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BIUTAB? NOTES. appeared In the wilderness of brlok and mortar of thla great elty. It went at furious pace, and in it then seems to be no doubt that the bells of Fort Hamilton JOURDAN. MUNICIPAL. ELOPEMENT.

1 O'CLOCK MOT COURT NEWS. BRUTALLY BEATER. An InoffonslTe Cltiaen Insulted na Abused bra Onagot Qoorba Ea rTeW York. Lost night, at a late hoar, Isaao Van Siolea was in ths saloon of Mr. Fits Debbe, corner of Liberty avenue and Monroe street.

But New York, when Mtobasl Brown and a number of companions entered and aakod him to drink. He refused, and they then demanded that fa treat. Ho declined to have anything to do with them, and they then began to upbraid him and oaU him name. Mr. Debbe, finding the hour late, and that tbs party were likely to quarrel, told them thoy had better go home.

Van Biolen thereupon went out, and Brown and bis gang followed him. When they reached the sidewalk, one of the most disorderly of the roughs approached Van Stolen, and, eelxtng htm, told him be was a dspnty sheriff, and that he meant to arrest bim. It is supposed that the fellow who did this is a friend of Brown, who was formerly a sheriff's deputy, and was relieved of hie badge for disgraceful conduct and ths most flagrant abuse of his authority. Vsn Slclen replied that if he had done aught to merit arreat he was willing to submit to it, but, natnrally enough, expressed ignorance of any charge against him. Brown, it is said, (ben struck him and the blow knooked him to the sidewalk.

The whole gang then set upon bim and beat him about the head and body in a horrible manner. When they had finished their merciless work they left him lying in the gutter. When he recovered consciousness he made his way to the cars and In a half erased condition got on board of one of them that was going to the city. After the car started the conductor saw that he was bleeding profusely and when he came opposite the Twelfth Freolnct Station he gave the Injured man in charge of tho polloe. Bis wounds were dressed by Dr.

Sydney and afterward Roundsman Carney brought him to his home in East Hew York, whore he now lies in a prostrate condition. Brown was arrested last night and tho police are in search of the rematuderot.the gang. ton Street, feet 0 inches west from northwest corner Stockton street and Lewis avenue; thence west along SfodKon street. 4 OS feet 7 inches, thenoe north at right angles tt Btookton street, 100 feet; thence west 35 feetandthenoo north again at right angles to Btookton street, 100 feet, to Floyd street, to point or place of beginning. Bubjepf to mortgage of ij.000, dated March 18, 187, Bar Usa of first part; also to sewer aasaaamenbi.

Party of second part agrees to fill in lota to. sewer level under penalty of damages. Emu Joubdah and I Full Cor. Warr. Deed 'sura Jouboabt dated January IS.

1876. to I Aok? February 4, 1B7I JTbohas i. Moons. Consideration, tkooo. BvThe difference in the price paid for the lota and the Prio for which they, were sold tiro years subsequently, When real estate had greatly depreciated everywhere! rw assist yon to dsoids this point.

Sou can also decide whether the mere filling of the lota to the sewer level would have enhanced their value. I mar also state that I have learned from the beat aouroea of information that lots in the vicinity were worth in Haroh, 1874, osrtalnly not lesa than they were aold for in January, 1870. Ton are likewise competent to judge of the propriety of General Jourdan'a speculating in lota whioh ware under the ban of a Board of whioh he waa a member. KEEPING) AN IMPBOPEB PEBSON IN OTEIOB. Second General Jourdan' shielded and kept In office an employe of the Board of Health who was known to bim to be so habitually negligent of his duties that the sanitary operations of the Board were materially retarded and interfered with, snd in one instance he compromised ths Board by serious error (f) msds in issuing a permit to slaughter cattle.

This man was got rid of only after formal ohargea of his misconduct were ready to be proved in public session of the Board. No officer oould be removed without cause. In the protection of this man, and in other appointments, the sanitary interests of tho publio which General Jourdan was, in duty bound to protect, were invariably made aeoondary to personal and pobtlcal considerations. Whether this course of conduct shall bo regarded as simple treachery in a publio offtclal, and should be fatal to hia success in regard to the office now vacant, you are quite capable of deoiding. Possibly it would not be repeated.

I have very reluctantly emerged from my place as a private citizen to present for your consideration the above facta, which appear to influence materially an Important publio interest tbst is now at stake. To mute allegations against the character ot a fellow oiti xen and to be prepared to substantiate them is by no means an agreeable duty, and is far from congenial to my tastes, and I beg to assure you that nothing but a stern sense of duty to the publio and to yon, as their representative, oould have induced me to occupy the position of an accuser at this time. Very respectfully yours, Jo. 0. Htrraaisotr.

479 Cuhtom Avmros, July 14, 1876. A Statement by Dr. Joseph C. Batchl ton, To an Eaqle representative, last night, Dr. Joseph 0.

Hutchison made the following statement about Joordan's attempted rejoinder to the charges of improper speculations and abuse of position made and sustained against him: Jourdan admits all the facts, whioh are likewise proved by the offloial records, and wherein Jonrdan seeks to qualify the details, he is guilty of eomplote falsehood, and wherein he seeks to account for my aotion he simply invents his statements and knows that he invent! them. The Health Board reoorda show three or four formal complaints against the lots as nuisances, la addition to the oonatant informal complaints against them. Mr. Langford's alleged statement of there being but one complaint Is tnoorreot, aa Mr.L. can satisfy himself of by examination.

When Jourdan harrassed the lots out of the widowed owners, at $31,000 leas than he disposed of them for, complaints against the Iota had proceeded to a prosecution at law in the name of ths Health Board; the widowed owners were being sued, and it waa Juat at that time, that Jourdan, in his position as member of the Health Board, secured the lots, conoealed hia possession of them for a long time from his associates, and smuggled in on the deeds the name ot his wife, ao that he could deny that he owned them. The act securing the employment of Shea aa garbage collector waa carried by the vote of Jourdan, and while so employed the lots were filled by Shea to the sower level with garbage, and the work was supervised by policemen detailed to the spot, Jourdan being owner of the lots and President of the Police Board at the tune. My vote did afterward break the contract with Bhea, for cause. Jourdan'a attempt to confound the employment of Shea secured by his vote with his dismissal Becured by mine, is elmply characteristic. Anyone who turns up the surface of the lots will see that the garbage there is even thicker than the affidavits Jourdan engages to seoure'among bis kind, to the contrary effect.

The facts speak for themselves. I was not a member of the Board of Police to whioh Dr. Bush more appUod to be made PoUoo Surgeon. I never requested any one in the Polloe Department to support Dr. Bushmore, because, being aaaoolated with me in praotloe, the propriety of the situation forbade my doing anything of the kind.

Mr. McEelway, to my knowledge, never thought in ths remotest way of seeking the Secretaryship of tho Health Board. I never thought or apoke of him to any person at any time for such a position or any other. The implication of Jourdan as to myself, Dr. Bushmore and Mr.

MoKelway is entirely false in all respects, aa he ie pert ecUy aware. It is therefore not surprising that he indulges It. Dr. Conkling and myself did not, as members of the Health Board, oppose the appointment of Dr. Van Cleef, a homeopathio practitioner, on account of the school to which he belongs.

Our point waa that he be not made a full inspector at the first, over the heads of five or more assistant inspectors of long service, who had earned promotion. We were willing for Dr. Van Cleef to begin as the others had, as an assistant, and as the others had, to be pushed ahead in due course of promotion. It is sufficient to say that tho drunken and Inoompeient employe, foisted on the Board by Jourdan, could not bo removed unless for cause, and after trial in open Board, or otherwise got rid of, except he resigned. Jourdan engaged to secure his resignation, but really acted to continue bim in place untU ohargea were prepared, and were about to be pressed, when he secured the resignation without apparent difficulty.

The progress ioade by the boys of the Thirteenth Begtmoht Cadet Corps in military drill and ef Ictency has been moat and reflects tha ughest praise upon the Committee ot Offleera of whioh Captain Noah L. Cocheu la Chairman having the organisation In charge. The weekly drill hare been dispensed with for tho Summer, to be resumed tha first Saturday In October. Some of the older organi aatlona in tho Second Division will havo to see to it that "the boys" do not eclipse them. Hie beautiful engraving, "The First Shot for Liberty, bas been presented to Captain Beadle's commend, by ono of the honorary members, snd adorns company handsomo quarters tn the Thirteenth Regiment Armory.

The ranka of this command are being recruited from the Hill aeotlon. a number of young men having rooemly bcoome identified with the organization representing the first families of Brooklyn The Fourth of July and Centennial parades havo aroused an enthusiasm of m.rtial ardor among the youth of Brooklyn almost rivaling that engendered in the early daya of the war. In nearly overy street com panics, battalions and reglmonte in miniature have been formed or aro forming, and the load roll of drum and ahrUl squeak of fife are heard abroad in the land. The National Guard also shares this enthusiasm, and activity In recruiting may be confidently looked forward to. Indeed, the prospects' of tho seroral regl.

ments were never brighter than now, and if commanding officers will but remomber that there is a tide iu the affairs of men, whioh, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune, the end of the ensuing season will find the several organisations of the Second Division with full ranka and iu a oondltion of military proficiency unoxoelled throughout the National Guard. Colonel Jamee McLeer, of the Fourteenth Begiment, will command the troops of tho Firth Brigade practicing at Creedmoor on Monday next, the 24th inst. Albion Q. Pape, of the Twenty eighth Regiment, is the detailed Adjutant and Dr. James Watt, of the Tbir.

teenth, the Surgeon, RICHARDSON, He Does Not Stand in the Way of Rapid Transit. Position of the Atlantic Avenue Railroad. Conserving the Material and Personal Interests or the People of Brooklyn The Poppenhusens and the Proposition Hade Them. In the course of a conversation had a few daya ainoe with an Eaous reporter, specially detailod to locate, if possible, the responsibility for the delay in the introduction of steam on Atlantio avenue, Mr. E.

B. Hinsdale, tho representative of the Messrs. Poppen husen, stated that his company stood ready to complete the acheme of rapid transit on the basis of the proposition originally made them by the Atlantio avenue Railway Oompany, but that that proposition had been so materially modlnod and altered that thoy could not agree to Us provisions. To this statement PRESIDENT WILLIAM BIOHABDSON takes prononnoed oxcaptlon, and to day made the rejoinder whioh auoceeds. At tho outset of the lntervlow Mr.

Blohardson drew attention to the fact that 11 was not nimself individually but the Atlantio avenue Bail road Company between whom and the Messrs. Poppen husen negotiations were pending, and desired to remove the Impression of his own personality being Involved therein. Alluding to tho allegation that more than one proposition had emanated from hfm as the representative of his road, Mr. Richardson said: WE NEVEB MADE BUT ONE PBOPOSITION. We have not varied it in the slightest degree einoo the passage of the aot, or at any other time; and we are ready at any time that they (the Messrs.

Poppenhuaen) will respond to us that this ij satisfactory, and they are ready to make auoh agreement on the basis of that proposal. That proposal whs made before any aotion was taken by the Common (iouucil, and they have never, to us, aooepted or deolind or make any proposition in re sponse to it; and we arojawaltlng a response which has been promissd to ml from time to time, since the pass age 01 tne act. The day after the aot passed, I hsndod a copy of it to Mr Herman Poppenhusr.n, juat aa he was leaving bla store, stating to him that it was a copy of the act Just passed. MB. POPPENHUBEN'S RESPONSE was, "I am glad the act has passed.

