New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-10
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THE CITY.

evening, 10 the arulory' o-ooo -,o,
Tho Astor Library contains $4,000 volumes,
600 of which were added last year.
Dr lamps Crane of Brooklyn was elected,
Yesterday President Of the Board OF Health
An infant was found, yesterday, in the bury
ing-cround In East Elcventhst., near fIrStaVe'
The Board of Aldermen will soon attempt TO
protect the whom the Mayor may license
Mr.. Joseph B. Taylor, prominent KepnDll-
If this civ living dangerously i'll at his residence
Cotborine Gibbons. aged "a years. committed
suicide 10y hanging from staircase VI NO l'i West A"o
tiethst e,
A Fair is to be held in this city next April
I'm aid OF the families Of soldiers ana siorS WHO Io III
defense Of the Union
About one thousand applicants daily sue for
relief at The hands OF tile Commissioners Of Charities ana
Correction, ut No. B0ud-st'
Two male infants, aged respectively, three ,e
and eight weeks were ON "Wednesday evening louhu III
the of No. Is East Four'eenth-st.
The new Board of COuncilmen have appointed
George Byrno First Assistant C9rH, john b "''
senger, aud Patrick Reid, Assistant messenger
The American Photo-LithOgraph Company
has opened Business Ohce IN TINS Guy at Room 10
Herald Building, corner OF Broadway and Ann-st'
Major Oatman's prize match for gold media,
to he awarded to the senilewoman who tnaii De au
the best skater has been postponed 10 tomorrow ale
noon. -
Coroner keenan, held an inquest at No 800
East Teutlst., the body OF Marx HAAS hgeu n.y. ~,
months who found dead yesterday mOrnihE III HIS
cradle.
Vandenhoff will read selections from Shake
speare aud Dickens in DOdworth Hail. on the evenings ot
January -. l6 and II. Boz read ny Dickens, ahu ny
Vaudenh0n, will give opportunity iOr comparisons
The Rev. James Robinson Campbell, gradu-
ate Of Williams College, has been appointed IIicf
IN the Ncwhqrk INSTITUTION NJ lor 'dg thc drsed mis-
sonary, the Rev James II. Campbell.
Manhattan Lodge, No. GO, f. and A. NJ, has
elected officers as follows Charles j. Harts4oI9' Master
William L Iiarishorn S. "; John C. Boak !. w George
H. Tobias, Treasurer W. l. N9Gdrul, secretary iI""A
S. Winchester, s. D.; Moses G. Nanzcr j. ID.
David Malone, an Irish stone mason, aged 40
years residing in Melrose while at work in the area OF
new building in Observation-Disclosures ighthst yes,
terday was struck on the head 10y iainS uean lie uou
while on the way TO Bellevue Hospital.
Cards have been prepared for the police sta
tons wherein any Pel9H r heednS @ ~ may m
to the extent Of anordng facilities OF this KIND the police
stations are TO Dc made undergraduates.
A new and wel-exccuted counterfeit 81 note,
the National Union Bank OF klnderhook Is ~ crcnla
ton here. The engraving the counterfeit Is coarser
than in its prototype AID the word President is small
in the counterfeit that ii 10 hardly pcrceptb!c.
An inquest was held 10y Coroner Schirmer in
sxty-ninthst Broadway, over the body OF Eliza
beth Grci, aged nine years. ON Tuesday last, while
the way TO school she stopped at the residence OF COM
pauion and assisted her Ia dressing, and while she was
thus engaged yentured too hot stove aud her
clothing took fire.
The second annual ball of the Dry Goods
Clerks Early Closing Association took place nc Irving
Hall last evening The attendance not large. bat
those present danced Is II truly enjoying themselves
very chaste and elegant The music was excellent
and the dancing kept up TO late hour IA the morn
Ing.
The old Board of COmcilmcn will not meet
until next Monday afternoon. Meantime, however II IS
understood that the Board viii injunction
least until the Courts shall decide they have right 10 do
A. neither the Mayor or the Board Of Aldermen have
recognized the new Board s OF course impossible Tor
them 10 transact any business.
