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Year: 1879

lively suit was tried yesterday in tho Sixth Dis
trict Court. before Judge Gcdney. It appears that
the John s. Boyle Association hired tho Lexington
Avenue Opera House. in Fifty-eighth street. on
Christmas Eve for the purpose of having ball. Mr.
Schwartz the proprietor of the Opera House and de-
fendant in the is corpulent good looking Ger
man. and he told his story with the slightest possible
nt:-"I had just come up from the bowling alley
and on going into the barroom heard some trouble
the first thing knew was jostled and my watch
gone, and my chain, broken in two. hanging from
my vest the young men about me wore roscttes of
this society and was struck by one of them; then
told my To turn out the gas; it u fine mob -
This testimony was corroborated by young Schwartz.


On the part of the society the president and
treasurer testified that they hired the hall tho
evening Of the 2ith and the morning OF the 25th !;
that before their programme was half danced out
the gas turned of. and they seek to
from the defendant ono-half of the money paid for
the hall and one-half of the expense of the music
and $50 damages for being called by the defendant
thieves, &C.


Officer Malone testified that he was called in about
o'clock In the morning; that he found a couple
of drunken men In the hall and put them out. lie
back in hour, at the request of the defend
ant. and found lot of drunken young men
hailoong and showing lie then called the reserve


Mr.. Boyle. in whose honor the association is
named. called to the stand. Mr.. Boyle is young
man aud regarded something of power in his
'dccsrick." AZ the conclusion of his evidence he
said. Il tried to stop this thing. and when could
not told the gang


Judge Gcdney-rhat will do. Parties hiring these
halls responsible for the good order while their
charge. There IL no doubt of the disturbance. The
Defendant justified in turning of the gas. will
take the papers
Year: 1879

Tho suit OF Mary Ann McEteero against Augusta M
Little, in whose employ she WINS as lady's maid to
recover for alleged moneys advanced and for wages


which has been in the courts in France and In this
city for the past ten years. up again yesterday
in decision handed down by the full bench of the
Court of Common Pleas. Miss McEteere claims to
have advanced to Mrs. Little $l2O upon the day Of
their departure for tour in Europe TO be EXCHANGED
into gold and PAID back when they arrived in London


and also s275 tor eleven months wages at the rate o


$40 per month. After the party had arrived In
Rome, and upon the days of the Carnival
Mrs. Little without payment of the money she had
advanced or her wages and only received $40 TO take
her to Paris, where she to wait for Mrs Little
when this lady came there she demanded payment OF
tho moneys due her. and not receiving the same she
brought suit In the Municipal Court, In Paris which
Year: 1879

Littes arrival in this city suit brought against
her in the Marine Court in which the jury disagreed
Upon second trial this Judgment was reversed and
verdict obtained for $752 IS. An appeal was
taken from this Judgment to the General Term
of the Marine Court and this tribunal
reversed the Judgment and ordered new trial with
costs to abide the event. From this decision Miss
McEteere appealed to the General Term of the Court
of Common Pleas. and that Court affirmed the
sal with Judgment absolute against the plaintiff Miss
McEteere. Mr.. George Il. Langbein, the counsel for
Miss McEteere, made earnest appeal to the Court
reversal and modification of this Judgment, and
strenuously opposed by Mr.. Richard M. Henry
counsel for defendant. The Court unanimously held
that the appeal should have been dismissed, that the
judgment absolute against Miss McEteere wrong
aud that she should be granted a trial. Under
this last decision the will have to be tried again
before another Jury.
Year: 1879

