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The New York herald., 1875-08-30
BROOKLYN.

The average daily consumption of water in Brooklyn
last week was q, 900 600 gallons.
Officer Scott of the First precinct, fined $50 yes
terday for assaulting Michael Smith, of No $50 Pacific
street, by Justice Walsh
kerosene oil lamp exploded at No. 2s1 Kent avenue
Yesterday the residence of jeremiah Mccarthy, causing
a damage of about 500
Robert McCay was arrested complaint OF the cap
tain of the British Suearsbrook lying at the At
antic dock the charge of stealing rope and coffee
from said vessel
welIdressed young called at the jewelry store
Of W. Ludon No. $40 Fulton street, and, under pre-
of purchasing ring, stole worth $12, with
which he ran away
Casper wench twenty-one years Of age, residing at
No So Cook street, was assaulted by unknown man
on Bushwck avenue on Saturday night and severely
dubbed. No arrest
Philip Bernet, Jr., of wyckoff and Liberty avenues,
was committed for examination, before Justice Gerum,
yesterday a charge of attempting TO stab ex-Chief
Engineer Charles McCalrey.
At an early yesterday morning the cigar store Of
F. De Gebcle No. so Bridge street, entered by
burglar through the open fanight the door, The
proprietor awoke and the thief made his exit with
agility, but no plumber.
Michael McCanery, thirty-eight years Of age
arrested yesterday morning for cutting his wife Ellen
on head with and inurlng her severely dur
ing a light at their house. corner Of Oakland and Ash
streets. He is held for Court.
Justice Semler yesterday committed German
named Charles Schwardtfege to await examination on
complaint Of Herman Hurbeck, Of No 240 Franklin
street. who him of entering his room and steal
ing jewelry to the value of sos.
Justice Walsh committed Leonardo Desme, an Italian
butcher of Union street, for attempting to shoot sailor
named Peter Anderson. The prisoner claims TO have
acted in self defence in presenting the weapon at the
complainant, whom he says is member or Palermo
gang Of desperadoes who have been prosecuting him
for several weeks past
Miss Ellen Becher residing at No $50 Floyd street,
while asleep threw herself from the second story win
dow distance of twenty feet In her fall she struck
lopng of the front porco of the house which
partly broke her fall Her shoulder disocated and
she otherwise injured Miss Belcher has been a
somnambust for some time past.
The New York herald., 1875-08-30
MARITIME MISCELLANY.

BARK CHEROKEE r before reported ashore ut Magdcen
Island has become total wreck. Two schrs laden with
goods from her arrived Mt Pictou yesterday
BRG BovEY (Br), bound to st John, NB.whch
has been anchor of Whtestone for the past ten days
the Illness of her captain viii sail to-day under
captain (Strongj. IL the weather be favorable
scHR MARION GAGE Freeman, from philadelphia with
coal for Boston, while anchor below the Ledge lghtsp
Friday evening into by the steamer Achilles
from Newburyport and sunk Tile were saved ana
taken To Philadelphia by the Achilles, saving nothing but
what they stood in. The built ut Wilmington Del
In 1896, owned in Philadelphia and registered 3O tons
ScR WIN HILL ashore at Dutch Island has had her deck
load taken on but to purpose Wreckers from Newport
to her Saturday but could do nothing The captain
has gone to Providence for tug
HALIFAX Aug 2S-Bark Russian and the American schr
Viking before reported in collision of Scatary The
bark lost her bboom and head and the scr her main
sail and stanchons and had hole stove in her side
Bark Gertrude from Havana for Queenstown in quar-
antne at North Sydney with yellow fever board She lost
one man on the passage TO Sydney.
THoMAsToN, Aug 26n Tuesday morning schr Telegraph
lime laden the wharf of Lnekin Austin Morse, took
fire. The vessel at sealed tightly and hauled
down river inst few rods above the Point of Rocks" On
Wednesday afternoon the fire broke out through the deck Of
the sc and in order to the vessel holes were bored
through the plank and she scutted This the second
time that this chr has been fire within few weeks She
owned by Lnekn; Austin Morse, Charles Simpson,
E D Gushing and others.
The New York herald., 1875-08-30
LONG ISLAND.

