The New York herald., 1874-09-27
NEW YORK CITY.

The Bureau Of Elections viii be open next week
| nom nine A. NJ. to nine p. NJ.
| For the week ending yesterday CITY Marshal
Coukiing granted 79i licenses, and received there
Tor $3.50 70.
The commissioners or Police are making per-
sonal visits TO the station houses sergeants had
better keep awake.
During the past week the police made l7s7
arrests. There were reported 52s deaths, 49s
DIR MS lS9 marriages and - still births.
up TO the present time over 900 entries have been
made for the great rife match OF next Tuesday
tion.
There are cor fined In the House OF Detention as
witnesses, In Mulberry street, eight persons, OF
whom one has been imprisoned 3I4 days and an
other 223 days.
An adjourned meeting OF railroad managers and
commissioners, ior the purpose OF niing vacancy
IN the Board OF Railroad Commissioners, will be
neiu at the tlftn Avenue Hotel, In this city, on
Thursday next
The Commissioners OF Police have decided to
visit the Central once nightly IN turn for the fu-
ture. Mr.. voorhis has been doing this duty dur
ing the past week. and his experience, he says,
department.
The Rev. DR.. o. II. Tiffany. one or the dstin-
gulshed pulpit orators OF the country. will deliver
lecture IN the interests of the washington Ma
tonal Monument Society,"" at Steinway Hail. on
fricay evening next, October 2. Subject, George
Nashngton In ls76.r
Superintendent Walling has issued an order te
the captains OF police that all men under their
command may dispense with uniforms on their
nlent OH outy, ms gives each policeman on the
lorce an o. portunlty OF gong out LII citizens
clothes at least once month.
At the special request OF the National Temper
ance Society and the woman's Temperance Union,
DR.. James Edmunds will deliver an address upon
the medical use OF wine, beer ana other stimuants
bv women, In Association Hall, Fourth avenue,
corner Iwenty-thlrd street. on FRIDAY afternoon,
OCTOBER 2, 1874, at three O'Clock.
The closing evenings for registration OF appli.
cants for admission to the Cooper Union Evening
schools OF Science and Art are next Tuesday and
Wednesday, september 20 and 30. The art classes
are iull with the exception OF modelling in clay,
HE, form and perspective drawing. Applicants
can stl be accommodated IN the scientific classes
algebra, geometry, trgonometry, anay tical geom-
etry, descriptive geometry, calculus. chemistry,
natural philosophy, astronomy, mechanics, en-
glneering and analytical chemistry
The New York Board OF Trade has been placed in
communication with the Boards OF Trade in Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Chicago, ST. Louis Cincinnati,
Baltimore, Buffalo and other cities in the States,
aud with the Chambers OF Commerce OF Liverpool,
Sheffield, Birmingham, Bradford, Leeds Man
chester, Coventry, Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow. Aber-
deem. Lyons, Amsterdam and otner c les and
places IN Europe. Arrangements have been made
by which members OF any OF those Boards and
Chambers visiting this City may use the Offices of
the New YORK Board Ior purposes OF correspond
ence, rendezvous, or obtaining mercantile IN
formation
In the year 1886 st. Peter's church. Barclay
street, being then partly built fancy fair was held
IN the basement for the purpose Of providing funds
for its completion. Mrs. Charles NJ. Connolly,
Miss Ingoldsby, Mrs. Dillon and others OF the then
leading Catholic ladies o. the city conducted the
fair, and were most successful For period OF
thlrty-elght years no fair has been held in or lor
ST. Peters cnurcn the different cast tors relying on
the collections from the parshioners to meet al
the debts OF the church. Twenty years ago st.
Peters had among It's pewhoders some of the
wea thest merchants IN the city. At that time
the lower part of Broadway, the Bowling Green,
State street, Murray and Warren streets were
occupied bv IRISH and spanish mercnants who
have since died and their lamles removed TO the
upper part OF the city, Father OFarreil Is now LETT
with large parish extending from the Battery
TO Canal street, occupied, with Il very lew excep-
tops by the poorest families. and having recently
built large Schools Is compelled, alter this long
lapse to have alr to aid him III paying the heavy
debt incurred 1t will take place, beginning OctO.
ber II, IN the basement OF the church, and the
tables, in some cases. VIII be presided over by the
grandchildren OF those who took part in the last
lair OF ST Peters,