New-York tribune., 1872-03-12
NFW-YORK CITY.

elected member Of the Law Institute yesterday.
The opening of Lent IN the Greek Church
was celebrated yesterday by Imposing services at the
chapel in Second-ave
The Meriden Cutlery Company has received
an order for several gross Of Hard Rubber Handle Table
Knives. TO be sent 10 otrtilh, Iruasla
A fair is TO be held in the 22d Regiment
Armory about April l2 to raise funds for an Accident
Hospital" erected On Twenty thrdt near Third
ave. under the auspices OF Tho NewhoIk Homeopathic
Medical College.
Alfred Speer of Passaic Village, n. j., has
invented "traveling sidewalk" which. il Is claimed.
will convey passengers from 10 to Il miles per nour AZ
of only five cents trip IT is proposed TO apply
to the relief OF Broadway.
Petitions reGuesting the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher TO give public expression TO his views concern
ing the advisabliiy Of opening the Mercantile Library
OF Sundays may he signed at THE 1IBuNE office and The
bookstores OF d. e. FrahciS' In As'oi-P'ce' ana a
Lloyd, No. 72g Broadway.
An importer of Swiss watches, from whom
Henry p Elias purchased portion of his stock, assured
TRIBUNE reporter yesterday that the watches thus sold
were OF far quality being worth less than g. He
knew however that Elias had bought elsewhere large
quantities of very watches, and also that these
resOld by Elias As Geneva watches, while III rcabi!
they we're manufactured eiscWhcft'
The French papers state that several lists
now in circulation purporng To he hss Of subscriptions
10 fund for the payment OF the French war indem
nitv have elnanated from irresponsible and unknown
ersons and II is further announced that the authorized
snbecriptjon list Of the French Ladies' Committee
he obtained from Mime La Montague, No. so West Fit
t~oHthst and from NJ. Folly Bavoillot No. s2s BroaG-
WAY. The French subscriptions III thS city thds lar
amount TO s9,2SG b.
Collector Grinncll refused TO grant clearance
papers 10 the brig Julia Perry because the duties were
not paid on the goods brought into this port in thai
sell although the goods IN question were in bonded
warehouse Mark shaw paid The duties under protest
and then brought suit 10 recover the amount Judge
Woodruff decided yesterday that the action OF the Col
lectOr ID refusing allow the vessel 10 clear before pay
meut OF the duties was Illegal, but ueld That shaw
should have made payment 10 the Secretary OF the
Treasury before bringing the suit lie therefore gave
Judgment for the defendant.
The Board of Audit has been delayed in ITS
action on number OF claims through the negligence or
ignorance Of the persons presenting them The Ia"
creating the Board OF Audit requires that general
statement OF the nature OF each claim. other than fog
salaries or wages, shall he read before the Board al
least fye days before final action This requirement has
overlooked III many instances and schedules com
prnc the names of the claimants and the amounts Of
The claims been iled with the Controller unacc0
I ParEs rrssenied S schedule Feb ~ and Forwarded
vouchers ON the 7h of March. The Department Of PuO-
lie Instruction handed ia It's schedule Feb TO- but de
yed necessary vouchers until March All persons
entitled aud awaiting paynent OF their claims under
tbc p-lay j. attributable 10 thcnnseivc,.
GROOKLYN.
There were 104 cases Of smallpox last week,
All increase of twentysjN oycrthe prcyi0us week. Forty
proved fatal
Ground has been broken at MadisOn-st. and
church Tor the reformed COHCft.
cation, OF which the Rev. Dr. Carroll - pastor
4 horse and pig, owned by Mr.. Cody, the
city undcrtnlor died yesterday from hydfophobia,
having hocI hitrn 10y a mad dog a few week. ago.
LONG ISLAND
Lose Island CiTY.-All efforts 60 recover the
body of Taylor. who Is alleged 10 have been nr-
dcred. have proved uDavailIDe The river has been
dredged. without success
HichsvIllr.-Porions Of the Long Island Railroad
N<Al&t IA a.
HUDSON RIVER COUNTIES.
MoeKIsANIA.-Thc Republicans have nomi-
nai,d George TcasdSle. and The Reform Associations
Joinst WOODS. fOI Supervisor.
STATEN ISLAND.
PoRT RICHMOND. - Edward MckenRa was
committed to e County Js, yesi.ray ior letting fire
to hi. house.
NrW-JERSEY.
JERSEY CITY.-Patrjck Kelly. age VI. fcD be-
tween the ~ d the Ire Itailw ny at
Bergen rdnDei, yesterday, and killed The Police
Commissioners acquitted Capt Parker OF tho Fourth
Precinct latt evening th& charge OF releasing prs
oner named Lawrence upon the payment Of h bribe.
NEWLhh.--Wiiliam Snyder and william Daniels were
arrested ye.trdsy for breaking into the stoe Of Lucy
ms county lia,ic Asylum has awarded Gould
"nr 1.ons ons w.r whose
or July a. has been discharged from jail . John Bate.
of burglars who have committed depredaons at4, IN
the Eit sDd Thirteenth Wards were hretied las even
my They are alleged "a have fire 10 several huId
iugs IN the city, including the Sixth Warc phli, S,hool
an Booklet 8ye No. wss found lying ~ sd beside cofr
which he lad procured icI panper at the Aim, hc,s,
Timothy HsIiOn and John halnion were fLruwn from
wagon M8fIHtst.. Yesterday, and seriousy injured
80 Edwih h. smith, nf No 2is Eiin-st badly buried
yesterday ny goI cppiDpa saturated With sInInOnIa
v hieh bad been placed ia all oven 10 dry.
DUrDEG.-TLe C0iOBeJs JuIy IA the ease ~ John
fIatwIu ks0 ~ the fall Of a emban Al nlt ut
or the Midland Railroad base eBdoreG diet crnsui
ing tb' Company for hot ha vLg the porerly
.af,hed
EnrlawOor<- Frouk Fsar.,. = G'rIaU, oi6d ear.y
y1tridao tom Il1 entctr 81 received Oh the
EUpl u RLiiiG.SI Or fJidGy.