the ward beat her cruelly, compelled her to leave her bed when she could not sit up and onca in a fit of rage knocked her five front teeth out. She was starved, was maltreated and uncared for, and finally was turned out of the Hospital in a driving rain without shoes or sufficient clothing to keep her person warm.

The story she told was corroborated by another patient who did not know Mrs. Pennington, personally, and who further added that the nurses would get drunk and spend the night in the wards eatiug and drinking, keeping the hungry patients from sleep ing and compelling them to look on at their feastings while they were famishing with hunger. Such exposures as these have been made before concerning the institutions at Flatbush, but never as now have the people been aroused to the necessity of investigating matters there. The Eagle for years has been calling attention to the misgovernment of the county institutions, and has repeatedly urged, as it does now, the absolute duty of the public to reform the management of charity institutions. When politicians have no longer tho right to trade on the appointment of officers in such, and when no political influence will avail to secure place there, then worth will be more considered than availability in the men appointed.

The public will not bo satisfied until the appointing power is taken out of the hands of politicians, and the sooner the better. To say tho least, they have the loost success in employing help of any class of employers in the city, and in any event there should be physicians and Commissioners appointed who can find some thing better than the samples of nurses we have known from tho testimony of Magae and Mrs. Pennington. Superintendent Folk's Case. Superintendent Folk has carried his case into Court.

The old man thinks the Police Commissioners removed him without cause. If there is any satisfaction to Uncle John in the belief that he was a competent Superintendent, we hope the delusion may remain, but, in going into court, we fear ho has taken a step which will make a plain, unvarnished statement of the truth necessary. John Folk made a good policeman, so far as the routine of police duty went he, we believe, always did bis duty faithfully as he understood it; nobody ever accused him of cowardice that we know of; but tho Superintendent of the Police of a large city needs to be more than honest, courageous and industrious he needs to be shrewd, keen of eye, ingenious, a match iu artifice for the moBt artful of professional criminals and withal have a talent for organizing. These latter qualities Uncle John did not possess and lacking them, although he made a good Inspector, made an incompetent Superintendent. Nobody regrets more than the Eagle does that Mr.

Folk has ceased to be connected with the Police force of the city for with all his peculiarities the Eagle liked him, but that he is not Inspector to day is his own fault. Had he taken the Eagle's advice he would, we believe, have been made Inspector, a position for which he is amply qualified, and which he filled to the satisfaction of every body when Campbell was Superintendent before. But Mr. Folk took the advice of men who played upon his unsuspicious nature, and left the Commission no alternative but to turn him out. That he will fare any better at the hands of the Court than he did before the Commissioners is hardly to be hoped, for the law leaves the Commissioners in absolute authority over their subordinates, simply requiring their conformance to certain forms in tho inforcement of discipline.

It ought, perhaps, in this connection, to be again stated, that oven admitting Uncle John to have made a good Superintendent, he has nothing to complain of. Campbell was turned out by Jourdan, because he was a Democrat, and Uncle John was put in because he was a Republican. Uncle John did not object to politics then. It did not occur to him at that stage, that there was anything monstrous in allowing politics to affect the Department. Now, however, that the wheel has mado another turn, he bawls as if chaos had come again.

This Uncle John ought not to do. It is not manly, it is not consistent, and it will avail nothing. He figures now as a gambler who is willing enough to win by cards but would crucify the dealer when luck failes. The police force of Brooklyn needed reorganization and the Commissioners had either to restore Campbell or allow the Department to continue the disgraceful concern Jourdan left it. The Campaign in tbe 'Bay Slate.

The campaign iu Massachusetts promises to be warm this Fall. The Demoorats will renominate Gaston, and the Bepublicans will put up Bice. Talbot is also anxious to get the Republican nomination, but having lost the State to his party last year, he will not be trusted again. The KepublicanB ore organizing now, and hope by a thorough enrollment of everybody inclined to the radical view of things to undo the "damage'' of last year. The Democrats are confident.

Having fought losing battles for more than a score of years, and won at last, they anticipate no defeat now that they have the prestige of victory with them. Gaston has been talked of for the Presidency. The Georgia Disturbance. There is something grotesque in the statement that the leaders of the recent negro disturbance in Georgia proposed to kill "all "white men and ugly white women." It would be worth something to have the thorough going plantation hand's views of ugly whiteness illustrated. But, apart from the absurdity of the riotous project in question, it is seriously to be noted that the lives of the white people in at least five counties of Georgia were for a time in jeopardy.

