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EAGLE. VOL. 49. NO. 213.

cjttiw" AUGUST 4, 1889. SIXTEEN PAGES. THREE CENTS. BROOKLYN GETTYSBURG DAY. yEOHSLER ABRAHAM.

WAS IT HIS BROTHER'S ACT WALKEK WAS WILLING. AN ACTOR'S LIFE ROMANCE NOT LIABLE TO DUTY. Foreign Built Car In Transit Travel Free. the village and found Colonel Walker there. There was an interchange of hot words and the colonel pulled a long knifo and manifested a strong desire to carve Nelson into small slices.

Bystanders interfered and the colonel was taken before Magistrate Buckingham, who is a ship carpenter as well as a magistrate, where lie signed the following document, which deserves to take high rank among the legal curiosities of the century. It is a wonderful combination of a peace warrant and an application for divorce Its full text is: County of Suffolk, Town of Buookiiavkn, s. Louis A. Walker, being duly sworn, deposes and says: Whereas, certain charges have been made against me that I have threatened the life of Peter Nelson with a knifo, pi tol, 1, Louis A. Walker, do now solemnly declare and say that for the future I will never do him, the said Peter Nelson, bodily harm or that I will injure him.

Also charges have been made tnat I have threatened the life of Delia A. Walker. I do now soiemnlv promise that for the future I Arrangements Nearly Completed for the Oreat Celebration. Tho Memorial and Executive Committee of the Grand Army of the Republic held a special meeting last night in the Aldermanic chamber of the City Hall for the purpose of receiving reports from the Sub Committee on Reunion and Gettysburg. Police Commissioner Boll, who presided, said that the first question was as to raising the Halary of the almoner.

Bridge Trustee Riley moved that the salary be $1,000 por annum. And at the suggestion of George 11. Baldwin the amount was fixed at $1,200. The secretary was directed to notify tho commanders of the different posts to collect a per capita tax of 10 cents for the purpose of paying the salary of the almoner. Mortimer C.

Earl read the report of the Itcunion Committee, which was published in the Eagle last Tuesday. Mr. Earl said that the report was adopted by tho committee who passed a resolution requesting tho Committee on Grounds to visit Mr. Euler and try to get the balance due the Memorial Committee. They called on Mr.

Euler Wednesday last and report their conference with him as follows: Your committee called on Mr. Euler on Wednesday evening and explained our business with him. Euler, in a candid and manly manner, explained wliy it would bu an iniusttce and a hardship for the committee to insist upon the full payment of He unhesitatingly produced lus books, with vouchers, showing his receipts and expenses for the two days of the reunion to prove his losses, and said that in making the $1,000 offer he. did not calculate on so many children being admitted by ticket. The result of the conference convinced us that Mr.

Euler had acted more honestly and more liberally with us than we had given him credit for. As a total of 770.75 had been received from him and we have a net balance on hand off L54. 47, after paying ad expenses, we felt that we should not insist, like Shakespeare's Shylock, upon exacting tho pound of llesli called for in the bond. Tbe committee, therefore, unanimously decided not to insist upon a further payment but returned his con tract tuny satisnetl. Mr.

liiley read the report of the Gettysburg Committee as follows: Buooklyn, N. August 1, 1880. To Hit' Memorial and fCrcoitirc. Committee (r. A.

Khitis County, N. Co.MitAPiis Your Committee on Brooklyn Gettysburg day respectfully submit the following report: Acting on the recommendation of this committee, approved by your body, a committee was appointed by the honorable, the Board of Aldermen of Brooklyn, with which this committee met, and after the subject matter of a Gettysburg day had been presented, on there unanimous report iu favor thereof, it was officially uocided by the Board of Aldermen to designate September 2 (Labor day) as Brooklyn Gettysburg day, and the same in due time became a law. The excursion to Gettysburg, arrangements for which are nearly completed, so far as transportation is concerned, will leave Jersey City on spe cial train via I'ennsyfvania uauroau at A. Saturday, August 1, and returning.leavo Gettysburg Monday evening, September 2. Tickets for the same, at the uniform rate of f( for tho round trip (this does not include board and lodging while at Gettysburg), will be ri.ady for delivery commencing August 0', These tickets will bo good on the special or regular trains goiu" August 31 or September 1, and returning until September 4 inclusive.

Tho committee can agree to furnish to oil who may desire it, good, com fortablelndging and hoard while at Gettysburg (faro both ways included), for 10. AN INSURANCE MAXAHER CRAZY. He A cted as i ii Itte lifail IJcen on a Bis Spree. Franklin Whitestone, 3(j years of ago, manager of an insurance company at Eaiislaire, was sent to Bellevuo Hospital, New York, last evening on suNpicion of being insane. He arrived in New York on Friday with H.

B. Wallingsley, of tho same place, and they stopped at tho Fifth Avi nue Hotel. Botli remainod out till a late hour that night and arose late yesterday morning. They left the hotel together and returned short ly before noon. Tho guests in the diningroom noticed that Whitestone was acting in a peculiar manner, but said nothing at the time.

Whitestone and Wallingsley left the hotel short ly afterward and proceeded up Fifth avenue Near Twenty sixth street Whitestone sprang up a stoop and climbed over the railing. This he repeated several times. Officer Kane, of the Broadway Squad, believing lum to be insane took him into custody and led him to the Thirtieth Street Station House. Wallingsley on the way interfered with the policeman and was place under arrest, but was released at the police station. The cierk at the hotel said that White stone acted as though he had Jjeeii on a big spree.

DIED IN A CAB. Apoplexy Carries Off a Voting Cuban Cisrar itlaker. Paul Valnascda, a young Cuban cigar maker, died in a cab in New York yesterday afternoon. He arrived at the Grand Central station by the 4 o'clock train from Saratoga, whero he had heen employed, and engaged Cabman Charles Myers to drive him to 222 East Nh'ty seventh street. Valnascda cheeked his baggage at the Westcott Express office, and then sprang nimbly into the vehicle.

Myers, on reaching the address given him, sprang off his cab and threw open the door. Ar his passenger made no movement to get out, he shook him slightly, thinking tho Cuban had fallen asleep. He then discovered that Valnascda was dead. At tho suggestion of a policeman the cabman took his dead passenger to the Eighty eighth streetstationhou.se. When the body was searched a check for a trunk and JII.OO wero found on him.