Miss Lily Lane Of No. Corneast. called at
Warous drug store m 'ktrf ycrtei dn! nhd pnF
she took the entire dose and "as iolhd soon aciwatd
UNCONSCIOUS. She wa taken 90 Police Headquarters
where emetios were administered by Police surgeons
POolcr and Wutcfnan aud having been relieved, she
taken 10 Bellevue Hospital
Emma Post, or Williams, hired horse and
light wagon M Mr. j. v Fefguson's livery stable. ~
found her and ascertiud that she had sold the property
to John Ryan, bartender. employed In dram shop al
Chatham and Oliycrsts. Tie property was recovered
from various persons 90 WHOM Ryan had sold DO aud both
he and the gin taken back yesterday 10 Wostcheser
County for TRIAL.
A handsome brick building is nearly finished
near the new Roman Catholic orphan Asylum at the IN.
terseCtOn Of Ffty and fourthaye u II about
80 feet square and % feet gh aud 30 feet from the Or
phan Asylum, Of winch 10 j. intended 10 be the wash
house Tho clothes 40 tho rate Of 100 pieces per minute
10 be washed by steam. aud taken from building
TO the other through tunnel two feet wide and three
feet high. The Asylum itself Is finished, and Is 10 be
cupied by the giris OF the Prncest Institution.
At the last meeting of the Dental Associa-
ton the subject Of the extraction the sHyear molars
moving these teeth was recommended but Dr. W. VI.
Atkinson opposed the ysien the consequence az any
Tine llor 10 thc caihcoh 81 inc crowns OF inc thrd
year inollr wisdom tooth would BE- tho maf0rmatlOn
OF the jaw Of the child The e0neaion Of the jaw f. pre-
vented 10 me extent ~ the space LETT by the removed
tooth. II Lie wcre under any circumstance constrained
Ia extract the sixyear moar, he would insert Iuro
or the same hlzc OF tue TOOTH 80 as To allow tic natural
formation 20 80 Oh undsturbcd.
The Internal Revenue Collectors Of the Ne
tr0potan District with tho exception Of Collector cal
lahan and Bailey met yesterday afternoon IN Cedar e.
10 consult Will Deputy Commissioner larand in refer
10 the right OF one Collector to make seizures outside
his district At this meeting resolved TO request
tho DstrictAttorncys not 10 commence action against
yOiatOr Of the Revenue laws without notifying The Col
lect0T in whose district the Oense shah have been
united. Commissioner Ilarand has requested he Asses-
s0rs o. the metropolitan District 10 meet him tomorrow
at ii o'clock a m.
Mr. Berpb appeared before the Police Com
missi0ners complainant against fatolman William
Cook Of the Broadway Police FOR refusing 10 arrest
driver who had been guilty of hrutaly treating his horse
shown that the horse fc and that when lao fell
Thomas COrigaD, the driver stabbed him In the mouth
and beat him severely though he had raw sore on his
back. The policeman said IN defense that when hh at
tentOn called he spoke 10 COrgan aud that person
order of his master officer Dock added that II ho ala
arrest the driver DE took his and number be-
fore he let hun sO Mr. McCevey the owner OF the hore,
cOrrOborated his driver testimony. Acquitted.
Pound drowned is oftcner seen on the po-
lice records We plunge deeper INTO this dismal Winter
mothers make way with their Offspring rather than
them starve. Drowning is they say. easier death
than wasting away ofhungerand cold and when this
idea gets possession OF them II works In their brain until
il drives them mad and in this dririum they fling their
river No more hunRcrng after that. Babe and mother
both relieved the one OF suffering the other Of
burden" The sunday Times, this seIfhamc subject,
says that children are flung away Ia the Of New
York like cgar-stumps.
Everybody remembers the story of the Bos-
ton lawyer, who, while all Boston going mad upon
tho advent Of Charles Dickens wanted 10 know "who
tins Dickens was anyhaOw." This might be pardonabe
In lawyer, who Is not expected To know anything but
would seem impossblc II not objectionable Impossible
10 Is not, little incident at the Academy Of Music
Wednesday evening VIII prove. A lady and gentleman
occupied balcony seats at the singing OF The Bohemian
Girl" and between the second aud third he endea
vored To Lessen the tediu Of the long delay by relating
10 hs fair friend how much pleasure he had derived from
Of Mr. Dckcnss Readings. But the lady inquired in the
most innocent manner imaginable. "Is Mr. Dickens such
q great writer indecdl" WHAT! said the gentleman
with CONSERVATION his face, "dd hear OF
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