In their dense ignorance, and doubtless inspired by adventurous demagogues from the North, the negroes were persuaded that by simply killing off the white occupants of the surrounding estates, they, the negroes, could enter into quiet possession. The Staten Island cricketers beat the Syracuse club yesterday. But the Prospect Park club of thiB city have beaten the Staten Island CURRENT EVENTS. The City of Trebigne will be attacked by the Horzegovinians to day. Great sucoess is reported to attend the operations of the Alfonsiats who are besieging Sco da Urgel.

There is a falling off in the quantity and quality of the wheat crops of Austria and Hungary. Mr. Moran, United States Minister to Portugal, is ill in consequence of the privations he suffered when the steamer Boyne was wrecked. Edward Hewitt Son, provision dealers, of London, failed yesterday with liabilities amounting to $125,000. The Herzegovinian insurgents are reported to havo massacred ninety five Turkish prisoners captured at Marslo.

Cardinal McOloskey will remain in, Paris until the end of the month. The loss of the Bteamer Abbottaford is attributed by the Court of Inquiry to mistakes made by tho master in regard to.ihe position of the vessel after passing Holyhead. The captain's ceriificato is to be returned to him. General Holman, Supervising Architect of the Chicago Custom House, has been removed. Governor Smith, of Georgia, in an address to tho peoplo of Atlanta yesterday, said that all danger of on insurrection of the blacks had passed, and there was no reason to apprehend any further infractions of the peace.

A reward of $500 ia offered for the arrest of General Morris, the leader In the recent troubles. Yesterday in the Equity Court, Washington, Judge Wylie overruled the motion to quash tho attachment issued against the property of William H. Ottman, chargod with robbing the treasury of $17,000. Three hundred and fifty barrels of illicit whisky were selzod in Chicago yeBterday. There was quite a sharp frost in various localities in Illinois and Ohio on Sunday night.

Most of the small vines were killed, and potatoes and corn were more or less Injured. The first bale of cotton from Arkansas was sold in Memphis yesterday, bringing thirty Bix cents a pound, Tho first bale from Mississipi was also sold bringing the same price. Killing frosts on Sunday and Monday night are reported from several points along the lino of tho Lako Superior Railroad, destroying corn and other unripe crops in Minnosota. A company has been organized iu Omnha with a capital of $100,000 to build a narow gauge railroad to the Black Hills. A.

T. Stewart has purchased the Glenhnm Woolen Mills for the purpose oi converting them into a carpet factory. The will of the late Rev. J. S.

Clarke, of Catsliiil, N. leaving $100,000 to charities, has boon declared void. His widow will receive a largo sharo of tho money. The fortieth annual camp meeting of the Providence Conference was opened at the Tabernacle, on tho oamp meeting grounds yesterday. The sermon was preached by Rev.

S. V. Morrison, of Providence. Advices from thirteen counties in Wisconsin report that great damage was done to crops of corn, tobacco and potatoes by the frosts of Sunday and Monday nights. A convention of the colored citizens of Virginia is now in session in Richmond for the purpose of education among their peoplo.

The growing crops of sugar and rice are re portod to be unusually large. The total amount of canal tolls collected on tbe N. Y. State canals, from the opening of navigation to and including the second week in thia month, has been $701,2 47.3. For the same length of time last year it was $1,411,097.08, showing a decrease of $700,850.36 thus far this year.

The Canadian Department at the Centennial Exhibition win measure three thousand square feet. Cannl Commissioner Thayer and State Engineer Sweet have discharged every assistant cngincor and clerk of tho Eastern Division, extending from Albany to TJtica. The number discharged la fifty four and the aggregate saving to the State is $215 a day. Fifteen thousand people attended the Wyoming Grove camp meeting yesterday. Owing to the heavy rains of yesterday, the opening day of the extra Monmouth Park meeting wus postponed until Thursday.

N. A. Oowdrey, Samuel L. M. Barlow and W.

W. Macfarland qualified in the Clerk's office of the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday, as bondsmen in $500,000 for Judge Wm. D. Shipman, as assignee for Duncan, Sherman and Judge Robinson approved the bond. Jefferson Davis has received invitations from Dee Moines, Iowa, Charleston, 111., and other points in the West, to delivor the annual addresses at the Fall meetings of tho several agricultural societies.

The cornerstone of the African M. E. Churoh, at lloslyn, was pried from the foundation a few nights ago, broken open and robbed of its contents. JUSTICE. Ifloiv it is Aduiiiiivtered on Long 11 and Some Intereutlnsr Facts.

The administration of justice in Queens County is very loose. Scarcely a day passes that some violation of the law is not committed by those supposed to understand and obey it. Jamaica has a Justice of the Peace who attends dog fights and cocking mains, and frequents the raoos and wagers his money. Newtown has a Justice of the Peace who haa beon convicted of various ohargeB, and who is a law book within himself. Those, and others throughout the country, havo a very peculiar way of doing things.

