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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-25
TALMAGE'S TALK.

Mr.. Talmagc lectured last night in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle the events of the week looked at from
religious standpoint. Our city. he said, has been
honored this week by q magnanimous deed
on the part OF the Clinton Avenue Congrega-
tiond Church. Rev. DIR. Burlington becomes
pastor emeritus of that church-that is, after
long and absorbing service he IL honorably
discharged from active work. but elected for the rest
of his life to be supported by the chusch. What
brilliant contrast TO the old way Of tumblng sick
and aged ministers into the snowbank! As DR. Bud
ington steps out OF active pastorate work in this
city take the opportunity of saying that in all the
land higher type of Christian honor know not.
But the most startling event of the week il ma
tional, the remnant OF tribe Of Indians swept of
the continent into eternity. As can tell the
Indians were fighting against the outrages of the
infamous white mans Indian Bureau. Our hottest
indignation In for the internal politics which have
allowed the perpetual swindle and evaporation
Of the red men. The negro slaves OF this
country were never 80 mercilessly treated
as have been the Indians. The fight to keep the
negro in bondage but here the fight IL to annihilate
and cxermnatc the Indian The fact IL that the Ind
ians have much right to live in this country ms
you aud /. There is something awfully rotten in
that state of American politics which extermn ates
Indians but fosters Mormonism by allowing its rep
resentatives to SIT In the councils Of tho nation.
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FOUR YEARS IN STATE PRISON.

Frank McKenna Of No. 11s Mulberry street, who
was recently convicted in Part 2. Of the Court Of
General Sessions. of manslauRhter in the third de-
gree. called to the bar yesterday by Assistant
District Attorney Rollins for sentence 1t will be
membcred that in the month Of September last
William b. wse and his brother engaged in a street
fight with McKenns and his brother. when willse re-
ceved pistol shot wound in the forehead from the
effects of which he died. Mr.. william +. Howe made
motion for q new trial. which denied Judge
Cowing. after stating that he concurred in the
diet of the jury. sentenced the prisoner to the full
penatyfour years in the State Prison at hard labor
After sentence had been pronounced Mrs. Mary
Oates the mother OF Willse left court, accompanied
by her husband. the deceaseds stepfather. The
victed mans mother followed her and addressed her
tauntingly. In addition IL Is alleged by Mrs Oates
that Mrs. McKcnna used insulting language TO her
and knocked her husbands hat of. This occurred
near the Tombs Prison and Mrs. Oates entered the
court room, where Judge Smith sitting. and
asked for protection. warrant issued upon her
complaint and Mrs. McKenns will be arraigned to
answer IL this morning.
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AN IMPROVED" TELEPHONE.
from the Rochester Express. Jan. a.

lrrom INC sochcster EAprcss Jhu' zoI
1t is not very long since the possibility of the
existence Of such thing the telephone of to-day
was secuted Now an ordinary telephone is not con-
sdered anything unusual by any one. But there is
n telephone apparatus now In operation between the
Office Of the Fire Alarm Telegraph. presided over by
Mr.. b. f. Backall and his residence at No. AZ North
Union street. that puts anything before exhibited
little In the shade IL IL nproy cment on tn.
transmitting instrument of the Bell telel hone and
its principal novel features consist in the connect
ing of the apparatus with battery The air piece is
the same ~ In the ordinary Bell telephone A de-
tailed description of the Improvement would hardly
be interesting. but one of its workings will A rep.
resentativc OF this paper called ut Mr. Blackalis
office this morning TO find one gentleman holding
the ear piece to his head while Mr.. Blackall was
walking about the room talking In his ordinary
tone OF voice to his daughter Minnie at his residence
something like mile away The mouth piece was
against the wall and some feet away from the speaker
In moment the reporter given the ear piece
and Mr. Blackall went into another room, at least
thirty feet away from the mouth piece, and spoke in
tone OF voice very slightly raised. The
as promptly and distinctly AZ possible and showed
that his message must have been heard with perfect
ease And all this notwithstanding that the mouth
or the ransmitter was pointed in the opposite direc
ton from Mr. Backa the sound having to strike the
opposite wall and rebound a. 10 were, Mt least twelve
feet, making forty-two feet In all Afterward Miss
Blackali played on her piano in another room, some
twentyhv thirty feet from the instrument Then
she whispered In the phone with surprisingly distinct
results. Taken all In all the Improvement Is the
most wonderful " use 80 far.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-25
PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING.
Mr.. BEEcHER D1scoURsEs ON HOW THE SOU

