The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-18

New York, July 17.-Lucette Myers stated
yesterday th-t Roscoe had moro than once
threatened to kill Goodrich. She stated also
that part of Kate Stoddards confession is
false, especially where Kate says she killed
Goodrich Thursday morning. when Goodrich
actually was with her Nucette) all Thursday
afternoon, and did not leave here until nine
o'clock Thursday evening.
Mary Handley, the female detective, has left
town in search of Roscoe.
More Frauds on the Revenue.
The announcement is made that the revenue
officers In recent investigations have discovered
such evidence of fraud on the part of we'll
known importing house as will compel the
payment OF about $4,000 penalty to the gov
eminent and the imprisonment of at least one
member of the firm.
Hard Fight.
In endeavoring to quell disturbance in
liquor saloon last night, officer Byrnes was set
upon by several roughs, but after a terrific
fight he captured two of them, not however
until he received most serious Injuries. One
of the roughs had nearly all his forehead
pounded off by the officer while the latter was
defending himself, and the officer has one arm
completely paralyzed.
The Code of onor.
1t is stated that the grand jury have found
indictments against the brokers of this city
who recently INDUCED in duel and their
friends who were present
AHc EcdOOuy EOUcatlOmaI Fun0.
In abiding to the financial condition of the
Peabody Educational Fund yesterday, Mr..
Winthrop stated that about $4,000 from the
fund had been expended in cooperation with
six or seven times that amount contributed by
the southern people in the cause of education
since the last meeting of the board, tins max
ing but little less than million of dollars ex
pended during the year for free common
schools in the south.
Down with Mansard Roofs.
To force the owners of Mansard roofs to have
them removed this year and replaced by less in
hammable roofs, the board of underwriters has
adopted resolutions levying additional premi
ums of one per cent. upon all mansard roofs
after January 1, 1874.
Statue of Seward.
Preliminary steps have been taken for erect
ing statue of the late VIM. III. Seward in Cen
trail Park. The park commissioners, in reply
to the petition of DR.. Osgood Howe, have resolv-
ed that the statue of any person shall not be
erected there until five years after the death of
The Peabody Fund-Rep0rt of the Secre-
tary.
The annual report of DR.. Barnas Sears, gen.
eral agent of the Peabody fund, reviews the
condition of the public schools in the Southern
States.
The amount appropriated to Virginia for tn e
year ending August LIST, 1872, was 1888, 200. The
number of public schools is sos. The school
population is 411,021, of whom 247,002 are
white. The amount appropriated to North
Carolina was -$12,550 The condition of the
schools and education is unsatisfactory. The
common people are Indifferent, and the public
men show a want of union and co-operation.
In South Carolina few schools are reported
throughout the year. Application was made
for Charleston as follows: The Legislature at
its last session appropriated over $300.OOO for
educational purposes Not one dollar of this
amount was received from the treasury and the
result has been that nearly all the public
schools in the State have been closed The
amount paid from the fund was $4,000 la
Georgia the effort thus far to establish pub
lie school system has resulted in comparative
failure. The fund contribution was $40, 200 to
tweiye schools In Florida three-fourths of
the youths of the State are yet unreached by
the education system, but the ratio is RAPIDLY
changing. The fund contributed was $4,000 in
aid of fourteen schools In Alabama of the
population of million, 383, 900 can neither
read nor write. Of the voting population there
are 81 900 blacks and 1000 whites who cannot
read or write. The State funds paid were$606,-
GIT during the year, and the Peabody fund 81
600 to five schools In Mississippi there are
1850 pubic schools with an average attendance
of $4,000 and 400 private schools with 49,
$50 pnpils enrolled. The expense of the COM
mon schools is 81, 130,988 and the Peabody
fund contributed 81 400 to aid six schools. In
Louisiana 81 $3.50 was contributed to aid the
schools. In the unsettled state of school mat
tiers in Texas, the trustees did not feel justified
in making donations to be unfriendly to COM
mon schools, but reluctantly consent to let the
experiment be tried, provided it be done cheap
ly not considering probably or caring that such
a condition is fatal to success
The effect would be in more than one State.
1t is to create wide spread dissatisfaction among
people who, having paid their school tax, find
that private schools have been broken up or
reduced to weakness or inefficiency by the re-
moval of so many pupils, and that for want of
sufficient funds no respectable public schools
have taken their place. So far as the educa-
ton of the children of the State generally is
concerned, the two systems co-existing, are
chiefly efficient in weakening each other, Either
to be prosperous, requires all the money that is
paid for both. One will not be satisfied to form
the fund. In Arkansas the children of school
age are S194, 314; the number of persons attend
ing schools 81, $685. teachers 2.035; amount paid
teachers $685., 525; and amount contributed
from the Peabody fund $4,000. In Tennessee,
the number of children of schoolage is about
100000: the school fund is $2,512, 500; the
amount available for schools is $55O, 900; and
the Peabody fund contributes in aid of fifty
five schools the sum OF $4,000. In West Vir-
ginia there are 5000 schools in operation, run at
an expense of $500 annually, and $4,000 in
the graded and high schools. The Peabody
fund contributes S1j,950 The total contribute
ed to all the States is $136,S40.
Annual Meeting Q. the New York Yacht
Club.
The annual meeting of the New York Yacht
Club was held tonight, Vice Commodore Os-
good presiding Fifteen new members were
elected, including August Belmont, Jr. The
time for the annual cruise was referred to the
flag officers fer settlement but itSwill be early
in August. The $1,000 cup offered by James
Gordon Bennett, Jr., to he sailed for from Sandy
Hook to Cape May, was accepted with thanks.
Also four $500 cups, two for schooners and two
for sloops, which will be sailed for the first
Thursday in October on the Newport cruise. A
letter was received from G. w. Galloupe of
Boston, sta ng that he had placed his yacht
'Sprite' at the disposal of Prof Agassiz for
the use of the school of natural history on
Penepeese Island, and recommending that the
Professor be made an honorary member of the
Club A vote being taken he was elected.
Various Matters.
Ex-senator William M. Graham, late Presi-
dent of the Waikiki National Bank, and who
has been in Ludlow street Jail since February
Of $4SO,OOo,, gave bail TO day in $4,000 and
was released.