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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-22

FIRE IN ELIZABETH, N. j.

DESTRUCTION OF CLARK's OPERA HOUSE
DAMAGE TO THE ARCADE BUILDING LOSS
ABOUT FoRTy-THoUsASD DOLLARS.
Clark's Opera House. situated in the front upper
part of Clark's Arcade Building. Broad street Eliza
beth, N. j., destroyed by fire yesterday forenoon
entailing loss which variously es~maed at from
s25 600 to $4,000. The Opera House beautifully
frescoed and fitted up, and was capable of seating
about one Thousand persons. II had not been used
for nearly week. The Arcade Building. OF which
the theatre formed only part is large brick struc
ture fronting Broad street, aud running back par
allel with West Grand street about hundred
and seventy-tive feet. 1t put up seven years
ago by the proprietor, ex-Congressman Amos
Clark. Jr. The building ran back from Broad street
like reversed L. 1t has front on broad street. the
main thcroughfare of Elizabeth. OF rs feet and OF
100 on Grand street. 1t is four stories high. Occu-
plying quarters in the building many lawyers
aud business men, likewise the Post Office. United
States Revenue Office. Board of Trade and Masonic
Hall The great main staircase ran up through the
centre OF the building forming spacious ventilator
from roof to ground.
THE FIRE.
About halfpast ten o'clock yesterday forenoon the
fagnian on duty at The Pennsylvania Railroad depot
near by flames issuing from the Arcade building
and at sounded the alarm. Mis- soon brought
six fire engines to the scene II was some time, how
ever before the exact location OF the flames could be
discovered the dense clouds OF smoke obscurns
them Finally they were found in the theatre. and.
ia the main, confined there The theatre took up the
entire front from the second floor up. the ground
floor being taken up with stores and the wide on
trance to the entire building The theatre was ut.
terly destroyed. The front walls were also damaged
that they will have to be rebuilt. At half-p
twelve the hrc extnguished. all the rest OF the
building having been saved, likewise the adjoining
buildngs-the First National Bank on one side and
the Dime Savings Institution and others on the other
side
The chief damage TO these buildings and to the
other parts OF the Arcade aside from the theatre by
water. Mr.. Clark told the HERALD reporter that he
thought the total loss would be about $4,000, fully
covered by insurance.
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DIED.