You will hear from us tn a few days." I afterward aaw Mr. Hinsdale, who stated that they would lok over the matter and let us hear from them. A few days after, Mr. Conrad Poppenhuseo, with his two eons, Arnold and Horman, aooompanled by Mr. Hinsdale, rode over the road is oompany with several ot our direotors who mot them at East New York.

Mr. Hinsdale then atstei that they would hare their engineer make a map of tho route and of the property required, and in a short timo we should hear from them. Before the meeting or our Dlrootors in May, I called on Mr. HiUBdale at hia office, and statod to him that our Directors' meeting was to be held on ths lain, and asked him if he had any communication to make then. He said he had it time he was not then ready.

The last May, Deooratlou waa on tho 30th of waa in tnis office the Atlantio Avenue ij and stated that his aa soon aa they were plans were not yi I should bear fro; called at Mr. Hins dale's office twii ive not found him in, and am now awaitui whioh has been prom lsed. Nl IOATION. In anawer it that he make publio the terms of the pn of 2uS company to the Poppen husens, Mr. he did not feel that any publio or privi uld be conserved hr mn An ing.

It was Wer of business detail and ainoe Mr. HinJMi declined to rASfttabiri try properly, as bethought, ts known, no abould prefer to adopt the ajme at lout for the presont. Ho would rel that there had never been anything wl He had no termed a second pronositlon. hahdsd Mr, Hinsdale any writing but one. "Audi memorandum," continued Mr.

RiohardsOi In yinlVfn hia hini In totfSwnatover by the Common Council, before amfu Mr. UinBdattSatkl so done aMrsi to reduoe it to writing. litres ir to him and the Messers. Pop penhuseiv OBJECTION advanc intlemen was in regard to a re qutromj by me aa to the character and amount1 ttlon to be furnished aa related to the This was anterior to going to the CoaotfjOOl and it waa with full knowledge oft; that Mr. Hinsdale drew the bill which ly passod.

I never made any verbal proi proposal I now apoke of was tho only one to whst bis oompany was now will ing ihardson replied, "We are willing to do or were before legislation was obtained And in view of which the proposed bill Mr. Hinsdale and Its passage secured." iWSIBchardson declined to name the terms of to the Messrs. Poppenhuseo, he gave of the situation from which the main proposal may bo inferred. The Atlan illroad Company" owns the franchise on from tho river to Jamaica, and the land ih avenue to the same point. Tho right to 1 that thoroughfare coneequen tly can only iby lease from thla corporation.

Mr. Bloh impany propose to lease to ths Messrs. in what was necessary to enable them to run from Flatbush avenue out on Long ng them to make the depot at any point select in their wisdom to do so. I cannot un said Mr. Blohardson, what risk of litigation id run other than the risk of any one suing ist is a risk every one must take.

If a prop ter sees fit to sua the Atlantio Avenue BaUroad ly the only thing the Oompany can do is to Itself and I assume it would be the same in of the Messrs. Poppenhuaen. As to our bear portion of the expense of construction they have made any proposition looking to that result; in ley have made no counter propositions of any ABOUT COMPENSATION. the written proposal we did name a certain iunt of compensation which wo oa teemed Just. No lection whatever was made to the sum mentioned as I said before tho only thing tnat was objected to the amount and kind of service we required of m.

In conclusion Mr. Rlohardaon desired it to 00 clearly that the only proposition made the Messrs. 'oppenhusen by himself or his Company, waa the one submitted in writing to them in February last. There bad been nothing subsequent to that proposal, and on the terms then advanced all legislation had been based. He bad not talked one thing before the law was passed to Induce compliance and co operation on the part of any persona lu interest, and written down another so soon as the requisite legislation had been effected.

So far aa they were conoerned, there had not been the leas change or variation from tholr original position. Tho Atlantio avenue Bailroad Company had for Diroctore, those gentlomen: Charles Marvin, James Blnns, John P. Douglass, 'ohn Wilson, Frederick ATschroeder, Wm. Bohwarzweelder, William B. Hunter, John Halsey.

Curtis Noble, Thomaa McCann, Henry Knlgtt, Newberry H. Frost, William Rlohardaon. It named among its largest stockholders suoh citizens as Wm. P. Libby, JohnD.

Cooks, Benjamin F. Tracy 8. W. Bowne A Chas. 8tanton, Darius Allon snd other gentlemen whose interest in the welfare and growth of Brooklyn is far larger than their interest in the Atlantic Avenue Bailroad or any other oompany.

Such men are not going to trifle with or neglect the good of the whole City of Brooklyn for any selfish interest they may have in tills Company. As for himself snd his co directors, they had a duty to perform in thla matter, and that duty called upon them to guard the interests of the people of Brooklyn. It waa not for them to deliver over all right and title in the interests which hsd been intrusted to their care to a corporation without any restrictions or guarantee whatsoever, snd the citizens of Brooklyn might rest assured that whatever delay arose through any requirement contained in the proposition those requirements were in behalf of, and would tend to the welfare and convenience of the traveling publio. EMQIHKEB'8 ASSOCIATION. At a regular meeting of the Engineer's Association of thla city at 50 Court street, last evening, the) following officers were elected for ths ensuing year President, Daniel Gilbert; Vice President, James Palmer, Recording Secretary, Matthew Taken; FinanJ cial Secretary, Henry Byan; Treasurer, John Frost; Trustee, H.

Bagley; Auditing Committee, L. Burns, James Beery and William Dukohart; Sergeant at Arms, N. McCaffrey. Immediately after the election the officers were duly Installed by Mr. Thomas Fessenden Powers, the Chairman of the Polios Board of Examining Engineers.

CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEABT. The fourth annual picnic and field sports in aid of tha new Church of ths Sacred Heart, wut 00 held not, as at tha uayi euaauiaiui waww Anlr uhllii QranffaaWaBuBZ IaanErSflBBBBPawF?" ittlnttfeVnrn Dureim Witten 4r mm mm fioaWUlK" Ud43sraln ma JIMP inViaWffifift eWvstttjjB that AtJm IftfctrWnso aWUaMBtHaft mm taaaB JU fetHHaaac tkMHSMM! and her lover rode to matrimonial happiness or misery. The family, when they discovered tbs flight of tha young lady, were sadly stricken, and gave way to tha most affecting manifestations of grief. Dispatches were at onoe forwarded to the polios of Haw Tor anil Brooklyn to tbt and nrrxKacn them, bat they aire not been heard from np to the present writing, lieutenant Harrold waa obliged to proceed westward with his command, and his family depending on the police to and hia lost daughter, but having Wile hope of it. The gossips of Fort Hamilton are in clover, and tha elopement is the aole toplq of conversation.

There la rumor that Blerwlth and Mia Harrold were married three months before their precipitate departure, but it oould not be traced to a'deflnite source. It appears that after the suicide of Mr. Hardy, mentioned abovo, Blerwlth lived with the widow and made love to her with great assiduity. He promised to marry her as soon as he could procure hia discharge from the army, but instead of fulfilling hia promise he has run awar with Misa Belle Harrold, and the widow la now disconsolately contemplating tha new dresses she made up for the occasion. The assault and battery case In which Blerwlth waa Interested was called this morning before Justice Ohuroh, but as he did not pnt id an appearance it was dismissed.

About a month ago Blerwlth created a disturbance in the publio streets. He was arrested and discharged with a severe reprimand by Justice Church. A PHOTOGRAPHER AB8ADtiTEP. He Abase a man for Not Paying Him tor Enlarging a Picture, and Gets a Beating. This morning two young South Brooklyn men, fair types ot the class called "Ths Boys," named John Bohanna and William Harrison, were before Justice Dolmax on charges of assault and battery, Their accuser was Michael Donohue, who Uvea at No.

11 Jackson court, and follows the occupation of an itinerant photographer. Becently Bohanna employed him to enlarge a photograph, and when the work waa done he did not like it and refused to take it. Donohue met Bohanna and Harrison and abused the former for not paying him. They thereupon aet upon him and gave him a sound beating. The case wis tried to day before Jdstlos Delmar, and the accused was bound over to keep the peace.

The photograph waa introduced in evidence. A PEKFIDIOU8 FBtESD. Marx Herman, a young man who reaohed this country from Germany about two weeks agd in company with a brother of Mr. Adolph OantDsr, a butcher, residing at Si KorreU street, in the Eastern District. Mr.

Oanjner, finding that Herman bad but little pecuniary means, offered him an asylum with his brother until he oould obtain some employment. The offer was gladly accepted; but with a perfidy that showed a total lack of principle, the villain robbed hia benefactor during last night of clothing and Jewelry to the value of $59. Adolph, immediately on discovering his loss, reported it to the police and then started for New York. While on the Booaeralt street Ferryboat he saw Herman wearing the stolen apparel, he therefore followed him and gave him in charge of Officer Spatz. The thief was token to the Fourth Preclnot Station House, New York, and waa thenoe transferred to WUllamaburgh.

The stolen articles were all found on his personc he having gone to the extreme length of wearing two coats with the thermometer in the nineties. On being arrrigned Herman waa oommttted for examination, and before the end of the first month he spends in America will enjoy life in a county jaU. THE ECKFOBD CLUB. The annual exoursion of the Eokford Club took place yesterday. It waa a marked social auooess.

The oompany was large. The scene of theplenlowas Bariten Grove, whither the party waa taken by ths steamer Wyoming and the barges Caledonia and Anna. Among thoee present were Hon. Oharies L. Lyon, Postmaster Talbot, Mr, James 8.

Donovan, Supervisors Snyder, Van Oott and Tierney, Mr. Oharlee W. Cheshire, Mr. H. E.

Doyle, Mr. Thomas Browne, Mr. John E. Foley, Mr. Anthony Meyers, wife and Miss Walters, F.

Suite and Miss Blantey, John McOullough and Misa Kate Blarney, the Misses Colahau, Mr. James Bulger, Mr. John Bulger, Mr. F. A.

Fox, W. Clair, Mr. L. OHeUly, Mr. H.

Doyle, Captain Brbwer and wife, Ur. Goo. N. light and wife, and Mr. James E.

Carton. F.XCUB8ION AND PICRIC. The Boohester avenue Sabbath School will hold a pienio in Oriental Grove Saturday, July W. The boat from Fulton Ferry will start at half paat eight. A pleasant time is anticipated.

STBTJCK FOB FBEE CROWOEB. Wm. Johnson, a young colored man, with five companions, at 1 o'olock thla. morning, called for and obtained chowder for all their party at Adam Chrisman'a saloon, In Harrison avenue. The five went out, leaving Johnson to pay the shot, but when the demand waa made for cash none was forthcoming.

Instead the proprietor was assaulted and. roughly handled until the arrival of Officer MoEroy, by whom Johnson waa arrested. Justice Guck to day imposed a penalty of two months upon this specimen beat. SHOT HIMSELF. Suicide of an Eastern District Physician.

A Refntre Sought In the Grave from Fecuniarr Embarrassment. Last night, at about eight o'clock, word was received at Fifth Preoinct Station House, that Dr. Joseph H. Crawford, aged twenty five years, had shot himself through the heart, at the residence of hia mother, No. eVJ South Ninth street.

