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Common Council.

Common Council.
BoARD or ALDERMEN, Monday, May s-(Previous-
ly crowded out Alderman Maynard In the chair
The proceedings of tho last meeting read and
approved
City Decentralization favors.e to transferring
the bank account from the Bank OF the State of New
York to the Mechanics Bank. Adopted
Efeeemh Accommodation from His Honor
the Mayor, relative To opening Eleventh street and
recommended reference Of the subject to the proper
committee.
The Board then took recess Of forty two mi uutos
- AFTER RECESS
MORRIS FRANKLIN President, in the chair.
Commnn,cdhon-t the German residents Of tho
city thanking the Mayor and commonaty of the city
Ordered file.
red the communication Of the Chief Engineer of the
Fire Department, asking that invests cation might
be made into the manner of the construction Of tho
building in Duane street, which destroyed by Are
the morning of the second Of April, at which Mr.
Kerr and Mr. targs lost their lives, declares that the
building was not put up in proper and workmsnlike
manner and the fatal occurrence did not transpirs
through any careessness the part Of those who
sacrificed by the falling of the walls Of that building
Adopted
Commnnication-From the Common Council Of
Jersey city, relative to the leasing Of the piers for tho
u'e OF the ferry boats plying between that city and
New York. Referred
Aid. PunsER presented an ordinance relative to the
Office of counsel to the corporaton the present ordi
nance now in force, being insufficient to the city
an immense tax in the Of attorneys fees and in
crcasing the salary OF that Office To $4,000 Adopted
Observation-Disclosures in favor of appointing w.
w Jones as visiting surgeon, vice DIR. Vache resigned
u. u. d.
to the Lunatc Asylum, vice Martin O. Kerr, re-
moved. Appointing H. Byrne as engineer at the Luz
matte Asylum, vice , b POI romey removed ADOPTED
the Aims House Commissioners Office stating that
they had been refused their places in that department.
and resolution offered, directing the comptroller
not to pay any money to those who now hold over.
Adopted
.appointments-R Resolution appointing Thomas b.
Lyon clerk in the Comptrollcrs Office vice Charles
Dougherty, removed to take effect the first day
| of June next Adopted. Also appointing Walter j.
ma tn ha ImaIJ opaa viz
John McGrath removed. Appointing John b. Film
der sewer clerk in the Croton Aqueduct board ut
larry Of 5000 per annum. Referred.
Resolution favorable to paying to David Valentine
the sum of $500 for the compilation of the corporation
the salary of the clerk in the Office Of Superintendent
OF public buildings and repairs from $500 to $3.50.
Adopted
Franklin Market-Resoluton appropriating 1925 for
the painting of Franklin market, Adopted
After disposing of some other papers Of minor I'm
portance, the Board adjourned sine die
Board OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN May Sinus w.
Stevens, President, in the chair.
Aims House Law Maners-Report in favor OF trans
House Department, from the Aims House Commission
err to the Corporation Attorney.
Funds o The City.-Resolution in favor OF transfer
ring the funds of the city from the Bank of the
OF New York to the Mechanics Bank. Adopted
IyresS in favor Of paying
gulating Stuyvesant Square. Carried.
Remorai and ;dpPointmsmt Resolution in favor of
removing John McGrath from the Office of temporary
yster at the Aims House, and appointing Walter X
Penny in his place.
Sewer in VAL STANDARDIZATION in favor OF xtend
ing the sewer in Wall street to Broadway. Adopted
Quarterly accounts. Accommodation from the Comp
roler enclosing the quarterly accounts between tho
Corporation and the city treasury showing balance
| in bank of $3.50. Ordered on file.
Pay Stopped-A resolution from the Board Of Al
dcrmen directing the Comptroller to pay moneys
the clerks in the Office Of the Aims House Commits
sioner Croton Aqueduct Board, who may have been
removed from Office and which may have accrued to
them for services rendered after having notified
of their removals by the clerk Of the Common Council
was cOncurred in.
Stationery for the Standardization taking from
the Comptroller authority to audit any bills that may
be hereafter created for for books blanks
Sc, for the of any of the courts Concurred in
Opening Of Lexington .4renue.-Resolutions in favor
of Immediately opening Lexington Avenue from sOth
to AID street and appointing George q. Campbell
Collector of Assessments, were also concurred in
Numerous other papers of minor Importance having
Board, Mr. Hatfield offered n resolution, rendering to
Linus w. Stevens the warmest Acknowledgements for
the able impartial and courteous manner in which be
had performed the duties President OF the Board
Assistant Aldermen for the past year The President,
in reply made few very appropriate remarks, in which
the Board for the kindness shown him during the Pc
Rod he had presided that body and that in part
ing with them, II not permitted to meet again In the
relations he trusted they would meet again where
there is no political strife.
The thanks Of the Board having been voted to Rich
ard Scott clerk, and j. s. Doane, assistant clerk ALSO
the sergeantaarms, for the efficient manner in which
they had discharged their duties, the Board adjourned
sine die.
SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED MuRDDR-Shelby
county, Kentucky, has been within few DAYS
past, the OF outrage, almost without par
ael in the history Of crime in this sinful world
physician by the name of Mitchusson, who resides in
Shelby county, has been for time the family ply
stefan of a gentleman named Guthrie citizen Of
Shelby county The wife Of Guthrie was indisposed
some time since and Mtchusson was called in. The
wife several years the junior of her husband,
though the disparity in their ages not very great
she was woman Of fine person and attractive.
Mtchusson is himself a married man, the father of a
family Of interesting children, and member Of the
Baptist church. He became enamoured with Mrs g.,
md seduced her, as she says by administering to her
the tincture of cantharides and when she became
fully sensible Of her degradation and the great wrong
she had done to her husband she was deeply dstracted
but the sin again and again repeated. 1t was
finally suggested by Mtchusson that in order place
themselves in n position to become in law, he
(Mitchusson) should rid himself of his wife nd Mrs G.
to take the life of her husband She finally
come by tho wles of her seducer nd to the
proposition Among the many arguments addressed her
by her destroyer many adduced from scripture.
A few days since Mr. Guthrie slightly indisposed
and Mtchusson called to see him The doctor
prescribed for Mr. G. There several papers mark
cd = white POWDER and yellow powder with secret
instructions to the wife how they to be admins
tered The white powder, was prepared for the pa
tent It did not look like the medicine he had taken
on former occasions. He held the spoon containing
the medicine in his hand and walked to the window
examine it; his wife followed him, and leaning his
tainted affected to faint and fell his arm
ms to throw the medicine out of the spoon. In
opening her dress to relieve her he found several other
papers of the same medicine She perfectly fran
tic The husband was COMPOUNDED for he was still
without suspicion. She, however, in spite OF her
self told everything. and in confirmation OF her
story, produced the letters of Mitchusson, address
ed to her, which filled with the most ardent
protestations of love. and with hints Of their plans
She Immediately sent of to her friends, who
people of great worth and the highest responsibility
legal gentleman came Immediately to Frankfort to
her pardon that she might be witness against
Mitcbusson and for the reason, that w. Guthrie
unwilling to the woman who had been his wife,
prosecuted for so great crime. The Governor decn
cd TO pardon her, Mt present and the gentleman
turned Immediately to Selbyville, resolved to arrest
them Meanwhile, the story had gone abroad, and
Mitchus.on decamped-and last seen near the
limits of Louisville, though his pursuers close