Mr.. BEECHER DIsCOURsES ON HOW THE SOUL
CAN FIND PEACE BY TRUST IN GOD.
II will read note which have received" said Mr.
Beecher when he began his talk at the prayer meet
ing last night. The note on being read, proved to
be request for the explanation Of q passage in
Isaiah, in which peace was promised to those
whose mind hxed God. 1t then do
scribed the spiritual condition of q friend
of the writer. who for many years had led
an outwardly religious life. was professor
of Christianity. and yet was under the dominion Of
some powerful temptation that assaulted him
verely that afraid his forty years Of religious
profession would be withered and come to naught by
the temptation getting the victory. After short
explanation of the circumstances that accompanied
the promise in the passage Of Scripture referred
to, Mr.. Beecher turned to consider the individual
case described He said that IL seemed to be
ono in which the family doctor. il he were
q good doctor. might be useful. Very much of the
bias and yielding to temptation was traceable to
physical causes. Some men had Q constitutional
tendency to an overmastering passion OF kind.
and its influence could only be checked by
that would restore harmony to some ex.
tent, between their lower and higher
ture. He gave several illustrations. of this and
then said:"This note asks IL it Is possible to have
peace that shall radiae the nature that it shall
rest confidently God and be illuminated thereby.
I say, Yes The New Testament is abundant in its
assertions that this peace is possible have known
good many smple-minded persons who have un-
doubtedly possessed 1T, and who have looked down
from the attitudes of their faith and trust in God
upon the storms and worries of life with great
complacency and Christian endurance. There was a
good Catholic bishop of Geneva. who lived some
three hundred years ago. whose friends desired to
turn aside some troubles that pressing over him
very severely He desired those friends 10 esist be
told them that he in the hands Of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and IL He It best that he should suffer
this trouble it well, and that when
He fit to remove IL He would do so, and
for three four years he bore this trouble
under that sublime faith, until IL was removed and
the bishops vndicaton Game. When men ask IL
this peace DO attained say can But the king
dom of heaven must he taken by violence. Men to
have the kingdom of heaven within them must train
for it; must discipline their nature and accompany
that discipline with earnest prayer"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-25
TRAVELLERS IN TROUBLE.

Superintendent walling received telegram from
southbridge. Mass, on Thursday night. calling for
the arrest of two girls. named Lena Reid and Annie
Maxwell, who. IL was stated in the telegram would
arrive in this city yesterday morning the Provi-
dence boat. Officer Jordan was sent 10 the pier and
upon the arrival of the steamer went board and
took the girls into custody. They we're arragned
before Judge Smith, at the Tombs Police Court, on
charge of robbery. Tho nature of the complaint
was 40 vaguely set forth in the telegram
that Judge smith remanded the prisoners
TO Police Headquarters until this morning and sent
word that unless some specific charge made he
would discharge them. The girls gave their ages ut
seventeen though they appear much older, and take
their incarceration easily Lena Reid states that she
IS an orphan and was until recently inmate OF
convent in Boston, where she met her companion.
The laters story is that she is a native Of South
bridge Mass; that her mother In dead and that her
father resides in Pensacola Fla What the object of
their journey to New York was they did not state.
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WE'RE THEY MIsMANAGEDq

