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The New York herald., 1876-01-01
BUSINESS CHANGES AND FAILURES.

BOSTON, Mass Dec 81 lS75
The old firm of Gardner, Bremen & Co. changes its
style to J. L. Bremen Goa change only in style as
both John l. and W. " Bremen have been the active
partners the house for very many years
J. H. Connors, dealer in wholesale liquors OF Haver
hill street. Boston has failed, with liabilities OF $50 liz
Indebtedness TO creditors for the part favor
OF parties IN New York and Boston. The available
assets aggregate $1,000
o. r. Sage, trunks Washington street, Boston, has
failed. A committee of five, consisting OF three New
York and two Boston parties, was appointed 10 inves
tigatc affairs
Peters Co OF Boston, met yesterday and reported in
favor OF accepting the firms proposition 20 into
bankruptcy voluntarily and then offer composition
with their creditors the basis of paying per
Of the debts in three months, ten per cent in nine
months, Eve per cent fifteen months and Eve per
cent In eighteen months all the notes to be the un-
endorsed paper OF the rm and the three months notes
TO be without interest The creditors agreed
The liabilities OF Robert W. Dresser h Co.. woollen
goods, Franklin street Boston are about $50 0OO and
the $40 The indebtedness Is mainly in favor
Of Boston and New York parties
At meeting OF the creditors OF Shepard Hall 4 Co.
the great Boston lumber house held yesterday was
UNANIMOUSLY voted TO take thirty cents on the dollar
The business Of the lrm TO DO carried under the
superniendence OF the Register until the acceptance of
the creditors is confirmed
W. t Black & Co., harness dealers, Federal street
Boston, have failed The liabilities are reported at
about 81 900, 81 900 being due to Boston parties and
most Of the balance TO parties IN Maine
AT meeting Of the creditors OF Bernstein, cothiers.
Boston, held yesterday, was voted to take hiy cents
on the dollar
Albert T. Robbins boots and shoes, Nos i6 and %
Essex street, Boston, has failed HIS Indebtedness Is
about S27, 0O0 mostly in favor Of New York partics
The assets about $4,000
A. j. srnallage 4 Co. dry goods Chauncey street
Boston, have failed The liabilities are reported al
$40, 600 OF $12 COO.
The Liabilities Of william II. Healey. OF Boston On
bankruptcy are $4,000, mostly in favor OF Boston
and New York parties
The liabilities Of the suspended furniture firm OF Vol.
ger Bros OF Concord, y. H., SIS. OO4 30 and the
assets $9,650 Their creditors have decided to place
them in bankruptcy
The creditors OF J. B. Lawrence 4 Co. furniture
dealers Of Worcester, Mass, have voted to accept
forty cent composition
J. J. W. Brown. manufacturers OF bricks IN Bur.
lington and Colchester, VI, have been thrown into
bankruptcy.
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BUSINESS FAILURES.

Messrs Priest, Fuller Lawrence, importers OF No.
10 Maiden lane, who recently assigned to w. l. Head
ley, $l9s52 81; nominal assets S. 565 81 actual
value, s., 73l ~.
Assignments have been made by George c. William
G. Angel TO W. B. soheld by Emma Bartlett dealer in
harness, of No 50 Warren street. Josiah Fletcher
and by j. T. Hitchcock K Co., Importers, Of No. 3S
Beaver street. to De LOrme knowlton
The individual creditors Of Reuben w. Howes, OF tho
late firm of Howes Macy, bankers held a meeting
yesterday before Register Dayton, at No 322 Broad
way The assignee, Nelson J. Tappan, presented his
report, and dividend Of five per cent declared
making sixty per in all The estate of Charles
A. Macy paid loo per cent, and another dividend Of
about ten per cent will be paid 10 the creditors OF the
firm, any five per cent having been previously paid
There about 900 creditors.
A meeting OF the creditors OF Charles G. Wilson
clocks, No SO Nassau street. held the office OF
Henry W. Allen, Register IN Bankruptcy No. l52 Broad
way number OF claims we're proved and Charles ~
Gould elected assignee. The liabilities are about
$50 600 Among the principal creditors the follow.
ing:-Chares Clark, So, 202; Bridgeport Brass Com
pany, 81, ,2l0; W. l. Gilbert 81 1873; Mathew wilkes
81 l2S; Ansonia Brass and Copper Company, So, ,043
The creditors OF Patrick ID. Casey liquors, met yes
terday at the office OF Isaac Dayton Register Bank
ruptey No. 81 Broadway, and, the report OF tho
assignee George Gallager, dividend Of eight per cent
declared.
Alta meeting OF the creditors Of Isaac c. Schafer
syrups No. 70 Cortandt street. Mr. David Wagstad OF
No. IS Cortandt street. was chosen assignee in bank
ruptcy.
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A GAS CoMPANYs NEGLECT.
now MRS. coESwArL's DEATH WAS CAUSED

