The New York herald., 1874-09-08
NEW YORK CITY.

The payment OF pensions yesterday amounted u
about $12,Oc0.
The Board OF Aldermanic Supervisors, for want
OF quorum, could not hold their adjourned meet
ing yesterday.
The Comptroller transferred yesterday nine
clerks from his once to the Bureau OF the Receiver
OF Taxes, TO supply the deficiency in that bureau
The veteran editor Thurlow Weed lett yesterday
Ior Syracuse, where he Is TO meet the surviving
"Powder Boys and BucKtails " OF lsl2 Al q oan-
quet.
An offcial dog catcher OF the Tenth Assembly
district has sent his resignation TO Mayor have
meyer yet the sun rises Ia tho eas' oAeeps on
cloudy mornings.
The Department OF Parks announce that II the
weather Is fine there will be music by Dodworth's
Band on the Lake at Central Park tomorrow, Sep
temDer Q, at three r. II:
Tomorrow the second excursion this season OF
the convaescent patients Of the Charity Hospital,
BlacKwelps Island will come on by permission OF
the commissioners Of Charities and Correction.
There arrived over the Central Railroad on Sun
day ana yesterday forty-two cars with $500 nOes;
over the Erie seven cen and half with / $50, and
twenty-five carloads over the Pennsylvania road.
The list Of poll clerks and election inspectors was
under consideration yesterday in the nrst fall
meeting OF the Tammany Committee ON Organiza.
ion. Liquor sellers aud omce-hOlders were held
incompetent
Upwards OF thirty invaded United States sailors
arrived IN this city last night by the steamer G. W.
Clyde, from Key West, the majority OF them COM
Ing from the COl0ra0O. None or the sick men In
question have suffered from yellow fever.
Captain Bracket and Inspector Fideau, Special
Treasury Agents. have turned into the Custom
House 5000 smuggled cigars and i've boxes Of
cigarettes, which had been taken ashore by the
Captain Of the Spanish ship Eva, from Cuba, lying
at pier Is East River
City Chamberlain and County Treasurer Lane
makes the following report for the first i've days
OF the MONTH
Balance August S765 9l5 81
9y
Balance, September ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ,67 50
VIM. Mooney, thirty-seven years OF age, was
taken to the Park Hospital on Saturday afternoon
last and died there on Sunday evening He was
perfectly unconscious from the time entering the
hospital and the cause of his death Is said to have
been TOO frequent use OF alcoholic drinks. he
had no home. The body was sent to the Morgue,
and the Coroner notided TO hold an inquest.
Thomas Delany, OF No. 222 Henry street. was
shot in the head last night by Thomas HOyes OF
NO. COL Water street, and dangerously injured.
Both men met in jackson street during the evening
and some words passed about an old quarrel, when
a out MS v ,e ana sn o at De
teenth precinct and the wounded man was sent
home.
The censors OF the Medical Society Of the County
ofNew York are Abraham Jacob. Gouverneur M.
Smith, Andrew H. Smith, Horace T. Hanks an
John c. Peters. This organization Is the oldest In
the State, having existed since 1906 In addition
to 1t the Homeopathic and the Eclectic medical
societies are authorized by law to compel medical
practitioners to submit their diplomas and
licenses to scrutiny, the practitioner having the
right to choose his society.
The Board for the selection of Grand Jurors for
the ensuing year, consisting OF Recorder HacKett,
Mayor Havemeyer, Commissioner OF Jurors Doug.
lass Taylor and Judges Davis ana Sutherland, met
Yesterday in the offices Of the Commissioners OF
Jurors. This W as Ihe first meeting OF the Board,
and only preliminary business was transacted.
The Grand Jurors are selected from the petit
Jurors by virtue Ol q special statute, and IN num-
ber are not less than 600 nor more than 1000.
Upon the arrival Of the steamship General
Meade at Quarantine yesterday from New Orleans,
Captain sampson. her commander, Informed Ex-
ecutive Health Ofncer DR.. Nosher that steward
named Knight had mysteriOusly disappeared for
tweuty-lour hours and 1t was thought had fallen
overheard The Doctor recorded the occurrence
and lett the s8ip. While coming up the bay the
lost one was found In a somnoent condition.
sleeping in one OF the Coal bunkers 1t Is thought
that he Is deranged.
The system OF providing conductors with punches
and slips to record the number Of passengers on
their cars was not entered upon yesterday by the
Third Avenue Railroad Company, as was expected
1t would be. 1t will probably be begun on Thurs
day. The conductors are very much opposed 10 IL,
and think IL can never be successful on the Third
that the punches would be used about sixteen Con-
ductors. VINO refuse to be belringers iu wnat
SUI posed to be the interest or honesty, have re-
signed. A number OF others intimate that they re-
main only because they believe the puncles can.
not be kept long IN use.