Alonzo Ainsworth. alias James Smith, alias "Broker
Dick who recently convicted in the Court of
General Sessions and sentenced by Judge Sutherland
to two years in the Pententiary. is anxious to
look after his family and pecuniary interests in Sand
Lake. Rensselaer, county whereas formerly resided.
1t will be remembered that he convicted Of for
gerry there being found in his possession 200 ten
dollar bills of the Consolidated Bank of Canada,
the notes being genuine but the signature forged.
Recently. Judge Brady granted writ of and
stay of proceedings until the first Monday Of next
March, at which time the will up for
hearing before the Supreme Court. General Term.
upon exceptions taken during the trial Meantime he
has been Kept prisoner in the Tombs. His counsel,
Mr. Horatio F. Averil, yesterday his behalf. sub
mitted petition to Judge Donohue, in Supreme
Court, Chambers, asking that he might be admitted
to bail pending the hearing on the appeal. Aims
worth states in his petition that he has resided for
the past ten years at Sand Lake. and that there
are plenty of wealthy gentlemen there who
will go his BAIL He says that at the time OF his
rest he owing various debts and that his farm
was mortgaged that to satisfy his debts his stock
and farming implements have been recently sold
and that there are now threats Of foreclosing the
mortgage. He thinks he could save the farm and q
home and shelter for his wife and three children if
given his liberty The writ granted and made
returnable this morning before Judge Barrett in the
Court of Oyer and Terminer,
Year: 1879

In Part 2 Of the Marine Court, yesterday, before
Chief Justice Alker and jury. there was tried the
Of Mrs. Sarah G. W. Hayes Mrs. Corpelia
M. Stewart. The suit to S3S8 So alleged
to be the gross value Of promissory notes. currency
and jewels which plaintiff alleged stolen from
her room in July last while guest In the Meropol-
tan Hotel. of which Mrs. Stewart is owner
The plaintiff represented on the trial by
Mr. Hemmng and the defendant by Mr..
Henry G. Rice. The plaintiffs story showed
her condition to be of much
committed She first disturbed by the suppo-
sition that she watched by o detective. Then
returning to her room from tea she found step
ladder up against her door, which she Obliged to
had retrel she found the fanght the door
open than when she retired. She then tried to
bolt her door but some unseen enemy had fixed it


that could not be bolted The defence, In addition
to an attempt to throw doubt the OK
istence OF the property or its loss,
pleaded that in conformity with the provisions the
bliy for lost property. there posted up in
spicuous place i'll the plaintiffs n notice that
there was safe in the Office for the deposit of
jewels money and vau ables and that the proprietor
would not be responsible for the loss OF any such If
stolen from the room The question to the exist
of this notice in the room became the turning
i've sides being in direct conflict that issue.
The plaintiff was positive that such
notice was posted up in the room. she being
firmed in that conviction by the fact that not know
ing the hour for tea she looked around the to


nd notice of that fact, but found neither that
other notice. On the opposite side of
the employees of the hotel testified that then and since,
such notice was posted and that the exhibited to
the jury was torn down from the which she
occupied to be used the trial On her crossexami-
nation the plaintiff talked so vaguely about being
followed by detectives and about her three husbands
as to excite doubt to her soidity of mind The
jury found o verdict In favor of Mrs. Stewart.
Year: 1879

tNoTE.-Letters intended for this column must be
accompanied by the writer's full and address to
insure attention. Complainants who unwilling to
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing
Write only on one side of the paper.-ED. HERALDl
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


As our carman was coming across town with a load
three thieves jumped his cart and stole bag of
coffee about seventy-two pounds) while coming
through Chambers street, and right opposite the
engine house located there Three of vigilant
men looking on saw the thieves carry it away with
ont notifying the poor truckman. who certainly will
have to make good the loss. Perhaps those three
men, If one may call them such will deserve promo
tion by the Commissioners.


READER IN BROOKLYN.
Year: 1879

THE MADISON SVUAKE CAB STAND AuAIN.
To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


am glad to see friend Jones has something to say
about the cab stand at Madison square. / should
like to know if these cabmen have special license to
scufie and block up the sidewalk to expectorate all
over it, and If You happen to pass in the evening with
lady. to solicit your patronage evidently mat
ter of impudcnce. SMITH.
Year: 1879

