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National Theatre.—This week, com
moncing to-morrow evening. Manager Heumann
announces as bis dramatic attraction the appear
ance of Mr. Loudon McCormack and Miss Maud
Miller, the daughter of the eccentric poet of the
Sierras, Joaquin M iler, in the popular drama of
“The Danites." Mr. McCormack will impersonate
the character of Billy Piper, and Miss Miller that of
Nancy Williams. The remainder of the cast will be
represented by the leading members of the National
Company, including Miss Mamie Wallace and
Messrs. Alf. Wallace, Henry Pratt, E. W. Marston
and W. T. Dulany.
On Thursday evening next, during the perform
ance of this drama, the Police Gazette champion
aerial jumping medal will be presented to Mr. Law
rence M. Donovan, who leaped from the middle of
the New York and Brooklyn bridgejinto the East
River on Saturday, August 28, 1886. This aqueous
■hero will be introduced to the audience from the
etage of this theatre by Mr. Richard K. Fox, pub
lisher of the Police Gazette, and W. E. Harding,
■sporting editor of the same paper, will deliver the
presentation speech.
The variety OMO for the week will include H. J.
-Campbell's presentation of his “Tableaux Soliel,”
or pictures of the great cities, people and objects of
interest in every part of the world ; Al. Fostell, the
Dutch minstrel, and Miss Florence Emmett, the
-soubrette and change specialist ; E. V/. West as a
Knight of Labor ; and the song and dance soubrette
Miss Ada Melrose.
Matinees on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
■‘Special concerts this afternoon and evening.
Madison Square Theatbe.—“Held by
the Enemy" has thus far reaped the rewards and
'emoluments of what can be termed a popular suc
cess. The audiences have, during the past week,
been larger than the average attendanee expected
during this therfntermediate season. “ Held by the
Enemy" will be continued until further notice.
Dockstadeb’s Minstrels.—Tha re
construction of the Comedy Theatre is now so
completed that the management of this
organization of sweet singers and delineators of
;U'gro character and humorous peculiarities makes
positive announcement that the opening per
formance will be given on September 18. There is
hope and blessed promise conveyed to the patrons
«©f minstrelsy “as she is,” in the assurance by
Manager Dockstader—that any member of the
company who deliberately, and with malice afore
thought attempts to fire a •' chestnut ” at the
audience, will be immediately and ignominously
driven from the stage and be blown into everlasting
deafness by a chorus of fish horns.
Lee Avenue Acadbw (Brooklyn, E.
D.)—Bright and cheery in the readornment and
new decorations bestowed upon it by Managers Ber
. ger and Price, this popular theatre began its regular
season on Monday evening last, and it goes without
'Saying that the audience completely tested not only
the seating but the standing room capacity of the
house. The attraction was Fred Bry ton’s drama of
“ Forgiven." in which, supported by his company,
the impersonated the leading role.
To-morrow evening and for the two succeeding
■ evenings Mlle. Aimee will be seen in ‘’Mam’selle,”
and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings in
“Dlvorcons." The frisky and always youthful
Aimee has never sung more charmingly than in
•‘Mam selle,"nor acted with more chic than in “Di*
vorcone."
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
“Merrimac” and “Monitor.”—This
example of the realism of art—and which illustrates
with vivid fidelity one of the most remarkable naval
■ contests in the late rebellion —is still attracting
large numbers of visitors day and evening. It is a
work of art repeating upon canvas an historical
■subject which will never cease to arouse thought
ful interest in the mind of every American.
Proctor’s Novelty Theatre (Brook-
■ !yn, E. D.)—Entirely refurnished and redecorated,
with many greatly needed improvements in front
of the house as well as upon the stage, and in fact
so greatly changed and enlarged that it presents in
exterior and interior the appearance of a new edi
fice. The Novelty now begins its regular season
under Mr. F. F. Proctor's management with every
ftisurance of success.
The attraction for the present week, commencing
to-morrow evening, will be the appearance of Harry
Miner's Company in the romantic drama of •• The
Silver King." which will be given with all the orig
inal picturesque scenic settings and appointments
which attended its first production in this city, at
Wallaok’s.
Matinees will be given on Wednesday and Satur
day.
Tony Pastor’s Theatre.—To-morrow
evening, and for the week, Mr. George H. Adams,
young comedian, will come forward in a new
play entitled “The Missing Link.” The work will
be interspersed with original music, songs, dances
and choruses, arranged by Prof. Cha; les F. Dittmar.
Matinees will be given as usual on Tuesday and
Friday.
Fourteenth Street Theatre.—This
'theatre, which has bad a thorough renovation, re*
and re-carpeting, will be reopened to
morrow evening. A new comedy, entitled “ Our
Rich Consin," will be performed for the first time
4n this city. The cast includes many notable art
ists and artistes, and the scenic settings and ap
pointments are new and appropriate.
Theiss’s Alhambra Court.—As usual
—crowded. At this popular resort this afternoon
-and evening, as well as every evening during the
week, its constantly increasing ciientelle of patrons
’Will be regaled with new selections by the orchestra
and its instrumental soloists, and with singing by
notable lyric artistes. The sliding roof makes
everybody in the great halls as cool as an October
Sans Souci.—ln its new guise and
decorations this notable resort will doubtless add
ecores of patrons to its already large list. The en
tertainments for the present week are varied and
Hovel, both in the variety and musical line, and
Manager Gould promises still greater attractions for
the following week.
Musical and Dramatic Items,
Speaking of Mrs. Chaufrau’s early
life, a correspondent asserts that she was left an orphan
!n her childhood, and had to devote herself to a labor
ous life to maintain younger members of the family
ihe taught music until she adopted the stage at or about
tfteen years of age. Chanfrau was nearly thirty years
her senior when he won her. I heard Chanfrau say—and
that within a month of his death—that he owed the re
tention of his wealth at the time of their marriage, and
half the addition to it subrequently. to his wile's sugges
tion and co operation. In hi' will he expressed his esti
mate of his helpmate by leaving her his undivided for
tune. Mrs. ( hamrau takes iat donable pride in tracing
her connection with a noted Huguenot family, which
came irom Brittany to Philadelphia. Mrs. Chanfrau was
telling me some curious London experience she had.
After her appearance in that city she occeived offers of
many plays. One well-known dramatist and critic pro
posed to her to write a play on these modest terms: Five
bund;®! dollars cash on signing the contract; $2,000
thore on delivery of the manuscript; $25 a night royalty
and the purchased rights to lapse to the author at the
end of three years 1 Americans of reputed prosperity in
London are absolutely overrun by proiessionai mendi
cants, among whom 'h° most impudent and persistent
are titled persons. Many applications for loans were
writtten.on paper stamped with crests and signed with
titles recorded in Burke s Peerage. One of this class, a
baroness, who claimed to have known Mr. Chanfrau in
America (in his bachelor days I) requested a loan of £SO
tor one month.
Louis P. Kalish, a theatrical manager
. of Chicago recenty addressed the following letter to the
Hon. Joseph E. Gary, the judge who presided at the re
cent trial of the Anarchists in that city. The epistle ex
plains itself:
“ Dear Sir: Having watched with Interest the progress
of the Anarchists’trial, and admired at all times the
justice ogjyour rulings, I am constrained to write you
relative to a proposition I have to make to you and to
Cook county It has been estimated that the very
lowest cost to Cook county for every criminal hanged is
five hundred doll'ars. At this rate the execution ot these
Anarchists will cost at least thirty five hundred dollars
My proposition is this: I am the manager of the well
known theatrical star E. T. Stetson, in his realistic
drama. ‘Neck-and-Neck,’ in the second act of which an
execution takes place in full view of the audience. Here
tofore we have used a dummy. I play the week of Sep
tember 13 (seven performances) at the Academy’ot Music,
Chicago, and I hereby agree to hang one of those men at
eac'i performance. No charge will be made tor the work,
which may be superintended by Sheriff Hanchett if the
authorities so desire. I will reserve a private box a',
each performance for your Honor.”
