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I COOK NIGHT WORK. TALMAGE. CURRENT EVENTS. Holland O'Brien fc boot and shoe manufacturers of Montreal, hava failod, with Uabin tioe amounting to 10,000. Eopresentativo Williams, of Michigan, was very low yesterday and no hopes of his recover, ware had accumulated a small fortune.

Thirty years ago he married a widow of great beauty, but after ten years of biokering they separated and hare never lived together since. Mrs. Gay went into business on her own account and made a great deal of money. In April, 1877, he was taken sick, and as he had made SATURDAI ETENING, DECEMBER 3), 1873. been a ohange.

Bat whether this is a permanent change is a matter later years will determine. That the world has seen a reversal of climates geology fully settles. Great Britain cannot be called a tropical country, yet the geologists have found the remains of tropical growths and animals. Such traces are found in the far north, and even in South America the marks of iceWga were found, and clearly demonstrated by Agassiz. Thai tbfs portion of the country was once covered with glaciers is now fully believed by the scientists, and that traces of the glacial area extended cer nmUt fin fntt nu.

11. TiltiO "RidffO. is witn Conference for a change, and onl thlrty favof of so doing. It was aaserKd by one peak.r that 3.000 Methodist families In Brooklyn had fought other churcb relations within a few years, in order to bavo tho boneflt of atable pastors. On the otbtr side 11 waa shown that while the average Methodist pastorate in Brooklyn la a little leas than two years, that Presbyterians Is only about threi years.

The majority declared si their opinion "that th present system requires only thorough working to secure result fai surpassing any heretofore obtalnod." From all ol which would that ths alleged dissatisfaction of Methodists lth tha Itinerant exists largely In tbe imagination of ontaiders. NOTES. I' t. Mr. Hurray remains editor in oblef of lbs Go'ilm Ruie magisine.

and Mr. Merrill will remain his associate. The first number of th: magaains will be Uaued lfr8 January 1. Two mtsjioniuT itauons will bs established In Central Afrioa by the Catholic Churoh, one oa Lake Tan gauika, aud the other on Victoria. The Baptist Missionary Sodsty has 300,000 oburob members la India.

Tbat la n.arly as many aa thrro are Baptists In England. Baptlat doctrine baa been preached In India less than a hundred years It baa been preached In England more than thousand year. Bev. George F. Pentecost, with hit singing coworker, Mr.

Stobbius, is soon to boln rerlral meetings In Chicago. It is said that Dre hundred elngere, picked out of the different congtegatlona of ths city. Greenpoint, School No. 22, Mr. V.

Davis, Principal, closed last evening. The average attendance during the session was about 250. professor Upham read, and Mr. N. A.

Northup and Ml" Dearie sang. Mr. James B. Sparrow, of the Local Committee, and Mr. James Murphy made addresseB, Several books and 150 cortlflcatea wera distributed.

SOHOOL NUMBEB TWENTI FOBB Tha closing exeroises at Sohool No. 24, oorner of Wall and Beaver streets, were of the usual pleasing ebaraoter, Mr. Herman B. Scharmanu, Oharman of tho Local Committee, conducted the performances, aided by the principal, A. G.

Morwtn. The leading features of the entertainment, In whlob scholars of tho sohool only participated, were as follows Bocitations by Allen MoDonnell, Henry Wenkle, Mary PXelfer and Katie Mnrpby. the last named miss reciting "Tha Pride of Battery B.n Miss Mary Dennlson sang "Kil larnsy" in good style, In addition to whioh the school sang aeveral ohoruaes whlob elicited applause from the audience. Preceding brief addresses by Messrs. fl.

B. Soharmann, James J. Rogers and T. C. bout thirty five rewardB were diatributed among Ihfl rnoro deserving pupils.

The average attendance of the school Is about 350 scholars of both sexes. SCHOOL NUMBEB TWENTY FIVE. Night Sohool No. 25 (females) on Byerson street, closed last nigbt with appropriate exercises. The average attendance during the session has been 160 girls.

Miss Ellen McKmley is principal. Mr. Spiagua, who was present, said the location of the school was good for those who attended during tho Winter evenings. The attendance on all of the night sohools this year was smaller than it had ever been. He could not account for it.

He hoped when the sobolars retired from their desks that'they would spend a few minutes at home with their studies, and be well prepared for next year's opening. The reason, he said, that tna schools closed earlier than usual was because the appropriation was exhausted. Mr. Sprague thought that School No. 25 bad one ol tbe best prinolpala In tha city and the teachers her were intelligent and industrious.

The sohool sung the following songs "Christmas Bells," "Grandfather's Clock," "Footstepa on the Stairs" and "Good Night." There wera three dialogues performod by a number of tho sobolars. Miss Meggle Young sung tho "Bonnie New Moon" and "The Haunted Stream." A very olevor reoitation entitled "Those Boys" was given by Miss Ida Tredwell. Sixty certificates were distributed to the sobolars by their different teachers. Before the school was dismissed Miss McKlnlay presented Christmas gifts to several of the teachers from their soholors. Some of the presents were very handsome.

The oommltteo in charge of Evening Sobool No. 35, pn Walworth street, near Myrtle avenue, oon slatlng of Messrs. William E. Sprague and Daniel Maujor, had the satisfaction last evening of seeing that building crowded with ihe parents aud friends of tho pupils. In the Waltirorth street sohool Mr.

John Gallagher and Miss Agnes Rollly have had charge of fourteen classes of boys and four of girls, while three olasses of girls have been Instructed in Publio School No. 12, on Adelpbl street, under the superintendence of Miss Ellen MoEinley. Last evening the closing exeroises were conducted by Mr. William E. Sprague, Chairman of the committee, and oonslsted of singing by the school, reoltations and dialogues, ia all of wbich the pupils great proQelenoy, and were loudly applauded.

Soveral congratulatory addresses were delivered, and before dismissing; tbe sohool a large number of diplomas distributed to those pupils who bad been most regular in their attendance during the term; EVENING SOBOOL NUMBEB TWENTY SEVEN. Evening School, No. 27, on Nelson street, near Hicks, His Views on Marriage an3 Divorce. Lecture Last Evening fn Music Hall A Jury of Ancient and Modem Anthorities upon the family Belation Nothlng New or Strlkinsr Adducod in Favor of an In. stitntion Already Pretty Well Under stood and Practiced.

Last evening, Joseph Cook, of Boston, delivered his second lecture and his last this season In Brooklyn In Music Hall, at the junction of Flatbueh avenue and Fulton street. The mni. what larger than the one which greeted him two weeks ago. The gentleman who introduced Mr. Cook said he bad been requested not to use any title.

He therefore simply introduced "Joseph Cook" to tha audience The theme of the3ecture was "Marriage and Divorce" and Mr. Cook spoke in effect as follows THE LEOTDBE. he Christmas tree no leper osn lie down and rest. In this escred an 3 jubilant (Juris mas season, who does not loathe our divorce la8 ami attaeks upon the family. The communist oUm" for he abolition of property and the socialist for the abolition of tho family.

It weU, therefore bat we can discuss this question uoder the shadow of the Christmas trot I desire to impanel a Jury who JywhoshU be in part without Cbristlau bias or ureludlca tho first or tho panel shall ba women from out of tho depths of Paganism. Xonophon tells of Panthoo tho Pagan wife, who was so dovoied to ber husbsud that all the dazzling brilliancy of the Court of Cjrm could not draw her away from her love, and when her husband died battle sbo killed herself bv his side. This is a pagan scene. You wisu me to teach you what soiouco teaches unon thia question, and we go back to the spring or paean life Wo Hod there tho same orystalliue wntera that now from under tbe showers of Christianity. Approach ye men who scoff at marrige and 6een to ruin American society, who seek to undermine family life and look you Into tbe eyeB of these women who come to us from out of tbe depths of Paganism, aud dieouss the theories which you advance.

But tho jury must hate twelve in It. and these women hava naught but a curse for these lepers and their theories. Let us Dlace here Mrs. Browninir and tho Hnm.n nn.u. After the death of her husband Titus, she rofuaed the hand of Ptolemy of JSuypt, for the ashes of ht.r,io.rf husband lay too cold upon her breast to allow tha waruiiu 01 uttvr iutb, nui we must have a man from Pagandom upon this Jury.

It la said that modern Bocioty is too lax in Us punishment of the adulterer and tho eoduoer. Yet if a husband or a brother find one of these loafers in bis family ha shoots him not a jury in tho land will convict him. Pliny the younger baa written a letter wboro ne tells of the love of his wife aud her devotion to him. Oo with me into the most Pagan portion of modern history, the Belgn of Terror, and see the letter tbat waa fouud in tbe dnngeons with the skeleton of the writer whioh lay upon It. The writer pleads for news of "his dear wife," if nothing more toon her name upon a card calling to the Jury.

Hampden, wounded to the death on tbe battlefield, tried to ride to tbe villa from whioh, in his youth, he had borne his wife, there to die. Bring him into tbe panol. Bring Thomas Jefferson, lying prone upon tha floor of his study after the death of hts wife. Bring Washington Irving to thfl jury, be, under whose pillow after bis death, was found a miniature and a lock of bair. We will impanel this jury in Pliny's villa.

Will the freelorers dare to come there after reading Pliny's letter? Perchance they may peep through the lattice or listen at Ihe door. The leoturor then presented these points as the basis of his srgumeot. First, supreme affection can be the only logical basis of marriage and a supreme affection oan exist only botweeu two. It. follows, therefore, that tbe law ot monogamy is eoienlifually justified.

Even the lion, THE KING 07 THE FOBJtST, has but one mate, and aa we get higher in tho scale ot cxistenoe wo find more hints of the arrangement of nature for a home. There are two Victorias on the planet one at tbe top and the other at tho bottom of her sex, and tbe latter has beon wise enough to see that tbe only natural marriage is monogamio. Marriages without the pledge of tbe supreme affection are red hot cages, and it Is well that it ia so. Thoy ore the proclamation of God against marriages that are not baaed upon supreme affection. When tbey are so then the rights of children will be respeoted.

