, 1873-10-09
THE CITY IN BRIEF.

nees purposes is COOS foot Of which 8,so2 are Of
TIE CITY IN BRIEF.
Tho annual banquet of tho Chicago Merchants
Exchange will be given at the Grand Pacific Ho-
tel tomorrow evening.
There will DO special meeting Of tho Mau-
ngers Of tho Half- Orphan Asylum this morning
at 1011 o'clock, In Room No, l, Clarendon Hotel.
4 convention Of tho delegates of tho pooplo
interested In tho building Of the Chicago d
South Atlantic Railroad will DO hold this after
noon at O'Clock, ut tho olub-room Of Potter
Palmer'B Hotel.
j. II. Reyolds, Prest.," announces \ " Poo
ple's Reunion" this evening at No. 199 Lasa}io
street. He says: "Tho poor and working
classes will not DO ignored. and all nro respect
fully invited"
1t d regular communication Of Chicago
Lodge No. 407, A. F. and a. H., tho sum Of $152
WAS donated Tor the rolicf Of thoir sufTering
brethren in Memphis and Shreveport.
A Law-and-ordor meeting Of the citizens Of
tho Eighteenth Ward will be hold this evening at
the ac6ool-houBe, No. 10l Bremen street. The
Hon. A. L. Morrison aud others will address tue
meeting.
A sociable and reunion will be held this eyon~
ing at the st. Paul's III. E. Church, corner Of
Maxwell street and Newberry avenue. Refresh
ments will be furnished for all who desiro them.
Tho Christian Union Lycoum meote as usual
tonight, at i o'clock, In Union Hall, No. ia
Madison street. All are invited to attend and
sec what no know about tho "Ba!ary- Grab"
for a purse Of 9400, to bo played at Indianapolis
this evening, botwoen George Slosson, Of this
city and Jaoob schaffor OF the former place,
will DO announced by kilograms at Foley'R.
The ladies OF the Union Park Congregational
Church are giving series Of lunches at No. 172
Madison street, fow doors west Of LaSallo
atroet. All persons wanting good dinuor arc
invited to tako notice.
Tho eighth annual reunion of tho Seventeenth
Regimcnt Illinois Volunteer Infantry will ba
held at Galva on the 21st inst. general at
tendance Of the surviving members OF tho rogl-
ment is expected.
Tho main Post Oilioo, and also the Wost Dt-
vision Station, will cloBo at noon to-day. Mails
for tho early afternoon trains will close at noon.
The avonine mails will closo at tho usual hour.
Carriers will make tho morning deliveries only.
Danyon yesterday morning for breaking both
tho u o'clock and the Sunday ordinances.
Charles Ryanhamor WAS one OF tho number WHO
DO not l,e1ievo in " "si1ty-day men," He received
O 42u leaBO1.
A match game Of baseball for the champion
ship Of the city will 10 played this afternoon on
the Twenty third street grounds by tho Franklin
and Liberty Clubs. An admission fec Of 25 conte
will be charged.
Tuesday evening last, Hrs. Mottie Chase
Waughop gave g SOLICIT reading at Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church, unlor the auspices
Of the Ladies' Aid Society Of the church. h1rs.
Waughop read with exquisite taste aud feeling,
aud with great originality.
The Bwisa Mmnnorchor Of Chicago give their
first evening entertainment this Bcason in Or
pheus Hall, uoxt Sunday. Aa excalleut pro-
granme has been prepared, and fine music and
singing may confidently be expected.
Tho Board Of Public Works yoaterday let tho
contract for heating apparatus for the First Pro-
cinct Station to Crane Bros. Manufacturing
Company for $4,000. They also decided to
tunnel.
Tho fair and festival for the benefit Of St.
Columbkill's Church opened at the Wost Side
Rink last evening, and will continue for twelve
nights. AID. Dixon and Mr. Sawyer will con-
tend. IN voting way, for prize Of q gold
watch aud chain, the winner Of which will he
declared the most popular OF the two.
Ali aciontiac gentlemen in the city, wishing to
Azoio rocks Of Western North Carolina, can
havo an opportunity OF doing 30 by calling at the
Office OF Messrs. A. Vail i Son, No. 125 Dear
born atroot. whore Prof: Smith, Of North Caro-
lna has them on exhibition. They will bo open
until tho evoning Of tho 9th.
The sohoonor Truman Moss, which was sunk
day before ycstorday by running into the south
pier, has boen raised aud towed to the Central
Dock by tho tug g. W. Wood. Sho will be
pumped out Immediately, and hopes are enter-
taiaod that ahe WIS not as severely damaged ga
uaa at tirHt supposed.
Mayor Bond and the Board Of Guardians OF
tho bridewell hold tue regular quarterly meoting
Mr.. A: q. Garfield, the present contractor,
desired Ito make contract for the seryces Of
fifty mon and fifty women, tobe selected by him.
for work In tho ahop. Ho desired to have things
90 much his own way that tho Doard rejected
his proposition.
The Third National oponed yesterday MORN
Ing, pursuant to NOTICE, and kept on the peace
tho amount Of business which had accumu.
latol tlloro was a stoaty stream Of
people in tho bank, but nothing which rcaenbled
q run. The officers, who wero constantly busy,
expressed themselves fully satBted with the
condition Of affaira
Commissioner Mark Sheridan was complaining
yesterday about tho head lineH OF tho proceeds
fngs OF tho Police Board published iu THE TR1s-
uNE Of Tuesday, IN which he waa maaa to appear
as m apologist for tho assault upon ofllcor
great injustice, as ho mover wislied to apologize
for any breach Of tue law, and felt great sympa-
thy for Dougherty.
Tho American Diatriot Telegraph Company
aont to tue police board yoBterday report OF
the calls for police officers made to the office Of
District No. i, during September. There wore
shirty.four calls, mado, Of which the majority
woro to arrest drunken and disorderly cuatoin-
ora, Thorc were two thieyoB arreBted, and one
cali was for shooting ARRAY. This ollloe IL on
Lasalle street. botweon Madison and Washing
ton,
At meeting of law-antl-order oitlzens OF tue
Fourteenth Ward, Aeld on Monday evening,
Oct. Q, at tho residence Of 9. u. More, tho toll
lowing organization Of 3 Law-and-0 Order Ward
Club was Effected; President. Capt, W. II. Dob.
son, psosidents,, E. 7. ltunyan, 3. i.
Cleveland, Jamoa Quirk ]; Beoretarlos, @, e.
Dixon. John Ennis. An Executive Committee
Of 20 was appointed. DR.. Ooyne, r. ". Rock.
well, aud O. Il. Barry wo1o appointed a Commit.
too On Resolutions, to report 1t meeting Of tle
law.:and. order oitizens Of tho Fourteenth Ward