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New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
TRoUBLEs OF THE POLICE BOARD.
., s,,,ru s,yss OF THE CAUSES OF I'll

TROUBLES OF THE POLlCE bohhD'
WHAT GENERAL SMITH SAYS OF lHE CAoeLo VIZ iiiN
DIFFICULTY
rho roccnt nublication of the resolutions Of
80 nv poHcc commissioner Erhardt calling Tor
,bcronch investigation ofthe Police Department anu
,h comments OF police officials formed the staple OF con-
,orsaton Yesterday in political circles. That the reso
lutions were aimed the President Of the Board "c
eral Smith admitted that he had reason u NC
1iovc and in view OF the belief that per
.onal quarrel had arisen between him an" "i'
Frbardt President Smith gave to lKlboM
,cner his version OF the origin Of the troubles ABOUT
n vear ago he said when the new system OF street
in, was nearly ready TO he tested Mr. Erhardt
that he feared the Board had gone TOO lar III tne
ming OF the contract system. offered , the
fymg the original resolution Of the preSiuti. rrcs
idea as he aiterward expressed H. OF SynG SyG Ine smt6
dent chance to get ou @i iihardt t tic Metropolitan
iiocl informed Mir Erlardt that he had taken d cS
Of himself since Se% Te MAJ followed Mr Eglardts charges
against Captain schuze o. the ionIt ,n U IN Get the
,u,th SAID he advised the captain 10 ~ ''
srpDIir for inc boat which MI L hard cAaI %
as grossly cxtravagant aud that lie mas no oup ~ h "
,b charges preferred at that time were directed az NM ~
under cover of The culpabiity Of Captain schuz. M
gave Mr. Erharlts refusal to vote on mat,vdn fhc
cfore thc board as ms own reason Tor nOl acun5
Ld mai under such circumstances II would he
lie bc5 mp"tIpgs and he slowed letter from
Senator Blaine 10 whom he had referred n'9 I's
as a parliamentary point, and III which MI b4ainc e"'
Ar one lime not long ago. Mr.. Erhardt said to COM Oh,
,js.oner Nrhcls that he hoped the General wOulu ot
tb,nk he harbored any personal anlmosy IN regard 10
fheee differences of OPINION on police dlsGlpnc a.
smith afterward answered through M. NlcnoS, ,,oi
he was "thc very last man 10 enter INTO yei,Od Ot
quarrel aud the last TO back out OF one GeneTd M
Considered that lie had already sufficiently cNaihtu nls
oop in declining 10 vote fOr the etrement OF members
from tEe force until the question 9i ue ~ ,,rsi rs
cent reduction was settled. In regard 10 lS "'cse
matter he said he could say nothing III any cn"ISVe
were u be made against him he would 1elend h
lie had voted 10 place the resolutions on me- Simply p
ause he fhouCht The members OF the board cOuu NOT
a.lnpt them and retain their self-rCspect. .-..u
Commissioner Wheeler not seen hy lhe IelVy! W
as he Is out OF the city. Commissioner NchOls pouvS
declines To talk the subject, ana totn'ile n 70
sfoner Erhards stercOtypcd answer 10 all Questions vi
fhe subject is " nave nothing to say
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28

TIE REWARD OF NEEIT.-AlrS. Lyon Huhter !:
How do yOudO. MIR Brown! Let me present You 10
the Duchess oi Stton. Your Grace permit me 10 pre-,
sent TO you Mr.. Brown. tho disirS Sul-hed scholar"
Her Grace (ilably): Charmed 10 Eake your dcqualn-
tancc-pr-nr. Brown" Mr.. Brown with CtuSsOD)
Your Grace j. really KIND. THIS Is lc ninth time
Tye cnioyed the distinction OF beng presented to your
Grace within last twelve mOn; jut IT'S dotInc-
tion value 30 highly, that without tcspaSslng 100
much O Your Grace's Indulgence, hope may he 0cea-
slonaly prrmtted to enjoy it again" Bows aud aD-
suuatulates.) )-lPunch.
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
ALIFE-sAvING SOCIETY ORGANIZED,

