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LIKELY TO Dm, whioh to support a peerage and was.no doubt 13QT iftrOS COAL. TUB SPRAera NATIONAL BANK. Election of Officers and Fifteen MADE A CHURCH A NEW DEFENSE sumption, on the one the department will make an effort, on the other hand, to add somewhat to the supply. Tho engineers are working with this tiow at Baifl ley's Pond, near Jamaica. The banks will bo THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1887.

I Tills Paper las Largest Circular tlou of any Evening; Paper Published iu tlic United States. Its valuo ao an AflVinMialMn IHajIIiiim 9m tf laAWttaf. Mim much coal thoy shall have to buy or select from eaoh year. The combine nets millions on millions annually for those in it. It squeezes more millions out of the needs of all in suoh a time as this.

It has an interest in creating a stringency and in fomenting the troublos whioh cause a stringency It stands on guard over the immeasurable quantities of coal whioh nature has stored in tho bosom of the hills and mountains. To labor it says You can only work at that 190 days a year. To the miner it says: You can only take out ao much. To the people it says A limited supply worked on by an illimitable demand renders a corner invaluable. We have the corner.

We name the prices. You must have the article. You cannot get it anywhere else. Wo hold Robert Tbomaa Atmault on Joan Za brlskio, a. Fellow Workman.

Budolph Itoimer ia the proprietor of a coal and wood yard'at the corner of Atlantic and Smith avenues to tho Twenty slstU Ward. Among his I many employes la one John Zabrlakla, who Uveal with hla wife and several children in a small house on Smith avenue, near liberty avenue. Zabrlskie has been in Mr. Keimer'a employ bo long that ho has become qulto an autocrat about the place. Two doyB ago, Mr.

Hoimer engaged a colored man named Robert Thomas to do general work about the yard. At 6 o'clock last Zabrlskie and Thomas were engaged In piling up lath In a certain portion of the yard when Zabrlsklo found fault with the manner la which the colored man was doing his work. Thomas resented hla partner's remarks whereupon Zabrlskie oalled him a black loafer. "Don't you talk that way to me," Bald Thomas, exoltedly. ZabrlBkto however, responded with a BtlU more approbrious ephlthet The words had hardly left his' mouth when Thomas seized half a dozen lath, frozen together, and struck his tormentor a terrible blow over tho head, cutting the eoalp over the left eye.

ZabrlBkto fell as If strlckon with palsy, but Immediately attempted to rise. Again the weapon was raised and again It descended, this, time making an ugly wound on the baok of tho head, near tho right ear. Zabrlskie stretched his full length on the earth and became unconsolous, while the colored mon threw away his weapon and ran. Tho wounded man was carried into his home bat a few steps from the eceno of the attack and Dr. Capron wa summoned.

The physician dressed the wound on tho forehead by patching It with court plaster but paid no attention to tho wound on tho back of the man's head. He gave as his opinion that Zabrlskie was but slightly Injured. Later In tho evening Zabrlsklo became delirious and at 0 o'clock tho pollco of tho Seventeenth Precinct receivod the Drat Intimation of the assault Dotectlves Kortrlght and MoNeany, accompanied by an Eaolb reporter, visited tho wounded man's home and found him lying on a miserable bed. Tho blood was running from hla nose and the wound on his forehead, whllo the pil low was soaked with the life stream from the wound on the back of tho head. Ho gave a description of his assailant but could not tell whore Thomas lived.

The officers started on a BtlU hunt and visited many houses in different parts of the town, but up to 11 o'clock were unsuccessful In find ing their man. They obtained a clue at last that a man named Holmes, residing at tho corner of Baltic and New Jersey avenues, could glvo tho desired information. A knock at the door brought a colored woman to the window who denied tho as sertion that any one named Holmes lived thero. While Detective Kortrlght was engaged In conver sation with tho woman Detective MoNeany noticed a man coming out of the gate on the Baltic avonue side of the house. He said his name waB Smith, and denied any knowledge of a man named Holmes.

The officers and the reporter entered the house, however, and found a number of colored people ploying cards. "Which 1b Holmes asked Kortrlght I am," rospondod a young negro. When questioned as to Thomas Holmes refused to say anything further. "I know Thomas," Bald a young lady sitting In one corner. "Ho lives on Georgia avenue, near Broadway, and he works in Kelmer's coal yard." The officers waited to hear no more, but went to tho place mentioned and found Thomas at He was taken beforo Zabrlskie and Identified.

Ho was then looked up, although he pleaded hard with Sergeant Brophy to be allowed to go on his own re cognizance. In the opinion of the officers Zabrlsklo Is seriously Injured. Mrs. Thomas, the prisoner's wire, Is In a precarious condition. PRETTY MARY DELINEY.

Mrs. Farroll Says SUo Know What She Was Doingr. The strange story of how Mary Deloney, of 23 Main street was summoned out of her bed on Monday night by a woman dressed In deep mourn ing, who told her to como to New York and seeone of her sister employes In tho paper box factory where Mary works, seems likely now to bo nothing moro than a statement contrived by her mother to cover and aocount for Mary's disappearance. An Eagle reporter called at the houso of the Delaneys yester day and Mrs. Delanoy told him that her sona had not found Mary yot, and In fact that they had not looked for her.

This provod to be upon investiga tion an. erroneous statement Tho dosire ot Mrs. Delanoy Is to avoid publicity as much as possible, but she chose the worse possible means of doing this, as her tale about the mysterious woman In black who decoyed Mary to New York where she was arrested had a most stimulating effect upon Investigation. An Eaolb reporter discovered Mary Sn tho City Prison at narlem whore she has been since Monday night Acting upon the advice of her counsel she would not say anything: The keepers declarod that half a score of reporters had already called on had not Induced her to make any statement. She will be examined this morning In Harlem Court Thomas J.

Farrell, the man to whom it Is alleged Mary Delanoy is married, is imprisoned In a cell beside that of Mary, but they do not converse. Far roll Is just as non communlcatlvo as Is Mary. Susan Farrell. the woman who claims Thomas as hor husband, and who allegoa that her throe chil dren are the result of her marriage, said yesterday afternoon: "A good many peoplo aro blaming mo for hav ing a pretty young girl like Mary Delanoy arrested, but what else am I to do? She married my husband on the 23d of Novembor ot the residence of tho Eev. Francis Hubbard, in One Hundred and Eighteenth Btroot Detective Dwyor, of the Ono Hundred and Twenty filth street Station, arrested her and he also arrested FarrolL I guess her mothor'8 story about the woman In black Is all a He.

Mary knew me well, for tho Delaueys used to Hvo In Harlem before they moved to Brooklyn. I used to make Mary's dresses and she knew very well that Tom was mar ried to me and that these children were his. Mrs. Dolaney knew It too. Farrell is keeping their houso over In Brooklyn for them while I and my ohildren are destitute.

Farrell was thrown down tho stairs thero only about two weeks ago for coming around drunk to see Mary. The Delanoy boys throw him down. I don't know what Mary wanted with a mar ried man. She is a good looking girl and ought to be able to do better than that" WANTED DECENT BURIAL. The Promise That Farmer tiOtt Exact ed From His Nephew.

J. Wells Lott, of Jamaica, a farmer, 72 years old, who lost all the savings of a lifetime, amounting to thousands of dollars and including a fine farm, In land speculatlou, was brought up before Judgo Gorrotson, of JQuoons County, Tues day, for examination In supplementary proceedings. Among his creditors are John B. Hopkins and Jamos Van Slolen, both farmors. Counselor Mon fort elicited from him that when he transferred hla farm to G.

Frank Lott, his nephew, he was Indebted to tho latter only $450. Wolls Lott valued the farm at only 18,000, and It was mortgaged for over $7,000, but under the hammer the farm iold for $9,650. There Is a surplus of $700, onough to pay, Hopkins and Van Slclen, but Frank Lott olalms tho money. Wells Lott, when pressed as to what understand ing he had with, his nephew, stated that when he transferred hi3 proporty and stood in tho world ponniloss, the only pledge ho exactod from his nephew was that he would glvo him decent burial. Ho expected to die suddenly from nervous prostra tion.

HELP FOR THE MAURI FAMILY. Captain toavey Getting; Contributions for tho Smallpox Stricken Family. The recent calamity which befell the family of Joseph Mauri, the druggist, who, together with his three children, died of malignant smallpox last wook, has caused a number of generous hoarted persons to start a subscription for the benefit of the widow and hor surviving children. Captain Leavey, of tho Third Preoinot, is receiving contributiona The following is a list of the persons who have so far pecuniarily aided the family: Police lDSeotor Edward Roilly a. rruaro 2.uu From a frinnd 6.00 Mrs.

B. A Slmonds, 427 Sunt Twenty second Btroot, New York 7.50 Mm. F. ninmftnf.a. ITnion Rtraet.

fi no Theodoro Deetgon 1.00 Mrs. M. 1'. Dwyer, 20 Eighth avenue 30.00 John Opp, 489 Myrtle avonue 1X0 F. VV.

Ifioischauar. ITi Smith street 1.0U William Bryor, 1,268 Atlantio avonue 1.00 Mis Oarr, 1,268 Atlantio avenue 1.00 RESTORED TO HER PARENTS. Ijlttle Minnie James Not 111 Treated at Borne. Little Minnie James, the 13 year old step daughter of Jonathan P. France, tho ox soldter of tho Fifth united States Artillery, was In courtyoater day.

Minnie left home ono day about two weeks ago and attended a Christmas Sunday school enter tainment in Fort Hamilton, whoro she waB taken charge of by a family named Savage, who claimed that she was ill treatod at home. Superintendent Wllkle, of tho Society for the Prevention ot Cruelty to Children, Investigated the case, and to day re ported that there wbb no foundation for the allega tion of cruol treatment. Minnie has been In charge of the Bev. Mr. Snowden, of St.

Marks place, In this city, Blnco tho Inquiry Into her case was begun. Sho seemed overjoyed to day when sho was returned to her stepfather and her mother. THE BBDFOBD BAKE. The following directors and inspectors were oleotod by the Bedford Bank yosterday: Directors Eugene G. Blackford, Howard M.

