New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07
HOME NEVIS.
THE CITY.

| The charge for board at the WOrkngwomen's
Home, including washing, Is 50 % per week
The u. s. Fire Insurance Company, Will pay
semi-annual dividend of per cent, free, to-day
| little son of Mr.. Pierre Flick of Sixty
seventh-st fell on hot stove, and was fatally burned
Prof. Charles Short of Columbia College will
lecture in the Free Church OF st. Matthias TINS evening
Frederic S. Cozzens esq, on " Fitz-Greene
Haleck," this evening, before the New-fork Historical
Society.
Petitions in bankruptcy were filed Yesterday
by Maurice Levi George Wood and Owen H. Kelly, all of
! this city.
A laborer fell from the third story of the Park
Bank yesterday and was killed The body awaits lueh
tihcaton in the Morgue.
"Girlhood in the United States" is the sub
G. NJ. Buffers lecture i'll the Church OF the
Holy Trinity this evening.
Congressman Radford of the Xth District
lost his gold watch in Third ave- car last evening Inc
| pickpockets escaped, as usual
At the last meeting of the Faculty of Union
College resolutions Of respect to the memory OF the late
| Professor Gillespie were adopted.
The New-York Typographical Society will
| Friday evening. Jan. II, at No. Chambersst.
After a series of trials, extending through a
year. examination Of all the breeeh loading arms yet
| its reconiDe ndation Of the Remington gun
| Patrick Grennan late policeman, who shot
and seriously wounded Peter Besseman at tlrsaye ana
IIousio-st was held bail yesterday In $1,000 by Coro
Flynn Grennan is confined IN the IonDs Oh various
| charges OF assault
| n correspondent suggests Illc
safety aud greater comfort Of warming the railroad cars
with steam from the locomotive thus gaining uniform
distribution Of heat and greater safety from overturned
| stOees In case Of accident.
Mrs. Chevalier's Life for the Hair, we are
reliably informed il the best article OF the kind in the
market. Mrs c. is lady OF intelligence and good
| valuable remedy TO the favor of the public.
At the Roman Catholic Church of st. Francis
Navel sacred was y Wen last evening TOR tine
de Paul Tonight secular concert s TO be given for the
object In the large hall Of the College OF b. Francis
Xavier.
4 An inquest was held yesterday by Coroner
ROln at No II staDtonst, on the body OF Benz H. Nc
STaI who sGmGd S sSGae on s%d ty roo Of M
| parents residence lie was native vi Philadelphia
| aged % years
Yesterday afternoon as a young man in the
employ Of Nv A. Wilton, OF No. 10 Broad-st, was eay
ing his employers Office with bank book CONTAINING 500
gold coupons and 800 In currency IN his hand un
known thief threw pepper IN mis- eyes seized the book aud
the money and disappeared.
ID has been announced that the delegates of
the Grand Ay 90 ,as Forbes for ne oe Of
QuariermasterGencral OF the state We are Informed
that Col Geo. H. Hopper received y votes for the noIn
nation. while Capt. Forbes had but 40.
| Simon PERTH, by representing himself az
Doanccy.st tradesman, obtained ftom Mr. j. Henry
sold them Tor less than their value, and then went
uTope lie returned last evening and Detective oeer
! A Union PRAYER Meeting, under the direction
Of The Evangelical Alliance, is 10 be held this evening n
81. Pauls Methodist Episcopal Church Fonrtaye and
suiphcn, T. @. Andrews, II. ID. Ganse, II. b Smith, and
| VIM. Adams, are 10 take part In the exercises.