The following was overheard lately in
the Bowery: “Me act just held ’em by the throat, cully
I never seed a gang shout so in me life. When I hit me
partner in de ear wid a brick, and he fell in de orchestra
and broke de trick fiddle, e’ey stood on de- backs of de
benches and kicked all de cushions oft de seats. Come
down to de-matinee and see me do it. Gilligan, (of Gilli
gan and McGinty) stole me business in dis act, but Gilli
gan can’t execute wid his left foot, and his partner can’t
execute wid his right king, so dey ruin de whole thin"
Imitators ain’t no good, anyhow. We git two hun’ a
week next season, so you kin guess what de act is.”
Mrs. John Drew’s Arch Street Thea
tre begins its twenty-sixth consecutive season under its
popular manageress on Monday evening, September 6th,
the opening attraction being the interesting play “ Mon
ey,“with Mrs. John Drew m the role ot Lady Franklin
The supporting company will be one of the finest ever
brought together in that city, and the event will be at
tended with all the eclat possible to inaugurate what
promises to be a brilliant and successful season.
The Mestayer-Vaughn “ We, Us &
Co.” company will open their season at Erie, Pa ou
September 4. with the following people: W. A. Me-tay
«r, Theresa Vaughn, George Richards, Gus Bruno, J. B
Dyllyn, Harry Amberg. Joseph Ott, Mary Gray, May
Pierce, Maude Goodwin, Nellie Cox; Richard Stahl
musical director; Henry W. Johnson, manager; John P.’
Slocum, business manager.
Lua Bellini, Hileie von Doenhoff
Murtha I’orteous, Jennie Keiffart h, Harry de Lorme
Jacques Kruger and Ferdinand Urban, all 'members of
Courieds Opera Company, are rehearsing the “Gypsy
Baron ” at the Standard Theatre, while Mr. Hoyt is paint -
ing the scenery, and the costumes and stage carpenters
labor in their respective departments. The piece will be
revived at Niblo’s, October 11.
An amusing and evidently not got-up
incident occurred at the Eden Theatre in Brunei < the
other night. After Burton, the conjurer, had performed
one or two sleigh t-01-h and tricks, he stated that he was
prepared to make any lady or gentleman disappear
■whose suppression might be desired, when a man anion*-
the audience called out to him to wait a minute while he
went and fetched his wile.
Among the members re-engaged to
support the comedians Robson and Craqe, for the seasons
oi 'B6-7, is the popular and efficient stage manager, Mr.
Robert V. Percy. Mr. Percy, though a strict disciplina
rian, is courteous to all, and his p<ipu!arity not only ex
tends throughout the dramatic profession, but the coun
, try in general, where he has made for himself a host of
friends.
For Mrs. Henrietta Chanfrau's season,
which commences at the Chestnut Street Opera House,
Philadelphia, on the 13th inst., Helen Bancroft. Stella
Boniface, Atkins Lawrence, Sidney Drew, Harry Weaver,
Jr., Myron Letflngwall and Louis Mitchell are already
engaged. Rehearsals are in progress at the Fourteenth
Str et Theatre, where the play will be given on the 20th
in sc.
The following ladies and gentlemen
have been engaged to support John A. Stevens in “A
Great Wrong Righted”: Lizzie McCall, Emily Lytton,
Fanny Marsh, May Livingston, Russell Bassett. Theo
dore Hamilton, Thomas Marlin, Wm. Lloyd. Willis Ba
ker and Wallace Brit ton. Mr. Stevens’s season opens at
the Grand Opera House, Brooklyn, Sept. 27th.
Emma Abbott begins her eighth an
nual season in Montreal. The company now embraces—
in addition to Miss Abbott—Mlle. Alida V arena, a young
Amer can prima donna, who has sung with great success
in italy and France; Lizzie Annandale, Mae Valatte,
Fernando Michelena. A. Montegnffo, William Pruette,
William Broderick and Walter Allen.
Henry Irving leaves behind him on
our shores a mountain range of taffy that he gave us in
larger doses than it was ever administered to Americans
before by foreign hands. ’Enery’s flattery was quite un-
Irving—almost Terryfying.
Mrs. Henrietta Chanfrau. learning that
the Rev. Mr. Windom, of Long Branch, was too poor to
buy ahorse, and so could with difficulty attend to his
parochial duties, bought and presented him with a valua
ble horse and wagon.
Miss Maddern is credited with having
said a clever thing at a dinner when her hostess required
her ’o define “love.” “It is lltoe war,” replied Miss Mad
dern; “a declaration is always followed by a rush to
arms. ”
The King of Saxony has had to draw
his check for one hundred and thirty five thousand dol
lars to make good the deficit in the Dresden Opera
House exchequer for the past season’s grand opera.
Miss Genevieve Ward and W. H. Ver
non hare arrived from England. They open at the Star,
New York, September 27, under the management of Mr.
J. Rial, in “ The Queen’s Favorite.”
Mrs. Agnes Booth-Schoeffel was in
town .week before last superintending the making of the
wardrobe for her niece, Helen Hosmer, who is to travel
with Mrs, D. P. Bowers this season.
Cara Louise Kellogg is the most pa
trlotic American actress on the stage, excepting always
‘ Aunt Louisa,” whose robe de chambre is made of the
Stars and Stripes.
John P. Smith has rented the Acad
emy of Music, Biooklyn, for different periods during the
season, and proposes giving first class dramatie attrac
tions.
Mrs. Nat Goodwin has been seriously
ill In London for the past fortnight, but is now improv
ing, She hopes to be able to sail for America on the 14th
ind.
The boss ‘'chestnut” of the coming
season will be a “Banker’s Daughter” Company. It is
to begin the rattling of its dry bones wsy down in Maine.
Maggie Mitchell still remains quiet at
her cottage at I.< ng Branch. Her regular season opens
at the Park Theatre, Boston, Mass., October 11.
Edmond Tearle has secured the right
fr'tn John A. Stevens to play “Passion’s Slave” in
England the coming season.
Mlle. Adele Cornalba, thegreat “Prima
Ballerina Assoluta,” will be the principal attraction with
“ Clio ” the coming season.
Marie Prescott intends starring in the
legitimate. She proposes to do Rosalind, Viola, Imogen,
Galatea and .Meg Merrllies.
Henry E. Abbey sails on the 15th from
Europe for this city, having just returned from South
America via. Bordeaux.
Neil Burgess has been hard at work
all Summer on his circus scene in “Vim,” and it is now a
great special feature.
Marcus R. Mayer has gone to Boston
for a week on business for Bernhardt, Patti and Miss
Fortescue.
Mlle. Cornalba will be the star pre
miere danseuse with W. B. Brown’s “Clio” company this
season.
“Deadhead”—A newspaper man who
gives ten dollars worth of puffs for a one dollar ticket.
Olga Brandon is said to be stared at
as she strolls up the Strand, generally alone.
Pearl Eytinge is going on the road to
play the Italian woman in “ Called Back.”
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Assaulted While Being Wed.
THE PARSON, BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM AT
TACKED BY THE LATTER’S MOTHER — A
STORMY SCENE AT A NEGRO MARRIAGE.
