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I WEEKLY,* Months 1I The Partly Consumed Bones of an Infant Found in a Stove.Frldaj, Ansnist- 14, 1874.• A Dying Girl, a Dead Girl and a Dead Infant Fonnd in the House of a Midwife.em'a communication in the Hfcr.-. has elicit*d both thought anC nmunkutlon be, as was explicitly •■what the people say for anc atee’* for Corgrti| She is Arrested to Await Farther Development.German her accent does not betray it. At the station she seemed a little defiant, apparently hawing a confidence that she war not without strength for a defense-. While making over her arrest, it is said that she nttered the briet bat signifies t soliloquy thatASHIS TILL NO TALla,”and this gave the cue for subsequent horrible discoveries. Ou g viug the house anoth«took contracts, and showed great skill in eolation. Nearly forty years ago the Or-aqueduct was begun, and Law got thesearch, tbo police ^ound the body of a white infant, hidden away, probably preparatory.1 optnla hoped t[From the St. Loni. E | On horror’s head bon St. Louis has reached the ametropoiit-n. for I “Kepublii been m si »Und ' beenity of crime and graduated in the ot bio id. Tbe direful horrors ad to record in the columns of the s past six weeks barefinal disposal, the above mentioned opened tbo stove and thlt; ot partially-burned blt; aminod by the coronerof a feei, which being ■ :re declared to They vnd shebiiig, shooting.tbtiiin their number, bub-ilashing with thecarefully collected and are held for farther de velopmeut*.The white girl was still in a partially crazed state, from pain, the city hcspital for late hoar last night she is about ninoter □ year: porter was unable to lea it to say that she is known to be com with a respeclible family of this city.The bodies ot the negro girl and thei 8UU feet long and 00 feet l •as built in a neat and substantial t It will staud until overthrown b earthquake, or some other unusual po Law cleared $100,000 on the job, which the rioheat contract ever made in this Stat to that time. Ho afterward opt rated in lem stock, when it was down to $7 for si which cost $100, and in tbis he made a i bit. After tbis came the building of the uma railroad, in which he cleared a large i and his California steamships also pi very profitable. In tbis manner the to mason obtained his position smon{ atts of personal estateof age,nfant vand placed ioved to the irill be held tthough scarcely missing a day, became abso- I pacts for securing testimony hold good| lately devoid of interest and monotonous, time will alb .........j The pub.to 'appetite demanded s s’rooger I terno n.| diet. It came in the form of suicide. There j It is declared by some of those . wus a glamor of romance, too, thrown around acquainted with the cab* so far 1 tbe qualify of tbe self-sacrifice that provtd veloped that several well-to-do c attractive. The self-murders wsre done by | her power by reason of certain b j women. Poor hope-lost wretches harrying : actions which she has had wii out of the way to bs at rest-good looks, that she can secure all the peci I sooth, friends ull gone, and the gas» into tbe may dssire to conduct her defeats discovering no hope so fail of comlort | The opinion is shared byiary aid hhi iy that thii| horrible business has be, and \bat it the whole'truth be u the revelations wilt horrify the co _____. „ from-! one quick pluog into the dread hereafter,• land all then over.• I One, two, three, then fonraad another, and i» I yet another, until like the blood-boltorcd'' j A young woman who has passed as thlt; i, liauquo's line of ghosts, they threatened to , daughter of Madam Fortmeyer, and who, i i- j stretch oat to the crack of doom. We all | » supposed, Las occupied the position of as _ | know bow tbe dreaded apparitions of those | sistant, is missing, and it is very desirabli ,t I -elf-murdered sisters passed before ns, morn- j that she be ......ugh, svtiekly speaking, I am ueiAltbiwith the living ‘rather the: there is one name which I include ii reference, though the original is plablicatloa id yonr co.omns.