DlEO.
AElS.-At Chappaqua, n. Y, January IS, ISAAC
A.Is, i'll the SD year of his age.
Funeral from the house OF his brother, BENJAMIN
Akin. Greenbush N u, Wednesday, 22d inst. at two
l.. d. Carriages will meet A. NJ. tram from Now
York at Grocnbush Depot.
ALcoRs.-In New York suddenly. January 10. KATE
ELLA. daughter OF John and catharine Ann Acorn.
aged ~ years Tmonths.
Funeral Thursday. January %, IL A. NJ at Little
Ferry, ". }.
ALvoRD-on Sunday. January 10, MARY N. ALvonp,
sister OF Charles 4. Mvord, aged 63 years.
Relatives and friends Of the family invited TO
attend the funeral services Mt the residence of her
sister. airs. Eliza Ware, No. 23l Lexington av ON
Wednesday. I'D inst. at two o'clock p. NJ.
BALL.--At Elizabeth, N j.. on Monday. January 30,
of pneumonia A. NJ. W. BALL. in the 6lst year of his
age.
Relatives and friends are invited TO attend his
funeral from his late residence 2O2 Halfway av., on
Thursday, sd inst. at eleven o'clock A. NJ The 10
O'Clock train from New York ON Pennsylvania Rail-
road stops at South Elizabeth.
BRESNAN.-On Monday, the 10th inst, MATTHEW I.
BRENNAN
Tho relatives and friends of the family arc invited
TO attend his funeral. from ~. pstricks Cathedral,
Mulberry ST., at ten o'clock, Thursday morning, ed
inst. rne family request that no flowers be sent.
Enthusiastically. ON Tuesday January II, Ma
d., widow OF the late Elisha Brooks.
Notice OF funeral hereafter.
IhusH.--M Babylon. L. l., January 20. HIRAM
Brush.
Notice OF funeral tomorrow.
BunKE.-on Monday. Patrick BURKE. aged 80 years.
a native of Luughrar county Galway. Ire and.
Funeral from st. GATHERINGS Hospital. Brooklyn,
on Thursday. sd inst. at two o'clock.
CLOvEil--lEwTs II. CLOVER, in his Slth year.
Notice OF funeral hereafter
CnAFr.--Jsnuary 20, suddenly Mrs. ANN NJ, wife OF
Joseph Graft. OF Glen Cove, L. L.. aged SO.
Notice OF funeral hereafter.
CuHrrs.--Jmuary 49, 1879. STEPHEN A. CURTIS aged
3S
Friends Of the family are requested TO attend tho
funeral from his late residence 3s1 Greenwich st. at
one clock. Council Chamber of Farragut Council
No. II o. o. A. M-Drothers you requested to
meet at the Council Chamber on Wednesday, January
"a 1872 twelve o'clock to attend the funeral of our
late brother - A. Curtis. IN full regalia Brothers of
sister councils are invited to attend.
J. q. DfMAlifsST, Councillor.
g. +. SAr1ERIry. Recording Secretary.
CusKLEy.-On Tuesday. January ~, JAMES CusKLEy
a native OF the county Westmeath ireland, in the
Goth year of his age oil pneumonia.
The relatives and friends OF the family, and those
of his Patrick and john also those OF his SON.
n-aw William J. McAIanus, are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral. ON Thursday morning. at ten
O'Clock, from his late residence, 100 East iIst st.
thence to the Church of Sc. Agnes East ALL ST. whore
solemn requiem will be offered up for the re-
pose OF ms soul. lntcrmcnt In Calvary Cemetery.
DEwEy.-On Monday, January ~, 1870, WATSON n,
youngest son of Frank j. and Susie H. Dewey. aged
year ~ days.
Funeral from residence. 2a2 West 10th st.. on
Thursday, at ten O'clock A. NJ
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THE ROOSEVELT ESTATE.

The suit of Charles Y. Roosevelt against James A.
Roosevelt which recently tried before Judge
Spcr. at Superior Court Special Term. was decided
yesterday. The action was brought against the de-
fcndant sole surviving trustee under the will of
James l. Roosevelt Ii being claimed that the trustees
were negligent in making loan Of $sO.OOo ON real
e7tate in this city of insufficient value and that they
were also negligent and guilty OF unnecessary delay
In not proceeding promptly forcclosc the mortgage
The other trustee, Theodore Roosevelt. died last
February and it is stated that the cash value OF the
estate to be invested by them about S2,00O.O0O
Judge Speir in his decision. gives Judgment for tho
defendant. 1t being shown concusively, rs he says
that the greatest care and prudence exercised
By the trustees, aud especially BY the surviving
trustee In the examination OF the premises ut the
timo the loan was made.
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SUMMARY OF LAW CAsEs.

Application was yesterday mado by Margaret T..
Reilly in tho surrogates Office for letters of adminis-
tration on the estate of her husband John Reilly,
the fireman who was killed at the Crosby street fire.
decision was rendered yesterday by Judge
Plachford in tho United States Circuit Court in the
matter OF Archibald Baxter and Duncan G. Raston.
bankrupts affirming the decree the District Court
The case of the well known "Billy" McGlory is on
today's calendar of the Court of General Sessions
for trial. Davis, his bartender will also be arraigned
for trial There three indictments against
Mc(ilory and two against Davis.
Jacob OFT. the litrograph printer, arrested Monday
evening by the Secret Service officers for having been
connected with Charles Ulrch and Henry O. Cole in
making counterfeit money. was held ia $4,000 bail
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AMENITIES ON sHIpBOARD.

