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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02
NO NEW DEVELOPMENTs.

GENERAL BELIEF IHAr Mr.. sHEARMAN's REPORT
HAS BEEN USED To CARRY OUT PGEDEIER-
MIND PURPOSE.
There was little public excitement yesterday over
the charges made by the Mayor against Commls-
sioner Wheeler. Ii has been well known since tue
disruption of tho combination between Ant'-IaIn-
many and the Republicans that the Mayor IN
tended to remove Commissioner wheeler Inc
presenting of such charges as those made use OF
by the Mayor, therefore, OccasIoned no great sur
nrise. Some pretext for the removal, it was said,
must be found, and the Mayor could not make
use of the same charges those used against Com
missioner smith. without placing the Governor IN
an unpleasant predlcament. which might lose him
his denomination, or else save the two Commits
sioners lie, therefore bad to go back to period
antecedent to his own election TO find something to
use as an ostensble for removal. There IS no
doubt expressed by the Mayors friends tAat Com
missioner Wheeler will be removed. Anti am
many politicians have for months been declaring
that they must have the appointment oil IN
spectors for the Fall elections. The change In the
personnel If the Police Board has been delayed as
long as possible and now the time has come TO act
Hence the promptness with which the Mayor sum
moned Commissioner Wheeler to answer the
charges.
Commissioner Wheeler employed Elihu Root and
John /. Davenport, who may be assisted by George
Bliss TO prepare his defence. lie will be on hand
Monday, with his counsel. TO answer. The Mayor
refuses to say what kind Of a hearing will be
granted but it is believed that it will be the same
as that granted the accused Commissioners IL
March last. The principal points OF the ueIChct
will be as already published. First, the denial OF
the right or power Of the Mayor to remove Com
missioner VINO Is merely holding his office until ms
successor is appointed, and for which vacancy, con
trary TO the direction of the charter the Mayor ha
never made a nomination and, second, the denla
of any right to remove an official on any charge
such as tnat made which involves only private anC
personal and not public duties. Mr.. WheeleTi
friends. however believe the Mayor has set out t
lowed 10 make will avail him nothing. 1t is thought
probable. however that the Mayors action will D'
reviewed by the courts, IN case he carries out III
determination TO remove the Commissioner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02
THE VICTIMS or THE YACHT DISASTER.

CLAYTON, n. j., Aug. 1.-Divers began
searching for the bodies OF the victims OF The yach dis
aster early this morning The bodies OF Miss Hattie
Pollock. OF MOrIisaDia, and Mr.. Sarah Bostwck Of
KhEwood. have been recovered. Both bodies were
found the boat aud had firm grip the side Of
II that they removed with great difficulty. Al q
O'Clock This evening bodice Of Mis-. BcIka ana
daughter, casped IN eacb others arms, grappcd
forty feet from The wreck, ana tUWt ashore. All
the bodies Lave been found excepting that Of Mrs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02

transmitted TO the Corporation Counsel, and that the
chief clerk be directed forward the same On SATURDAY
August @ and request his opinion and advice as To the
disposition OF such fund.
pear before MIN with the books aud OHClal papers
belonging to the Bureau Of Clothing and Eqnpmeht
WAS read and the necessary order % Mr. Moe Issued
The Board then adjourned to meet again a IL a. W. To-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02
THE MAYOR AND THE POLICE

PRESENT POSITION OF THE CONFLICT
THE COMMISSIONER READY WITH HIS DhfhNOe
OPINIONS OF Po1IrICIANs-ACTIoN or THE 20
LICE BOARD.
There were no new developments OF speciai
interest in the matter of the charges brought
Inv the Mavor against Commissioner Wheeler.
The Commissioner has employed counsel and
will appear on Monday at the Mayors Office
and defend his action as Indicated III Tue
reply to the charges. The Ponce board yes
terday adopted a resolution requesting tue
Corporation Counsel to give an opinion as TO
the proper disposition TO be made OF the
money in the hands of the Equipment Bureau
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02
Il SENSATIONAL RUMOR.

FALL RIVER, Aug. 1.-There is no founda-
ton Tor the rumor published IN Boston paper tBis
morning tnat another mill OF this city short
SISOOOO his No cEedence gyeDt by bust
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02
SUMMER LEISURE.
THE SURF AND THE SPRINGS.