The New-YOrk Volunteer Llfe-SaVlng Socl-
ETY. held meeting yesterday at No. 113 Pearlst' aud
formed an organization. The officers will he elected an
nuay on the last Monday in January. NO oicer VIII
receive any salary be permitted to contract any dent
in the name OF the association. The following omeers
were elected President. Franklin Edson president of
the Produce Exchange; vce-president Brayton IVES
presdcn Of the Cotton Exchange; treasurer, Henry D.
Robinson: secretary. F. W. HoughOn board OF dlrcc-
tors Paul BOyOu, James :. Chew, and James d. 'hl-
ming, of the MaIiume Exchange. James J.. Ncnmal'
G.. A. Zercga, and NJ. r. fleldlng. OF the Cotton ~
change G.. W Davis George III. BrOadhcad, and X L.
Cutting ir of the stock Exchange, : ". Cary Nllia
r. Foster ir, and W. j.. Morgan OF the Produce l;A-
change The subcommittee on the equipment ol Tue
service has authorized the construction o1 one slatu
at pier No s. East River, at cost Of SlGO Inc Oner
OF Dr. GalISh deliver lecture for The benefit OF the
society on The Most Approved Methods Of SAVING Lc
and the ResuscitaiiOn Of Those Apparently Drowned
was accepted go
In a few days Captain Paul Boyton Will go to wash
ingiOn where he VIII give public exhibition WIN MS
swimming suit the Potomac before President Hayes.
ne Cabinet and members Of the Senate and House of
Representatives The exhibition viii take place as soon
as the river free from ice Captain Boyton also mas
accepted invitation to go TO Ptshurg. ana VIII swim
from KittannnG, the Allegheny RIye to PittSOufg <
distance of ty miles. Later he VIII Visit Canada 10
fulfil several engagements already made
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
JUSTICE PINCKNEY'o CASE REOPENED.

The General Tenn has ordered the reopen
ing Of the evidence taken before the referee III the mat
Ter OF Justice Pckney giving the latter ten days fur
tbcr time 10 put IN evidence and ten days more for
relttlng evidence; but requiring all the testimony To
he closed by February 20, and directing submission Of
fhe ydence to the Court The Tst TUESDAY III March
m. jaNit of Judge Pinckncy which this order was
pr.uted saws he has twcutyscven witnesses To contra
dict The principal witnesses against lin; mat Juu-
cal engagements have prevented him from fully con-
sulfing us counsel that the whole piOcee ng comes
from the malice Of Patrick Anthony, Vho has not pro
uced lhe 'ul records and that hc desires to give HE
own feslmouy In the matter. A. H. ReaSey appeared
for Justice IInckncy W. G. whitney ana l. r. MlIeT
opposed the order.
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28

JOHN +. TALMAGE.
Tn reference 10 these dispatches the Rev. mr.
Talmage made last evening the following state.
mcnt: sent those kilograms IN pefIece
good faith. NV nephew, John r. Ialinagr, was
az that time President OF the Board of Trustees;
thought II woud be best TO have our most inhucnla
men nt the head OF the subscription so teegrapbeu ~
him 10 know IL he would subscribe $1,000 lie answtreu
IN dispatch which has not been printed that ne cOnh
afford it, then, IN my earnest desire To help IN tnE
good cause offered ont OF my own pocket 10 maze up
10 him the amount over and above what he would acu
ally pay, II he subscribed $1,000 THIS was per
fectly legitimate thing TO do. We wanted hls name
to help us and ID made difference whether be pad u
all, paid part OF it, The whole thug Is as srsh'
Is a string" A..
John +. Talmage said THE simple fact is that
the whole scheme OF raising tue deDt ,W9s
planned and conducted by the pastor MN
self who In his letter asked or the trustees
subscribe the condition that in case all the money
was not raised, nothing was to bo paid. me totai
pledges are to-day short OF the required amount,
aud several subscriptions OF $500 are denied Dy
the persons In whose names they are made. FROM
these reasons tho former trustees claim tnat they
are morally and legally free from any obligation
pay what they subscribed. In the beginning thc
of the DEBT understated. aud then the SUD
scrption lists were padded with ncttous names I'D"
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
THE RETCRy or SITTING BULL.

WAsHIyGTOy, Jan. 27.-The Department OF
the Interior has received information tending to
confirm the reports that Sitting Bull has crossed tue
Canadian Line, aud that there is apt to he large
gathering hostile Indians In his vicinity. Immediate
hOsthies however not feared, hut tne matter Is
deemed OF great importance. and Will he the suOecl OF
cnnaiho at tO-mOrTOW's Cabinet session..
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
INVESTIGATING A TRUST COMPANY.