Smith, Jacob Q. Dottmer, William Zlegtor, Kelson J. Gates, John 3. Nugent, William Adams, Cornelius D. Wood, Will iam H.

Lyon, Andrew J. Bates, Paul H. Kretzsoh mar, William A. Tyler, Samuel Van Wyok, Henry Carson, Henry C. Copoland, Arthur R.

Jarrett, Thomas J. Washburn, Douglass B. Satterlee, Ed ward 3. Hobbs, John E. Lofflngwoll.

Inspectors J. O. Carpenter. George M. Eddy, BV R.

Newman. Tho officers of tho bank are Eugene G. Blackford, president; Howard M. Smith, vice president, and Douglass H. Satterleo, cashier.

AHMtVliBSA.RY. BKijTJIEH HABS. To morrow morning ot 10 o'olook the anni vorsary requiem mass for tho roposo of tho soul of Mrs. Loughran, the late wlfo of John Loughran, prosldont of tho Manufacturers' National Bank, of this city, and mother of the Rev. Dr.

Loughran, will be solemnized at St. John's Cathedral Chapel, corner of Greene and Clermont avenues. DEATH OF MBS. THOMAS B. SIDEBOTHAH, 30.

Martha Amelia Sldobotham, wife of Thomas B. Sldobotham, died this morning at hor homo, 709 PaoiDo Btroot Mrs. Sldobotham was in tho 37th year, of her ago and was a lady noted for her Christian character and charitable disposition. She leaves ao. only daughter, 12 yoara o( A mystriono prisoner Is alleged to have )Kon dlacovorod In a house In Belleville, K.

and psoaaair has created a sensation in tho tillage. a bv ian Tho tUo the one of the causes why he did not desire to en ter the House of Lords. There is a very strong feeling in England that Lord Iddesleigh has "been badly treated by his party, and espeoially by its leader, the Marquis of Salisbury. When tha change of government by the defeat of Mr. Gladstone took place in June, 1885, as leader of tha Opposition in the Commons, he naturally ex pected to lead in that body as a member of the government.

But this was not permitted. He was shelved by being created a peer and given the Cabinet office of First Lord of the Admiralty. In the second Tory government, whioh came into power after the last general elections, he was Seorotary for Foreign Affairs. But when tha resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill rendered reconstruction necessary, all the members resigning in order that a coalition government might bo formed, ho found to his astonishment that he was not to get his old office again, but was offered the wholly unimportant position of Lord Privy Seal, which he refused. Lord Salisbury desired to be his own Foreign Minister.

The death of Lord Iddesleigh within two or three days of this disappointment and humiliation, therefore, comes with startling effect. It adds to the singularity of the oir oumstanco that he died in Lord Salisbury's house, where he had gone to bid him an offi cial farewell on resigning the seals of office Syncope of the cardiao region, whioh the doctors internrot as "worry." was tho cause of his sudden death. The IHomo for Consumptives. Although our Brooklyn Home for Consumptives was only started about five years ago it has done as sympathetic and noble a work as any charity ever founded in this metropolis of homos and charities. A circular letter issued not long ago by that iinflinching veteran in tho Christian service, the Eev.

S. B. Halliday, of Plymouth Church, who is not officially connected with this especial work but whose much respected wife and family have been among its mainstays from the. start, tells us not only what this Home for Consumptives has done in those few years, but what it hopes to do. Indeed, Plymouth Church itself has worked nobly for it, through several of its leading members.

Although Mr. Boechor has always bolievod that if a human being needed alco holic stimulants as an article of food he had bettor retire from the arena of daily active life, consumption is certainly the one disease which the best medical experience of all countries testifies needs alcohol, in medicinal dosos, to destroy tho parasites that aro eating away the poor consumptive patient's lungs. No physician, any more than a layman, who has observed this unique disease from day to day can doUbt that, whether it be curable or not, when onco its deadly grip has fastened on the lungs whisky and wino give effective relief, without affecting tho brain as they might in healthy persons. A careful reading of the last annual report of the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives, leads us to think that Mr. and Mrs.

Bcocher showed some discrimination jn their gifts as well as generosity ingiving when they sent a good supply of port wino to tho Homo for Consumptives. The Rev. S. B. Halliday and his wife and daughter, who seem never weary of kindly efforts for the sick and suffering even when the case is a forlorn and hopeless one deserve to bo held in everlasting remembrance by tho people of Brooklyn for the sacrifices thoy have made and the kindly help in nourishment and comforts which they haye given personally to the Consumptives' Home.

Consumption kills more than any dozen of other diseases. It has boen generally given up by physicians as almost as incurable as cancer. Alleviation and path smoothing into the sleep that knows no waking has hitherto been regarded as all that could be done. And although we believe con sumption in its earlier stages to be curable, when it has gone too far it certainly is not, unless science could supply new lungs. It is a disease which has in it a peculiar pathos of appeal to our humanity, because its victim never will believe that he or she is dying and because the more attenuated he or she becomes physically the clearer often is the eye that sees, the mind that thinks, the memory that recalls, and tho aspiration for more light and truth which is a foretaste of immortality, even if that spiritual banquet is never to be served.

There are very few, probably, who have lost a relative or friend through consumption who can forget the brightness and beauty of the thoughts of the lost one, so that in a way which no other lingering malady travels it seemed a gradual putting on of a more perfect and spiritual nature, not congruous to the grave nor possi ble to be holdon of it. Such characters in the domestic circle occur readily to all of us, but if the biographies of literature wero searched, how many of the brightest thinkers and writers that have ever braved the winds and storms of life would be found victims of consumption their thin, transparent fingers still holding the pen and thoir pale brows still intent upon tho thoughts of their uncompleted book of history, philosophy or poetry. However, our purpose is not to moralize but to call the attention of our readers to the interest which every family and individual has in the Consumptives' Home. It is not always hereditary, for it is often caused by a boy of overgrowth and delicate chest engaging with more stalwart playfellows in a too exhaustive game and ru pturing a blood vessel, When that is done consumption is pretty sure to follow from the faot that death, which is as much an antagonistic power to life as evil is to good, always lies in wait for a siege upon one weak point. Space forbids us tc the many examples of eminent varr mense careers before them 1 exertion in cricket or base ci muscular strain in boat a word, too much ardor in; kind, has re duced to transparis a emaciation.

Enough has been said, if anything needed to be said, to set the readers of tho Eagle thinking about the uses and needs of the Home for Consumptives. Its quarters in Raymond street Judge McCue'sold mansion, purchased by the sooiety some three years ago are wholly inadequate to accommodate the actual, still less the applying, patients. The ordinary hospitals will not receive them. Indeed, Brooklyn, while ill supplied in some eleemosynary like the regular hospitals, has no municipal asylum for the pale, anxious and thoughtful victims of this fell disease. Aside from a provision for these incurables and from a pest houso or hos pital for contagious cases, we are, as a city, rather "over hospitaled," than otherwise.

There are enough ordinary hospital accommodations in Brooklyn to serve us for the next quarter of a century, even at a liberal estimate of increasing population. Tho call for hospital purposes, therefore, is a private and social one, and is limited to the building of an adequate Consumptives' Home. The powers of the Mayor and the emerge noy fund of tho Board of Health provide for epidemics and contagious diseases, but it is a faot of significance that in the so called Oity of Churches the percentage of churches to population has decreased, while that of hospitals has outrun the population. That the needed Home for Consumptives on a large and necessary soale will be built the Eagle has no doubt, for while 50,000 is tho sum required Mr. S.

V. White has already given $10,000 and Mr. John Oloflin $10,000 toward it on condition that the sum of $30,000 is subscribed by the 1st of April. Of this sum $18,000 has already been subscribed, leaving only $12,000 to be raised. This, however, is needed at once to eeoure the condi tional munificence mentioned, and it ought to bo forthcoming, so that the Building Committee, who have already selected a plot on whioh a Home can be built large enough to accommodate 100 patients, may go on with this truly humane and beneficent work.

Temporary Water Expedients. In view of the narrowness of the margin between thoBupply of water and tho consumption the City Works Commissioner wisely avails himself of every moans, however small, for preventing the inoonvenionce which a slight turn Of the scale might cause. One precaution takes the form of a warning to consumers against waste. To this end circulars are distributed aud a house to house inspection will be made. Many citizens need onlyTa reminder to guard against tho reckless use of.

water. Others will heedlessly leave their faucets wide open and can bo restTainod only by peremptory legal measures. Millions of gallons of water have run off under full head during tho lost few days, Some of them can bo saved by tho Commissioner's methods; While arresting noadlesa con raised. The waste weir will be closed. So will the pipe now leading from the pond to tho conduit.

The water will then be pumped from the pond into the conduit through a gooseneck pipe. By this contrivance it is ex pected that the daily supply will be increased somo three millions of gallons. Of course these are temporary expedients resorted to while the oity is waiting for an extension work which Ought to have been begun long ago; but the Commissioner does well to adopt them and whatever othors may be practicable. Speaker Hosted has made the committees np in a way to preserve hia neutrality between the Senatorial "contestants. That was wise.

He has done pretty weil both by the able and the stupid Assemblymen, tho crooked and the honest ones. A politician of mixed motives necessarily makes mixed committees out of a mixed Assembly. The plaoing of tho Kings County men will bo watched with interest. Several of them think they ought to have been better fixed but tho record ihoy make for themselves will not be affected by their location on committees. There was a brilliant gathering of the alumni of Yale College at Chamberlain's Hotel, Washington, last evening, to do honor to Professor Dwight.

Among the distingnished guests were all the members of the Cabinet except the Attorney General and Secretary Lamar. To Secretary Bayard was assigned the duty of responding to the toast "Our Country." His speech was characterized by the philosophy and elevation of thought whioh usually mark his publio utterances. He made a happy use of the speeches of Bismarck and Von Moltke in the German Reichstag to draw a contrast between the forces which control civilization on the continent of Europe and the principles which animate American civilization. There the grim tyranny exercised by the constant fear of war had elevated brute force to the highest plaoo in tho thoughts of statesmen. Here the situation was nothing liko so fruitful of menaces to the national tranquillity and society was free to develop itself in sympathy with the better impulses of the race It cannot be that bruto force of military power Is to be tho security or any people or guardian of any civilization that Is to progress under tho rulo that was born 1,837 years ago, and, therefore, when you ask me: qni illam regit I do not think I could answer yon hotter than by tho simple words: Yale; Ido not mean the college or tho number of schools that are collected into a university system in the town of New Haven, but I moan the American spirit of education, something better than scholarship, hotter than professorship, greater and Btrongor the development of the highest capacities of God's highest creation man.