! The German Branch of the NewYOrk Young
Mems Christian Association opened free unchroom FOR
the poor, at No. 90 Ludow-s, on Christmas Day, and
lave since given to The hungry more than 1000 meals
table undertaking, which they intend to continue.
| The ice was splendid" yesterday, and from
morning unt ugh' pun e crod o
aud rendered skating almost an impossbity Oamans
ice was never better and his accommodations are unsur
passed Mtchelrs Ffthaye. pond was well patronized
The exhibition at the National Academy of
Design VIII receive new interest TINS winter rom the
addition Of all the American pictures that we're sent from
ths country 10 the Paris Exposition The OF the
pictures have instructed Mr. Derby 10 deliver them TO the
Council OF the Academy and all are to be on exhibition
| the 9th INST.
| The live stock trade is moderately active,
favorable weather and fun supply of cattle aud
swine remain unchanged Cattle went OF slowly, with
sso head at the National Yards on Monday Inc con
aud mutton taking the lead IN point OF economy
| The following changes are announced in the
| Police Department: Resigned, Patrolmen Mortimer
Twenty seventh; Henry Harrison Forty third; Andrew
McCarrck Nineteenth WIN. =. Thomas. Seventeenth !;
rick Greenan Seventeenth Dismissed, Thos j. Collier
Second, and Martin Parkinson, Twenty-nnth
The celebration of the usual services of
sixthaye last evening was specially directed TO the
cause OF domestic missions. Bishops Clarkson of Ne
opportunities which offered by the rapidly growing
neghborhoods OF the far West for the successful and re-
munerave prosecution OF missionary labors both among
the rapidly increasing settlers. aud among the Indian
tribes OF those States collection taken for the
| furtherance Of this work
From the opening of the Castle Garden Labor
Exchange the 10th OF November TO Jan 81 the mum
the orders Of employers for emgrant labor numbered
7g3 the number Of persons employed was l622 Nearly
90 per cent OF all immigrants enpioyed were mechanics
and skilled laborers and large proportion on employers
orders from distant States The orders for aborers
@ S o hs Ear s%snadn ' s OF e dC[
pected that when the Labor Exchange becomes better
known this dlsproporuon may be materially reduced.
Mr. Alfred Erbc superintendent of the Labor Exchange,
THAI majority of the orders from employers In the
country come from readers OF THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE,
who have seen the Emigration COMMISSIONER advertise
ment therein
| Coroner Schirmer commenced an inquest, yes
erday the body OF Charles Jacob Schee the First
butcher who on Saturday evening last, stabbed
and mortally wounded by John Kelly. James Frederick
ing IN front OF scheers shop Kelly was intoxicated; Kelly
and scheer commenced scuiile In the store and Kelly
thrown; lie and walked away, and then scheer
exclaimed that he had been stabbed sergeant Huchn-
Of the Eighteenth Ward Police detailed the murdered
mans conversation with him at the hospital He
that John Kelly was the man who stabbed him. I'M
Kelys abode IN Ffteenhst near Avenue b. but he was
not there nor has he been seen since III that vicinity
mony was irrelevant The Jury rendered a verdict
against Kelly and the Coroner then issued his warrant
for the arrest OF the accused scheer native Of Hun
gary aged 81 years. and is said to have been quiet inof
fensIye man.
The annual meeting of the Eastern Dispen-
sary Association held last evening The Rev. DR. r.
RRlston Smith Secretary OF the American Bible Society,
In the chair The annual report showed that 1924
persons received medical attendance during 1861 OF this
number 601s treated at their homes The patients
Of foreign birth 3,747 native 1880 Number Of
children attended, 1908; vaccinations i277 senl TO
hospital, s77; deaths, l3s resolution adopted re-
quesng the trustees TO procure better site for the dis
pensaTy An election for Board OF Trustees for 1868
resulted in the choice Of the following named gentlemen
James Bishop, John II Butcher, AIanson 4 Briggs,
Robert NJ Dewitt, Charles Collins, William 7. Coolidge,
Robert r. Crosby, James w. Cromwell, William Dennis
toup, Charles Grien, Peter Hoe Richard NJ Hoe. Rob
ert Hoe, JOHN w. {. Ieveridge James w. Lyon Jared
Macy Ioaia Macy fardH naee Raw.