Coroner Nolan was promptly summoned, but when he reached the house indicated the man was dead. Nothing definlto could be ascertained regarding the causes which led to the rash act. Some of his relatives were of the opinion tbat he was temporarily Insane, while others hinted at TROUBLE WITH HIS WIFE, who at present resides with her parents in Maine. The inquest waa held thla morning at the residence of the mother of the Suicide by Coroner Nolan. MBS.

KBTHEB A. WOOD, mother of the deceased, stated on oath that Dr. Joseph H. Crawford was a resident or Wiscasset, and visited her frequently. Knew him to be financially embarrassed, and ho had previously threatened to shoot himself; he was in the habit of taking morphine and chloroform to quiet his nerves the girl said he arose about seven o'clock yesterday morning and threatened to shoot nimself in her presence saw him sitting on a chair in the yard about half an hour before the shooting, which occurred at 0.45 P.

last evening. lire. Wood further stated that her son was not poa sessed of property, had not his life insured, and that bis family has been notified. The verdict returned by the jury was to the effect that deoeased came to his death by shooting himself through the heart on July 17, 1876, while temporarily InBane. BOBBED OF BIS MUSTACHE.

A funny case came up before Justice Del mar this morning. It waa that of Bichard Hussey, of Hamilton avennend Richards street, who complained that he waa robbed of his mustache by John MoOrath, of No. 311 Columbia etreet, while attending a wake in Van Brunt street a few nlghtaago. HcOrath was arrested last night by Officer OampbeU, on the charge of malloloua mischief. This, morning Hussey did not appear against him, and the examination of the charge waa adjourned.

The aooueed laughingly told tha Justice that he only did the act for a practical joke, and he thought It waa a good one. He waa releaaed on his own recognizance. SCHOOL NO. 18 ASSOCIATION. A regular meeting of the Afaujer street School Association was held last evening in the School House, and in the absence ot Dr.

0. Doano, Vice President John H. Jener was in the chair, and Secretary Fred. 3. Karoher recorded.

On motion ot Major Earcher, a Committee of fire, consisting ot Messrs. F. J. Earcher. John T.

Kempton, Oscar Uoerke, Paul Bonner and lacob Hents, was appointed for the purpose of drafting suitable resolutions on the death of Mr. Wm. O. Booth, the first principal of the school, and present them at a special meeting which will be held next Monday night. CARELESS CAB DBITJ5B.

Sergeant Battersby last evening looked up Michael Loughran, car driver on the Flushing and Oraham avenue line, who caused serious injury to Valentine Vetter, a passenger living at No. 199 Jackson etreet. As Mr. Vetter was not quick enough In getting off the car to suit the driver, the latter Btarted his horses regardless of consequences, the result being a violent fall and well nigh fractured skull. The injured man who was attended by Polloe Surgeon Murphy, was conveyed to his home insensible.

Justice Guck discharged the driver from custody to day on the failure of Mr. Vetter or his friends to appear to proa, ecute the case. VEBI LUCK! INDEED. Last night late Michael Brennau, a groom, hired a room at the Franklin House. He is Insane, but from the quiet manner in which he conducted himself the people at the Franklin House never suspected It, He went to bis room, whioh was in the fourth story, locked the door, opened the window and jumped out) In his fall ot forty feet he passed through a sky light.

Strange to Bay, the only injury he received waa a alight cut on the arm. He has since been sent to tha Asylum. SLIGHT STABBING AFFBAT. Thomas Harper of 681 Pulton street, had a IS! lUt wlU Mloel Murphy, who tnevh "I0" Botttmen Peddler, and they had a fight on buataeaa matters. During the si teroetlon Harper Murphy in tha left arm inflicting a alight wound.

Harper was arrested by special Offleer Bolton and JnMo, behun for trial, BOSEDAIiB CLUB. The annual pienio and evening promenade of the Boaedala Club will take plaee to morrow, at tha Brooklyn Bins The offieara and members have spared neither pains or expense to make this picnic (he finest affair of the season. CAPTUBE OF A BUBMAB. Yesterday afternoon James Dolan, a young man residing on Hamilton arenas, was arrested on suspicion of being engaged in ths robbery of Owen MoOee'a liquor atore. Court and Bush streets.

He was oonuultted far eiaalnatlon A Seat in the Park Oommiasion Signifioantly Declined. The Mayor and the Truant Home Sending Emigrants Home The State of the City Treasury Water Consumption Baths Mr. George L. Niohols, who waa two weeks ago appointed to fill the vacancy in the Board of Park Commissioners oaused by tho death of Isaao Van Anden, has written a letter declining the place. Mr.

Nichols' note is brief and assigning per sonsi indisposition, but the real reason Is understood to be his repugnance to receiving any favor at the handa of the present BopubUoon leaders. Mr. Niohols is a gentleman of high standing and decided inftuenoe on the Heights. He represents the cultured and public spirited wing of the Bepublloan party, to aU of whom tho recent party operations of Sohroeder and Jourdan have boon decidedly objectionable. TEB TBUANT HOUE, Mayor Sohroeder sent this morning a list of boys confined In the Truant Homo to tha Commissioners of Charities, with the request that they be transferred from the Institution to the private asylums and charged to the county.

The Truant Home is a city institution located on the old Jamaica road beyond East New York. Its maintenance costs annually a large sum of money. As its name implies, it was Intended as a house of arestralnt for boys who could not be Induced to attend school, but a wider construction has been given to the object of Its founders, so that at least in times past it waa a pleasant and convenient boarding house for entire families, and the scene ot political and official festivities at which good wine and better cigars were freely distributed before and after a splendid and luxurious repeat, all gotten up by the Superintendent, sometimes, perhaps, at his butgenendly at the people's expense. Little is known to the publio about the place of late. Com.

Norria, in reply to the Mayoral request, stated that tha' boys were not proper subjects for private asylums, as many of them had parents living and none ot them had applied to become county wards, through guardians, as the law directs. It waa the duty of the Commissioners, he added, to see to it that none but those aotually contemplated by the be made county ohargea. An Eaous reporter questioned the Commissioner relative to the matter aa follows Eagle Did Mayor Sohroeder state why the boys should be transferred Com, Norria He did not say definitely, but hia rea aon aeemed to be that they fit aubjeots for the Truant Home, as they had bean oommitted there by magistrates for a longer term than the law allows. However, we hare nothing to do with the matter. We havo no knowledge of the boys; no one has made application to us for committing them to; the private institutions who has a right to do so.

The appropriation for this purpose is exhausted. If the dry has raised money for the maintenance of tho Truant Home and finds it inadequate to sustain thoee boys, that la none of our business. If we took the boys as Mayor Schroeder desired, he would be the first to censure us for this violation of law. We don't mean to give him the chance. NOT EMIGRATION OOMUISaiONEBB.

From time to time applications reach the Central Office of the Commissioners of Charities from persons who being hi indigent ciroumstanoes, friendless and alokiy dealro to be sent to the old country at the expense of the oountry. This morning a physlolan in a communication asked that the Commissioners defray the expenses of sending to Ireland a woman indigent, friendless and aufforlng from ohronlo disease. It may save trouble to state that the duty of transportation required in such oases belongs rather to the Emigration Commissioners that tho oounty has made no provision for it, though there have been one or two cases where persons already inmates of the institutions at Flstbush, and likely to remain so for years, have been aided to reach other places where their friends were able to maintain them, Thla was done as a matter of economy. THE OITY TBEASOBY. City Treasurer Cunningham thla morning issued the following statement, showing the condition of the Treasury Balance on hand July 1 Received since Total Warrants oald Total Deposited Brooklyn Bank Citr Bank Long Island Bank First National Bank.

Mechanics' Bank Naasau Bank Trust Company Fulton Bank Mechanics' and 'rradera' Manufacturers' National Commercial Bank A.tlantlo Bank 8I75.450.M tl3.94i.9S 13.SU). 10 Xt.6 IS.74 2S.006.71 8.U0.S3 15.SB.U 6,587.78 11,030.80 li.im.ia 8,035 THE PUBLIC BATH. The pnblio bath at the foot of North Seventh street continues to bo largely patronised. Daring the. past seven days there were nearly 16,000 bathers, man, women and children.

The arrangements and accommodations are excellent, and allspeak in the best terms of the establishment. WAXES CONSUMPTION. The consumption of water yesterday amounted to 33,340,303 United Stales gallons, against 40,120,053 gallons on Sunday. The total quantity pumped into the Bidgowood Reaervoir was 33,244,003 gallons, PBOSTBATKD, Assistant Engineer Al. DeMerrttt, ot the Department of City Works, waa prostrated in his office last evening.

Mr. DsMerrltt is one of the hardest working officials at the City Hall, and hia prostration is due to his constant application io business and ths excessive heat. He waa removed In an insensible oondltion to his resl denoe, No. 41S First street, Oowsnus. He was improving this morning, although oonfined to hia bed.

PERSONAL, Alderman Murtha returned yesterday afternoon from Saratoga, whither he went on Saturday last. Commissioner Fowler will return from Saratoga tomorrow. President Slocum is in town again, after an absence of a week. Commissioner Adams is summering at bal pretty villa at Shrewsbury. The Commissioner comos to the oity almost every day.

Controller Powell will not take a vacation. Assistant Corporation Counsel John H. Enaebel, whose beautiful Summer residence it at Manhasset, has one of the moat extensive private gardens on Long Island. Great results are expeoted. City Clerk Bishop takes an occasional trip to Bath.

Alderman Beardon fishes in Newtown Creek. Inquiry at the office of the Park Commissioners relative to the resignation of Mr. Niohols failed to elicit any information for the reason that Mr. Stranahau, Mr. Frank Quevedo and all those likely to know concerning it were absent.

Mr. Stranahau is staying at Baratoga, aud Mr. Quevedo had business down Ocean Parkway. TO BE TAKEN OABE OF. David Williams having failed to socuro the Police Commisalonshlp, his friends are beginning to talk him up for Corporation Counsel, Mr.

Williams bas made so many sacrifices for tho party, they think he should have that offloo. It would be balm for David. Ten thousand a year I AN OLD CONTROVERSY, lb (A Editor of the Brooklyn Bogle; "If a woman has been born and brought up among refined Influences in other words, if sho be a lady she will always retain her womanly dignity, place her where you wuL" The above is copied from your issue of July 13. The iress being the ednoatlonsl agency of the age, mighty or sood and for eviL la entitled to tho monitions of its constituents. Show me tho paper and I will read jonvfi the cnaracter 01 its euiwr ana 01 its patrons, "uaa father, like son." Lacking perfect faith in the supreme law of progress, which must crush everything a thwart fly would UBpire aospa nnnnln.

Knt "I i spire despair (or the future or its pupils tl ople. sm 1 Know mat my ueaeemer uvei Therefore despair dwindles down to solicitude': sensitize the editorial oonsoienoe. inat it may fuUv realize its sreat resnonsfbllitr. and leas lend a heloina hand to falsehood. Now what rel bas thla formidable preface to dlgnlt Simply this The proposition quoted above is fatte, or course pernicious in us wnuonoe, yet is sec 111 jewel truth in your paper to be reout and reset hundred others.