Surely, if any country on tho face of the earth seems to have been specially designated as the theater of this development, it is the United States of America. Tho Post kindly quotes a paragraph from the Brooklyn Eaqlk concerning the relations of tho editor of tho Democrat and Chronicle to the Senatorial canvass. Inasmuch as the editor aforesaid has no Intention of obtruding hla personality Into the canvass, there Is no propriety In making present reply to the smart but 111 Inf usod utterances of his friend of the Eagle. After tho canvass Is ended It may possibly be worth whllo. to tell why aomo of tho friends of Warner Minor, iu 1881, are not special pleaders for him In 1887.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The flush of modesty is an admirable thing, but sometimes its oolor is too high to be artis tic. Mr. Miller may be a big man in the eyes of his friends, but there aro bigger mon than Mr. Miller, and tho country freely acknowledges that the editor of the Rochester Democrat and Clironicle is one of them.

His re lation to the Senatorship is more import ant than the Senatorship itself. The good effects of the appointment of Mrs. Agnew and Miss Dodge as school commissioners were manifest at tho first meeting of the New York Board of Education yesterday. All the male members arrived in advance of the regular hour and presented a remarkably spruce appearance in thoir brand new Buits of clotheB, highly polished shoes, scrupulously white linen, Marseilles neckties and silk hats, fresh from the hands of tho manufacturer. There was a chivalrous rivalry for the privilege of escorting the ladies to the meeting room.

The winners wero Commissioner Wood and President Simmons. The latter was unanimously re elected. Miss Dodge and Mrs. Agnew conducted him to the ohair. It appeared to be the proudest moment of his life.

His exultation was unrestrained and his step so light and airy that his feet seemed scarcely to touch the ground. On the yery first division in the order of business the ladies voted solidly for tho principle of econ omy in public expenditures. They successfully opposed the enlargement of the minutes on the ground that it would incur unnecessary expense for printing. The vox populi ex pressed itself in the approving murmurs of the audience. And thus' the interesting innovation was auspioionsly inaugurated.

As the commissioners filed out after the adjournment the remark was general that they looked as happy as children at a strawberry festival. If Mr. Watterson would permit Grover Cleveland to attend to the business of running this Administration, and take under his own special charge the work of protecting Kentucky civilization from the blood letting propensities of the Blue Grass chevaliers, it would gratify the country and be a very fair division of labor. Sir Andrew Clarke, formerly Inspector General of English fortifications and one of the highest authorities on coast defenses in England, indorses the opinion of the London Times that the expenditure of $135,000,000 proposed by the report of the United States Board of Fortifications would be out of all proportion to the defensive requirements of the country. He is likewise opposed to the character of the defenses suggested.

Turrets and cupolas, no matter how offer a target for the enemy's shot. His own plan is oalled the disappearing gun system," The weapon occupies a hole in the ground and during action is raised by a hydraulic elevator. After firing it is lowered into the pit again and reloaded. The only danger to whioh it is exposed is from plunging shot, and the likelihood of such shots striking the mark is infinitely small. He thinks costly coast defenses will soon be regarded as obsolete in defensive warfare and hos therefore vehemently urged the Colony of Viotoria, Australia, to build no more forts.

His views aro entitled to the highest consideration and the economy, simplicity and comparative safety of the plan of using sunken guns are strong arguments in favor of it. The New York Times is booming Warner Miller to an election just as successfully as it did Theodore Roosevelt. Contemporary Humor. "Doesn't that sound heavenly?" whispered the younger Miss Gushington when the groom declared to tho bride: "With all my wordly goods I thee endow." Boston Transcript. Got a stepper oalled a pedestrian to a colored man who was driving his one horso rig past tho Oirous parks.

No, Bah, I hasn't. I'zo had him gwine on 'leben y'ars, an' I'ze nebber knowed him to do anythin but walk." Detroit Free Press, "Seven husbands in a New York town have never been absent from home later than 9 o'clock at night during a married life of from ten to twenty years." This is the first intimation wo have had that the seven wonders of the world" are located in this country Norristown Herald. The Elyton Land Company, of Birmingham, declared a dividend of 240 per cent, the other day, and one stockholder entered tho office, flung himself down in disgust and exolaimed "If I'd have known that you couldn't pay more than this I'd have gone into ralsingcalves for the Cincinnati market." Detroit Free Press. After tho first earthquake shocks in Charleston, and when a certain commission merchant had again got on his feet, oho of his customers, fifty miles away, telegraphed and asked him if he would take eggs. Receiving an affirmative reply the pustomer telegraphed I send 100 dozen.

If there are symptoms of another shako, boil 'em to prevent breakage and loss." Wall Street Mews. There's everything in the way yon put a thing," remarked Thompson. Yes, considerable," replied Smith, guardedly. For instance," said Thompson, if I should say I wish Brown Would you would consider it very wicked and be very much surprised and greatly shocked." Most decidedly!" responded Smith, with emphasis. Well, I have no intention of saying it," responded Thompson, but if the Lord should seo fit.

to onll Brown to heaven 1 would consider a bigthing for other peoplp as well as Brown." The officers and stockholders of tho Soratrne Notional Bank assembled last night In the presi dent's parior, on Fourth avonuo, near Flatbush avonuo, for the purpose of hearing the president's re port or tao past year road and to elect directors and officers lor tho onsulrfg year. Pictures of past and present bank officers hung upon tho walls, notice able among thorn being the portrait of General Stowart L. Woodford. President Spraguo's annual report included the following: Oovernmontiind other bonds $116,100.00 vwuv. luuu 1ft.0UU.UU uows una discounts 8405,532.10 Demand loans 203,000.00 613,532.10 Daa from banks 200,858.51 Exchanges 40J21.09 tender, gold and sllvor.

67,142,79 FUrnlture and fixtures 3,500.00 Total Capital stook. $1,035,954.40 8200.000.00 onrpius roliis Qn nrm n.n f.wu.o Una banks and individual depositors 703,608.10 Olroulation 90,000.00 Dividends 6,916.00 ToUl $1,03554.49 The election of officers and directors then took place, with E. Gates as temporary chairman. Cashier F. K.

Smith acted as secretary. The Chair stated that the first business in order would be the oleotlon of flftoon directors for tho coming year. Inspectors of Election Guy Loomis and J. Skillman looked over tho ballots cast and reported tho following gentlemen eleoted for 18S7: Hon. N.

T. Sprague, D. A. Boody, William Ilarknosa, E. Gntes, Hon.

Stewart L. Woodford, George Baker, H. S. Stewart, John Condon, James Matthews, L. Bergon, J.

8. Loomis, Jacob Berg, F. G. Smith, Gharlas H. Stoddart and F.

K. Smith. Mr. Matthews moved a vote of thanka to the Inspectors of election. Carried.

It was then movod and seconded that the earn gentlemen act In like capacity next year. Adopted. Mr. Sprague moved that the stockholders' meeting be declared adjournod. Carrlod.

Tho directors took the usual oath of office, and then Mr. Boody was called on to preside over the election of officers. He thanked tho assemblage for the honor conferred and said that three and a half years ago nearly all present resided in that neighborhood aud a few thought it would be a good location for a national bank. Tho result had beon that In the forty two months of Its existence the bank lias paid its stockholders. In dividends, carried to surplus account $30,000, and over to its profit and loss acconnt $4,831.30, and paid the premium on Its United States bonds, 112,500.

Tho election for prosldont was thon ordered and the non. N. T. Sprague was selected to fill the position by acclamation. On taking the chair he said: "I thank, you for this my fourth election, and I also thank you for your efforts to make our Institution a succoss.

No one man can make a success of on organization of this kind, but united they can. I always thought this was a good location for a bank, and in proof of what I say horo is a savings bank on tho corner that established itself since we came here. The first day they opened they had 100 depositors, and since then they have prospered in a way that seems miraculous. The stock of our bank Is now soiling at 125. nnd I do not wish to die until I seo It selling at 200.

The past year waa not a good ono for national banks, and therefore wo should return thanks for tho prosperity we havo had." Mr. Boody paid a glowing tribute to tho late vice president In plaoing Mr. Harkness In nomination for another term, and the latter was elected unanimously. F. K.

Smith was re elected cashier, and thon Messrs. Boody, Bergen and Gates were nominated and eloctod a committee on finance. An examining committee consisting of Messrs. Stoddart, Smith, and Matthowswero elected and then the mooting was declared adjourned. SERGEANT NICK DEAD.

An Untimely End for the Damb member of the Seventeenth Precinct Police. "Sergeant Nick," the shaggy Newfoundland dog who was known to every man, woman and child In tho Twenty sixth Ward as the dumb member of tho old Now Lota police force and alnce August 1 of tho Seventeenth Precinct, ia dead. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon tho old dog, while attempting to cross the Long Island Railroad track at Miller avenue, was atruclt by a rapid transit engine and thrown with terrible force againBt the Iron work of the gatos. A crowd immediately gathered, but Nick was unable to rise. When on Eagle reportor, at whoso house and at Sergeant Chris.

Heimels' the dog spent his time when not on duty with some officer, arrived on the scene, he called tho dumb sergeant by name. The dog knew tho voice and attempted to rise, but foil back with a groan tbat soemed human. Officer Conklln, of tho Sooloty for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, seeing that there was little hope, drew his revolver and was about to shoot tbe dog, but bis heart failed him when ho glanced over the sight at the target A passing wagon was takon Into service, tho dogwas lifted tenderly and placed on a quantity of straw in tho bottom of the wagon and removed to the stable of the police department. Veterinary Surgeon Hose was called, who, aftor an examination, deolared that tho dog's back waa broken and that he was severely injured internally The old dog groaned and groaned nntll Conklln decided that he must be killed. Nono of the police officers could perform the daod, howeror, and It waa Ave minutes afterward beforo the contractor who removes the dead animals arrived and put a bullet into tho brain of tho noble brnte.