HOW MRS coRSwA1L's DEATH WAS CAUSED
AN UNGUARDED STREET TRENCH.
Mrs Elizabeth Cornwall, Of No 81 West Thirty dfth
street. fell into trench made by the Municipal Oxygen
Gas Company at the junction OF Broadway and Fifth
avenue the 10th ut and died few days after from
the injuries received by the fall Coroner EckhoG
held an inquest on her body yesterday.
Henry Bergh testified that in his opinion there a
manifestation OF utter carelessness and Indifference TO
the life aud limb Of men and animals in leaving tho
trench open.
Oflcer John W. Phillips, OF the Twenty -dnh precinct,
dcposed that he took Mrs Cornwall OF the trench
aud, with the help OF Mr. Bays assisted her into tho
Fifth Avenue Hotel. When she got IN the hotel she
SAID she had not seen the hole. At the place where
Mrs Cornwall fell only space OF about two feet
LEFT the crosswalk for people cross No guards
were put up nor any precauton taken prevent accl
dents
william Smart. officer or tho Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty 10 Animals corroboratcd Oacer
Phillips testimony.
Dr. A Russell s,rachan testified that he attended
Mrs Cornwall and that she died from the shock gwen
10 her system by the tall
The jury returned verdict In accof dance with tho
above facts and declared that the death Mrs Corn
wall was caused by criminal neglect the part Of the
gas company
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A BROOKLYN MYSTERY D1sPELLED.

Patrick Murphy. Of No. 80 Amity street, Brooklyn,
procured warrant Thursday last for the arrest
young gentleman named George wardleigh, Of No, II
Jefferson street. suspicion OF having oully dealt
with Margaret haIlon. domestic In tho family Of the
accused The suspicion was based upon the facts, as
published yesterday, that Margaret had not been seen
since December q, and her olothing being
found where she bad len ~ Mr. Ward
lcigh's residence Mr.. Murphy, who Is nor cousin
assumed that she had been done away with Search
made in every direction 81 her rela-
tives but 70 no avail Hence the arrest Tho
mystery has been hnaly cleared by Detective Corr.
Az the cry Hospital be found Margaret IN the lyDg-n-
ward and BY her side vas 6no male child II
that she was taken N while Myrtle avenue with the
pains Of maternity the day which she was last
seen by her employer and the hospital
The name she gave 70 the physicians there Bridget
Reynolds She informed the oficer that the young
who was IN custody was innocent Of any offence
against her but incuipated rather prominent member
Of the Brooklyn Bar being the natural guardian of
the waf Mr.. Wardcigh, who rs a highly respectable
man VAS thcreuDon released
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Nrw YlAnIg pAr IN pnooKLYN.