Preachers will catch the lnaoii of the fiction and roll it over like a sweet mofaef of tobaooo while they sermonize tripping woman 1 no business io trip and soil her ladyhood even great hulking blocks of Inalienable manhood path at every step, cursing snd anathematising tne eumor 01 aii weir wow ana mereiore ana justly condemned to subjection. Subjects cs their dignity, that hi tho prerogative ot rulers, olty ana country, wiu una in cue score q' aTiadstane upou whioh to sharpen their dul woman is a oonvenlont thing to have arouni more tnat ane is expeotea to remain unmaci retaining her womanly aigmiy, piaoe will, she can never appear in accusstion who assails her. Brutes and blackcruarda the animus for fresh brutality and vulgarll are human and cannot claim lmmunli physical and moral lawj governing az ing humanity. Does a man though bred 'a gentleman retain nis manly bim where vou will!" Let the victims of I gambling hells and houses ot proelltul Men ana women are mora or jobs, ine ori oumstanees. "There Is a destiny that a wise man haa told ua tnat "mere is man beinff the seeds of every crime and only awaits favorable 'circnmstan ment." "Boast not tnyseir 01 10 moi Tiee.

No one knows 01 what ne is tried. Do you expect to find tro in the frigid zone 7 And if yon how Ions will they flourish and 1 (fit and entlrelv eaeaoe the effect of phereT That some do does not prove it many. Aa I walk the streets and etui there flash into mine faces lined ani ship races or souls nnngering unto andaympatny, it does not late the graded steps from haggard of beantv and wealth, nets of forti v. ,1 tfr twuV, a aw mllaA orU! fastidious souls is the canker worm destroy all your comeliness, as ne 1 pure and beautiful ulster. Oh, know that npon the streets 01 cities lie thick strewn the wrecks hood or womsnnooa.

ny, theaentleman do not survive yi than the enow kee tv. t. nf association ii is saying, TjtSu. man becomes savi woman Th BIDSDtionS tral or ao cording to Darwin, the urvivalig Sefwe of all this blight this it becomes ua to parade our ag fnlplt and aanctum and name 1 Cain where is thy Andin itlon from 1 Shame 1 where fs thy sister 7 VlOTOB. ah AFjracnoirAj The Paris correspond? frish Bugle talis the following good stor; ftonate and in tsrested husband The wife ot a villager in a protracted believed to be Illness, reu mio a state 01 1 Aad.

As 1b usual among santry there, I to the erave the body was folded in a cE nneomnea. uu.uib way 1 Vm carried through a tl I the bodv hadto it the underwood consisted principally of through, the supposed cc ana in passing 1 from ths tranoa by tne pxicuos. sn really died, and on waa taken. As the atyrward the woman eve tne same route ached tha thicket, 1 T. I.

the husband called out go near the thorn 0 'UsfcejT Cjr can aont Chftnrborg ganzeii jreat favor the pat Urnsrrmfremmmuts UaksMn large squares, and figures which embrace tlBj Motyuts, leaflets, sprays, aalMrvtiMi i 8771.68XM S3t.i57.69 i.tSl.OTS.Si ormmkmme 1WJ A. Runaway TVLatcli at Fort Hamilton. A Wily Musician Disappears with the Daughter of an Army Officer The Belle of the Garrison a Victim to the Soft Promise! of a Matrimonial Adrentorer. Incident! in the Career of a Lady's Man. A Younjr Mechanic Drlren to Suicide by His Wife's Intldellty The Widow Takes Up Her Residence with Her Betrayer and is Deserted for Another Beauty A Startling Rerelatlon of Masculine WickednessExcitement at the Fort.

The inmates of Fort Hamilton and the residents of the picturesque little hamlet which clusters about the massive fortlfloation are In a fever of excitement over an ooenrrenoe that baa furnished an abundance of gratification to all the gossips of the neighborhood, and caused something more than a ripple in tho usually tranquil ourrent of garrison life. The affair did not come upon many persona liko a clap of thunder from a clear sky. for In some quarters there wore suspicions that something of tho. kind would happen before many days, and when the event at but took place those wise people wagged their heads at their uniophiatloated neighbors, and, with sensations of the most intense hspplnosa, ejaculated, with true prophetic fervor, "I told yon so." The developments In the case show that it is an elopement accompanied by all those romantic surroundings which oharaoterlnd tho hasty trip to Gretna Green in the olden time of Merry England. Both parties were wall known at the Fort and In the little village, although they oooupled entirely different positions in society.

The lady participant waa Miss Belle Harrold, daughter of Lieutenant C. W. Harrold, of Company Third Artillery, with which he left yesterday for the scene of the oonfllot with the Sioux Indians. Her oh armor la Frank Blerwlth, a ooraellal, formerly attached to the band, whose time had just expired. THE HANDSOME HKBOIKB.

Lieutenant Harrold, father of lbs young lady vrbo eloped, la a native of Maine, and possessed all the excellent characteristics' of tha sturdy yeomen of the Fine Tree State. He la at present about fifty years of age. His rank in the army was gained by his falthfu services, to bis country in time of peril. Ho served in the volunteers during the war of the Rebellion, participating in many important actions, and well sustaining tho honor or bis State and the glory of his flag. At the olose of the war he entered the regular army, and was ratoftae First Lieutenant.

His domestio relations have heretofore been of the happiest nature Imaginable. Married to an accomplished and attractive lady of good family and pleasing personal traits, and blessed with an interesting family of children, bis sky was nn obscured by a cloud of trouble until very recently. His family consists of two sons and three daughters, alt of them bright, handsome and intelligent children. Belle, the eldest daughter, who in a fit of romintia fovex has eloped, waa undoubtedly THE BELLB OF THI FOBT, She la about eighteen years of age, and of very attractive appearance. She might be called a perfect specimen of blonde beauty, aomewhat above the medium height, with a graceful form, juat rounding into the fullness of womanhood.

She is "divinely tall, and most divinely fair." Eyes of that clear, dark bine, transcending all other eyes, which flash and beam with every changing expression of the sweet countenance; eyes that possess a wonderful power of penetration, are set beneath a brow of alabaster whiteness and intellectual breadth. Her nose Is aa pretty aa a nose can be, and beneath it la a mouth dainty and bewitching, formed by lips of vermilion hue the ruby portals that conceal the pearls within. A small, well shaped head, orowned by tronses that seem of pure gold, complete the countenance, which possesses a 'complexion of singular olearnees, In which the Bnowy whiteness of the Illy vied with the delicate pink flush found in the interior of some sea shells. Thsmontal characteristics of this beauty are worthy of her attractive appoaranoe. She possesses an excellent education, and not a few accomplishments.

She is a fine musician, playing the putno with great skill, and singing with the sweetnesa of a nightingale Her manners are polished and graceful, and altogether she hat, previous to the escapade which has just occurred, been considered A MODEL TOUNCt LADY. The characteristic whioh apparently overshadowed all others in her nature was her modesty, manifested in her quiet, retiring manner, which made her all ths more attractive. She was, however, winsome and light hearted, and euoceeded in eommunioating something of her, happiness to all with whom she came in oontaot. The Lieutenant with his family has resided at the Fort a number of yeare. Thoy oooupled a pleasant little cottage on what is known as Fort Hamilton ave.

nue, a thoroughfare running down to the water where nearly all the officers live. The life of the family passed quietly enough in the quietude of their home. Miss Belle went out considerably in the little village and moved in the beat aoclety. She was well known In the families of all the officers, and with the ladles of her acquaintance waa a great favorite, while the gentlemen were completely fascinated with her. Many hearts beat quicker when the flash of the blue eyes were turned upon their owners and the.

youthful iwaina of the shore began to sigh for the Lloutenant's daughter. She received the attentions of all very kindly, but with a xeaerve that forbade any attempt toward leading her to the matrimonial altar. More than One young gentleman suffered keenly the pangs luflioted by her indifference, but she seemed invulnerable to all masculine arts and went on the pathway of her light hearted maidenhood. But while she was thus baffling tbo desires and wrecking the hopes of many susoeptt ble young men, a hero was approaching who would storm the fortress of her affection, oarry it and carry the commander away into captivity. A QUESTIONABLE HEBO.

This hero existed In the person of Mr. Ffauk Blerwlth, a Gorman, who entered tho army about five years ago as a musician. lie is a German, but speaks English with great clearness, and quite aa well as he does his mother tongue. Ho enlisted at the South, and was attached to some of the ports on the lower coast. It la said that he belongs to a good family, and tbat he has a brother in the military academy at West Point.

In person he is of medium height, rather etout. with a dark complexion, black eyes, a mustache which from its very inoeption has been tho object of admiration by eusoeptlble females, and is a handsome man. Blerwitb is a good singer, has a ploaaing addreas and la a man calculated to make his way in the world, even if obliged to resort to the devices of Alfred Jingle, to effect this end. Two or three years ago he waa ordered to Fort Hamilton, and since his arrival played second cornot in tho band. Ho boarded with Mr.

Taylor, on Fort Hamilton avenue, the same street where the young lady who subsequently became his inamorata, resided. Blerwlth was what might be called A LAST'S MAN, he affected the aoolety of women on every opportunity. His gallantries among fomaloa made him quite notorious at the Fort, and among the people living round about. Some time laat Summer hia attontiona to a lady resulted In a startling tragedy. In some way he made the acquaintance of the wife of a young look smith named Frederick Hardy, residing ot Bay Bidge, the daughter of a carpenter who now resides there.

To this woman, who was only recently marriod, Btor wlth paid great attention, whenever Bhe could escape her husband long enough to meet him. Soon the husband suspected that all waa not right, he watohed his wife, and discovered that ahe had betrayed him. Jealousy at once stepped in between them. He expostulated with the woman, but his arguments were futile, for she seemed to be only the more fascinated with the horn blower, snd finally the ooaple separated, and it is eajd that ths locksmith's wits went to board in the same house with Blerwlth The sequel to the separation soon ocourred. Almost erased by hia wife's desertion of him, the unfortunate husband determined to take his own life.

Ono morning in Midsummer, when the sun arose, it shone upon hia lifelesa body lying rigid in the roadway near hia house. An empty pistol was 'clenched in hia hand he had SHOT HIMSELF THBOUQH TUB HEABT. After this occurrence, Blerwlth, for a short time, remained very quiet. Exaotly how or when tho wily musician became acquainted with Miss Harrold, the writor was unable to ascertain, but it is certain that their Intimacy has extended over a number of months. He appears to hare taken her heart by storm, for ahe appeared devoted to him.

Their acquaintance Boon became known to Lieutenant Harrold, who, knowing the character of Blerwlth, forbade his daughter from having anything to do with him. Of course this command had not the slightest effect on tho blonde beauty, and she persisted in continuing her intimacy with the cornetist. She soliod every opportunity for meeting him surreptitiously. Perhsps there is not a spot to bo found that affords better facilities for snoh an acquaintance than Fort Hamilton, It was the habit of the young lady, alter the tattoo had Bounded from the Fort, to steal softly out of the cottage, down the graveled Pathway to the gate, trip along the sidewalk, and there, a short dlstanoe from the house meet her musical adorer. Together they wan dored about the many quiet lanes in the vicinity, beneath the long rows of trees, or out under tho starlight.

8ometimes they would loiter along the bluffs in front of the Fort, with its tiers of frowning guns looking oat on the bay. Again would tha lovers seek some quiet nook, where a Bummer house Jutted out on the shore. In all these places thoy breathed their vowa of uuoymg anooiion. irranva time expired about a week ago, and it is said thai the lovers had resolved to be Becretly united in the bonds of matrimony ten days later, and that preparations were quietly being made for the event. But they were suddenly oompelled to alter their plans and HASTEN THEIB DEPABTUBE.

