New-York tribune., 1879-12-09

| from Washington are in the city examining vari-
| ous proposed sites to report on them.
| As the Fulton ferrv-boat Farragut was entering
the slip yesterday at 230 p. M 1t ran INTO tue OUT
| going boat and was slightly Injured No PASSENGER
was hurt. The Farragut was sent TO the dock a'
| the foot of Atantic-ave for repairs.
| Yesterday was observed in the Roman Catholic
| Churches as the twenty fifth anniversary OF the
promulgation of the decree of The Immaculate Con-
ception of the Mother of Christ. Mass was cele,
| brated in all the churches and sermons were
preached. At the Cathedral in Jay-st. the attend
| ance was very large.
| The Democrats of the Eighth Ward last evening
nominated James +. Weir. jr. as candidate Tor
of Alderman Mcintyre. lie will be opposed by
David :. Arnott, Republican, who ran very close 10
Alderman Mcintyre In the late election, and by
two Independent Democrats. The election Will be
held December l0
Thomas Hart, age nineteen. accused of partci-
pating with Thomas Quedey IN an attempt a. eHr 9n1
Pacifc-st., on November 10, was arrested on sun
day afternoon, being traced by pair OF SHOES nc
left behind him. He arraigned before Justice
Bloom yesterday aud held for examination.
JERSEY CITY.
The receipts at the City Collectors Office in Jersey
City amounted to SSI ,650
The body of boy. apparently about ten years OF
age, was found In the basin of the Ncw-loIk. Lake
Erie and Western Railroad at jersey CITY, Aester-
day.
young man named Peter DIVER, who was en-
gagged to marry Carharine Scott. of P;vonia-ave.
set for the ceremony. two weeks ago.
Mrs. Mary Jones, of Eighth and Henderson;;sts.,
jersey City, is lying at her home seriously ILL., hav-
ing been struck by lightning. She was passing
Public School Building No. on Saturday night,
when the lghtning-rOd on the building was broken
by lightning and she was prosIated by the shock
which followed. She II parayZed on the right SIDE.
Owen Fiizpatrick William Hanley and Francis
McCue. all living IN First-st., were arragned before
Judge Davis, at Jersey City yesterday, on charge
of stealing the locks from the switches of the Penn
syivana Railroad cut in Bergen Hill. The locks
stolen three times last week from the 1--we
switches III the cut. The prisoners were all held IA
also Michael Iuite, the junkman to whom the
boys sold the plumber
NEWARK.
IL was announced yesterday that Chief Of Police
Bancroft OF Newbnrg. n: y. with two merchants of
Young man named Cotharin, who had swindled
some OF the Newburg business men hy means of an
advertising medium called The Musical JtbHm. j..
A. Cotharin. OF Nos. 62 and 81 Goldst.. yesterday
ca led at THE TRIBUNE Office, claiming that he was
the man meant. and denying that he had swindlcd
anybody or that the police aud merchants were JUS
titled in asserting any such thing about HIM.
A woman was found dead early yesterday morning
in Il miserable hoyc i'll the rear OF No. lS RaIrOad-
The face and body were discolored and blood
was oozIng from the mouth and ears Her name
was Abby Lynch IL was learned that there had
been fight in the place on Sunday afternoon. in
which a woman named AlctiOvern and several men
were engaged and In which bedpOsts and clubs were
freely used weapons. The woman McGoyern was
arrested, but nothing could be ascertaned against
found TO have suffered from diseases which doubt
less produced her death.
NEw-JERsEY
DrNrILFN.-The cornerstone of q new Roman
Catholic Church was laid on SUNDAY afternoon by
Bishop Corrigan assisted by other Catholic priests
FLFMINGToN-Dr. r. c. Ludlow. q prominent
physician of Neshonie, was returning home from
Pennington on thursday night last; when short
distance from Clover Hill, his horse became fright
ened and unmanagcabic. He was found dead the
next morning in "a lane leading to the house of Mr..
Van Lew.
LONG ISLAND
FUsHING.-George IIcndrckson, alias Strecter,
the woud-bc Flushing bank robber, was committed
to await the action of the Grand Jury yesterday,
charged with carrying concealed weapons, the only
complaint that could be made against him.
HUDSON RIVER TOWNS.
Observation-Disclosures William T. Moller,
of Hastings is TO be married December 10 to Miss
Fanny Clark, daughter Of j. +. Clark, Of Boston,
FoRT ScHUYLFR.-On Sunday the north shore of
Long Island Sound. from Fort Schuyler to City
Island. found strewn with fragments OF vessel
supposed to be parts of the schooner struck by the
propeller Electra of the Providence Line.
WHITE PLAINs.-The Board of Town Auditors Of
White Plains, in scrutnzlng the bills presented
against the town, astonishcd some OF the claimants
James ii. Romer, Justice of the Peace. had bis
bill reduced from $157 80 to S26 45 Eugene Ar
cher, another Justice. presented two bills. one for
p22 30, the other for $1Sl so, both of which were
rejected; +. c. Sutherland's bill for printing,
$lS6 %, was reduced TO $50 80; A. j, Hyatt.
Town Clerk, presented bill fer $19f %. and was
allowed $50 40 an Ovcrseer of the Poor claimed
500 and got nothing; "a physician claimed $6o for
medical services, and got nothing.
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