New-York tribune., 1879-10-01
the Professorship Of Obstetrics and the Diseases OF
Women and Children.

aIIcY and The Dntls ONen DOT1 HHy 'VTII1TE
| Monthly entertainments and popular lectures, To
| which members. either alone or accompanied by
! ladies, admitted free, and medical talks for
| young men are among the attractions announced
| for the Winter. There is also literary society,
| which meets each week. Any young man ot good
| character, and recommended by trustworthy per-
son may become member upon the payment OF
| So. An annual ticket costing 10 admits the holder
10 all the privileges named, but charge OF y %
additional is made for a dressing-LOX, IL the
| gymnasium is used.
The new steamship City Of Alexandra, of the
Havana line of +. AlexandTc * Sons. opened for
| public inspection Monday Many OF her ssteroous
| are fitted with Pullman berths. with a cane bot
| tom, so that in warm weather the mattrass may be
| removed. giving n cooler bed Other staterooms
are fitted with swinging berths for passengers IN
clined to sea-sickness who Will not feel the rolling
| or pitching of the vessel The j0iner-wOrlI of the
| staterooms and the saloons is finished in Hungarian
and black ASH blistered walnut, white amaranth
butternut, white holly, curly maple and ebony
The small tables at each Of which are revolving
chairs and an independent swinging lamp, ana at
which passengers may dine n la carte at any honr
new feature. having been introduced 1or tne
first time and proved successful, on the Cliy OF
Washington. The officers of the vessel are Fleet
Commodore, John Deaken, captain: Mr.. hetilg'
first officer; Mr.. Pendlcton chief engineer De
Drmarets, purser; Mr.. Otto. steward. Mr. Alex
andre and others made addresses Monday.
BROOKLYN.
The National Creenback party in the Seventeenth
Ward has nominated James Eastman Tor super
ylsOr
Joseph " Nash, colored man, was arrested YES
terday morning for stealing clom9g valued al Tl09 90
from the residence Of William :. Middleton, No. -
Bedf0rd-ave., on Monday night.
The new building for tic old Bnshwicl Reformed
Sunday-schoo, in iiumbodt-st., has been completed
and furnished at cost Of $4,000. series oi dr'il-
cation services is beng held III 1t during TINS
week.
Four Of the iremcn who were restored to their
positions by the order of Judge Iutt on Monday
were tried Yesterday by the Fire Commissioners Oh
carges of neglect VI duty. and were dismissed rom
the Department.
The Superyisor-at-Large yesterday vetoed a reso-
luton recently adopted by the Board OF supt5Vi-
sors awarding n contract for ventatng the Court
House AT "A cost of SO 900. He claims that tho ap
paratus has not been tested thoroughly.
At n meeting Of the Commissioners OF Charities
yesterday Messrs. Shipman aud Henry refusnd to
sign the pay roll for September on the ground that
il contained the names of two sinecursts, Cornelius
Ferguson, IT,, and c. J. Abbott. The other three
commissioners, however, refused 10 s1ilKo the
names of these men from the roll.
Armed with a warrant issued by Justice Piggott,
on the complaint Of Charles g. Martini, assistant
Flatbush police and two deputy sherils visited
disorderly house at Church-lanc and the old Coney
Island road Monday night Mrs Fulton the
proprietor, seven other women, and two men were
arrested and locked up in tho Town Hall ut Flat
bush. They will be examined tomorrow evening.
After the tax budget for 1850 had been passed By
the Board Of Estimate in june the Legislature in
creased the salaries Of policemen and hremcn. On
account of the increase there will be deficiency
for the present year. and provision viii have to be
made for next year either by the Board Of Estimate
or by the Board of Aldermen. The Board Of Esti-
mate met yesterday, but question arose to its
power revise its work after It had been completed,
and it was decided to seek the opinion of the Cor
pOratIOn Counsel.
The Board of City Works made numerous changes
yesterday IN the employees OF the Department, forty
seven appointments IN oil being made. The list was
aTeed upon at a conference of the three COmmis-
sioners on Monday The most important change is
Water Rates In the place OF Charles A. McLaugls-
lin. Beam Is a Democrat and the confidential elel
of Messrs. Kingsley 81 keeney. Commissioner Worth
voted against his appointment. Several OF the men
discharged TO make room for the appOntecS are ln-
dependent Democrats
A tall. ruddy-cheeked Irishman entered Justice
WlsIJs court Yesterday and asked for warrant for
tho arrest of man who had robbed him of all the
money he had in bis possesson-Si3 ~ lie gave his
Gently srR lhypam ana sad that he had re-
said he could get some work for him. and on Mon
day they went TO Brooklyn together. The man.
however, succeeded in getting his money and Gisap-
peared. As Lyman did not know the mans naine
the Justice could give him no relief. He handed
him ) and will try to get employment for him.
JERSEY CITY.
Stout were yesterday elected Commissioners Of A.
sessments for the ensuing year by tie Jersey City
Board of Public Works.
William Mccarthy, age sixteen years. living in
Henry-st., Jersey CITY Heights. was rested last
night on suspicion of beng implicated ia the rob
berry of several houses on the Heights.
At n regular meeting of the Summit Avenue Bap-
fist Church of Jersey City Heights. last evening
the Rcy Dr. James l.. Lodge. the pastor. presided
hnt did not offer his resignation as was expected
DR. Lodge said that the reason he had opposed the
granting of the letter of dismissal To William John
son. the locomotive engineer, was because no
thought the CHARGES made against HIM for running
his train on Sunday were sui pending when he
asked for the letter.
NEWARK.
Mrs. Sarah Sloan. of No. 10 Belleville-ave., com
ruitted suicide yesterday morning by drowning her
self in n cistern. The domestic relations of the
woman were unhappy, and she had several times
threatened to kill herself
Anumber of Newark church choir singers gave n
concert TO the prisoners confined IN the Peniten-
tiary mt Caldwell on Monday night The prison
Was brilliantly lighted the performers being seated
i'm the guard room and the prisoners in one of the
main halls of the west wing. The concert lasted
two hours.
Some excitement was created on Monday by re-
mort that diph hcra had broken out among the pII-
nils of the Burnett Street Public School. 1t was
found that q child of n family named HertzOg, III
Eagle-st-. who attended the school had been taken
with the disease, and that other members of the
family had been i'll with il, one of them dying. The
chairman of the Sanitary Committee OF the Educa
tional Board closed up the EaPle-st entrances
to the school, and had policemen stationed to pre-
vent tie children from going through the street.
LONG ISLAND.
CENTRE MoRICHFs.-The Long Island Presbytcry
met yesterday at Centre Moriches. with large
attendance. Among the clergymen present were
The Rev John ID. Stokes OF East Hampton, the
Rev Epher Whitaker DID, of sOuthoid the Rev.
4. W. spTSaI Of sSg liII Har3oTi and the Rev;
sermon was preached by he Moderator, the Rev. |
Ioseph W. Earnshaw, of Greenport. The Rev Mr.
stokes delivered an address on - The Christian
Training of Children tor Christ and His Church"
STATEN ISLAND.
srAPrrTON.-The Richmond County Board of
Supervisors met yesterday at StapletOn. A COM
m,inieation from Coroner lleryey, OF Westfed.
read. In which il was stated that the Coroner had
turned over to the County Treasurer the sum Of
S14 in gold and gTeenbacks found strapped 10 the
Ier OF the body of the unknown man found drowned
May 20
HUDSON RIVER TOWNS.
CITY IsLAND.-The new Methodist Episcopal
Cbnrch is half Gothic style OF architecture.