Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-12

An important international Medical
Congress is now in session at Vienna,
for the purpose of discussing vaccina-
nation the regulation of the social
evil ; quarantine, with special reference
to cholera /; sewerage and drainage of
towns; and other stated questions of
moment in sanitary science.
Gen. Babcock private Secretary to
Present Grant, with his wife sails in
the Victoria for Europe on Saturday.
Paris has 115,000 paupers, much
larger number, in proportion OF its pop
ulation, than London.
Mrs. Warren Peacocke died in Brigh-
ton, England, the other day while un-
der the influence Of chloroform at her
dentists.
It is stated that the Chinese have
been using shad liver oil for centuries as
a curative, and that it is more efficacious
than cod liver oil.
Piccolomini, although she finally re-
tired from the stage many years ago,
often sings at charitable entertainments,
and recently took part in concert
given at Sienna by the Orchestral So
ciety of that town.
A Chinese proclamation has been is
sued to prevent the drowning OF female
infants, and among the arguments used
against the practice is that the ghosts of
the slaughtered children will avenge
themselves upon the unnatural par
ents.
Dispatches from British Consuls in
various sections of France, Russia,
italy, and Germany report that the
cholera is on the increase in those coun-
tries.
A little girl named Engle, residing in
West Hoboken, near the monastery,
fell into cistern Wednesday evening
and was drowned.
The receipts of peaches are decreas-
ing rapidly only twenty-five Car loads,
or twelve thousand five hundred bask-
cts, arrived yesterday at the Pennsyl-
vania Central railroad depot, Jersey
City.
In examining pass books in the Ho-
boken Savings Bank yesterday it was
discovered that some accounts had been
closed on the books though still open
with a credit to depositors on the bank
ledger The rumored deficiencies were
thus decreased few hundred dollars.
President Clinton said last night that it
was optional with the directors to SUBJ
scribe to make good the deficiencies in
accordance with the resolutions passed
on Wednesday, and he believed that it
would be done. He added that he
should pay his share. He says that he
believes that the bank will resume as
soon as the examination is completed.
The Argonauta rowing association, of
Bergen Point, which will represent New
Jersey in the Saratoga regatta to day,
has entered the following crew f. G.
Eldreds, B. Stevenson, Morris Phillips,
e. Il. Craft, Walter Man, and Edward
Smith. The Atlantic club, of Hoboken,
has decided not to compete in the foun
cared race, but r. Lehman, one of the
members, has entered as competitor in
the single-scull race.
The board of police commissioners
request for the use Of the engine.houses
in Jersey City as places of registry and
polling places during the next campaign
has been granted by the board of fire
commissioners on condition that no
liquor shall be used on the premises,
Fire Commissioner Dean opposed the
resolution, on the ground that the re-
suit was usually demoralizing to the fire.
men.
Several hundred people in st. Louis
recently witnessed somnambulistic
circus performance by moonlight. A
car conductor, who had been to Bar
nunf's circus, leaped from his bedroom
window to roof below, turned all sorts
of snmmersaults and handsprings, went
through series of exercises on fire
alarm telegraph wire, and ended the
show by taking flying leap through
the window again. His friends found
him lying on the floor, with his hands
and feet bleeding, but he could give no
account of how it happened.