Wo hear a whisper, "Let tho State take core of the children," but look in Cornelia's eyes, and se la her aogry look what the answer is. The disregard of tbe natural laws of marriage does not cbaago the natural law, and ths pain Is in proportion to the extent to whioh ths law has been disregarded. Toe evils are curable by the application of conscientious pationce and ths right application of the laws of divorce. The lecturer then referred to tho soonot of Michsol Angelo addressed to Victoria Colonna as an example of what he thought of woman'a love, and the reverence which he paid to honorable love. It was, ho Baid, perhaps the nobleet sonnet ever addrtseed by man to woman.

He then read from Mrs. Browning, to show what she thought of love. Genuine love, she said, was possible, ouly to consclenUousjsouls. The world is only natural until It Is goad. I believe that it tho world was conscientious, the number to whom marriage Is sent would not be so great.

Viriuous homos are the foundation of the titate, and we shall never protect property and the borne until we cease to undermioe ths home. If you listen to the oommunlBtio dls ousaiona that are heard in our great oltles you will And that they are only the outoropplngs of tbe dark ledges aud boulders that run deep beneath tbe surfaoe. Tbe first tuition tbat society needs Is obedience to moral law. Until wa bavo a natural, and therefore a conscientious world, wo cannot tell what would be the effeot of tbe working ot natural laws, the removal of tbe obstacles In the way of marriage. When ths test of the law of supreme affeotlou la app'led It will be found tbat tbe laws of affinity have been followed.

The rule of nature is to seek sn equilibrium. Nature will not be cheated because her laws are not followed. It does not follow that because two extremes are drawn together that any disoordant result will follow. When the two opportunities are seot. namely, ths supreme affection and tbe opportunity to found a new home, the mau Is dastardly who does not accept the responsibility.

The lamp of reproach should be set upon the false social prldo that will not allow people to marry because they cannot support ths style of the parent who has bad a lifetime in which to accumulate a fortune. The Jury would not be oompleto without a leader. The foreman of this jnry, let him be tho founder of Christianity. "If a man look upon a woman' with auevll heart, be is criminal already." Faatbea, the pagan wife, agrees with that, Cornelia, tho Rowan matron, agrees, when it Is stated that only one reason can Justify divorce. The Jury are all agreed upon these questions.

When we briog the lepers and the evil minded before the Jury they hang their heads in the presence of such high character. The woman's cause ts man's, and tney rise or fall together. What she fa he will be. The old Saxons bad a rule under which they soourg ed the adulteress through the streets and buried the adulterer alive in ths mnd. They were monogamists.

The Bomans never conquered that race. Ont of it has come England, Milton, Shakspeare, Magna Charts and the American Constitution. When the Bomans tonnd the Saxons, they were as pure as any nation ot antiquity. It has passed witn victory through all tbs struggles of ths paat because of the vigor which It in herited from Its ancestors, It will continue to rule the world ao long as it keepa free from the vioos of Paganism. Mr.

Cook spoke for an hour and a half, and was listened to with close attention. BAILBOAD MATTERS. Tbs Proposed Extension of (be Hal or Street JLtne Opposition to Stage Houtes. The Esilroad Committee of tbe Board of Alderman met last night at the City Hall, Aid. Senna in the obalr and Aid.

Dreyer, Molntyre and Dwysr present. The Committee reviewed the nstltion of Eishtannth Ward property owners, urging an extension of the Halsey street and Putnam avenue line of cars to Broadway. It ia o'aimed that the section for which the extension is aakerl Is growing rapidly. Prosldent Sullivan, of tho Brooklyn City Company, who wa present, denied the statement and said the operation of cars on the proposed extension wonld cost IS cents for each paaaeDger oarried. Tbo company, be said, were prepared to meet all legitimate demands for increased traveling facilities, particularly ss it was to their interest to do so, but there was nothing to war rank them in making tbe outlay tbat would be rendered neoessary by compliance with ths request contained.

Iu the betition. As soon as the seotion of the city waa built up he promised tbe matter would receive the favorable consideration of tb company. In the meantime he would Jay the petition before tbs Board ol Directors for action at the next meeting. OPPOSITION TO 8TAOB LINKS. The committee then took np tbs petition of Thomas AlcGann A Company for permission to run a line of stages from Fulton Ferry, along Henry street, Third place and other thoroughfares to Greenwood Cemetery.

Mr. Henry Hioes opposed the nse of Sevenuenthstreet as a portion of the route. He said tbe street was built up with private residences and not at all suited to the purpose. Be added that ths people In the vicinity had all tne traveling facilities they needed In the boras cars. Three fourths of the property owners, be said.

the eiUioeioo Haakon Is growing rapidly. Pro.iieot were opposed to tha project. President Sullivan said when the City Bailroad Company was organized they bought ail the lines of stages running to Fulton Ferry, including those on tbe Greenpoint, Myrtle avenue and Greenwood routes. The operators of these lines held franchises from the city, snd the Brooklyn City Company purchased them in good faith aud at heavy expense. His doslre, he said, was to lay the facts before the committee as an argument against an encouragement to competition, leaving it to their judgment to say whether it would be right to bring up this opposition to tbe railroad company.

Aid. Dwyer said it would be uaeless for them to act favorably upon any inch petition at present, in view of tbe fact that Mayor Howell had recently vetoed a similar petition. Mr. Sullivan said it cost the railroad company $Q0, 000 a year to keep Ihe street parempnt la repair between the traoks and on each side thereof. IT WOULD BE UNFAIB, he thought, to allow tho running of stages or carriages by men who paid nothing Into Ihe city treasury for tbe privilege.

Tbe matter waa laid over as was also tha petition of John Cunningham for permission to run carriages from Wall street Ferry to the depot of th Brooklyn, Flatbush and Consy Island Bailroad, at Flatbush avenue. Mr. W. J. MoGratb appeared as counsel of tbe Brooklyn Advertising Company fa support of a petition fcr permission to attach advertising signs on the lamps along streets where railroads ar operated.

He offered to pay the city tbree per cent, of the gross receipts of the company for a period of twenty flta years. Aid. Eenna said the Common Council had no power to grant tho privilege for any number of years. The matter was laid over and the committee adjourned. A CARD FBOS AH.

TltLOB, To the Editor of the Brooklyn Saute In your paper of the 15th and 16th instant you refer to me la an unpleasant manner iu reference to tne speculation in opera tickets for "La Sonnam bula," and in Jmtice to myself I wish to giv, through your columns, a correct statement. You accuse me of being in colltuion with certain men who have speculated in tickets for this opera, and in partioular with Mr. Bullman, of New York. I urn label Mr. Bullman with tickets to sell at his office, at No.

Ill Broadway, New York, and advertised hla office In the Brooklyn papers aa a branch office for all my concerts and operas. Mr, B. has ticket on sale for all first class theatres and musical entertainments in New York aod Brooklyn. He keeps the office for tbe accommodation of down town merchants and Brooklyn men who do business la tbe neighborhood of hts establishment, and he receipts for these tickets at the rsgnlar prices. When tbe tickcta are sold he charges an advance of twenty five cents for hi commission to pay th expenses of hla office, snd'hl customers understand thereaaon for sunK charge.

When he makes his returns he pay me forths face of the tickets only. For theoparaoa Thursday evening Mr. Rnllman had about dred tickets. The Board of Director of thtAoaaemj of Musio take for themselves, for each op.ra. Be cUon in the balcony, numbering.

fly ne for the. press compllmentarles, and few V' esifmd ftfidvaaes of the opening of tbo box office, I dred ana toiity snreo rmorvou Mr.inii to the diagram, thus Isavlng over one'thoussnd reserved seat, forsale oy ESS oTwXZ nru TutTfeh procured in manner for which I was not responsible. various plana to get thelv seats, by aentog friends and buying email smmbex at tha .1,., c.t.ne aulte number of messon gor boys were p.sc.d In toy to. toot bestseaU xne nouse. My ageni wa larger number than ten to ny one person.

uiok the public will see that I am not responsible for tickets falling into the hands of speculators. David Tatxob. In the Lewie will contest case in Jersey City yesterday "iu. Edward Plerreponla gave notice to tho clamian' Jrodoce lbs widow for crois exam ination by i on behalf of the Government. Tha hearing was tiostpouod for a monU Friday Evening: Lccture tho Tabernacle.

in Lessons from the Life and Death of Bayard Taylor. Mr. Talmage made the deaths of the Prin cess Alice and Bayard TayloV the themea of his Friday evening lecture at th Tabernacle. A large and attentive audience was present. Mr.

Talmage said The deep sigh of England's grief at the death of Princess Alios tbls week meets tbe eigb of America's bereavement at tbe death ot Bayard Taylor. Whatever tha neoaaeary exclusiveness of royalty, when a member of the Imperial family las, the wall of palaoea cannot binder tbe rising of the tides ot national and international Tne sorrow of Queen Vlotoria, the Christian ruler. Is tbe sorrow ot all nations. With the liturgical ill Christian ohurobes will unite commending to uod the hearts Oroken. It seems tbat the robe of a Princess cannot keep out tbe chill that blows up from the dead sea, and that grlof is no more tree to walk amid the oellara ot the unknown than through the marble halls of tbe great.

To tbe extreme Badness of the departure ot Prince Albert, the wound of whose death intervening years hava bad no power to heal, the Queen must now add tbe sadness of what seems the untimely decease of tbe affectionate and beautiful Alloa All nations do well to mingle their sympathies la this tender and overmastering affliction. There la no discharge in that war. Let tha mighty of the oartb bow iat silence before tha catafalque snd learn ths lesson. But tbe ovent tbat cuts us the most keenly is tho death, yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, of our American Minister to Germany. In tho former case, she was born to fortune and fame in the last, ho acbiaved them.