The body was sent to tho Morgue, the cause of death was apoplexy. DROWNED LV THE CREEK. While Helping to )'n load a Canal Itoat Johanson Calls Overboard. Julius Johanson, a Swede, aged 10 years, of 7 Washington street, Now York, fell from the canal boat It. D.

Kincaid, moored at Covert's dock, Newtown Creek, at the head of Grand street, into the stream at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was helping to unload timber at the time and lost his balance in crossing from tho boat to the dock. He was pulled out almost immediately, but although two ambulance doctors from St. Catharine's Hospital arrived five minutes after he was taken from tho water and worked over him for nearly two hours and a half, he never recovered consciousness. Coronor Lindsay took charge of the body.

AMERICAN HIIILE SOCIETY. The Committee on Diulribcitioii Ilecom mcmlN Additional Grants. The stated meeting of the Board of Managers was held at the Bible House on Thursday. August William H. Crosby, vice president, in the chair.

Devotional services were conducted by Secretary Hunt. On the recommendation of the Committee on Distribution grants of books wero made to auxil iary societies, mission churches and individuals and consignments to tho Mexican, the Brazil and the La Plata agencies, amounting iu the aggregate to about $11,882. The issues from the Bible House in July were copies; issues since April 1, .114,138 copies. THOMAS IN CHICAGO. Chicago.

Angust 3. With to night's programme the annual five weeks' season of the Theodoro Thomas Orchestra at the Exposition Building, under the management of Mr. Millward Adams, will cioBe in this city. The season has been a very satisfactory one in every way. The attendance has been greater than at any of the former series.

Mr. Thomas and his famous band of musicians will leave for New York on Sunday over the Erie Railroad. MB. CLEVELAND'S LICK WAS TOOR. New Bedford, August 3.

Steam yacht Wanda arrived to day from No Man's Land, where ox President Cleveland tried luck fishing for bass. Ho fished in a catboat from 7:30 till noon, caught nothing and got thoroughly wet. Messrs. Cleveland, Lament and James Woodward landed here in a drenching rain and took the 3 :35 train for Newport. The Wanda will sail for Newport to morrow morning.

of the is in Ian, Can Washington, D. August 3. The Secretary of tho Treasury this afteinoon rendered a decision on tho question submitted to him by the Collector of Customs at Detroit, as to the dtitiablo or non dutiablo character of foreign built railway cars coming into tho United States and Canada laden or for tho purpose of boing laden with mails, passengers, etc The decision is as follows: TnEAKuitv Department, Office of the Secretary. ASHINUTON, August 3, lyuia vior oj vustoms, jjeirou. Slit The department has fully considered the question submitted by you of tho dutiable or non dutiable character of foreign built railway cars coining into the United States and Canada laden, or for the purpose of being laden, with mails, pas buublts, oaggage, express matter, or treignt.

The records of this department show that railway cars engaged in the so called transit trade, partly ovor tho territory of the United States and partly over the territory of Canada, have novor been regarded as importations subject to duty, but simply as vehicles of transportation for tho conducting of an established and legalized traffic. In letters from this department to the president of the New York Central Railway Company, February 2, 1880, to the collector at Port Huron, April 27, 1870, and to the collector at Burling ton, December 3, 1 878, and January 0, 1882, it was nolo tnat sucli practice was not obnoxious to the revenue laws of the United States and did not subject foreign built cars run ning in tlio transit traco between Can ana and tno united (States to duty, since Bcction 3,102, Kevised Statutes, authorizes for eign railway cars laden with importations to enter the United States and proceed to destina tion, ami section itevised Statutes, autlior lzes tlie cars of both countries to engage in inter national traffic and the merchandise so earned to lie treated as "it Hie transportation had taken place entirely within the limits of tho United States." "The principle so adopted and announced has remained iu force for more than twenty years, and does not seem to havo been impeached or quos iioiieo in or uy any statute or otlier congressional action, or any judicial decision or treaty, or any departmental regulation or restriction in all that time, it being considered that the action taken by tho department, January 3, 1880, and which action was recalled ami rescinded heforo the same had taken effect, did nut nmtmnt. to a. disturbance or impeachment of the otherwise unbroken practice. In view of the long settled rule and practice upon the subject, the department does not deem it conformable to the public interest to disturb the decision deliberately readied and repeatedly ailinued, and must hold that the question is no longer open to Administrative construction.

It only remains to advise you that while theso rulings are adhered to in deference to tho reasonable requirements of commerce, not to permit such practice to degenerate into a license for the freo importation of foreign built railway cars into the domestic traffic in the United States under cover of the established usago described in the preceding paragraphs. liespecttully yours, Secretary. THE CULTIVATION OF GRASS. An Interesting Ilnllctin from the partition! of Sericulture. Oe Wasiiinoton, D.

August 3. Dr. Vasey, botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture, has just comploted a new bulletin on tho Kgrioultural grasses of the United States which contains some important information. There ia an interesting chapter upon the cultivation of grass as an agricultural industry, containing many historical facta and numerous practical suggestions. In addition to the scientific description Kivon of each variety or species of grass, the doctor gives considerable information of a more practical naturu in regard especially to those grasses which havo been found by experience to bo the host adapted to the wants of the farmers in different sections of tho country.

Practical suggestions in regard to the quantity of seed required por acre, the date of sowing and tho best time for cutting. The report on the chemical composition of Amorican grasses has also boon reproduced in an appendix to the prcsont bul letin as well as a glossary of the terms used in describing grasses. The bulletin comprises a number of valuable comments, both from botanists and scientific ob servers and from practical farmers giving their opinions and experiences with tho different grasses. Altogether, it is probably the most complete publication on tho grass question yet issued in a practical and convenient form. AT WEST BRIGHTON.

Chief ITIcKano llaidM a Combination Laundry and Opium Joint. Wah Sing is tho euphonious namo of a Chineso laundryman who does up dudes' shirts on Coney Island. He is a man of business ideas who lets no littlo opportunity pass of gathering in Christian quarters. There is not a fortune in linen at West Brighton, for flannels are the style and with some they last tho larger part of tho season. There are othor ways of coining shekels, and Wah Sing has found one of them out.