The centennial new year will be observed with due
regard lor the usages Of the past IN the City OF
Churches. The custom Of calling and receiving calls
promises to be carried regardless OF the srngcncy
OF he money market and the general depression o,
trade The Gags will be displayed IN grace
ful pFofusion by Keeper Tormey from tho
City hall, while the County Cour House
viii vie With u In artistic ornamentation The public
schools Offices and stores will remain closed There
will be masses celebrated the same a. on Sundays all
the Catbohc churches, today being the feast Of the
Circumcision of Our Lord There we're watch meet
ings" In many Of the Methodist Episcopal churches
last night which we're well attended The bells OF ST
AIMS played the chimes from eleven p. NJ I'LL half
past twelve O'Clock this A NJ, and the melody awoke
the heart Of many belle the tender thought that
this being '9eap year. the prospect OF a change Of
name was greatly enhanced
The incoming Mayor, Frederick Schroeder, republl-
can, will stand upon the right hand side Of The 0utgo
log democratic Mayor Hunter the ONCE Of the Chief
hagstrnte OF the city, from ten O'Clock A. twelve
O'Clock to-day, and Will IN vindicaiion Of he Drin
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than HI r fitizens-were tories
Governo ..ea th loose hand, the
reins o. 81 II practical purposes,
the city Americans General
Washing - a-.- -- . - --~1gre that, had II been
attacked, il would have been overcome and the hope
Of American liberty destroyed, lay at Cambridge
watching the operations Of the British. II the
darkest hour OF cause gloomy that only years of
defeat could achieve a victory in the end In the har.
Dor at Boston an expedition fitted out which was
bring CONSERVATION to the doors Of every pat
riot in New York Sir Henry Clinton was in com
mand, and one Sunday morning in January, l776, he
entered the bay and menaced the city Lee in the
city with small escort but without an army, and
Clinton could easily have laid the town In ashes The
inhabitants expected its destruction and all night long
aer his arrival in the harbor busy Transporting
their movables TO place OF safety. The streets were
filed with carts and the North and East rivers with
boats, all heavily laden with merchandise. 1t was
the design Of the British only to capture
the city but 10 take possession OF the Hudson
River as far as Albany and, by commanding it, divide
the colonies into two parts The alarm among the in
habitants OF New York and the ready springing TO
arms OF the people Of Connecticut and New Jersey
seem TO have disconnected Sir Henry, and pretend
ing that he only a visit to Governor Tryop, he
sailed further South and the conflicts about New York.
lheNlsaDlo IL bhe war went on Nerc
in the year. This episode, so slight in itself and yet
raught with important consequences could not be
recalled more tly than at the present moment when
at the threshold OF the Revolutionary memories
which come with the centenary Of American nde
pendenco
A YEAR
But part Of the enjoyment OF the present as these
memories are, we need not conhne our pleasures to
their recollection AS we write the changing bells
announce the death OF 1875 and the birth OF 1874
Everywhere there stir and hustle In the metropolis
and before the impressions OF the HERALD are dry
the early callers will begin their rounds Already
tables spread in every household, and young men
and maidens bedecking themselves for the sober
joty, let us hope, Of all true worshppers at New
Years tide while all give expression TO the wish that
Love and Joy come to you
And to your wassail too,
And God send you happy new year,
happy new year,
And God send TO you happy year.
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Il HuPPy HOW VHIi
And God send TO you happy new year
THE EVE AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.


The observance of New Years Eve at the Stock Ex-
change OF the usual merry and uproarious charac
ter. Business suspended in the forenoon. In
truth little or no business done, and then followed
a series Of horseplay performances that would have
done discredit to the widest school of unreormed
boys that ever existed. The gallery suspended above
the floor excellent vantage ground for such
spectators felt a natural aversion TO ming
ling in the rough fun carried be-
low Here gentleman could stand with the
consciousness that the silk tile upon his head was
safe and yet enjoy all that of malicious delight
which human nature is prone to indulge in wit
Messing the misfortunes OF others Hats that inno-
ceutly entered ton the heads OF their owners the
y ere the bulls and bears josted and howled in bar
Sarous delight and mischief departed mssbapon as
rushed and ruined as II very Juggernaui had
passed them and If pity did not excite the bosoms
Of the lockers on, profound feeling OF sacred Joy
must have stirred the hearts Of any practical hatters
in the gallery any renovators OF dismanted stove
pipes who "block your hat while you wait for fifty
cents.n All sense of dignity and decorum disappeared
in the hot and furious sport OF the bulls and bears
Mock auctions started and lots in Greenwood
and Calvary cemeteries went up to very high figure.
Tweed stock jumped TO 199, beyond which had
the courage bid Mackerelville active Charley
Ross touched H. after starting at Had the latest
formation been more reliable il might have gone to 22
Whiskey cocktail stock went higher than Kite, and it
scarce on the premises that many OF the lead
ing brokers made frantic rush out upon the
street and found II till they reached Delrzoni-
co.'s Chinese geng such used 10 be commonly
employed in the hotels of former days, brought
by some of the boys and made main occasion OF the
fun OF the day. The President OF the Board raped
his gave and declared that any member caught with
the noisy and abomnabe instrument IN his possession
should suffer the extreme penalty of the law Of
tons. Having said this he solemnly descended from
his chair and with the stern devotion OF old Roman
boldly plunged into the tumultuous mob to
arrest with his hands the impious vio.
lator. A crowd at this side now and that side
the next moment circulated the offending gong 1t
sounded in all quarters Of the room, but it eluded the
grasp Of the exhausted pursucr piunging madly into
this group and that like the harp that seemed to
hang the old Moorish walls This portion OF the
performance was very amusing in ITSELF but the culmi-
mating sport the nnal smashing OF several
shining new silk chimney pots that ventured
the end OF the days amusement Altogether the
brokers and specuators left impression that there is
trile more TO live for than money. AS TeLnyson
says
heath is the end Of life
Why should life all labor be
The New York herald., 1876-01-01
The vital statistics of New York city FOR the year 1875
complete by months, are as foows:-
COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITIES

At the meeting Of the Commissioners Of Charities
and Correction yesterday tho following resolutions
we're adopted -
Whereas the Board of Estimate ApporOnmeut have
reduced the appropriation Of this departments by cutting on
the allotment for the outdoor reducing the
appropriation than $4,000 from estimate there
Resolved That the school ship Mercury be laid up
dnary the boys thereon transferred ~ the OF
Warden Harts Island and the OF the officers
seamen dispensed with from date
Resolved That the warden. dril master, matron.
and all other paid employees. night watchman tho
Nursery at Randas Island be notified this day that the
parlment has no further use for their services
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Nrw rrAns 80 AMoNo - GrnMANe.