10 THE EDITOR OF HERALD


May be permitted a small space in your Com
plant Book to call the attention of those in au-
thority to what to to be n gross imposition
the travelling public. at least that portion Of
it which is compelled to use the Hudson River and
New York Central Railroad On three occasions,
within many weeks, business has called me from
this city to Buffalo. Wishing to stop at an in
termediate station. was compelled to go by that
road. Two of the trains express and one an
accommodation (D. On no one of them there
smoking Now, to who is an
almost constant smoker IL is somewhat Of a
hardship to be deprived of this zone grain of COM
fort, particularly if booked for al-day ride On
inquring OF the train conductor which was the
smoking car l was, i'll each instance. informed that
there on the train, unless chose to take
seat In drawing room car at expense OF ST.
What could do :? / must have my smoke and
consequently, submitted with as good a grace as
possible, to what / considered extortion. At all
events. it is certainly very short sighted
policy the part of the company to virtually drive
passengers into the drawing room cars hope this
may have the effect of drawing out an expression
from others whose business keeps them '.on the
road" and that our united voices may be able to
reach the of those whose interest all events
may induce them to study the comfort. well as
the pockets OF their patrons.


INSURANCE TRAVELLER.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


viii You be kind enough to publish the fact that
last Saturday evening an aged French lady was
grossly insulted in of the Second Avenue Rail-
road all the way from Worth street up to Canal
street by passenger, and the conductor
being requested by the undersigned, perfect
stranger to the Old lady, to interfere in her
favor and to put off the rufian. told him to
shut up?' On the refusal of the conductor the
lady. in company with young girl and boy had to
leave the car. Does the Second Avenue Railroad
Company approve of such infamous conduct the
part of one of its conductors? Ii. s.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITon OF THE HERALD:-


In your issue of the 30th ult. notice "nover'
communication from Reliable" on the subject of
answers to advertisements inserted in your paper.


have complaint to make also the same question,
but another phase of it, and not unimportant one
to me and others similarly circumstanced My
particular grievance is this For about
month past I have answered ten ADVERTISE
ments for the purpose of obtaining employment,
aud invariably giving particulars and also invariably
enclosing stamp postal card to insure reply
which have asked for, but not in single instance
have received one, In every the advertiser has
been an anonymous person using the HERALD Office
place OF deposit for all answers The non-arrival
Of any reply causes great vance, if
received. if only a refusal. could give 1t up and
turn my attention to something else. In addition
to the annoyance / not sure that the
practice could not be placed in the category
OF swindles with which the country teems for if
advertisers received 100 replies each containing
stamp. it would leave fair margin for profit.
hope the complaint will merit place in your "Com-
plant Book. and that 1t will serve to correct in q
measure an abuse which prevails. as l think /
not alone in this grievance, and that and others
have rights that woud-be employers ought to be
bound to respect. Respectfully. ANNOYANCE.
Year: 1879

II appears by dispatches from Augusta
that the Council has referred the charges of
County Attorney Rounds, alleging tamper-
ing with the returns from Washington
County, to a special committee. This is
step in the right direction. But several
more steps are necessary to be taken. 1t
won't do for the Council several days hence
its special committee saying eve have
examined the charges and found them
to be false' unless at the same time it
presents the evidence on which such
conclusion is founded and makes it evident
to everyone that the investigation has been
an open one in which both sides have been
accorded free hearing. The public will
place no confidence whatever in an exparte
verdict. On the other hand they will rather
regard it as substantial confession OF the
truth of the charges, or at least that the
Council fears they may be true.


Councillor Fogg's remark that the more
he looks at the charges the more absurd they
appear will not have much weight. Moth
ing he can say will The public prefer not
to use the eyes of Mr.. Fogg or any other
Councillor in this matter. They want all
the light turned on so that they can see
for themselves. They will accept nothing
less than this, so it may be as well for Coun-
cil1or Fogg to save his breath in this busi-
ness. Let the committee call all the wit
nesses that Mr.. Rounds names, let the hear
ing be public and then if the charges are
false the public will find it out as readily as
Councillor Fogg, and if true will relieve,
the Councillor from the pain of writing
of Mr.. Fogg himself the public want no


