Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-03-15
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR,
This Afternoons Dispatches.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS.
Anafrs I'm New York.

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AN Erie exhibit which shows that thsr, has be,n
I' mendous increase In all departments where
iraucs couls be perpetrsted. since iSf.. the
time when Gould and his associates berams
connected with the road. The confluence, ~
ptnses, which In l>ts were So 300 ~, In ts.,a
increased 10 Id, t -, and in Is 10 ~, 20 IA
The general superintendent amounted Ia
SllS.46l.'l In lSs, and I'm iSso. Jim Fisk's wear
t jumped 20 slG5 .3So.2S. The issue OF Sto..
aScended from twcnt y I've millions "a tishty-.i.
millions, and OF this sum there l. actually sail
70 he deficit unaccounted FOR 81 hfiN-ous mil
mons. covered NJ i'm SCmc ing niou> " ~ D., fl,.,
VINO nave had access 20 the Erle books The
TENS OF : agents and clerks" which iu tSt-s W.
wi, il.H2, increased until ina Isl there ".
rl,hS,bSL.2 set down. The incrcssr tor ,,,,
Grctors. baggage aud hrakemen Wa over 70.
hundred thousand. The hoard OF directors We.
Yesterday examining tie books. but to t,uhii.if.
: gwen 10 their proceedings. The otiss
financial exhibit l. suon expected.
INV DLrARTU RI N THE HALL TRIAL.
INV YORK, March t5.-It u thuuslf thar o.
entirely new lire Of procedure will o.. stlor-..
IA the Han T al. New witnesses VIII hc sam
morcd. and ths old ones discarded
A MEETING 90 PANT AND COLOR MASyFAc-
TUREEs
WAs held here Yesterday, al which a protest was
naae against The proposed alteration in IN,
heht organization was effected
ATTEMPr To POISON EIGHT PERSONS
Al White Plains, McStchesfsr court, an A.
t.hlt mas beer made to poison a family namcJ
Ackerman. composed Of eight persons. ly I'm
ORIGINATING their spring well with arsenical
poisoning.
SUICIDE oF A ROY.
A Port Ieryis dispatch states that Albert
morse, Il NeaTs 81 age, shot himself dead veter
cay m"rnlng while in ht OF anger with IA
Parents.
THE ERIE DIRECTORS
yesterday APPOINTED BischofiSl elm and Col +
schmidt, OF London, their financial ageHts iu
Europe. and referred the subject Of confrI .fS
with the southern Improvement Company l.r
ne transportation OF oil To a committee Mr.
A. -. Williams, agent for the American stock
holders OF trie, SAYS they will await the neat
Juiy meeting 10 act IN the election Of new direc-
''ELI PERKINS"
ahunorous writer Tor the press OF this city. was
handed rather roughly i'm the brokers board
this neon.
NV York, March l5.-There Was consider
aeie activity IN Erie shares to-day, and prices
advanced TO II :.
WIPE MURDER
John Christy beat his wife "a death nj Locust
Grove, Long Island, yesterday, and then took
Paris green and died.
TRIAL OF TIRE VOUCHER TstEyEs
Judge taIdozo to-day set next "Wednesday for
the trial OF HsggeTty and Baalch, the voucher
ihicNts, II eN-Controiler Connolly could be
FOUND. III Connolly IL not then found they will
be allowed bail.
THE HARLEM COURTHOUSE JOB
Ire value OF work done and grounds pur-
chased for the courthouse At Harlem II e-ti-
mated by the architect employed by Controller
1retn TO amount 10 sSo, Goo over quarter OF
hllilon collars have been drawn from the city
ana county treasury for this work.
THK CASE or MAYOR HALL
before the Common Pleas Court. did not at
tract as large a crowd a. usual. The chair OF
the late jury man, Clark, is draped. The coun-
sci discussed an extension of the term OF the
court prior 10 discharging the ee ven Jurors il
being held that ii the Judge discharged them
before extending the term il will in effect di>-
charge the case. Finally, the Judge extended
the term TO Tuesday next for discussion on the
power OF the judge to extend the term TO finish
the trial.
ANOTHER CHILD DIES OF HrDRoPHoRIA
Nm Jones, five wears old, bitten by the same
dog " hich decorated 80 many children i'm Brook-
lyn last week, died this morning. being the sec
ond fatal case of hydrOphobia from that animal