NEN lLAAc I've Ahp-fH llih NL4sMANr.
Among the Gefrlans the New Year celebrated by
the different ciuls social aud musical The New York
Turn Vcren gave an entertainment at its hall in Fourth
street, which included supplementary Christmas
tertainmeut and distribution Of holiday gifts As
soon as tie New Year bad been ughered In
a ball was begun AT the large hall az the Germania
Assembly RoOmf a New Years entertainment was
gwen, under the auspices OF German workingmens
Organization The INLAND Bund, a thriving German
vocal society," spent the last hours Of the year vocal
Houston street.
Al the waihalA Hall, IN Orchard street. the New
York Choral Society gave Sylvester entertainment
consisting OF vocal and musical exercises and ball
The Arion Quartet Club passed the closing hours OF tho
old year with a vocal and musical entertainment at
Concordia Hail. "a A. and the 1rst hours OF the
new year al a LaL
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NEW YEARS IN JERSEY CITY.

Mayor Trapnagen, Of Jersey City, has issued proc
lamation ordering the display OF the national colors
from public and private buildings to-day. national
salute will be fred and all the church bells rung at
rise He recalls to the minds Of the citizens the fact
that this day ushers IN the anniversary of the centen
nia year and he calls all 10 celebrate accordingly
with becoming solemnity. The Fire Commissioners
have ordered the ringing OF all the fire BELLS stroke
10 be given for each Of the original thirteen States
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THE DEATH SHAFT.

The suit for damages against John HcAndrews, the
contractor Of the Delaware and Lackawanna Rail
road Company at Jersey City account OF the death
Of four men who we're killed In No shaft was cop-
tnued yesterday 10 The Circuit Court Jersey City
before Judge Knapp, Attorney General Nanatta ap.
poarcd on behalf Of the railroad company The court
was crowded by tunnel laborers who anxiously
await the result Of tho trial several other similar
suits are IN prospect Ex Mayor sawyer and Mr. John
Linn appear for ths relatives 0f Ihe deceased aborer
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THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE.

Alta meeting OF bag manufacturers In the Produce
Exchange yesterday II WAS unanimously agreed TO
tabsh uniform rate Of hire for grain bags TO Europe
. fonows:-Seven and half cents per three bnsLcl
bag, two and half cents per bushe delivered
there six cents per three bushe bag or two cents per
bushel returned here free OF expense, both 90 include
ihe ing up THIS agreement takes effect to-day.
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NEW YEARS PRESENTATION.

MI J. F. Ames, agent Of the Maine Steamship Com.
pany presented yesterday by tho employees of the
company with magnificent gold hunting watch
mark OF the esteem which he is universally held
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cipes Of the hour 'retrenehment and reform 'send
rcn and poor alike away empty after gentle press
ure Of the hand Time was when the democracy and
republican needy constituents wont to "eat,
drink, laugh and be merry at the Mayors receptions
on the first day OF the year.
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IN HOBOKFN.

The birth OF the centennial year was celebrated in
Hobokcn by the ringing OF the ere bells firing of pis-
tos, blowing Of steam whistles, &c. In addition 10
this the whole Fire Department, as has been the Gus
tom for years paraded through the streets burning
torches The greatest enthusiasm prevailed In the
township OF Union Hill, also, the occasion was sim-
larly honored
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A CELL

Two young women named respectively hinnio
Grfnths and Annie wilson, confined IN The Fourteenth
precinct station house on Thursday night for being
ds0rderly, attempted suicide by hanging themselves %
the bars OF their cells rhey werl discovered and
restored W consciogsucsA
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TO ten O'Clock io The entrance and clearance veses
orFIcsl RECoGNTIoSs or DAY.
BY an order OF the Common Council the American
flag and the city plors Will be displayed today from
the City Hall and al pu0lc Offices An artillery salute
at sunrise will max The day the commencement OF
the centennial yCar Of our national life Flags will also
grace all the hok and theatres and large numbers or
private buildings throughout the city well all the
shipping IN the lafb0r.
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YESTERDAY AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE.