He has established a little market for opium, and those who want dope can find it there. He has had a good many customers, for a number of (ho performers on the Island are opium "fiends." In the rear of Wah Sing's wash factory was a cosoy little room, and those who had no facilities for smoking at homo wore given accommodations for enjoying the seductive and dangerous pleasure. This came to the cars of the officials, and the result was the arrest of Wah Sing and two compatriots who were chasing a smoothing iron ovor shirt fronts and collars. They were taken to Police Headquarters aud chattered away like a flock of parrots. Sing Lee was summoned from Brooklyn to interpret for theiu and he succeeded in securing an adjournment until August 12.

In tho meantime a number of well known Coney Islanders are worried over the possible prominence to be given them on tlie trial day. BAD FOR THE SUGAR TRUST. Clanti Oprcckcls Propose to Duplicate IU'ih Philadelphia Plant. Philadelphia, August 3. Claus Spreckels, tho great sugar manufacturer, whose mammoth refinery on the Delaware is now one of the landmarks of Philadelphia, has decided to duplicate the plant.

Mr. Sprockets is in Europe with his son Adolph. Claus H. Spreckels, who is associated with his father in tho management of the great refinery has notified the contractor for the construction of the buildings, and George Watson, the general manager of Mr. Spreckels, that the capacity of tho relinory would be doubled.

Tho work of erecting the additional buildings, which will ad join those now in course of construction, and placing in thorn tho necessary machinery, will begin soon. A SDRVEYOR MURPKBED. Pottsville, August 3. A dispatch to tho Evening Chronicle of this city from Black Hannon, W. says: "Richard Winlack, of Middleport, Schuylkill Coun was shot from ambush and instantly killed on Thursday last, while surveying land in llandolph County, W.

in company with surveyors and other parties of that county. His remains were buried on Friday near Queens, Un shiro County. Mr. Winlack was an old and widely known citizen of this counts', and had been sent to the scone of bis assassination to make surveys of coal lands in thointorestof prominent capitalists ot this region." NOT LIKELY TO COMK BACK. Baltimore, Md Aucrust 3.

Bernard Beilly, of Reilly's Hotel, who made a deed of trust 011 Thursday for the benefit of creditors, has left the city and is not likely to return. is said he owes about $5,000, of which $1,425 is for rent due for the hotel premises. is stated that Beilly did not leave empty handed, but that he had about $10,000 in his possession. The hotel was closed up yesterday. BICYCLING AT QUKEHS.

The results of tho bicycling at Queens Athletio Grounds yesterday wero as follows: First heat M. Murphy, K. C. 30 yards, first; A. A.

Zimmerman, F. 44 yards, second; 3:07. Second heat L. L. Clarke, B.

A. 40 yards, first; N. F. Watson, B. 60 yards, second; in 3:07.

Final heat won by C. M. Murphy; L. L. Clarke, second; time 3:11.

The track wan iu good shape IN Sc. 3 He Agreed Not to Molest "Wife or Mr. Nelson. His One of the Democratic Lenders of Port Jefferson Whose Family Affairs Were Not So Smooth as Could be Desired A Deserted Wife and an Obstinate Husband. Special to the Eagle.

Pout Jefferson, August 3. Colonel Louis A. Walker, for many years tho of the local Democracy, has begun proceedings for divorce from his wife, formerly a Miss Safcterly. of Mount Sinai. Tho preliminary papers havo been filed at Itiverhead.

When the case comes to trial it will abound in testimony of circumstances that will serve to direct widespread public attention to a singular affair of domestic infelicity, and will also reveal the eccentric and romantic career of one of the most singular individuals that ever lived on Lour Island. Colonei Walker is very tall and very (jrim and patriarchal in appearance. Ho is (i feet 3 inches in height and about 53 years of age. His countenance is a matchless character study, and has been painted in half profile by a celebrated New York artist. It bears a resemblance to the poDiilar notion of how the Tropliet Jeremiah looked.

His left arm is partly paralyzed and he has a long beard, sharp eyes and a Itonian nose, and invariably wears blue clothes and a black slouch hat. Gloves never contribute to his apparel. Colonel Walker is a son of the late James Walker, who was a very rich New York merchant who had a country place at Jit. Sinai. Jamos Walker married a Miss Satterly, of Mt.

Sinai one of tho Sat terly family who camn over from England and settlod there in KiSlT. Louis Walker, the son, married his mother's niece, and thereon hang some curious between the two families. Louis became his father's nephew as well as his son, and Louis' mother became his aunt in addition to being his mother. Louis has a Hnu and Louis' mother was this son's aunt and grandmother at the same time. wife had an aunt for a mother in law.

Colonel Walker's marriage to Miss Hattorly was against tho strong wishes of her parents anil relatives. Louis was educated in Xew York and grew un to be a wild young man. Tho Satterly family accused him of having a strong strain of cruelty in his blood. After his marriage to DcIiaA. Hat terly, Lou in romovnd to the.

western part of Kansas. Ilis bride was a dark complexioned beauty, of medium figure, line education and vivacious disposition. With Louis to Kansas departod a colony which he had organized in J'ort and Mount Sinai and which comprised many of the then prominent residents of both communities. These natives of J'ort Jefferson and Mount Sinai are now leading and influential citizens of prosperous and wealthy Western cities. Shortly after going to Kansas an Indian war broke out on the frontier and Louis entered the service of the State and was broveted colonel for gallant and distinguished services.

That was the origin of his title. After the war Walker returned to his colony and became interested in enterprises which yielded him a handsome pfnfit and was an important person. He made a trip to New York on business for file colony and on the journey hither, while near St. Louis, he met an engineer who knew his wife and who made to him statements concerning Mrs. 'Walker's conduct during his absence from Kan bRK.

These statements involved a prominent physician. On hearing them Walker turned back, sought the colony, quietly discovered the whereabouts of the physician and soundly thrashed him. He then resumed his journey to New York, after announcing to his wife that he never intended to return to the colony or to support her and her children or have anything to do with them. He left her and her children penniless in Kansas. In New York, after knocking around for awhile, he became the secretary of tho New Vork Dessi cating Company, a company organized for the purpose of supplying the armies in the field in the Itebellion.