The order from the War Department for tho company to which Lieutenant Harrold was assigned to go to the front, waa received before the expiration ot the ten days which were to precede the secret marriage. A hasty consultation waa quickly bold between the lovers. Lieutenant Harrold had decided to take his family vith him, Including his daughter Belle, and the young lady was horrified at the prospect of being separated from Blerwlth. They concluded to run away from cruel parental authority at the earliest opportunity, and laid their plans accordingly. Miss Harrold went home and packed her Saratoga trunk, selecting her best garments.

She also put her Jewelry and other valuables Into it. Early yesterday morning, long before daybreak, an express wagon drove np near the house. The trunk was lowered out ot the window of Misa Harold's apartment with a rope. It waa placed in the wagon and driven rapidly away. B.erwith waa seen about the Fort early in the morning, carefully dieaaed In a new suit of blank broadcloth.

He was complainant In a oase of assault and battery before lustlee Ohuroh he went to the Judge and procured a postponement. Shortly afterward he disappeared. Lieutenant Harrold'a family when they were ready to depart with the troops yesterday, round that the eldest daughter was missing. The condition of her room indicated A HAST? FLIGHT and the absence of her trunk showed that ahe had eloped about the time the startling discovery waa made, a carriage dashed rapidly along Third arenas, anil dla The Brevet Brigadier Again at the Head of the Folioe Force. How His Nomination and (toullrmallon are Begarded in PoIlHoal Circles The Port Iron Vigorous Applied to Republican Backs in His Behalf and the Democrat Moved by Hopes of Patronage An Amazing Mixture of PtuiUalmitT and Corrupt SfotiYes Dr.

Hutchison on the General. His Explanation of His Lot Speculation Again Considered and Some Minor As Bertions Declared to be Destitute of Truth. The confirmation of the nomination of Gen oral Jotirdan aa President of the Department of Police and Excise, by tha unanimous rote of the Common Council, last evening, appears upon tho surface to be proof positive that aU bands were completely satisfied with the man, and preferred no other. It has since been discovered, however, that thla unanimity was forced, io far as some of ths Bepublloan Aldermen were conoerned, and that it waa only after they were brought nnder the party lash, that they voted for Jourdan. While the great majority of the Republican Aldermen ware in favor of Jourdan, and used ail their influence in the matter of securing his nomination by the Mayor, there were several who advocated the appointment of David Williams, of tho Seventeenth Ward, and notably so Alderman Cottreli of that ward.

Williams waa also supported by the pollUeal leaders of the Seventeenth and numbers of its citizens, and eev erai delegations called upon the Mayor to urge hia appointment. Dare has dona good serrloe for the party, and the Polloe Commlasionership was regarded by his friends as a fitting reward for him. Alderman Cottreli, ex Commissioner Jensen and others squally prominent iu the Bepublloan politics of tho ward, repeatedly requested Mayor Bchroeder to appoint Williams but the pressure in favor of Jourdan was too great. Furthermore THS MAYOB'b BELATIOHB WITH JOUBDAN were ot that peculiar character that he oould hardly go back on hfm. It was evident almost from ths start that Jourdan would be appointed, and the soreness among Williams' friends, not only in the Seventeenth Ward, but the Fifteenth Ward and other parts of ths Eastern District, began to manifest itself in open grumbling aud intimations that their defeat would have a disastrous effect at the polls next November.

This ill feeling having come to the knowledge of the party leaders, measures were taken to bring the soreheads under the lash. ThlB was effectually done yesterday, and when tha Mayor's nomination was sent fn last evening, tt waa confirmed with a rush and a unanimity whioh would tend to dispel the idea that there was any DISAFFECTION AMON0 THS BSPKBLIOAKS. But after the whole thing was over, tho grumbling was resumed, and more than one Eastern District Bepublloan politician said that the appolntmont of Jourdan would cost the party the Fifteenth and Seventeenth wards, next FaU. In other words, the rank and file were eo dissatisfied that they would "out" the candidates for Aldermen In those wards, and thereby give the wards to the Democrats. This may not seem very reasonable, but suoh sentiments were expressed last night and this morning, and the men who uttered them, prominent in their plaoee, meant what they said.

The feeling runs very high, and is seen now more than it waa before it became known for a certainty that Jourdan was to have the plaee. THE DZaCOOBATIG SOPPOBT. The position taken by the Democratic members of the Board, in regard to the nomination, created considerable oomment about the City Hall to day. Their support of Jourdan is attributable to three or four things. In the first place they contend that there was no use "kicking against tho pricks;" they were in the minority and oould gain nothing by voting against him.

Another, and probably the strongest reason for voting for bim waa patronage. They appreciated' the fact tbat it was probable tbat the Bepubhoana would have complete control of the Department of Polloe and Excise, after May next, and that if they opposed Jourdan now, it would kill their chances of securing any favors under the new regime. Ths President of the Police Department Is also a member of the Board of Health, and between the departments there is quite a deal of patronage. Take tho smallest matter, for instance, appointments on the poUoe force. It very frequently happens that an Alderman wants to get a man on the force.

In fact, whenever a man wants to get on the force, he runa to the Alderman of his ward and importunes him to use his INFLUENCE WITH THE 0 OMMISSIONEBS. Now, had these Domoorats voted against Jourdan, they could uot, with any hopes of success, ask any favors hereafter. Another reason assigned for tha Democratic support is that a number of the Aldermen are warm personal friends of Jourdan. Among these are Aldermen Kane and Donovan. General Jourdan stated to a friend this morning that he knew Kane and Donovan would stand by him to the last, but he had not expected quite so muoh of the other Democrats.

Kane waa in the army with Jourdan. AXDZBMAN FISHEb'b SOLUTION. Alderman Fisher, one of the Republican leaders in the Board, was asked by an Eagus reporter, this morning, how he aosounted for the support given by the Domoorats. "I will tell you what I heard freely talked last night," repUed the Alderman, "I heard several of the Democratic Aldermen say that it was a rebuke to the EiOLS for Interfering with their prerogatives. Thoy said that Jourdan would not have been unanimously confirmed had it not been tbat the Eaoli abused him so." "Who were the Demoorats who said asked the reporter.

"Ah," replied Mr. Fisher, Bmiling, "I don't want to Bay who they are, but I hoard them Bay so. I have no doubt mysell that that was the cause of the unanimous vote." JOUBDAN SWEABS IN. Jourdan called at the City Clerk'a office thla morning and swore In as President of the Department of police and Excise, before Deputy MoNamara. A bystander made the remark "I should think he would have waited until the crape waa off Mr.

Briggs' chair But he did not. JourdDD's JLota Tha Eagle on Saturday published a letter which it republishes below, for the information of the citixens of Brooklyn. Tha letter at the time it was printed on Saturday was in the ofitoe of the Mayor of Brooklyn, and was attested and subscribed by the name of the respected and responsible dtlxen who wrote it, and brought by that course, in the most open and manly way possible, to the attention of the Mayor of thla city. TheEAOLS did not on Saturday append to the letter the name of tho writor, for that only conoerned the Mayor, while the Eaolb did give the letter itself, as the facts in it did, and now newly do, most' importantly concern the publio. The Eaolk, however, on Saturday most thoroughly Touched for and Indorsed the worthily influential gentleman who, in writing tho letter, rendered a conspicuous service to publio morality and a high dutv to the; ciUaena of Brooklyn.

As the letter has now greater pertinence than ever, we republish it hereunder, and invite attention to the facts in it, whioh characterize and prove themselves fn every art: Hon. F. A. Sohroeder, Mayor of Brooklyn Sib, On the 8th instant I wrote you a brief notification concerning matte re whioh 1 felt impelled to call to your attention, with reference to the proposed nomination of General James Jourdan to be President of the Board of Police. In that note I outlined events which I promised to state more fully in another communication.

On the 11th instant I reoelved from you a letter, in whioh you state that you "have ascertained beyond a doubt," but without stating your evidence or authority, (hat a prioa paid for lots which are subsequently alluded to in thla letter, and which were alluded to in my former communication, waa ''considered large at the time." That yon have been so informed 1 do not doubt, but TOUB ATTENTION WHVI, BS CALLED in this letter to aota which wear a different look as to "the prioe." In the same letter you request ma to substantiate from the records' of the Board of Health tbat these lots were ordered or let be filled with garbage and other unheal thful material. That the Iota are ao filled is evident to day, but you would ecaroely expect the records of the Health Board to oontain a warrant for a violation of the Sanitary Code. The evidence is in the lots and the responsibility is in the owner of tha lots when so filled, General Jourdan himself. I must decline your request to sustain "by affidavits" what is palpable to oooular demonstration aa to the condition of the lots; and, while you say "that this part of my statement is aU you care to know anything about," 1 respectfully object to havo my right and duty ass citizen and taxpayer limited by THE HINT TOO THBOW OUT, or that you should characterize what I feel to be due to the civil service of this city, as attributable to "my being evidently unfriendly to the General." I beg leave to assure yon that you err in ihyitij to dispose of or describe my course by snob a statement. The person selected io fill the office of President of the Polloe Board becomes ex offleio a member of the Board of Health.

I desire to state to you some considerations whioh may cause you to question General Jourdan' fitness for any high publio office, especially any that is connected with the administration of sanitary ordinances. BEFORE JOTTED AN OWNED THE LOTS. First While he waa President of the Health Board in 1873, certain lota In Stockton street, thirty in number, were complained of aa offensive and dangerous to Ufa and health. The Board Bought to abate the nuisance by requiring these lots to be filled and drained, and the records of the Board are said to show that the neoesaa ry orders ware served from time to time on the agent, Mr. J.

B. Morgan, and on the owners, Franoes A. Strong and Jane Smith, widows, living at Newtown, Long Island. As the head of the Board, General Jourdan did not suoceed in getting them filled, Snd prosecution of the owners was ordered. These various processes oonUnued in force until March, 1874, when the owners finding themselves unable to comply and tired ot being harrassed, eacrifioed the entire property to the wife of General Jourdan for 111,000, about $J00 per lot; the buyer agreeing to fill lota to sewer level under penalty of damages, the Board of Health being the plaintiff in the ault of damages, General Jourdan being a member of that Board.

AFTBB JOUBDAN OWNED TBS LOTS. Later in 187 it became known that the General was interested in the Stockton street nulsanoe, and the public press (Bbooxxyx Baqu and New York Sun) criticised him for speculating Jn lots whioh bad been condemned as a nulsanoe by the Board of which he was a member. In an interview (I will not say that he caused himself to be interviewed) published in the Brooklyn Union early in September, 1874, General jourdan denied having purchased the above named property, but an examination of the records showed that it waa purchased in the name of Mrs. Jourdan, benoe his denial. It now became imperative for him to give ordera for the filling of the lota, and Shea, who about that time or later received the garbage contract through tha vote of General Jourdan, waa given also ordera to ful in the Iota, and policemen were seen on the premises, detailed to aet as overseers of the job, and Bbaa himself waa ordered by the Board of which Jourdan waa a member, to disinfect the work aa it progressed.

XWXNXX ONB THOUSAND DOLLABS NIPPED IN ONE AST. In January, 1878, the lets were again aold for $33,000. an advance of (31,000, and thla for unimproved lota still far below the grade, at a time when the real estate market was little better than etaa nant. The following abstracts of the deeds sf these two sales will speak for themselves BlrW 1 rfflr45 Doaaidsrauorj, 311,000. Plot of ground: Beginning on ths southerly aide of Floyd street, distant feet east from southeast oomer of said street and Yates avenue; running Jhenoe east along Floyd street, 3M feet.