WHAT THE UNDERWRITERS SAY ABOUT THE
RECENT GREAT FIREs-oPINIoNs OF THE
COMMISSIONERS AND OFFICERS OF THE FIRE
DEPARTMENT.
"There is lack Of management somewhere" said
Mr.. I. L. Thornell. secretary of the American Fire
Insurance Company. to HERALD reporter last even
ing. "when a fire that is discovered and reached
almost at the moment OF its breaking
out il allowed to attain such proper
tons as the Worth street fire did" Nr.
Thornell is of the underwriters interested in the
Grand and Worth street fires who believe that the
chiefs OF the Fire Department we're guilty of mis-
management both Of these occasions, and
the reporter was interviewing him as 10
the grounds on which he made this serious
charge. He said:--"T surprised that the
Fire Commissioners have not already made
this matter the subject of investigation. For
merly when fire spread to any extent every officer
was Obliged to give full detail OF his experiences so
that IL might be definitely known why IL spread.
The alarm for the Worth street fire was sounded by
the automatic instrument. SO that 1t cannot have
reached any great extent before the Fire Department
was appraised Of 1t. II IL had. the instrument
would have been destroyed. When the engines mr..
rived two three streams ought to have been taken
up to the third floor, where the fire was when have
no doubt il could have been extnguished without
going further. There ought 10 have been ladders
raised to the windows and streams applied In that
way I am told the flames tended toward the open
space in the middle of the building and IL would have
been easy to have worked from the front.
STREET FIRE
"As TO the Grand street hre" continued Mr..
Thornel. you remember the Fire Patrol went i'm
and covered up all the goods down stairs and ON the
fourth floor. Then there must have boon q reason
able chance OF saving the building The great fault
here In Worth street. that no ladders were
raised TO the windows. There must have
been plenty Of time, for there was nothing
to burn up so quickly as to prevent II. The floors
could not have become unsafe either for the men or
some time, A. the beams would have To be burned
almost through before they would be In danger of
falling do not wish to reflect the entire depart
ment in what say know the men work well, but
their efforts misdireced. The way feel about
the matter is this, that an underwater
1 could not advise the company with
which I am connected to take risks in
this district II nearly every trfing fire
were to be mismanaged and allowed to spread to a
great confagration was for eight or nine years a
fireman in the old department.; | was not at the
Grand street fire, but at Worth street when the
Are had been burning some time"
Commissioner J. l.. Perley. Of the Fire Depart-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-25
The COLEMAN TRAGEDY.

CONTINUATION OF THE INQUEST IN NEWARK
FINDING THE FATAL KNIFE-TBE ARREST OF
YOUNG COLEMAN.
Coroner Vaudeville continued the inquest az
Newark, N. j.. yesterday in the case of Martin
Coleman. who stabbed to death by his
son, Martin Coleman. Jr. George Coleman and
Mary Ellen Coleman, brother and sister of
Martin, Jr., gave testimony corroboratinu that
already given by Rev. Father Cody and Mrs. Catha-
rine Coleman. County Physician Hewlett testified
that the death OF the elder Coleman was the result of
the loss OF blood caused by the wounds inflicted with
the knife. Drs. smith, Blcyle and Osborn corrobor-
ated Dr. Hewlett.
The inquest was then adjourned until this after
noon, when IL will be brought TO conclusion.
THE MURDERoUs KNIFE
Constable Benedict yesterday forenoon visited the
Coleman residence and made a search for the knife
with which the stabbing was done. After
questioning George Coleman for some time the latter
finally told the constable whore to find the weapon.
1t had been thrown in the stove. ana found IN
the ash pile in the yard IL ordinary-szed jack
knife. and will be produced at the inquest this after
noon.
IN CUSTODY.
Martin Coleman, Jr, was taken to Newark from
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-25

WILLIAM L. PALMER, JR., BELIEVED TO BE IN
sANE-A COMMISSION OF LUNAcY APPOINTED
QUEER CONDUCT IN COURT.
The commissioners appointed by Judge Glider
sleeve-Dr. John Ordroneaux. Colonel John r. Eel
lows and Charles B. waite-to inquire into the sanity
Of William L. Palmer Jr., who, it will be remembered.
shot and killed Officer Asa H. Furniss of the Four.
tenth precinct. in the Metropolitan Hotel, last
month. met yesterday in the District Attorneys
Office. The prosecution was represented by Assist
ant District Attorney Bell, and Mr.. William p Dixon.
. cousin Of the prisoner watched the proceedings on
his behalf. Palmer taken from Bellevue Hospital
by court officers. His appearance betokened any,
thing but healthy mind, his actions being wild
aud irrational. When placed at the bar Mr. Dixon
proposed to shake hands with him, but the offer
Indignantly refused, the prisoner alleging that his
cousin among those who had entered into q
spiracy to kill him. While the indictment was being
read to him he gesticulated in the widest
ner. and drawing himself up his full height cast
look of contempt around him. After Mr.. Bell had
rected the various counts in the Indictment. the
prisoner, in answer to the usual interrogatory.
said, II am not guilty. Is that all you want with
me 2?
Mr.. Dixon then handed in special written plea Of
insanity and it accordingly placed the record
Just as Palmer was being conveyed from the court
room he turned quickly. and, stepping toward the
bench, said to Judge Gildersleeve, "Your Honor, !
want trial. can nave the privilege or choosing
my own lawyer and haven't a right to go before
the Grand Jury p
Certainly" replied the Judge. by way of notify
ing the prisoner The District Attorney will attend
to all that for you"
The prisoner then inclined his head in token of
acknowledgment and in custody of the officers pro-
ceeded to the room where the commissioners
in session. He looked suspiciously at them and at
intmated that they also in league against
him.
As the commissioners under the frst order of the
Court had not the power to inquire into the prson
ers sanity at the time of the murder, but only
certain the state or his mind at the present time.
adjournment was had until to-day, when, under the
amended order of the Court they will take testimony
as to the prisoners insanity at the time the murder
was committed Should they find Palmer insane all
other proceedings will be stayed and he will be sent
to a iunatic asylum.
From all appearance Palmer is not Of sound mind
Drs. Mcdonald and Gray having, it is said. already
examined him and pronounced him insane. Palmer
1t is averred. is aboring under the delusion that all
the attaches at Bellevue Hospital have entered into
conspiracy to poison him. and for days he has refused
TO take food. Nourishment was finally administered
force and he permitted to go outside in charge
of an officer to buy his food. Palmer, it is said
is the possessor Of large fortune.
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HERMAN AND ELIZABETH.