Godfrey Hunter. steward and cook of the American
schooner sanos, was before United States Commits
sooner Shields yesterday. charged with an assault
upon Captain William Is. Henrahen, commanding the
vessel The ship sailed from Philadelphia last June
for Gibraltar and Trieste. returning to this city last
week. and Hunter, then in irons. turned over to
the police and by them to the United States authori
ties Captain Henrahen testified that on the return
voyage. during heavy weather the 4th of Janu-
airy. heavy swept down the cabin hatchway, and
he sent for the steward to mop it up. While waiting
for him he took pail and started to clean il up
himself. In the pail he found some bread,
and when the steward came into the cabin
he accused him of wasting food Without any further
words the steward rushed him with meat cleaver.
-Four blows he warded OF with his hands. of
which badly cut. fith blow he guarded with
q chair He then into his statcroom for his re-
volver and held the door. In the meantime the
mates down, ard the steward overpowered
and put i'll irons. and kept IN irons fourteen days,
until the vessel arrived in New York. Captain Hen
ralcn testified that he struck Hunter once with
Delaying pin for breaking watar pail, and saying
he wanted row with some aft. The testi-
mony OF the captain corroborated by
the mates, Magnes Wood and John Smith. Hunter,
who is a negro and cripple. and was formerly a
slave i'll Virginia andAad been going for about
ten years. testified that he repeatedly assaulted
by the captain ind mates, il endeavoring to get
hun into trouble, to cheat him out of his
inis. He said he used the cleaver in self defence.
and that when taken. below in irons he trced up
that his knees just reached the deck. and that he
was kept in this position Ave days and nights. and
to horrible treatment The examination will be
tihued to-day.
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"aIAN's INGRATITUDE TO MAN"

Ayoung Alsatian, who gave the name of Ferdinand
Laniseii and who recently arrived in this country.
became destitute and applied FOR assistance to Mr.
Armand We'll. of No. $50 East Thirty fourth street.
with whom he went to school abroad. Mr.. Armand
treated him with great kindness, and, taking him
into his own household. extended to him the same
privileges as though he n member of his own
family. On the nth yst. Lainsell suddenly left the
house. and not returning Mr.. We'll ascertaincd that
jcwery valued at $l35 had been stolen. Lamselli
arrested and pawn tickets for part of the stolen
property were found In his possession In the Court
OF General Sessions yesterday he pleaded guilty and
Judge Gildcrsleeve administered TO him a severe
lecture his base ingratitude and then sent him TO
the state Prison for three years.
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MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.
MARRIED

DUSNISG--T HospsoS.--January 81, 1872 by Rev
DIR. Hough.on, MARILro u. DUNNIsG and Miss EMMA
A. THOMPSON, all of this city.
caELL-SMITH-January Is, 1879, CHARLES
MITCHELL, Utica, N. ", to Miss ANNIE c. SMITH, New
York city.
SsiNp-BucHANAN.-On Monday. January 90
at the residence OF the brides parents larry
y. ", by the Rev. 4. Bottome, ID. D.. GEoRox
TOWNSEND. of Boston, Mass, to FRANCES, daughter
of Coe 5. buchanan. No cards.
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by United States Commissioner Deuel. yesterday for

~ on,eu ota,es ooiain'ssionei De"e' '' ~
eAaniinatIon .o.norrom Az, ,,;s,o, on As,or,.
ne Iuvest,sa,io1 ie;aiuns s .h~a. rra;a,, W..
OF tne steamboat Morrlsala anu 'spoa
concluoea yesterday peiore tne az
MASTER OK hc d uS he ne na ,onn9 ne semer
WI no' ~ en-, ~; s - 80 100 late 70 avert
was gong to-cross n,s DOW !. was 'oo ia'o W
coiiision. Decision was Wy. ,o'; an naoa,
coioreu man naineu " ii,iaii huelson On
per ~ Guy ms WIRE oia.a oeninu t'e eur VII tans.
ne then ,nrew her on .ne Srounu, aiu as'er stai"p
ing anu k,cknR ner, pouiet Iuail,s W supnu,i,o
aed over ner iace anu o ~ putns her NY
Ing Won'ai Was Aen ~ &C. pit i ,'l
Ae.soh , Was % 80 ~ roa ass ~ W. ~
intent 70 ELL. "Hcii oa,io" W ,c oer y, 'o VI
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-06
sEANCEEESE GND VICINITY.