9 inohee; towos fouthMii to a pojai $9 of stock Tlie Midsummer Delivery. Offenders of Minor Quality on Trial. In the Court of Sessions to day, before Jadgo Moore and Associate Justices Woifert and Mc Kibben, a number of criminal eases came up to be disposed of, Assistant District Attorney Moore haa been working busily during the paat three weeks to get these oases ready for trial and clear oat the Jail before tha close of the Summer term. The Court room, this morning was crowded, aud the air hot and close, despite tha foot that the windows wore all open. It takes about a day to bring out the full benefits of the miserable system of ventitation, which la obtained in the Court of Sessions.

The crowd of Jurors and witnesses which of necessity was in attendance, was further augmented.br a throng of unwashed loungers on about the Court Homo. 1 nrat cao disposed of was Julia Foley, who was indicted for grand larceny, and pleaded not guilty This morning she withdrew her plea, and plead, guilty to poui larceny, she was remanded for sentence. Jhott B1064 on tK upon a ohargo of fcSKijT in breaking into an inhabited dwelling. The oomplainlng witness was a milkman in Cooper avenne, on the outskirts of ths eity. He testifleoftnat on the nbrht of tte 8th of June his wife awoke'hlm with the Intelugonoo that a man waa prowling around the house.

He got up and aaw the intruder raise the outside collar door and start tn go In. At that moment the noise awoke the dog.who set up a furious barking and the man ran away. The witness pursued snd captured him a short dlstanoe away, and by moans of the pursuaalre eloquence of a pistol pointed at hia head induoed the fellow to accompany him to where an officer oould be found. The cellar door was not fastened. The prisoner denied any attempt at burglary and said he only wanted to get a drink.

The jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. JamcB Buckley, a youth of unsavory appearance, waa then placed on trial upon a charge of attempted rape upon one Elizabeth Buds, a woman old enough to be his mother. Thomas Smith was then plaoed on trial upon a charge of assault aud battery npon Offioer Jerrloke, of tile police force. It appeara that on Sunday, theOth of last June, the accused was standing on the corner of Nos trand and Flushing avenues, with a number of young roughs, who wero making a disturbance, using obscene) languago and conducting themselves in a disorderly manner. The officer ordered the crowd away, but they refused to go.

Smith caught hold of the officer's club, which was up bis sleeve, snd by broaldnjr ths cord which was passed around the wrist, got It out ol bis grasp and struck him three times over the head with it. Case still on. Tlio Boy Burton. The case of the boy Burton, who enlisted in tho navy and was then brought up on a writ of habeas corpus before the City Court, was again before Judge McCuo thla morning. The Unltod States District Attorney presented a record ot conviction for desertion and theft, and the oase was adjourned over until next Friday to enable it to be brought before Judge Benediot ot the United States' Court, Judge McCue intimated that he thought he Should hare to hold the boy.

Decisions in Admiralty. following dooisionB have been issued by Judge Benediot in the O. S. District Court: Alpheus Hardy ot al. vs.

the SteamBhlp America, This was an aotion upon a bill of lading to recover for the loss of a quantity of oranges which wars shipped in Valencia to be delivered in New York. The Judge docided that the evidence showed that the oranges were damaged on aooonnt of the manner in which tney were transported. A deoroe was ordered to be entered for the liboliant, with an order of rofersaos to asoortaln the amount of the damage. Baphaol M. Gomes et al vb.

the steamship America, etc. This was an aotion similar to the above, and waa brought Co rooover for the destruction of a quantity ot oranges and lemons transported on the same voyage. The fruit waa shipped in Malaya to be transported to New York, and tho eridenoe in Hardy's case waa made evidenoe in this, and a similar deoree waa ordered to be entered. Domlnioo Bellagamba va. tho steam tug Don Juan, etc This aotion waa brought to reoover for damage to the rigging of the echooner Moss Qlon, for whioh the Judgo held that tho tug could not be held responsible.

The libel was, therefore, ordered to be dismissed with costs. Commissioner Brlgg a Will. The will of the late Daniel D. Briggs, President of the Board of Polloe and Excise, haa been filed in tho Surrogate's office, admitted to probate, and letters testamentary issued. The will leaves aU his property to his wlf 0, Sarah Ann Briggs, and her neks, and appointa her exeoutrix.

The document is witnessed by John P. Morris, of tho St. James's Hotel, New York, and by John D. Snedoker, of B5 Park piaoe, In this city, and is dated January 3, 1870. The petition to admit the will to probate states the value of the ostSte to be about $3,000.

There are iour children, Philip H. Briggs, Catharine S. Gray, Ellen wife of John Chaos, residing in Brooklyn, and Mary wife of OeorgeT. Do Forrest, residing in Bed Bank, New Jersey. The will is very simple and brief.

A FAITHLE8S HV8BAND. Mrs. Annie Podges, rwho resides on Fifth avenue, near Ninth street, last evening oaused ths arrest of her husband, William S. Podges, on charge ot abandonment. The accused, who lives at No.

Eighth street, is a dark by occupation and is 33 years of ago. Hia wife atttea that ha aome time ago deserted her and reruses to support her. The examination ot tho case waa adjourned by Justioe Delniar. ATTEMPTED SUICIOK. Miohael Erane, a German who resides at No.

901 Jay street, attempted to commit suioido laat evening by taking a largo quantity of croton oil. Ha waa temporarily Insane at the time. Ambulance Surgeon Willard C. Otterson and Dr. Weeks attended him and administered antidotes, Erane subsequently recovered from the effeota of the dole.

ACTING FIBE MABSIUL. Fire Marshal Eeady is about to take his vacation it is hinted that the Counselor is about to take unto himself a wife and the Police Commissioners have appointed Detective William Polk acting Fire Marshal during his absence. (IRANI) AUIIY ENCAMPMENT. The semi annual enoampment of the Department of Now York, a. A.

will be held at Tankers oa the 3d and 3d daya of August ensuing. Headquarters will be established at tho dotty House, MONET MARKET. Wiu Stkxst, July 18 P. M. Among the sales between calls and at th eeoond board were Hannibal At St.

Joaoph 8's, 81a8l')i; Union Pacific 1st, 10Vi ditto, S. Northwest console, 104 C. C. I. 0.

1st, 45 Morris Essex, 101 Chicago Alton 1st, 118)( Northwest gold bonds, 08 Wetls Fargo Express, 89 Lehigh A Wllkea barre bonds, 87 Erie Bd, 103K B' of 1881 coupon, lVlX St. Paul, Lacrosse division, 103X. Tho dosing quotation for oonsola in London was S5ia95Xi hut subsequently there came the o'olock price of SS 11 10, showing a sharp rise, due, it la supposed, to more favorable advices from the East. Gold bas been dull aU the afternoon, remaining steady at 111 until about two o'ocloo when the prioe moved up to 111. Stooks were weak between calls and Obios were oon slderably depressed.

There was a reaction before the board and then the market booatno dull and without feature. 8:15 P.M. G61d and stocks were steady, and money loaned at IU per cent. The following table shows the oourse of tho gold and stock markets for this day: 3 P. M.

sr. at. Ooenlns. Hlsheit Lowest. Oloalu.

Gold. N. Oen. A Hudson. Harlem Union Paolflc Lake Shore Wnhun 111ft 108 MJ1 a Laos.

A Wesl'n. 101' Northweetara. tlt nortuwestern eo Book island 10SH St. Paul 04 St Paul oreierred 1M Ohio and Mississippi. 1514 new jersey Hannibal and St.

Joe. Western Union Paolfio Mall Panama Michigan Central. 18 Ti" tti The following table shows tho bid quotations for Oor arnmentbondB at the respective calls: First Second Third call. eaU. at nm lirK cau.

U. 8. t's, 1891, registered llfW U. 8. 6't.

1881, coupon 120k U. 8.6'a.lWl, ooupon u. a. 5 20's. I Wo.

lis U. S. 6 30'a. istH, coupon H0V lldW imv mil uiv; 118 uh 135 U. S.

6 90'a, IS, n. registered. Jl' i rj. su IOqo n. U.

8. MO'a, Iee7, roeuwroa. 8.6 116K iri'i U. H. 5.TS, 1809.

U. O. O.M IOOO, BWU" U. S. 10 u's, 117U 1182 U.

R. 10 0's, U. S. Ourreaor Sues. Tony Pastor Gives an insight into some of the seoretg ot New York eitr life in his last story, called "Night Boons in New York," out hHiay in the Fl BIS IDE OoKPiNIOH.

giocklit'a Celebrated sugar cured hams branded "Look rn's." for aale at their various stoics; price only lgo. per pound to families. lOTTEBIEs. ON THURSDAY, ATJOU8T FOB THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC 8CHOOL8 OF FRANKFORT. At Major Hall, in the Olty of Frankfort, 8tate of kantueaT.

there will be a golden opportunity for all to secure a airt of from to tleo.ooo. The grand total amount of cash to be dlslrlbntedTs WQflOO The drarinVVriUSplaoe positlreir on the day named, and the distribution wili be earried out with equity and fairness, and so arranawdtha all Interested can 6e satisfied of these facta. The Major of Frankfort and the leading men of tbst olty wiu act as apeclal supervisors of the drawing. The Farmers' Bank ol Kentuokr la the depository of ail moneys aad those draw ir sifts will have them promptly cashed without delay. Send $3, (s or git to Messrs.

BARROW A General Eaatarn Agents, at 710 Broadway. Naw York. Alt letters promptly answered. Circulars mailed free FEHSOllAIi A CRET. ACRET'8 OLD ESTABLISHED J.

TRUSS OFFIOE haa removed to No. aM fITON BT7AORBTB Improved Radical Oore Trues, sUkjaUatle stwktais. shoulder braces, ladies' abdominal eto. Instruments for all physlea) deformities. No 000.

neotioq with any ith this oltr. CORONER'S WOTICBS. artORoEs, wqtioeb op anOKONBKS' yn.foo,oI Conovi I nrrWBMI DM lOUB" avi SCIBKOttATE'S NO ICES. TfN PUBSUANCB OF AN ORDER Or? I wullam D. Voider, Surrogate ol the Oonatj ol KWi notice Is hereby siren, according to law, to all SSons liatuxgj plaiiMBsitait 8TBPHBIT JBNE1N8, law ot UieOitoBrooalyn.deceased.

thatthsy are recalled to exhibit the same, with the vooehera thereof, to lbs sub sorlbers, the executors, atthelr piaoe oi tranaaotlna buaU nets, at the residence ol WlfliamL, JeBkms, one ofthe No. lis Elshth avenue. In the Olty ot New York, on or before the twenty fifth day oUanuary neav n.wl Julv 18. UTS. WILLIAM L.

JBNKIi, rml HnDOBDIi HDI1M1I.IS. an wt Bvsiuew new uai 1 Bust. lift 1I1H ur. Wi Mi ss' Hit ijg MH lolV M'X ail! 41K (K UK 109 1032 TlJ tO'X 70K 16 UM UA it tiy, 7iJ Hi ii ioii ai uy. Hit TVESDU ETENWO, JfUIY 18, J87.

TELEGRAMS. Further Evidences of Business Depression in England. Political and Personal Matters The Turks and Their Conflict in Europe. Lomdoh, July 18. Tha Finnncitr ssys It hss reason to boliovo that in unsoquenco of the very unsatisfactory tenor ot to wunts just received In London, and tbo prospect of oino important failure, a largo amount of bank notes have been transmitted by soma ot; ho banks to tho Iron districts.

