, 1872-11-30
THE CITY IN BRIEF,

Personal.
Colonel Ircton. General Adju3ter Of the Pho
| nix Insurance Company, Of Hartford, Conn,
was i'll the city yesterday.
jack Frost has been in the city for several
days, visiting everybody. He lives mostly on:
I doors.
R. ". Miller and wife, Grand Haven; Brad
| ford Allen, St. Louis; E. T. Troop, New York
Z. D. Smith, Fl. B. Smith, and Miss Ward, Gar
rrettsville; Charles N. Stevens, Boston; J. I.
Freeman, Cleveland; J. E. Foster Montreal
". II. Keen, Baltimore; and Joseph Davis,
| Lynn Mass, arc at the Gardner House.
The following gentlemen arc guests at tho
| Sherman House: DR.. A. E. McCandlerJ, Pitts
| burgh; ". II. Givin, California; p. z. Du-
! Chnillu, the discoverer Of the gorilla; Hon. A.
| Hon. P. Sawyer, Wisconsin R. 0. Adams,
Omaha G. L. Becker, St. Paul, Mimi; !. D.
Mcneil, Nebraska; G. Eloth, Kansas, and G.
O. Stevens, Boston.
The following arrivals were registered at the
fremont House yesterday: A. N. Shippey,
Delaware Hon: G. Weed, Bloomington; Hon.
Y. Bushnell, Ottawa; Hon. e. G. Wright, Iowa {;
T. E. Sickles. General superintendent Of the
Union Pacific Railroad Hon. J. T. Wilson,
Iowa; DR.. ". A. Burleigh and wife, Dakota !;
E. R. Fowler, California.
At the Briggs House, yesterday, the following
names wore registered: B. Rafferty,, Pittsburgh; !;
O. A. Osborne. Lafayette; James Hoffman, Min
Lald, New York L. ., Miller, New York; J. B.
Dallas, Pittsburgh; Charles Rodd, Brooklyn; D.
G. Whitney, Stockton, CAL; 81. G, Ranney, New
York:. =. e. Chapin, Colorado; Hon. J. Y.
Bailey, Plymouth, Ind; and s. s. Magin, Iowa.
Everything.
The County Clerk issued twenty-five marriage
licenses yesterday
DR.. William F. Thomas, the missionary physi-
clat of New York, is in this city visiting lis rel
atiyes.
Henry Hof, driver of Hose Cart No. 6, tender
ed his resignation to the Board Of Police, yes
terday, and it was accepted,
Tho Library and Debating Club of tho Chi
cago Christian Union will meet at the Union
Rooms, 1853 Michigan avenue, on Monday even
ing next.
The Thanksgiving offering Of Plymouth
Church, amounting to S123. .GS. was disfrihTted
as follows: Old Ladies' Home, S59. Ga. the nnor
OF the church, SIS; Clinton Street Mission, ESQ.
In Justice Vantwoud's court yesterday. the
proceedings Instituted by Jacob w. Tripp against
a,sesd n L. ate. r. Keade andJ D. Adney vcro dis
fully acquitted md discharged. o
The Dramatic Glass Of the Christian 11n;oo vi1,
meet tins evening at the West Side room Eo.
zG5 adIson street. The exercise viii ha iJs,a
Merchant Of Venice" and the instructor Mrs.
Anna Cowall. o"01 '11o
Cnarles bremer and Henry Welsh. attached tn |
Engine NO. 3, were before the Board Of po1ce
yesterday, charged with disorderIy conduct They,
days pay each. "eAo Anea A'e
The attempt to g,1a over the in,moaost o,,,;
6iton given in the Academy Of Music nn Th,ra pan
day night,. by calling it sdrama.i;co on anuls
aoe oecelVcd neither the public nor thal dpa-
matte profession It waa an ins,,1t ~ =, sA1 tI uia
Of the former and to lha reanect aI;tE
Of tile latter. espeess'on1ty
The Academy Of Music will require the fnmi-
cation OF many good actions on tie part of tho |
manager: before the public can be assured that
The evil odor Of SO disgraceful an affair as
Thursday nights masquerade ball" has been
entirely dissipatad. ,tsIhe scent Of tha roses
will hang around it still" 00
Colonel Lonckx, said to have been at one time
) teacher cf fencing in this city, died on Monday
asst, IN the New Haven, Conn.,, Poor House, where
1e was taken BY q policeman, who found him on the
streets in an inebriated condition. He showed
'igns of having seen better days, and gave eyi-
lence Of education and refinement.
very striking trade feature is to be presented
o-nlght in grand simultaneous "opening " by
en- or dozen Leading retail firms on Wabash
venue: q sight worth seeing after nightfall,
ihen eaeh OF the respective promises will be