Charles Weeks OF Short Neck, has been appointed
place of the late Captain Daniel A Nevins.
The Board of Health of Newtown have at last deter
mined to proceed in against the fat boiling and
other nuisances established within the town limits,
with view to their entire determination
The annual session of the Teachers Institute Of Suf
folk County will commence at Riverhead to-day and
continue two weeks The competitive examination for
the scholarship in the Cornell University will
held to-day.
L. Bradford Prince has accepted two invitations to
deliver addresses before agricultural societies this fall
one at the Saratoga Unity Fair September Sara
Springs and the other at the ST. Lawrence County
Fair on September 81, at Potsdam.
The republicans of North Hampstead have elected the
following delegates to the Convention of the First dis
trct Queens county called to choose delegates to the
State Convention at Saratoga Hon. John A. King
Messrs Samuel Wets, Benjamin d. Hicks, James L.
Baxter James r. Wiets and David 4. Austin
The difficulty in Long Island City regarding the three
Boards Of Excise seems to be in fair way to set
tlement 1t has been agreed by the attorneys Of the
respective boards that the matter shall be determined
at the next General Term Of the Supreme Court to be
held the second Monday of next month"; and il Is ex
pressy stipulated that the parties shall be bound
by the Courts decision Meantime the liquor dealers
are independent of any restraint notwithstanding there
have many suits brought against them for arrears
and non payment-all of which, it is understood will
dropped consideration Of their taking out
when the validity Of either board shall have been estab
lighed
The New York herald., 1875-08-30
TIDEWATER VIRGINIA.

IMPORTANT CONFERENCE AT BARNUMs 8 HOTEL.
Tidewater Virginia is undoubtedly Of the most
promising of the United States, and possesses
resources which, when properly developed will make
it rank in Importance with some of the most thriving
and prosperous portions of the Atlantic coast The late
war; the panic and other unfortunate circumstances
have up the present retarded the development of this
fine country and shattered many projects tending to
raise il to its legitimate level but time, which
every ill., seems have removed many of the obstacles
that have hitherto stood in the way and efforts
about be made that promise more fortunate ermi
nation.
The city of Fredericksburg from its position and sur
roundngs must eventually become great commercial
and manufacturing centre, and when lines OF railway
shall be established communicating with the West and
South it will almost certainly become the great cotton
emporium of the United States.
With view to placing these advantages before the
leading citizens of Northern cities, excursion has
been projected from Fredericksburg TO New York on
September l. under the auspices Of the Rappahannock
and Potomac Immigration Society" A conference will
be held at Barnum's HOTEL corner of Broadway and
Twentieth street, on Friday, September g. at eleven
O'Clock A. NJ. Exact statements will then be made as
the cheapness and productveness of the lands in that
section of country and the superior manufacturing
facilities of Fredericksburg.
The chief officers of the organization are General FtZ
hugh Lee President Charles Mason Vice President and
A. Borst, of Fredericksburg, Secretary
The New York herald., 1875-08-30
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

NEW JERSEY PROPERTY HOLDERS ALARMED
MAYOR TRAPHAGEN CALLS A PUBLIC MEETING.
While tho constitutional amendments TO be sub
mtted to vote OF the people Of New Jersey to morrow
week are the whole, desirable there is one which, II
passed, will effect the ruin Of hundreds of property
holders In Hudson Essex, Union, Passac and Mddesex
counties. That amendment is as follows:-'Propcrty
shall be assessed for under general laws and by
uniform rules, according to its true valuation" The
passage Of this would repeal the ''Five County Act
which exempts mortgages from taxation Under such
general law who holds property worth $40, 0OO
with mortgage of 5000 thereon, would have IN
reality to pay taxes $4,000 one-half more
than it is worth. The holder of mortgage
receives per cent free of tax,
while under the arrangement he would have to pay
a tax Of three per cent his mortgage, leaving him
only four per cent interest his loan The obvious re
suit would be the foreclosure Of mortgages by which
struggling mechanics would be deprived of their homes,
the fruit of many years savings. The lender would be
prohibited by the Usury law from receiving the addi
tional three per cent.
HERALD reporter had interview with the Senator
for Hudson county, Mr.. Leon Albeit the subject.
That gentleman delivered his views without any reser-
walton and summed up by saying:-"All the amend
ought to be passed except that one He stated
that the reason why the give County
Act" eXemptng mortgages from taxation, was
passed, was because merchants and manufac-
turers in the large cities could not build
or make improvements, because savings banks and
moneyed corporations would not loan money on mort
cages which they taxed since they had TO al
low depositors six per cent while they only 70
ceived five per cent their loans III the
amendment be passed all the money loaned on mort
cages the counties named would be called in, and
great distress and suffering would be the result Capt.
tai would then seek an investment elsewhere TINS
was not political question, but which affects pri-
vae interests Mr.. Albeit thought that democratic and
republican committees should meet and have tickets so
framed that the obnoxious amendment would be de-
feated. The counties not included IN the act are IN
favor of the amendment and it will require the united
efforts of both political parties throughout the five
counties TO defeat it.
The HERALD reporter then called Mayor Traphagen,
of Jersey City who is srenuousy opposed TO the adop
tion of the amendment on the same grounds as MT.
Albeit set forth. He said that few lawyers would
reap rich harvest but hundreds of property holders
would be ruined In consideration of the great import
ance of the question: he has issued call for public
meeting to be held Wednesday evening at the Caho-
lie Institute when the will be stated in all its bear
ings County Clerk Brann states that he distributed
the ballots throughout Hudson county during the past
week and that in nearly every district the people wero
entirely ignorant of the meaning and the elect of the
amendments,
The New York herald., 1875-08-30
A NOVEL YACHT.