A QUIET DAY AT COMFY IsLAND-wABM WEATHER
AT Long BRANCH-FEsrIviT1Es AT SARATOGA.
There was great diminution in the numDer ol
people at Coney Island yesterday wh'ch
was the more conspicuous by contrast
with the crowds of Thursday evening"
Full dress hops are promised at the leading Long
Branch hotels Saratoga rejoces IN Sixty INC
equipages Newport landlords are hopeful
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02

Professor" said cheeky Soph, rs tn 1as.
auy OF disurbng the magneue currents ern ro
sssar ioyiSg MA little Joke promptly responded No
air brass has no effect whatever upon thein
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02
CANAL STATEMENT FOR JULY.
TIE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

OTTAWA, Ont, July 31.-The Reformed Epls'
copal Church Council resumed It's sessionsihis lnois
After some discussion the following RESOLUTION We"
dpted That We are satisfied to remain IN our presen'
nositon with regard 10 the General Council ana u1u
The Presbytery OF our present beloved Dshop. W
N,cbo. SON ID d. and that deprecate any sepiHot
rom the Reformed Episcopal Church as II Was oiltI
nally organized by tie late Bishop Cummins, =, ma
decided 20 hold IN future the annual cOhfenuVn " -
clergy and lay delegates "A; Montreal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02

the American clergy and churches rejected the anti
slavery movement because they were unwilling to
follow the lead of an nfdel. Is it not time that
men who would be accounted honorable ceased to
utter calumnv 50 easily refutedi 1t is certainly
vain to attempt to blot from tho page of history
the sad and diSgracefu truth that the representa-
lives of the popular Christianity of that day were
deaf to the grOans and agonies of the slaves, insen
sibe of the humanity of the negro indifferent to
the sin and shame of slavery. and disposed to take
the shareholders part against every earnest effort
FOR abolition. True, there was " n glorious rem
pantD faithful among the faithless found" who
espoused the cause with ingenious DrOmptness. and
did what they could to rally the ministers and
churches to their duty but they made themselves
odous in the scots to which thew respectively be-
longed, so strong and overwhelming the tide of
pro-slavery opinion and sympathy at that day.
There has been an ttempt of late years 10 make the
fidelity OF these exceptional men shield and covert
for the churches thai persecued them; but the JUS
ticc of Col will never permit such travcSty of
the truth of history. An attempt to show that the
Jewish nation did not reject and cruelty Christ. be-
cause all his disciples were Jews and the common
people heard him gladly" would not be whit more
preposterous As well deny that the United States
wasa saveh0laing nation because thousands Of its
citizens were abOtionists. deny that the Ameri
can churches were the bulwarks of American slav-
cry" because small remnant among them were
found faithful. No clergyman of that day, however
eminent could have espoused the cause without
risking the loss of his parish and his reputa-
ton mt the same time. The swelling tide
of ecclesiasticism had power rs irresistible
as that Of Niagara, and was sure TO oyerwhelm
and swallow mp any clergyman who dared TO resist
it. remember that the popular pastor of Con-
| gTegatonal church near Boston, who after
| ward achieved emnence a writer as well as
| preacher. lost bis pulpit because he delivered a
lyceum lecture to the coored people of Boston, and
because in the face of many private Inconsistencies
ne persisted In remembering the slaves in his public
| prayers. The leading members ~ the church were
| Boston merchants and they informed tho pastor
| that his leaninps toward the auti-savery cause
were destroying his usefulness. lie constrained
| to avoid an open quarrel by resiening.
| Ii was thus that the great body OF the clergy
were held captive in the interest of the Slave
| Power, many of them doubt unwillmglY and
greatly 20 their own secret disgust. IL was almost
impossible sometimes TO find in Boston a Clergyman
of any standing who would so much as consent to
omen an auti-slavery meeting with prayer. 1 re-
| menbertLat on more than one occasion | spent a
whole day in VAIN effort to persuade some one
among dozen white clergymen TO perform this
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25
YELLOW FEVER.