From Chesterfield County.-M. A. Cog
bill. Esq, county clerk. furnishes the fol-
lowing statistics Of Chesterfield for 1878:
Number of deeds recorded, ,416; total value
of land sold during the year, $475, ,435 26;
number OF marriages, 107-whitc 81, color
ed so; total tax Motfett return for eleven
months. %, 740.06; number OF felonies tried
during the year, 9-4 convicted and ac-
Quilted; number OF felonies convicted and
sent to the penitentiary, 4-terms Of l, 8,
G and u years; number Of misdemeanors
tried during the year. 8; number OF mlsde-
meanors convicted, sand of this number
two whites received 25 stripes each and 4
were acquitted; total amount OF fines and
costs collected and paid to commissioner,
S103.63; assessed value OF land and build
ings, SS,237, POP. .7S; assessed value OF per-
sonal property, $3.50, 1923; number Of titha-
bles: white 2,0lS, colored 1919 total.
SIS, ,693; total amount Of county tax fer all
purposes, $40, 0,944.5l-(this is on all proper
ty taxed by the Statc); total amount Of
county school tax, S3,l9S.44; total amount
or district school tax, SIS, 19S, a. '
We are assessed forty-6ve cents on the
S1O0 worth OF property for county and
county-school and dStrict-school purposes,
and including the State tax makes our whole
assessment at ninety-tVe cents on the 500.
We are out OF debt and a surplus in our
treasury. We are behind in nearly all OF
the school districts, and in this district
dale we have no free schools in operation.
Can any other county beat old Chesterfield
in finances? We give our Board OF Super
vsors and Treasurer the credit for the good
condition OF our finances. will stake our
Board OF Supervisors against any in the
State for business-all good, sound, and
honest men.
we have only one prisoner. in iail to1;"r-
ed). charged with attempt 10 rape white
lady, except old man Peter Jammerson- who
has been confined in jai! for at least twelve
months as Il lunatic-nonc OF the asylums
will receive him.
Our poor-house is in good condition and
well managed by or superintendent, VIII
liam E. Gill. Number OF paupers on the
1st day OF December, 2l-G whites and II
coIorcd; average number for the year, "a
Cost OF supporting paupers, including sll'
perintenden's salary, medical attendance,
and clothing, per year. $1,l9O.35. Number
died during the year, .. 2...
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Al man comes In with package OF bills.
He is % collector. You put your finger In
your vest-pocket, and then he begins to
tumble! "'He looks oser three hundred and
fifty, bills before he comes. to yours, and
when he does you glia&e thought OF an ex-
euse te'stand him off,. st first You are mad
Because It takes him SO long to find the bill,
ana than. after rYou ihaye your excuse
framed, you are glad. This ss queer YoTaa.
:Na,caukee Sun. = 10 gS5. ri. Gffa 4ttai
The New York HeraM beads an article,
ssHow, ,Hatters are Poisoned" But tYho
wants TO spofsoni q latter : 1t1s the shoema'
ker Tho pronises to Il have your boots done
ON Saturday hight, ana disappoints you
three times, that you want 10 kilL-Aorrls-
to,cn Her1ldtti ,a.s
A tall, thin chap, resembling the cross;tie
of hay-wagen, was i'm town the other day
with cloak on that reached, to- his heels,
an d newsboy created no dulf stir bJf call
fng out: n Hal mister, you've lost tbs gar
ter oh your ulster. - Yhssliug Leader.
II ! Ne psnture1to say that some men who
have teen q good deal never saw wood.
i PRICELESS Goods that are marked dsWn,
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The BEAD at Hollywood. 700