*Hh Co'. Urn and your oorowpoo-) •bouKl, and, owing ta an accidental Cirgir*, which wav niiinndcutaa', ai learned, by bta inforiata:, be. Col. 6„ lorraapoadent cn-ieraedaing,til the horrcnted aor the IRICHMEN OF COTHAM.I Col. Io confess a knowledge cI kalerodc.seopic haze of rope sud poi: muddy impmity, and being dashed from j ------I great heights and life going out through tbe i ...... . , ,I blood, gargling up in the throat it was Who are the MillionDanes of the hombi. -lo horrible to it. ..de«i, Metropolis.that nothing could well be more so. r! Then came the murder of the girl in the ; -orchard. That was ou Wednesday, only. WHis intense activity, however, gave him a power tbat I sometimes almost expt meet him in tbe crowd of Wail street, man was John J Phelps. He died rece leaving about eight millions, chiefly ic sonal estate. Mr. Phelps was once a goods jobber, and sold enormous quun of goods to the retail dealers of Nor Pennsylvania.At tbe time the co 1 business was in i ceptiou, and he became, alter u lew y largely interested in its operation, wbicfc immensely profitable. Lands, bought one hundred dollars per acre, quickly sc ten times that price, and colossal for were thus made by the fortunate specnli Pnelps was for many years the parti Amos 11. Eno, proprietor of the Fifth A' hotel. Tee house of Eno Sc. Phelps w, most successful one Pearl street ever coi ed, without any exception.These two men, who commenced in without a dollar, built up fortunes mull* at of which is two millions. £nc erred land property, while Phelps opt n personal estate, and became vas'.l, baviindeed, fiv.» no per coral ic- j ley looked been, cr may be | leaves and bey poBdent knows,! dictmeot on t ■Bo were reared five days ago i bios from early I bioody fBlate* wi'.b tbe not in itaikinRofityet. aiiuomi, Ways of Doing Business andlays have passed since Idr -thelopy ofgedy. and laid he ) steps of the throne. Only 1 yet not forgotton in another j Strange, but then Ida is i yet She lies in her ice-boxSome Large Figures,hold-and tbei Gazette, med as soon lished, the capiid as the rate will be tthe Angarth d a* pvive uinp r * a high cenaa of ho 1 purpose, and an intetemplating with iillsts- —m n. 255,*3LWJS;•other horror ? No, not five, nor four, nor |_____,___T.days. Two dayilandedobi ashes tell» young as scarcely j the stove to burn of sight and form, ft r, asT the city i interest the npon them. 1 taxation, while property has to bear the brunt burdsn. The former, however, is folly iu proportion to the latter, even though real estate figures at $881,000,000, while tbe other iot much more than one-quarter tbatntialiy here r another life is jeopai og life is thbyiank stock .000,000, while tbi epresented in tbe capital c-f her mithatetc- tisies throw them into vfcen I “ ashes tell no talss. t. co- j perhaps, on the exprewhell,t 11 tbe talent We id Bestelles, bnt we in barrels. Our ar-be stoves where tbe improvement.box, tbeaickei.nlial evidences, becameiree-Card Monte.t something of a mg tbe police, i-pering amongCentral Pacific,ud I 1.I2U Noowed that Fortmeyer, Julia b i mid wile, and held cilice at Nc Fourteenth street Tbe profefnd thei tbo•nfidenI. As they stopped off thebr theeight ofa theiba-keiwouldd bet I from tbe pas«englt; sxpressed that t’.-e I leave them. Whil ig customers for tbeir wares they a gen ed looking individual, igaged in tosring around three steboard, and who seemed to be iep meditation. They drew nigh ad noticing his finely cut, olasri-were otrapresd with shades of y offered consolation and a Bible . Finding that there were no in sight, he good-natnrediy re-re the ladies a little game, just io the time and keep thorn quiet. He irda, and then asked them to pick , which be had previously shown y did so. once, twice, three times, ew them again, and one of the ied, “There it is; you c^n't fool did throw 'em quick “No, u ere mistaken, he replied, and it of bis pocket a ten and two ir pieces, he said, “I’ll bet yon $30obtain tbe desiihad rneedNorth Fourteenth street, but there up with bis first discour-i .no announcement that Madam had removed—the inf ruiant knew r. The keeper of a saloon on tbe in iecoraueo as to her row home, he agreed to try to i information. He was abates, when he returned and iccess. Madam Fortmeyer ived about two months ago to a hou-er some persuasicr which is the Jack.” s of thei limbic fingers. And theiind eyed those gold pi r much good they would ao title the possessor, apparently,worth. Watching for ooenf, tbe reckless young ma I, 1 don't care, tieeing its you ; I'i t I'll do, seeing you ure eo -or 11 bet you this fitty