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and nearly succeeded. He was held III $3oo pail
for trial. for the larceny of the coat

Dr UarrelI. we'll know sea captain who lived
for manv years in this city, but who now resides IN
night and said that he had been robbed In West-st.
by highwavman. While walking in the street ne
was accosted by man. and soon al'epw s s95o ~
missed his gold watch and chain valued at SZoo
description of the r0bber was given 10 lno Po-
SELLING THEOLOGICAL WORKS 49,.
A miscellaneous collection of books mostly theo,
logical were sold at auction Yesterday afternoon az
the rooms of Bangs d Co, No: T33 broauway.
So l3 for volume of tracts relating 20 tse hteI,
can Revolution. j. Sevens's " History Oh tne Az
cient Abbeys. Monasterles. ETC. brought 90 ne
Devils Progress" with several other nunoT I;S
pieces sold FOR 50 so A few other books reallzed
between 81 and SO each but the most brought ieAs
than 81.
A PAPER on THE IRoQUols INDIANS. i,
Mrs. Erminnle A. Smith who Is connected , WIN
thu bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian MS
tuition. read paper last night before tie Ny ~
York Academy OF Sciences on The Language, De-
liefs a ID Superstitons OF the Iroqu0s lndlans-,
Professor D. S. Newberry, of tho Columbia ooaV b
of Mines presided, and the paper was ;Tyersfy
of the Civ of New-York Rosslter Johnson Ueherai
Parker and the Rev. DR.. DaCosta
BROOKLYN.
The Twcnty-third Regiment have decided 10 dls-
| card their gray uniforms and wear piue.
The first day of skating in Prospect Park ior the
| season. was eniOyed by manv persons yesUiudS'
The seven Aldermen of the present Board VINO
were confined Raymond Street jan 'aSe WonI c o
' 81 d
al the meeting of the Board OF Aldermen SeStei"aS
Passengers on the street cars are ANNOYED ana
alarmed by the careless manner IN WHICH, 9UunS
hunters Oh their way TO the suburbs hah"io 'he"
guns. ~
Az Huntington and Smith-sts. large building is
gong mp to be used by the COney Island and BROOK
lvn surface road for car stables u he ears run
through Smith and Ninth.sts and Hanitol-aNe'
The present stables are in FIiteenth-st.
Police Sergeant A. l.. Batlersby, formerly of tine
Seventh Precinct died yesterday from softening OF
the brain. He was III the insane asylum lew DAYS
last week but vas aftcrward taken TO his home III
EckiOrd-st., where lie died.
The trial of q suit 10 recover $4,000 as damages
for the lose of hand while working III u lact"IY:
was begun yes erday in the Circuit Court IN behal
Of Agnes Sanger, against Joseph h., Daniel NJ ana
Guy A. So'ncrs, of Front and Peari-ss.
snt for limited divorce. upon the, ground oi
cruelty, brought by airs. May a. CeHo' az nmS St
YESTERDAY. The parties 10 It are respectively biho
| teen and twenty wears Old a1d were married III
Ap1i. fine wife testified To being often beaten ny
| her husband Decision was res 'rVed'
! William 4 Russell, whose two wives have each
certificate of marriage with ho, was indicted LOT
bglmy by thu Grand Jury YESTERDAY aia pic nth
| women 70 whom he made offers Of marriage but
who learned OF The fact that he was husband De.
fore MARRYING him. will appear 10 testify against
| him. lie is only twenty-tour years Old
The formal opening and dedication of the new
| Eastern District Dspensary and Hospital in South
| Thrd-at took place yesterday: The building was
|
At the opening services Demas Strong presided ana
| addresses were made by Judge Nelson, Mayor Low,
| the Rev. Dr. Porter, Mr.. George W. DuIIs!y lnu
Rev Dr. Wells. The hospital building aud site cost
! $4,000.
CORPORATION Counsel Taylor Informed the Alder
men Yesterday that the INJUNCTION RESTRAINING them
from gran ting permission 10 line OF stages 10 run
| IN Bedf0rd-aye. had been made permanent. Aljcf-
man Seaman. who was III Ja Iast week Ioi us us
action year agG o s sGIee 70 Pai' moved to
fer the matter to the Law Committee IN order that
the case might 60 t. the Court Of Appeals, to deter
mine whether the courts could lnierlere win mo
legislative functions of the Aldermen. This motion
was adopted.
JERSEY CITY.
T. X. Pangborn editor of The EUening Journal, was
arraigned in tine Court of Sessions Yesterday morn
Ing TO plead to an indictment charging hlm with
having ibeed Dr. John ID. McGili, q member oftde
Board of Education. The alleged libel is contained
i'm q criticism of the recent book = deal " III the
Board DR.. McGil was charged with having en-
gineered the deal" TO his own profit and that Of
of his colleagues Mr. pango2In peae s5 m0t
DR. McGill has also BEGUN civil sult against Inc
Journal claiming $40. 600 damages
james Kelter, contractor was arraigned before
charge of embeZzcment preferred 10y Il representa-
live Of the National Construction Company. The
complaint sets forth that the company mad lease
of The property known az Mount Pleasant, and that
Keller engaged TO take the stone ana ming out
of The property and sell II, Tor whcn Nc was 10 re-
ceive 80 per cent of the proceeds. 1t Is low alleged
that Keller sold material worth LOO aud thai he
retained all the money. He was bailrd IN his own
recognizance to appear for examination Tomorrow
morning v.o-
Edward Schilling, who was attacked and beaten
by August Frederlchs two weeks ago inSprlngiied-
ave died on SUNDAY night al his house Ill South
Ninetecnth-st FTedericks was taken to Schillng's
bedside before he died and was positively identi;
at Newark. This is the third case OF mansaughtcr
III Newark within a few weeks.
Francis ". H9user age twenty.eight, was ar
element. n. II. Whte,a jeweller at No. 4iO Broad
ST., intrustcd liauser with 800 watches to sell on
commission. Eauser pawned the watches III shops
in Newark. They were recovered.
NEW-JERSEY.
HOBoKEN-Some men broke into the house of
Liberty Hose Company, No. 2, between and
O'Clock yesterday morning, and smashed all the iur-
n,ture and mutaed all the pictures, some of which
were of considerable value. Lawrence Casey and
John Haggerty were arrested on suspicion and
locked up; Casey was expelled from the company
asleep upstairs and was awakened by the noise,
recognized his voice
LONG ISLAND.
MAsPETH-The suit of Mr.. PINK to set aside three
tax sales made by George W. Bergen, while he was
County Treasurer of Queens County. has been de-
cided in favor OF the plaintiff by Justice Gilbert.
The property was sold in 1874, 1877 aud 1879 for
unpaid taxes. The plaintiff claimed that the prop
erty had been assessed as vacant lot, whereas IL
had been improved property for more than sixteen
years aud that in the last two sales the property
had been wrongfully asseS sed to James Thompson,
q former ownor. This decision invalIdates u num-
ber OF sales by Mr. Bergen.
LONG ISLAND CITY.-lhe Citizens Committee
taking active steps to cut down the expenses Of the
city government A committee, composed OF some
of the weaithiest residents of the city, will attend
the meetings of the Common Council during the
preparation of the tax levy for 1888. The Alder
men will meet tins evening, and this special com
mittee will be in attendance. The committee will
oppose paying the interest upon the water works of
tie city, This amounts to about S25, 600. ......
Corporation Counsel Burnett has begun q suit
against the bOndsmen of ex-Treasurer John Koran,
TO recover about $4,000 which Mr.. Koran is al
legged 10 have illegally retained while in office. Pa
pers were served upon number of bondsmen liv-