The New York herald., 1874-12-22
NEW YORK CITY.
L. B. c. has sent to the HERALD s2s for st. Johns

L. 3. c. has sent to the HERALD s25 for st. John'a
Guild.
over 200 newsboys, boorbacks and errand boys
are TO be treated TO grand christmas dinner "
st. ylncents Home, No. So Warren street. Con-
trlbutions for benefit OF food. clothes books
or money Will be thankfully received by Fatner
Drungooe. at the Home.
Bayard Taylor repeated last evening his lecture
on Travels in Egypt" in Parepa Han. corner OF
Eightv-sixth street and Third avenue, before
large and cultivated audience. The lecture nas
already been reported III these columns aud on its
repetition asst evening was well received.
lecture Will be delivered this evening In the
Cooper Institute by Father Mcnamara. of North
Carolina VINO has taken for hts subject the Life
and Times or Robert Emmett General Patrick
IL. Jones Will oniciate as chairman and the com.
Mlttee is composed OF some well known Irshmen
lair VIII be held this week by the young women
IN the Carlisle Institute, No. 65s Lexington ave-
nue., for the benefit OF the poor OF the Nineteenth
ward. The Committee OF Managers are all inmates
OF the Institute The ialr VIII be open on Wednes-
day and Thursday OF this week from one until ten
+. M.
President w. X. Nelson OF the Board OF Educa-
tion, yesterday issued the customary notice clos
ing the puDlic schools for the Christmas vaca-
tion from Thursday next to Monday, January 4.
The same order applies TON TO me College OF the CITY
schools VIII be closed on christmas Eve TO reopen
on the evening OF January 4.
DR.. Felix Adler, Professor In Cornell Univer-
Slty lectuTcu ldSC evening III uWdy HAL OA
the late DR.. Abraham Geiger, the Jewish re-
former and representative OF modern Judaism.
Dr. Adler's lecture was an eloquent trlouIe 10 Ino
memory OF the deceased German RABBI. Ino
lecture was avorably received by large ana IN"
telligent audience mainly composed or heDreWs'
Among the passengers who arrived IN this city
yesterday by the Bremen steamer Neckar was
lady who brought with her couple OF large
trunks, containing, 1t is alleged, bridal OUTFITS for
young lady in Annapolis and Tor another In Flor
ida The lady In charge OF them stated tnat sno
had no articles haole 10 duty, but Deputy surveyor
Burton and his colleague, Colonel Williams, seized
the trunks ON behalf OF the Customs under the Do
heI that the dresses, &C., were smuggled.
Yesterday was the shortest day OF the year, ana
is known by the name OF 1.-THE winter solstice" to
astronomers The sun rose at twenty-one minutes
past seven A. NJ. ana set thirty-six minutes past
four Z. NJ. making the solar day ol nine hours ana
fifteen minutes duration. To-day there Is hardly
any perceptible difference, but each succeeding
day will be about two minutes longer than It's pre-.
decessor up to June n, when the solar day will be
nearly fifteen hours long. thereafter shortening as
they now Will lengthen
So heavy a fail OF snow as that OF sunday could
not but make itself felt in more ways than the
mere inconvenience to pedestrianism. The streets
were sushy where the sun shone and slippery
where the sun snone not and remarkable con-
trast existed between the day overhead and the
somewhat delayed and also those from out OF
town, but this was remedcd In the afternoon.
The effect OF the snow was hardest OF all upon
wnat MIR. Bergh termed 1.-THE most noble patent
nearly all the city car lines the teams were
doubled, causing delay and annoyance. IL was
one OF those days, taken altogether, OF wnlcn We
have cause to be thankful that they are 90 iew.