The Cleveland Leader says that Mr. A. b. Hoyt, OF
Warren Ohio, has lately perfected yacht which, Tor
novelty construction is ahead Of anything ever built
in these or any other waters. He has named II the
Safety, and with what business the name is given
glance at the following description will show:-She has
a double hull "a feet in length beam of II feet over
all and a depth of hold of feet. The hulls are
sharp at both ends. with concave sides, each
being four feet beam. They placed side
by side four feet apart and connected by two decks
the lower one amidships being about half way between
the keel and the upper deck, curvng upward at the
bow and stern and uniting with the upper deck. 1t
also forms the floor of the cockpit Each hull Is made
watertight and in shipping the cockpit IS the only
place that catch water To clear out this water
scupper is built extending from the inside OF the cock
pit the outside of each hull The rigging is the same
ordinary yachts having jibs mainsa and topsaiL
The yacht Is steered by two rudders fastened To the
of each hull and connected the deck in such
way that they be turned by single lever.
The invention is designed to overcome the danger OF
capszing obvated by the of the two hulsl ana or
laundering obyated by the curved lower deck helping
the boat quickly and preventing running
down by the head As the weather boat serves as pal
last weight of stone metal any heavy article ls
needed therefore, in either or both the boats are
spring leak they will not sink, but wiz noat
quite number of persons The yacht was buit at the
yard of Messrs Radcn LangelL During the last lew
weeks it has been quite thoroughly tested, ana mas
proved itself to be all that intended.
The New York herald., 1875-08-30
PROBABLE MURDER.
BOSS MLAUGHLN's BROTHER sTABBED-ARREsI
OF THE AssALANT-A SENSATIONAL STREET

BOSS M'LAUGHLNs BROTHER sTABBED-ARREsT
OF THE AssAILANT-A SENSATIONAL STREET
AFFRAY
About three O'Clock yesterday morning an ARRAY took
place in Brooklyn in which Henry Mclaughlin.
brother of Fire Commissioner Mclaughlin, stabbed
in the side 1t seems that party of rowdies who
unknown the police had been drinking, and started
along Fulton street. knocking people whom they met
from side to side. Mr.. Mclaughlin standing talk
ing with friend the corner of Adams and Will
loughby streets when he struck and he resented
the blow He was then by one of the rutlans who
made good his escape
At late hour last night Detective Curran and ofcer
Rice arrested Henry JefIers charge of being the
assaant Of Mclaughlin who is regarded fatally in
jured They also arrested Thomas Conway, a boy
thirteen years of age, who with Jeers just before
the aray place, witness Jefiers has the end
Of his right thumb cut if with knife and his face
scratched Jeers who is twenty-five years of age and
ruckman by occupation has been identified by Assis-
tant District Engineer Farley the who did the
sabbing and from whom he took the knife with which
the deed committed 1t seems from the statement
Of the boy Conway that party of five or six young
had been drinking IN saloon on Hudson
avenue Prince street, during the night,
and emerging and under the influence of liquor
they commenced an indscriminate assault upon every
body they met During the nights debauch the boy
says two pistol shots were fired but he does not know
by whom On the Of Adams and Willoughby
streets the Jeers party encountered Henry McLough
lin Assistant Engineer Farley, Jacob Cohen and three
others The Jelers crowd Immediately assailed them,
striking Mclaughlin, which act the latter resented.
During the scuile which ensued JelIers drew old
kknfe which he thrust into the left side of his
tagOnst The knife penetrated about three inches
terng at point near the kidneys. Farley then took
the weapon away from the fellow, who of Nc
Iaughlin exclaimed that he dying, and would
have fallen but for the timely support Of En-
gineer Farley who caught him about the waist
and supported him to his home which is in
the vicinity. Coroner SiInms visited the wounded man
last evening for the purpose OF taking his
statement, but the latter declined 10 say anything say
ing he didn't want to send any the State Prison.
The boy Conway says that when the fight occurred he
away, and that soon after Jeiiers up to him
Wlloughby street and caught hold Of him. There
blood marks the boys clothes which Indicate that
they received from the bloody hands Of Jeners.
The prisoner who is rough looking fellow has
smooth face and dark brown hair He denies that he
did the stabbing, but he that he there At
late hour last night Mclaughlin very low and his
recovery is doubtful The ARRAY has created great
cement political circles from the fact that the vic
tim is closely connected with ex-Regster Boss Nc
Iauqhlin.
The New York herald., 1875-08-30
NEW JERSEY.