In Jamaica, recently, two men were convicted of an assault on a man at Rockaway Beaoh, and fined $25 and $15, respectively, in default of payment to stand committed for sixty and forty days to the county Jail. They could not raise tho money, and went to priaon. A week after the first was released by the Sheriff on the order of a Justice of the Peace, who reduced tho fine to $20. Three days later the second man waB released in a similar way, on tho payment by a friend of $12. The Sheriff thinks he is bound to release a man on the order of the Justice committing him.

He clahns to be acting under the advice of the County Judgo in doing this. When a prisoner ia oommitted to Jail in default of fine, he can be releaaed by tho Shoriff on payment to him of the amount of such fine, at any Urns theref ter, snch fine to be returned by him to the County Clerk, and thence to the County Treasurer, but a Justice of the Peace oannot order a discharge, as, once the commitment goes into the hands, the Justice haa no further jurisdiction in the case. A discharge mado in any othor manner is illegal. tut tbieiBa trivial cause of oom plaint, comp trod with other abuses. A Justice of the Peace in Newtown sentences a woman to six months imprisonment, absolutely, and tho commitment haa no clause with reference to bail or fine.

This is on the 12th of August, On the 15th she the County Jailer that ahe will pay $50 for her discharge. The jailer takes her to New York to draw the money from a bank, and then over to Newtown, where she gives the money to the JUBtice, and is discharged, the jailer taking from the Justice, as authority for his action, a written order to release her. There is no law for any such proceedings. It Is, outside of the bribe, a virtual pardon from the Justice. A release in thia form could only be made, legally, by 'the Governor.

Judgo Barnard so told a Queens County lawyer, once, and reprimanded him for his ignorance In making application to him for the discharge of a prisoner sentenced without reservation to a term of Imprisonment, And In this, as the other matter, the Sheriff is acting under the advice of hie counsel. There was another cose of nearly the same kind from Jamaica not long ago. A woman was sent up on a Friday for twenty days, for atoning her husband, no condition of fine or bail being imposed, and on the following Sunday, by the order of the Justice committing her, she was releaaed. These are only a few sample cases. The Sheriff does not hold himself at all responsible for such releases.

He thinks that he is bound to do with a prisoner whatever a Justice orders, notwithstanding he is in his keeping by commitment. Bat he has probably learned better by thia tune. Under Sheriff Hnshmore told an Eagle reporter on Saturday, that the Sheriff would be only too glad to reform whatever abuses were pointed ont, but that in the matter of these releases he should not be held responsible, as he believed ho was acting properly. The Under Sheriff thinks there will be no more such work. VICTORY ASSOCIATION PICNIC.

Yesterday afternoon and evening the Victory Association held a picnic at Myrtle avenue Park, Notwithstanding the rain which descended duriug the afternoon, there was goodly attendance present. The festivities were principally confined to danolng, for which the Victory orchestra furnished the music The arrangements were in charge of appropriate committees, of which the President, Mr. James McCullom was chairman. It was midnight before the laat dance on the order was gone through the picnickers sought their homes. Among others present were Counselor Arthurj Baseett, fThomai F.

Ferrell, and Richard Bartlett. Bed is no longer used for accessories of French bonnets. Tho fancy for popples has wearied every one with it. country and by the boat and oars, either separated into small luncheon parlies, tried to get dinner at the boarding tent, or went outBido of the grounds where better accommodations wore to be found. The accommodations In this respect on tbe grounds were A COMPLETE FAILURE.

There was but one regular boarding tent in operation, which, from the incompetency or deliberate purpose of the proprietor, proved totally inadequate to tbe wantB of the crowd in attendance, and its management caused a great deal ot indignation and disgust, both from the food provided and the manner in which it was served. To a person not Buffering from hungor, the scenes during dinner hours were at times ludicrous and entertaining. There were tables set for at loast a hundred persons, with but threo inexperienced waiters, and aB faBt as one Beat became vacant it was filled by others in waiting. The hungry guests would call for different dishes, and before the waiters got to the length of the tableB the order would be forgotten. The guosts became Impatient, and repeated their orders.

Cold meat was furnished If patiently waited for, but nothing else or one would get a oup of coffee, but no apoon. Another would get meat, but no knife and fork. Another wanted broad, but there was none on tbe table. Another wanted potatoes, but there were none cooked; another dessert, but there was no dessert. In tho meantime parties would retire with disgust, after waiting a long while without getting anything.