favorite lounging resort Of Newark, N j.. officials
and well known citizens is William Writes place in
william street, near the Newark City Hall and Police
Headquarters. Last July the proprietor went
with his family to Rockaway, leaving the
place in charge of Herman Rothschild,
q stout. pleasant faced German. Wartz also lett in
his house, over his saloon, buxom young SER
want girl, seventeen years Of age. Between her and
Herman o close intimacy sprang up. While the
"boss" and his family were away, as the girl Eliza
der . promise Of speedy marriage. Finding
that Herman not disposed to keep
his word and that she would soon become mother
she caused his arrest He tried yesterday before
Judge Pauin and jury, and found guilty Of what
the girl alleged. He will be sentenced to-day. He
stoutly denies the hard impeachment despite the evil
dence aud verdict.
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With regard to assisting planters the government
asks authorization to expend the necessary upon
guaranteeing the interest and redemption Of hy-
pothecated bills to be issued by land banks Of loan to
planters.
Among the which the government
proposes to bring forward is one for the total sup
preston of the religious orders in Brazil the PEN
slonng OF the existing monks and nuns and the ap-
plication OF the property 10 the reduction OF the
national debt This property is estimated at
S25O00O0 to S300O0O0, and the number OF religious
persons to be pensioned would not be more than
forty fifty, most OF them aged for years the al
mission Of novices to profess has been rigdly pro-
hibited.
STARVATION.
The accounts from the northeast provinces of ex
tending drought and misery, intensified by the preva
lence OF virulent smallpox among the generally un-
vaccinated population In the province OF Ceara at
alone l.soOa day. the sick dying like sheep every
where and famine utterly depopuiating the interior.
In Ceara woman was caught roasting the hip of her
child. In PLAINLY and even Maranham the failure OF
ing the people to enigrate, and general ruin
to be the inevitable fate Of the five northeast prov
inces.
A CRUEL JOKE
joke practised last week on half crazed in
dividual known the Baron de Cayapo, who had
been driven partially deranged by twenty-five years
of disappointed search for gold mining concession,
finally granted by the Legislature. Having offered
for halt the pay, counterfeit diploma of election
was sent to him and with it he took q seat in the
Chamber of Deputies and had to be forcibly elected
on which he denounced the Emperor furiously,
whom he declared ut the bottom of Q conspiracy
to deprive him of his rights OF deputy.
NEWS From THE SOUTHWARK.
In Buenos Ayres on the 18th great open air meet
ing of II 900 to 1000 persons held to protest
against the enormous taxes just imposed by the pro-
vincial Legislature on tobacco and alcoholic drinks
In Paraguay locusts are destroying the crops.
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A WEALTHY YOUNG BURGLAR.

Walter johnson. young man, who resides In Park
vlle L. l., and is the of wealthy parents was
rested day or two since charged with robbing the
residence of Peter Welsh. at the corner OF West and
King streets Parkville The residence of young John
searched, when about $500 worth of stolen
property was found. Judge Pratt of the Kings
County Supreme Court, yesterday refused to dis
charge the accused. who was before him writ Of
habess corpus.
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BRAZIL.
CHANGES IN THE cABINET-THE BUDGEr--cRUsu-
ING OUT RELIGIOUS ORDERs-HoRRoRs OF THE
FAMINE IN THE NORTHEAST PROVINCES.