Andrew Jackson Davis, a loudly-dressed young
colored man, was tried in Justice Rhinehart's
court, on Grand street, Williamsburg, last Friday
afternoon, on a charge of assault made by his
mother, Mrs. Martha Davis, of No. 272 North Sec
ond street. Beside the defendant sat a young col
ored woman, who was attired in showy cheap fab
rics. She looked languidly into his eyes while con
versing with him, and acted generally toward him
in such an affectionate, confiding way, that it was
apparent to the most inexperienced eye that she
was a bride.
The particulars of the misunderstanding between
mother and son which led to the unseemly row
were related by the principalsand witnesses in their
testimony. Davis had been paying court to the
girl who is now his bride for several months, with
out the knowledge of his mother. About two weeks
ago Mrs. Davis met George, and then Miss Louise
Hamilton, of the colored settlement in Sixth street,
near South First, at ten o’clock at night, coming
out of an ice cream saloon on Grand street, and
without waiting for an introduction she accosted
her thus:
“Yo’ want to state my son, yo’ brack an’ tan nig
ga?"
“Use no bracket than yo’," replied Louise.
•* Yo’ is, yo’ crame colored ting, wit a nose as
long as de handle ob a broom," retorted Mrs. Davis.
“I comman’yo’, woman, to let me an* dis yere
young lady pass," said Andrew Jackson haughtily.
“ Yo* comman’me, yo’dat I washed de tips ob
me fingers off fo’ to get yo’ clothes an’ grub. Yo’
spens de quarter I gabe yo* wif dis brack and tan
nigga," fairly screamed Mrs. Davis.
“We bouf chipped in fo’ de crame,” replied
Louise, with a toss of her bead. “He had twelve
cents an* I had eight."
“Yo’ hussy, yo’ made him squander all de money
I gabe him," again cried Mrs. Davis. At the same
time she flew at Louise like a tigress and tore off
her hat and the hirshute appendage on her head.
Louise showed fight but the old lady was too scien
tific for her and would have literally wiped the side
walk with her but for the timely interference of
Andrew Jackson, assisted by a couple of colored
men who happened along.
Andrew’s lifejwas rendered miserable for the next
few days by his mother, who declined to give him
any more spending money. She kept a close watch
on his movements, however, but thought it pru
dent on account of certain rumors which reached
her ears, to make further inquiries about Louise.
She visited the colony and received the startling in
formation that Andrew.and Louise were to be mar
ried last Tuesday night by a colored preacher. She
secreted her sou's Sunday clothes that day so that
the wedding would havo to be postponed, but dur
ing her temporary absence trom her rooms he dis
covered them, and fled precipitately from the house
with them.
NEW YORK DISPATCH. SEPTEMBER 5, 1886.
When Mrs. Davis returned and found that her son
had mysteriously disappeared with the clothes, she
hurried to the residence of his intended bride, but
was informed that he was not there and further
more, that the marriage had been postponed.
“ Den where is my boy ?” asked Mrs. Davis.
•'He may hab drowned hisself on occount ob yo’
cruelty,” whimpered Louise, with the object of
softening the old lady.
“Den Fee satisfied, fo' I’d sooner see him drowned
dan married to yo'.*' was the reply.
“ He's gone to pawn de clothes," said Louise’s
mother.
Only Mrs. Hamilton closed the door so quickly,
she would have Mrs. Davis’s hands in her hair.
Andrew did not return during the early part of
the evening, so Mrs. Davis paid another visit to the
settlement. Sho was told before she reached Mrs.
Hamilton’s door, that her son and Louise were be
ing married. In a moment she opened the unlocked
door and saw her son standing up in front of a
preacher, about to get married. The scene which
followed, can better be imagined than described.
Mrs. Davis attacked Louise and her son in turn,
and finally she assaulted tho preacher with her
hands as well as her tongue, and forbade him mar
rying her eon. The latter, by main force, finally
ejected hie mother, and in doing bo, struck her a
few blows. With closed doors the ceremony was
performed.
The old lady vowed vengeance against her eon
and caused his arrest on a warrant. The magistrate
adjudged him guilty, but permitted him to depart
under a suspension of sentence.
Tlx at Cholera Mixture.
MR. SHAFFER’S KINDNESS GETS HIM IN
TROUBLE.
Henry E. Shaffer, of No. 216 Sullivan street, was
before Justice Ford, yesterday, charged with vio
lating the Excise law, selling liquor without a
license. He has a grocery store, and has been in
business eight years there; does not sell liquor or
ask to sell it.
Officer Gilligan, of the Eighth Precinct, said nu
merous complaints had come to the station-house
of the sale of liquors with groceries, to women and
children. He went there on Friday night, stood
outside in the dark and watched what occurred
within.
Mr. Shaffer said the officer could not stand in the
dark, there were a dozen blazing lights in the win
dow.
Gilligan said a woman went in and bought a bar
of soap and paid for it.
That, Shaffer says, was true.
The woman then called for something, what, Gil
ligan could not bear, but a glass was put on the
counter, and when the woman had it to her lips,
before it was drained, he begged to have a “ sup."
She obliged, and be tasted it, and found it to be
whisky. Tho woman passed over five cents for her
drink.
Mr. Shaffer denied receiving any money for what
the woman drank.
The Justice asked the officer if that was the only
drink be bad that evening.
The inference could be taken in two ways, he was
too much fuddled to know water from whisky, or
be bad drank so much of the hard stuff that even
ing he couldn't tell whisky from cider when he
drank it.
He said that that was the only drink he bad that
evening.
Shaffer said he and his family lived in the place.
He kept in his ice-box a bottle of whisky for family
use. He had also a little bottle of cholera mixture.
The woman, who was a customer, said she had a
colic. He went to the ice-box, dropped into a glass
thirty drops of this cholera mixture and some
whisky and banded it to her, for which he charged
her nothing. The money he received was for the
bar of soap.
Justice Ford said there was sufficient to put
Shaffer on trial, and held him in SIOO to answer.
Worn Out.
A WOMAN THAT MANY KNEW, BUT WHO
WOULDN’T KNOW HER NOW.
West Thirty-seventh street, between Broadway
and Sixth avenue, is one of the smallest blocks m
the city, and for the last twenty years has been the
wickedest on the island.
Sally Brown owns two houses of bad repute there,
Nos. 102 and 104.
In days gone by she made a fortune there, drove
out on Central Park in her phaeton, and then was
worshiped by many old sports.
It was a famous house; old fellows that had been
around town will tell you that they havo left some
money there.
It was a quiet resort. There were no other
neighbors on the block, and she employed a young
ster to climb up the lamppost and put out the
light, near her door, whenever relit by the officer,
so that to get in and out of her place was safe to
nervous visitants of her establishment.
But her house was an eyesore to the Catholic
dhurch further along the street, and Mr. John Mc-
Keon, when District Attorney, went for it and broke
it up.
Nettled at this, Sally swore that she would make
it worse than a quiet bouse of assignation, and let
the two houses out to negroes, without being par
ticular as to their character. They thus became a
greater nuisance to the police and church-goers
than it was before.
On Sundays the pavements would be so crowded
by men, women, and children, that from the lan
guage and tobacco smoke and tobacco spit, the
place was impassable to church-goers.
Sally went up to Harlem, where she lived in re
tirement some years, and lately became paralyzed.
Whether it was necessity or greed, she returned
to her old quarters in Thirty-seventh street, and
when the house was pulled, she was too sick to be
sent to prison, and when held for trial, had to be
sent to Bellevue Hospital. One of her domestics
accompanied her there to nurse her. If ever brought
to trial, she will be carried in an ambulance to
court.