Tho skin ot the dog will be preserved and stuffed. Sergeant Nick first saw the light of day in Jersey City on AugU9t 1, 1869, and was, theroforo, nearly 18 years old. For several years he made his home with the police of that placo, but finally came to Now Lou with a colored man named Andy Mayor. When the latter died, four yoars ago, Nick again Joined tho police force and remained on duty until he died. His exploits since wore many, and often did ho show up at tho right moment to assist an officer In poril.

CURRENT EVENTS. The citizens of Cleveland, have grown weary of the tendenoy of their municipal government to extravagances and have entered into a "combine," with tho object of securing municipal reform. Wool growers in Ohio believe their industry to he doomed. They make publio the fact that Binco tho act of 1S83 there haa been a decrease In the number of sheep in their State of 850,000 head and a falling off hi tho wool product of over 4,000,000 pounds thla year, whllo In the whol country there Is an annual and an Increasing loss. The first recorded instance of a stook company being formed to prosecute a libel suit comes from Jackson, where the membora of tho Central Baptist Church have Joined with their pastor, tho Rov.

Dr. Frederick Howard, editor of the 2Viic Baptist, In prosecuting a damage suit against flftoon loading citlzena of Jackson, a prominent physician of Nashville, a loading Jeweler of Memphis and four newspapers, secular and religious, for charging Dr. Howard with conduct unbecoming a minister. A movement has been started in England looking to the erection of an Imperial Institute as tho most fitting memorial of the love and loyalty of her subjects to Queen Victoria on, the occasion of tho Jubilee of hor roign. The electors of the Exchange Division of Liverpool are to bo asked to return Mr.

Goschen to Parliament as a Liberal and a stanch supporter of tho Government. Prince Bismarck again lectured the Eeich atag yesterday. Ho varies hla official admonitions to tho German Parliament by holding long dally conterencoa with tho Emperor William. The Viceroy of Ireland ia of the opinion that the political outlook la hotter than It was a few months ago, that a real advanco has boon mado In overcoming many difficulties and that the endeav ors of tho Government will be attended by lasting success. The attack npon the Fontefroide Monastery In the vicinity of Narbonne, France, by briganda was repulsed by tho monks.

The ruffians were after money, but after a Bhort conflict, in which three monks were severely wounded, they hur riedly retreated without securing any treasure. It was reported at the annual convention of the Irish National League of America, held in Cin cinnati, that tho financial condition of the organization was never better than now, tho receipts per day ranging from $100 to $3,000. Tho League plodged Its support to the plan oi campaign and the provid ing of substantial aid for tho securing of tho legislative Independence of Ireland. In the International Curling Bonspiel be twoon the United States and Canada, contested In Toronto yesterday, tho Canadians led thoir visitors 272 points at the close of tho ovonlng's play, the totala for 29 rinks standing at 731 to 509 points. Austria proposes to be prepared for what ever may happen.

An Increase of $5,000,000 in tho budget for the War Department has been authorized by tho Vienna Cabinet. The first appearance as Commissioners of Education of Mrs. Mary Nash Agnew and Mlsa Grace H. Dodge attracted many moro ladles than men as spectators at the meeting of tho Board In New York yesterday. A ehook for $1,000 ha3 been sent by the trustees of tho Riot Rellof Fund to Prosldont French, of the Now York Board of Police, for the widow of Boundsman Robert A.

Montgomery. Miser Paine's money, the disposition of which to to bo decided by tho outcomo of tho pro ceedings before Surrogate Rollins, is making more of a stir in tho world than its owner did In the course of Its accumulation. The National Wholesale Druggists' Asso ciation, representing a capital actually engaged in manufacture of $100,000,000, ha begun an agitation la favor of the abolition of all Internal rovonuo taxation. The amusement seeking publio will broatho easier. Barnum and Forepaugh havo agreed to combine their forces and Bhare In tho profits accru ing from the Spring cirous season lathe metropolis.

The New York Board of 'Trade and Trans portation haa put Itself on record tn favor of tho passage by Congress ot the Interstate Commerce bllL The Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Big Sandy Packet Company has decldod to abolish bars on all its boats plying on the Ohio River. This action Is duo in part to publio sentiment and In part to re cent liquor legislation In Ohio. The striking stevedores at Newport News drank a barrel of bonded whisky yesterday, thon burned a bathhouse belonging to tho Old Dominion line and attacked the militia. Thoro Is a prospect of a settlement of the difficulties, as the Knights of Labor havo decided to aak on advanco ot 5 conts In stead of 10 cents, as at flrat demanded. At a convention of No License leagues held in Worcester, yesterday, a Stato was formed on a non partisan basis, having for Its objoct tho suppression of liquor saloons.

According to tho annual report of the Bu reau ot Statistics of Labor thoro woro 1,000 strikes In 18S6 against 223 In 1885. HOTEL ARttlVALS. Hotel St. Geoboe J. W.

Maokoclie and wife, Montreal', Griffln. J. H. Worraau, Troy, N. Y.r W.

a Siaer, R. W. Slaer, Tennis Mrs. George T. QUbert, maid and maiv sorvant, Gllbortvillo, St.

Cat)taliiand Mrs. Mi B. flairhos. United Rtatiw Amy i W. St.

Williams, 'GllBortvlUO, N. A WllUa, FhitUtads, t.tiV.8. Hmm About Ten Days' Supply Still in Brooklyn. Dealers of the Exchange Discuss the Situation They Think It an Alarming One, bnt Will Endeavor to Prevent a Further Increase In Prices. A special meeting of the Brooklyn Coal Ex change was held last evening to discuss tho alt ana to determine, on what to do in re card to raising the price of coal.

There was a full attendance and the meeting was lively. President Joseph Greaeon, of Greason Havlland, called the moo ting to order and stated the object of the cau. Secretary W. H. Nelson choexod off twenty five members who responded to the roll call, after which John Groppe, of Newtown Creole, Berg Oakley, of Second street and Third avenue, and Frederick J.

Berkenberger, of Flashing and Kent avenues, were elected members. Mr. Lidford, of the committee selected at the last meeting to confer with tbo New York wholesale dealers In regard to taking somo steps looking toward the settlement of the strike by the coal companies, reported that the committee had met the secretary of tho New Tork Exchange and had been kmu xneir enoriB would do oi no avail ana naa been advised not to Intnrforn. President Greason supplemented tha report by swung moi ineynaa been unable to accomplish and concluded by saying that he supposed everybody knew how difficult It was for an individual to do anything with a corporation. On motion of Mr.

Bacon the report was received and the committee discharged. Mr. G. A. Thompson asked that tho dealers in the various parts of the oity give tbo ruling price of coal in his district.

Mr. Reynolds, of CH. Reynolds' Son of the Eastern District, said that tho average price in that oauuuu woo as me yarn una sr.ou aenverea. mr. Bacon stated that tho Bame prices obtained on Newtown Creek.

Mr. Thompson, of Thomnaon Co stated that tho price In the Wostern District was to.ou yara ana jy delivery price, but that some woro charglnj; more. Mr. Sohmadeke, of the Western DIstriot, stated that Tuesday he had sold for $7 and 7.50 yard and delivery, but yesterday morning had reduced tho price to $8.60 and Some one asked to be enlightened In regard to a djtbkjui ui reoara wnion a certain dealer naa inaug urated. Tnts was intended for the benent of a certain member of the exchange who had sold coal on Tuesday for $7, but, after learning that a rival dealer had sold for S6.60, returned the difference In price to nis customers oi tne day before.

Mr. Bacon stated that somo dealers were charging more than had been stated on Newtown Creek, especially for chestnut size, whioh wnR vflrv limited. He did not think there were more than 600 tons of this size coal on tho creek. He stated that Boy uuiuB nons me ijusnwicK coal company ana some smaller dealers woro without any chestnut coal. President Greason said It would be a good Idea to ascertain Just how much coal thero was on hand In tho city and Invited tho membora to propose somo manner by which It could be learned.

Mr. Bacon moved tbat the roll be called and that as each name was called the member answering to it state Just how much ho had on hand and how long it ould last. Thh motion brought Mr. Lidford to his foot at a uuura. He saia ne ODjecioa to tne motion, no am not propose to toll his business and Inform the pub lic juoi now DiBiu ousmess no am.

it was not gooa Bonso and he did not rtrannba to dn It Mr. Mintram moved that each member write the amount or stock he had on a pleco of paper, to be collected by the secretary. There waB a decldod Inclination to adopt the motion, and a good dont of general talk was Indulged In, during whioh Mr. Woods said that he thought tho exchange should have adopted a higher price than It had done, because by not doing so it had encouraged people to buy more coal than thoy ruuny neeaea. Mr.

Bacon gained the floor again and In speaking to Mr. Lidford's objoction stated that looking at the situation from the point of a man who had but 1,000 tons on hand he too would object to taking account of stook, but he looked at It from the standpoint of a man who had but a few hundred tons and ho wouia like to know Just how soon they would havo to close down. He said he did not think the price of coal had been placod high enough in the first Instance. He had been In favor of making It $10 on Saturday night and still thought that should be the price In view of tho situation. Ho ronewed his motion amid laughter, during which Mr.

Lidford said: "I would liko to ask the gentleman whether he buys coal by the boat load or oart load. A shout of laughter followed this and was redoubled when Mr. Bacon rotortod: "I' would like to buy it by the cart load Just now If tho gentleman will sell." Mr. Leech said that ho hoped the motion to find out how much coal was on hand would not prevail, for tho reason that all tho coal dealers of the city wero not members of the exchange and any account of stock taken would not bo correct and would only mu puoiiu mimi wim a xaise statemeac Presldont Groason stated that he nerned with Mr. Leech and ho thought It tho duty of the exchange to try and calm tho nubllo mind nn mnnh nnanl.

ble, although, he sold, sotto voce, "The public does uuv ituow mo seriousness oi tno situation, and do and lam frlghtenod. Mr. Bacon said his idoa was to get an approximate amount on hand. President Greason said that, although It would ho doslrable to do so, he did not think it possible, lu view of the opposition expressed by the members, and ho hoped Mr. Bacon would withdraw tho motion.