'shenan igan'' in this business.
Year: 1879

THERE is such thing as inordinate zeal
to secure the conviction of alleged criminals.
The attorney for the State in the Hayden
murder case. which is now on trial at Nor
wch. proved this when he asked of the de-
fendant's wife this question. ''Now, mad
am, you need not answer this question until
you are told to by the Court. Mr.. Hayden,
you say, is your husband, the father of your
three children, and he has been devoted
husband to loving wife for between eight
and nine years. You have constantly main
tanned pleasant relations, and there has been
and is now the utmost confidence between
you You are convinced of his innocence,
and know that, if he is found guilty, he
must suffer ignominious punishment. I'm
der these circumstances would you not, I'M
der oath as you are, make misstatement in
order to save him from punishment?' The
Court promptly decided that the question
was improper. The worst of it is that
the attorney probably knew it was improper
and asked it simply for effect.
Year: 1879

THE selection of Senator Edmunds for the
prospective vacancy on the Supreme Bench
is one of the best, if not the very best, that
could be made. Mr.. Edmunds has long en-
joyed the reputation of being one OF the
soundest lawyers in the country. during
a long career in the Senate his legal abilities
have won the recognition of both parties,
and, politics aside, we do not believe there
is Democrat in the country who will not
acknowledge that he is eminently qualified
to fill the position for which he has been
Salactpd
Year: 1879

THE Belfast Age thinks the object of Mr.
Rounds's charges is to create an impression
in the public mind that there has been vii
lsiny going on. Didn't it ever occur to the
Age that the Governor and Council had it i'll
their power to check this impression and
that failure to use 1t would be regarded as
a substantial confession that villainy had
been going on?
Year: 1879

THE Greenbackers in Congress are max
ing their usual amount of noise. The re-
ported dissensions in the Republican ranks
over the currency recommendation are
greatly exaggerated by these soft money men
for effect.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publiea-
tion but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncatlons that are not used.
Year: 1879

EDITOR RUST says truly that the Council
does not propose to deal with the moral as
poets of the counting out business. It's The
immoral aspects it seems to have the
greatest affection for.
Year: 1879

wing until you see they have found
their new home. If the bottom of
your hive is fast take the top off and
shake the bees down on TO the frames.


Then replace the top being very
careful not to kill the bees. Shake
those that are in the box on the old
stand down in the same way; hurry
them up little with the smoke if
they are slow about going in.


When they are all In put the hive
where you wish it to stand and most
of the bees will find it. If you have
followed the above directions you
have got through without sting, un.
less you have pinched bee.


If it Is in a. reason when the oees
are inclined to rob, take your gum
into room and shut doors and win
dows and proceed as directed; what
bees take wing will fly on to the win
dows, when you get through let the
windows down at the top and they
will find where they belong. If there
is not good yield of honey at the
time it will be well to close the en-
terance SO that but one or two bees
can get through at a time so they
will be able to defend themselves.
1t is better to transfer just at night
as they will have time to get them.
selves organized over night and will
defend themselves in the morning.


In about forty-eight hours they
will have the combs most if not all
tasteued when you will take the
strips off and the job is done. After
lutte practice you will be able to
do it at any season in a short time. I
have transferred four swarms between
p. m. and dark.


r. M. MCINTYRE.


Daytona, F2a., November IL, 1889.
Year: 1879

We are pleased to see.she children
interested in THE FLORIDA AGRI-
cULTURTsr. A young gentleman of
Orange City, son of distinguished
citizen of that place, who has been
down on the Coast, writes us:


'The nearest place to the coast is
about thirty three miles. Daytona is
the most thriving place on the Coast. It
has two flowing wells and they have
quite nice water. Most of the people
over on the Coast have to drink rain wa
ter. There are good many wells over
there but they all have hard water in
them. About the best orange grove
that L saw was Mr.. Allan's. The orange
trees do not have very good chance to
grow on account of the hard winds,
While was over there I went fishing
but we did not have very good luck on
account of the sharks, they kept biting
our lines Oft but we caught seven large
sea bass, and after we got through fish
ing we went in bathing and large wave
came in and knocked me down and I
opened my mouth to hollar and L got it
full of that nasty salt water and it most
strangled me, and 1 thought I would
not go in bathing in salt water again
very soon. I think Port Orange is
about the most healthy place over
there. l like the coast very well, only
on account of the mosquitoes and sand
flies and gnats, and the drinking water.
Port Orange consists of one hotel, one
private boarding house and two stores,
and several private dwelling houses.


