, 1875-12-18
THE CITY.
GENERAL NEWS.

Miss Ella @. 1ves ot this city, will 1ooturo this
evening before tho Philosophical society. Sub
1ect: IA Great English Poet"
Tho Republicans Of tho Seventeenth Ward will
meet At 3t1 LArraboe street this ovcntug for tho
purpose Of reorganization and other business
Ths Sixteenth Ward Club arc expected 10 jotu.
TIN temperature yesterday. aa obscrved by
1tanasso, opttcan, 8a Madison street {TRlnCNK
],uiiding), WAS 1t q. m. 2 dcgross below zero :
10 .. NJ. above Ia rn.. g.; . p m,, 2; p. m.,5
II. q. Bpa1or1, of Lnko WOW, who has just
returned from the acel,e Of tho groat revival
conducted by Moody and sankoy IN Phtlhdcl-
ph,a, will speak nt FArwoll Hall tomorrow
oyGniug.
About Gas o'clock Last avontng a yonug man
named Charles Newman wAa thrown from hiR
buggy by rnnsway toan noar tho corner OF
Wells and lTlnrdalo strectA. lie Was picked up
ipseueiha and taken TO his homo In bowman
vile. 1t IL fvatnd that bis injuries will provo
fatal.
On account OF the public intoroat awakened
and tho general desire c1preaeed. the Centennial
festival at the Now England Church vii! bc con.
tinuod thin afternoon aud evening. beginning st
8 8o'c1ock, md nleo dnring portlon of ne1t week,
a. one-haif ratio Of admission. Further an
nouncements will ho made, Tho Centennial
rt:ics. between 4U0 and 5n0 in number, have
elicLtnl universal surprite aud delight
l.
Wti'isns 2Go by 1872 feet on the southwest cornor
pf Monroe atreet and Western avenue Tor.
e25,8 800. John F. Eberhart haa sold to Dun
Porter, on Jackson street, lGD foet west OF
nand Ilsayo lias sold to tho Douglas Blind Man
nfactuslng Company on hammond atreet, north
west cornor Of Menouonae, 49 by 125 feet, with
buildings. for $25.00
The Chicago Typographical Union MI. rote To-
lar, at thoir rooma II md 70 Dearborn street,
h1nf, frt&
accept tho following reductions: Book aud job
work. ioutnoymen per week. from Sal TO $40;
foroInen from ga 10 s23 per wook; piece-Work
reprint or manuscript from pcao 10 agate IN
from Is to 30 cents; diamond. from 81 to %
ronts. The mattor will 10 virtually left tn tho
hands OF tho book nnd ID printers and 1t is
probable That the reduction Which Is light, Viii
bo agreed 10.
AMHERST A1rs1x1.
Last eypnne the Western Amherst Alumni
Association hold their eighth annual reunion At
the Grand l'aello Hotel. A. business mocting
absence Of tito President. Willard Morrlll, class
OF 1851, milwaukee,, who was detained on ac-
count Of ii]noss, sir. john II. Thompson. class
OF 1850. yico-president, presided +. ". Pack
oiected for tho ensuing yuar: Plaslde1it, Rufus
q. Kellogg, Green Bny, Wis.,; Vice President.
George fIo1land. Chicngo; Sccretary and TFens-
urer, F. ". rackaEt!. Chicago; Executive COM
uittee, o. 8. Coyest and J. Il. Thompson.
superb dinner WAS Afterwards aorved III the
Grand Paci1c's bcst Btylc. at which the follow
fnE-Dnned geutemen Eat down; E. 8. 1to!brook
class Of 1850; John Fl. Thompson, 1850; T. n.
1Iaskoll, 1871; Lyman II. Paiuc, 1872; Harry $.
btearns, 1872; u. i. Covert, 1851 George How
land 1850: Ls1ccn J.. tioe, 1868; Edwin Z. Bay
10y, 1868; +. II. Williams. 1878 i. Z. Dodge,
1873 ". Poet. 1856; D. 3. 1tolbrook, 1873;
Norman 4. Patton, 1873; Arnold 1leap, 1873;
+. ". Packard. 1872 ". NJ. Howland. 1b;i;
George Q. Clarke, 1855; George y. Gage, 1860
Rufua D. Kellogg. prozdont First National
Dank, Green Bay, Wis. clasa 1853 WllliAtn
CraufHd, tirocu Bay. 1857; john Vim, Dunlap,
Ill.,, 1B3l JcAhua I. 1lcal Lombard, ILL.,, 1856.
After tho dinner bad been disposed OF, the
cloth wAH removed, and number of lmp1omptn
toastn nnl reaponHeB we're made. There was no
fQp1ll2r trorrAumn,