THE quarantine against New Orleans
was removed on the 18th. Persons hold
ing clear bills of health, and all freights
except woolen goods packed in New Or
leans, will be allowed to enter the city.
A GREENvILLE, Miss, special of the
18th reports that the doctors decided vel
low fever at COncordia and trace the in
fection % Memphis. Three new cases
are reported. One hundred and fifteen
persons remain IN Concordia, unable to
get through the shot gun quarantine.
A MEMPHIS dispatch of Sept. 22nd
states that no new cases have been re-
ported. Two deaths have occurred since
last evening: W. S. White, an operator
in the Western Union telegraph office,
and Peter II. Donnelly, a grocery mer-
chant doing business at 307 Poplar street
White is the third fever victim in the
office here, this season.
MEMPHIS advices of the nth state that
two new cases were reported and five
deaths have occurred since last night
Among the number were W. III. Earls,
a brother-in-law of holland Fountaine,
who died eight miles south of the city
The constitutionality Of the order of
the State Board of Health which prohib-
its cotton from being brought into the
city and ginned during the epidemic is
to be tested. An injunction has been
prayed for, and awaits the action of the
Judge to whom the petition has been sent.
The weather is clear and pleasant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25
A Curious Industry.

The principal industry of the Town of
West Falmouth, Mass. is tying bus
iness tags with bits of strings, by which
the tags may be attached to articles
which require to be labeled. A cores
pondent writing from that village says:
"These tags are cut elsewhere and sent
in bulk to West Falmouth. The string
is also sent in skeins. The business
here is to cut the string in suitable
lengths, tie one into each tag, and re-
turn it to the manufacturer in Boston.
This sounds simple enough, and small
enough, and yet it furnishes occupation
to between three hundred and four
hundred persons, and involves an Ella
borate system of bookkeeping. The
business has been carried on by wo-
man for the last twenty years. The
orders which were once filled in
bushel basket now require large freight
boxes, and amount to an aggreg at , of
forty millions of tags in a year. The
little pink strings are reeled off and cut
in given lengths and punches, each
bunch having 101 strings. The strings
are given out by the 1,010, together
with the corresponding number of tags,
to people coming to the Office for them,
and are paid for at the rate Of II 10 IL
cents thousand. Young children tie
with their mothers, and even old men,
and it is great source of pin money in
the community"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25
CABLEGRAMS.

A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch Of the
22d says it is reported from Janina that
Albanians are arriving there daily, with
the object of fighting the Greeks. They
are under the impression that Janina has
been ceded to Greece. They number
already 5000, and are amply provided
with ammunition.
A LONDON telegram under date of
Sept. 22nd says the insurrection in
Kurdistan has not yet been quelled. Two
powerful tribes have Joined Abdullah,
with 10000 men. The commanders of
| Erzeroum and Bagdad have been ordered
to send all available troops to Mosul.
| 1t is feared the Persian Turkomans will
| join the insurgents.
VIENNA advices of the 22d says it is
in conformity with the present situation
in Europe that Bismarck should deem it
important to obtain a moral guarantee
that the Austrian policy will not change
If during the exchange of views between
Bismarck and Andrassy, the interests of
Germany and Austria are found to be
parallel a written understanding may be
drawn up relative to all possibleEuropean
combinations.
| CALCUTTA advices under date Of Sept.
| ~-AlNe oIolS lIldI tue - Iot
| satisfied regarding the Ameer's conduct.
| The Ameer has caused the execution of
the commander of the mutineers. Public
! opinion among all classes is strong
against the Ameer for not protecting the
| lives of the members of the British
Embassy and he has forfeited forever the
respect of his subjects.
LONDON press dispatches of the 22d
state that it is generally believed that or
drrs have been sent to the acting Resi-
dent Of Mandaiay, Burmah, to leave with
his party, as soon as he can, without be-
traying undignified haste or the appear.
ance of fear. This measure will give
J general satisfaction, as no intercourse
now exists between the Residency and
the Burmah Court without running great
risk. As acting Resident, he has not
been treated with any more discourtesy
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25
CASUALTIES.

