New-York tribune., 1879-12-21
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YORK CITY.
The steamers Of tho Peoples Limo havstI1t with
drawn for the season.
New carpets show olive shaded orange. anu deep
red in their new designs .
s,paovers and psacock feathers are the favontc
designs for canvas work. and are worked in their
natural colors. ,
Pretty Christmas cards are panel shaped ttn wlth
beyeHed edge and ornamented WIN hahn-p'"'eu
birds on reeds and flowers. .
P.S. Gilmore's new National hymn, Columbia"
will be performed for the first time al the acauenJ
of Music on Christmas uight.
Deaths last week, 400 births, 533; marriages,
164. The police arrested 300 persons. and the
Board of Excise issued IL licenses and collected as
tees S5.050
Christmas green's are made i'm the popular horse.
shoe shape and are much prettier than the od
wreaths and stars that have been the accepted
forms so long.
copy of the first edition of Ptolemy's atlas of
the world was purchased az secondhand book
store the other day for the small SUN of $40 Ii Is
valued at 81 ,OOO ii is the only copy in America.
Among instructive toys this season ia toy called
the " speaking book" This book has eight pages
zach containing the picture of an animal or bird. Il
string is attached and when pulled the animal or
bird speaks
Robert A. Johnston, president of the Fermanagh
Relief Fund Committee. acknow cdges the receipt
of subscriptions amounting 10 TZVo, Slouo .i oi
Twenty y-second-st
The charitable are requested to send money to the
superintendent of the Eleventh street Boys Lods-
lne House. No. 700 East Elevenih-st., for the pur-
pose of afTording the managers at Christmas the
of giving flannel shirts and shoes TO the poor
boys who find in that lodging house their only home
A large number Of the friends Of the Rev. DIR.
Edward EgglestOn assembled ar Pier 81, North
River. from which the lnman steamship City oi
Berlin sailed Yesterday 10 bid him and his family
good Thy. DIR. EgGleston was presented with gold
headed. ebony cane, as parting token from the
Endeavor Club.
The Sanitary Superintendent was informed, on
Friday, by letter from the Mavors office. OF a re-
mort that diseased meat was offered for sale IN West
Washington Market. Inspector Brennan was sent
10 investigate the matter and in the evening conils-
Gated and sent TO the offal dock quantity of meat
unfit for food.
4 large audience filed Steinway Hall last evening
at the concert aud Christmas reception of the New
York Teachers Association; Jacob 1. Boyle pre-
sided and near him on the plat form were Commits
sioner j. ID. Vermiye, Inspector Agnew, i. i. ilar-
rson. DIR. Welsh and John Davenport. The con-
cert was conducted by Signor Agramontc., George
Nandenhofl read a number of selections andJ Levy
gave several solos on the cOrnet
An explosion of gas occurred yesterday noon in
Station + Of the Post Office. at No. do1 hird-aye
down the ceiling directly above where the men
we've working. Three of them were completely
buried iii the fallen rubbish, but escaped without
serious injury. Gas escaping between the oiiice
ceiling and the floor above was ignited by fire mt
by wOrkmen above who were cooking their dinner.
Anastasa Barry appeared before Justice Morgan
Yesterday i'm the Tombs Police Court TO make com
plant against her husband, William Barry. n butter
merchant, of No. 195 Greenwlch-st, who also keeps
three stauds in Washington Market, of having wan,
t0nly assaulted her by sezng her by the throat and
striking her three blows on the head and face. He
was held for trial in the Court of Special Sessions
in default of $500.
Mavor Cooper Is expected formally to open the
new market-stand for farm wagons, on the block
bounded by Icuth-ave., Little West Twelfth, Wash
ington, GansevOort and West-sts., at p M. TO-
morrow The ground has been laid ont so that when
necessary there will be accommodations for about
1000 wagons. j. NJ. VaTian. Superintendent OF
Markets, that this mar Iket aud It's limits
will hereafter be the only place in the city where
farmers Will be allowed to sell produce from their
wagons.
petty system of thieving which is supposed to
have been pursued for some time III the music store
of Charles ii. Ditson. at Si3 Broadway. was dis
covered yesterday. a man named Benjamin Clapp
entered the and looked over sheet music which
was shown 10 him by Alexander Harmos, "a CLERK
The two men suspected of being IN colusion,
and they were watched. The clerk at length rolled
up a bundle OF music and handed IL TO the agent
with check for 20 cents To be paid at the cashiers
desk The cashier insisted ON examining the bundle
and found ii To conta'n music worth about ID
Harmes and Clapp were arrested
There is now Oh exhibition at the rooms of the
| American Geographical Society, No. II West
Twenty-ninth-st, large plaster model OF the city
| of Jerusalem. IL is circular IN form and about
feet IN diameter, representing every part OF
lhe holy city and its enyirons for half mile
in every direction II !, accurate IN every
walls to the springtime colorng of the fields and
| foliage of the surrounding country. The original
| nary and the makers have already received orders
| for six similar ones. The now on exhibition is
| destined for the Peabody Museum at Yale College.
There were no public exercises at the Dairy Fair
| last evening The band. too, was missing, and the
| fountain had ceased to play. The spectators who
usually fill the middle of the hall were distributed
at the different booths where the energetic sales
| men and saleswomen were engaged in disposing OF
the wares with all the spirit that the approaching
| closing of the fair could inspire. The creamers"
and butter and cheese machines were in full blast.
and polite old gentlemen expatated on the merits
| of rcfrigerators and various patent articles of
minor description. The butter and cream colors"
| were displayed TO view, and madens with butter
colored checks offered samples Of salt and cheese.
BROOKLYN.
| The Rev. Thomas Il. Mcleod. who has accepted
call to the Clinton Avenue Congregational
| Church. of which the late DIR. Burlington pas
tor for twentyfour years, will preach his Iirst
| mon in the church this morning.
| The Executive Committee of the Seventh Ward
| Citizens Protective Union, which was organized
| for the purpose of reducing the number of hquor
shops in the city, has issued statement declaring
that the Commissioners of Police and Excise have
abused their "official power the interest of the
liquor traffic" and that their power lis used to per-
petuate rather than remove one of the main causes
| of the intemperance crime, poverty and wretched-
| ness" which prevail in the city.