This Mr. Bacon refused to do and insisted unon a voto beine taken. Tho result of the vote showed that Mr. Baoon was the only one in favor of tho mo nun, me vote ooing ior ona i agamst. Mr.

Willis stated that his Idea was to nut un the price ot coal ao high that the factories would havo to ciose aown ana tnen were would be onough coal to last for sixty days. Some one lnaulred how It wouia do possible for peoplo to buy coal at any price If their sources of revenue wero out off. Mr. Zolglor stated that it was the duty of the members to allay as far as possible the feai of the public as to the coal famine and thought it unwlso to formally advance the price again. Mr.

Bacon said: 'From all I can learn from dealers and tho newspapers tho supply of coat to New York and Brooklyn Is very limited. I think tho Dost means oi allaying tne publio is to let the publio know uet how much coal we have got If tho coal will not last more than five days, as some oiaim, wo want to Know it, out it will last for lour weeks we are having all this disoussion for nothintr and we have placed ourselves in a bad position." mi. i.iuiora statea mat in nis opinion there was enough coal at Gowanus Canal to la3t three weeks. Mr. Thompson, of Thompson one of tne largest dealers in that section of the city, said "I do not agree with that statement.

I do not think. aud I speak Intelligently, tbat there is enough to last for more than ten days." Mr. Zelgler thought xuoiiipaon estimate was correct ror ovory section of tho cltv. Mr. Vandowater said he was not very positive, but iroui wuai ne couia learn no tnougnt there wero about 10,000 tous of all sizes of coal on Newtown Creek, which would give about ton days' supply.

Some yards, ho stated, wero complotaly out all sizes ot coal, notably Tuttle''s yard, which was being supplied from Mr. Tuttle's yards lu tho other portions of tho city, and Fretz, on the Wallabout, had just about enough to run hla yard for one day ivutjEU. President Groason stated that as far as ho could learn there was enough coal on the river front to supply the domand for ten days by consumers uuiug uuuuuiiiiuai. Mr. Zelglor stated that as far as he coulil lnarn there were about 40,000 tons In the Western District wmcn wouiu give aDOut ten days supply at the present rate of consumption, which was about 4,000 tons dally.

Mr. Lidford movod that tho price of coal be 17 at tne yara ana aenverea untu Saturday night. President Greason said that ho wished it understood that tho exchange had no power to make the price of coal. It simply recommended tho price at which It ought to bo sold at. secretary jNeison said that if the exchange wished to allay the public mind it would be unwise to again raise the price, and hoped no advance would be recommondod.

This seemed to maat with thn approbation of some, but others wore anxious for a raise. Mr. Leech said: "We ought to net wisely Is this matter; the public has along memory and If wo ralao tho price again It will look as If wo were aot lng like a wolf toward hla defenseless prey or like a uorva DtvuvjjiiiK uuwu upon a cuicKen. rue situation Is serious, and It may be that we will bo compelled later on to again advance tho price, but I do not think It wise to do so now." Mr. Wilkes thought the question of price should be left to dealera.dolng business in tho same locality together; to this end he hoped that tho price would remain the same, Mr.

Thompson moved that tho question bo laid upon the tablo. Ho stated that ho had talked with tho dealers who held the tonnage and they would uu, uyuocub hu lamo we price. Tho question to lay on the tablo was put to a vote, but the ayes and navs belnff nenvlv emiAi n. ntAnd. lng vote was ordered and the motion prevailed by a vw ui iu ivr lu iu against.

Upon a call for Information In regard to the strike Mr. Nelson, of Nelson stated that ono of his canal boat captains had visited the shipping points to day and had told him that tho strikers wero as determined os ever and would not glvo In. Tho meeting then adjourned. President Greason said to an Eagle reporter: "It Is Impossible to find out Just how much coal we havo on hand, but I should think there may be as much as 05.000 tons In Brooklyn. This will last about ton days, providing wo do not have vory severe weather.

I confess my Inability to foresee tho outcome. The dosing of Havemoyers Klder'e reuiiery wm unaoupteaiy po ionowea by oaiers before long. Already many of tho factories aro nnaing groat dlfflcnlty In securing coal. and then the difficulty will increase eaoh day, a the dealers are now refusing to seU moro than five or ten tons oven to tho largest factories. I understand the Electric Light Company is having considerable difficulty In securing enough coal.

Candidly, the situation Is alarming and I wisn tno tmng was ended." MI. Thomuson stated that he had reftmed tn nail to somo of the largest faotories In the city and that uuivro luug it was mmuut certain tuat many would have to close down. From the talk of the members after the meeting it is almost certain that they intended to Individually advance tho prlco of coal wuuy. FIFTEENTH WARD DEHOOBATS. A Peaceful meeting in tne Absence of the Disaffected Element.

The Fifteonth Ward Democrat Association's regular monthly meeting last evening, at International Hall, Grand street, though larger than any of the two previous meetings was remarkable for tho absence of almost all tho recalcitrant membora AtSo'olockthe hour for mooting, but forty threo persons were present, bnt by the tlmo tho mooting was caned about 150 out. of over 800 had arrived. Flro Commissioner John Ennls, president of the association, opened tho meeting with the following address: FSLLOW DEHOOBATS AND MEMBERS OF THE FlF THENTII WABD AIEHOCBATIO ASSOCIATION I thank you for having elected me for tho sixth tlmo to pre uiut? uvur yuux uujiMerauuiu). xi is an nonorono may well bo proud of to bo chosen at any time to preside over this body, but to bo elected to the position eix times consecutively it Is doubly bo. I hopo to merit your approbation in the futuro as In tho past, ana i pieage you mat no iiomoorat shall have reason to blush for the conduct of your president.

Tho speech was received with applauBe. On request of Commissioner Knnla the socrotary read the list of officers elected at the previous and on motion ot Mr. Connlco CaBsln they wero declared dully installed without ceremony. Several propositions membership woro received and roforred to the' In voatlgatlng Commltteo. The Chair took occasion to remind the members that It was useless to propose for membership gentlemen not registerod ot last oleotlon.

The Chair aouounoed as tho Investigating Committee lor tho current year: William Johnson, Ed I I .1 ,1 Tl.Zl.t. wuru ovunmwi jrabrwii jpiuuogau, uusopu foe, John MoLarty, Nicholas Thomas Trocey, J. D. Ahrons and William Shields. Ml', xaggart oneroa tuoiouowing: WhCTtas.

The Hon. Thomas Carroll. Commissioner of Police, has during tho past week appointed our old fellow momber, James Ennls, to be one of our police captains, and Hugh F. Gorman, a present mombsr of this association, to bo police sergeant: and Whereas, We rocognlzo in the appointment of these two gentlemen a detormiuatlon on tho part ot only men of undoubted ability toUll tho responsi ble positions wuih aoparuneut; tuoreioro, do it Resolved. That tho thanks of this association be and thoy hereby aro tendered to lion, Thomas Carroll for hla wise soloctlon o( the abovo named gentlemen, assuring him of Our hearty and cordial sqpport In tho odmUiisU atloq ol thq oJIalrs of hUr departmenL Tho resoiutfon was.

adopts and the meeting ftd lournou. fff DnTVea MiBSion'8 Title Changed by the Presbytery. Ordination of the Elders How the Port Greene Pulpit Is to be Temporarily Sap plied. Several hundred of the regular worshiners at what has been known as tho Duryea Mission or vnnpei, on uiermont avenue, attended last evening to witness the organization of tha mission Into a Presbyterian church. Tho chapel during tho past seven yoara has served all the purposes of a regular churoh.

The Bev. Dr. Halsey haa presided over Its sorvlces, and tho building has been comfortably furnished. The church owns a good organ, and a well trained oholr assets at the Bervtcos. The exercises last evening wero presided over by Moderator C.

H. Taylor and wero participated In by some dozen members of tho Presbytery. Among the pastors of other churches present were tho Bev. Mr. Dixon, tho Eev.

Dr. Chamberlain, the Rev. Dr. Archibald McCullough, the Bov. N.

W. Wells, the Rev. Dr. J. D.

Wells, tho Bev. Mr. Footo, tho Hev. Mr. Parkor, tho Eov.

Mr. Dlokorson, tho Kev. Mr. Woods, the Bev. Mr.

Butler and tho Eov. Mr. Bridges. Alter tho usual preliminary sorvlcos a largo number of people arose on the call of the moderator, indicating that they desired to Join the ohurch, for which purpose thoy proceeded to an adjoining room. Beside these there wore about seventy five oppHcattont for admission by letter.

It was decided to postpone the installation of tho pastor to a future occasion, and a committee, composed of the Kev. Mossrs. Nelson, HalL Wells and uuouiuonam ana jsiaers Hicka ana McUollum, was appointed for tho purpose. The elders of tho now church, who had boen previously selected, wore then formally ordained Into their positions by tho moderator, who read the formula ot tho Presbyterian Churoh. The other members of tho Presbytery gathered round the new officials and joined in tho exercises.

The gentlemen selected as elders are Professor Frederick W. Osborne, James M. Ham, Sktdmore Heudrlckson, M. Bobert H. Anderson.

Dr. Wells was called upon to closo that portion of the service i with tho ordination prayer, after which ie following gentlemen woro duly ordained as doaconB, tho congregation taking part In the services, Jacob Hawkins, Francis Sinclair, Charles Engelman. Tho formal business of tho Presbytery being closod with prayer the affairs of Fort Greene Church wero brielly considered. Elder W. L.

Hope, of that church, and tho only ramalnlng elder left by the seceding Stauntonltos being called upon made tho following statement The debt of the church amounted to $1,300. Trustees' notes amounting to $870 aro outstanding and overdue in some Instances. Of this $900 was due the Eev. Mr. Staunton and $700 the sexton, Mr.