FAMINE IN THE NORTHEAST PROVINCES.
RIO JANEIRo, Dec o. 1878.
A Cabinet crisis occurred in the beginning of the
week. and DIR. Andrade Pinto. the Minister of
Marine, resigned and has been replaced by DR.. Joas
Ferreirade Moura. The ostensible and main, if not
the only of DR.. Andrade Pinto's retirement.
the removal of visconde do Prados from the
The present Cabinet had resolved that
no member Of the Legislature should be
president Of q province while the Legislature
in session. holding that the previous system of
governing provinces by vice presidents while the
presidents in Rio attending the Legislature
was pernicious one to the interests of the prov
inces. DIR. Andrade de Pinto did not object to this
rule but thought the Presidency of Rio Janeiro
might be exception. its seat of government being
only twenty minutes steam from Rio and the Presi-
dents visconde de Prados) continuance being essen
tia to the carrying OF the reforms he had initiated
The rest of the Cabinet however held that the rule
should be absolute one, and that in the case in
question there was special reason for insisting
on it, inasmuch as visconde de Prados had been
elected President of the Chamber of Deputies. The
Minister of Marine would not YIELD the more that,
warm friend of Visconde de Prados he felt ag
placed the Senatorial ticket Of Minas Geraes and
he retired. Visconde de Prados also resigning the
Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies upon being
removed from that OF the province Of Rio Janeiro
visconde de Prados is an experienced astronomer
and for some years took charge OF the Imperial AS
Economical Observatory The new Minister OF Marine
is wealthy planter from Bahia, which province he
represents in the Chamber OF Deputies. and is re-
puted most honorable and active administrator.
FINANCES.
On the 23d the Minister of Finance read his budget
for the executive year. 1S79-SO. He asks for appro
priations the of 12l 800 milreis about
$50 GOO, 000), and estimates the receipts ut only
101, 100000 milreis $500 500 O00. leaving deficit of
2OOO0.O00 of mircs. which he asks the Legisla-
ture to provide for by further taxes. Notwihstand-
ing all the cuttings made by the present Cabinet the
expenditure asked is some $4,000, 900 milreis more
than the for the current year. Among the APP
preparations asked in the budget is $780, 900 milreis
for redemption of psprr money. The appropria-
tons asked for as follows u milreis equalng
ffty-one cents American money!
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INSURANCE COMPANIES.
OF LAST YEAR-GENERAL DECREASE IN IN
COME FOR 1878.


The following table includes the first instalment OF
the animal statements of the fire insurance COM
panes of New York city to December 81 1878, as COM
pared with the showing of December 81 1877 accord
ing to the report of the Superintendent of Insurance
Liabilities and surplus in all instances exclu-
ol.l..a.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-05-18
YANKEE FORK.
What An Ola ComstOcker Says
About the New Dorado.

What An Ola ~Comstocker Says
About the New Dorado.
The Virginia Chronicle says Pat Hol-
land is in receipt Of a letter from Rufe v.
Mitchell, an old Comstocker, giving the
following regarding the outlook at Yankee
Fork
ain regard to the mineral belt, l believe
it is the largest on the coast-larger even
than the Comstock. The ore is of very
high grade. They dump 5000 ore, for it
will not pay to work at present. Ore Is
shipped from here to Salt Lake City, at a
cost of 12,s cents a pound $3.50 a toni for
freight, and after all expenses are paid. the
owners clear about 81, 200 per ton. There
are three arastras running, but they of
course cannot meet but a small portion of
the demand. The town at present con-
sists of two stores and one saloon. Two
hotels and two more saloons are now build
ing. | think there will be a town here as
large as Virginia, for they have the mineral
to back it. At present, it is no place for a
poor man. There are more here al
ready than can find work. The houses
are built Of logs, but a saw-mill will soon
be running, and lumber will then be plen-
tiful."
Accompanying the letter were three sam
pies Of ore from the Waco mine. Aaron
Hooper had the rock assayed wi tn the fol-
lowing results No. 1, $3.50 so !; No. 2,
$303 20; No. 3, $132 80.