A circular has been issued to the stock
holder, Of the National Trust Company by William .
Mcdowell submitting resolutions for public meeting
Oh February II stockholders who have never been
trustees of the company. 1t is also proposed that
committee be elected investigate the affairs OF the
COMPANY and if facts sustain H. TO take proceedings to
hold any all OF the officers or the receiver o the com
panv TO the extent OF the full par NIu OF stock.
Mr. Mcdowell says that charges nave been made that
The company was not insolvcnt when receiver was
appointed ana that has paid its dents and has large
bTpus that the trustees caused Illegal loans TO hc
ma e not authorized by the charter making themselves
personally responsible tna when William j. Best, spe-
Cia examiner, had almost competed his investigation,
thc trustees appointed = = Couant j. : LONeN ana ".
r. Allen to see Nh Best and report. and that instead Of
dong this they applied 10 the Court 10 have MI Best
made receiver that the receiver he's sold AZ private sale
indrectly 10 the trustees certain securities oashy The
same az il claimed that they made Illegal loans on,
at Il loss the company on present market value OF
over 5000 900 These charges il Is claimed should be
examined 50 that those accused Of lTcsualY may he
either vndcaed held 10 account No one VIII bo al
lowed to take part The meeting unless lie Signs TIE
resolutions submitted by Nj Mcdowell.
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
FoPTy BUILDINGS BLOWN DOWN.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. PA dispatch from
Luling Tex, The GGIrestCn Ne,cS. states that
a tornado struck the town OF Lockport on
sunday evening, dcmOshng forty houses. Including
churchcs, the Court House, Masonic Hall child was
killed and several persons were badly hurt
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28

a After ,he skaters leave the ice tonight II s TO be
hoored over for the Morton Commandery bal on
day night layer of sheathing paper IS 10 DC ia'a o
tween will be filled with sawdust, and above tn,S VIC
dancing floor will be laid. ON FEBRUARY -, t sron
society ball For Saturday night next the
offers medal TO DO skated for by Doys os um arnnnd
. tha rim
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
A TOWN IN RUINS,

PITTsBURG, Penn, Jan. PA special to
The Chron,cle from Turkey CITY, Clarion County says
fire broke out there early this morning and the
water works beng frozen up the fire spread rapidly IN
all directions and hour and half the best portion
OF the town was in runs.
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
PROMINENT ARRIVALS.

BrerOOrt House, Charles Francis Akams, Jr:, OF
Massachusetts and Jay Cooke. Of Philadelphia HoDniG'
TO,sS-The Rev. Free Clarke. OF Boston "u'
Ssy Uouss-The Hon John NJ Francis OF Troy HesInt-
Sr HoeCaptai Hamilton Perry OF the steamship b,l'an
mic -. Wfnasor Hotei-Captan AuGley Harvey, Auedr'
Camp to the Marquis OF Lorne EercL Houe CAPTAIN j.
H. sparks London. and Signor Brignol IN A. Ilte
H. = MrComb Of Delaware. HONt irtiS-
,rci Edgar T. Wrlcs Of ST Nicholas Hotel
Willis Phelps OF Springfeld, Mass.
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
EGYPTIAN NATIONAL BANK.

AIIXANDHIA, Monday. Jan. -, 1870.
The Egyptian National Bank, with a capital
Of 81 900 600 been formed under The auspices Of
hr Minister of Finance aud the l5sht Hon. Robert
Lowe. Member OF Parliament for London University.
has accepted the calrman,bp O the English Board Of
Directors ot Lee hank.
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
DEATH FROM ArAIL OF THE ICE.

EAsTON, Penn, Jan. 27.-E. II. Green, one
of the pTopretOrs OF sewarts rolling mills, at SOuth
Ea-ton. fell the Tee near his home Tuesday last
aud broke his iCit Hud injured himself internally
from the effects 0f Wl, he dlcd tins morning He was
al one time President VI the LLsiUH Town Council.
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
RHEUMATISM,
SORE THROAT, DIFFICULT BREATHING
RELIEVED IN FEW MINUTES,
BY RADWAY'S READY RELIEF.
DD, RlDWlVS REGULATING PILLS,

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l o,cs. bilious fever Inflammation Cf the loWels pies
ana an arrangements Of the internal NSea NaIahteu W
etrcf a poslttyo cure Price 20 cents per box
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
MARINE INTELLIG ENCE.
IMMATURE ALMANAC.

TO-DAY.
srn 4s.s 714 sun sets. 53 Clock fast 13m Ia
Nnnn sets sl LAB Moon souths 44O Moons age days u
WATER TODAY A ~
sandv Hook II :I GOV Island. OIL II Al Gate.. 200
UIaU WATER IODAN--P. ~
SANDY Hook. lJj GOV. Isanl.. O2U heA date'. ZII
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
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3:45 a. nj.
LATEST FOREIGN Ne US.
THE RTNDERPEST IN PRUSSIA

BERLIS Monday, JAN II, 1873.
Fresh outbreaks of the rndcipest are re-
ported in Prussia Fifteen places infected within
the district first attacked.
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
HOME NEWS.

