New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-25
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THE CITY.
The XXth Assembly District Republicans held
| q FeutOn meeting last night.
Major Oatman's Fifth-ave Skating Pond is to
! be opened today with fine sheet OF ice.
Five per cent free dividend by the National
| Shoe and Leather Bank on the I'd of January
| A dead infant was found, yesterday IN sta
| bic ward in West Nineteenthst, near Tentha'e
Social tea-meeting in the AlansOn-s'. NJ f.
| Church in Norfolk 81, this evening.
The William II. Mansfield Battalion visit
Landmarks Park to-day on a target excursion.
Evenings Uptown" are to te rendered still
happier tomorrow evening, by De CordoYa, IN Lyme
Hall
THE WEEKLY and SEm-WEEKY TRIBgHE
will contain fun reports Of yesterdays transactions OF The
| American Institute Farmers Club.
Five young men who are to be assigned to
charges IN the NewYork Diocese were ordained 10 'ne
priesthood the Roman Catholic Seminary ID ITO! on
! Saturday.
In the Hedding Methodist Episcopal Church,
seventoenthst concert is 10 be given IN the evening
for the benefit OF the avenue u Methodist EphcOpa
| Mission Sa0bathschooL
James Browns bowels were cut out in a
drunken fight in Thompsons, near Spring, between ~
and o'clock TINS morning several peiSonS "''' ~
| rested.
Several hundred people, both men and women,
gathered in the vicinity Of TRINITY Church at mldhlgn eA
The sPhynx.
David Griffin of Sing Sing brakeman on the
Hudeon River Railroad was crushed, Yesterday between
ousiy injured.
Our teleeraphers will dance in the New York
Assembly Rooms the 2ith ofnext month The light
ming aRators cOnspinng make theirs the hhest
I ball of the
In st. Philips Church Fair at No. 3Oj Null.
beyst Master Richard Iredven, an amateur artist OF
The rRIBUNEs force, exhibits me sheet OF chOgiaphy
| and pen-drawing
| Revenue Inspector Boyle reports the seizure
Of Of tobacco because OF presumed fraud on
the revenue. The metropolitan Board OF Revenue mas
ordered the release Of Jose Sanger's establishment
| At the Excise Trials yesterday, II complaints
for violation Of the sunday clause OF the kHglse law
after midnight, and one f0T selling Liquor TO minors
| Treasurer Manierre of the Board of Excise
reports that from April TO Dec he received Sl2sodlI 30
from license fees and that the 9Th inst G3s2 licenses
were in force The Board added 10 10 the number yeseT
! day
| The Police boat Metropolitan, commanded by
Capt HART, hauled the schooner John s Watson, com
Inanded nv Can't Hnfel from a ledge Of rocks in the
East River OF forty hfti-st Oh Monday where she had
! grounded.
Mr.. John :. Masterson contractor for cutting
Seventy -hihst through. viii experiment on Thursday
morning with new invention in powder. The new *
plosiye, while more effective than ordinary gunpoWder
| Is less dangerous than IiTogycerlne.
An adrot thief cut the strap. yesterday, from
trunk belonging 20 Mr George j. MeDO Of Boston a.
aud Neseyss Oh the way 70 the Boston boat The hlef
walked OF with the trunk without being discovered
The Institute of Reward for Orphans of
Patriots Invite delegates from the Temperance societies
Cooper Institute on Saturday eSinc mako arrange
meats ios The celeeFsilg- a Dungeons BftHddy;,
! A branch Of the Anal amated Society of Car
No POI Bowey aud officers elected as f6lows; g.
J. Taylor, Presidents Jonn Ferguson SECRETARY John
White, Treasurer, and Thomas Price, Check Steward
! in the school building attached to the Church
Of The Immaculate Conception IN FOurteenthst., this
evening, FAIR is to be opened Tor the beneht OF the
/ Christian brothers aud sistors OF Charity
! Dr.. Charles +. Taylor of the Newly DIRK Or
thopedc Institution. las received nom Paris medal
which was awarded Linn for anew apparatus intended 10
| lateral curvature of the spine.