The company handled immensu contracts and made great fortunes for its pro motors, and Walker, being tho secretary and having an interest in the business, came in for his share of the spoils and at one time was many thousands of dollars ahead of tho world with every prospect of becoming a millionaire. His habits, however, grew to be irregular. Prosperity turned his head and he was iinally forced out of the company, lost all ins interests in the enterprise and soon spent his savings his easily earned fortune, in the meantime his wife and lier three children came near starving and her father made the long journey from Mount Sinai and brought Iter and the children home again. After being separated from ail connection with the dessicajing company, Walker engaged himself as drummer for a cigar house in New York and peddled cigars among retail stnrukecporH. This occupation being somewhat too prosaic, Colonel alker east about for other employment.

Having not a little of the artist's faculties and Bohemian disposition, he found an opening for his genius with the late Colonel Wood, tho fatuous museum proprietor, who was then conducting phenomenally successful museums in Boston, in Now York ami in Philadelphia. Wood was emulating tire golden example of Mine. Tiissaud and was running an exhibition of plaster of paris busts of distinguished contemporaries. Colonel Walkor entered ids employ as an artist on busts and he soon proved that he could mako as good busts as the public, cared to sec. He displayed pronounced talents as a sculptor.

He grew tired of the job, however, and throw it up at the end of three years, and not being successful in any direction ho grew very poor and drifted back to Mount Sinai, where he was repudiated by his mother, who took sides ith his wife in the controversy between them. Ho stayed around Mount Binai, and is alleged to have acted iu somewhat of a disorderly mannor. Not being able to buy a house or to makeup with his wife's people, Colonel Walker obtained possession of an abandoned scow in Mount Sinai harbor and built himself a house thereon. The boat was about thirty feet in length, One end of it was water logged and rested lower in the wator than tho other end, in which was the cabin. The scow was built on the old fashioned pattern.

Here, in the cabin of the scow in Mount Sinai, Colonel Walker lived constantly, doing his own washing and cooking and seeming to enjoy his singular modo of existence. After living five years in Mount Sinai harbor, tho, colonel pulled op stakes one day, figuratively speaking, and paddled his liouso around tho cape and into Port Jefferson Bay, where ho anchored for two weeks ff Smith's Orchard. His son ltobert makes a iomfortablo living by furnishing water to the yachts in the harbor, and is engaged to an estimable young lady of this place Ever since his reappearance in his native community Colonel Walker has been prominent in Democratic politics, and he has long been regarded as one of the leaders. He is a fluent talker and a man of bright and original ideas. He was tho leader and champion of what was long known as the Freo Bay movement.

This was a movement to mako the splendid oyster beds free in Port Jefferson Bay and in Great South Bay, which is situated in Port township, on the opposite side of Long island. The township derives more than three quarters of its revenues from the rent of the oyster beds in these two bays, and the Free Bay movement was bitterly opposed for years and received its death blow last Fall, when it was finally defeated at the polls. The issue was protracted and kept politics at fever heat in this community for a long period. Recently Colonel Walker abandoned his scow and went to live iu a substantial house built on tho site of the old scow's anchorage by his son Robert. Since his separation from his wife tho colonel haB professed to havo become a confirmed woman hater.

Mrs. Walker, after returning with her father from Kansas, opened a boarding house in Mount Sinai and then removed to this village, where she also kept a boarding house. Among her boarders was Peter Nelson, who is said to have fallen in love with Mrs. Walker. Colonel Walker makes him tho corespondent in his suit.

One day Helacm went into Christopher Down's ualoon in the was That Caused Charles Mills to be Sent to State Prison? A Case Which is Now Arousing Much Interest in Babylon Mistaken Identity May Have Done an Innocent Man a Great Wronar. Special to the Eagle. Bahvlo.v, L. August 3. Every day adds to the interest that is felt by the peoplo of Babylon and vicinity iu the hard lot of Charles Mills, a young colored man, who bore a good reputation until ho was sentenced to tho State Prison for a crimo against the dignity of a white girl, Miss Carrie Leron, formerly of Breslau.

Charles Mills always protested hia in nocence of the offense, and a great many peoplo believed him innocent and tried to help him prove it. Ho was indicted on the unquestioned word of Miss Leron, who was positive in her identification, notwithstanding Mills had a brother so nearly like him they could hardly bo distinguished when apart. Mills, on the trial, testified in his own behalf and accounted for his whereabouts remarkably well. To some extent he was corroborated in the effort to prove an alibi. Tho Jury disagreed.

Mills was defended by ox Judge llcid, the persons who believed in tho innocence of the accused having retained him. Lawyer lieid, who all along held his client guiltless, was so thoroughly convinced of it by the proof at tho trial that he confidently antici pated his acquittal when next a jury came to consider tho case. This might have been the case had not tho public mind becomo inflamed on tho subject of the perpetration of crime by negroes by the manifold revealed brutalities of Charles H. Rugg, who murdered tho Mnybco women, would have killed Mr. Maybce had he not been blind and came near taking the lives of Mr.

and Mrs. James Townscnd and Scaley Sprague. On the second trial of Mills ho was convicted and sentenced to five years and six months' imprisonment. Doubtless tho Kugg terrorizing had something to do with clinching tho verdict. No attompt was ever made to get a new trial for Charles Mills, but appeals have been mado to Governor Hill by persons of influence who still believe the young man innocent to grant him a pardon, but the Governor has not yet seen his way clear to doing so, and Mills is serving the State in the; prison at Auburn.

His term will expire by limitation two years hence. Interest in the case is heightened and tho belief in Charles Mills' innocence intensified by the arrest of bis almost twin brother. Ephraim Mills, for an offense like unto that charged against Charles by Miss Leron. Ephraim's victim was a mulatto girl, Delia Jackson. She knew Ephraim very well and there was no doubt about his identification.

He ran away to escape arrest, armed to resist the officers, and kept to the woods for a fortnight. He was starved out of hiding and went to R.j II. Hanley's country seat at Hop pague to beg victuals. Mills told Mr. Hanley's coachman, George Johnson, that he was going to Smithtown to work on a farm.