"" -" BALTIMORE, January 8, 1879.
Editors Dispatch: enclose an extract
from the Baltimore Gazette OF this date.
Please inform me through the columns OF
your valuable paper il !. it is possible that
such thing can be true. / am satisfied that
Ispeak for the many Virsinians who now
reside in Baltimore wben1 say that Tshould
be very sorry to think that the beautiful
cemetery in the honored capital OF the Old
Dominion is allowed to be desecrated in the
manner described by the Gazette. An early
correction will greatly obiige ID - !
q. l.. 4s .a - .t.11'. A VrRG1NIAN.
1'.g.. .,,&.: EXTRACT. T. -! j.. /" /
G The once beautiful Hollywood cemetery,
Richmond, where Jeb Steuart and many
other noted men are buried, is oyerrun with
COWS, pigs, goats, &c. -l. W.. ....,,,. taa
Hollywood Cemetery Is not ".oyerrun
with cows, pigs. goats" DC. Part Of the en-
closure on the Confederate side was broken
down some time since, and number Of goats
got in and mutilated some OF the shrub
berry; but the cemetery proper (otber than
the soldiers section) was never in better
condition, and is handsomely enclosed.
:" While writing this paragraph 1t may not
be amiss to say that the enterprising ladies
OF the Hollywood Memorial Association are
about to memoriaize the Legislature to aid
them in putting up new, substantial, and
creditable enclosure on their side OF the
cemetery. Financially, the Memorial Asso-
citation is now unable to undertake the en-.
terprise alone.l
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nc asfcant yrals sut Got d 7rlossins.

He McanE, HSqH DNL sh0I U RiO2kEREs
IFrem the Davenport iIawal Gszes.c, Dec. 3e:l /
An, elderly. coed man in the First Ward,
q prominent citizen, had an experience
Friday night which showed the kindliness
OF bis heart, though he did get o beating Tor
IT.. The affair has two sides--serious and
humorous. 1t was about 8 O'Clock when
.Mr. Citizen was. disturbed by racket at bis
front fence; be went out and found q horse
plunging against h the fence, while in the cut
Ter was .ai, UPTOWN citizen too dunk to
direct the horse Alright. Our First-W
kindly concluded to take the rig and the man
TO the latter's home, and so Jumped into the
cutter and drove for up-town, taking. Sec
ond street. just above Fillmore street he
stopped at a grocery to see IL he couldn't
get somebody else TO render the drunken
man Che service, as be didn't like the idea Of
night. While he was arranging with a
young man 10 perform the service the
drunken fellow gathered the reins up. and
drove of, and as he did SO another rig, with
a young man aud his sister in the cutter,
drove up toSthe place.. The young man
jumped out and went into the grocery.
The First-WaFder and his young. man
stepped out OF the door, and the, latter
went up to the cutter to step into it. He
suddenly turned to his elderly friend with {:
acWhat are you giving me? IT'S q Soman
in this ,cutterl - ga woman! !"i,was the
response! "I'll show you :what kind OF q
woman it is--it's Blank; he's got upon the
scat and wrapped himself up.a Isay, here,
getting sober, &eh ?' and nhe took hold Of
the party on the. seat to: give him q shake.
Immediately woman screamed, "Let. me
be! Brother, brother, come 2here!" The
brother was opening the door when he heard
the, scream, and he dashed at the First
.Warder and gave him most severe beat
ing, knocking him right and left and down,
never waiting for an explanation till after
he was. through; and then he didn't; for he
bounded into the cutter and drove on.
While the matter was pretty serious for The
victim, it had such ludicrous side to it
that he himself couldn't help laughing when
he was in the store washing the blood off his
face. and clothing. ....t> -.,
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AN OLD CITIZEN OUT OF TRouBLE.-Ise
friends Of Ezra Dorsey, ESQ. brother OF the "eu
known proprietor Of BaFnam's Hotel, baltimore
will be glad TO read the following: -
," Dear sir-I have suffered greauy during the iast
ten years, and been frequently disabled by Inn m
matory rheumatism, which, MP to two weeks aeo'
resisted alike physicians prescriptions and all
other remedies i could And. Very lately It;,sed y
bottle OF the GyPsY's GIFT, and in two days was
entirely restored the use OF my hrabs aud relei ed
Of all pain, I, Is the most remarkable medicine
have ever met With. =, 1.f,s.., ~. E. DORSEY"
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LORD DERBY's ADYlCE-HE URGES Eng
LIsHMEN TO EMIGRATE TO AMERICA.-Lon-
don. January 3.-The speech of Earl Derby
at Liverpool last evening has tended to still
further depress the state Of public feeling
with respect to the commercial and INDUS
trial future. His lordship took an exhaust
i've review OF the condition OF England's
trade, and OF obstacles which stood in the
way OF it's revival. He showed how the in
creased ability OF other nations to manufac-
ture for themselves was constantly dimin-
ishing the market for Eng gish goods, and
how difficult it would be for England to
keep OH paying large sums OF money in re-
turn for articles Of food which she was CON-
PEELED to purchase from America and other
countries. The only remedy, his lordship
said, which suggested itself to bis mind,
after 4 long and anxious reelection, was
wholesale emigration to America and Aus
tralia, and he urged this with great earnest
ness.
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A DOC AS NEWSPAPER CARRIER