The York Herald says tie great depression in the Clevolsnd IroD trsde appears llkoly to culminate in disastrous financial complications. Itumora havo boon circulated on 'Change that bills a well known firm have been sent back from the bank. The firm besides being one of the largest in the iron industry Is also a gigantic, financial concern, and on its safety depends tbs existence of a number of others. A private meeting of tbo principal iron masters of tho district was held yesterday, but it was rumored afterward that all proceedings were adjourned until Thursday. It is otirrently believed that it is intended, if practicable, to convert the firm into a atock company, and by that means meet the exigencies of tho case.

If that Is dono the crisis will pass over without a general breakdown. Circat Britalu. londos, July 13. Mown. Walker worsted spinners, of Bradford, ave failed.

Thalr liabilities are reported at $05,000. The Globs says that Mr. Francis Halt Dyke, the Procurator general, died yesterday, from injuries re tetvod by a fall from bis horse. Obituary. Londow, July 18.

Mr. Alaiandcr Rusnol, the noted writer, is dead. The Turkish War. Constantinople, July 18. Tho Turkish armies of Alssa, Pirot and Belgradjlk are marching to effect a junction at Alexinats.

Tho Turkish newspapers announce that the Servian General Toh.it ualeff has been dislodged from Babina glava, and is retreating. The Turks are advancing Into Sorm. Vienna, July 18. The Presse says that during the engagement with the Insurgents, General Paulovltch, on the 13th near Kick, a Turkish man of war, lying in the harbor, flrod upon tho insurgents, notwithstanding the protest of the commander of tho Austrian man of war ststloned there. The PretM says that this la a flagrant violation of Austria's rights.

Hair. London, July 18. The Hour esys that tho "Free Tatty" bill now before the Italian parliament proposes that within the precincts ot Anconae, Genoa, Livornd, Leghorn. Levorno aud other large coast towns goods may be delivered or consumed without payment of duties. mUtsourl Politics.

Kansas City, July 16. B. J. Frsnklin bas boon nouiloated for Congress by tho Democrats of tho Eighth District. Centennial Jlxlitbltlon.

Fhiladklpuxa, July 18. The number of visitors to tho Centennial Exhibition the opening, aggregates 2,254,074, and the cash receipts, $743,578,50. The number of "desd head" or niu pay ing visitors is therefore A i'orioiml Explanation ly Uoulivell, Washington, July 18. In tho Senate, this morning, Mr. Bout wall made a personal explanation, stating that the Democratic platform adopted at St.

Louis, chargod that a late Secretary of the Treasury, alluding to himself, bad forced balances in the public accounts. Ho aenled that such was the case, and read from the report of tbo finance Committeo, recently made to the Henate, etating that they worn fully satisfied that not the slightest change bud been made in the books. Mr. Dirlaol Virginia said if the books of tho Troaa ury Department had not been changed tho official statements sent to Congress had. He proposed to review the report of tbo Finance Oommltteo ou tho subject in a few days, and would show that discrepancies ezistel.

Death. New auk, N. July 18. Rev. John D.

filsir, a leading member of the Newark M. K. Conference, died to day. He was one of the first Methodist ministers to California and established two churches in San Francisco. TJLDEN AND HENDRICKS, The fourteenth Ward in Line A Large Meeting; and Speecliesi by Cor.

oner Nolan and Others). At the call of tho mombera of the Democratic General Committee from the Fourteenth Ward, of which Coroner Nolan is Chairman, Hamilton Hall, Fourth, comer of North Fifth streets, was crowded last evening for the purpose of forming a Tllden and Hendricks Reform Campaign Club, and or ratifying the St. Louis nominations. Previous to tho opening of the mooting there was a display of pyrotechnics and of enthusiasm in tho shape of repeated cheering. When the mooting opened the hall was uncomfortably packed, while hundreds remained outside, unablo to gain ad znission.

coboneh nolan's speech. In calling tho assemblage to order, Coroner Nolan paid that bo had been selected by the members of tho General Coninilttoe of tho ward, for that purpose. Thoy wero present for the purpose of organizing a Til don and Hendricks Reform Campaign Club, and tho presence of such a laru gathering on auoh a aweltor mg night was proof positive that tho people of tho banner ward ol Democracy were alivo to tho interests involved in tho campaign, and the necessity there existed of wresting the administration of tho Government from tho bands of the dishonest men who havo brought disgrace on the American name. There aoetnod to be a quiet revolution going on in the minds of the poople, in favor or HONESTY AND BKFOBM and a return to the simple old ways of the fathers of the Republic. That Tllden was a truo representative of their determination and sterling Integrity the record ot his life and publio career proves.

When within tho ranks of his own party official peculation was detected, he was the first to step to the front and show them that such practices were undemocratic and would not bo toloratod. Tho arrest, conviction and disgrace of the then powerful bead tho party in Now York followod, succeeded by the flight of bis associates. The people of tho Empire State demonstrated their appreciation of tho services mndored by triumphantly electing Mr. Tilbon to tho Gubernatorial chair. This was the FIBST VICTORY in tho interest of honesty and rctorm and was significant of the will of the people, which is tho law of the land.

Choers. The route of the Canal Ring and the saving to the State eight millions of dollars by a wiie and economical administration of its government, proved that tho confidence reposed in bim was not abused. Now this same man presents himself for the auffrages of the people and promises to reform the national administration, which oven the Republicans admit needs a little of that effective kind of medicine. That the people would TBITJMPHANTLY ELEOT DIM was but a just conclusion to arrive at in view of the largo majority which be had received in the State for Governor. His defeat would be a virtual acknowledgement that the paoplo were corrupt at heart and were willing to perpetuate the present thieving administration in the person of Hayes.

Tho Republican nominee, while concededly a man of not more thin mediocre ability, docs not even possess the determination of Grant, and would ben willing tool In tho hands of such men as Cameron and Blaine. In the present Centennial year good government should be fnauguraied.such ai tilden'b advent to the white house would guarantee. Cheers. It seemed impossible to doubt Mis election in vlow of the condition of the working men and business interests of the country. The people dcBlre a change, aud a change they would Lave, ApplauBc.

Bo many working men were never, in proportion to the population, idlo in this or any other country as at present. That such a state of things should exist was lamentable, and that the people could support an administration which brought about in part, if not wholly, TUB FBESBXT DEPRESSION ecemcd impossible. Applause. But no, a change w.is wanted which would bring the workingman Into tho factories aud workshops and yarda applause and crlcB of "That'a bo and other pursuits. There were tboussnds of families at present starving In the city for want of work, but with the election of Tlldm the good old days of DEatOOBAOY AND GOOD TIMES would return.

Applause. It was truo that wagos thou were not so high, but nolther was anything else. But every msn had work and was not compelled to waik the strocta idle. It bohooved all to work for Til den and Hendrloks, and they could uot do so so well ss by joining some campaign club in their interest. Ap P'e" Alderman Thomas J.

Kenna was elected temporary Chairman. In a speech of over half an hour a duration ho advocated the claims of Tilden. The election oi Hayes he would regard as A NATIONAL CALAMITY, alnco it would be nothing more or loss than the perpetuation or continuation of the present corrupt Administration. Being a man of no determination or settled Ideas, HE WOULD BE MEEE PUTTY in the hands of the thieves who rule the roast at present. He drew a farorablo comparison to Hendricks, after epitomising his charscter and that of Wheeler, whom he characterized as a railroad stock jobber oi the Blaine stripe.

The Republican ticket represented and was like the party, In that it proposed, through the lettor of its head, to keep In office the ninety six thousand men who have, in an humble way, been the tools of the public peculators. He clsimed that the Republican party was the cause of the present stagnation of business. He called upon them to organize and drWo them from power, as It was only by organization and harmony that anything could be achieved. Applause. Mr.

John L. Shea next Introduced a series of resolutions favoring the St. Louis nominations. In doing so be arraigned the Administration in vigorous terms and toid many homely and plain truths, which were warmly applauded. On motion a Committee on Permanent Organization was appointed which, through its Chairman, Mr.

Denis Ktiort, made a report half an hour later. In giving the report Mr. Short APPEALED FOB UNITY within the party in the coming contest. It waa so 1m orient that all should sink petty differences. In fact, he very existence of the country depended on the success of the Democrstlc party in tho coming campaign.

He appealed to them to work zealously for tho St. Louis nominees, and to snow the country thai Hayes could not get mare thin a corporal's guard of votes in the FonrteentlrWard. (Cheers.) Local differences in a fight of the present kind and magnitude should be forgotten. The cry should be "Tllden reform and daily." Applause. Re then read off names of the officers chosen and said that were all working, men and non politiclani.

They were well known and good Democrats. THE OFFICE E8 aubmlttcd were unanlmoualy elcoted, and are as follows: President, Mr. Thomas O'Brien; Vioe Presidents, John A. Norton, Eugene Dohorty, Samuel Wendell, Patrick McGulnnese, James Oolden, Cornelius Meyer, M. O'ConneU, Alderman Beardon, Supervisor Tierney, Geo.

Qulnn, Loull Saenger, Geo. F. Keenan, Rudolph Gross, P. F. Laogan, John Glynn and Andrew Lawrence; Secretaries, Thomas J.

Corcoran, James H. Elorne snd Henry Holaberg; Treasurer, James A. Mo Geehan. Mr. nil us Klamke next addressed the meeting, after which resolutions were passed empowering tho President to appoint executive and finanoe committees.

POISONED. Death, of a Woman Warren Street. A Drneplst's Fatal Error He Transposes the Labels on Two Bottles with Disas. trous Effect A Searching; Investigation to be Made. About three weeks ago, Mrs.

Alioo Mc Sweeney, who kept a small newspaper and candy store at No, 383 Warren street, took a severe cold, and was prostrated in a short time. She suffered severely. Mr. Mattlson, ot No. No.

345 Union street, was summoned to attend her, and presorlbod for her a cough mixture, to be taken intornally, and some hartshorn liniment, to be applied externally. Her son, a lad of about fourteen years, took the prescription to the drug store of Ur. Francis M. Bassett, corner of Court street and Atlantic avenue, where It was put up by the proprietor himself. la some way Mr.

Basiett unfortunately TBANSPOSED THIS LABELS on the bottles, getting the labol for the lioament on tho cough mixture bottle and the other one on the lioament bottle. The boy took the medicine home, and shortly afterward his mother took a dose out of the bottle labeled "cough mixture." No sooner had tho medicine passed her Hps than SHE 81LBIEHBD WITH PAIN. The liniament burned her lips and her throat very badly the parts where it touched were all badly discolored. The phystolan was summoned, but thinking that very little could be done for the patient did not hold out much encouragement. It was found that sho was suffering from phthisis and that her doath waa almost certain.

She lingered in great agony ever siooe taking tho medicine until last night, when she died. After Dr. Mattison, who Is said to be a caroful physician, was called in the second time, the family dispensed with his services and socured.the attendanoe of Dr. Dwyor, of Baltlo etreet, near Smith. The latter named pbyalolan waa in attendance up to tho time of Mrs.

MsoSweeney's death. This aiternoon an Kaolk reporter met him and questioned him about (he case. He stared vacantly in reply to all questions, and did not answer so muoh as a word. His appearance waa that of AN INSANE OB INTOXICATED MAN. He did not even refuse to give the facts surrounding the death of the woman.