Jonhsou took Mills into the kitchen and gave him a hearty breakfast. Johnson had read of a reward for a negro's arrest, and concluding that Mills was the man wanted, obtained the assistance of two stable employes, and fchcy soon had Mills bound hand and foot and on his way to Babylon for identification. Tho negro proved to bo Mills, and Coachman Johnson received tho reward of on the spot. Now everybody believes that Ephraim who is married and has a family, was guilty of tho crimo for which Charles Mills is suffering imprisonment. When Charles was on his way to the prison at Sing Sing he said to tho officer: "It would not surprise mo a bit to learn that Eph assaulted tho girl, and I believe it will come out some day.

I don't want to accuse him because he has Just been married, and I can stand it because I know that the people of Babylon believe me innocent." Ephraim Mills' wife has frequently remarked to tho neigh bora: "Charley Mills was innocent. I know who the guilty man Mas. It wasn't Charley." She sometimes cried when talking of tho case and she frequently coercod her husband into treating her with little consideration by threatening him in this form: "You keep right on, Eph Mills, and some day I'll tell a story that will put you whero thero arc no women for you to beat." There is every probability that Mrs. Mills referred to the maltreatment of Miss Loron. She could not use such language to her husband and mean anything else, coupled with her con fession to the noighbors of knowledge of the real criminal.

The effort to establish the innocence of tho man now in the State prison will be renewed. It would hardly be a surprise were Ephraim Mills to make a clean breast of the Leron affair by taking the whole blame upon himself. And it is not doubted that sooner or later Mrs. Mills will tell all that she knows. It, is past question that Ephraim will go to prison for a term of years for the attack he made on Delia Jackson.

THE NATIONAL LINE CENSURED. mm. O'Donncil'N Child Was Sadly Neg lected by the Surgeon. Tho Emigration Commissioners in New York yesterday mailed the following letter to the Na tional Steamship Company: New York, August 3, 1880. 1 W.

J. Hurst, Rational Line Steam shin Coniuiinu. Acio or: Cilu: Deaii Sin A complaint was presented to tho Commi sioners ot liniigration, on the first in. stant. by certain immigrant, passengers who ar rived by the steamship England, of which a copy is inclosed herewith.

Your representative, as well as the captain, surgeon and chief steward of tho steamer wero present at, the investigation. which was held yesterday, and their statements, as well as that of the complainants, were heard, while the complaint as to the inferior quality of the food furnished, and as to imoroner berthing was not sustained, vet the complaint tyat ttie surgeon ot tlie steamer was negligontin hiN treatment of the child of Mrs. ODonnellwas fully corroborated and tho commissioners believe him censurable therefor. The inquiry developed the facts that tho surgeon hail neglected to see to it tnat tno nourishing tooa Inch lie ordered tor the child had boon properly prepared, and he tailed to attend tlie child the night, before it died, although lie had been requested by O'Donnell to do so, and had been notified during the night of the critical condition. Although the printed hand bills of your company set, iortli that a stewardess would bo carried on the steamers ol your line, there was no stewardess on the Lngland, and the captain states that this was his second voyage without one.

When there are a number of women anil children to be cared tor during the voyage it seems to the Commissioners that the services of a stewardess on shipboard is indispensable, and they earnestly recommend to your company that a stewardess be hereafter employed. Hie Commissioners re quest that you will uriug the suDjeet ot these complaints to the notice of your compan', with the recommendation that the matters complained be remedied. Yours respectfully, E. L. Ridowav, 1'resident.

Mrs. O'Donnell came to this country on the England to join her husband, who resides in Long Island City. Her child died on the trip over. A SALOON BURGLARIZED. About 3 o'clock yesterday morning Patrolman Quinn, of the Thirteenth Precinct, found the door of John Lubiu's saloon, 833 Myrtle avenue, open aud the money drawer missing.

This, on further search, was found on the opposite side of street. About $10 had been abstracted. It supposed that the thief had concealed himself the bowling alley under the bar room during Friday evening. THE POLICE AND THE GOAT. The police of the Thirteenth Precinct are enjoying the luxury of goat's milk.

A very fine black and white nanny wandered into the station house yesterday morning and seems quite at homo. A UTTLK ROT DBOffNED. Wilmington. N. 0., August 3.

Eddie Donlan, the 9 year old son of Mr. P. Don was drowned in the river hero this afternoon. His body was recovered an hour after the. accident ty, It It Dashing Henry C.

Lewis' Marriage Proves to be a Failure. His Wife, the Vivacious Miss Louise R. Quentin, Has Him Arrested on a Charse of Xon Support Letters from Stage Struck Women Cause Trouble in His Household. Henry Carl Von der Luhe is the aristocratic patronym of a. young man of this city, who, when his turned to the stage as a profession about ten years itgo, assumed the more enphonhm name of Henry Carl Lewis.

He is about years old, of medium size, dark hair, with a tendency to curl, a small but well trimmed black mustache, snapping eyes of the same color, and a general air about him which would convince anybody that he is well able to take care of himself. Mr. Von der Luhe or Lewis' line of stagework is in character parts of a romantic order. Ho is prepossessing, of a dashing turn, and has always been successful iu his work. For a season or two lie played tho part of the manly but reckless gambler iu the ''Golden Giant Mine," and proved an excellent foil for the piquant and vivacious style of Mrs.

McKeo llankiu, who starred in the play. Ho invested his character with such romantic ardor that he invariably received tho plaudits of an admiring audience whenever the villain of the play received his deserts at his hands. Mr. Lewis is a son of Mrs. Margaret B.

Von der Luhe, one of the foremost women medical practitioners of the country. His sister Amelia graduated last Spring with high honors from a me ileal college. When ins professional en gagements permit, Mr. Lewis, as he is best known, lives with his mother, at 2S(j Driggs street, in the Eastern District, in a roomy and well and luxuriously appointed house. Mr.

