New-York tribune., 1878-10-02
NEM.YORK CITY.

| The liquor dealers are preparing to take
| part in the political campaign Conferences have Deen
held the leaders and public meeting Tor some ue
next week is talked Of
At the annual election Of the New-YOrk
Clearing yesterday it was shown that the total
transactions for past year $23,s162s2298 3d.
an average of s77s3O,9s7 01 per day The following
| tary George Montague; manager, w A. camp.
| The report of the West Side Relief AssOcia-
tOn which has charge Of the Sanitarium at ROckaWay
Beach, states that during the Summer $4,000 children
enjoyed benefits or these 1,20O were kept for a
s4,7I5 2s.
The Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad
Company has executed mortgage TO Eugene g. BalliD,
as for the bondhOGers on its property on the
north side of BarrOws and also on all franchises and
rolling stock to secure the payment OF the conpanys
bonds, payable IN twenty years, ana amounting 10 SZo
900.
The name of Miss Jeffreys-Lewi the actress,
appears the passenger list Of the steamship Greece,
which will sail for London to-day She recently
married 10 San Francisco broker and II supposed
she nteuded TO remain IN that city and to leave the
stage Her husbands name does not appear IN the pas
senger list
Cooks are proverbially sensitive and irrl-
table especially Just before dinner. Jacob schaar,
waiter at the New York Hotel. has reason TO lament
that he did not heed this fact. John Ludin the cook
WAS preparing dinner yesterday aud became enraged
with SchaaI ana threw aim out OF "a WndOW ochalI >
lex was broken.
A cOlOred man presented for payment yes
terday check for Slj5 TO j. @. Cannon paying teller OF
the Fifth Avenue National Bank The check purportcd
to have been drawn by Mrs Olivia VI. Barclay, OF No
II East FOrtyeZhthst.. and was payable to James A.
Edwards OF order. The check proved TO be forgery
and the negro was arrested.
The funeral services of Mrs. BOOlc who was
killed by the Aelph explosion. held Monday at
South Norwalk, where her husband. the Rev. W. II.
Booe. formerly OF this CITY, Is settled Through an
announcement
the funeral not sent to the papers and much uncer
tainty and confusion resulted.
The Custom House changes announced in
InE TRIBUNE went effect yesterday except the gen
cr reduction order which has been delayed until fur
ther Instructions are Issued The notices OF dsms sal
recalled YESTERDAY aud for the present ouly the
moya- Tor cause ana he changes IN the WeGhers and
warehouse departments viii 90 into effect
Judge Van Worst IN Superior Court Special
Term granted yesterday an order TO examine before
trial the plaintiff in the suit Of Nathaniel A. Cowdrcy
against The Adrorde The sut l. for $500 note given
10 the Campbell Printing Press and Manufacturing Com
pauy the defence ~ tnut this one Oi forty notes
giyon Tor machinery which was never completed accord
ing tu tine contract
The Coroner Yesterday made an cxamina-
ton of the body Of the fiddler who found dead at
No - Lewis-st Monday. II had been supposed that
the mau was murdered but tho autopsy showed the
cause of death To have been hard drinking. Francis
Storey, O NO 2-1 Dridncy-s, was arrested Yesterday
and charged with completely in the supposed crime He
held 10 await the result OF the CorOners inquiry
John Gilbert, John BrOugham, William j.
Florence, J. H. StOddnrt and other members OF tue
American Dramatic Fund Association, met yesterday
and approved Of appeal drawn by the secretary
10 be submitted the dramatic profession In general
/ asllug iof ad iu behalf Of the fund. Mr.. BrOugham
suggesrd series OF matinee perform inCcs for the bre
nt the fund. bot decision reached in tho mat
/ ter.
Charles s. Martin has begun a suit in the
BROOKLYN CITY Court FOR absolute divorce from his
wife, Martha A. Martin, To whom he married In
1870. Tuey have two children. Mrs Marin Is the
sister OF United states Commissioner Shields. on
September she brutallY assaulted the
Kings County Pcniteutiary by four rufans, three OF
whom sentenced by Judge Moore 10 slX years and
SIX months imprisonment each
The following is comparative statement of
cases OF contagious disease reported the Bureau
of Vital statistics for the two weeks ended september
-, 1873: