, 1872-11-10
THE CITY IN BRIEF,

The Illinois State Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton will meet at No. 400 Michigan avanue, next
Tuesday, at pm.
The official canvass OF the election returns is
expected to commence on Monday, in the County
Clerks Office
The play of sCaste" will be performed at
Standard Hall, on Friday evening next, 18th
inst, for the benefit OF the Woman's Hospital OF
the State of Illinois,
OF Physicians and Surgeons, at the Orphan Asy-
lum, Michigan avenue, near TTenty-second
street, on Tuesday evening next. DR.. Bartlett
will read piper On '' ''Placenta Praeira.'
Persons wishing to employ cashiers, seopyists,
sewing women and houeeEoupers WILL md It to
RAN Of tho Christian Union, Room 10, No. 81
Ra4dolph street, from $3.50 q. m. until noon.
The fourth of series Of SIX organ recitals
will be given this afternoon at the Third Unitar-
ian Church. The programme is one that cannot
fail to give general satisfaction. The admission
is Is cents, the proceeds to be devoted to the
church.
During the past month there were laid in this
city 81 4471 feet Of sidewalk, OF which 1855 feet
mainder plank. During the month Of Septem-
ber the aggregate amount laid was IS, 406 feet,
OF which 2,529 were of stone,
Emily Faithful, the English philanthropist
and orator. will lecture on Tuesday evening in
the Union Park Congregational Church. All
who have known OF her devoted efforts in be-
half Of her fellow coqntrywomen, will be glad
Of the opportunity to hear her speak on "The
Toi1ing Masses Of England"
The eight OF nine field pieces on Wells street,
between Lake and Randolph streets, we're the
subjects Of much curious speculation They
we're put to Some use yesterday in firing sa-
1utes. The Impression got abroad during the
firing that wel-kuown Clergyman Was enfo1c-
ing the Sunday ordinance.
The new engines, recently placed in position
at The Water Works, will be formally tested by
the Board Of Public Works and Engineer Ches-
borough next Wednesday. They have already
been partially tried, and worked smoothly and
satisfactorily. The pumping capacity OF the two
engines is sc, 900 900 gallons day-as much IS
the three other engines can jointly supply,
Dr., Ransom Dexter, of the University Of Chi
from an extended trip through the country,
embracing the principal Eastern cities. The
object of the former gentleman was to visit the
universities, scientific societiss, and museums of
the older cities. He vas much impressed with
Harvard University, the Harvard and Boston
museum OF New York City,
Ths first lecture of the Star course since the
advent OF the horse disease Will be by '.Petro-
leum 2. Nasby," whose geographical produc-
tions must be familiar to nearly every one. He
will lecture on Monday evening, at the Michigan
Avenue Baptist Church. Those whose distance
from town has abridged their amusements dur
ing the past week will find consolation in the
proximity OF this Church.
At the Stock Yards paper ie being circulated,
and extensively signed, requesting the Lake
Shore d Michigan Southern Road to continue
their accommodation trains between that suburb
and the city, It is claimed that while the num-
ber Of people whose business and curiosity calls
them to the yards, has nearly quadrupled within
the past six years, tile faciIfies for getting to
and from have not been materially Increased
This accommodations now afforded by the Pitts
burgh d. Fort Wayne dummy, and the City Rail-
way horse cars, are inadequate.