Lewis is at present undergoing the delight iul tribulations of a domestic broil. His presence was required at the Vorkville police court in New York this morning to answer to his wife's complaint of abandonment She is known to theater goers as Louise Kate Quentin Lewis, has enjoyed considerable popularity and is a good looking blonde of fine figure. She is of English origin, and came to this country about fifteen years ago, appearing first as the star of a light opera company, which played a repertoire comic operas, and bore her name. She succumbed to the blandishments of Mr. Lewis, and last August, as Mr.

Lewis says, they were iu wedlock. At present Mrs. Lewis resides at 115 West Fifty second street, New York, and her opinion as to tho much mooted question as to whether mar riago is or is not a failure leans very much to tho former view. In her complaint Mrs. Lewis says that the defendant never did much, if anything, toward her support and preferred the societj of women of a doubtful character.

She put up with this for somo time, and when he saw that she was possessed of unmistakable proofs of his infidelity he left her. The parting was made at a time when she was least able to earn money for her own support. It was in December last. She, however, secured an engagement with Barry it Fay's comedy combination and afterward with Dixey's "Adonis Company. She remained with this organization and appeared nightly until four days before her baby was born.

Threo weeks thereafter she secured a warrant for her husband's arrest. Mrs. Lewis claims that tho marriage ceremony was performed in July, 1 888. After deserting her, she says, Mr. Lewis traveled through the State with tho Golden Giant Mine Company anil drew f40 per week, and afteuward traveled through other States.

She also says that while leaving her destitute and sick, he made presents to a lady member of the troupe he was with and was intimate with another actress of the company. Another particular friend of Lewis, who signs the letters she writes him "Queenic," is said to be in Troy, N. Y. The accused husband dcnicR the stories and snys that at present he has no engagement and consequently no cash or income. When arrested ho was bailed by his mother, who gavo her Brooklyn residence as a security.

A reporter of the Eaole found Mr. Lewis at 280 Driggs street last evening. He said that he was sorry for his relatives' sake more than his own that the affair had become public. Concerning the charges made by his wife he did not care to either affirm or deny thorn, Being urged to say something, he said: "If the public desires to beliovo my wifo's story, well and good. Let them do so.

Sho is my wife, and I am manly enough not to say anything which would put a different phase on the whole thing. The matter in a nutshell is that I do not, and will not, iive with her. I am perfectly willing to pay toward her support, as I am in honor bound to do, but the law cannot compel me to live with her. I desired to make an amicable settlement of the case, but sho refused, and it seams, she desires to make tho matter common talk. I told her I wished to tako care of the child and would see that it received proper care, a good education and a good home.

My folks wero willing to do this but she utterly refused her assent to the arrangement, and what can I do? She could Becure an engagement for the coming season, be relieved of the child's care and worry, and I would give hor money for her support beside. I made myself sick by worrying over the business recently and was brought home to my parents' residence, where I could not be harassed by my wife's persecutions. My lawyers at my instigation wrote to her counsel offering support, but they were out of town at the time that a reply was made to their offer and my wife's lawyer got in a huff and brought these proceedings." The reporter then inquired as to charges concerning Quecnie and tho other ladies. Mr. Lewis laughed in a sarcastic manner, and said: "My part calls for a romantic and catchy get up, which the female auditors sympathize with.

Like many other actors, I have received letters addressed to me at the stage door of the theater where I was playing, which asked for an interview or an acquaintance. I generally got them just before I was called upon to as sumo my duties, and would throw them aside in the hurry and scurry of tho moment. My wife got possession of them and looked at them in a far different Jifht than I did. The whole thing, however, is nothing else than a common domestic difficulty, and as I said before, I am ready to assume her support with all willingness. I was foolish like many other young men, and now I am suffering for my folly.

At all events I will do my duty as I am required both by law and honor and that is all there is in it. STRUCK WITH A BASE BALL BAT. While playing a game of ball at Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Eighteenth street, New York, yesterday, Charles Strittman accidentally struck 10 year old William Abbott in the face with a bat. Abbott was sent to the Manhattan Hospital suffering from severe injuries. LOADED FOK SMOKE.

Andrew J. Anderson. "years old, of 4S2 Belmont avenue, was arrested Ia evening by Officer Walker, of the Fifteenth Precinct, as he was leaving Woodruff's stores. He had in his possession 5G0 packages of cigarettes, valued at 120. He would not explain how he got them.

SKKfiEANT HAMILTON IS CHARGE. Captain Stephen Martin, of the Thirteenth Pre ciiut, is enjoying his vacation in the Catskills and Sergeant Smith, who took his place, having been taken ill yesterday, the precinct is in charge Sergeant John M. Hamilton. HUOWKED IX KKWT0WX CREKK. Julius Johnson, aged 10 years, of 7 Washington street, New York, was drowned yesterday in Newtown Creek.

His body was recovered. WASHINGTON MEMORIAL ABH FUND. The fund for the Washington Memorial Areh in Now York now amounts to $46,007.41. It his SUNDAY Generally lair. POST INVENTORY SALES.

THE HALF YEAKLT TASK OF TAKING UP STOOK IS OVER. MONDAY WE SHALL OPEN THE POST INVENTORY SALES OF EVERYTHING SUMMERY. PRUDENT HOUSEWIVES WILL UNDERSTAND THE FOROE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. 250 PIECES SUPERIOR DRESS CHEVIOTS. PIirOE HAS RECENTLY JUMPED UP ON RAW WOOL IN EUROPE.

WOOLEN DKESS FABRICS OF EUROPEAN MILLING FOR NEXT FALL WILL APPRECIABLY ADVANCE. BUT WE'RE AHEAD OF CIRCUMSTANCES AGAIN. LAST MAY PLACED ORDERS FOR SIX LINES OF SUPERIOR EARLY FALL DRESS CHEVIOTS, CHOICE IN WEAVE AND UNIQUE IN PATTERNS, OF STRIPES, CHECKS. PLAIDS AND HAIR LINES. 44 INCHES WIDE.

BEFORE NEWS OF THE RISE IN PRICE OF WOOL REACHED US WE HAD ARRANGED TO RETAIL THEM AT 75c. BUT JUST TO DO THE UNCOMMON THING. THAT IS, WHEN RATES RISE ELSEWHERE, DOWN THEY GO IN THE STORE. IF ONLY TO BE ODD. COMMENCE MONDAY.