Anderson. Letters of suspension and admonition had beon sent to several members without citing them to appear before the session. As this action was taken Immediately after the congregational mooting held to decide whether the Bev. Mr. Staunton should stay In the shuroh, and as all of those who had received letters were In favor of Mr.

Staunton, tho older thought action In tho matter should be taken by the Presbytery and these people, all of whom aro vory indignant, be giving a hearing. Tho majority of the Board of Trustees and members of the session had left tho church and takon tho first stops toward organizing another church. They had hired a place of worship aud woro already established there. As to the Fort Greene Churoh tho Presbytery had refused to vote any money for the pulpit supply, contending that the dobts should bo paid first. He was theroforo compelled to ask tho Presbytery to assist his churoh to tho mnttor of pulpit supply.

After connidorable disoussion each of tho pastors prcsont, rsproaontlng a ohurch, agreed to furnish one day's nullilt sunnlv for tho Port OronTio Churoh, or tho monoy with which to pay for it, until a pastor was regularly installed. Tho arrangement of tho dates was loft In the hands of tho mod orator, with tho Hevs. Messrs. Butler, Taylor aud Wolls and Elders Morse and Hanna as a commltteo to assist him. Tho proceedings then closed.

It ia axnot'tod thnt tho moderator himself will tako charge, for tho most part, of tho Fort Groene Church pulpit, until It 1b provided with a duly Installed paston THE AOKERMAN CASE CLOSED. Only Written Statements from Counsel Now to be Deceived. The court martial in tho case of Major J. Fred Ackorman, of tho Thlcteonth Eegiment, was resumed last night at brlgado headquarters, Court and Joralemon streets. Counselor Jero.

Wernborg was present this being his first appearance ainoo ho broke hla leg. Ho was on crutches, but took a lively interest In the case. The redirect examination of the defendant wns resumed. Ho testified that tho meeting at hia bouse, which was mentioned In evidence, wa3 held for the purpose of trying to persuade certain commissioned officers to remain In the roglment, even though ho resignod. A petition asking Major Ackermon not to resign was admitted in evidence.

A quantity ot correspondence between Colonel Facknor and tho accused concerning tho arrest of Lieutenant Smith was also admitted. Tho cross examination was resumed nnd tVio ma jor said: "Tho regiment had not been mutinous at the time that I said I was enlisted for tho war. At the meeting at mv houso nothing wn.s Rn.id ramnftra. ing the tenure of Colonel Faokner. I did not crltl clso tho colonel." The Court Did you visit Albany especially to talk to tho ndlutant ceneral of tho rrir of t.ho Thirteenth Eegiment major No, sir.

I bad other matters to talk of. I thoueht that had the rlplit. to nton the hissing on the night of tho election. I did it of my own accord and In my capacity as an officer. I Invited tho officers to my house, somo of whom had voted for Colonel Focknor.

I did not Bond tho information from Albany In an official sense. I thought it was for the good of the regiment i no testimony was uion ueclarea olosed. Tho case was then declared closed without argu ment, both tho prosecution and defense submitting written statements. If no errors aro found lu tho testimony taken last night no further sitting will bo held. ELEVENTH WARD REPUBLICANS.

Secretary Jackson's Report The Kleni bersnip Increased. Tho Eleventh Ward Republican Association held Its regular monthly meeting last evening In Central Hall, 635 Fulton street. President Potor D. Horrick presided. About thirty members wero present.

Aftor tho reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting the Investigating Committee reported favorably upon tho names submitted for membership at the last meeting and they were added to the roll. Secretory Jackson then read his report for 1886, us followa: To the Officers and Members of tha Eleventh Ward jiepuoucan Association Gentlemkn Your secretary submits tho follnw illS reDOrt for VOUr consideration and InfnrmntlrvT, Number of meetings held from January to Deoem bor, 188G NumhnrnfnBmmi fin mil I IHHit oux Nmnbor joined by application 33 nuiuuor jumuu Total 1,033 Number mumbera 4 Lottera to other associations 12 Stricken from roll 0 ApplioutionB rejeotod Total ia Total members fin 1 OS17 hninnOO more than last year. Respectfully submitted, John II. Jackson, Secretary. The report was receivod and DUt UDon tha min utes.

Tho treasurer's report was next read, whioh showed thot the amount received during 18S8 was $291,60 and that expended $261.57, leaving a balanco of $27.03 in tho treasury. President Herrlck then road tho following names as members of tho Executive Commltteo for the ensuing year: Ilrst District, "harlea E. Lane: Rewind Dlatrrint o. o. oiuubuu, iiuru roa.

uicklnson Fourth District, Aaron Merritt; Fifth District, Seventh District, William McChesnoy Eighth District, John Carberry; Ninth District, Dr. Johnston; Tenth District, A. B. Joy; Eleventh District, William Burroll. Dr.

Johnston then offered the following rnnnln. uou, wmuii was uaopiou: Whereat, By the recent exposures of the actions and motives of the prcsont Board of Aldermen wo aro moro than over convinced of tho necessity of a change in our method of electing that body whioh Bhall bring them into closer relationship with tho people, with an Increased feellncr of resDonsibliltv Resolved, That we attain umo unon our reDresent. atlves at Albany the necessity of some immedlAtn action In the matter that shall bring to ua tho neeaeu reuei. Resolved, That we havo noted with nrlza tho ni and the ability which the Brooklyn ITnion has shown In the matter of exposing corruption and its success In letting light Into many of tho dark corners of our municipal politics, and we horobv extend to it nmiln oursympatuy unu congratulations ana pioago.to It our support. suitable resolutions unon tho ceatn of General John A.

iogan woro presented by Dr. Johnston and were unanimously accoptod, with tho provision that copy be engrossed and sent to Mrs. Logan. Mr. Slusser then proposed that tho amendment offorod by Mr.

Mosscrop at the meeting or the General committee last ovomng, to tne eneot tnat all ward meetings bo held tho same evening, bo supported by the association, and that tho delegates to the General Commltteo be instructed to voto for It at tho nest meeting, ills motion was carried. Mr. Day 1 propose that this association oinrom Its gratification to Senator Griswold for his action in suDDorting Senator Warner Miller's candldanv for the Senatorship. He has, I am sure, by this action earned out the wishes of a majority of his constituents. Tno motion was carried.

Mr. Day then spoke of tho enthusiasm which vallod at tho meeting of tho General Committee last evening, and expressed his belief that tho present year would aeo tho erand old uarty renew tha sue. cesa of Its youth and early manhood. His remarks were received with applause and as there was no further businois mo meeting adjourned. SIXTEENTH WARD REPCBLIOAKS.

Tho Association Taken Action on tbe Scnth of General At the regular monthly meeting of the Six teenth Ward Republican Association, held lost evening to Turn Hall, Meaerolo street, Mr. William Morton, in tho absence of President Michael Buch mann, occupied the ohair. Secretary Greenleaf A. Smith was at hla post. One nroposltion for momborshln was received.

three members wero transferred and two resigned meuaro. oauuu dimer uonu w.uacnenDusn. run following, offered by Mr. Joseph Benjamin, was unanimously aaoptoa: Whereas, It has DleaBOd Almlehtv God tn death tho great Renubllcan leader. FTnn.

a Resolved. That we. the Urmnhllcjinn nf tlio aw. toenth Ward, fool that tho country has lost to him loyal and upright citizen and statesman, nnd tuuuo UU1 0J'MlafUjr IV fcuo lUUliry UI tUO latQ 00110 Tne meeting tnen adjournod. A FIRE IN ITALIAN BOW.

Three Houses in Flames An Old man's Narrow Escape A flro broke out Bhortly after 8 o'clock last night in the attic of the throo story frame tenement house 31 Haapoth avonuo. The flames quickly spread to tho two adjoining bouses, S3 and 85 Mas poth avenue. The three houses aro known as Ital row and are occupied by Italian families. The ilremen, who wero promptly on hand, goon had tho flames under control, Tho loss to tho buildings, whioh avo owned by Daniel Kavanagh, of 115 North Second street, la placod at $500. They aro insured.

flro Is supposod to have boon caused by an overhoatod stovo. Shortly after It byokooutAn drew Cuzl, OS years of ago, who occupied a room In attlo of 8i was missed. Offleor Groves, of tho Sixth sub Precinct, sprang up tho stairs and found old inan. lying unconscious on tho floor his room, no Bad. boon overcome by the smoke.

balance Surgeon Angus, who was called, removed lnmt0 Unsuccessfully XTsed in a Bogus Sutter Ca3e. Frank (J. Gentei Attempts to Prove that Dairy Commission Agents Are Blackmailers, bnt Tails, and is Fined. The case of the People vs. Frank G.

Gentos, the butter dealer of 623 Fifth avenue, who waa arreated a month ago for selling oleomargarine, and who was tried beforo a Jury In tho Butler street Police Court a week ago, was again tried yosterday. Tho Jury In the first trial of the case disagreed and wero discharged. This has boen tho most hotly contostod oleomargarine caso evor tried in any of the lower courts in Brooklyn and every minuto do tail was gone into. The line of defense was entirely novel and when sprung upon Mr. Salmon, counsel for tho Stato Dairy Commission, at the former trial of the case, it utterly astounded him.

Ho was not prepared to dofend his clients upon a charge of blackmail, which was virtually what ho had to do, but waa there to prosecute their caso for them against a man charged with violating tho laws regulating tho sale of artificial dairy products. Counselor George F. Elliott, who appeared In both trials for the accused, laid llttlo Btreas upon tho case In Itself and seemed to care but little whether the substance alleged to havo been purchased by Mr. Gray, the dairy expert, at Mr. Gontea atoro was butter or not buttor.

He opened hla case yesterday with the announcement to tbe Jury that ho was prepared to prove by a number of witneaaoa tbat the agents of tho New York State Dairy Commission wore not seeking to enforce the oleomargarine laws when they went to Mr. Gentes store, but were thero for tho purpose of lovylng blackmail upon him for their own personal benefit. Tho line of defense was certainly a new ono and the expressions of astonishment on the faces of tho Jurymen showed tbat the statement of tho ominont counsel had had lis effect. Tho witnesses for the prosecution had testified that a sample of allogod butter had been purclmsod by one of them at Mr. Gentes' store ou tho 21at of October, 1836, wblch had boon submitted to an analytical chemist for analysis.