dollars again? of books—hallo, damme, tbty’r .verything goes as it lays-joJack.i than ever that be ‘was a bold, 1 man, and they determined torventeentu street, bet-iu and klorgan street Thauks lor so m ind away to the locality mentioned, lere no one knew where the midwife lived, ibe had probably occupied a bouse there, bnt .be had moved. Here was discouragement lumber two. The reporter, not yet thwarted, d-ited a neighboring saloon—the headqaar-rrs of gos-ip—but TOUld the saloon keeper rofeshional's whereabouts, know this, probably be didv.. j l j__sbants. Add to tbis such property os ships, itoamboats, railroads, g-s compam.s, and iimilsr)valau and you w ill rapidly reach a sum r immense proportions. There are c itocks and blt; ndB held in this city to imounl exceeding $30,000,000.UAEGEHT PROPKIKTOB.if holder ol personal estate in thiscily is Coi mated at $40,000,000, the which is in railway prop, enough in the Connecticut ItiHe owmalso owns the controlling interest in the C. trul, Hudson, and Lake Shore, besides 1 s’ockQin Ohio Mississippi and othei portan.It was said of George Peabody almost the entire bulk of hi 1th after his fiftieth yeicommodor ot his men in tbe last I supposeade ofth. i, for be has made the largest par :y since he was sixty—that is, withEno retained all hir purchases in this li. why one did beThe reaso: other may 1his is often the result lt;.ion. Those who beg.roubled with the slow details of bous lands. Real estate is like forces shut i ighold, while personal propertysoldietbe field. There is moi ise of tbe latter, but there i mere efficiency ii properly handled.CONSTITUTIONAL L-IPFKIUiNCH.There is a constitutional difference be such men as Commodore Vnnderbil William B. Astor, wlrch is shown b; aptitude io:,cb. Astorlandtenants. He simply holds mows nothing of the bold mi i.usiuess. His life, compared v .peculator, is mere vegetation.i the appiicWall stree • he fiuam marchiugad enormoiaghta:olossalixtent of bben the wor brok. millions. Tne ei lilroad vaopera'j bro-reaseso stupendot ____1 stories of oriental magic, whenthe stock of the Central was watered it added at least an additional ten millions to his capital. His incomeffrom the different lines and r his control must be six millions per year. He has tbe cream of the paesenger traffi he obtains by firming the sleeping-pany. This company is f imply the com dore, Webster, Wagner, uud a lew o lucky men, who obtained the privileg.The only instam al estate is comb'.n vast possession of A. T. Stewart. H these shapes of weI equally ugh iu ewhichdlecting theii railroad track and the motive-i all exDense of switch-tenders, dshed free to this :le, which simply provides a sleeping cor and collects about $50 per trip. A ht j sleeping-car should make $15,000 per yea:-vored ci agents.Well, if he did know whether a woman had been injured killed or had died under suspioii tbathands of a midwife neighborhood of late. No, he did not. But stop! it was reported on the streets during the morning that two or three women had been poisoned or something recently at a uouso ou Morgan, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. Perseverance rewarded ! Where was the house. aDd what time did the lost poisoning case occur ? The hoaao was near a plauing-mill, on the north side of tbe street, and a woman had died there Saturday night. Tbis proved to tbe reporter that he was at last in a fair way to learn tbe strange secret, and he proceeded to the house ind: i i ui7 :______id tbe company which tbe commodoi trols runs not less than one hundred. With respect to tbe commodore's personal estate, it may he estimated as equal to that of a scoreASTOB'S riGCBER.Next to the commodore is Willi r. His chief wealth is in real estate, while -f the oommodore is personal; butAstorrated at five millions oi tbe latter and ten times that amount in the former. Th men are about of an age, having reached f. score, and their lives hare been spent simply in making money. There is a difference personal appearance correspondingtheir lorm of wealth. ________and elegantly hnilt, while Astor is pondetoui a*.d heavy, with a face as dull as the commodore’s is brilliant. The one is mere clay while. The one other is qaicksilver. Ai mount of Massachusetts bonds, bank share? ,nd also coal stock. His proprietcited. No. 181 ten teot ii by paper.ip, and. withcard