IF YOU LIKE, BUYING UP THE MAKINGS OF A FALL DRESS FROM THESE 75o. CI1EVIOTS AT 30c. A YARD. Dross Goods lolt, center. ENGLISH MANUFACTURERS' SAMPLES OF WOMEN'S AND MEN'S STOCKINGS, SOX AND UNDERWEAR.

AN IMPORTANT SALE IN ITS WAY. CHANCE AND READY MONEY SECURED YESTERDAY AN EXTENSIVE M. SO EL LAN ECUS COLLECTION OF ENGLISH STOCKINGS AND MEN'S SOX AND MEN'S UNDERWEAR. THE WOMEN'S GOODS CONSIST OF COTTON, LISLE THREAD. GA.V.1MERK AND SILK STOCKINGS.

THEY'RE IN PLAIN AND FANCY EFFECTS, SOME ARE SEASONABLE WEIGHTS. SOME AREN'T, BEING OF A HEAVIER WEIGHT. NONE IN THE COLLECTION WORTH LESS THAN c. A PAIR. MOSTLY WORTH 75c, 85c.

AND 31.2.5 HOW'LL THEY SOUND AT iiOc. FOR THE COTTON AND 50c. A PAIR FOR ALL THE REST? THE MEN'S GOODS CONSIST OF COTTON. LISLE, SILK AND CASHMERE, IN FANCIES AND PLAINS, ASSORTED WEIGHTS, NONE WORTH LESS THAN 31C. AND THEY RUN AS HIGH AS SIU.S A PAIR, WILL THE CO'ITON AND LISLEONES SUIT AT inc.

A PAIR. MERINO AND CASHMERE ONES AT JOa. A PAIR AND THE SILK ONES AT 50c. A PAIR? THE MEN'S UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS. ALL ARE WINTER WEIGHTS.

STRIPED AND WHITE AND MIXED: WORTH FROM $2.75 TO $3.7. EACH. HOW'LL THESE APPEAR AT S1.75 RACiHV HuBiury front, right. MONDAY'S NEW PRICES FOR LADIES' WAISTS AND SUITS. HOUSE, TENNIS AND OUTDOOR BLOUSES TO EE DISPOSED OF FOR LESS THAN LITTLE LADIES' 81.08 JERSEY CLOTH BLOUSES, ASSORTED COLORS IS OSc.

LOW ENOUGH MISSES' $1.25 JERSEY CLOTH BLOUSES. COLORS SAY FOR THESE 6i)C LADIES' FLANNEL LACED FRONT BLOUSES, SAILOR COLLARS, STRIPES AND PLAIN, NAVY RICH VALUE FOR FOR THESE 31 25 LADIES' $2.00 FLANNEL BLOUSES SAY FOR THESE LADIES' $3.50 FINE FLANNEL BLOUSES THESE WE'LL RETIOKET AT 42 25 LADIES' SUPERIOR FRENCH FLANNEL "1B4 25 BLOUSES TO BE LADIES' 3.S.50 SILK BLOUSES DOES il US SEEM LOW ENOUGH? LADIES' 410.50 SILK BLOUUKS TO BE BUT 83.50 LADIES' WHITE LAWN MOTHER HUBBARD WRAPPERS SPLENDID VALUE FOR SI. 75. SAY FOR THESE 08o LADIES' 42.50 LINE OF LAWN WRAPPEUS.S1.4:$ LADIES' $0.50 TO $10.50 GINGHAM AND SATEEN SUITS, $4.00 EACH. LADIES' $12.50 AND $15.00 LINES OF HANDSOMELY TRIMMED SATEEN SUITS, FAREWELL PRICE OF $0.00 EACH.

and Kuits second floor. 10c. STANDARD CALICOES 4Kc A YARD. MONDAY THE 20 INCH STANDARD 10c. OALI COES 40 IN ORDER TO CLOSE OUT THE BALANCE ON HAND OF OUR DOMESTIC SATINES WE WILL MARK THEM DOWN TO 12MC YARD.

FINE DOMESTIC GINGHANS (NEW GOODS. 12Hc GRADE, YOURS FOR 8c. A YARD. ODDS AND ENDS IN SCOTCH GINGHAMS. 300.

TO 50c. GOODS FOR 10c. AND 25c. YARD. WasIi Goods main aisle, rsur.

SUMMER SMOULDER COVERS. 100 HAND EMBROIDERED MERINO FIOHUS, HAND KNOTTED, SILK FRINGE. LARGE SIZE, WITH OR WITHOUT BEADS, PRICE $4.50: MONDAY 83.25 25 HAND EMBROIDERED DRAP D'ETE FICHUS, LARGE SIZE HAND CUT BEADS. WERE $20.00: MONDAY $10.00 100 HONEYCOMB SHOULDER SHAWLS, COLORS, WHITE, CARDINAL, SKY AND ROSE. VALUE $1.35: FOR $1.00 400 FRENCH CASHMERE SHAWLS, COLORS WHITE.

CARDINAL, ECRU, ROSE AND BLACK, FOR 000. Shawls fourth floor. BLACKS CLOSE OUT. TO HERE ARE THREE UNEXPECTED SURPRISES BLACK DRESS GOODS: MOHAIR LACE GRENADINE, 45 INCH WIDE, IN CHECKS AND STRIPES, TO CLOSE, 28c. PER YARD.

IMPORTED MOHAIR BRILLIANTINE, HIGH LUSTER. 38 INCH WIDE. THE 75c. QUALITY FOR. 50c LUPIN'S ALL WOOL NUN'S VEILING, WITH SIDE BANDS FOR TRIMMING, 48 INCH WIDE, THE $1 QUALITY FOR 600 Black Dress Goods left aisle, rear.

AMONG THE NOTIONS. 10c. TO 25c. STOCKINET SHIELDS, 10c, AND 12C A PAIR. 12c.

TO 25c. CURLING IRONS. 0c, loo. AND. 18c.

EACH. ENGLISH PINS, ASSORTED SIZES, 4c. A PACKAGE. 35c. SILK SPOOL CABINETS, 20o.