That tho analysis showod tho substance to bo 25 percent, butter and 75 por cent foreign fats, or fats other than thoso producod from unadulterated milk or croam, and constituted an article of oleomargarine, which was a moat excellent representation of buttor. The process of obtaining the samples from the retail grocers, of soallng them up and of the mode of delivery to tlio chomlat has been published heretofore in tho Eagle. Everything pointed to a clear caso for the prosecution when the caso for the People restod. Mr. Gontea, tho defendant, waa first callod to tho stand, no said that after the date upon which Mr.

Gray, tho Inspector, said he had purchased the sample at his store, he had called there eleven times and asked to soe him. Ho left his card on ono occasion and left word with Mrs. Gentes to have her husband call at his houso immediately. He did not go, and in a few days Mr. Gray called again, but tho defendant was out.

Then he left word that he had better call at the ofllce of the Assistant Dairy Commissioner In New York to see what he could do about tho.case. On the last visit Sir. Gray made, Mr. Gentes saw him and wont with him and a party of friends to a saloon across the Btreet. There Mr.

Qentea says Gray told him thot he expected to be discharged from his position, aud that ho waa very particular as to what he aald In that Interview. All this excited the auspiclon of Mr. Gontea, nnd ho told his counsel that heauspect ed blackmail. Mra. Geutoa corroborated her husband 'a evidence as to the number of Gray's John Webber, a clerk in Mr.

Gentes' store, also testified to the same thing. From all this the defendant inferred that he was to be blackmailed unless he had the courago to stand trial. When Assistant Commissioner B. F. Van Yalkon burg, of Now York, took the atand, however, the theory of blackmail was effectually dispelled.

Ho stated that Mr. Gray had visited the defendants storo as ofton as ho had in obedience to hia orders, as it was nocesaary under the law for him to go there until he saw the owner of tho store iu person and obtained from him a personal admission, in the presence of witnesses, that he waa tho proprietor of the Btore. Mr. Gray had Been tho defendant but onco and had not visited hla store after that The Jury retired at 2:30 o'clock In tho atterhoon ana remained out until nearly 3:30, when they returned with a verdict of guilty. In arraigning the prisoner for sentonce hla Honor Justice Massey said: Gentes, you have beon convicted of this offense and I believe very Justly.

It ia my impression that you have testified to deliberate Hoa In more than two thirds of your examination, and I don't believe you over had any Idea that any ono waa trying to blackmail you. I am perfectly satisfied that you have committed perjury over and over again In this iriai, sua win uno you nou." The fine was paid and Gentea left the court room with a party of hia frlenda. Mr. Elliott will appeal tho caso. ASOTHElt DELPSIQX DISPELLED.

Richard III. Not tbe Mounter Depicted by SUakvpeare. Mr. Charles H. Hodges lectured on "The Life and Character of Richard ILL" In Historical Society Hall last ovoning, and bent all hla offorta to dispelling tho atoriosof Kichard'a horrible cruelties.

Mr. Hodges showed that ho has givon tho aubjoct much etudy and his roaoarchoa are of much valuo In a historical way. According to the lecturer Richard was not tho monaier depicted by Shaka poaro, but on tho contrary, a good man and a groat and wise king. A large and fushionablo audience welcomed Mr. Hodges, who lectured under the au spices of tho Franklin Literary Society, and listened throughout with tho greatest Interest and attention.

Before he began his lecture Mr. F. S. Burnham re oltod Gloster'a soliloquy from Shakspeare'a Henry VL" Mr. Ilodsea aald that there must have beon some thing noble In the character of Richard.

Crime alone could not havo placed him on the throne. Why was it then so many horrible storiea wore told about him 7 He was slandored simply for political effect Mr. Hodges could not believe that Shaks pearo ever intended hia play to bo considered truo. He pointed out a tow of tho errora in tho play and said that all the historians from whom Shakspearo obtained hia facts wore Lancastrians and onemles of Richard, who waa of tho House of York. Shakspeare depended more on the history of Sir Thomas Moore than anything olso, and hla play waa merely a dramatization of that hlatory.

Mr. Hodges gave a brief account of the War of tlio Roses between the Houses of York and Lancaster. and a description of Richard's early training, to 8how that he could not have boen the bloody tyrant ho has boen painted. Tho lecturer contended that Rlchnrd did not alay Prince Edward after the Battle of Tewkabury, because the Prince did not die until long afterward. Ho could not have killed Henry becauao ho died a natural death.

Richard, Mr. Hodges aald, married hia cousin Anno. Thla waa tho Anne pictured by Shakspoaro as tho wife of Henry who married Richard two wooks after her hosband'a murder. Aa an illustration of Richard's noblo character ho doscribed his conduct at the signing of the treaty of Amiens, which he denounced as a fraud. Richard spent many years of hla life In endowing churchea and peiformtng charitable acts.

Ho could not nave poiaonou lung nawara, as ne died oi intermittent fovor. He next took up the personal appearance and character of Richard, and said that, instead ot being deformed, he waa really a handaomo, woll built man. Uls disposition waa atlablo and courteous. Ho was elo quont and brave, merciful, without oruelty, a prlnco of marked military ability, ambitious but noble. Ho then described how Richard became Protector and hla accession to the throno, and said that he did not murdor the princes and had nothing to do with their disappooranco.

Finally, ho did not kill his wifo Anno, because sho died of a broken heart at tho loss of hor son. Mr. Hodges backed up his assertions with copious extracts from historians, many oi whom wore known to be Inimical to Richard. He closed with a graphic description of Richard's death on Boaworth Fiold. HARE AND HODND CLUBS.

Tbe Prospect Harriers moving for a General Organization. The Prospect Harriers aro moving for a con. aolidatioa of tho different hare and hound cluba In this vicinity into one general body for tlio promotion of the Bport. The Now York Athletic, Manhattan Athletic, Spartan Harriers, West Sido Athletic, Tiffany Hovers, Brooklyn Athletic, Crescont Athletic, Eureka Hare and expectod to Join. Clubs In tho association will compete In team races, the prize to go to the club scoring tho owe3t poi nta, the first six In of each club only to count.

Tho scoring will be thus: First, second, third, 3, and so on until each club entered has six men finished. The course will probably ten miles. An individual aoven milo chanipioaahip Is also to bo arranged, and each club in tje organization will bo expocted to havo at least jur runs during tho season for Its club championaulp. AH OLD SAS'S SUDDEN DB1TI1. John MoKenzie, 72 years of age, of 1G9 Frost Btroet, died suddonly at his homo this morning without modlcal attendance.

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OSTON SATUBDAY EVENING, JAN JLJ uary ou rone av. botwoon Wavorly and Vautlar bilt ii diamond RING. Tho lindor will ploaso retnrn it to ISO Lafayotto av. and bo liberally rowaruud. JANUAKY 13, A KEAIAL13 SKYE Ja terrier DOO: answers to Gf Oiiin.

acd on blaok blanket, trimmed with rod. two I11b on nnll.r. Ituouec No. 0,273. Binder will bo suitably rewarded bv rotumlhg tho same to 133 St.

Jamoa place OSTON JANUAKY 12 ABOUT NbONT batweeu coraer of Noatxand and Fulton yorn? black BOOK; YfV ftDUBd tn uathi IVUUJ i OhathMa waroj New Tbrfc Qit, iintjigi ir parent. Iu a IYntshell. If the Grand Jury flndfl ont the Aldermen vero bribed to pnt through the electric lighting schemes or have an interest in each light or group of lights which they order, that will lbe matter to go on, There have been charges ond there hove been denials of charges to such tm effect. Investigation of their probable truthfulness is a proper Grand Jury proceeding. The public would be glad to see he accusation demolished, if itis false.

The public would require that the guilty be punished, if the accusation is proved true. If it is one of those matters that can neither be proved nor disproved, the Grand Jury, if they find so, ought to say so. The officers of the companies profess to be as anxious to bo investi gated as any one is to investigate them. That being case, they will, of course, be glad if the Grand Jury can exonerate them from all euspioion and they will logically give that body all the evidenoe thoy have, and re. quire that their accusers sustain the accusa tions or shut uu.

No honest t)erson wants to bruit false ohorges or to smother up true ones Ho sensible person wants to fool time on charges that can neither be proved nor dis proved. Life is too short and things that can be substantiated or refuted are too numerous and exigent, to waste moments on empty sur mises or indeterminable averments. As to the relation between the Fire Depart ment and the Telephone Company on the pol and wire business, ex Mayor Low ought to be able to tell the Grand Jury the origin and reason for that in ten minutes. The arrange ment, wise or otherwise, was made in his time euid virtually by him. Concerning the Aldermanio voting of unex pended balances to the electric lighting ac count, tho Grand Jury will not got far before they will discover that that was entirely in ac cordance with law.

There is no need to lose time or sleep on that subject. The business of electric lighting is a logiti mate one to Carry on and to inaico money at That land of light is liked and needed by citizens and the city has to have it and pay for it. Tho one public question has been this Are not the men at the head of tho business just such as can influence tho authorities to favor them, as against the public or aB against busi ness competitors, on account of their political pull Are not the Aldermen and other city Officials virtually controlled by them When they are dealing with those whom in all things they control are they not dealing in effect with themselves If so, are they not likely to do better for themselves and less well for the city than would be the case, if the same franchises or contracts had boon made with others who would have to depend on tho merits of their offers instead of on the potency of their pull That is the public view of it. That is largely the press viow of it. The fact ought to make both the companies and the authorities desirous of reassuring the public But it is hard to see how a Grand Jury can deal with an inference from facts.