A DOC AS A NEWSPAPER CARRIER
[Poughkeepsie Eagle, December 81. Eve
~ day on the arrival Of Conductor Elmore's
train from Hartford over the Connecticut
Western railroad at Lakeville small dog
can be seen on the platform, who immedi-
ately runs up to Mr.. Gilmore, keeping up q
furious barking until that official hands out
to him Hartford paper, which the brute
takes in his mouth, and, after wagging his
tail number Of times, as much as to say
:. Thank you," starts off with 1t to the rest
dence of, his owner. distant some bali a
mile from. the depot, where he always safely
delivers II. No matter what the state OF the
weather may be, the animal is always found
on the platform, and only for this particular
train, He was formerly the property OF
Mr.. Gilmore, who gave him to some Of his
.Lakeville friends, by whom he is highly
uriZeG. N. ...,5rgt .,..r.st.. ~. -. -
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Drinking Customs iss Alabama and
rir. H LII. Virginia. 81. -e.

from the Mobile tAla) Register, December 29.l
In Virginia there is method and order in
drinking. The climate being colder the
blood is not so thick, and hence the neces-
sity for drinks every hour is not urgent.
There Is also more economy in Virginia,
where the close methods Of the regions OF
hog and hominy are observed. Here in
Alabama we drink in winter to keep warm,
and in summer to keep cool. In the cities
we drink to be sociable and show that we
are men about town; and in the country we
drink to keep off chills and to cure snake
bites. We are opposed to the continual
drinking which exists in Russia and other
parts Of the barbarous world, but do
not object 10 q cocktail when we get
up, snifter Just before breakfast, throat
clearer Just after breakfast, luncher at II
O'Clock, two or three sociables between II
and dinner, u bottle of wine or good strong
whiskey straight at dinner. After dinner,
having been thus abstemiouS during the
business hours, we open ourselves ilttla
and drop in at the saloons and clubs to see
how political affairs are moving. Ii the
country is IN danger, or if we find 1t pop
uIar to abuse good neighbor for the bene-
tit of faction, the matter can be better dis
cussed over drink or so. The Judgment
is better balanced and opinions more readily
formed over the fumes OF hot whisky-punch,
We become more eloquent and express our
opinions with that emphasis OF statement
which marks the free American citizen.
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4 cool Erh;bit. The membership OF the
Methodist church IS 450-a net increase OF
81 since Rev. Mr.. Yanderslicc assumed
charge. 80
The Presbyterian Sunday school has l2J
on the roll. They have not only paid all
their expenses, but recently contributed 500
for the wall built around the church.
The condition Of the Baptist, Presbyterian,
Meade Memorial, and colored Baptist
churches and Sunday schools, and the Fifth
Street Methodist aud Christian Sunday
schools, are all very ENCOURAGING, and their
reporis show an increase for last year.