EACH. 20c. PEARL BUTTONS, ALL SIZES, 10c. A TWO DOZEN CARD. Notions left, front, WEOHSLER ABRAHAM.

entrances, Fulton su, Gallatin plaee, Livingston it. Brooklyn, N. Y. Brooklyn, T. will never do her bodily harm whatsoever, and further I promise that I will iive apart from the said, Delia A.Walker, and not annoy or molest her in any way until such time as a divorce can be granted between us by the proper court.

l. s.l Lours A. WAi.KKit. Witness: Daniel II. Buckingham.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this Sth day of February, 18H0. Da.NIKI. M. BlK'HINdHAJI, Justice of the Peace. The above affidavit was as absurd as it was illegal, and as ambiguous as it was uugrammat ic.il.

If beats anything that ever emanated from a rural magistrate's sanctum. It was absurd because it made Walker promise to leave his wife and Nelson alone only unlil there was a divorce, after which be might thrash both of them if he so desired. It was illegal because it connived at divorce and pretended to imply that Walker would not oppose an action brought by his wife, in other words was an invitation to her to sue and a promise that she would be unopposed. Its ambiguous and ungrammatical construction is apparent throughout. It was like old Mr.

Van Cott's What Is It? at Oyster Bay. Mrs. Walker and two of her children have moved to Providence, It. and Nelson, who is a ship carpenter, is said to have gone with her. In hi.s preparations for his suit Colonel Walker has frequently walked from here to Kiverhead, twenty five miles distant, to consult his counsel, Lawyer Timothy M.

Griffin. The statement that Griffin is his lawyer is mado by the. colonel. Colonel Walker is a character in more ways than one. He is a distinguished looking individual.

He would attract universal attention on Broadway, with his tall body and dignified gait. He has made plaster of paris busts of a number of the villagers, who keep them on exhibition on center tables in their parlors and esteem them highly as works of art. They are unquestionably superior productions. The colonel has invented a wooden frame which he places over a person's head, thus enabling him fo take a cast without subjecting tho victim to the usual ordeal of lying in bed while the cast is being made, Tho colonel has also invented a self puckering string for tobacco bags, which keeps the tobacco from coming out. Pierre Lorillard is said to hare paid him $1,500 for this invention.

The colonel has many traits in common with Colonel Mulberry Sellers, lie lian always a number of gigantic schemes on hand. A LINEMAN'S PERILOUS POSITION. Ho Sill On a ire Was JfilCOIlNCioilN. IEeiicEcrctl While Michael F. Fitznatrick, a lineman in the employ of the United States Illuminating Company, was engaged yesterday in repairing a wire of that company on the pole at the southwest corner of Stanton street and tho Bowery, New York, he accidentally sat upon another wire transmitting an alternating current anil was instantly made unconscious from the shock.

He fortunately managed to grasp one of tho arms of the polo and fell backward upon the network of wires, which prevented him from falling to the ground. Fitzpatrick became conscious in a moment, but found that ho could not stir hand or foot and shouted feebly for help. Several of his associates were working near by and they ran to tho rescue of their injured comrade. He was, however, wholiy unable to extricate himself from Ids perilous position and tliey were compelled to lower him from his lofty perch by the means of ropes. An ambulance was called and he was removed to Goiiverneur Hospital.

After remaining an hour in tho hospital ho left and returned to his post. He was still very weal; and said that ho suffered excruciating internal pains. LETTERS DELAYED IX NEW YORK. An Unprecedented Btiiliix of mail iu the Pone Office Owing to an almost unprecedented influx of mail matter at the New York Post Office on Friday, caused by the arrival of unusually heavy domestic mails, including those delayed by the Hoods at various points, there was great but unavoidable delay in the delivery of letters, especially of those brought by the steamship Britannia which filled no less than 050 sacks. The total number of letters (exclusive of printed matter) received for city delivery was about 580,000, of which 37,000 were of foreign origin, 383,000 domestic and 100,000 mailed locally for city deliveiy.

The entire force of clerks was retained on duty long after the regular hours, but in spite of their efforts it was impossible to dispose of the enormous mass of mail matter satisfactorily, the number of clerks which the Postmaster has authority to employ being wholly insufficient. Postmaster Van Cott holies that as soon as the additional number which has lately been allowed by the Postmaster Oenera) can be appointed am) become familiar with their duties, it will be possible to avoid delays even under such exceptional circumstances as those abovo mentioned. DECLINE I.V HIMIGRATI0.V. European Uoveriimouls Now Keeping Their Subject at UHoiiie. During tho last month immigrants were landed at Castle Garden, against in July, .1888.

Every month this year lias been marked by a gradual decline in European immigration. Many theories are advanced for the cause. Owing to tho reduction of the surplus population of several countries in Europe by the immigration of past years, extra inducements are said to have been made by foreign mouarchs to keep theirsnbjects within their native domains. The difficulties encountered by many immigrants in finding employment hero and the new indnce cements offered to settlers by various South American governments, arc other reasons put for the decline. A RED WHISKERED STRANGER Who Took in Youar Nouli Slieppnrd With an lt1 ItoilRe, A man with red whiskers and mustache stopped Noah Sheppard, 14 years old, of Broadway, yesterday afternoon at the corner of Washington and Water streets and asked him if he wanted to earn 50 cents.

The boy replied that he was willing. The man said that he wanted him to take a message to 00 Front street, and asked Noah if he had change of a dollar. The boy had only 50 cents, which the man took, saying that he would give him a dollar when he returned. The hoy took the message, but when he got back the man had disappeared. The stranger was about 40 years old, 5 feet (i inches in height, and wore seedy black clothes.

FINED $25 FOB KILLING A CAT. Henry Hildebraud, of 11. 'i Diamond street, arrested by Officer Denyse, of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was yesterday afternoon fined Wo by Justice Goetting. Hilderbrand, it was proved, struck a cat with his umbrella and then set on a dog, who worried and mangled her to death. A 8ERVAXT CHARGED WITH THKFT.

Hentor George, a colored servant, 25 years old, arrested yosterday afternoon by Detective Sergeants Delehanty and Shaughnessy, of the Fourth Precinct, on a charge of Btealing $34 from her employer, Mrs, M. E. of 251 Cumberland street, of i.