hern seiz as tnrnedTheir naturally long faces at cast.sd a longer and eiked at tbetbe basketsard.theMMW,Thealked off with his plunder, and be-Lims comprehended the situation red from right.n*l is soon told. The winner roagb the train and distributed among the passengers. Rcver-ophies are now on exbibitiot'□e-story bouse of ab ind has giaas doors backed tins only three small rooms, behind the other. It was closed and deserted. The man living mxt door knew that a colored or mulatto woman had died there on Saturday night, but, like all the other neighbors thus far interviewed, he knew nothing of the circumstances of her death. A colored lady across the street, however, know considerable about tbe matter, and tbe r-porUr immediately proceeded to see her. He fonnd her sitting on her door-step, and she expressed a willingness to tell all she knew, which, with some additional information gained elsewhere is contained in the statement here given. She,bad a joung friend, '-** ' 1 ibout eighteen yearsWhat became of the womankirdon Gordon’s end was not lack-aatic point When the detectives he seemed caltu and s-cIf-posse?s- d r it was another kidnapping affair, mured that it war not, and hearing ibe would no over an and regolarity ylt; the arrest, he conM do u, help her L ha should not ha talran I., 'uge, named Leu imato for four ye lt;by domestic la! iploy of a Mr*. Barnet). house on fOlive, n*-ar Fourteenth street. Lona was unmarried, but through tbe irailtyt Miller. They bad beei irs; Lena earned her liv-recently was in thlt; who keeps a boardtbe Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. (which is our chief coal corporation), is bo large thi his son, John Jackson, has been made a d rector. Astor is now said to be accumulating personal property very rapid y. He buys laud on account of its extraordinary b price, and as the income of tbe estate is ab *3.000.000 a year, there is a flue chance laying np money.MOSIS TAYLOB.) This man is estimated as holding ab four millions iu personal property, the largest part of which is in coal stock. Taylor i about seventy, and commenced poor, but h is one of the keenest business men in America In real penetration be stands next to Vander bilL His father was s life-1 ng clerk for John Jacob Astor, who found him very useful in his land office, bnt only paid him a small salary. It may seem -trange that a yo man reared in a real estate offioe should have devoted himself to tbis specialty,which curses too many of her sox, sbo becam' euciente, snd on Friday night last she came to tbe bouse of informant complaining of ill-natter over with her .nd finally said tbat sheHbe talked tbehad heard tbat Midai wife acroas tbe w«y, wapersons in her conditicand ishould not be taken throng! a also aaked the privilege of ilothes for heavier ones, and •ed for tbat purpose.Fortmi an adept in relieving i, and she believed what the msdime d gave LenaHer■he foot of his bed, pretending Scotch cap, when he seized a declaring “I will not go a stopH.hIriU neriea.weli-to do parents living on tt icollonJ. In 1869 be became I Marshal Jk Co., jewellers of EdiLondon lawyeisdvauced him sums amouuliug in to. The London jewellers, belicv-be the friend of the Dake of Ham-:e Marquis of Hasting, as be said. I to the extent of 150,000. Subse-noblemen mentioned oa inqairydared that they knew of ____I that was the end ol Gordon’s ca-tat Bntian, and he embarked foim cap be re of Amerioa.Alsace and Lorraine 48,833 young id the age for military service, but presented themselves to the auOninformant and asked her ifa have fits. She replied, laid that she seemed to be thing of that nature, and She passedno. The mid wifi suffering with soc io formant went o through a front room o iog machine, aod one lt;i hence info the second midwife's bed aud tr through into the back-ling a table, other articles ; , containing the.hlt;t* lounge-, iwhite girl, evidently ot -*r foy her friend Lena, trnly suffering spa-ms Oa being asked what she had given Lem, the midwife said that she tud only giv-powders, to m*ke her sleep. Af-ndvfiiLena shonld get ,io come over for her. Between twelve and one o'clock at night, the midwife called her, and oo going over, she found Lena dead.