Then the bewildered waiters would rush after the disguated ones for fear they had taken meals without paying for them, and demand seventy five cents for the privilege of sitting at the table. And then would be heard reiterated orders from th ose remaining, and while some would laugh at the proceedings, others would Jeer tho waiters or utter words which approached imprecations. Finally the number of complaints to the Camp Meeting Committee of tho extortion practiced induced the latter to try and correct tho trouble, which was partially done as the crowd diminished. For a while though the guests made music whioh was not desired by either the proprietor or the oamp meeting authorities. At 2 P.

M. prayer meetinga were held in tha various tents, around which tho crowd (at this tune not leas than aeven or eight thousand people) distributed themselves to witness the extravagant language and gestures of some of the lay members, who frequently put their lungs and muscles in full exorcise. At 3 o'clock the bell called the congregation around the preachers' stands, from whence EEV. GEORGE LANSING TAYLOIt delivered a Btrong argumentative sermon on the subject of the transfiguration, his text being, "Lord, it ia good for us to bo here." Ho discussed tho historical character of tha event and the proof of its roality then the doctrines involved in tho event relating to God, man and redemption. He concluded by discussing the effeets of that event on the dlsoiplea and on tho church, saying that as tho disciples recognized instantly the prophets who were seen with Chriat at the transfiguration, so should we at the resurrection instantly know our friends and be instilled with the laws and usages of the heavenly world.

The threatening cloudB in the afternoon served to drive many away before the rain should come, and large numbers returned on the boat nd cars. The afternoon train south left Sing Sing with fourteen loaded cars, while the steamer Long Branch, which made a Bpecial Btop yesterday, waB loaded down almost to tha water's edge, utterly regardless of the law relating to the number of paasengers she should carry. Among THE BBOOKLTNITES who havo boon in attendance at the camp meeting arc, old Father Reynolds, of Sands street Church, Rev. Mr. Bass, City Missionary, Edgert Acker and family, Mrs.

Benj. Baldwin, George W. Baldwin and family, Mr. Hume, tho furniture dealer, Thomas Hudson and family Mrs. J.

Drummond and daughter, Mrs. Smith of Fleet atroet, Mr. Hannah and family, of Sauda street, Mr. Jackson and family, and Mrs. Reed, of Fleet street, beside a number of Germans.

A number of the ladies of tho Temperance Union have been holding meetings, but the only representation left on the ground is Mrs. E. E. Acker. There have been a number of others who have been driven sway from Merrick by tho mosquitoes, visiting the grounds here, where, on account of the elevation and good drainage, the pesta do not appear.

Whatever else may bo said against camp meetings here, there could not have been a more orderly throng nor a more satisfied lot, as notwithstanding the occasional rains, the ground immediately dries and everything becomes pleasant. It is a good place to come if one would study human nature or styles, for both are here to day in great variety, and while the young peoplo may take the occasion to have flirtations, the older ones appear to enjoy themselves hugely in their ecstatic style of devotion which impress the beholder with the honesty of their views. A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE. Nearly sixty years ago there went to reside in Wading Biver, Suffolk County, Robert Wood hull and hia wife Nancy. They wero married early, and the only difference In their agea iras sixteen daya.

They resided there ever afterward, and in the same houso. Last Saturday they died, within four hours of each other. His ago wu 81 years, 0 months, and 28 days, and her age 'Juat sixteen days less. In death they were aot divided. the best of the bargain and takes up the cue her mother has given her self sacrificeand goes on with her life.

But society suffers for the wrong it has done her, for she revenges herself on it by sinking to the level it designed her to sink. Society tells her to be a butterfly to learn light accomplishments and then to marry for love, and too obediently does she follow its behest. Thrown back upon herself at last, she finds she is wanting in all respects, and too late too late she discovers that the time has gone by for preparation. Actual life with its hard realities is upon her, and she must take up her distastful duties and make the most of her strength. Motherhood, with its oppressive cares, overtakes her before Bhe has learned to be a housewife, and poorly and inefficiently prepared she enters the lists and tries in her weak way to do.

Had her training been different her whole life would have been happier, but she obeyed the decrees of society and skimmed over all accomplishments. She knows nothing well she can but poorly entertain, but ill keep house, is weak in body and feeble in mind the one thing out of place in her surroundings, and the creature for whom there is noplace, no career. She has no mind to elevate her womanhood above her wifehood, where it ought to be elevated, and she lacks the education that would have taught her make her exJstenco grander and brighter as she reaoheB its different epochs. But women choose to blind themselves to all these truths They wilfully permit themselves to be made the victims of a social code, which was devised in selfishness and is perpetuated by ignorance, and the result is a race of women, wives and housewives, mothers and daughters, who are not yet preparing to do the work in the world that their Creator designed thorn to To fill the place of friend and companion to man, and the high and holy position of true motherhood, to which every rightly organized and rightly educated woman would and should aspire to fill. The Western Whisky Ring men seem to be getting desperate.