The thousands who have visited Sally’s house in
years gone by, will remember what a vivacious,
handsome, attractive woman she was. None who
knew her but a few years ago would recognize the
worn out, prematurely aged, helpless cripple of to
day in Sally Brown.
The American Institute Industrial
Fair.— The board of managers of the American In
stitute have decided to open their fifty-filth annual
fair at the Institute Building, Third avenue, Sixty
third and Sixty-fourth streets, on Wednesday, Sep
tember 29th, at 2P. M. The entries are exception
ally large. The board of directors have been com
pelled to turn away a great number of applicants
for space, and the exhibition gives every indication
of surpassing any one given heretofore. Many new
inventions in the machinery, furniture and house
hold departments will be exhibited. The fair will
again be conducted under the efficient and experi
enced superintendent, Mr. Chas. Wager Hull, and
the action of the board of directors in reappointing
him to this responsible office is commendable, and
his retention meets with the approval of the exhib
itors and public. The entire structure is being
renovated and decorated, and will be elegantly illu
minated by electric lights. The Elevated railroads
will offer special inducements by reduction of fare
and stop at the entrance, which will enable the
public to visit the coming exhibition in greater
numbers than before. The opening address will be
delivered by Mayor William R. Grace. Prominent
citizens will also take part in the ceremonies. Ex
hibitors will be required to have their goods in po
sition before the opening day, otherwise tho space
will be declared vacated. Professor Bauland’s Band
will give concerts afternoon and evening. It is un
derstood regarding the rule relating to space alloted
to exhibitors mentioned herein will be strictly en
forced.
Gen. Sealer’s Reported Removal.—
A dispatch from an authoritative source in Albany
says that the report in the Tribune yesterday
morning that Gov. Hill has decided to approve of
the removal of Gen. Shaler from his office
Commissioner is “ without foundation."
An Associated Press dispatch from Albany says :
“Gov. Hill has not given to anyone the slightest
hint as to his action in Gen. Shaler’s case. He re
gards it as involving difficult and important ques.
tioDS of law and he will take his own time to decide
them."
Missed by Somebody.—Mary Smith,
aged thirty-five, of No. 41 Thompson street, was
found dead in bed yesterday morning.
Henry Hamburg, aged three years, of No. 419 West
Forty-fourth street, fell from the third-story win
dow and died fifteen minutes after.
An unknown man was found drowned in the
Hudson at 117th street. Age about thirty-five. He
had dark clothing, white underwear. Congress
gaiters, and a plain gold ring that they could not
get off the finger.
To a Higher Court.—When the case
of Robert P. Lewis, charged with practicing medi
cine without a license, was called for trial ten days
ago, an adjournment was had. When called up
again, counsel said the accused was “defunct," and
asked that the bail be released. Mr. Lewis, since
the last adjournment, had gone to*Coney Island and
committed suicide. The Court granted another ad
journment to enable legal proof to be presented of
the death ot Lewis before they would release the
bail
’ilxe Un Ha.pp y-
MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE FAILED TO
FIND THEIR AFFINITIES.
Michael Breen was charged with assaulting bis
wife, Sarah. The questions of the Court were un
necessary, so far as to asking her if she had cuts
and black eyes. They were visible. Mrs. Breen
said Mr. Breen had spoiled her face and shaped it
as the Court saw.
“ Did you give any provocation, any justifica
tion ?’’ asked Justice Patterson.
“ I wanted money from Michael; we were starv
ing; he had ft. He took the kettle and went out to
get some beer for himself, instead of giving us
money to get supper. He then camo in jingling
the money in bis pocket, and when I said, ' Are wo
to starve ?’ he struck mo."
“ Ask her," said Mike, “ why she tore my pants,
and dared to put her hands in my pockets ?"
Wife—-“ Because all of us were starving."
Man—“ Now look here, your honors, a woman
has two sides to everything. I came home last
Tuesday from work and I bad a couple of dollars in
my pocket. I asked the child where her mother
was. She said in a neighbor’s boozing. I told her
to come in where she belonged. She came; she
was drunk. I intended to give her two dollars.
But do ye think I’d give my money to a woman
drunk ? I would have given it to her if sober.
When she asked ma for money I said do, I give no
money when you are drunk. She then began
crossing me. Your honors don’t know, you never
had this trial; only poor wretched devils like us
know it—what it is to do your best, working,sweat
ing all day, and come home to a hell, instead of a
home. Well, she began to fight me for money; at
tempted to take it out of my pocket; I shoved her
and she fell on the bedstead. When she got up she
screamed police, and when the officer came she said
I struck her. I never did.”
“ Have you a family ?’’ asked Justice Patterson.
“Three, one married," said the woman. “A
couple of weeks ago he took the rent that I had
saved, and used it.”
“ He doesn’t support you ?’*
“No ; he took six dollars of my daughter’s earn
ings last week."
“Do you ever get drunk ?” asked the Court,
“ Yes, sir, but lam a hard working woman. I
have to go out and wash in the tub for him. I work
worse than a nigger for him."
“Five days,” said Justice Patterson.
TONGUE WORSE THAN HANDS.
“On the 26th of August were you beaten by any
one ?’’ asked Justice Patterson.
“ Yes, sir. by my husband, Richard Cawley," said
the wife Mary.
“ What did he assault you with ?"
"His hand.”
“ How many times has he assaulted you ?"
“Only once with his band, but the abuse of his
tongue has been worse than his hand. I would
rather he’d struck me. Our daughter had just come
from the hospital, and the excitement of this oven
ing sent her back there.”
“ You have heard the charge she makes against
you ?’’ said Justice Patterson.
“Yes, sir; I have been married to her twenty-nine
years and I never gave her a black eye in my life."
“ Never struck her ?" asked the Court.
“ Never.”
•• Then the statement that she makes that you
beat her on the 26th of August isn’t true ?*’ said the
Court.
“I never beat her.”
“This man is in the habit of doing this,” said the
woman. “He is awful jealous about a young man,
that’s the whole trouble. I’m over sixty—think of
a young fellow going after one near on to three
score and ten, and the old man being jealous! Just
think of it.”
Justice Patterson scratched his head. That was a
poser that wasn’t put to him when admitted to the
bar. Tenth Ward bums could answer that better.
Justice Ford thought the thing possible. He is a
Scriptural reader and takes old King David as a pat
tern and his guide.
Justice Power was silent. He is a follower of
Robert Dale Owen, and a graduate of “Chappaqua."
“You say the old man is jealous of you ? ’ asked
Justice Patterson.
“Yes, sir, that’s the whole trouble," said the old
lady. “ Some men don't believe their old gals can
get old; be thinks I don't. When I get to bed he
tackles me about a young fellow and wakes my
grandchildren up who are making a living for me.”
“ How old are your sons ?” asked the Court.
“ Two ot ’em are married, and I’ve a daughter,
married to a man as bad as her father, and since
married she has had to live out."
“What does your husband do?” asked the
Court.
“ His home is on the Island. He has been there
six times."
“ Ten months, this time,” said the Court.
“ Make it life," said the old fellow as he turned
facing the prison.
LOOK AT MY “ HI."
She bad two very black eyes in her head, evidence
of a brute’s fist, and in her arms a sickly baby.
Joseph Taylor, the husband, walked as leisurely
up to the bar, as if he expected to be treated to a
drink.
The wife, Ellen, with her child in arms was
nervous.
“She hit me first,” said the prisoner, “there,
look at my ‘ hi.’"