YESTERDAY At HUDNUrs NO
2is BROADWAY
9am29'. Noon. 80. SD m. So MldnishI 5''
UiRhest duT1ng the nav. 80. Lowest W.
Average 32Il' same nav, 1878 39's'
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28
Announcements
A TRUsTY CURE FOR COLDS,
JAYSB's ExPECToRAsr.

Az UNRIvALLED Cough AND LUNG RENyny
That Iife.gving preparation PHILLIPS "PALATABLE" con
LIVER on, combination with PHOAHO.NJGRfINR Try
All druggists. Depot, Plattst "
New-York tribune., 1879-01-28

estness and faith without deception will command sue
DO not telegraph again as Hobbs ana sell are uscu
up now thinking and talking over 1t; ro
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-10-03
The South Carolina Way of Removing
an Officer,

The Postmaster at Blackville, S. c.,
was Objectionable to Hamburg Butler
and his Democratic admirers in that
region, and they undertook to secure
his removal by the simple and direct
process of assassination. He was OBJ
jectionable because he was a colored
man who had the grit to stand up for
his rights, and also because he had
superseded a young woman who ran the
office chiefly as Democratic campaign
auxiliary. When the Blackville Post
master was shot and dangerously
wounded, the local authorities, being
Democrats, and therefore in full SYM
pathy with the plan of removal, re-
fused to render him any assistance, or
to bring his assailant to justice; and if
the latter is punished at all it will be in
plain violation of the doctrine of State
rights and by the centralized power of
the Federal Government. While the
slow process of justice is going forward,
there is another and eminently desir-
able mode of redress within the prov
ince of the Postmaster General to en-
force, and that is the closing altogether
of the Post-office at Blackville, and it
is gratifying to know that this will be
done if necessary in order to convince
these Rebel bulldozers that in shooting
the Postmaster they have fired upon the
Government of the United States, which
is able and inclined to resent the indig-
nifty in suitable manner. This plan
was tried once in similar circumstances
in Mississippi, and was entirely sue
cessful in bringing the Yazoo chivalry
to a fitting sense of National suprem-
acy so far as post-offices are concerned,
and it would doubtless work we'll in
SOuth Carolina
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-10-03
Tired of a Hermit's Life.

Austin Sheldon, who has lived her
nit life for forty years, his abode be-
ing in cave in the wilds of Lehman
Township, Pike County Pa, about
seven miles southwest of Dingman' 8
Ferry, has finally concluded to abandon
his rocky habitation and return to the
home of his youth. Sheldon was born
in the village of Bradford, Conn, in
1906, where he lived with the family,
his father being farmer in comforta-
BILE circumstances. At an early age he
learned blacksmithing, and became a
master mechanic. Arriving at man s
estate, he became enamored of a young
and accomplished woman living near
him. They became engaged. The
woman's parents were averse to the
match, and broke it off by sending their
daughter to distant boarding school.
She was sent away in the night with
out Sheldon's knowledge. AS soon as
Sheldon found she had gone he started
out to find her. He travelled from State
to State, but in vain. By his frugality
he had saved a small amount of money,
but he soon spent the better portion of
it in the search. He finally abandoned
the search and grew respondent, and
one night, without the knowledge of
his parents, he deserted his home and
was never heard of until his hiding
place was made known by a newspaper
paragraph a few years ago. Sheldon
walked from Connecticut to Milford,
Pike County, Pa. Having a small
amount of money left he purchased a
small, uncultivated tract of land in
Lehman Township. There was nc
clearing within several miles of him,
and not having enough money to build
house he sought cave in the rocks,
and subsisted on fruit and game. This
cave has since answered his purpose.
He has lived without a single compan-
ion of any kind for about forty years,
and, until recently, expressed his in
tention of continuing his hermit life un-
til his death.
But recent letters from relatives in
Connecticut, urging Sheldon to aban-
| don his wretched abode and return to
his native State, where he might live
and not want for anything, has set the
old hermit to thinking, and he has final
ly resolved to accept the generous Of
fers of his friends, and says he will soon
quit his hermit life and return East.
Sheldon's quarters are about the same
to-day as they were when he began his
nDrIIIJ lire. IID USES nv 5uUvU, but uOgS
his cooking over stone fireplace; he
sleeps in an old rocking chair, and uses
| blocks OF wood for chairs. He has nc
light at night except that coming from
the fireplace. He has not shaved in
forty years, aud in consequence thick,
shaggy beard covers his face, and his
hair, which is a grizzly gray, hangs far
below his shoulders. Sheldon is now
seventy-three years old, and is rapidly
falling N Y Times
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-10-03
The Nation and the States.