In Chicago on Friday night last it is reported that they caused a ganger named Miller to be shot. The shot did not kill Miller, but it meant to kill him. Perhaps, however, there is no connection between the shooting and the Whisky Ring. But it is noticable that Miller has been of great use to the Government in hunting down the illicit dealers. The tramps have become a nuisance to the railroad companies, and they have determined to enforce the law which provides for a fine of from to 50 for walking upon a railroad track.

They have been in the habit this Summer of following the railroad, as it was the direct line from place to place, and the miBchief they have done has been great. With the railroad companies after them, and the women of the farm houses armed to keep them off their premises, the prospects ahead of the tramps look dark indeed; they would better go to work, it would be far the easiest way of living under the circumstances. The small farmers in the South and Southwest are said to be prospering this year as never before. They have no trouble in cultivating their land, because they can 'do the work themselves, and there are so many living in idleness that the reward to those who farm intelligently is gratifying. When the great plantations of the South have been divided into small farms, and shall be owned by industrious farmers, the new era of prosperity will dawn there again, and this time it will be perpetual.

Rankin Mrs. Mary E. Bankin, of Ralph' avenue, who died on Sunday last, was one hundred and sixteen yean of age. in America and the best scenic artist. They can, therefore, have but little trouble in securing to their patrons such finished acting and perfect mounting of plays as hitherto they have been forced to go to New York to see.

This going to New York has become no small journey. The theatres that used to be gathered around Broome and Leonard streets, the furthest up town being the Winter Garden, are now up at Twenty eighth street, and, of legitimate theatres, the lowest down town is Wallack's, that is on Thirteenth street. It takes over an hour of jolting to go and an hour of jolting to come back, and in lieu of retiring rested one is so fatigued that the journey kills the pleasure of the play. It is very evident, therefore, that the time has fully arrived when Brooklyn not only can, but must, have.a first olass theatre. The eye, ear and judgment of the Brooklyn theatre goer have been formed in New York.

If he is offered here anything glaringly inferior to what he can see there, there he will go, going, less often than he would otherwise go here, but not going here at all. If he is offered here as good as he is offered there, he will go twice to the theatre here, for once he would go there. It remains with Messrs. Shook Palmer simply to repeat at the' Brooklyn Theatre the enterprise and taste that won them suoceBS in New York, and thoy will easily duplicate that success here. Already they have arranged for tho produc tion here of Henry with all the mountings and costumes, designed by M.

Calvert, and with the leading members of the New York cost. The presentation of the play here i will be anticipatory of its revival at Booth's i Theatre in New York. Sullivan will be with us a week, and "Julius Cesar" will be produced as at Booth's, with both E. L. Davenport and Lawrence Barrett in the cast, and all tho cos I tumes and scenery of the great Roman play, So that the Shakspearean portion of our season i is not only amply but nobly provided for.

Surrounded by her New York support, Miss Clara Morris will be with us a week, we shall also have Miss Bose Eytinge in "Bose Michel," and probably the gentle and fragile Ethel will come again to woo our sympathies for poor foolish Frou Frou. This all sounds like the statement of a New York season of unusual strength, yet it is the programme for the Brooklyn Theatre which Messrs. Shook Palmer have already contemplated and partly contracted for. We are much mistaken if, as the season proceeds, our Brooklyn theatre goers will not often wonder why it was that somebody never tried to run a first class theatre in Brooklyn before. Franklin County, Illinois, ia troubled with a band of robbers four hundred strong, who sconr the country at night maltreating and murdering citizens and stealing whatever they can find of value.

They go in Ku Klux Btyle, disguised in white robes, high white hats and masks, are armed with pistols and shot guns, and ride the brflft horses the country affords. Their numbers have heretofore intimidated the farmers, but lately the outrages committed by them have been of such a nature as to demand active measures on the part of the people. One of the County Commissioners was warned that on a certain night they would make a call on him for money, and, at the same time punish him for not obeying the orders they had given him. At midnight they appeared as they had promised they would, fourteen in number, and ordered the Commissioner to come out of his house. Th9 Sheriff with twenty men were secreted in the, house and he answered the summons of the robbers by ordering them to surrender.

They fired upon him' and wheeled to go, when tho posse fired and mortally wounded one man and injured five others. The dying prisoner.