Somehow our hearts are more thoroughly stirred bv the atorv of the life aud death of ono who mount from among the common peopl oy tne piuca ot nis own neon, unuer uoa, coaxing himself Imperial. Between tho boy at eevcoteeo, act ting ty In a printing office in Weatcheater, and tha Minister Plenipotentiary entertained by imperial William at Berlin tbere eras a vast obasm tbat mere accident of fortune could not have bridged. It seems too muoh for American literature to entomb William Cation Brjant and Bayard Taylor In the same balf year. But the latter calamity ia more stunning than the formsr. Bryant's work was done, and magnificently done, while our living friend of yettorday waa in mid llto and on the verge of what promised to be bis grandest literary aohiovement.

While politicians saw in his appointment to Oermany only a oompllment for work done, his literary associates saw in it opportunity for resounding work yet to be But he has chimed hla last canto, mads bis last journty, heard the cboers ol tha last earthly banquet, had on his living brow ths last garland of the world's praine. Oh, h.iw many million of hearts thrilled with emotion as last evening the sub marine telegraph annouuoad "Bayard Taylor Is dead." Through this deceaa from toe lecturing platform of the world there retires one who could give more Information concerning foreign land In one hour than any other man. He had BBBN THS WORLD, not as ths railroad passenger sees It, from the oar window while rushing through the worst part ot tbe oities and the most barren part of tbe land, but minutely, and faoa to faoe, snd deliberately a ono only oan see it when going afoot. Wbo baa not sat fascinated with hts stories of the Krsmlin, and the Alhambrand the Chinese wall, and tbe Hlnda pagoda? Kb started thousands of pedeB trlaos ou pilgrimages. Ha exploded tbe Idea tbat a fortune waa necessary: for foreign travel.

On bis small outfit of lssa than 1600, for two years visiting palaoea and gardons, aotaolatu and kloga, while to the reoord ot bis journeying all tha civilized world turned it attention. There is hardly a town or village In the land where he has not told his stories of adventures, and his doparture from the lecturing platform forever leaves a vacancy that no one may fill. While his old associates aro presenting their eulngiums, sod the United States and Oermany are uniting in honor to bis memory we may learn two or three practical lessons from bis life aud death. First Lot not parents despair because of the singularities of tbelr cuildren. Bayard Taylor was so dreamy and Unpractical that nothlug remarkable was prophesied for bim in the days of ma boyhood yet out of what unpromising childhood nd youth he rose into what apbero of usefulness and literary power I So the very peculiarities of rour children are preour Bors for especial work.

Be patieut. Their faculties will unfold, and after a wbllo tbelr mission will be made evident. Many who bave outrun all their comrades in juveulle departments of study have lived to bo taggarda and dolts. The arst honor men In cal lege and valedictorians on "Commonccment dai" rarely demonstrate anything valuable in practical I life; while many a lad with no moro brill lunt faculties than tbe Pennsylvania printer's has lived to stand before klnge Lesru. also, from this man, not to be afraid of Btorttng out In a way i novel and untried.

If hi project of aeelag tu world on toot had baen proposed to a thousand men, nine hundred and nlnoty nioe would havn prononncad it chimerical and unsafe. Not so thought Horace Oroc ly, when he encouraged tho oxpodition and became Us literary patron. Tbe ambitious young traveler saw more on 1300 a year than others hive ssen with their $10,000. American pedestrianism in Europe was ss yet untried, but in tbls case heoauie so successful that It boa bod unoountod Imitators. Be not from uudertaklag anything ueetul because others hare not undertaken it.

Do your work in your oo way. If you feel called to do anythiug that sooms as out of the way as A STAFF AND SNAPS ICS ASSAULT on Europo and Asia, do not hesitate. A new way is Just as apt to be right as the old wty. "Virus Afoot" Is a classlo in all libraries while huu lreils of books written every year ou European travel will be sold to tbe papor dealers at so much the do not stop because the way suggested is unusual or on tried. Again, from this man learn what bard work can do Thirty five books dropped from his pen but what pilgrimage and what midnight study fitted hlui for such wide authorship.

Tho difference between men is, for the most part, a difference in genius for bard work. It Is not so muoh the number of inches of brain as the number ol boars of toll. It is by hard work that men rise to great usefulness In mechanism, or art, or literature. The men wbo bave done anything worthy of themselves, or the race, are for the most part, graduated from the university ot hard knoaks. Bayard Taylor stood before the whole land a radiant Illustration of what push and drive and dead lift may accomplish.

No need toat any young man la my presence say be has no chance. Bayard Taylor had no chance, exoept what be made for himself. With brain and hand and foot and an appeal to God, you will be irresistible. Do not watt to ride into success, or sail Into success, or slide into success, or be carried into success, but like Bayard Taylor, do your own climbing, a foot. A staff is better that a sword.

A knapsack Oo will do more for you than a chariot. Oo afoot I Again, learn from what we bavs board within the list twsuty four hours of this Amerloan favonte that well furnished Intellect and perfect manner and high position aro no shelter against the assault of dsslb. This man was tbs highest style of gentleman. Oo all occasions proved himself aucb. No one could stand in his presence fire minute without saying within himself, "This man is a complete gentleman." He felt at borne in the mountain cabin, ur In tho parlors of Bismarck.

Aye, he was a shining mark for the old. aroher. Eminent medical skill and ths anxieties of the German court for hla recovery could make no adjournment of the hour of decease. Dio he must, and at a time whan Ihe Colled States aa.l Oermany and ths world could least spare him. Who, then, shall escape Not one.

RELIGIOUS. A Few Words From tbe ReliTlouPres of tbe Weck WLal ia Said or Woman Suffrage in Wyoming; Territory, ol Tbeatre Golnr, of Francis fdurplir and aim Warn la New York, on the PereraatsW srcsjbnes of tbe Caoapel, dec. Tbe Observer publishes an interesting letter from a Wyoming lady, giving her obesrvatione regarding the result ol woman suffrage In the Territory. 8b takes tbe ground tfiat woman, from bor very dependence, feels more atroogly than mau doe her need of the protrection of good laws faithfully eieouted, and In her own interest snd of those she loves she naturally puta ber vote where it will do moat good for ths accomplishment of this snd. This writer further says: I am not a woman's rightist.

We have not ono in the Territory, I believe. I ao not indorse tn ultra Idea which Its champions advocate. I do not think women will derive any special personal benefits from it exercise, outside of tbelr gen oral Interest, as other member of the comiouaitjt in good laws and good government, but I believe the result of the experiment In Wyoming nave demonstrated tnat woman'a influence in (be goter'nmsnt of tbe dials Is Just ss beneficial as la the government of tbs family. ON THEATRE OOINO, The Chriitian Union publishes letter from Edwin Booth, in reply to an Inquiry of one of Its editor, regarding the question of the morality of tbe modern drama. Mr.

Booth admits that his knowledge of the modern drama la very meagre, thathe never pvrmlts his wife or daughter to witness a play without previously ascertaining its character. He says, however, that "while tbe theatre Is permitted to be a mere shop for gslr pen lo every huckster of immoral jim crackt here Is no other way to discriminate between the purj and base than through the experiences of The Union thinks tbat not even an accom'. pllahsd i Mtrattur could bave embodied ths answer to tho qu Mod, "Shall I go to Ihe theatre more effectively in a tbree column article than this actor has done in so many lines. It pertinently ask tbe question "What, then, shall we do, forego all popular amusements, because popular smusement tend tu de generate 1" And 1 answers No, uae them withstand and conquer the deeener atlng tendency redeem them from their own lunate depravity. Discriminate.

There, are theatres sad theatres taere are plays and plats. The remedy ic every cass is the same not starvation, hut good food, Tbe best antidote to poisoned and adulterated food is a (able well spread tho best antidote to a eooeaiiouul story paper Is classlo notion tbe best antidote to sen sational pulpiteers is a thoroughly arousod and earnest preacher. Perhaps the time will oome when tho churoh will conclude that tho best antidote to the modern drama Is a Bbokspeorean revival. TBANCIS MDBPBY AND BIS WOBK. The Advocate devotes a oolunin editorial to the work of Mr.

Murpby, and give blm tbe most bearty Indorsement, like tbe arrival of Phil Bheridsn st Win ohenter. wbos sinal Dresonce turned defeat Into victory, tb coming ot this Gospel temperance advocate has put new life sad courage into tbs tsmperaneo forces in tbls city. Thus It opens, and then after showing omo of the cruel lade ot Intemperance in Nw York, snd tbe figures relating to it, it gives a synopsis of the work accomplished by Mr. Murphy in on week, during which time be and bis helper held twenty two meetings at four different tails snd churohes, snd in four weeks received fourteen thousand Bignaturea to the pltdge. It further add Francl Murpby, on hi own responsibility, aaed th Cooper Institute for two weak, with no filedg of money even for hi owo support, and opened be fifth week' campaign among us.

All the week tbe meeting were opn and tret. Alter this we shall hear less of this man'a enormous greed for money. If you want to help bias, send hire your check if not, a will go on all the aaine, for Ood 1 In him. THE FEBBNNIAL FBBSHNSSS OF THE QOSPKL. The IlluttraUd Chriitian Wukly vividly plcturss the ever growing powtr of tb Qospel by contrasting with in aa Interesting paper, the fate of ihe skeptic that bave prong up nd died out sine its birth.

Tbe Qnostlos, and No Flatoulsta, and Nicolsltana, aad Cerlntblans, these and hundred ol other organisations opposing the Scriptures era now but carious relics of a bygone age. Bui what oi th Oopet'Paul preached? Ia that only a relic, an antiquity la the museum of outlived theories? On tb contrary, here It Is, In oar r.ge, as fresh and vivid ss In Paul's urn. It has simply come down through tbe centuries, it bos gone over tbe coontrles tbe world. It bis moulded more minds and la working greater retail In human society into all tho brilliant speculations of th primitive aga or of succeeding ages. HOW THS LAYMEN FKBL.

The Kxaminir thus ohtracterlns tbe work of tbe Methodist laymen of tbla city In tbeir recent effort to abolish Ihe Itinerancy ylm The Methodist lsymrn of Brooklyn bsve been holding a kind of pow wow oo tbs or innerancy. Five delegates from each church' oompoaiJ the ''Convention," and the alscuastcne wera Ions and loud. Two sessions were bela. At tbe flrnt tbe presonder ance of sentiment seemed to be against the itinerancy, but at the second meeting tho oonscrvaaves ral. Ilea all their furies aud spoke and voleJ to sira'i purpose.