The new German Lutheran church recently erected
on Pierce avenue West New York. formally opened
yesterday and dedicated TO divine service.
The injunction against the extension Of Washington
street has aroused much indignation in Jersey City. 1t
was granted not by Chancellor Runyon but by Vice
Chancellor Van Vleet
The little boy Dworth who was struck accidentally
on the head with base ball club few weeks ago, has
died after painful Illness from the effects Of his in
juries, at ST. Mary's Hospital
man named Bernard McGill, pretending to be a
Roman Catholic priest, has been sent to the Hudson
County Jail for twenty days He imposed upon several
persons by using Latin and French phrases.
One hundred and eighty residents of Union Hill have
formed an organization TO labor for the defeat OF the
constitutional amendments. In Hoboken circulars ad
vocating the adoption of the amendments have been
propagaed
The Commissioners Of Jurors Of Hudson county have
notified their clerk not to give the Of the grand
Jurors selected for publication This notice TO prevent
the grand jurors from being tampered with before the
meeting OF the Court
Mrs Barrett Of West Hoboken whose son dealt the
murderous blow with ball bat weeks ago innict-
ing injuries that have caused the victims insanity
arrested warrant obtained by a Mrs Patsch,
whom she beat and threw down her stairs The
was put under bonds TO answer
A man named Michael Nichols arrested by officer
Hanrahan the Hoboken ferry Saturday on suspicion
OF having stolen horse he had Shortly afterward IL
was discovered that the animal belonged TO Peter Ker-
rgan. The horse thief WAS committed by Recorder
Bohnstedt TO await the action Of the Grand Jury.
The rumor recently circulated that the Palisade
Chemical Works at BULBS Ferry, had suspended busi-
ness owing 10 decline in trade is contradcted by the
proprietors II Is their custom they say to overhaul
the machinery at this season, when the smallest
amount Of The raw material Is produced Work will be
resumed week.
Hall and Henry, the alleged diamond smuggers who
are now imprisoned in the Hudson County jail, have
written to their friends in England for pecuniary assist
TO enable them TO employ counsel in the coming
trial Special Treasury Agent Chalker has recovered
the diamond ring which appropriated by justice Of
the peace IN Hoboken in lieu Of when the prisoners
applied to him.
The trouble between the Erie Railway Company and
the New York and New Jersey company still continues.
The latter company refuses pay the rental alleged 10
be due because such action would vitate ts claim
The New York herald., 1875-08-30

in No A. In a few minutes three OF them left their
KEYS at the Office aud started toward the water
there Is NO certainty that the occupant OF No.
went with them. No one noticed them particularly
when they returned 20 II the party consisted of
three or four but three called for their keys and got
them and afterward cOmbed their hair in the ONCE
where the suits are They said nothing OF missing
their companion aud went away. An hour later, at
half past O'Clock Hendrckson noticed the door ol
No alar the clothes hanging therein and the key IN
the lock on the inside an unusual thing; still he did
not think much about II till afternoon when, still see
ing them there he informed his employer and they
were removed No trace was discovered of the owner
few of his friends contend therefore, that the three
men belong clique of bitter enemies ne has created
and they have put him out of the way by 'smothorng"
him in the water The Beach men scout the idea
however and ask where is the body and how could they
dispose of tYn Hendrckson states that he placed the
key of the mo A. in the drawer OF the Office, where
il was yesterday morning Mr. Green says the room has
been twice yesterday, and yet Mr. j. T. L.
Norton found the key of No attached TO piece OF
wood floating in the water close to the shore, full mile
half TO the west OF the bathing place and ON taking
it to Messrs. Green 4 Robinson they identified II as
theirs but could not account for its singular position
Taken all in all the affair is matter of great mystery
and requires elucidaton
The New York herald., 1875-08-30
A MYSTERY OF THE BEACH.