Yours respectfully, DICK.
Year: 1879

Passengers in railroad trains would not
feel secure if they knew that the engineer
was color blind, and unable to distinguish
between the white light and the danger sig
nal. That many who manage locomotives
are thus imperfect of sight is asserted in the
report made to the Pennsylvania State Medi-
cal society by DR.. Keyser, who has spent
eight months in examining train employees
of railroads that center in Philadelphia. He
finds color blindness in three and half per
cent. of the whole number SO marked that
they were unable to distinguish one color
from another, while eight and a half per
cent, although able to tell colors, were un-
able to distinguish shades, and were thus
rendered incapable of performing duties re-
quired of railroad men. Two of the color
blind men had educated themselves to know
that red is a bright, intense color as distin-
guished from green, which they described as
dull. But when light green was put before
them they called it red. They explained that
the green light had at times shown red to
them, and they had stopped the trains. But
suppose thered had shown green!
Year: 1879

We puOuSu elsoWuoro IIOIu tU0 washington
correspondence of the Chicago Times, a sum
mary of the evidence given before the Wal
lace committee by Judge Mackey, of South
Carolina. He is gentleman who is known
all over the country as man Of prob
ity and honor, and his statements are, with
out question, the simple truth. It is . story
that ought to fill every citizen with shame
and apprehension shame that such OCCUR
rences could take place in a country that is
nominally free, and apprehension lest the
practice should become general and result in
the overthrow of free institutions.


There are other facts, quite as repugnant
to Republican ideas as those that are here
related, that have been brought out in the
course of the investigation, and VIC have no
doubt there were still others in reserve that
will cause the cheek of every honest citizen
to blush with shame and indignation. On
der the present laws free suffrage is a sham.
It exists only in imagination; is accorded
only to those who chose to sacrifice their
principles and vote with the party that con
trolls the supervisors and deputy marshals
and orders the troops. It is these laws that
Mr.. Hayes has determined to maintain in the
face of the expressed wish of large major
ity of the people and of Congress laws un.
der which the most outrageous indignitiee
can be and have been perpetrated in the
past. We trust the fact will be remembered


by every voter in the land till the time arrives


when the people will square accounts.
Year: 1879




ONE of the most cold -blooded murders of
the generation was that of Tullis, the public
administrator of Sacramento. His murder.
ers were hung on Thursday. One Of them
Tho man who committed the crime pas
sed off peacefully, expressing confidence in
speedy redemption, and he was ushered
into eternity by prayer and song. Is it not
about time that such prostitution of
religion ceased? Men who have committed
the gravest crimes against the moral law
are brought to believe that they jump from
the gallows into the arms of the Savior,
until it has become proverbial that the
surest route to future glory lies through the
murderer's cell and is ended by the hang
mans rope. If such religionists persist ir
promising salvation to such wretches, is il
any wonder that honest people express {
desire to avoid q place inhabited by murder
| ers?
Year: 1879

TIE intelligence is communicated by tele-
graph that the condition of affairs in Russia


has been exaggerated. 1t has been reported


that there was reign of terror-a state of
seige-in St. Petersburg, whereas there is no
such thing, but simply a state of military
law, wherein one half of the population is
set to watch the other. The distinction is
very finely drawn, yet from reports that are
deemed authentic we would rather avoid all
of these states. They are not comfortable,
and even if the correspondents have drawn
the long bow in depicting the condition OF
affairs, we prefer to give Russia wide berth
Year: 1879

A MEDICAL examination is being made at
Sacramento to determine whether or not
Dye, the murderer Of Tullis, was sane. AS
Dye is dead, his neck having been broken by
the fall he endured from the scafold, it will
be little satisfaction to him if it shall be de-
te1mined that he was insane, and therefore
not responsible for the crime he committed.