There was nothing the matter with it.
“On the 20th day of August were you assaulted
and beaten ?’’ asked the Court.
“ Yes, sir,” replied Mrs. Taylor.
“By whom ?”
“My husband. He did not leave a bone in my
body that was not sore."
“ Did you give him any cause ?”
“None that I know of; that is what I would like
to know. lam not in a condition to be beaten, as
you see.”
“She drinks," said the man.
“ I take a glass of beer when I work hard, but no
body ever saw me under the influence of liquor."
“ She went out at ten for a pitcher of beer, and
didn't come back till twelve. Then when she want
ed more beer and she bought it, I threw it out."
“ You drink ?’’
“If I drink a glass of beer I don’t get drunk,"
said the man, “but she does."
“ I take a glass of beer, there is no harm tn it. I
work hard; I support him and the children.”
“Can you get along without him?’’ asked the
Court.
“ I’ll try to, but it is hard; he has lost feeling for
me and his children."
“One month,” said the Court.
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ment or lotions, skin diseases are still easily over
come with Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Nothing exerts
such a wholesome and beautifying influence upon
the complexion and entire cuticle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, Black or Brown,
50c.
Tlie Wroii.gr House.
TOM McGLOIN WENT TO ROOSEVELT HOSPI
TAL TO GET A DIAGNOSIS OF HIS CASE.
Thomas McGloin went drunk to the Roosevelt
Hospital to get a free consultation on what was the
matter with him. The doctors made a short diag
nosis of his case, and finding him drunk, told him
to “get.” He did not go on the order given, and
he was made to go. Outside he met Philip Her
bold. the boy gardener of the establishment, and
was sober enough to give him two black eyes.
“ I was working on Eighth avenue that day,”
said McGloin, “ and I felt sick. I went over to the
Roosevelt Hospital to get advice. They said I
couldn’t see the consulting physician, and very tm
gentlemanly took me by the shoulder and drove me
out of the door, and my hat fell inside. I tried to
get back to get it, when the boy came to me with
a pair of shears and made a dive at me, and I gave
him one punch and he fell on the iron fence and
got those black eyes.’’
Complainant admitted that be had the shears in
his hand, working with them, at the time, but
made no attempt to use them.
“ What took you to the hospital ?” asked the
Court.
“To see the doctors."
“ They were strangers to you
“ But I went there for treatment, and that was
the treatment I got."
“ Fifteen dollars fine," said the Court.
Jk Sult for a Su.it.
HOW JOHN ROSS GOT HIS TOGGEiar OUT OF
“HOCK."
John Ross, a stylishly-dressed young swell, stood
at the bar charged with stealing a suit of clothing
belonging to John H. Sherloh, of No. 20 Delancey
street. The suit belonged to complainant, he said;
it was his personal property. Complainant was a
Goliah, defendant was a David, and the puzzle was
how Mr. Sherloh could get in that suit.
Mr. Sherloh said this young man, the prisoner,
sent for a suit of clothes worth S2O, He did not see
him, but his wife did; prisoner told her Sherloh
bad sent him for the suit, and she gave it to him.
He didn’t send him.
Counsel went around about the matter by asking
how Mr. Sherloh knew the suit was his. Had he
any private mark on or in them? No; but from
general appearances he could swear they were his
inexpressibles.
John Ross, the defendant, then took the stand in
his own behalf.
“I have known this gentleman (Sherloh) for nine
years," he said. “ I was a little hard up last Win
ter; I was out of place as bartender? I asked him
give • to me a couple of dollars to get my clothes out
of hock,’ as I had a chance to get a good position.
I gave him the tickets, and he got them out, and
when I called on Mr. Sherloh he was not in. I saw
the wife and got tho suit.”
“It was your own suit of clothes?" asked the
Court.
“Yes. sir.”
“Did you get a loan on them ?’
“ I wanted a loan.”
“ Did you get a loan ?"
•’No; I gave him the pawn tickets, and he re
deemed them for me. I paid for this suit that you
see me in.”
“He owed mo $42," said Sherloh. “Ho had no
place to sleep in. I loaned him some money till he
would get a chance to get work, and then he would
pay me. So he came and said, ‘l’ve go a job; loan
me so-and-so; I’ve got to get money.’ I said, *No.’
Then he said, ’Loan me $5 on the tickets.* I loaned
$5 on the tickets, and paid $5 to take them out."
“ Then the clothes he has on are bis own.”
“Yes, but for tho lien I have on them.”
The Court acquitted Ross.
Reverse Positions.
THE OFFICER SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE PRIS
ONER.
John Scanlan, a ’longshoreman, was charged with
assaulting patrolman Gallagher of the Eighth Pre
cinct. The officer said he saw the prisoner on
Spring street having hold of a man by the whisk
ers, and using him as he would a wagon in the
street. The officer then said he would take him in.
Scanlan said he might if the officer was a better
man than he. When the officer undertook to make
the arrest, Scanlan hit him and “burst" the but
tons off his blouse. The man was under the in
fluence of liquor.
•* After you arrested him didn’t you try to make a
charge of highway robbery against him ?” asked
Scanlan’s counsel.
“No, sir."
“ What complaint did you make ?”
“Assault.”
“ You are not a friend of his ?”
“No.”
“You have had a fight with him?”
“No; I have driven him from the corners on
Spring street."
•‘lsn’t it true you had a fight with him some
time ago, and he took your olub, and he gave it
back on promising not to use it ?”
“ No."
“ You broke his nose with your club ?”
“It was in self-defense. I have a witness.”
“You blackened both his eyes and cut his head?"
“I don’t know. I have a witness.”
“Another officer came to assist you ?”
“ Yes, after he had struck me three times, and
burst my buttons. I have a witness.”
Defendant said he lived at .No. 6 Congress Place
and was a 'longshoreman. He was stumbling, lean
ing against a telegraph pole in West street when the
officer came along a-nd said, “I want you.” He
asked what for? The officer said, you are drunk.
He told him he wanted to go home. The officer
said, “ I want you, and I’ll hit you if I feel like it ;
I have got the length of you anyhow.” Then he
struck Scanlan and that is the last he remembered.
Before that his nose was not broken nor his eyes
blackened. He told the officer he would go peace
ably with him, if he would not hit him. Two
months before that the officer said if he got him
drunk he would lay him out.
James Regan, of No, 4 Congress Place, said Mr.
Scanlan was leaning up “agin ” a telegraph pole.
No man was near him. The officer came up and
said, “ What’r doin’there ?” Scanlan said, “Noth
ing.” “ Nothing,’’ said the officer, and then he
pulled Scanlan up Spring street to Washington
street, and clubbed him, and Scanlan fell when
clubbed. There was no provocation that witness
saw. He was clubbed senseless and then they got a
cart and brought in the senseless man to the Sta
tion House.
“You saw Scanlan at the time of the arrest?”
asked Justice Gorman.
“Yes, sir.”
“ Was there any young man near him ?”
“No; he was leaning against a telegraph pole.”
“ Discharged," said the Court.
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A. Heart Crxislied.
HOW SUDDEN GRIEF AFFECTS SOME.
For a year or more Joseph Bodner has been in the
habit of visiting the lager beer saloon of Gustave C.
Hertell, No. 134 Allen street, near the shop where
he works. At noon as usual he went in and asked
for a glass of weiss beer instead of lager. Mrs. Hertoll
had to go out in the yard for it, but in the yard she
looked through the window in a line with the bar,
and saw the prisoner behind it at the till. She ran
in immediately and arrested him, exclaiming,
“ Now I’ve got you.” She had been long suspicious
of him. Half an hour’s cross-examination did not
shake her testimony. His hand was on the till and
he was behind the bar, where he had no business
to be. She had watched him for a couple of months,
but could never catch him.