— The midwife made no statement as to tbe cause of death. The white girl aliU 1st on ibe_otber lounge, evidently In great sufferingYesterday morning tbe sudden death of Lena, and the atranganeaa of her surroundings, awakened suspicion on the part of tbe police and ooroner that all waa not right, andth;lt;h was not the result I think tb. bitious Moses became tired of meat of houses and lands, and wanted some-IhiDSpng this am narkable degr iverythingtion be has succeeded tlt; and he has been fortnnal he undertook. He was tne finest look well os the most gifted business man of his day, and has been as forlUDnte as he is goodlooking.Thirty years ago there was a report that ht intended to retire on a fortune of $500,080, but be was of too active a habit to do this, and hence he accepted the presidency of tht City Bank. Since then he has made more money than ever before, by street operation*.ks bard snd hopes, to reach a competency, but as yet finds him self unsatisfied. As a mao ol wealth he boldi but little real estate, but prefers back shares gas stock and coal stock, and what he h«ldislocks is another io enoe, for while iu perhaps only hisholds a millionof the sime prlt; real estate he o nvenno mansion personal property.'ifthowns the Dry Dock bank, and also the larg part of tbe Eighth avenue horse railroad.—The siock of tbis road is never found in_____ket, and it is worth twice its original cost. -He is estimated at two millions. Twenty-flyears ago Goorge was a prominent native American party, and some of hk friends thrust him forward as a candidate for tbe presideiMT, under the title of “ Live Oak George. He then owned several ships,which he has sioce sold. Of late he has fallen out of notice. He was at that time a greater man in publle estimate than the oommodore, bat Mnce then the latter has utUrly distancedisll degree dueThis la Ii _ „tbs physical difference between tbem.-Law waa a huge fallow, of greet muscle, but lime bes ehanged him into obese nod els may eorpulenee. Hsnss hisch. Iu poigoods establUhmlt; he Me'ropoliton hot rian church. Add to in Amity street, nowitate he has twlt; s on Broad wa; ud the former e the Baptist iwed aBleecker street .venae palace, persoithe Depea.11, his hich cost $1,000,01 is hi* stock in capital and bills receivable, which be $10,000,000, aud aiso a large quae bank stock. In this manner Stewart b classes of property. He Inis c irely from Vandirbilt in this point.has invested dock, while the fu urm of property ibos eschewing affinity am to trade and t his eatato cantof business chai . H s partner, Mr. Libby, i rt the great mere! work till the last, and indei ise as strong as possible) ho desit ury last day of bis life, to do a dsy’iHaving made may now add abated (be voluis yearllllllate within the city and couLty is a as I have said, $881,000,000, and p $272,000,000, mAkiug the h.n lonut of eleven hundred and firt nearly tbneeddefinite figures at tl on'.ion. Of the sun nil require at least $8,the cwh with which taxatiou slt; reasury, and then to issno bonds xpenseH of the municipal goverComplaint is now made tb it Twec.l requires a change from bis place of muot. I have no doubt of this, aud il said that there are thousands her health would be also improved by a I see no reason on this score for nl penalty which is in itselfhard labor; locked up at night each in his cell, wl chief of other robbers has u parlor, Iu food, cigars, and the newspapers, a nothing to do but to see bis friends his health would improve under the nystom of prison diet, to which he is iburdensome taxation.r tbeirr Wo:r Who FkiGood.—Ain the Observer preaches a pastoral to in which occurs the following passaf judicious pastors dicourage fatuiliu the part of tbeir people, especially ofile denomination. For this danger. A silly woman, pious very soft snd shallow, hears the of her eloquent pastor, }is rot soothed, (Xbalted— she thinks si railway she goes to his studj ijoymeul sinirds;sbihrfor her; how she 'is lifted up’ by his tions; bow she loves him as a friend t be her guide snd comfort, and so ou, ou, morejand worse, running into a n sen li mental i i y, s sickening man-worst: gutting to every sensible peison, b nectar to a vain, worldly preacher wb only to moke his hearers ‘feel good.’'Portland. Ma, bu an Msooiation publication and dissemination of I borg's writings.
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Fri, Aug 14, 1874
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