New-York tribune., 1867-03-26

VIOLATION OF THE Boat LAw.-Yestelday after
noon Capt Heatta1L sergt Kelly OF the Harbor Police
arrested John Lynch. Wm. Payne, and Martin Bowen,
sailor runners and boarding keepers for violation
OF the boat law in cg on board the ship Constellation,
Just arrived IRON 'o' Ihey "eie di Iocheu up III
| the First Ward statlorilouse
DEATH FROM INTENrERANCE.-On the evening Of
the 18th inst. Mary Kelly, native OF Ireland, aged 80
years. was found by the Fourteenth Precinct Police lying
intoxicated in the hallway Of No. 132 MOtst. She was
taken TO the StatioHOuse and placed in cell. In the
morning she found TO be still in helpless condition.
and was taken 10 Bellevue Hospital where she subse
duently died Yesterday Coroner Wildey held inquest
and verdict OF death from tenperance was rendered
MEETING or SERGEANTs OF POMCE.-At an ad-
iorned meeting of Police sergeants at Military Hall, last
evening, emphatic objection made TO the passage bv
the Legislature OF an amended Police law cOntoi Tho
following clause: " Any officer Of the slctropolitan
Police may be charged with incapa - or onv o,ber of
fensc against the law rules o. reG5tlons and ON the
charge being proved to c satisfaction Of the Board he
h,I ~ Inc e yu'sent and order OF said Board be re-
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COMMENCEMENT OF MALE GRAMMAR SCHOOL Nos
The graduating exercises Of this school, situated In
Grand.st, near Wooster Chas W. Lord Principal, took
place yesterday morning in the presence OF all the Trus
tees, Matthias Clark cs9 presiding. Certificates OF
g. Is. endrckson teacher. the class having averaged
" ,s cent de re % r1g ya % M 20 sScr hnT
ing obtained e6S cent and the latter 96 cent The
prizes appropriately presented by John r. Russell
esq., and the charge to the graduates gwen by e1COm
missioner Walter Adams, In few earnest, sensible, and
wel-timed remarks Mcssrs John Aitken, r and David
Walker, Trustees, delivered addresses highly compliment
AIRY TO teachers aud pupils.
THE FIRES FOR SIX MONTHS ENDING Nov. 80,
ls66,-The report Of FireMarshal Baker for the six
months ending the 3Oth of November last states that
tie IL years ending May 80 1866, there Il persons
indicted and tried for arson, OF whom 10 were acquitted
and So convicted lncendiarsm spoken OF as an epl-
demc so uniform In its action that the burning OF prem
ses employed in any particular line OF business Is almost
certain to be followed by like disaster in other buildings
used for Ike purposes. The proportion OF ncendaIy
fires TO the whole number Of fires Is put at about l5 per
cent. The aggregate losses by fires during the hnlfyeM
ending Nov 80 were s2a2529, upon which there was an
insurance OF s5,S2 95l. The deaths by fire were l2
being caused by keroseneamp explosions, by clothes
/ taking fire from stoves, aud by other causes
! CoNIIEMORATIoN CANEs.-There are now on exhi-
bton at Brown &spauldiDgs No 56s Broadway, four e
egant made from the wood Of the tree under which
Grant and Pembert0n arranged the rhe suren
der Of VicksbuTg the morning OF July 8, 1863. The
wood live oak and IN these canes Is highly polished
Yle heads age Vi gold ReaEiY pgnn ape daP delicatey