New-York tribune., 1875-02-23
NEW-YORK CITY.

A lecture on "Successful People will be
delivered Ivy Mathew Hale Smith before the Liberal Club
| at Plympton Hall this evening.
| The ice was thick in the rivers and harbor
Yesterday but not sufficiently any serious
| delays In the passages OF ferrS-bolts
George Cooper, who shot the negro restau-
rant keeper at No 1C7 Thompson-st- on sunday, was
arrested by Capt. Mcdonnell of the Eighth Precinct
yesterday.
The Woman's Social Education Society will
hold meeting in Wheeler Wilson's Pdrlors, In Union
souare at 3 pm paper will be read entitled: The
| Cnurch Of the Household"
The Journeymen Stone Cutters Association
at their last meeting resolved n OF the depressed
condition Of trade to make reduction OF IL per cent IN
| the scale OF wages enforced by the Society.
The arrivals at Castle Garden yesterday
| numbered 1885, The steamship Switzerland from Rot
terdan brought AZ immigrants; the France. from Liver
| pool. 76 aud the HoheLz1lern, from Bremen, H.
Three young burglars named John Laughlin
Rogers KlDrlde and Patrick CONWAY, caught in the
act of breaking he store No. 81 Futons bYncer
COX last oveuIng. They taken TO the Second Pre-
| cinct Station and locked up
A Aregular meeting of the Seamen's Protective
Association was held last evening at No 90 Madisont
Dr. W. L. Thoms presiding. committee was appointed
10 prepare repor upon the views Of seamen in relation
10 the hill before n legislature giving permission
TO runners to board vessels as they enter
| the harDOr
Fifth-ave., above Twenty sixth ST., was nearly
number OF holes made in the roadway by plumbers en-
gagged 10 thawng out and repairing water pipes. The
arising from the burning wood used III the opera
ton rendered the AIR almost too suHJcaling Tor breath
lug purposes and was very annoying TO all passing by
| The condition Of CheTy-st., between RoOse-
welt and Pearl-sts Is such tnat the occasion OF
| prolonged tbaw, without rain serious epidemic Is
likely to arise in that thickly populated neghborhood
from the oxhllaons OF the heavy mass OF offdi
b,gp ashes etc. which has been ana is still thrown into
the street wcn does not appear TO nave oeen cleared
frozen into solid mass over foot thick
BROOKLYN.
Three hundred and fifty-One arrests were
made during last week.
A soup house for the relief of the poor has
been opened in Continental Hall, Greenpont, by Mrs
CASTOR.
The infant child Of Mrs. w. L. Lynch of
No "a Tompknsave. accidentally poisoned yestor
day OPIUM powders were given 1t by mistake, instead
OF The powders were prepared Dy the chiids
mother.
The regular meeting of the Long Island
Historical soey will be held this evening IN the chapel
OF the Packer Institute. paper will be read by Prof
William T. Grinis giving his obseryaIions and expe-
nence In Japan during the years l6fOls7i
LONG ISLAND.
LONG ISLAND CITY.-A few years since, dur
ing the Fenian excitement the circle then In existence
In Flushing accumulated about $780, which has since
maned deposit In the Savings Bank In that village.
AT meeting Of those connected with the organi
zation II resolved to withdraw the amount from
the Bank and appropriate toward the rehef Of tue
OF the village Tie Trustees VI College Point have
pouted f. Martin OF tue Wafer Works at
an salary of $50 Tho counsel employed by the
Tax payers Association of this city has enamlned the
books OF the Receiver Of Taxes and Water Commis
He concluded that the present tax assessment
Is Illegal and as such cannot be collected ny law
6ons sXsitsmspt WAS oeeAsioped recently Nv the AZ