He merely rolled his eyes in a dazed sort of a way, and then looked In a helpless manner near whom he waa standing. He is said by those who know him to be somewhst addicted to (he use of strong drink. Hit conduct this afternoon was certainly very curious. The reporter called at the drug atore of Mr. Bassett, bdt that gentleman was not in.

His assistant very courteously gave what facts he possessed concerning the case. He said that about three weeks ago the prescription was put up as stated, and that the transposition ot the labels occurred, and though it was AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT, ths woman wonid certainly hare died anyway, as there waa no help for her. The oase was a very had one, and no medical power could help her. The elerk thought she could not have died from the effects of the Une ment, which was sometimes taken Internally, Coroner Slmms had ordered Dr. Shepard to make a post vurtem examination.

The Coroner has decided to make A THOBOUOH INVESTIGATION in order to determine whether the woman died from natural causei, malpractice or poisoning. The autopsy will be made thla afternoon. The writor called on several druggists in order to ascertain whether death would bo likely to onsue from a dDse of the linamont, three weeks after it was taken. The general impression was that tho effects depended to a great extent on the condition of the patient's system at the time the dose was administered. TUB RESERVOIR.

Application Ex Parte for a mandamus to compel the Board oi Citr Work to Complete the Stonework, dec. This morning Corporation Counsel DeWitt went to Ponghkeepsie to make an ex parte application to Justice Barnard for an alternative mandamus to compel the Board of City Works to complete the stonework of the storage reservoir, and the gates and gate houses, at a cost of 30,000, in sccordance with a resolution of the Common Council passed in June last. Mr. DeWitt takes with him the affidavits of Mayor Sohroeder and Henry W. Slocum.

TOT MAXOB'S AFFIDAVIT. Mayor Schroeder deposes tbat tho city owns the reservoir and adjacent lands nnder various acts of the Legislature, and has spent $1,100,000 thereupon, the sum allowed by the act, and that therefore the contract with Messrs. Kingsley Keeney to construct the reservoir la determined aud at an end that in 1876, when the appropriation waa exhausted, the land and reservoir come into the control of the city that tho charter authorizes the Common Council to rogulate tho finances and superlntsndAthe various departments of the eity that tho Board of City Works, subjeot to the direction of the Common Council, has control of publio watetworks and structures connected therewith that the reaervoir is excavated to the depth of thirty feet and capable of holding one thousand million gallons, but that it is oasod with stone to the height of only 13 feet, and that therefore the city is prevented from storing water above that height, because of the damage that might follow by the bunting of the dam, and that all that Is necessary to attain the object for which the reservoir was constructed is to complete the stone wall, which can be done at a cost not exceeding twenty five thousand dollars tbat by this comparatively trifling expenditure, the reservoir which is now to a degree useless, may be easily and beneficially utilized and operated for the welfare of the people and to the Increase 'ot the water revenuea of the city that aocordlng to the repeated written declarations of the Board of City Works, the has been in danger of a water famine, the Board having the water works in obajge, and especially the respondent, William A. Fowler, representing this terrible peril as imminent to the city, and urging tho oana traction of a reservoir, aa it would be oonatructed by the expenditure of only twenty five thousand dollara and of the stone wall aa a means of averting a water famine; thai there la now a serious danger of tho supply of water running short; that (ho Common Commit passed a resolution directing the Board of City Works to complete the reservoir eo far aa the stone facing waa conoerned, at a cost not exceeding and that William A. Fowler and Tfiomee Wf Adams, two members of the said Board, have negleeted and refused and still neglect and to comply with the resolutions; and that the Coaporatlon Counsel has been dlreoted by the Common Council to apply for the mandamus now asked for, to compel the Board of City Works to take the lawful stops to complete tho Btone work of tho reservoir.

General Slocum'a affidavit follows, and Is substantially the same as the Mayor's. SAl'EKD llEallT P1CSIC. The fourth annual picnic of tho Church of the Sacred Heart, will take place to morrow, at Myrtle Avenue Park. The programme of amusement will include an archery contest, open to the ladles, which is a novel feature, a shooting contest between tho rifle team of St, Patriok'a Church and the ohuroh giving the picnic, and a rifle match open to all. In all of these contests prises will be awarded.

Tho rifle Shooting will be under the direction of Colonel James McLeer, of the Fourteenth Regiment. In addition to these contests, there will be various athletic games and contests, putting the heavy stone, throwing the bar, jumping and running matobee, and sack and blindfold wheelbarrow matches. Father UcCaliom and the committee assisting him, have done all in their power to make tho picnic a success, and to give all comers a pleasant time. TUB (IE AT. No fatal case of suaatroko has occurred in the oity since Saturday last, and only a few oases of prostration have been reported to day.

Roundsman Thomas J. Herbert, of the East New York police, was overcome by tho best while superintending the erection of the now bell tower. He was carried home on a stretcher. James Larkin, of 908 Waieott stro'et, was sun struck in Graham avenue this morning, and taken to hia residence la an ambulance. Colonel Hour M.

Connolly was seiied with an attack of vertigo in Fulton street this morning, and was just able to walk into hia office, No. 363. Dr. Thomaa Baylis was sent for and attended him. Tho Colonel recovered In a short time, and went home.

Mr. J. D. Nnnan, while picking blackberries In the vacant lota at the baok ot the Penitentiary, waa also overcome by the heat. He was taken to his residence, No.

30 Busssll place. justice Walfort had to leave the bench thla morning. He wa temporarily over heated. Weather Probabilities. WasantaTOM, D.

0., July IS. For the Middle Btatee clear or fair weather, and a alight rise In temperature, light and gentle eontherly to westerly winds and falling barometer. BIOOBD OF THE THaWMOaTETBB. The following 1 the record of tho thermometer, as kept at the BROOKLYN DAtti Eaoia offloe; A. A.

eel Average Umperatare to Average remnerature same day laai year Several workmen on the Midland Railroad, it Jersey City, were Injured by the collision of a freight train with a hand car, Sunday night. PROVIDED FOR. The Homeless Soldiers of the State. Assured Success of the Project to Which Brooklyn Gave the First Grand Impulse. The Brooklyn men, chief among whom are Captains Lewis, Tanner and Parkinson, interested in the Soldlors' Home project, for which the groat meeting in the Academy of Music, at which Beecher spoke, was held, have returned with the following report of work done: Ttae Proceeding.

The Board of Trustees of the Soldiers' Home of the Grand Army of the Bepnbllo met at Elmira last Thursday for the purpose of determining finally on the location of the Home. The Locating Committee of Five, together with the President of the Board, were, at the first Bession at 10 o'clock, absent in Bath finishing their investigation ot the advantages afforded by that beautiful inland town. This necessitated an adjournment of the Board until 9 o'clock Friday morning. Elmira, Watkina, Bath, Pen Yan and other towns had made proposals for the Home. There was great Interest manifested in the result.

The Trustees met In the large parlor of the Rathbun House, Osptaln James Tanner, Chairman of the Locating Committee, opened and read the sealed proposals ot the various competing localities Elmira offered fifty acres of land and $35,000 in cash. Fen Vsn offered 188 acres ot land on Lake Keuka and $5,000 in cash. Watkina offered about 200 acres of land on Seneca Lake and $5,000. Batb offered 330 acres of land and $6,000. The delegates of the various localities then presented their claim in fifteen minute speeohes.

Bath was represented in a most able and telling speech by Colonel Wm. Bumsey, himself a gallant soldier. The claims of all having been heard, THE BKPOBT OF THE LOCATING COMMITTEE was given by Captain Tanner, aa follows That the Committee had spent nearly four days of hard and patient labor In visiting aU of the locations named that they had endeavored to lay aside all per. sonsl feeling in the matter, and to be governed aolely by facts which should be for the best interest of the institution for which they wero laboring and for nothing else. The claims of Elmira and Welkins, though munificent, the Committee est aside.

Upon Lake Keuka and Bath the Committee wore dividedthe majority favoring Bath, viz. James Tanner and E. O. Parkinson, of Brooklyn William F. Bogers, of Buffalo, and F.

H. Shepard, of Utloa. In favor of Lake Keuka, were Eugene B. Gere, of Owego, and Benjamin F. Finley, of New York.

The report having been reoelved it was resolved to visit the various locations before taking a final vote. The Trustees then adjourned, took a special train of cars toHammondsport, visited Boat's Point and Brandy Bay on the shores of the lake, thence visited Pen Yan and Watklns, examining the various and proposed sites with great care. BATH SELECTED. At the Lake View House, Watklns, the Trustees again went Into session. An informal ballot showed 8 for Batb the remainder scattering between Boat's Point, Lake Keuka, Brandy Bay and Watklns.

On the second formal ballot Bath received a majority of the whole and was declared the location of the Soldiora' Home. Seymour Dexter, oouasel of the Board, then drew up a formal contract, locating the Home on the Bider Farm, in accordance with tbo soiled proposals. This was signed by War. B. RaaaLza, I.

D. HocoMiH, Jonathan Bonis, William BDafsxr, A. E. Baxtkb, Ira DAVKirronr, On the part of Bath. The Grand Army of the Bepnbllo Soldiers' Home of New York, by 8iTMorjn Dextkb, Att'y in fact.

A SEASON OF A telegram having been forwarded to Bath of the result, and that their Committee, together with James Tanner, E. C. Parkinson, L. W. Flake and J.

A. Lewis, of tha Board of Trustees, would arrlvo lh Bath at a late hour the same evening, the entire population of Bath and the surrounding oountry turned out in mass illuminated the publio square, places of business and private bouses. Artillery waa placed in position a big bonfire was made ready and the bands ready to play; vtdettes were thrown out on the road leading to 13am on da port, by which they were expected, in order to give the aignai of approach, ao the cannon anight be fired, the bonfire lighted and the bands aet playing. The people hare never aeen such a demonstration ainoe the surrender of Lee eleven years ago. They had been thoroughly aroused to thla enterprise, and now that they had won their enthusiasm knew no bounds the public square snd streets leading into town were packed with ladles, children and men.

The party expected were very late in arriving. At a few minutes past one the carriagea drove in, and cheer after cheer west up, the bells commenced ringing, the bonfire was punched anew, and the crowd in front of the Niohola House soon became very large and dense. Loud calls were now made for Captain Tanner, the hero of the occasion. After riding for five hours over a very rough road most of the way from Watkina, and at that late hour, the members of the Board had no idea of finding any one up, and muoh less of making speeches. After loud calls from tha waiting crowd without and entreaties from within, Tanner stepped upon the baloony and was greeted with loud and prolonged cheering.

He made a very earnest and thrilling speech, whioh was often interrupted by applause, okmel William Bumsey was loudly oa frr, and waa followed by Colonel Ju E. Baxter, Cmo E.O. Parkinson. Captain John F. Little, L.

W. JATiewis. Ira and others. At about oWockTr which bad been waiting tofSx longl hours retired, and the guests of the ocoa. iion werTrapWIy driven sway In carriagea (overtone they might obtain a few hours sleep, htvlngbeen constantly employed for an entire week.

A TQUHfl THIEF BUN DOWN. William Kennedy, aged years, of No. 260 Atlantic avenue, waa arrested yesterday by Detective Driehan of the Eighth Precinct for stealing a gold watch and chain valued at $180ffrom John Shay, of No. 439 Seventeenth street, in whose employ he formerly was. The accused was held for court.

Andrew Miller living at No. 247 Stockton street and IS years of sge waa slightly injured by a small bullet shot at him by a boy unknown, Tbeboy way sjrujk. 99 the (eft.