New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-02-12
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before the Board Of Excise.
The Young Mems Christian Association held
rece pton last evening, at the rooms, No l6i ftn'e'
II will be continued this evening.
The Rev. Henry Ward Bcecher is to deliver
new lecture In AID of the Masonic School ana AS! u"
Fund ia Pixies Opera House. on Thursday evening
James Lawson, Is years of age. fell deae,
yesterday morning III Jackson, near southst Ihe pou'
was conveyed 20 hs late residence No CT Jacksonst
The Rev. w. p. Yeaman is this evening to
be installed pastor Of the Bloomngdae Baptist ohuion
m Forty -sec0nd-st between Seventh and EiShthaNes
Catbarine Brady, aged II, employed rs DO
nestle In the family Of VIM. Merritt In Third De
tween Eiehty-sxth and Eghty-seventh-sts, died SUI
denly yesterday morning.
No steamer will leave New-YOrk for Bremen
on Thursday Feb ~, but the regular weekly trips VIII
be resumed Feb "a. which day the Deutschland WI"
sail for southampton aud Bremen
The closing ball of the Seereiter Club is 70
Of the inst These parties are very select and uoh
sold by members Of the Club only.
Mrs. Mary Dixon Jones, NJ D., commences Ins .,s,
a Course OF lectures Physiology, Health, ana Ds
eases Of Women and Children this afternoon in 81, AIMS
Episcopal Church. Eighteenth-st., near FiftllaVe.
A Homeopathic Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany is to be IN IL VIII maze Up
boneopathically and its rate of charges va" DO Oh 'he
Homeopathic principle. q,
The friends of the Rev. John s.. lnsklp anu
wife met nj his residence No. 81 Greenest on Mohday
evening and in testimony Of their regard @
the Greene-st. M. L. Church.
A very charming little chop was given at the
Metropolitan Hotel last evening, under the personal
supervision of the MesSrs Leland The eniertainmeLt
quite select, and gave universal Satisfaction lLeso
soirees are a weekly feature 81 the hotel
The rivers, both East and North, were filed
with floating yesterday, and the passage OF The ferry
Sc carried away by the ce aud the ferry boat
Gerard stuyvesant had her Iudder carried away
The largest and heaviest leather belt ever
Helm Zimmerman Tho belt In question is AZ inches III
width. feet long, and weighs 1900 pounds aud the cost
OF It will exceed 1900 is composed OF duplicate layers
leather, making thickness OF three-quarers Of ah
inch.
Margaret Welsh, the courtezan. convicted
last December the Court Of Sessions of the murder ~
policeman McChesncy, and sentenced 10 imrrisoninent
for life, has applied through Eer counsel to ne supreme
Court for writ OF renew the proceedings on her
trial The exceptions will be argued at the General Term
i'm April next.
On Friday evening n meeting to ratify the
action OF the syracuse Convention ON the 9Th init Is to
lac held In Cooper Institute under tie auspices Of tho
Fenton Central Campaign club. MiJni.te Joln ~ Lo-
gan Gov Marcus h. Ward, the Hon. g. IT, Van Wyek'thc
Hon. Chauncey VI. Dcpcw. and other well gentle
men are expected To be- present.
Michael Rogers and Michael McCabc were ar
rested M the act Of breaking into tho premises OF Mrs
OReiy No $50 West Forty secondst The old lady Dad
short time before received ~ gold rom hst sou a
California, and u u supposed that tne toopeiS na
this fact and intended 10 obtain tho money Yesterday
Justice Connolly committed both men for examination
Mayor Hoffman has approved resolution
adopted by both branches OF inc Common Counel re-
Lresci Rcrstry law tnat citizens this State engaged
IN Layns The seas ami eCg S ~ y vac o erc
On day on ing proof Their absence Was occaSoou
by said businessI
The meeting of the American Institute Farm
ers club well attended yesterday. burberry hedges
waterpipes-lcad iron, aud clay. raising back,walnnt
timber from the seed and the DETERMINATION OF cater
pillars were discussed new NHshll1 i'' ~
specimen OF maple candy and cheap mineral l~ins, ana
also dish-wasling machine were e&hbit.d. run re
ports OF the proceedings viii appear In HE MEELLf aud
eEMIWEEkLr TRIBUNE.