! Mr.. Walter Meyers Of No. 81 Perry-st., poul-
try dealer. owner of StaHds Nos. q aud 90 spungft
Market while riding the rear platform o an Eighth
ave ear In Hudsonst iast evening had his pautoons
/ pocket cut, and wallet taken thcFcifom containing
! Michael Nagle of No IS Harison-st., quar-
relied last evening al No M,ssopscc with Frederick
! hatchet infictmga severe wound Robert Hauon
/ Of Nagle's compaJohs was cdt urVn the hesd. Nasc
1 wa arrested
! For some time past James Mccoy and wife
Finy.nrstst North River Last evening. while going on
SaesS dIagnS s .5 Seiiao pS nd woman was
/ drowned.
Nayor Hoffman has addressed q letter 20 Guy
A PcOn PreIdcuI Of the Road ~ Comm sslOuCr- Zoe
repairing broadway a'kng WY The woif Is sulc pdSdi
how long the CONTRACTOR ~, allowed iui The completion
city against loss' Whether N Comn,aon hhs power TO
terminate the contracts
The Board of Councimcn cOncuucd ycstcr-
day with the Board - Aldermen in directing tlc street
Contractor 10 clean the crobi walks Of the cy. de-
fault to whistle for his ay resolution to pas no Pres
/ dent Of the Aldermen sc, for extra services 20 was
laid over The motion 10 pave several streets Will the
/ Nicoson pavement wa- indefinitely postponed
/ Policeman GTtce heard the cries Of q man
struggling of Pier so - Nrih River early yesterday
| morning Sunmoniug a-si{nuce, the officer took the
man now unconscious nom Tie water and bore him TO
in9 Police s ,s H. IN i -S.. %G w Is ~ = G
| Bnn 81 Prlng.c * ONcil painters, al No. Hoytst,
Broohlygl - e.'..l --
DcieStte Officers Bennett and Tillcy have
ayesJed hcymer y iancIeron thG charge ct roenns
- Early 81 september last Bancker went out u town.
ard did MO- rclun aIq ~ -este9 It W, a;g' TeiIe9
states 1910 bonds diamond'faucg 40 k4o. aud 500 IN
treasury n2tce me gi"nmgs la9 been broken rom ~
their plict The 200 procured boy the accused on
the day which be dsappe.red
! BROOKLYN.-Thepub schools were closed
yesterday for holiday week
The Christmas Festival Of the South COngc-
pational sabbathschoo take place tomorrow evening
Patrick Colns's house, in Thirty sxith-st.,
near Fourthave, damaged by nte, yesterday after
noon, TO the extent OF about Goo No insurance.
The members of tie Ffth-ave Congregational
Church made their pastor the Rev. ~ H. Mcfarland,
present Monday evening Of $40 and very paiAIabie
supper
Considerable excitement is manifested in po-
/
February next In the Board Of city AssessCfe Mayor
Booth claims the right Of appointing the candidates but
his opponents say u should he left 10 the Incoming Mayor
The nominees require twOthrd vote Of the City super
In reply to the censtwe passed 10y the Cor
oncr's jury iD the 81 Mr. Kcmpston's DEATH the
Union Ferry Company say that the City Government Of
New York viii not give them room for the erection Of
gates. This say the Brooklyn newspapers, Is u most
tTifug excuse any carpenter could show tlem Ia few
minutes how 10 went The recurrence Of such acct
dent ~ that which happened 10 Mr.. KenIpston.
In ha ipa
examination proved that Ms Fall and her daughter died
Of poison. but by whom administered has not been salts
factOrily explained. No thorough examination Of the
stOmachs Of the mother and daughtor made the
chemists Of Brooklyn had not adequate means at hand