The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-12
NEW YORKLSMS.
From Otw OsOt Correspondent.
Huw YoRR. Jan. IA, 1See.-Untn


The superntepdent of Police, and Captain
Youpr, the ruling spirit OF the detectives, and
m an whose personnel ia not unlike the tradi-
tional one OF Henry the Eighth, had done all
they could TO close oil the avenues OF escape.
Several James Logans were suspected and
arrested, but nonfj of them bore the marks OF
identity, such as the scars around the eyes and
the inda-iuk Celebrations described IN the
Mayors pro camation. Even when the
James Log an at present under arrest
delivered himself up, accompanied py
his brothe r.in-law, John McManus, VINO had
an eye TO the S2500 reward, the captain at the
station .ouse where be presented himself tailed
TO IeCo gpize him. Since his surrender Logan
has be IN as cool as the police nave oeeh hogety'
No d elective likes to be cirCumVohteu' IL Is
netu raj too that the police OF tne lWsnIletn
war a should claim 10 have had general idea OF
bis Whereabouts from the first, ana W naVe oeeh
gr adually Ii rhtenlng the tolls arouhu h'ni' po'n
Opan anSi his brother.n-iaw ploless W Aeei
Asertain of proying an abb. IheS say tueS can
produce evidence that at the houi "non 'ne
murder ,as committed the selt-surlenueret was
asleep II bed Meanwhile tue mayors prosla
nation, offering reward ol SSVVo a'u an
exemJ y,ion from prosecution 10 'ne ihulVlouai
who fns the passive witness OF tne huruel'
he wi u appear as q witness against tue prlhc'pai'
rem. AIMS extant, and in the telegraph rooms OF
poll ,te headquarters the noble army OF reporters
are continually obtrudiDg their heaus ana
q sminlng the filed dispatches
THE s. e,
or sSocietv for the Prevention OF Gambling,
e, ,,ssd more than three hundred gambling
, ,a,oons during the year 1868. 1t spent nearly
s4s 600 in the employment of special detectives,
.and tracked out the delipQuencles of more than
<nne thousand employees mostly clerks, with
whom gam bling was tie first openly fagrant
ss.ep in Wrong-doing. The Society does not
1nrofess 10 be able to put stop to gambling, but
.only 10 operate as a check. 1t informs employ
ers whether any of their employees gamble or
mot end. if so, to what extent. Whenever it
gets chance, it deals without mercy with the
s.ropers-in.n II it cen succeed in abating the
pernicious evils to which the day gambling
houses in New York give rise, II will be blessed
with the prayers of every one VINO has ever felt
what It's TO have the talons Of a gambling-hell
rronrietor fastened in him. Of these day gam
-blipy saloons, however, more anon
THE ARREST OF Mr. BERGH
on charge Of cruelty to animals Is the late9C
q. dodge OF the Dry Dock, East Broadway and
q Battery Railroad Company. IT is like arralgn-
ing the Rev. Albert Barnes on the charge OF
spiritualism or the Rev. HenryiWard Beecher
for sectarianism, The fact is that on Saturday
Mr.. Bergh insisted that one of the drivers on
the aboye-named line should proceed no further
until he had doubled" his team, the roads
being in a frightful condition, and the passen-
gers in frightful disproportion to the strength
of the two spiritess. looking horses attached to
the car The driver was compelled to obey
and some halfhouI's detention ensued, whereby
long string of cars was blocked up, dozens OF
passengers were detained, and twenty or thirty
horses were kept standing in the cold. The
humane proprietor of the line in question
determined to turn the cards against Mr.. Bergh,
and made use of the equine sympsthies OF the
latter for The purpose of dethronipg him. Mr.,
BeIgh has been allowed time to consult with
his counsel 1t is the passengers, quite ms
much as the car conductors, who hinder Mr.
Bergh in his kindly labors.
TIE LoEw BRIDGE
has been getting lower and lower every day
BY the time this paragraph is read 1t will have
vanished forever. The photographer who piled
his trade there will ply it no more. should moi
be surprised if he made for the vortex OF dissi
patton and went through what of life remains
for him, considering himself in the hight of 6
blasted and ruined man.
THE Guys LOSS BY FIRE
for the year just ended amounts to nearlI
81 SOC, 600. OF 200 fres % were incendiary, th'
perpetrators Of II of which have never beer
discovered.
KEROSENE EXPLosIoNs
have lately become epidemic, and the epideml
has oCcasioned such painful and remedies
results that great interest attaches to an inques
lately held by Coroner Keenan,. The case wa
shat OF q girl who was fatally burned by tn
explosion of a lamp containing kerosine. In
kerosene remaining in the can from which tn
lamp had4been filled was placed IN the hand
OF M. Giuseppe Tagiiabue, together with som
more Of the same kind, purchased at the sam
place, for that purpose, by the Coroner
The Oil was then tested by Mr.. Tagh
buo in a spyrometer, an instrument use
for determining the density and comoustlolIl'
of kerosene and kindred oils. The result OF M
Tagliabue's examination proves that the vap'
rizing point of the oil 80 purchased was
degrees below what it ought to have been, an
the burning point 80 degrees below; that it wa
almost pure benzine, and exceedingly dangeror
to burn in lamps. The Coroner very properl
did not with such evidence before him. allo
the case to pass with impunity but held tn
manufacturers to bail in the sum $4,000 eact
and the retailer in the sum OF $2500 to await th
action of the GrandJurY.
Herve's 0perd bou6e of
"LGIL cREvE''
rhe "Piereed Eye" or the ARROW in til
B5erD was finally produced last night, afte
having been waited for one week, for the restC
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