WAS LAMBERT DROWNED "A SEASIDE TRAGEDY
OR DEVICE TO CONCEAL FLIGHT FROM
PEcUNIARY TROUBLES?
On Saturday morning a paragraph appeared In
the papers announcing that a complete suit of
clothes found in of the bathing houses owned
by Green Il Robinson, at Far Rockaway, and from
papers found therein supposed to belong to Mr. II.
g. Lambert proprietor Of the Brooklyn Daily Post
The messenger sent down reported that they the
clothes Of Mr.. Lambert and though no facts Of the
drowning could be discovered there but little
doubt Of the fact and the Post issued in mourning
Saturday afternoon.
The story told Of the drowning being a singular
one HERALD reporter despatched to Rockaway to
inquire into the matter, which turns out to be most
singular mystery, pointing either to or the
flight Of Mr.. Lambert to escape pecuniary troubles
The latter theory very naturally the one insisted on
at the Beach, no one there comprehendng how any
man could go in bathing between the hours Of nine
A. NJ and four 2. N. and drown without some one
knowing of the fact In this instance the bathroom
was engaged about nine A. NJ, and the clothes were
seen in the bath house at hall past ten A. NJ and at
eleven A. NJ. and were taken out at about three
T. NJ and examined to discover the owner. This
suppositiJu OF deception and flight Is also sustained by
the fact OF Mr. Lambert's pecuniary embarrassments
his long struggle TO maintain the Ddiy fost without
municipal patronage having involved nm ana many oi
his friends in monetary losses, which preyed on his
mind despite his habitua lghthcartedness and many
who are strangers him, but who have been in busi-
ness on the Beach for years insist that he was not
drowned for he had been the body would have been
washed ashore in hour as the wind and tde stood
that morning especially as he is said to have been IN
feeble health when he started for ROckaway on thurs
day evening The advocates Of this theory therefore,
contend that he took suits OF clothes TO the Beach,
and leaving in the bath house, has "gone West "
Others, however maintain that Lambert has been
murdered, drowned by some Of his companions, and
base their story upon the statements Of Hope Hendrck
the old in charge Of the bath houses, and Mr.
Robinson, one Of the proprietOrs which runs thus
About ninc O'Clock on Friday morning four men came
To the beach and hired bathing suits paying for
tho four with 81 bill They then asked 70 have four
together but that not being possible just then,
they given rooms 2 g. and O. No. being pri.
vate or house Ihav then retired Lamhart Gnkna
The New York herald., 1875-08-30

venion OF amateur oarsmen will convene, and great
many interesting matters viii in all probability be
brought up Strict the rule is at present in regard
10 the definition OF amateur ii should be made strcter
and should receive due and thoughtful consideration The
practice OF washing is also subject worthy Of con
sderation and oophoIe should be left open TO afford
a chance for dispute misconsructon If the pastme
sport of rowing is to be kept free from practices
likely TO bring odium engaging in races, IL
only he done by the adoption OF plain and strict
rules not liable TO misconsruction or to doubt.
The following are the positions for Tuesday
No l. Atalanta; No. 2 Friendship; No, 8 Mutual
Second heat Of fours--No l, Beaverwyck; NO z
Quaker City; No. 3 Argonauta
First heat of singcs-No l, Young; No 2, Riley;
No 3 Randall; No A. Ackerman
Second heat of singles-No l, Orr; No 2, Lathropi
No. 3 Maxwell; No. T. Mccormick q
Third heat Of sngles-NO. /, Courtney; NO. z,
Roache; No 3, Banbridge
Pairoared race-No. /, Beaverwyck; No 2, Arg0-
nauta
WEDNESDAYS RACES.
race final heats of singles, 10 be followed by the
dnal heat and finish with the double scu race,
with positions as followsN l. Neptune; No 2, Poto-
mac No 3, Beaverwyck; No. 4, Union Spring.