The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-04-09
NEW YORK.
FoAiAn suit Against August Bel.
mont L Co.,-A Meeting in kAvor Of
DsAy- Burning.
NIXID NoNLT MAIrKRs.

MIXID NoNIY NAIIKRs.
NIw YoHk, April 4.-Duriug the Fenian
raid Jno. O'Mahoney, head cenlre, deposit
ed with Belmont & Co., s20, 900, taking
therefor bills of exchange upon Rothschild
4 Co.; for London, drawn in favor Of one
O'Lera. These bills we're attached by the
British government. and never reached
O'Lea.y. O'Mahoney then brought suit
against Belmont Co., to recover the
amount. and asked the late Judge McCunn
for receiver. Negotiations were opened
between the parties, by which the money
was to be turned .c O'Mahoney. Pending
negotiations, and be fore the case was sub
mitted to the court, McCunn appointed Thos.
j. Barr, receiver, against the wishes OF
both sides. Barr subsequently asked for
an order allowing him to pay out in e1pen-
ses, and commission considerably over
half the amount, and now after reference,
decree and appeal, decision is given hold
ing that, the receiver having been appoint
ed through the wrongful Intervention Of a
stranger to the suit, is not entitled TO ex
penses and commission, and must restore
the full amount to Belmont s. Co.
CREMATION.
At a meeting last ight Of those who
favor cremation. a number Of letters were
read. The Rev. o. B. Errthingham said
that he had no prejudice again-, the prac
tce. Chales A. Dana said at certainly
is not credtable to civilization that any
part of the easth's surface should be de-
voted to graveyarJs, and that the remains
of the dead should b. disposed OF i'll an un
scientific cumbersome and reyulsive man
ne-. as at present. Henry Dc.Sh. Presi
dent of the society for the prevention of
cluelty to animals, says in his letter "ln
humation satisfies 40 reasonable instinct 0!
oar aatare. /. ID only an instinct, like
hundreds Of others which still exist, or
which bare been cleared away by the fright
light of reason" 1t is proposed to hold
a meeting in a few weeks and form per
manens ssaanizatan.
cALL TO RESIGN.
A Letter from the United States District
Attorney. of Brooklyn. to his second assist
ant, William o. Hughes. asking him to re-
sign, is made public. The District Attor
ney says: "On assuming the duties of this
Office, designated you as my second az
sistant, upon the urgent request of Attor-
aey G eneral Williams, your brotherin law,
am now compelled, frop circumstances
which you doubtless understand, to ask
your resignation. For nany weeks
you hare beea disleyal to me and the in
tenests of thss Office, and have been in close
conference and Ia ;atnate relations with
John D. Sanborn and his frieads. l have
reason to believe that tor weeks you have
been conveying to Sanborn and his friends
the secrets of this Office, and prosecution,
| and have been iudustr:ously at work ia the
interest of Mr Sanbscn, while It tSe same
time yeu bave prefessed friendship fee me,
and have been in coa6deotial relations xith
sae in the prosecution of the Sansorn case.
am also well aware that you have been
all the while plotting for my removal aud
aiding the Sanborn influence, by all the
means IA yoar power, to secure my reno
val, and have made your boast that you
wcnld, through newspapers, break me
down in the city Of Brooklyn, and througk
your relationship with the attorney general
secure my removal in thirty days"
District Attorney Tenny wa. the prose
cutor of Sanborn, IiAwley and Fanderwek-
or in the late trial in Book lyn-