Fifty dslojate voted not lo petition tps General Closing Exercises of the Evening. High and Common Sohools. An Average Decrease of About Five Per Cent. In the Attendance Dnrinir the Last 8es3ion The Work Hone In the Evening High School Hon. William Richardson's Views on the Three Boxes that Hare to Much to do with the Malnte nance of Republican Institutions.

On Monday, September 16, the night schools were opened bjr tbe Board of Education for a sesalon of fourteen waet, and the Urns expired last evening, Tbe money appropriated for tb purpose of paying tbe teachers' ealarles and defraying other Incidental expense) amounted to $10,000. From tbe returns raoeiTOd by the Secretary of the Board of Eduoation, to date. It appoar. tbat there' has been a decrease in the average attendance throughout the city of five per cent. 1cm than last year, and the reason assigned for it is, not tbat there has been any marked and general lack of interest In the sohools, but that tbey were opened two week) earlier than usual The weatber was thep mild and pleasant, and those who had baen in the habit of attending night schools wera tempted to spend their evenings out of doors rather tban in a gohool room.

The decrease must In some of the schools have been very marked, for the reason tbat in others there baa been a large increase in tho average attendance. One Instance of this fact is School Mo. 28, on Herkimer street, near Rilph avenue, where tbe increaso lnfthe average attendance of this year over that of last year was per oont. Tbe exercises attending the closing of tbe schools will be found fully reported below The closing exorcises of tbe Evening Hioh Scbool wore held last craning at tbe Oostral Grammar School building, oorner of Court and Livingston streets. The large room at tho top of the bnilding afforded ample Bpace for the accommodation of an immense audienoe, including the attendants at the school and rbelr friendev Mr.

N. 3. Gates, Chairman of the Committee on livening Schools, presided, and with him on tbe platform were Mr. L. V.

D. Harden burgb, Chairman of tbe Committee on Evening High School, Colonel Thomaa Carroll, ex Mayor Hunter, E. J. Whltlock, President of the Board of Ednoation, B. H.

Huntley and A. H. Aeobtornaoot. The exercise included readings, declamations, essays, vocal and instrumental musie, and one and an were rendered In a manner which reflected the greatest credit on the pupils and their Instructors. During the evening an nnexpeoted feature was introduced in tbe form of a petition from the pupils to the Chairman, expressing their gratitude for the educational advantages they bad received at the hands of the Board of Education, and urgently praying tbat body not to close the High School for soma time.

The name of Mr. James Oruik sbank received most reepeotful mention in the THE PB03BAMMK opened with a humorous reading, untitled "Schneider Sees Leah," by W. Hirst, who by voloe aud manner did full justice to tho piece. J. O'Neill then recited ontenoy" in a soul stirring manner, and well earned the enthusiastic applause wblon he reoeived.

Staging then followed, by a volunteer choir, titer wbich Misj Gertrude M. Doyle read an essay on the sabjeot, "Woman's Progress." The composition had the merles of brevity and olearneis, and the advances whioh woman baa made in the few generations past were vividly pre eented. A long and arduous reoitation, "The Legend of Bregena," waa then given by Miss 8. Cole, but tbe accomplished young lady was entirely equal to the tasa, and tbe audience rewarded ber with repeated applause. An essay on "Sohool Exhibitions," whioh had been written by Miss Hattie Brown, was read by alias.

J. K. (JrauB. It oontamod uumeroaa references to the work of the High Scbool, and at the close re gret waa expressed that the term had been so brief J. O.

W. Smith then reoltod, "Over the Hills from the Poor House," after whioh the formal exeroisos were brought to a close by singing. STATEMENT BY THE Mr. Cruikshank than made a brief statement touoh ing the work done In school, and eulogized borh teaohera and pupils for the devotion exhibited. It bad never been his privilege, he eaid, to preBlde over a sobool )n wbich there had been a greater manif esta tlon of a thirst for knowledge, and ho fully appreciated tho regret with whioh the pupils witnessed the dosing hours of tbe session.

Tbe total registration on the books had been 1,090, of whom 815 were malea and 27S females ihe average registration had been 609, and tho average attendance 451. At the close of the Principal's address there was vo cal and instrumental music, after which the Chairman preseuted diplomas to THE QBADUATINO CLASS, whoso names are as follows Mtes A. v. Stem, Mies H. Brown, Miss m.

T. Cully, Miss E. Fairtough, Miss Mary Gaffney, Mlal Mary Gorman, Miss M. Eennoy, Miss M. A.

Laughlin, Miss O. J. Noonau, Miss Mary O'Neill, Miss Kale O'Neill, Misa Mary Start, Miss Bella Scott, Hiss M. 8oomb, Misa A. N.

Tall, A. Bradley, Al. J. Brooks, Jamea Coleman, Wm. E.

Clark, Kuill Citron, H. L. CrandeU, Otto E. Fisober, M. A Griffin, Biobard Jackson, L.

N. Eroeder, Wm. Knox, Robert O. E. Lodge, John Murphy, John J.

O'Neill, A. P. O'Malley, Fremont Pennoyer, Wesley Pennoyer, Wm: Beiff, E. M. Byan, Bobert B.

George T. Samuel, H. A. Strobmeyer, A. M.

Sabin, George H. Skidmore, E. W. Smith, August Wilson, uyman uumbs. Brlsf addresses wore then made by Prosldent Whlt lock and ex Mayor Hunter, all of whom expressed their gratification at the progress wbioh the Evening High scbool bad made, and promised that the prayer of tbe pupils for an extension of the term would recsiva due consideration.

SCHOOL NUMBEB ONE. There wera no formal exeroiaea at tbe closing of livening sohool No. 1, on the oorner of Con cord and Adams last evening, the principal, Mr. B. 7.

ConkllD, made a few appropriate remarks to the sobolars, and certificates of merit wero given to those pupils who had not failed in attendance during tbe ssssion. There waa music on the piano, and tbe scholars were dismissed shortly after eigbt o'clock. EVENING) SCHOOL NUMBEB SIX. The closing exercises of the female department of Evening Sobool No. 6, on Warren near Smith street, took place last evening.

There is a regular attendance of 200 girls, with an enrollment of 800 at this sohool, the sobolars averaging from 9 to IS years of age. They have made a very marked improvement in their studies during tbe past term, and the sucoess of their splendid exhibition last night was mainly due, to the exertions of the very efficient and anergotic principal of the school, MIbs Jennie Vass. A varied and extensive programme was rendered in a manner which evoked the hearty approval of the audienoe axoroDai were of vory Interesting oharacter and were oonduoted by Miss Jennie Vass, assisted by Mr. John Cunningham of the Board of Education. They comprised chorus singing by the sohool, vooal and instrumental music, rea.iiUiiB, recitations, etc Among those who acquitted themselves partioularly well may ba mentions! Miss Fanny Auld, a fine elocutionist from Willlameburgh, who kindly volunteered her serrloes for the occasion; a little miss of 6 Summers named Ella Eagan, who is quite an infantile prodigy, Miss Maxwell, Miss Gusiia McGrew, Miss Mary Drayton and Mr.

Vojs. At the oonoluslon of the exercises about 150 diplomas wera distributed among the scholars. The male department of this sohool also held its dol ing exercises last evening. About three hnndred scholars were present and took part In the entertain ment, which was oonduoted by the Prlnoipal of the school, Mr. Algernon 8.

Hlgglns. The following teaohera wera in charge of tbe different classes, whioh occupied their usual places in the room Miss Teresa McGhen, Miss Miss Powell, Miss Franks, Miss Waldron and Miss Ledwitb. Tbe programme opened with a piano solo rendered by Misa Katie Dunn, after which Master Blchard Garrlck deliv ered an addresa to the school. The Battle of Bunker Hill" was the title of a recitation given hy Harry Gold, and a song oalled "The Fire Bells," rendered by Misa Bosa Arthur, was favorably received. William Van Wagner received merited ap plauso for tbe excellent manner in whioh he rsclted a piece called "Arthur Winkelreid," as did also Master John Doyle, for his spirited rsnderlng of Miss Etta Gaylord reolted "Kock me to Sleep, Mother" very prettily, and was warmly Other selections were very creditably given by Misses Mar garotte Blauvelt, Luta Busohnell and Etta and Masters William Hill and Bobert Ficke.

The diplomas were then distributed, after which tbe entertainment terminated. EVENING SOHOOL NUMBEB TEN. The closing exorcises of Evening School No. 10 took place last evening at the school house, corner of Seventh avenue and Seventeenth street. The platform upon which the principal's desk stood was ornamented with some floral tributes, and was graced by the presence of soveral of tbe lsdy teachers.

Messrs. Mao Eellar and Hardonbergh, of the Board of Education, occupied seate there and after an opening hymn, Mr. Samuel M. Sprole, the Principal, delivered a brief address, in. which he flitted that the attendance this year had not been quite as large as last, when it numbered as high as 821 scholars, but be was glad to say that there was a diminution of but one fifth and the average attendance had been a great deal batter, while the pupils had studied bard and aarnastly.

There wero engaged during the first month the school opened this season thirteen teachers, together with the principal, but during tho paat two months there had bean but eight teachers employed. Mr. MacKellar delivered a brief address, in whioh he oomplimented the scholars on tbe proBolsnoy shown, and Mr. Har denbergh was happy address them In a similar manner. The exeroiaea closed by the distribution of dlPlEVBNrNO SOHOOZ.

NUMBEB SEVENTEEN. Closing exeroises were held in Sohool No. X7, on Fifth street, corner of North Fifth, last Thursday evening Miss Klein read several selections, and Miss Annie Bead, a teacher, sang. Both responded to eor8 Mr. James Murpby, Chairman of tbe Sohool Committee; Mr.

Sparrow and Mr. Richard H. Huntley of the Board of Eduoation, mads addresses, interspersed witn not a little wit. The teachers presented Mr Murphy and Mr. Jacob B.

