, 1873-05-27
THE CITY IN BRIEF.

Tho Council Committee OH FINANCE will meet
this afternoon ct $50 o'clock ut tho Comptrol-
lers Office.
Eclectic, Medical, and Surgical Society this oven
lug OF No. 461 South Clark street. Physicians
arc invited to attend,
Law and Order rcrsus Rum and Murder II
ia tho startling caption Of small lQnd-bill call
ing for meeting to hove friendly talk on tho
subject Of temperance at tho Contenary Church,
this evening.
A atyliBl,zlooking young follow was arrested by
Detective Flynn yesterday, for stealing pair OF
braco1ots worth 5l05 from Dolia s. pierco, OF No.
70 South Clinton street. THO bracelets woro found
in lis possession
At tho sale OF real estate mado yesterday by
". 4. Butters 4; Co., at Clyde, on the Chicago,
burlington & Quincy Railroad, there wero fifty
q. lot.
Tho Trench Club des Amateurs will give dra-
matic entertainment this evening, at the Twelfth
atroot Turner Hull. Tho play will DO Le Pras-
English, Frenc, and Italian Her voice is M sa(a to to
bo wonderful.
A boy naned John ". Mitchell, aged IS
years, Of No. WcRt Lake stroot, WAS drowned
in tho river yesterday afternoon. Ho was play
ing in the rigging OF tho schooner James b.
foil from tho bowsprit. The body was recovered
by Of1cor Arnold Ruchert
At 10 o'clock yesterday morning horse at
tachod to buggy containing d man named
Philip Murdoch, III tho empluy Of G. J. Griffeth,
No. 532 West Washington street, ran awny at
tho corner Of West Washington stroot aud Ash-
vehicle and seriously injured.
The Board Of Police yesterday afternoon mot
TO do business, Commissioner Mason iu tho
chair. Commissioners Wright aud Sheridan
woro also present. The DoaTd merely awarded
tlio contract for milking tho police uniforms to
Daniol Iotto. No. 81 South CanAl street. The
contract for 50O hata was awarded to Basgett i
Hammond. ut 63a hat.
About huff l O'Clock yesterday afternoon
hoiso attachcd to T. butchor-wago,,, driven by
man named Paul Herman, Of No. $40 AIilwau-
koe avenue, rau away on Madison street, near
Carpenter throwing. tho driver to tho ground
and d1slocAtng lliB shoulder. Ho WIS taken to
Blntharat's drugstore, on tho corner OF Madison
and 6angaulon stroata.
correspondent signing hiusolf "Dixo ;"
writes to T1IE Tn1nUEE US follows "AuonE
tho additions to tho population of Chicago since
!no e hro aso 20 DO found niauy ox-robs. Would
4 DO ahking. too much of you to tell
them where to find tho last resting place
t Or tho Confederate donl from Camp Douglas, 80
loWg buried among strangers?" Tho Chairman
OF tho General Committee on Decoration ought
to answer this question.
A. a.1r inquest was held yesterday on tho body Of
years. who liyod with his parents at tho oornor
Of Adams aud Porch btreots. The little follow,
Whtlo playing at tho huuHe Of noighbor, foil
out Of door, g distance Of three foot, to tho
glounl from tho offeots OF which llo soon aftor-
ward died. A verdict Of accidental doath was
rendered.
Tho Board Of Public Works granted tho fA-
lowing building permits yesterday: Henry But
ler, a-story anti basement brick, 50x95 at Nog
VI nnu 30 Van Dnron street; Samuel Glicknuf
aasahtory D. and ~ bayemont stono-front, 60xso at 81
stoiy s,1y aud basomont brick, 24x4u, at No. 1l06
Wabash nvnnno Margaret Wise, 1-atory brick.
22x30 OIL Eugcnia Htreot.
Tho Womuna Hospital OF the State of Illinois.
Situated at No. 220 Thir.icth street, Is now opon
ior the reception OF pationtn afflicted with tho
diseases and accidents peculiar to women. Ap-
pllcations for admission, and for pamphlets CIV
Ing full information regarding tho institution,
may 20 made to the Matrol,, Mrs. Doyco, at tho
hospital, The Woman's FREQ Disponsary, coll
neotod With tho hospital, will 10 opon, an horoto-
fore, eyory Wednesday and Saturday. from II
o'clock n. m. to O'clock p. r., for tho treatmont
Or the poor only Drs. Jackson, Hnrlbut, Hyde,
isoll', and EmmonB, of tho hospital stan, will be
IN attendance.
Tho Casrlera Directory Company ia tho ttao
Or a corporation organized for tito purpose OF
lhssnlng city directory oil tto London plan. Tho
oilico is in The Tn1nuNE Building. Tic book ID
to 20 composed Of tho namea Of Ill tho touRntB
a1d ownoia Y OF eaol building OIL all the atroots,
complete list Of oil business firms, manufacturers
aud professional mon II street and avenue guido,
aha tue l'a!nos, buainosB, a1l residence Of oil
Hnbaeribers anil advertisers to tho work. twill
a!ao embrace vast ainount OF useful inforna-
ton concerning tue city mud county, public and
private lnstitutlonH, incorporated companies
ras!ro1ds. post-OAloo, eto Tho work will bo
lasnoa aGont tho 1at Of July aud regularly oyory
~ ola German farmor, named Horny Brandt,
Wl'!o labortng under q temporary alteration Of
tl'o mimi attempted to commit suicide in y cell
At tho Union stroot Police Station yesterday a.
.orl9on: lho insanity was produced by tho old
nun boillg thrown from Ills wagon at tho cornor
Of l!alHtol Htroet and Milwaukee, ayonue, Ills
Aoraes running away. uo WAS picked up by oiti-
GER c Lahlum aud taken to Bwaot'B drug~atoro.
iith injuries, appsroutly, were not worry Serious,
put >, no talked iuoolorently. and seemed
hardly rational. lIo was takon to tho
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