, 1860-05-08
POLICE.


MONTHLY hEfoRT FOB APR1L.-In Division No. |
!, for april, arrests as follows we're made:
Assault 2. bastardy l, burglary 4. drunk r.,
drunk and disorderiy q disorderly TO- fighting |
{, frnud 4, gambling 10, inmates Of houses Of i'll
fame IL, inmatss OF disorder1y houses u, keep.
ing disorderiy hoases 3. keeping houses Of i'll
fame 6. larceny e3, murder !, ob:.ructng side
"a!ks Il, perjury recelviug stolen property /,
selling liquor without license ea, vagrancy 20,
violation Of health ordinance 9, violation Of aray
ordinance lo-Total $50.
Pot1cz Coua1.-Aondsy's PoHce Court gave
mixed variety Of cases. Two men, named Al.
exaader Jones aud David johnson were arrest.
ed Saturday night for being drunk and fighting.
After being put into the cel1, the two pitched
into one Dunn and g1re him ouod beatrc.
and then attacked another prisoner and cut him
over the eye with knifs. ZONES. was dned SO
and johnson $50. Patrick Qoigney Was fined
$1ofor cruelty beating his wife.
+. FIRES.
FIRE or STATE SrRskr.-About ! 4. H. Oh
Sunday, fire broke out in the upper part of
the two story dwelling house, No. 1e2 State
street, owned by J. ". Waughop, and occupied
by Dr.. Byford. The upper part of the house
only Was burned, the fire taking place probably
from defect in the chimney. The furniture
WIS all removed, but was considerably damaged
in the operation. The house was damaged to
the extent Of about $3.50.
Car BrnSEp.-The Fire Department we're
called cut about a. u. yesterday, by the
burning Of an old freight car at thu Michigan
Southern Depot, which had been taken of the
trucks and used as sort Of store house. The
car was filled with tools, oil cans and cotton
waste, and it is supposed caught fire from spon-
taneous combustion.
0ccu1tntion Of 1arH by the Moon.
Editors tress ard Ts1buze:
Another of those somewhat rare phenonena.
the passage Of the Noon o7er planet. will be
visible from Chicago, clouds permitting, on the
morning Of next Thursday, May 10th, lttle
| before sunrise.
Although the time Is too early to admit Of the
event being watched by sueh q multitude as
! turned out to witness the like passage over
Venus last month, it is Jet we'll worthy of
notice in your columns, inasmu2h az it furnishes
q ready means of determining the true uhicago
! time, and Of constructing meridian line, Or
verifying those already constructed without the
| aid Of au Instrument.
The planet will appear to touch the Moons
| disk at Oh AKIN q. m, and will be completely
| hidden ut sh 45m. Afier about IS MINUTES be
re appears SID west Of her lover point al
3h 4Um 25s- The fra1 separ on is al sh 45m
| l5s, a. which time they will be lttlo cas- Of
south, and about the same altitude as the Sun
has on tho shortest day. .
| At 4h. o?n: 26s. Ma $ comes to thA meridian,
That Is, h. will be due south :just 4sm SOS. at:
ter the last contact Of his centre With the lunar
DISC II, now. beard twelve fee. long be pre-
:viously prepared, and 6xei edgesise perpeu-
dicuiarly and firmly to O. wall running north
and south, aud auother emalt projecting piece
to catch 4 shadow be also fi1ed 10 the same
wall, at distance Of about s It 5 in. nofthward
from the lower end OF the first, the elevation OF
tie star mar be marked On the smaller piece,
after the above mentioned interval. We shall
then have the place Of the suns shadow at satur
noon for .ry. day ia the year, and the shadow
wiit move 50 rapidly that the solar time may b.
determined to d second OF two. This, corrected
by the equation Of time. will gise meantime
and all at cost Of only tTo or thee feet ol
lumber.
| need scarcely say TINT at present we haye no
true time furnished Us. You will perhaps re-
member that the time computed By NE for the
last cccul.a.iou VAS III. 59m. r. H., our town
time was 7h. SEN. or ; minutes slow. The i'm.
por.apceof knowledge Of the exact time can
sea.cely be ever estimascd, and mus. be accept,
ed us my apology JOE taying tnus troubled you
1 E. tOLHERr, Astrofoger.