New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-08
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THE CITY.

| clerk for the new Board OF CounclImen.
Members of the Active Mutual, and Union
| Clubs are talking Of a game OF baseball on ice.
Fire Marshal Baker reports ~ fires in De-
cember last, sl772 loss, and $54I9Oo insurance.
| Mr.. Bergh offers $50 reward for the cOnvic-
ton Of any bped brute guilty Of cruelty TO animals
Good board for women, at 50 % o week, in
| the NewYork Workingwomen's Home, 40 Elizabethst.
The Aldermen have appointed Francis }.
Twomey deputy clerk and Isaac Drake nrst assistant
Charles Baugh of No. 1j1 Attorney-st., fell
from the third story OF building In Mottst, near
| Canal and was killed.
Applications to the President of Columbia
College for Latin pr0fessOrsp may De sent III uhl te
first Monday in March.
The Rev. s. H. Tying, ir., is to be tried in the
basement OF ST. Peters Church In TWentieths' INC i
| to begin on Friday morning.
The Cooper Union Free Lectures are to be
delivered by Prof Charles g. Stone on Wednesday even
| mgs, commencing tonight
A reetifying establishment was seized yeste r,
day at No 2GO Elizabethst, also T. etepOenSS Pi"0 "
No. 2SS West Twenty-seVenth-st'
The Excise Board granted ca licenses yester,
day. and listened 10 - eompa d SnaTs ON sunday
Warden Brennan has received at the Morgue
a body supposed to be that of Mr. r. H. Brotherhah oi
| Yonkcrs run over on the Hudson Kiver kallroau'
| The latest appointment in the New DIRK
CustomHouse is of citizen OF Bridgeport. citizen OF
NeWIaven recently the recipient OF similar fhyor
In the Third Reformed Presbyterian Church,
last evening the Rev DIT Butler OF Chelsea Mass drew
a vivid picture Of the Sepoy Rebellion as witnessed by
himself.
The police have been notified that thief
has recently collected money OF poor tanineS IN the
landlords agent.
An unknown man leaped from down train
OF the Hudson River Railroad at Forty secondt yester-
day morning. and two OF the cars passed over his body
Taken To the Morgue.
The great billiard match between John Nc
Dewitt the champion of America and WiInan Goldthwa,t
evening Play begins at u y. Ill.
The subject of the Rev. DR.. Northrup's lecture,
last evening before the Western Division Of the y H.
descriptive OF buildings and street scenes
The old Board of Councmen have appointed
William H. Moloney deputy clerk, Jacob Roome second
members Of the new Board have taken the oath.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Field of Elizabeth
were severely injured b. the upsettng OF Their wagon
lsonsquare The police took them to No 57 Monroe-st
Having removed the venerable David 7. Val
enne from the clerkshlp OF the Common Council the
Aldermen have completed their work by decapatng his
SON Augustus Valentine, and making Mr. j. Bartlett City
Librarian.
Prof Charles Short, of Columbia College, in
ter da gy yd Ha his subject
being THE Transmission OF the New Testament from
Ancient TO Modern Timer
The NOTrrick Bulletin says that n secret order
has been instituted in this city known The brOther
hood Of the BatE Crook, cd that its rites aud ceremo
MES ludcrous and obscene tan were those
OF the defunct sons OF Malta
Mayor Hoffman has approved the ordinance
for paving Pemlst., from Wall 10 Hanover, Brdgest
Liberty st. keeio5s ana N , wh Se9l,Gn pave pave
pavement in Washngton-piaee, IwentyfourtlFst, and
Courtaudtst.
Sixty baskets of wine, said To be imitation
"P. b. were seized yesterday 10y MIR Lows, special
agent from Washington, az stephen K0chcrs store NO
507 Broomest Kocher claims that hc has not mauufac
tured imitation wines sincQ the passage VI inc law OF 1860
taxing the article.
Oatman's medal, to be given to the best skater
pond this afternoon is gold chaplet and with
gold skate raised the and gold ball attached 10
scroll inscribed. THE ball is up" The medal which Is
from the hands Of Mossrs. Ball. Black Co, cost go.
Mr. j. ID. Peabody, of GAINESVILLE who was at
the ST. Nicholas Hotel yesterday. H. the ouly surviving
brother Of George Peabody tho millionaire. lie VIII at
tend tho dedication to-day, Of the Memorial Church,
which his brother gave the town OF Georgetown, Mass
Whittier has written memorial hymn Ion The occasion.
Coroner Flynn took the ante-mortem depo-
beaten on the night u jan ip Hosb9eh. salooI &c No
Cannonstiek, Adam, ktzenger, Chas. Harold, Wilhelm
Chrstman, and Henry Pau- and verdict against these
men has been rendered.
Inspector George W. Dilks is President Of
the Police Department Homestead Association. The re
sociatee have bought tract OF land In spring Valley. In
FOR the same iDstaHents OF $40 per month, until each
the "A members shall have paid $3.50 one Of The 9s
contains house valued AT SV, ana this - 70 DC inieu
among the members.
Mr.. James w. Gerard conversed Uhe gentle
man styles ms addresses, Conversations y 10 IA inter
quaes In the chapel the Church Of the Holy Trinity
three hundred volcanoes were said 10 6e IN operation
today and the earth was represented 10 DC an sone part
ever trembling under an earthquake
Yesterdays meeting of the American Insti-
tute Farmers Club largely attended and much inter
orchards in the East 5 Edwards Todds paper on Farm
Buildings" was applauded. a cottonp planter aud cult
yaor combined, exhibited, ne were apples that are
sweet on one side aud the other Full reports IN
THE SEsI and WEEKLY TRIBUNE
The portico at the entrance to Delmonico's,
I'm South William ST. formed the entrance TO one Ol the
arstocratic residences OF tue CITY OF Pompe destroyed
IN the year 10 IL discovered Ia that city by the uncle
York, placed lie yard attached 10 the restaurant
where remained until after the great hro IN 1880, Whc
IT was placed III its present position
At meeting Of the Photographic Section Of
the American Institute, last evening, PrO Joy Of Coiul
ba College presiding. number OF nneIy finished Amen
pictures exhibited Much interest IL naniiesed
Ia these pictures as they are similar those phoOg ped
by Solomon Of Paris who received the prize medal a the
Pas Exposition, and hose pictures exhibited last
evening for members OF the socey TO compare with the
American pictures.
Gov. Fenton has ordered that the system of
adopted for the use OF the National Guard state
Tho United States Army Examining Board also re-
served with credit and distinction duri. War.
Gen. slancocks stan, and his system oi seises Is
warmly recommended BY tho prominent G.Aci"s Of the
army.
Hah-yah- ta-pee OF Japan, visited the City Hall
yesterday morning with his company OF performers aud
address rendered in ornate English, made his Honor the
recipient OF enormous and deliberately ornamental
japanese sword. One OF the younger members Of the
company loaded the Mayor down with fans. and IN
turn Honor gave the troupe his Photograph aud aper
NIT 10 inspect the American works VI AIT III the Gov
errors Room.
A lecture entitled "GiIlhoOd in the United
States" delivered in the Church OF the Holy Trinity
evening by the Rev DR.. C. NJ. Butler Tho lecturer
sketched the system Of female education popular In
America pointing OF Its defects and the
i'll consequences to which they lead, and gave some
ceent council TO mothers ana daughters Oh the means Of
remedying these defects and avoiding the evils. The
laof,tr and
tive audience, which frequently testified Ito approval
The local revenue officers haveldisagreed up