The prisoner said he lived in Hoboken and worked
in Allen street, and had been married five months.
His employer was present, for whom he had worked
fourteen years, as was also his wife and mother.
He acknowledged going behind the counter, but
did not attempt to take any money. He was never
charged with dishonesty in his life. He called
several witnesses to prove his character.
His employer said accused had been in his employ
ten years, and had always found him honest and
reliable. He had trusted him with three and four
thousand dollars at a time, and never found him
wrong in a cent. Even if the Court convicted him
he would take him back and trust him as before.
A second witness said he had known the prisoner
from boyhood, and if he had it he would trust him
with millions.
A third witness, who bad known prisoner twelve
years, said he had never heard a word said against
his character.
The complainant then called a witness who hap
pened to be in the saloon at the time. He was sit
ting reading when the lady came hurrying in from
the yard, heard her scream, and catch the prisoner
with his hand on the till, behind the bar. He got
up from his seat when he heard the noise, and saw
all.
The Court convicted the accused and sent him to
the Island for one month. The old mother kissed
the son passionately; the young wife stood wit'n
clasped hands, tearless, immovable, like a statue,
and did not move till her husband passed back to
prison. Then she turned and walked out of court
like one in a walking sleep. She had not then fully
realized the blow.
Lieut. F. M. Symonds, U. S. N., says:
“By the use of Liebig Co.’s Arnicated Extract of
Witch Hazel I cured myself of a severe and chronic
catarrh.” Also cures Piles, Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Varicose Ulcers and Veins.
John Henry’s Piano.
IT QUODS HIM FOR THREE MONTHS.
John G. Henry, an aged man, called on Isidore B.
Brooke and asked to get a loan on a piano. He
wanted $165. He gave him a loan of SSO, after
charging sls to make a search to see if there was
any chattel mortgage on it, and $5 interest on the
loan. A month after when he went to collect his
loan there was no piano in the place, nor could he
find where it had been sent, and the defendant
failing to pay the money borrowed, he had him
arrested for conversion.
••How much money was actually advanced?”
asked counsel.
“Sixty-five dollars.**
Counsel moved to dismiss the complaint on the
ground that usury had been charged. The motion
was denied and the old man was put on the stand.
“You are the defendant?” asked counsel.
“Yes, sir.”
“Did you ever have any conversation with Mr.
Brooke in relation to a loan on your piano ?”
“Yes, sir."
••Tell what exactly took place.”
“He loaned me SSO for three months and sent for
the piano, and he couldn't get it.”
“Why?"
“I wanted a settlement.”
“Did you remove the piano ?”
“No.”
The Court on finding the old fellow guilty asked
him where the piano was. He declined to say, and
the Court sent him to the Penitentiary for three
months.
Beaten by Her Son.—James Mcln
nerey had beaten his old mother, but when she
came to testify against bim, she immediately began
to beg him off. He admitted that he had struck his
mother and was sorry. The old woman too, was
sure he was sorry. He was her only support, he
gave her all he could.
“ How much has your son given you within three
months?" asked the Court.
“I never counted it," said the old woman.
“ Has he ever paid your rent ?"
“ He has sometimes given me $6."
“ How about hitting you ?”
“ He was in a passion.”
“Three mouths,*'said she Court, “to cool him
A Plausible Story No Good*
A BRIGHTON BEACH POOL SELLER SETTLED.
“ Was anything stolen from you on the 23d of
August ?'* the Court asked Mr. Thomas Corcoran,
who keeps a liquor store at No. 1789 Third avenue.
"No, sir; none that I missed.”
The complainant charged a larceny of SB. The
accused, Thomas Fitzgerald was quite a dandy.
“Under what circumstances was the attempt
made ?’’ asked the Court.
” I saw him behind the bar, and pull out the
money drawer.”
** Was his hand in the drawer ?”
” He was pulling it out.”
“ How far out?”
“Half way.”
“How much money was in the drawer?”
“ SB, but there was S2OO near. I thought he got
that. He was a stranger and had no business
behind the bar. I had no chance to say anything
to him; when he saw me he cleared out of the
place, and I followed him, and the officer caught
him over a block away. When arrested ha had noth
ing to say.”
“ You lost no money?” asked counsel.
“ No.”
“That is your signature?” (The complaint be
fore the magistrate.)
’* Yes, sir.”
“Was it read to you before the magistrate, Justice
Welde ?”
” I swore I caught him in the act. I was stand
ing at the front door looking out, he sneaked in at
the side door and was behind the bar when I saw
him, behind the counter.”
The defense of the accused was very plausable.
“Coming along Second avenue, at Eighty-sixth
street I called in to see a man; I then went to Third
avenue and stood a moment to look at some new
buildings. I had just got as far as 101st street, just
come out of the saloon where I had a beer and a
sandwich, when I saw Mr. Corcoran running. He
stopped and asked me if I saw anybody run in the
building and which way had the man gone. He
then went on running, and I went in this beer
saloon and into the toilet-room and afterward came
out on the street, when Mr. Corcoran made a jump
at me and said he wanted me back. The policeman
came up and said it was another man. Another
gentleman came up and said, ‘ That looks like him;
he has the same clothes.* At the station-house the
officer asked him if he wanted to make a complaint,
and he said he guessed bo would.**
” What do you work at ?” asked the Court.
“I have worked at Brighton Beach for the last
seven years. I had just come from there.”
“ What do you do there ?”
“I am a pool seller.”
That settled it.
Mr. Edward Rush said he saw prisoner run out of
the store, up the avenue, into an empty building,
and the master of the building pull him out. There
was no mistake about the man.
Fitzgerald was sent to the Island for five months.
Cr. JV. R.
GRAND ARMY MEN ENTERTAINED—OLD
FOREMEN TURN OUT-HOBOKEN COM -
RADES GIVEN A RECEPTION—VETERANS
OF THE SIXTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT—
PETER COOPER POST’S PICNIC—OBIT
UARY-ITEMS OF NEWS, ETC.
GRAND ARMY MEN ENTERTAINED.
A reception was given on the afternoon of August
28, by Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin P. Middleton, of
Brooklyn, to the officers of B. F. Middleton Post
and their wives. Commander M. C. Shattuck and
his officers, accompanied by their wives, arrived at
the Middleton Mansion, Third avenue and Fifty
first street, Brooklyn, about four o’clock, and re
ceived a most cordial welcome. They were enter
tained right royally and passed the afternoon in
looking about the spacious and beautiful grounds,
playing croquet and having a good time generally.
At seven o'clock the guests were invited to sit down
to a sumptuous collation to which they did ample
justice. Among those present were Commander M.
C. Shattuck and wife, Senior Vice Commander W. H.
H. Pinckney and wife. Junior Vice Commander E.
W. L’Hommedieu and daughter. Adjutant F.
Sprague and wife, Surgeon Ashley and wife, Quar
termaster E. Bloodgood and wife, Chaplain Price
and wife, Officer of the Day Spaulding and wife.
Officer of the Guard McGahy and wife. Sergeant
Major Bloom and wife. Quartermaster Sergeant
Johnson and wife, Past Commander R. W. L’Hom
medieu, Past Surgeon General Watson, Comrade
Winters and wife, and Comrades Grant and Kier
stadt.
