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EQUAL RIGHTS VS.. WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

EQUAL RIGHTS VS.. WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
New YORK, May 15.-Ths American Equal
tights Association yesterday rejected Henry
b. Blackwells resolution for dissolution and
adjournment and adopted that of Parker Pills
bury, transferring the records and the property
and effects of the association to the Union
Theodore Tilton Woman Suffrage Society and
merging that Association in the organization
The discussion on the proposed action was very
long and rather warn Mr.. Blackwell and Lucy
Stone being the only advocates of dissolution
and protesting against the surrender of the As
ISOLATION to Tilton as premature, unjust and
unfair. Mr. Blackwell replied to speech by
Edwin A. Steadwell in favor of the transfer by
motion to adjourn, declaring that the propos
ed action was simply outrageous; that he had
no Boston friends here to support him and that
lie and fls wife were simply Overpowered by
numbers.
Mr.. Pillsbury rejoined that this meeting was
called by your own desire. You object to the
smallness of numbers present. Would to God
there could always be minority in a bad
cause. It's legal for you, the minority, as you
ere to come here with murder in your heart
and endeavOrs to cut the throat of this AssOci-
alton, but is not legal for the majority, who are
in favor of decency, progress, peace, harmony
and growth to pass resolutions for their attain
ment
Lacy Stone sustained her husbands propo-
s!t!on and protested against Jennie Collins
voting, on the ground that she was not a mem
Ter of the Association. Finally Mr.. Pillsbury s
resolution prevailed, only Mr.. Blackwell and
Lucy Stone voting in the negative, and Mr..
PIllsbury was appointed a committee to take
charge of the records of the Association and
the meeting adjourned subject to the call OF
the executive committee.
AT the Tilton Won, IN Suffrage Association
lust previous to the meeting, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, the acting President of the AS
ISOLATION, received a present from an unknown
donor OF an elegant boquet of exOtics, valued
at 500. The Union Woman Suffrage Society
at its recent annual meeting detailed Mrs
Stanton, Miss Anthony, Miss Kirk, and others
to make speeches in Richmond and other
cities under the auspices of the newly formed
Woman's Suffrage Association of that State
Measures will also be taken for celebrating the
Goth anniversary of the Woman's Association
at Philadelphia Oct 18th and 18th.
CITY AND VICINITY
Sylvanus Cobb, a jealous lover, who shot
Julia Wells, at Brooklyn, on Friday evening,
IL still living, but with no hope of recovery.
Miss Wells is row out OF danger.
Kev DIR. VIM. F. Buddington, of Brooklyn,
favor of the Bible in the common schools, urg-
ing it as political duty, on which depends
the safety and prosperity of our republic rather
than a moral or religious obligation. He de-
clared the assault on the Bible really marked
an assault on the whole American system of
Tree common schools.
District Attorney Morris, of Brooklyn, re-
pines to the charge that he had drawn the sal
airy OF one OF his clerks for his own benefit.
he, by his own statement, has paid out of his
frauds.
Meyer Stern, a Republican candidate for AL
derman, declines because he is Democrat.
Michael +. Hart, of Boston, was committed
IN Jersey City yesterday to await trial for forg-
ing an endorsement to check for 500.
% irnS in I,o
sWamps during the past week consumed $780,
700 worth OF property, mostly in timber. The
damage by the recent fires in the Shawnyunk
mountains was not over 100000, instead of
$4,000 600 as previously reported.
Inc sequel to the case of Hamilton Wood
charge of obtaining money on false pretencss
appears to-day in statement from him accus-
ing Rev. Edmund P. Gardiner Rector of the
First Presbyterian Church, who was his prose-
cutor, with usurlous operations. He will be
brought before the Presbytery
j. N. Brown, Gen. Hatfield and other boun-
ty agents. have sued the city of Hoboken for
the recovery of $3.50 for each of lar e number
OF volunteers to fill the quota in the war. The
defence is that fraud was practcod and the
volunteers were not forthcoming.
The prospectus of new ocean cable be-
tween Wales and the coast of Rhode Island. to
Ie laid next year, will! soon be published. Ex-
Senator Arnold, of Rhode Island, and VIM.
L. B!odgett, Eugene Kelly, H. G. Marquant
and Il. Ticknor Curtis will be the New York
Directors of the undertaking. The cable is
contracted for and is expected to be laid be-
fore Sept. 1, 1t71.
The anniversary meetings, at which thirteen
Sunday schools and 1000 scholars were pres
ent, was he'd in Brooklyn yesterday under the
auspices of the American Church Missionary
Society.
Two hundred and twenty-five Fenians left
by the Erie train for the West last evening.
Mr.. Kiner has been appointed chief engi-
neer OF the Morris aud Essex railroad, in pl G.,
OF 5. u. Harris, resigned
A. L. Stewart will erect no buildings on
Hampstead Plains till railroad communication
IS secured. Stewart has already contracted for
twenty miles of avenues. eighty feet wide, with
thirty feet of sidewalk and fifty feet road bed
Hon. Andrew j. Rogers, who spoke at po-
s1tiate Nsetgg Last njtaJhte sw was snnnrAssed Inv
The Athletics beat the Stars yesterday, eight
to one.
II. 9. Stantonberg, wealthy merchant of
New York, died of apoplexy Saturday.
The number of voters registered yesterday
was II, 292 white and 1915 colored. The aggre-
gate registry is 1sl t19, including 1919 colored.