New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-06
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE PEABODY FUND.

MEETING OF THE TRUsrEEs-woRK DONE IN THE
LAST YEAR.
The trustees of the Peabo " Education Fund met f,
yesterday morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel p n.
ident HAYES ex-Secretaries Fish and Evarts, Colo
mel Lyman, of Massachusetts, Governor AK H. pi
Sonth Caroline Samuel Wetmole 'e Mernipa Of
Louisiana A. H. H. stewart OF virginia ns Nm
geon General Barnes, Bishop Whippe, Of AGENT Ma
nesota,, and j. L. Curry, 1 genera cbai nges
in opening the meeting, referred to
the recent death of George Riggs the banker one me
Mr. Peabody Hamilton Fish, Governor AIKEN anu
Colonel Lyman reported appropriate resolutions
The Executive Committee, with the genera hget -,
was author zed to distribute fifty silver medals 10
the graduates of normal schools and colleges mn
500 bronze medals TO students IN inc pnplIc sc'o "
efaction. The resort of the general agent stared
that instead ofdstrbuin8 the income OF lne i9I
promiscuousy, aid had been concentrated on q Iim
central schools Of high order TO serve as e1aihpic
and incentives rather than on larger huIloer T.,
inferior or less influential schols "a
West Virginia, four dstrei institu es, supp rIeu
entirely from the Peabody Fund, and sixty county
institutes were held. The enrolment was 3,oon'
the average attendance 3,04S. Three normal nlst,-
tutes supported exclusively by tie feaho'y tt,
were held in Virginia in the summer. The insutnte
at Abingdon continued in session twenty-elght Iays
and had 2S7 members. representing twenty-lo'tu
t ened Nv 2a5 teschers and twelve supernendens
and so coiorrd teachers attended me nstltneo ~
Hampton. The colored school ut Fayettevile, ".
c. has faculty oil competent teachers uner u w
petent principal and continues in session ten months.
| IL receives $500 from the Peabody fund a.. Ia
South Carolina 81 900 has been added IRON Ine
fund TO the State appropriation 10 the normal ilsl
tutes Three colored institutes were held at blIa,
Murfreesboro, and Knoxville, Tenn; continuing III
session two to four weeks flty d0llarS p pao Tr
| Normal Seminary Of Louisiana The pnb-
| lie schools at Houston and Bryan. Texas,
| have had aid from the fund. Institutes SUP
ported from the fund have been held al, san Mar
| COS, Waxnhachle Orange, Salado, GaineSiTlleii
| Tyler and Hampstead. The last was Tor COZ Ieu
| teachers Since February S5O37o mas peen
| distributed among the schools III twelve southern
To-day the trustees will visit by py nit ion the
| HON of eX-Secretary Fish at Glen Cllii anu VIII
| conclude their labors Tomorrow.
VIOLENT FALL IN TEMPERATURE.
Tho fan of 3OIo degrees in the temperature in this
city between a. M TUESDAY ana INC s'1u' ,o U,
! had anticpa ell. The change from almost lnld-
summer Temperature to point ,a Gny tb 2aff
| everybody was taken unawares. The temperature
| beqan 10 decline ahou sunset on Tuesday, and the
| norfhwest wind increased in force. thin film 81
Ire formed on the decks of many vessels aleng me
river ront and ice was reported 10 have formed III
| the scutt hutts where open The wind NJ H. ~:
| Yesterday in tins CITY recorded as blowing at
| fba rate of twenty-one miles an hour, and 1t In
creased to thirty miles an hour at noon when was
| it's maximum velocity. II continued 10 Dlow win
great force and storm signals we're holsted py Inc
| Signal Service Bureau above the Equitable Build
| ing. - A.. c.., c.
| vice indicate tat the cold wave is general
| tbronohout the country. In New-Eng-
and The temperature fell rom q 10 30o; fr m
liz 70 900 i'm the lake regions; from IL TO 20 IN the
| Ohio Valley and from 10 70 22O in the Mississippi
| Valley The Thermometer registered in various
places az follows, at 7 a. IN. Yesterday: Albany,
| ago: Baltimore, 4So Boston, 80 Burlington BOY;
| Bnfalu. $50; Chicago, 400; Cleveland, 40; Gin
! cinuafi 4so; Detroit 40; Passport, 800 Oswego.
| 35o; PHILADELPHIA, 400; Port land. Me-, $50
| 10 hester. $40 Danger signals were ordered
| at New Haven. New-LOndon. i int Judith, Boston,
| Wilmington, HatteraS. Kitty Hawk, Cape Henry.
| Norfolk Delaware Breakwa er, Cape May. Atlantic
| Cify Barnorat and Sandy Hook.
| The first frost of the season appeared Yesterday
| morning on Staten Island Ice formed IN some
| nIaces On Stapleton Heights the mercury regis
tered 900 fall OF 4Oo from the temperature OF The
prcyiousday. The northwest winds caused unusually
low tides about the shores of Staten Island and IN
| Princes Bay.
| The sudden change in the weather in Paterson, \.
| J. yes erlay caused fires 10 he built IN the public
schools In the morning thin sheet Of zee extended
across the river from Temperance Island TO McKays
mill.
teriav morning capszed in the East River of Will
let's Point No person visible IN the vicinity.
The members of the arc supposed TO have been
drowned,