Before departing fortheir homes the comrades
through Commander Shattuck, thanked Mr. and
Mrs. Middleton for the cordial reception given
them and the princely manner in which they had
been entertained. Mr. Middleton responded in a
few apt remarks. Addresses were also made by
Past Commander L'Hommedieu, Dr. Watson and
Comrade Winters. The guests then separated, feel,
ing that their visit to the parents of Lieut. B. F.
Middleton, after whom the post is named, was one
to be long remembered.
PETER COOPER POST PICNIC.
Peter Cooper Post will hold its first picnic to-mor
row afternoon and evening, at the Empire City Col
osseum, foot of Sixty-ninth street, East River. Vis
iting comrades and friends will meet with a cordial
reception from Commander Whalen and the chair
man of the committee of arrangements comrade
Daniel E. Dowling, and Michael Gleason of the
Second Fire Zouaves. Comrade Mullen will have
charge of the members of the press and comrades
Christopher Farrell and Joseph Silva will look after
the welfare of the ladies.
The Peter Cooper Post Auxiliary Corps is untiring
in its efforts to insure the success of the affair, and
the friends of this post may rest assured that they
will have a gala time.
HOBOKEN COMRADES GIVEN A RECEPTION.
On Tuesday evening, August 31st, Major Woerner
Woman’s Relief Corps, auxiliary to Major Woerner
Post, department of New Jersey, gave a reception to
the comrades of Woerner Post at Bennett's Hall,
Hoboken. It was given in return for previous re
ceptions which the post had extended to the ladies.
Sixty comrades of Woerner Post, headed by the
drum corps, marched from Post headquarters to the
hall in a body and were received by the officers and
members of the Relief Corps. Mrs. Sophie Hassel
man, the President, welcomed the comrades in an
appropriate speech, which was responded to by
Commander Geayer. Department Commander F. O.
Cole was announced and was received with due
honors.
After making a few happy remarks, Commander
Cole, in behalf of her many friends, presented Mrs.
Hasselman with a very elegant gold W. R. C. badge,
mounted with diamonds. Mrs. Hasselman was
taken by surprise and could hardly express her
thanks for the handsome gift. She was also the
recipient of a beautiful basket of flowers, duplicates
of which were presented to Department Commander
Cole and Commander Geayer. Speeches, recitations
and music followed, some fine selections being ren
dered by Miss Kate Williams, P. Hasselman and T.
Sina. Mrs. Gaudendorff related her recollections of
the Gettysburg battlefield, near which she resided
at the time of the battle. Then the members of the
corps and their guests sat down to a substantial
banquet gotten up in Mrs. Bennett’s best style.
Dancing was then begun and continued for several
hours. Taken all-in-all, the affair was one of the
pleasantest ever held in Hoboken.
OLD FIREMEN TURN OUT.
Noah L. Farnham Post held its third annual pic
nic at Wendel’s Elm Park on the evening of August
2L The affair was exceedingly enjoyable, and the
veteran “fire laddies” were out in force. Among
those present were Commanders Humphreys, Phil
lips, Fest and Heilferty, Wm. Quinn, George F.
Haller, Wm. Derlin, W. F. Hofele, “Jimmy” Kraus,
Joe Hatch, Thomas Layburn, Alex. Weir, William
Dopping, W. Johnson, Peter Funck, C. L. Griffin,
Frpd. Newville, John Lindsay, F. E. Frothingham
(of Post No. 15, Boston), Wm. Broom, J. J. Murphy,
W. Bennett, Major Cooney, J. A. McCormick, John
Sleight, Thomas McGrann, Joseph Murphy, T. J.
Casey, John Spence, Wm. Campbell, Daniel Hart
and Wm. Ballinger. Commander Loeser, Adjutant
Ernst and the other officers and members of Farn
ham Post made things pleasant for their guests.
VETERANS OF THE SIXTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
The Veteran Association of the Sixty-eighth Regi
ment, N. Y. Vols., held its annual reunion at Wal
halla Hall, in Orchard street, on August 24. A large
number of m embers were in attendance, and there
were many distinguished guests. Captain Theo
dore Feldstein was omnipresent, and if everybody
didn't enjoy themselves it was not his fault. A sub
substantial repast was spread, and the boys showed
that they had not forgotten how to eat. The toasts
were responded to by Gen. Franz Sigel, Major Kum
mer, Coroner Ferd. Levy, Joseph Unger, Fred A.
Botty, F. G. Hoffman, and others. Comrade Cohn
gave a history of the regiment, and Comrade Her
man Thum sang “ Marching Through Georgia” and
the “ German Fifth.” The German Veteran Singing
Society.of which Comrade Werner Schaefer is presi
dent, gave a number of fine selections. Among
those present were Gen. Von Schaak, Max Von Am
eluxen, Capt. Anthony Allaire, C. Otto Boese, Com
manders “Billy** McEntee, and Henry Kloeber;
Otto Bottiscber, Frank Sippelich, of Washington;
Albert Morton, of Vermont; David Haas, of New
Jersey k and Max Kest, of Ohio. The following of
ficers ot the Association were elected: W. E. Mon
toux. President; G. F. Hoffman, Vice-President;
Louis L'Ubuscher, 1.e.-ord:ng Secretary; Frank
Luebi-r. Uo»r-*p«>u ;ii«k r< iaiy; Philip Ascher,
Treasu er; John Iteuocb, <i»ior Bearer.
OBITUARY.
During the past week Koltes Post has seen two of
its comrades borne to their last resting-place, and
to-day the remains of another member will be in
terred. Captain Charles Diedrich, late of the Fifty
fourth Regiment, N. Y.Volunteers, and Lieut. Joseph
Boehm, of the Third New Jersey Light Artillery,
have been added to the many members of the post
sleeping beneath the sod, and they only preceded
by a few days Comrade Kilian Schultzo, formerly of
the First N. J. Artillery. Members of Koltes Post
are requested to assemble at headquarters at one
o clock this afternoon, for the purpose of attending
the funeral services. The interment will be in the
post plot at Lutheran Cemetery.
for the first time since its organization Perry
Womens’ Relief Corps, No. 35, has been called upon
to mourn for the loss of one of its members, Mrs.
Sarah J. Darby, who died very suddenly last Wed
nesday night. The corps attended the funeral in a
body, and held its beautiful service at the late resi
dence of the deceased. The interment was at E\ -r
--greeus Cemetery. Mrs. Darby wag a popular an I
faithful member, and she will be greatly missed by
the many friends who were deeply attached to her
and will long mourn her loss.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
Any former member of the Eighty-seventh N. V
Vols., who knew Private James Wade, of Company*
G, who enlisted in November, 1861. and served until
January, 1863, is requested to send his address to
Thomas Victory, No. 378 Fourth avenue, this city.
One of the comrades of Ellsworth Post reports
that the post is in a flourishing condition. Adjutant
E. W. Brennan has lately secured « recruit who
weighs eleven pounds. The adjutant speaks very
highly of the new comer, but as the latter prefers
milk to lager, the boys consider him as belonging
to the class commonly known as “ suckers.”
Department Commander Cole, of New Jersey, and
his staff will attend the reunion at Easton, Pa., on
the 17th inst., which is to commemorate the battle
of Antietam. A train will leave Jersey City at eight
o clock A. M, on the 17th. Excursion tickets to
Easton and return will cost only $3.25, and com
rades who Lave the leisure should attend this re
union.
The reports for the second quarter of 1886 in tha
Department of New Jersey show a total gain ot 33T
members and a total loss of 523 members. The net
loss is 186 members. The “Jersey Blues*' should
brace up.
