, 1875-01-01

Among tho many pleasant episodes of The New
Year uas tho presentation Of a epiondd gold
watch and chain to Capt. John Mahr, OF tho
Lincoln lark Police.
The thcrmometor yesterday. as observed BY
L. Manasso. optician. under TIE TRIBUNE l}ni!d-
ing, was Mt a. H., deg. above; l0 4. m, IL;
II M. IL; y. H., Is; G =. 1n., ~; and y.
ill.,. 90
Amo,ig tho trsnefors recorded yesterday ia the
saln OF tho property tho corner Of Peek court
and Wabash hYenlto. by tho JcWlsh compensation
kelniath Atsho Afaariy to J. Il. aud a. Fish
CT, for 3c2. 900.
John Roach. bov Of II years, VAS run over
street. near Oak. yesterday n,ernlng. mud lad
his right log broken. He was taken to his lomc,
No. 43 Elm strent.
Tho grocery-detivery wagon Of Froaerick
Walker wnH run into by freight train Mt tho
Thirty -tl,1rt psreet crossing last night At $50
o'clnck, and thu horse killed and tho vehicle
smashed to pieces. Tho driver ESCAPED ,tnhurt.
Nothing now in regard to Tho Pacific Hotol
wns tlsyeinned yesterday, beyond tho fact that
Mr.. Drake expcctB to get absolute control on
Saturday, There seen1a tn be SOME contraycrsy
over the lease, and it ia stated that this has de-
laycd tho transfer.
Atr. Joseph Weber, tho oldest omnloye OF tho
firm OF ClaybMrgl.. Enstoln Il Co., was present
Oh las. evening by his fo1low-work1nen with
valuable watch. sIr. john T. Fry tho foreman
Of tle cutting department. of Tho same firm. was
presented ly his employers with chcck OF 520o
mud lis eAlary was raised $500 per year.
Tho htatemont in dispatch In yesterday
mornings paper. tn tho effect that tho Mcrcln-
tile Insurance Con,rany OF this city lost -, 500
by tic bs.rnlng uf Warron, Ward Il Co.'S furni'
turo factory in Now York, was incorrect. The
Company had no insuraaco on any property t!lat
WIS consumed.
THO Athennun gives tho Young men Of the
city Il hapry New Years gTes!ng. Its man
agerA will keep open house to-aas and cordially
invite tho young uleu to visit tllon at their
roosns No. III Madison street. and avail the11l-
Belycs Of the privileges Of tie gymnasium dur
ing tho day and oTen.ug.
A society of Ia:lics embracing many Of tue
most fashionable and cultivated women Of tho
city has been formed. whose solo object will 10
tho Hocia! cxtirpatiou Of Buch young nen M On
meeting nny Of their number to-day shall nd
dreas tiiom bolstcrously, to this purpose: - Hal
In! How arc your how hare you been? de,
clare have not seen YOU since last year, etc."
Verb. sat. sap.,-yerbal warning should satisfy
tho aarpy.
Adam Cary, OF tho United Ssatos Diatrict
Court, ,nturned homo yesterday morning from
Ohio, whither he had been to servo warrant Of
haboas corpus upon tho person OF OIL acco1n-
pllshed daughter Of tho Duckeyo State, who
compromised tho mattor by appearing hoiore
clergyman and changing her na;Do to Cary. after
which both parties set out together for Chisnro
to make ret,irn Of tile writ to Judge D17smmond
The following conversation between two col
cred Walters Naa overheard by gentomnn WHO
wont into a restaurant OH Clark Btrcct to got
lunch +" Mr.. johnson, will you bo go obscquious
rs to form a 'litteEate individual If New Year
come OH do last oh Srptember or do fust OBJ jan
| uary!" Why, you pussilanitnous jgnoran,us,
isn't you got dc pa.rsnicous scrinlnation to hi:T
/ dat New Yours comes on do fust oil JANUARY -
THINK yo,,, sail, Mr. Johnson. Your amtlsouB
unr;}vS rroHit Ia fN ri1ttnHnhGrH ~
At present tho young 1nen about town relax
their tnas.ive minds BY comparing the white silk
scaffs. without which no younE man about town
| thinks himself gotten up. Tie difference ho-
| tween plaiu aud corded ailA, and tho re'atlve
merits Of the feeling and inspecting tes:s provo
80 fertile subjects for discussion that frclnont-
| " as much a. minute aud u half has goue by
without one Of tho d;srutants consignlng his
soul, Oh his noighoors eyes, to posditlon.
| A reporter Of TnE TRIBUNE interviewed Gov,
| Deyoridgo, At tue Sherman House, yestor-
day afternoon, relative to tho order for al, clcc-
District occasoned by tho death OF the Hon.
John Z. lice. The Governor stated that he
| issued the order al a mattor OF duty, because
tho language Of the Law made it imperative that
ho should do 20. but. he said, tho pooplc are not
compelled to have An election it shoy do not Beo
| lit.
The report OF tho death Of slys. Horan, on
thena cnlrmns Yesterday morning, waa neccs-
Rarily incomplete. At o'clock yesterday
rssted 81 nn n TIN smnnosition that sbo Ind bean
| murdered and that Lo was coupectsd with tho
a!fair. The Coroner hold m inquest yesterday :.
arm hut there wan no oyidonce that her death
Lad been produced by violence. DR.. lIoaro.in
made post-u,ottcm examination, and testified
| that ths lungs Nere found conges.ed, and tho
i've, diseased, and be also believed, from other
| circnmstanrea. that the deceased mist have
come to her death froH the inordiuate uso oil
spirtuols ljauor. The evidence before the jury
WAS to the effect thst both w'te aud husband
were addicted to strong drink. nnd when nhaet
its lntiuehco weie very 9uaffelsomo' somotlines
coming to blows. Iha Jury rendeieo sefdle'
in accordance with the aboVo 1ac1B'
Thoro liz now at tue County Hospital ons nj
tho most remarkable cures which has ever boot
within its walls, and which is NJ extraordinar,
pstisut in a man uamod William Warner, who d
',rcsout exhibits tI,o almost unparalleled parade,