The value of the tug was about $7,500
1t is believed that the engineer allowed
the water to get out of the boiler. The
tug went to the bottom of the lake.
Mr.. QUEST, well-to-do farmer of Clin-
ton, ILL.,, was badly injured by cutting one
of his legs nearly off with corn knife,
while cutting corn, says dispatch of the
18th.
A CHICAGO telegram of the 22d inst
says the tug G.. W. Parker, while towing
the steamer S. A. Wood to Evanston,
burst her boiler, at 9 o'clock this morn
ing, off Lincoln Park. The following
were killed: Robert Leaham, Capt. John
Calaghan, Engineer Peter Rogers, the
fireman and VIM. Burton, the cook. The
only man on the tug who survived was
VIM. Mcclure, deck hand. and he was
badly injured.
A MILWAUKEE, Wis, telegram dated
Sept. 22d, states that an inmate of the Ma
tional Military Asylum, whose name has
not been learned, fell from the roof of
the hospital, on the asylum grounds, and
was instantly killed. His neck was bro
ken. Deceased is said to have been in
comfortable circumstances, although a
SOfS1 Vial OOIOuCI huCppSI
has received no notification of the acci-
dent.
A LITTLE Rock, Ark, special of the
18th states that at an early hour this
morning passenger train on the Iron
Mountain road, short distance above
Knobel, ran over some cattle. The en-
gine jumped the rails, and striking a
stump, threw engineer Seymour twenty
feet, dislocating his shoulder and break
ing his leg. He is dangerously hurt.
No one else hurt. The baggage and ex-
press cars were all thrown off.
A La CROSSE Wis, dispatch of Sept.
22nd states that serious railway smash
up occurred yesterday on the Southern
Minnesota road, two miles west Of Money
Creek. Two freight trains going at full
speed, both on the down grade, and at a
bend in the road, collided. There were
at the time six men on one engine and
four on the other, besides the usual
number of employees. The impending
catastrophe was seen in time to allow all
the men to jump from the trains, except
one brakeman, who was thrown 200 feet
by actual measurement. The1 engines
on both trains were almost totally de-
molished. Several carloads of wheat
were also scattered The total loss is
fixed at $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25
GRAND RAPIDS, WIS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER % 1879.

than was shown to the Resident, but the
ordinary civilities and attentions due a
representative of the British Government
have been studiously withheld, and his
presence had not the effect of checking
the cruelties still practiced by the court.
LONDON advices under date of Sept.
18th state that the extraordinary contrO-
versy now alarming Europe on the sup
posed misunderstanding between Gort-
schakoff and Bismarck shows what dan
gerous stuff is all around US. A ring of
interested spectators, in the confusion,
seems to have half persuaded the illus
&ieus statesmen that the greatness Of one
hbire is incompatible with the
l1htness of the other. For the Russian
and German nations, at present the diff
Guilty appears to be to manufacture
reasons for flying at each others throats,
Their interests are in no respect opposed; !;
neither owns territory coveted by the
other. We believe much of this flourish
ing of swords will be found to be merely
exercises of fencing g-schools, but it is
time the masters come forward and reas-
sure mistrustful Europe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25
FIRES.

THE pistol shops of Savage s. Smith,
at Middlefield, burned on the 22d inst
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000,
A TELEGRAM from Hastings, Neb.,
dated the 17th says great fire has oc-
CURED there. One entire block is
burned and half another. The goods
were mostly saved in damaged condi-
tion Two hotels, one bank, one print
ing office, and one ELEVATOR are among
the buildings. The loss is estimated at
100000; partly covered by insurance.
A MILWAUKEE telegram of the 18th
says the Rindskopf's distillery and all
the surrounding sheds were destroyed by
fire this morning. The distillery is stu
ated two miles south of the city limits
and had been idle for some time, but was
being fitted up for the resumption of
business. Owing to the scarcity of
water, the firemen were unable TO render
any assistance. The buildings cost $780,
600. The present value is $30,O0O in
sured for $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25
will be made against Kerr, as no heated
words passed between them.

words passed between them.
A LITTLE Rock, Ark, dispatch dated
Sept 18th, says one r. w. Johnson, OF
Clark county, was brought before Com
missioner Benton, yesterday, charged
with swindling the widow of a union
soldier out of her pension. He applied
for and received nearly two thousand dol
lars pension arrearage and gave her only
fifty dollars of it. In her ignorance she
was content until better advised.
A FORT SMITH, Ark, telegram under
date of Sept. goth, states that Jacob Ir-
win and James Hazel were waylaid and
killed by unknown parties near Boggy
depot, Choctaw nation. The murdered
men are accused of extensive larcenies,
and this is the supposed cause of the kill
ing. Vigilance committees are organ
lied in various parts of the Indian nation.
A CooPERsTowN, n. Y, dispatch Of the
Goth says that Myron A. Buel, convicted
of the outrage on and. murder of Catha-
rine Maria Richards, aged IA, in her
fathers bull-pen at Painfeld, Otsego
county, was resentenced to be executed
on Friday, Nov. IA. His counsels are
carrying the case to the court of appeals,
but there is no hope of saving his life.
Buel remains firm, and continues to as
sert his innocence. If guilty he is one of
the most remarkable and self-possessed
criminals Of the age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25