Woodruff, Principal of tbe evening sobool, with baskets of flowers. Tbe recipients returned thanks. Mr. Murphy said tbat he valued the flowers mors than ha would a basket of gold. Presents of books and certificate were dls trib uted to the scholars by Mr.

Huntley. BOHOOr, NUMBEB EIGHTEEN. As usual a lengthy aud weU arranged programme of exercises was presented at tne Closing ui evening School No. 18, last night. Mr.

Edward Bush, the Prlnoipal, at the opening callad upon Mr. Daniel Uaujer, Chairman of the Local Committee, to preside. The scholars sang a chorus, styled "Departure of Summer," by way of Introduction, succeeding which there were readings by Mrs. M. M.

Hughes, Miss Laura Wheeler, Miss Ltale Van Horn and Miss Annie Braman; also, solo singing by Mies Frances GUlett and Miss Octavia Walter. The school sang "Nancy Lee" in chorus, with splendid effecr. Following the distribution of rewards to tho more pro flcloat scholars addrasaea were delivered hv Messrs. D. Maujorand Wm.

E. Spragne, of tbe Looal Commitloei and 'he proceedinos oudsd with the ohorns of America" by tho school and audienoe. The number of scholars of both sexes attending the school is about 600. tVENINO BOnoOL NUMBEB TWENTY TWO. The evening school conducted on aven ue, F.

entertained. At midnight he was sinking rapidly. The trial of the Rev. H. H.

Haydeu, in jail at New Haven, on a charge of murdering Mary Stannard, of Madison, will begin on Ihe lh of January, A number of Congressmen are in New York to day, among thorn Senator Harris, of Tennessee, and Congressmen Stoele, Wait and Loaders, of North Carolina. Mrs. A. T. Stewart Ijas given $500 to tho American Dramatic Fund Aeaoclatlon, and the amount bae bean thankfully accepted by its President, Mr.

Barlow. Both Eousos of Congress adjourned yesterday to iho 7tb of January. There waa no qnornm present in the Hooso, and 00 business was transacted. Many members left the oily for their homes last night. A woman named Louisa Wallace (colored,) who has boeD under trial for tho murder, in Washington of her newly born babe, was convicted yeslorday of murder in tho first degree.

The penalty la hang log. The jury has united in an appeal for Executlra clemency. The Whalon suit against General Sheridan for $110,278.57, because ol the aliened eviction of the plaintiff from tbe Klllona Plantation, was concluded yesterday, with a verdict for the dofondaut. Notice of motion for a new trial was giron, and a slay of sixty days was granted. Two of the four Kussian cruisers built at Philadelphia for the Rusalau Government have left their moorings and prooaojed to soa.

The real destination or tbe ships is kuown to but two porsjns in this ooun try. Tha two teuialniug "American ships" will leave In a month. Meetings of tho Clionian and Phrenooosmian sooieties of tho Collage and City of New York were held in tho college chapel lt night. The lntere.tlng feature or the occasion was a debate upon the resolution 'that Communism has ao evil effeot upon the republican Institutions of tho United States." The monthly returns of the New York City Missionary Bociety of the Methodist Church, tor the month of November. ihi hot missions, fourteen pastors and ir7htm luui uo UitDDU xuo oaDoatn schools bavs an attendants of 2,963 children and 1T4 offloeia aud The Mechanics' and the American's Exchange National Banks bave sent circulars to thelr cuatomers, warning them that after Deoemoer 31, they wm not conBlior the gold deposits of their customers as special depoaita.

It i. expected that tho other banks will toko similar action. The annual report of the Now York Central and Hudson River Railroad tor the year ending 8ep toinber 80, 1878, has been issued. Theslatistics.ro elaborate The amount of bonds and mortgages given i upon real estate has been increased and the cost of road and equipment 1751.J86.72. The not earnings amounted to $13,774,877,85.

The Collector of Customs has received instructions from tbe Treasury Department to have a proper Inap jcUon made of all catU. exported from tbs port of Now Xork, and grant a health certificate for the same, If the live stock is found healthy. If there Is any suspiclou that the oattle are diseased, a veterinary surgeon is to be called upon to decide the mat ter. The object of the order Is to guard against eendlng diseased cattle to Europe. The tabular report of balances on loan accounts standing to the credit of the United SUtes in the different banks shows the aggregates for the months named, and the amounts held by the First National Bank and tho National Bank of Commerce, of New Vork, and by the Maverick National Bank of Boston.

The list embraces seventy turse depositories, butexooptiug the above namoi; there aro but few instances where an amount exceeding waa held. The Third aven ve car drivers' strike is vir tuatly at an end. A few mora of the men were taken back yesterday, and the new men are doing welL Tho strikers huld a meeting yesterday and distributed the aid they had received from sympathisers. The 00m pany Is dehant and Intend to destroy, if possible, the Car Drivers' ProtootWe Assooiation, which is growing iu powor aud strength and which might prove, under some cireumstanoea, injurious to its interests In the future. Statistics have been taken in regard to the membership and pecuniary oondltion ot tho Oin oiunntl churches, and the result rovoalgsome Interesting faota.

One Is that Protestant ehurohea aro almost entirely fron from debt. The total value of" church property (Protestant) Is .503, r00, and the total ohuroh membership 20,822, or about ono In flftoen of the total population. Catholics, claim a membership of 100.000 and estimate the regular Sunday Mlondanoo at 75,000. Their churoh properly Is vltid at $3,000, 000. The ohuroh authorities deollned to iilve figures of indebtedness.

The Imperial Government at Berlin ha8 addressed lottor of oondolonoe to the Amerloan Legation, expressing deep regret at the death of Mr. Taylor. Funeral servloes will be held to morrow aftornoon.at tho Amerloan Legation, after whioh they will be oonvoyed to a mortuary, where they will remain until brought to Araorloa. The Amer lean resldouta of Benin will hold a meeting aud pass appropriate resolutions In tho American chapel after servioe to morrow. The Loudon newspapers publish leading editorials eulogistic of Mr.

Bayard Taylor. Cornell University has exprossed its grief and tho Oermau Republican Central Com mltteo, of Naw York, haa made a similar maulfas tatlon. The Executive Committee of the Evangeli oal Altlanoe of tbe United States suggests the following topics for the approaching week of prayer: For the Sabbatb, January 5, Christian Union. Monday, Thanksgiving for the blessings of tbe past yoar, and prayer for their oontinuance. Tuesday, Prayer for tb Church ot Christ, its ministers.

Its growth In grace aud Its enlargement. Wednesday, Christian Eduoation, tbe family, the young, colleges, seminaries, Sunday and other schools. Thursday, For natioas. rulers and people for peaoa religious liberty in the earth! Friday, The PresB, for a blessing on publishers, editors and authors, the oause of temperanoo aud other social reforms. Saturday.

Home and Foreign Missions and the oooverslou of ths world. The bitter and long standing feud between General William B. Haien aud Oeneral 8. Stanley is likely to beooma a matter of publio scandal. The President is said to have granted a court martial at the request of Oeneral Hasen.

when the latter' trial is eoded he will prefer charges sgainst Stanley, and also Institute sgainst him a otrll suit for slander. Tn quarrel has beon an open secret for fonr years. Tbs story Is that General Attn ley, whoa stationed at Fort finelllag. wrote, in connection with General Custer, glowing accounta to the East of ths fertility of the soli and the arand oonartnnttiM tM i 1, th. 1 7 a acino road.

uv, nH lu wiuuiuu fun outora, on tbe Northwestern frontier, thereupon Issued a pamphlet on the subject of the barren lands of the United States, and depleted ths condition of tbs country through wblob tbe Northern Pacific passes aa tbs reverse of Stanley and Custer's description. The publication of tbis psper led to the quarrel, whioh has continued alnss uninterruptedly. A PUBLIC KfJISAHCE. South Brooklyn Proporir Owner Condemning tlse (iotranus Canal. Opposition to Widening tne Iflnih Street Draw.

The Committeo on Parks and Bridges" of ths Common Council met last eroning at tbe City Hah, Aid. Phillips presiding, and Aldermen Murtba, Dwyer and Hslntyro present. The committee took up for consideration the petition of H. 0, Christian and others doing business along tne Qowanus Canal, for the widening of ths oanal at the Ninth street irldge. About fifty South Brooklyn property owners appeared In opposition to the petition, among whom were Tax Collector Tanner, Samuel ITcLsan, Hon.

William E. Robinson, James A. Van Brunt, J. 8. Hosglsnd, Cap tain Ralph Noble, Walter 8.

Ueers, John Aitkin, Jacob Banker, A. B. Richardson, Hamilton Beers, Thomaa Murphy, H. 8. Lonsdale and others.

Mr. James A. Van Brunt said he appeared to oppose the widening of the caual. Th Ninth street passage was wide enough at present for any vessels that bad to pass there. To the personal knowlodgs of the speaker vestals having a breadth of 33 faet 8 Inches, laden with 800.000 feet ot lumber, had passed through the drsw.

Tbis was as large as any vessel tbat cam on tha canal There was really NO NECESSITY OF W1DENINO the osnal, and the speaker hoped It would not be done. Captain Ralph Noble, chairman of a committee from the Twenty second Ward Taxpayer' Association, aaid any attempt to wldsn Ue canal would result in a willful waste of money. At present it was Injurious to the publio health to bsv ths canal tbere at all. It bad beon dfalared a nuisance, over and over sgato, by the Board of Health. On of the petitioners bimaslf admitted that he was iu ths chemical business along the line of th osnal.

and that waa a Vmalnnu hinh largely responsible for the nulsanoe. The speaker con tenueu mat tne canal waa injurious to the publio health and that it should be dosed up by all means. If it were don It would be of great value to the health of people residing in the vicinity. Captsln Nobis was of tbe opinion tbat the payment of J5 por lot by property ownsrs in tbs viclbily would close th canal entirely. The properly would Incresse In value fifty per and in a few years til that portion of ths city would be built up.