The facts are their concern; the question of whether the facts involve any violation of law Is one for their legal advisers to instruct them on. Another Judge for (bo Second Circuit. The prompt passage, by tho House of Ke presentatives yesterday, of a bill providing for an additional Judge in the Second Judicial Circuit of the United States shows a just sense of the needs of Federal litigation in this part of the country, This circuit includes Vermont, Connecticut and New York the last named State embracing three judicial districts, the Northern, the Southern and the Eastern. In population, wealth and varied business aotivities it surpasses any other, yet like each of tho rest it has but a single circuit judge. Considering only ordinary transactions of Federal tribunals, this equipment must be regarded as disproportionate and inadequate, But the Second Circuit has to do with a speoial class of business which does not come at all before some of the others, and before not one of them in anything like an equal volume i'orty tour per cent, or all tne customs cases arising in the nine circuits are adjudicated in the second.

The unavoidable delay in decid ing them causes particular vexation and loss, though of course tho whole mass of business is embarrassed. The relief that the proposed reinforcement of the bench would bring is too plain to dwell upon. If tho bill becomes law a term of the Circuit Court will be held every month in the Southern District. The act will introduce a Democrat into the Federal judiciary a process unfamiliar tor many years and correspondingly interesting. The only Democratic Circuit judge at present is Judge Jackson, of Tennessee.

Nobody would object to a more even party distribution of places on the bench. This of course does not im ply that tho judicial department is or ought to be manned on partisan grounds. Tho peo ple care little about this aspect of the situa tion and it must be admitted that tho judges are tolerably free from political influence. The Democratic Jackson, for example, decided the Bell Pan Electric Telephone suit against what wae popularly supposed to be the Ad ministration view of it. An instance on the other side is quite as striking.

The Repub lican Gray, of Massachusetts, comes from a financially conservative State. He was supposed to represent tho thought of an Eastern group of economists and statesmen of the hardest hard money school. Yet Justice Gray did not hesitate to confound his immediate constituents by uniting in a decision declaratory of the constitutional power of Congress to adopt and enforce a greenback policy in time of peace as well as of war, and ho wrote the amazing opinion which lays down substantially the doctrine of the Western flat money men. The illness of Justice Woods, of Georgia, if unfortunately it should terminate fatally, will introduce another Democrat to. the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Coal Combine." The laboring men who handle coal for a long time received 20 cents an hour for very hard work. Then the pay of handlers at the Nevr York end was raised to 22 cents an hour. The pay of the handlers at Elizabethport and Port Townsend, terminal points of tho Philadelphia and Reading and of the New Jersey Central railroads, remained at 20 cents an hour. The latter asked to be raised to 22 cents an hour. Failing to get it, they left work.

Their companions at the New York end sympathized with them and quit work, too. Then tho coal handlers on the other coal carrying railroads, with which there ruiaers themselves threaten to do likewise. The railways have virtually shut down on ooal. The handlers have raised their de fn QP nnnfn nn hnnr. final has nrme un from about $5.25 and 5.50 to $8.25 end $8.50.

The price to the poor, who buy in small quantities daily, has gone up from 10 cents to 18 cents a bitoket, and from 20 cents to 38 cents a bushel. Tho railroads and tho dealers aro coining money out of stock in hand. The public is pinched. Faotories and mills are closing. Thousands are out of work.

The compromise likely to be agreed on will probably make 25 cents an hour the Winter price and 22 cents an hour the Summer price. Tho handlers average about 190 days' work out of the 300 working days in the year. The railways have mado a "combine," and determine in advance how much coal shall be taken to market eaoh year: that is to say, thoy name a certain aggregate amount of coal and require tho pnblio and dealers to nut nil with thdt. A Irmiter! supply is presented to an unlimited doisnd, That enables them to speculate in aud corner labor, on the one hand and to speculate in and corner coal prices on the other. The element of competition is taken out of tho case.

The "combine" has the public at its mercy. So tense nnd interconnected aro tho relations of this necessity of life to the many interests which enter into living, that a quarrel between the cornered laborers and the 1 combine pinches the entire public. The "combine" arbitrarily takes 110 days over a third of tho 300 labor days in the year out of income and work of the laborers and dictates to the people just how all the coal there ia for sale in this country. A high tariff keeps coal from being brought here from the outside. If the American people ore pinched in pocket and frozen in body; if tho privation and ills, the bankruptcies and even the deaths that come from idleness, cold and high prices in Winter are felt, maybe the publio will re alize the iniquity of the combine" on the one hand and the folly of a prohibitive tariff againBt a necessary of life on the other.

In that day of reckoning the publio indignation will generate a heat greater than all the coal in the mines could produce. Commodore Traxtoti'n Cave. The case of Commodore Truxton, which was described in the Eagle's Washington dispatches last Sunday, is one which calls for a prompt remedy. This gentleman comes from a heroic race, who have served this coun try faithfully on the sea and also on the land, and who have shed their blood freely in its cause. He has never been wanting whenever duty called him, and has a distinguished reoord, acquired in the Civil War and in the war with Mexico, Euteriug the Navy in February, 1841, he had last year completed a full term of forty five years in the service, of which one half was at sea and seventeon of the remainder in service on shore, leaving the term during which he was unemployed ex ceedingly small.

It is difficult to conceive of a case in which more real merit was involved, or of a man who better deserved decent treat ment. Yet, it would seem that there is in this instance a total failure of that justice due a bravo and moritorious officer. On the 18th of February last Rear Admiral Envl English was, by virtue of the operation of law, transferred from tho active to tho re tired list. Commodore William. T.

Truxton was then nominated by the President to be a rear admiral on tho active list of the Navy to fill the vacancy which had thus been caused This action was taken after ho had been duly examined and found qualified for promotion, The promotion was to take effect from the date of the rear admiral's retirement. But while tho nomination was before the Senate awaiting final action, Commodore Truxton attained tho age of 62 years, and this fact, also by operation of law, immediately transferred him to the retired list with the rank of commo dore. That at least was tho view of the mat ter which was taken by the Senate, and with that opinion the President seems to agree. But it must not be forgotten that three weeks had elapsed from the date when the nomination wns sent in until his term of active service expired, and that action in the Senate was stopped through the efforts of Senator Mahono, of Virginia. Tho nature of this person's opposition to the confirmation of Commodore Truxton may be judged from the fact that the alleged "Qaptain" Boutelle, of Maine, was an active agent acting outside in tho work of robbing a bravo officer of his duo reward in rank and pay.

Senator Mahone is a person who needs no introduction to tho readers of the Eagle, who have heard about him much more than they are ever likely to hear again and very little to his credit. It is one of the greatest blots that has ever stained the escutcheon of tho Ke publicon party that this worthless little man nikin, who belongs to the very worst type of scalawag scoundrels, should have been taken up by them and made potent for evil. More amazing still is the fact that they should in this instance have lent him their assistance in depriving Commodore Trutxon of his promotion. This loyal man was robbed of his advancement and the title which he had a right to carry down with him to tho grave at tho instance of an unrepentant rebel who was fighting against the Union while tho commodore was shedding his blood for his country, and that, too, by the aid of Republican votes. As for Captain Boutollo, hie.

opposition was perhaps to be expected to anything which a Democratic President would be likely to do. Boutelle is simply a political crank who is always reminding thoso who know him best of the description of Smith O'Brien, tho horo of the cabbage garden rebellion of 1848, which Thackeray was pleased to put in the mouth of a supposed Irish poet. Says this bard Tho gallant Sraltn O'Brlno Was raging like a lino; It would have done your bo wl good to hear him roar. Boutelle is always roaring and forms in this way one of tne most singular instances or misplaced energy on recoi'd. He is one of a type of men now passing away to whom party has become more than country or religion or the love of friends and who are always lash ing themselves into a violent rage over some ancient grievance.

At tho President's suggestion an effort will be made to remedy, by Congressional action, tho wrong done to Commodore Truxton and to raise him to the title of roar admiral, with all that this will imply. As the law provides that an officer who retires after more than forty years' service, or on roaching the ago of 62, shall receive 75 per cent, of the sea pay of the rank at which he retires, tho matter, in a pecuniary sense, involves itself into one of whether this worthy officer is to receive hereafter $4,500 a year or merely $3,750. Con gress should see that wrongs of this kind do not go unrighted, for an officer has as clear a right to anticipate and obtain tho due reward of his long years of service as anyone else. Nothing could bo more demoralizing to either tho naval or military service of the country than for an idea to prevail that the mere gratifi cation of a political grudge against the party then in power should be ablo to deprive them, after their long years of illy requited toil, of the rewards and honors thoy had fairly and honestly earned. Lord IdUeileljrb.

There is something pathetio in the death of Lord Iddesloigh, considering the time and circumstances under whioh it took place. The dead statesman was not a great man, but he was a good one, a gentleman of highly respectable character and of fair talents. Like many another man of moderate capacity, in his later years he felt the age slipping away from him; he had in fact fallen behind it. The politicol world had wholly changed since he first know it and he was not alert enough to accommodate himself to the new state of affairs. Finally by what seems an irony of fate he died bear ing a title by which many would fail to rec cognizo him, he being invested with a peerage which he did not want, and thrust into a House where he did not wish to sit.

He who died yosterday as Lord Iddesleigh should have passed away and into history by the name by which he was known during his whole active political career, as Sir Stafford Northcote. The deceased peer, who was 68 years of age, although he read for tho bar was practically in public life during his whole active career. It is somewhat remarkable that his first political teachings were received under Mr. Gladstone, whom he was afterward, for so many years, to sit opposite in tho House of Commons. His first publio employment was as secretary to the future great Liberal statesman, who was then President of the Board of Trade.

The comparatively Liberal views on finance which wore held by Lord Iddesleigh may bo attributed to Mr. Glad stone's influence. It is creditable to both these men that their political differences never estranged them. There wbb always a personal friendship between them. In fact, Mr.

Gladstone appointed Sir Stafford on the Joint High Commission whioh settled tho Alabama Claims question. It would bo a superfluous task to trace his political career through its various Parliamentary phases. He was not a groat debater, but ho was a respectable speaker, and after the withdrawal of Mr. Disraeli from the Houso of Commons continued to lead thot body until ho also boenmo a peer. As the heir of an ancient baronetcy it was quite natural that he should bo a Tory.

His titlo carried with it estates in Devonshire amounting to 5,500 acres and yielding an income of about 30,000 year. This was but a small proporty on.