Coroner Schirmcr was notified yesterday to
take The antemorc deposition Of jacob htlner now
wounded man states that, u few days sLct, When near
the Lutheran Cenciey IN long lnu ne cut NV ,mi
them, sIatching the knife from ls Dahn stabbed MN ~
the side, causing wound from winch Helnef VIII PROB
ably die. No arrests have yet bcCu made
james King, aged ~ years, residing with his
parents az No 5io WRIT Twenty IT,, was On hi
day lnst, over ia i1fiy .nlnst hear s.Aiih'e 10y =
broker, residing IN Thirty sryenth-st Mr. Abel ana
two other ladies' were n the sleigh. which was driven by
u coored cOachman. Coroner keelan ON SUNDAY com
Tie testimony thus far taken was very contradictory
Ghc will be continued to-day.
The festival of the Fifth-ave Skating-Pond,
yesterday afternoon aud evening, under ho adScts ol
and aualtty of attendance, and proved substantial
complimentary testimonial 20 the proprietor Mr. II.
Mitchell Flags banners. blazing barrels, calcium !grs'
rockets Roman. candc- and fine band ~ music Werc
brought into rcquisiton, aud these together WIN su-
pfor order VI skating, made the brilliant and eA
Llaraimg.
The New York and New Haven RnilrQgd
seem 10 take tlc lead in railroad improvements. The
company is now making extensive cAreT,ueLts IN new
inventions, giving promise 81 snc' Tue dePots nay
been Improved steel Rats have teen lad down and
iargi humber contracted for. Bakers carhcatvr ha-
been adopted the compartment cars Are now In use.
and eTpHsa A S sqf TO S lave IeSn % @GSped
and the company manifest Discrimination TO provide for
tie safety and comfort OF the tiaVelitE p@.-.
Yesterday morning the steam boiler in tho
fatrende1ing establishment Of Michael Donohue No Gls
por, blowing ont the entire Of the building three
story structure, causing the roof 10 cave ~ ana scatter
ing the large quantity OF Fat In the establishment FOR
distance Of toO foct. The damage 10 the building
amounts to at least 5000 the side walls being some
what shattered IN addition 10 the other damage men
toned Although the engineer wac Standing near tho
boiler at the time Of The explosion, ho received no injury
The 81 the explosion has not yet been asccfano
Citv-Supcrintendent Randall is on tour Of
and review OF the several Pabic schools ~ the
city During The past week the schools ot the FIRST,
Third and Tonh Wards we're visited by him accom- pa
MED by the Commissioners and Inspectors OF the First
srcon1 and sixth Wnrl schools will Do visited IN tho
course o tho present week and the schools of the Filth
Grrt Of he Iioari Of Tdueion Mr foesc and Mr. Nil
Ter Suerirtrndent OF school Budlngs accompany the
City suI crinieLdent Ia these visits.
Ordinances have been adopted by both
branches Of the Common Council and ne same are IN the
hands Of Mayor Hoffman for his approval Tor paying mo
following streets Win the Nicholson pavement twenty
seyentlst, from fifth 90 sixtlrares Washingonace.
from broadway 10 University place; Murray st. nom
Broadway 10 Mesist Twenty fourtlst. from Broadway
SiNtLaVc.; Twenty frsts, from FIRST 10 Madison
ave; Thir,y-thrd-st. nom Ffth TO sXhaves.; William
81, here not already paved With Belgian pavement;
Nlnt-st from Broadway to Slxthaye; FIunkhn-t g.,
from Eln-st To West Broadway; Exclange-placc. fum
road to lanoyorsts Mlrkrihcld-s from whitehall To
roadst, and he entiIo length of Great Jones ST. The
Mayor has decided 10 retain these Papers TIL the end of
the week Ia order 70 give property owners aud others
who may be opposed to tic Improvement an opportunity
TO be- heard
The report Of the NeW-YOrk Association for
Improving tie Condition OF the Poor shows that during
the Of January the number ~ the needy classes
greater than In the responding ono Of any year
save January, 1855 Great IL the present destuOn,
Association fears II will become greater, tho
month ~ February Is always found to be tie most trying
the poor Compared with the past Winter. there mas
been. up the present Time decrease Of Sji1l In s
receipts. This fact finds explanation IN the existing
business depression. wlch not only causes increased
want be relieved hut contracts OF the
Of that relief. In addition iris cause the Association
las not been favored usual with special donations