Mr. James A. Tboubboron, of Ihe Twenty second Ward, opposed tho petition to widen ths canal. There was no need, be said, of spending money for any such purpose. The canal was a nnisanoe, and he thought it should be olosed up.

He had raised eleven children, and tbey were all sick from malaria, caused by the canal. Mr. UtcbOeld and other property owner In that vicinity hatJ suffered severely from the nuisance. Tax Collector Tanner Jocosely asked If Mr. Litchfield's sufferings wre attributable to any recent occur rence.

He earn mat XIAi SOUTH BBOOK1YN WAB OPPOSED fn wldeoing the can), and pointed out the fact that not one of the petitioner wa present to advocate the WOnnm2tlon of Aid. Murtba, the petition was dismissed nd the committee, oy a nnanlmons vote, resolved to ask that they bs discharged from further consideration of tho subject. collechox of taxes. Oh the Editor of the Brooklyn In your edition of last Sunday, "Taxpayer" wrote an article ou the above subject, In which he showed that some of our expenditures were, in contrast with European cities, very excessive, snd at ths close of tbe" article took occasion to "puff" the Tax Collector and bis atari of officials. While I agree in tbe main with all that "Taxpayer" end, I am at a toss to know what the Collector dosa with all hi valuable time.

I am a imall taxpayer, but havo oocastou to bs at the Tat oOce number of limes In course of a year, but I hava never seen Mr. Collector Tenner. It Is true ha haa Inaugurated some reforms, bat I tbiok be could do more. Many, if not most of the taxpayers, would like to Bee him. You know balf the fun and pleatura tn going to Barniim' Museum consists iu seeing Barnum himself.

So with our hoto of mauy. batllss, Collector Tanner we wish to see him. In the busy mouth of next December let him another cash window, with the pollto McBicrop to keep tally, and double tbe amout ptr day of cashootild be received. The long lines of taxpayers would then bs only balf aa long, aud we should bave to wsit only half the time. II be would not conaent to this, then let blm sit opposite tha window where we small taxpayers hand In our cish, bo tbat we can, while ws.tlng for our receipts, take a fond look at the genial G.lleotur.

Mobs ano5. it, of Tbls Paper lias Ihn Largest Circiiia tot. of any Evening; Papur 1'ublisbod in the United States. lis value as an Advertising medium therefore tip parent. A Project for the Further Dcvelon mout of Co nc ilaut.

The question of coustructing a steam railroad on Cone' Island beach which at one time exoited a great deal of discussion now bids fair to bo sotiicd in a way that will be satisfactory to the principal partioB that took sides against the former project. Mr. Culver, we see, has Riven legal notice of bis intention to construct a railroad from the terminus, at Cable's, of the road which is known by his name, to the western end of the Island in other words, to the present steamboat lauding at or near Norton's Hotel. This Mail will have direct connection with the Culver road, running from Cable's to tlm present Brooklyn terminus of the rond. The project of building railroad on Coney Island beaoh was first to public attention, it may he rerneiiibu, by the filing of a map of a route from Cable's Hotel along the wator lino of the beach, distant from the sea about four hundred feet on the avornge, and terminating at the westerly point of thelul i end, near the steamboat lauding.

This road was objected to on various grounds, and by various parties in interest. The hotel keepers, whoso properly lies west of Cable's, objected to it, because tho road, in many instances, would run between tho hotels and the ocean it was held to be equally objectionable by the hofol keepers, who did not want a railroad to run in the rear of their property, to intercept or frighten off their patrons. The Town of Gravesend made direct issue with the projectors of the road on the ground that it was a scheme to got virtual control of an entire seotion of Coney Island, and direct possession of about forty acres of the Island, which is claimed as the property of the town. The town opposed the project, also, on the general ground that a steam railroad running along the centre of tho Island would destroy the part of Coney Island in question as a place of public resort for health and pleasure seekers. In tho latter opinion the public seemed to share.

In order to frustrate this railroad scheme the Town of Gravesend filed a map of an alternate route, running along Gravesend Bay, and on a line which, while it would provide for the construction of a road from Cable's to Norton's, would not In any essential particular interfere with the beaoh or the hotels. Following tho usual course, Commissioners were appointed to determine tho question as between the two routes. While the Commissioners were hearing the evidence offered before them, the promoters of the road made a slight modification in their route, and they then contendod that the change ousted the Commissioners. This course was pursued, apparently, on the assumption that a majority of the Commissioners were opposed to the road anyway, and would, therefore, decide in favor of the route proposed by the Town of Gravesend. The Commissioners decided against the point raised as to the termination of their authority.

Apparently to the surprise of the projectors of the rood, a majority of the Com TiiiRsioners decided in their favor. Mr. Thomas Kinnella, who dissented from the judgment of the majority, wrote a report embracing a vigorous protest against the construction of any road on Coney Island beach. The property owners interested, ho said, were opposed to it unanimously, while it hni not been shown that vne public convenience would be subserved by tho projected road. It was a railroad, ho said, that nobody along its line, or at either end of it, seemed to want.

Messrs. Emmett and Loomas, who formed the majority of the Commission, declined to enter into the question of whether it was desirable to construct a road on Coney Island Beach or not, or whother or not anybody wanted such a road. They had before them, they said, two proposed routes, and they wero called upon to deohta between the two. The? iicciued against the Gravesend route, pad mainly bcoause it necessitated the intersection of Gunther's road and of the Sea Beach ftond, at sharp angles, dangerous to the safety of those patronizing either the proposed road or the two roads already in oxiatence. A legal complioa.

tiou, arising through the ohange of base effected by tbe promoters of the road while the case was nnder consideration as above referred to the questions at issue were taken into court, and there remain in abeyance, apparently. The map of the route filed by Mr. Culver is substantially that contended for by the Town of Gravesend. and hence this project will doubtless bj favored by the town. The hotel Kecpura and lease holders of the Island also favored the Gravesend route, and hence they may be counted on to favor the Culver project.

The frequenters of the Island want all tho accommodation possible, but they do not desire to see experiments made with the beach itself, and hence there will be no public opinion adverse to Mr. Culver's enterprise. The parties most directly interested that is, the Town of Gravesend and the hotel keepers will see in the success of Mr. Cul I ver's scheme, an end to the project they op posed so strenuously, and they are likoly to facilitate Mr. Culver's project in every way possible.

It is proper to add that under Mr. Culver' scheme the objection urged against the Gravesend route will be met by running the proposed road on an elevation over Gunther's and the Sea Beach roadH, so that there will be no interference on the surface between the proposed road and tbe roads now in existence. Tho projected road is a virtual extension of the Culver Road, by about two and a half miles. It will, in effeot, afford another choice of routes to the Island. Those who go to the Island by steamboat can return by railroad, or thoy can go down by railroftd and return by steamboat, at their option.

Of course the old hue to Cable's will not be in any way interfered with. Trains will connect at the present depot on the Island, or trains will be run at intervals direotly to the depot at the steamboat landing, as the wishes and needs of the public may seem to demand. It seoms to us that the proposed road will be of advantage to all parties interested in Coney Island. The more accommodation there is, and the more variety there is in that provided, the more people will be attracted to all parts of Coney Island. The more people the more pleasure and the more business.

Coney Island is a daily resort during the Summer to tens of thousands of people. The attractions of the Island will be enhanced in proportion to the number of new and attractive points developed. With the opening of the proposed road, a resident of either city can go to Coney Island every day in the week, and he need not visit the same oint on the Island on any two days of the week, unless he desires to and each point he may visit will have special attractions of its own. Mr. Culver's new enterprise bids fair, therefore, to find well wishers from all sides.

The Snow. People who do not vise early in the morn iug may believe that the first snow of the seusou is falling. In this, however, thoy will be mistake for there was three weeks ago a alight fall, hardly sufficient to cover the ground. The fall to day is almost the only practical ret.lization that Winter ia really upon us. The holiday season is reached, and yet we have had until now neither snow nor severe cold.

To day the snow comes in time to avert the disaster foretold in tho old saw that a green Christinas mokes a fat grave yard." It is really remarkable that the severe weather of Winter has been so long dolayed. Last year as Jong as was the cald in coming upon us, still we had experienced soing 0f its severi before this time, nnd by time Christmas was" reached we had felt thai winter was really onfered upon. As yet this j5ar there has been no weather that has bcou ftUy colder than urn yearsjigo we to hu, about Thanksgiving Day. The idea that our Winters are growing milder is being gradually forced upon the mind. Certainly within the rvcollectionu of men who would feel insulted if tiifcv were called middlo aged there has I no will his attendants advised him to delay this neoessary act no longer.

He postponed it until June, when he sent for Mr. Tressider, who drew up the will leaving Mr. Gay's property to his nephews and nieces and Mr. Barnett Gay, of New York, his cousin. Mrs.

Gay contested the will, and produced as witnesses on her behalf Dr. Bunker and other attendants upon Mr. Gay during his last siok ness, the very men who advised him to make hia will. Their testimony was to the effect that the deceased was insane. Surrogate' Dailey sums the matter up briefly.

He does not see anything in the will itself, namely, in the disposition of the property, to warrant a belief in the testator's insanity. That he should have failed to provide for his wife is by no means unnatural in view of two circumstances, namely, that Mr. and Mrs. Gay were on hostile terms, and that she had already oomfortably provided for herself and the child born during her first marriage. That undue influence was exoited by Mr.

Barnott Gay is not to be thought, for the bulk of the estate went to others. And while the medical attendants might have considered the deceased of unsound mind the lawyer who drafted the will, a perfectly unbiased witness, was equally positive of the testator's perfect competency. The will was, therefore, admitted to probate. Tlie general accuracy of the Surrogate's line of reasoning will, we fancy, be admitted also. Tbe Klllona Plantation Suit.