OFFICIAL details now published serve
to confirm the astonishment at the ter
rlble severity of the sentences on the
Odessa political convicts. The official
publication states that all twemty-eight
prisoners were found guilty of having
belonged to an illegal society, which
called itself the social revolutionary
party, and aspired by means of revo-
luton to overthrow the government
established in Russia. The girl Gou-
kofski, aged 10, and condemned to
Punishment in Siberia without term, is
especially charged with having, on July
"a, 1873, on the condemnation of
Kovalski, cried out, "Kovalski is con-
demned to death!" For these words,
so natural under the circumstances to
an excitable child of Is, this unfor-
tunate little girl has already spent
thirteen months in the common Grim
inal jail, and is now to join the chained
gangs of thieves and murderers, and
drag her weary footsteps over the
Siberian wastes, with the cruel knout
OF the Cossack escort ever ready to
descend on her frail shoulders and urge
her forward to her living grave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25

IN Rothermers painting of the Battle
of Gettysburgh" a confederate soldier
is represented as in the act of falling
from federal gun, upon which he had
endeavored to Chamber. Henry Gan
seman, who is now living at Limeric,
of Montgomery county, Penn, where
Mr.. Rothermel has his country place,
says that the incident is real one, and
that he, with a dozen federal soldiers,
discharged his musket at the brave
rebel. Though made the target of a
number of guns the rebel received a
slight wound only and is now con-
ductor on a railroad in the south.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25
4 Deadly Breakfast.

At Lexington, Va, Sept. 10, James
Johnson, well-known negro, made
bet at the breakfast-table that he could
eat more fruit than any one present.
Silas Jones and Peter Linsday took up
the bet; and all three set to work eat
ing peaches, apples, watermelons, and
grapes. Johnson won his bet, having
eaten a whole watermelon and half,
one dozen peaches, twelve punches, of
grapes, and four large apples. He was
taken sick an hour after and died the
same evening.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25

WHILE an express tram was on its
way west, running at the rate of fifty
miles an hour, just out of Meadville Pa.
on Thursday last, Fred Moss, boy fell
off car platform. AS he regained his
feet he exclaimed: "I've bumped my
nose !" And so he had, but when in
great anxiety the trainmen ran back to
meet the youngster they found that he
was not injured otherwise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25

A SINGULAR freak of nature is noticed
near Newtyle, Scotland, where may be
seen welI-grown plane tree, the foliage
of which, when viewed from one point,
shows plainly the profile of Lord Bea-
consfeld's head. All who have seen the
tree declare the likeness to be very good.
The tree has never been cut to any
hape, but it is its natural growth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25
CRIME.

A NEW ORLEASs dispatch of the 18th
hank Of LAFAYETTE, now in liquidation,
was arrested today, charged with EN-
bezzling nearly $4,000 of the banks
money. He was jailed in default of S1O,-
900 bail.
A COLUMBUS, Ohio, dispatch of The
17th says James Kerr, who shot and kill
ed Frank Fleming, last Saturday, while
engaged in scuffle, was arrested at
Portsmouth, in this state, to-day. Prob
ably case of murder in the first degree
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25

The income tax of Great Britain,
according to a parliamentary return
just issued, was changed last year on
a total of 100000, 900. This shows an
increase of S5,775. COO over the previous
year. The number of persons paying
tax was 397, 750, being an increase of
1878 over the number in 1877. 1t
would seem that there are 1 ,407 persons
whose incomes are assessed between 81, :
500 and S., 900, while between S., 900 and
$4,000 there are 12,403; under $4,000,
$500; under $20,0 700, 1924; under $780,
600. $50; under $4,000, 1870; under
$250,000, 994; over $3.50, 900, 80.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-25

IT is believed that fully 1000 silk
operatives have arrived in Patterson,
N. j., this year from English, French,
German and Italian cities, attracted by
the reports of the prosperity of the in
dustry in that city.