Commander-in-Chief Fairchild has reappointed
Comrade John Taylor, of Philadelphia. Quarter
master General. Comrade John Cameron, of Wash
ington, will continue to act as Adjutant General
until further orders. Communications for tha
Adjutant General should be sent to Washington,
and communications for the Commander-in-chief to
Madison, Wis.
Comrade Wehr, after elevon years’ service as
Treasurer of the Sixty-eighth Regiment Veteran
Association, was retired, at his own roquost, at tha
recent meeting. The members unanimously ten
dered him a vote of thanks.
Comrade W. E. Montoux, of Koltos Post, has been
elected an honorary vice-president of various Ital
ian societies, who intend to commemorate the an
niversary of Italy's independence by a festival at
Switzer's Harlem River Park, on the 20th inst.
Koltes Post, No. 17, Sons of Veterans, at the en
campment held at Walhalla Hall, No. 50 Orchard
street, last Wednesday evening, elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year : Philip G. Kloeber,
Commander; John Burns, Senior Vice-Commanderi
Fred Krumm, Junior Vice-Commander; Charles
Prigg®. Adjutant; M. J. Hess, Quartermaster; Au
gustus Ahrens, Chaplain; Charles Maul, Surgeon;
Jacob Schmitt, O. D.; Frank Dy ruff, O. G.
On Saturday next J. L. Riker Post will give its
annual encampment and summer-night's festival at
Brommer’s Union Park, One-Hundred and Thirty
third street and Eastern boulevard. Riker Post
baud will furnish the music, and the affair promises
to be one of the best entertainments ever given by
the post. There will be a dress parade, and tha
drum and fife corps of Robert T. Lincoln Poet 8. O.
V. will give an exhibition drill. Several of the De
partment officers are expected to be present, and a
hearty welcome will be given to al! comrades.
Colonel Yeargan, of Louisiana, formerly of the
Army of Northern Virginia, has connected himself
with the well-known firm of J. H. Bonnell & Co.,
and will represent that house in the Southern sec
tion of the country. The colonel is a genial and
courteous gentleman, and is reconstructed upon a
solid basis. He delights in meeting veterans who
wear the “ blue,” and feels perfectly at homo in
their gatherings. The colonel is vouched for as a
good fighter and equally good friend by Colonel
Healy and the other officers who were formerly
membors of the Ninth Connecticut Volunteers.
Danger Ahead Signalled by a Cough is averted
with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
□L"lie Squire-Flynn Case.
JUDGE CHURCHILL DECIDES THAT IT SHALL
BE TRIED IN THIS COUNTY—BUT THE
CAUSE MAY BE TRANSFERRED FROM THE
COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS TO OYER AND
TERMINER.
Judge Churchill, of the Supreme Court, yesterday
morning rendered a decision in the motion made
before him to transfer the trials of the indictments
against Rollin M. Squire and Maurice B. Flynn
from the Court of General Sessions to the Court of
Oyer and Terminer.
The text of the decision is as follows:
“ Section 344 of the code ot criminal procedure
provides that a criminal action prosecuted by in
dictment may, at any time before trial, on the ap
plication of the defendant, be removed from tha
Court in which it is pending in the following cases:
I. From a Court of Sessions or a City Court to tha
Court ot Oyer and Terminer of the same county fof
good cause shown. 11. From a Court of Oyer and
Terminer or Sessions or a City Court to the Court of
Oyer and Terminer of another county on tha
ground that a fair and impartial trial cannot be
bad in the county or city where the indictment is
pending,
“ Botn of the kinds of relief are sought by the de
fendants in this motion. From the papers present
ed, it is clear that novel, intricate and important
questions of law are likely to arise upon the trial
ot the action; that the matters involved have at
tracted great attention, and have been widely dis
cussed by the press ot the city, and that great care
will be required to prevent injustice being done to
the defendants from that cause; that the defendants
have occupied positions of great influence and re
sponsibility in the city, and that the case is one
the proper disposition of which is of the highest
importance, not only to the defendants personally,
but also to the interests of honest municipal gov
ernment.
•• These facts furnish the good 'cause’ required to
be shown lor the removal of an action from a sub
ordinate to the higher court, and clearly bring tha
motion as to the first form of relief sought within
the rule laid down in the only reported case cited
upon the question. People versus Sessions, 10 Abb.,
N. C., 192.
“It is urged, on behalf of the people, that the
Court of General Sessions of the city of New York
is of equal jurisdiction in the trial of criminal mat
ters with the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and that
the judge likely to preside at the term at which this
indictment, if remaining in the Sessions, would be
moved for trial, is oue whose learning, integrity
and ability fit him to preside over the most import
ant trials. But it was well said in People vs. Ses
sions (sup.) that; 'ln deciding upon such an appli
cation it is impossible that the court or judge to
whom it is addressed would regard the personnel of
the magistrate who is to preside in the lower court.
The tribunal or court which the laws of the State
make the superior one must in the administration
of justice be so regarded.’
“ ENTITLED TO ANOTHER COURT.
“If a trial earlier than November is desired by
the people, the Governor can appoint an extraordi
nary term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer for
the trial of the case. The defendants have moved
promptly and have made a case which entitles
them to the first part of the relief sought.
“The defendants further move that this action
be removed for trial from the county of New York
to some other county, on the ground that a fair and
impartial trial cannot be had in the county where
the indictment is now pending. To show that this
ground exists, the defendants have submitted their
own affidavits, stating that the press of this city,
with a daily circulation of more than 1,000,000
copies, have, from day to day, since July 29, 1886,
published violent and abusive attacks upon them,
and particularly with reference to the matters
charged against them in this indictment, and which
they believe have so far poisoned the minds of resi
dents of this city that they cannot have a iair and
impartial trial within it.
“They have also submitted a large number of
articles cut from the issues of the daily and weekly
press of the city, which seem fully to sustain their
affidavits as to the nature and extent of the attacks
made upon them. It is well settled in this State
that before the change asked for will be made it
must be shown affirmatively and clearly that a fair
and impartial trial cannot be had in the county
where the indictment is pending (People vs. Bodine,
7 Hill, 147; People vs. Vermilyea, 7 Con., 108; Peo
pie vs. Sammis, 3 Hun, 560.) In each of these cases
the motion to change was denied, although in each
case a considerable degree of prejudice was shown
to exist. In the last case the Court says: ‘ When
an accused person applies to change the place of
trial he must, under all the cases, make a clear case
that by reason of popular passion or prejudice he
cannot have a fair and impartial trial in the county
where the venue is laid.’
“ In the pending case the papers fail to satisfy ma
that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had within
the county of New York.
BUT NOT A CHANGE OF COUNTY.
“Of its 35,000 citizens liable to jury duty, a largo
number have undoubtedly been absent from tha
city during the brief period in which the articles
complained of have appeared. A still larger number
probably are the men who, engaged in business,
have not read the newspapers to such an extent or
with such attention as to have formed any opinion
upon the questions involved in this indictment. A
much larger number will undoubtedly be found of
fair-minded, intelligent men, who, from the instinct
ot fair play and a feeling in accordance with the
rule of the common law that a man should be pre
sumed innocent till proved guilty, have held their
judgments in such suspense, as to the guilt or inno
cence of the accused, that they would fairly and im
partially try the issues in this action. From these
classes it seems that a fair and impartial jury may be
impanelled and a fair and impartial trial had within
the county of New York.
“The mot.on to remove this action from the
Court of General Sessions of New York to the Court
of Oyer and Terminer of the county of New York is
granted.
“The motion to remove tha action from tha
couuty of New York to some other county is da*,
med ”
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