The jury in the case of Whalen against General Sheridan, which has been on trial for several weeks in New York, yesterday returned a verdict in favor of the defendant, General Sheridan. Briefly stated, the point at issue is thie Mr. Whalen claimed to be in possession and control of the Killona Plantation, situated in Louisiana, in 1867, at the time that General Sheridan was in the command of the Department of the South. Whalen claimed to hold his possession and control of the plantation from the authority of one Slater. Mark Hoyt denies the right of Slater to Rive possession to any one and claims to have purchased the planta tion from parties able to give a title, i Whalen refused to yield, and Hoyt, applying to General Sheridan, obtained pos session.

Whalen now brings suit against General Sheridan for illegal and unjustifiable dispossession. This is the simple and brief statement of a case in which there are many claims and counter claims and a network of 1 opposing allegations well nigh incomprehen i Bible. I The consideration in this case, which is of public interest and importance, is not whether Whalen or General Sheridan was successful that is left entirely to the principals in the case and their counsel. In this country and under our form of government, the military power is subordinate to the civil power. Even in the times of temporary suspension of 1 civio power in favor of the military, under stress of necessity, the suspension is only partial, aud the military officer finds himself liable to be called to account before a civil tribunal if he exceeds the powers, the extent of which are clearly defined.

In the case which has beon on trial, it appears from the" result that General Sheridan exceeded none of the powers that were legitimately his under the temporary suspension of the civil law. However, the spectacle that the Lieutenant General of the United States is summoned to appear before a civil tribunal, and is there compelled, before the people, as represented in the twelve sitting in the jury box, to defend aots done as a military officer, clothed at the time with extra power, must be assuring to the people. It is this which mokes the case a matter of publio importance. It is a demonstration that no man can reach so great a height of power in this country that he will not be answerable to tne people and that every deed and act committed as a military officer by virtue of the commission he bears from the people is open to the inspection and Bcrutiny by tho" people under proper forms. The oase in which General Sheridan is a defendant is one of those instances appearing at rare intervals which go to show how safely, under our form of government, the rights and liberties of the people are guarded.

The Republican Aldermen. The Republican Aldermen do not appear to have settled upon any candidate for the Justiceship made vacant by the transfer of Thos. M. Riley to the Sheriffs office. They have, however, it seems agreed to make Alderman RaT of the Thirteenth Ward, President of the Bottrd next yQar A few weeks ago sentiment seemed to be divided between Ray, French, i 3 i 1 i i 1 v.

Burnet and Aitkon. ouusequenuy sir. rrencu dropped out of the race, and a little later it was found that Mr. Burnet had made no effort to obtain the place, and that the mention of bis name in connection with it was simply due to the feeling of outsiders that bis character and culture preeminently fitted him to discharge all its duties. This left the contest to Ray and Aitkon, of the Third Ward, and Ait ken has been defeated.

The chanoes seemed to be in Aitken's favor, because there was a natural indisposition to giving the place to one who had held it a year ago. Apart from the influence of the position as manifest in the formation of the various committees, there is a financial consideration that makes the Presidency enviable to men of moderate means. The ordinary Aldermen are paid $1,000 per annum, but the President receives It is not improbable that Ray's success is due in some measure to the natural sympathy of men for an associate in misfortune. Mr. Ray has lately sustained business reverses that make $2,500 per annum a very great object to him.

Aitken, on the other hand, though not rich, is comfortably situated. In addition to his Aldermanio salary he draws or did draw salary as a Federal servitor. Personally Aitken is the more popular man, and is unquestionably the more presentable. The expectation was that Aitken would be sustained by Jourdan, but this can hardly have been the case, for, with the leanings of a majority of the Aldermen as they are, Jourdan could have obtained the caucus nomination for almost any of his favorites. A monument is to be erected to the memory of Major Andre, on the spot where he was hanged and buried at Tappan, Rockland County.

The Dean of Westminster wrote an inscription for the monument during his recent visit, Cyrus W. Field is to bear the expense and Mr. Barton, the owner of the land, ha8 donated twenty feet square and a right of way. Major Andre was buried here in 1780, but the body was removed in 1821 and buried in Westminster Abbey. 8ix persons now living witnessed the disinterment.

A nun i dred years ago this Christmas the genial Andre was enjoying himself at balls and private theatrioals in New York. The proposed monument will no doubt lead many to refresh wjeir memories as to the details of the eventful night which brought him to the gaUows as a spy, General Washington refusing his earnest prayer that he might be shot like a soldier, and a brave one as he was. The episode of his capture is perhaps chiefly remarkable as an instance of the loss of presence of mind He had Benedict Arnold's pass, nnd yet when Paulding and the others stopped him and asked him on which side he was, he foolishly answered that he was on the king's side a Tory. Now had he, ignorant as he was of the party to which PWing his fellow rustics belonged, answered that he was on the Revolutionary side he would have been safe if his captors had proved to be royalists, while Arnold's pass would have secured him from the search whioh led to the finding the traitor's dispatohes in his boots But his answer aroused suspicion, being the contradictory of the credentials he showed. It is pleasant to find an American doing jus tice to his memory, for, of course, from his" standpoint the American were not beji ents but rebels.

Perhaps no figure stands out in pleasanter relief among the royal offl. cers of the Revolutionary war than that of the genial, the brave, the 'cultivated aDa handsome Andre, in spite of his dealings with the Judas of American history for which he paid the penalty of an untimely and ignominious death. The ladies' fair of the Siloam Presbyterian CUurcti will bo held in tne bMament of tbe ohuroh, oa Prioce atrout, botwoon Mjrrtlo avonueand Wilioughby Bireet, comioonclm tbo 23rd and closing oa thu 27ih njUnt. i i i 1 tm i iof doubt, while Agaa siz was inclined to behove that ho had found i traces even in South America. Perhaps when the auceessful polar expedition too I North Pole, Us scientist will that the be I lief that tho North Pole was once the centre of i a TorrM Zone will bo justified.

That the world bas seen great changes and revolutions in.re snoot of its climates is clear. Aud this being so the wonder need not be that our climate ia changing our Winters growing warmer and our Summers hotter. The ohange is only in (he direction of that which must have been ages ago aud which has resultod in driving the glacier back toward the North Pole. The iTacrrr Christmas Time. The merchants of the city, as is their wont, have, through the columns of the EioM, given the public due information that Christmas is at hand mid that the multifarious benefactions of Santa Claus may for trifling pecuniary considerations be obtained at their respective establishments.

To day there is a special call made and the Eagle is constrained to abridge itfl news and editorial contribu? tions somewhat to make room for the attractive announcements of tho gentlemen who have desirable articles to dispose of. According to common testimony it is by no means easy to select Christmas presents. The mind is perplexed to some extent by the variety of possible gifts shown, and still more perplexed by the tastes and wants of those who i ore to be gratified. Difficulties of this nature can be largely obviated by referring to the Eaolb's advertising columns. The gift pur I chafer ought to make up his or her mind be fore he or she sallies forth.

To go into a great establishment without any well settled notions of the articles wanted is simply to get dazed. It is gratifying to be able to say that despite the hardness of the times there is no visible abatement of the Christmas trade, Tho generous impulses of this, the most generous of all our anniversaries, have overcome the disposition to hoard money, and those who do not need the operation of such impulses to loosen their purse strings have for weeks been practicing a selfdenial which has put it in their power to obtain agreeable gifts for their little ones, their friends and their moro immediate relatives. There are some severe souls who boast of being superior and indifferent to the Christmas season. Such superiority and indifference are not to be envied. Who desires to bo superior to love, friendship and the emotions awakened by the affection of childhood Who would care to boast that they are superior to the sympathy which moves men and women to embrace an auspicious opportunity to make tho unfortunate forget, even for a day, tho severity of their lot? (luacks and Xliolr Victims.

The oiroumstance that a man had been seized with a convulsion ou Thursday, while working on the Bridge tower, naturally oxcitod a great deal of interest. The peril to which workmen are exposed while wrapping the cables, suspended high above the street, is great under any oircumstanstances, and the hourly transit that many of them make, walking along the cables themselves, is a spectacle which forces the ordinary pedestrian to stop on the sidewalk and watch with surprise and concern. But tho additional danger of a sudden attack of vortigo or faintness which may overtake a workman on hii airy perch is so terrible to contemplate that a rumor of accident is sure to enlist public sympathy and interest. Fortunately but two such occurrences have been noted, and in both oases the patient's fellow laborers have succeeded in preventing a fall from the Bridge. In the case of the unfortunate man Boyle, whose sudden illness on the tower wag reported yesterday, a special Providence seems to hae protected him until he reached a secure footing.

But even here his danger was great, for in the convulsions which racked him he might have fallen from the narrow area to the foot of the tower, had not his condition been observed. The cause of his malady is not quite ascertained. His medical attendants ascribe the symptoms to a congestive chill caused by exposure, but there seoms to be an eaual chance that he had been poisoned by quack medicine. He had been suffering from rheumatism, and, with the fatuitv of ignorance, had obtained drucs from an "Indian doctor," instead of visiting an authorized physician. What these drugs were chemical analysis will show, and in case tbe result should be fatal and tbe medicine improper the District Attorney will do well to examine into the matter.

The stupidity of mankind in preferring to deal with quacks instead of competent doctors has made victims enough, but it seems hard that a man should forfeit his life for his folly. The exhibition of an assortment of tapeworms in alcohol is apparently sufficient to convince the thoughtless of a sooalled doctor's competency, and to a man whom a patient would very reluctantly trust with a five dollar bill, he unhesitatingly commits his life. However, there seems to be no cure for this evil, but universal enlightenment. When we find millionaires implioitly obeying the mandates of clairvoyants and spiritual mediums we can hardly feign astonishment at the credulity of workingmen with limited inteUigonce surrendering their lives to the custody of charlatans. Tennyson says, "Knowledge, comes but wisdom lingers," and ages hence when all the scion tific dreams of to day have been realized and more daring enterprises than the mind of man now conceives have been set afoot, there will still, we doubt not, be quacks and victims of quacks.

Tbe Evening Schools, The public evening sohools closed last night, and will not be reopened until next Autumn. There are eleven of these schools and they have been attended by over five thousand pupils. The season began on the Kith of September, and some $40,000 has been spent in maintainmg them from that date until now. We are quite sure that this is a department of public education upon which all intelligent citizens look with unqualified favor. Wherever else retrenchment may seem to be feasible, no ono looks with disfavor upon the outlay made for these schools.