Governor Blackburn, on the occasion
of his Inauguration, in Kentucky, said:
"Ours will undoubtedly prove the best
Government ever known if both our
Federal and State Governments will
strictly confine themselves to their Con-
stitutional powers and functions" This
sounds very well, but, unless parties
should behave in the future differently
from the manner they behaved in the
past, there will be much trouble brought
upon the country. The Democratic
party, which always has claimed, and
which now claims, to be the especial
champion of State rights, has not the
less been the enemy of those rights
whenever it has had occasion to ad-
vance its own ends at the expense of
the country. 1t began its career as a
dominant party in 1901, and in few
years il had become the most perfect
specimen of a consolidated party that
this Nation has ever known. Two of
the acts, that most helped to change
its character, the purchase of Louisi-
ana and the war of 1912, did it honor,
and must ever stand to its credit in
history; but neither the one nor the
OOiOI was III hOSPihS WIN bhO puIuJ .
creed or the party's purpose. Presi-
dent jefferson himself, who made the
purchase of Louisiana, admitted that
the Constitution gave him no authority
to acquire the vast territory that Bona
parte sold for sum of money. He
did not, therefore, confine the Federal
Government to its Constitutional pow
ers and functions, but acted quite as
Independently rs any Bonaparte ever
acted when acquiring territory from
the head of a foreign nation. Consid-
cred as a piece of craftsmanship, Mr..
JetfersOn's course in 1903 cannot
be too highly praised; but if we
look at it as the work of the
great champion of Democracy and
State rights, its grandeur cannot save
it from being laughed at. 1t was mag
nilicent specimen of sublime inconsist-
ency; and had Mr.. John Adams been
reelected to the Presidency in 1901,
and had he purchased Louisiana, the
Democrats would have denounced his
action in the loudest terms, and Mr..
Jefferson would have led in the howl
ing work. The fact that the acquisition
was well and wisely made has nothing
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-10-03
ure in America in its relation to British inter.

ure in America in its relation TO British inter.
ests.
A London dispatch says the bicycle riders
of England and France, including the cham.
pions Of both countries, are going to the Uni
ted States.
A telegram from Havana states that three
shareholders have emancipated their 5000
slaves and contracted with them for theii
services for five years. Other shareholders
intend following the example.
The French Ambassador to Vienna has
telegraphed to Waddngton, Minister of For.
eign Affairs, that Bismarck called on him and
they had very satisfactory interview. Bis
marck expressed his desire to maintain the
existing cordial relations between Germany
and France.
Stanley, the African explorer, has gone to
the river Congo.
The Belgium Catholic clergy have been in
structed to refuse absolution to parents whose
children frequent the public schools aud to
teachers and pupils in normal schools.
Two inches of snow fell at Mount Louis, in
the province of Quebec, on the 25th.
The Russian official paper states that 2, 9S1
fires occurred in Russia during August, caus-
ing damage to property TO the amount of 30
600, 900 roubes.
The German quarrel with Japan is said to
be getting more serious. German steam Il
was recently authorized by the German Envoy
to break the cholera blockade at Yokohama
in consequence of which Japan is changing the
cholera regulations concerted between Japan
and the Christian powers.
The rinderpest has appeared near Konis
hprn Tim lfpnaca ic avt into
Poland.
An affray occurred, recently, on the Danube
at point between Ossora, in Austria, and
Tekia, in Servia, between Austrian smugglers
and servian Custom-House officers in which
ten men were killed.
1t is thought an understanding between
Greece and Turkey is impossible. WarlikC
preparations are progressing on both sides.
1t is expected that Germany will participate
in the proposed international money confer.
ence.
Prince Labanotf arrived at Constantinople
on the 9th ult., bearing project for an alli
ance between Russia and Turkey.
In consequence of disease among a lot OF
sheep which recently arrived at Liverpoo
from the United States, the British Privy
Council has decided to issue an order placing
American sheep in the same category witt
cattle.
Yakoob Khan and suite entered the British
lines on the 9th ult. Cabul is in state OF
anarchy.
The Pail Mall Gazette says it has become ap.
parent that serious trouble is brewing in Ire
land in consequence of anti-rent and nation
alist agtations
The hop crop In Great Britain is the smallest
since 1860. Considerable importation from
America and the Continent is probable.
Eastern Siberia is menaced with famine
Grain is dearer than ever before, and the pool
are suffering severely. The harvest was very
bad.
Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott has been elected
Lord Mayor of London.