There reocings and handshakng in the Gus
tom House yest'tday immense extent and kindly
wishes expresse as to happiness for the year. In
addition to thA ii pay day, and there was hot
hurryng from ths Custom House to the Sub Treasury
to get checks cas- ed. Assistant Auditor s. T. Jacobs
at his ofce seven o'clock give checks out to
the messengers, Mechanics and others whose time
is occupied DUNG the day. His consideration
for this class is tighly appreciated by them pre-
vents their losngtme by waiting for their turn dur
ing the day. III total number OF checks paid dur
ing the day by NJ Ogden, the Auditor IRON the Col
lector TO the pfters counted sixteen hundred The
amount paid ess Than 1t has been for many years
the recent ten pcfcent reduction salaries enectng
this change Th Sc exempted from the tea per cent
reduction tho chief officers Of the Collectors Office
Deputy Collec'orf storekeepers GAugers and Weigh
ara
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SUICIDES

Nationalities Germany, IL United States 80; Ire
land, ls England, 4; Switzerland, =; France 81 Rus
sa /; Scotland, l.; Sweden, /; Cuba, l. Total 142
The ages ran as follows-Under 20 S. under 80 20.
under 40, 49, under so, "a under 60 %; under 10
under 50, D; under 90 /. Total 142
The poisons follows Paris green %. mar
cotics, IL arsenic, s. PHOSPHORUS, p prussc acid
hydrocianc acid cyanide Of potassium, ?; carbolic
acid, l. Total, 5S Males, 40; females, Is
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CORONERS' WORK.
Statistics of the Office for
the Year 1875.
The Homicides, Suicides and Sud
den Deaths.

The following is a detailed statement Of the violent
sudden deaths that have occurred in this city dur
ing 1870
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THE YEARS VITAL STATISTICS.


the morning Of January to the evening Of December
81 1875 reported at the Bureau OF Vital Statistics
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1S75---1S76.
Departure of the Old Year
Amidst a Fog.
SCENES IN THE STOCK EXCHANGE
New Years Eve Among the
Germans.

The popular notion that New Years calls are an IN
fuon" peculiar to New York is not founded on iact
but al the present day the almost confined TO
this city In many countries, especially in Scotland 1t
was long the practice TO await
, 1876-09-23
THE COUNTY BUILDING.


This is sentence day In the Criminal Court.
1,1ro Eorora, avonfno+ naturalization mil,
gu"so nos s,a,. Tna nss. "ran'.1r,s r.,.. ,."a
ss,,'I1 t,rm 51,bery,an. hcy Su" 0S ''' s'9' "'
The County Collector ts still dlsposlng OF
tho deltunaent property IN Hyde Park Tho
city viii be- reached cariy next week,
~, ,..,-,,- ...-,,
ING a"afo 'os 1uen'sh'ns M autopsy''aolo
for the Morguo at the now Hospital was yes
$aIu.
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Gotanllsslonc. @ ostIsl m ,n,, ur a.
nd un',titEs "' III III sovs ia to1 !.
ag!ow for grccnbacks, and tho nore tho merrlcr.
MI. ,t.a.,s,. l., .ha ,,.,s ~ ,,,o ,,dt,to1
i; naye r. af si geen snohca 70 ~ r.
pGa5 !Nesuat ~ Nv ttAn.al t Goa.' III, ih t .e
tsatS a1 n1I ~ a9kG M psso a.a,a. ~ 'nat VI" "os
oe t"e iaui' VI 'uo o'u'e,S 4A''otnes'
WINS to llavo been argued and decided Today,
has been postponed until tho 18th OF October
| on the motion OF the County Attorney, Can
this havo any connection with tho Criminal
Court proceedings tho coming Wcck1
n rns,,vcr Il III II wvs r"atcrtnv ,lm:i1cfl in
ta,ns " H., ias,nort he saao os o,n.n,aI
~ tn III, r. cfrrutt E G"nrt. Tia clam VIVA aacI m
W nnto o sisi, ~ aIcocd to i"wo hncr, f"rcc
the history OF which las already been given
| Every other e1nployc III the County Clcrk'a
Office Is candidate 1or tug Legislature this
| fall. III glauCinE over tho ltat OF delegates to
qcfnlx o ss Ss 81 ts
| stauls In tho background Hopping his wings
md squeallng t'Rcforu.."
Thn co,n,utttce m Hosnltale md puhlfn
rtt tis 3luner Of thc architcct lice 81 Of the G new new
1Iast u II Il, sawinr ths hnilrrs nceci sonnwl,nrc
rise thnu tic bol!er.l,otsc. Tlto blundrr ia one