The Board of Eduoation would secure very general approbation if it were, by the discontinuance of several useless studies in the daytime, to so enlarge the fund for evening tuition as to keep the evening sohools open throughout the year, with tho exception of the Summer vacation. It is of course muoh better to have them in operation four months out of the twelve, as is now the case, than not to have them going at all but it is obvious that the reasons which justify the four months' work constitute a grave protest against the eight months' discontinuance. To men and women who take an interest in popular education, there is no class of students more interesting than those who, after the labor of the day is ended, devote themselves to the cultivation of their minds. In the day schools we have the speotacle very often of boys and girls who have to be coerced into the reception of instruction. At night we have the spectacle of thousands keenly alive to the value of the information they either lost through negligence or were deprived of by misfortune in their earlier yoars.

That it is for the best interests of society to encourage this craving for knowledge cannot be doubted. Wo trust the Board of Education will see its way clear to the earlier opening and the later dosing of these schools next; season. Tito ay will case. Surrogate Dailey yesterday filed a decision in the Gay will case, which has been vigorously contested by the widow of the deceased ou the ground of insanity. The decision will be of interest, because it decides a question more than onca brought up, namely, whether the disposition of property in an extraordin way can bo accepted as evidence of insanity without other strong corroborative testimony.

The circumstances of the case were as follows Gay was a man of a Bomewlat parsimonious disposition, and blD cholr It was not known be fore tbat Chicago, with all ber good preachers, stood In need of an evangelist, oven tboueh he were attended by Mr. Btebbins and aldod with a choir ol Ovs hundred people. The work which Moody and Sinkey did in England haa resnlted in the formation of an association for "theaupply of evangellrta fcr mluloo work in tho Church of Knjfland." This organisation of evange lism laintenueu aa a memorial of tbe late llev. liouert i Aitkin, who was In hla lifetime known aa tbe "clerical Methodist." I The Philadelphia clergy have orjaalxed a great I philanthropic movement for the aid ol the poor, on tbs plan of giving ticket to all subscriber, which tickets distributed to the po will carry rtlluf to them If they are found to be deserving of aid. ISUSIPTESS NOTICES.

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Tbs varlsty In tho Cnl.ed MMoi Table purts i4 MftUrttraa. Clarou, C'nampagtiet ot the crania. I'lesianl Vallar VVloa 0 rapaoy's CaUOi SI and tt per naiioo, a corang io age. IL KIRK CO. FULION av.

AND Tl BUUADWAY. Y. of which Mr. Charles MoLooghlln. is Prlnoipal, was closed last evening without any formal exercises.

Two hundred and fifty certificates were given to as many pupils, who had been regularly present at every session of tho school. The average register during the season was 613, and tbe average attendance fi. The register last evening showed 511, and thefattend anoe was 313. The pupils worked on to the list moment, the elder ones expressing satisfaction at being able to do so instead of occupying the last evening with a reception. The sobool has been easily managed and tho pupils have shown great aptitude.

The writing of some of the older pupils Is excellent. It was pleasant to see the girls as they Olod out, affectionately embraomgtheir teaohers. Mr. McLoughlin has been principal of this night formerly known as No. 7, for Baven yeara.

SOHOOL NUMBEB TWENTY BIGHT. The programmo of closing exercises at Sobool.No. 28, on Herkimer street, near Balph avenue, last evening, included several song by tha sohool, together with racitations, a dialogue and an address by different pupils. The building was crowned to its utmost capacity, and among those present were Hoc. William Bichardson, Mr.

Henry W. Hay ward, Mr. John Rhodes, Mr. James Allaben, General Roberts, Mr. Joseph Short, Captain J.

W. Parker and daughter, Mr. John D. Morgan and wife and Mr. James Henry aud wife; The exeroises were oonduoted by tbe principal, Mr, Daniel F.

Quinn, to whoae admirable management was owing the faot to wbich attention was oalled during the evening, tbat there bad been an Increase of fourteen per cent, the average attendance over that of last year. The diplomas were distributed hy Mr. J. L. Marccllus, of the Board of Elncatlon, who has had charge of the school sines le was organized three yoars ago, aDd then only as an experiment, but the result has proved that no better location could have been selected.

Mr. Quinn presented prizes to the following named pupils foi the efforts they hod made during the session to profit to tho utmost by the advantages afforded them at the school George M. Snoider, Honry Miller, Maggie Han ft, Gotllelb Bauer, Joseph Salm, Walter Taylor and Bsrnard Campbell. In response to an invitation from Mr, Msrcellus to address the Hon. made a brief address to tbe pupils.

The speeoh was practical and full of wit. He eulogized the evening school system and abjured the boys to be true to the American principles of cartridge box, box and jury box. SOBOOL NUMBEB THIRTY THESE. Mr. James Priddy, prlnoipal of Sohool No, 33, in Hey ward street, near Broadway.

Introduced a new feature at tbe closing exeroises of his sohool last evening. Tbis consisted in the engagement of competent talent outside the sohool, and proved edifying to the scholars and visitors alike. Mr. E. F.

Mackellar oonduoted tha exercises. The. ohtef events of the evening were recitations by Hiss Graoe E. Klein, readings by Mr. De Monde, songs by Miss Lillle Caster and Profesaor True, duets by Misses Johanna and Bella Houtmau, and the piano performances of Miss M.

E. Farrell. About twenty five of the more proficient soholars were presented with books. Short addrsssts ware delivered by Mr. Mackellar and Mr.

A. W. Sbepard. The average attendance Is about 250 pupils of both sexes. Miss Louise Pents is the principal of the female department.

COLORED SOBOOL NUMBEB ONE. Public School No. 1 (colored), on Willoughby street, near Raymond, was olosed last evening, without for mal exercise of any kind. OOLOEED SCHOOL NUMBEB THREE. Yesterday afternoon the papils of Colored Sohool No.

3, In Union avenue, sear Soboles street, en gaged in a scries of interesting oxcroises. The principal and ber charges ware encouraged br the presence of the Local Committee, which consists of Messrs. James Murphy, Miobael O'Eeeffe and George Sparrow, each of whom addressed ihe school at an appro priate atage in the proceedings. Closing exeroiaea were also held by tbe soholaraof tho evening scbool, several of wbom sang and recited in fair style. Cer tificates of merit were distributed at both sessions to the pupils having the best record as to attendance and perfection in studies.

PUBLIO SOHOOL BSOBPTION. Next Tuesday, Publio Sobool No. 9, on Butler street, near Flatbush avenue, Will hold a Christmas reception at 10 A. In the Grimmar Department. An attrac tive programme of mualo, songs and recitations will bo given by tbe children.

The rooms will bb elegantly decorated for the occasion. FINE ARTS. Art Sale at JLeavUt's. A large collection of artistio property, be longing to the estate of tbe late Colonel J. Striker Jenkins, of Baltimore, is now being sold at auc tion, at Leavltt's Art Booms, 817 Broadway, New York.

The sale will be concluded this afternoon and evening. Tne collection embraces a number of oil paintings, including a large Bouguereau, several works in marble by Palmer, Gerome, Moreau, Vautler and others two hundred original tketohei in oil, water colors, penoil and crayon, by celebrated, artists a large number of proof line engravings and mostly artists' proofs a number of books on the fine arts and a very choice lot of porcelains, works in bronze and brio a brao. The oil paintings, statuary and drawings in water colors will be disposed of this afternoon and evening. This collection also Includes, beside the Bouguereau, one of the largest and most Important landscapes ever painted by Kensett, and among the other good oil paintings are found works by Delort, Brillouln, Bonlanger, Volkart, the Dnssol dorf artist Gunther, of Berlin Le June, of Paris William Hart, James M. Hart, Da rid Johnson, George and J.

D. Smillle, Edward Moran and other equally well known local and foreign artists while among the drawings in wntjr colors there is an important work by Edward Frere and studies by William Hart, J. W. Hill, T. Kichards, Rosier, of Paris Bumpff, of Frankfort, and many otbprs.

The collection also Includes a large number of studies in sepia, pencil and crayon by oelebrated artists. Taken altogether, tbls collection is a very unique one, and along with the very complete art library that aecompanlea lr, one would call it more tha collection of an art student than that of a more gatherer together of books. CHRISTMAS. Befflnnlng: (be Service of tbe Festival To morrow. of the churohes of this city have Some taken time by the forelock sod will begin tbe services ox Christmas tide to morrow.

WABHIKOTON AVENUE BAPTISTS. Christmas week will oa celebrated at tbe Washington avenue Baptist Church (Rev, Emory J. Hayne, pastor,) with appropriate services, beginning to morrow morn ing. A flue musical programme will be rendered, and air. Haynes will preach on the Nativity.

Mr. Carl Frommol is tbe organist. In ths evening there will also be service. In the afternoon the Sunday School will have a celebration, the exercises to consist of the singing of esrols and chants and Scripture lessons. On Thursday evening tbe festival of tbe Suuday School will be held.

An elaborate programme has been prepared. WISTMNSrEB 'PRESBYTERIAN CHCBOH. Christmas will bs held at tnls ohuroh (Bev. Joseph M. Ludlow, pastor) to morrow evening.

A fine musical programme has bean prepared sod consists of choir and congregational singing. Madame Clementine Lasar Is solo soprano and Air, 9. Laear, organist and choirmaster. BAST OONOBBOATIONAIi 0HTJB0H. The East Congregational Canroh hold their Christ mas servloes to morrow evening.

The organist, Mr. H. Smith, has prepared an elaborate musical programme. BTBONO PIAOE BAPTIST HUB OH. Christmas season will bo observed by Strong plaos Baptist Church by the pastor, Bev.

wayiana Hoyt, 1). preaching a sermon appropriate to tne occasion' and tho musio being arranged by their organist and director of musio, Mr. Augustln Cortala. The Indianapolis suspended yester day. The amount of deposits Is ibb baas will be ahlo to paj 90 per cent..