New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-05

staying late. The lack OF lounBers III bho N"'A'N
of the building is noticeable 80
The amount of premiums bid for the pcws IN fly-
mouth Church this year Is smaller thah any SotN
since 1868.
The new City Clerk W. J. Tate filed his bond Tor Lon
c1 600 Yesterday IL will have to be approved Dy
the Aldermen before he undertakes his duties Ills
bondsmen are w. II. Beard and j. +. Mason.
A hearing was given by Mayor Low yesterday TO the
representatives of various Temperance orgsnli ao
tons who asked that mono of the present EXCISE
Commissioners be reapponted, Ponce ConHs-
soner Jourdan chairman of the Board OF EXCISE
Commissioners, present at the conference
BENJAMIN B. Leverich age ffty-nine, OF No. 80
Butler ST., has been missing from home for the past
two weeks. He is member OF the Warioi ~. ~;
Methodist Episcopal Church. and lived WIN ms
three sons and daughter Since the neaIn Oh
another daughter last summer his mind has been
somewhat affected and he once attempted 70 coln-
init suicide with razor but was prevented from
ending his life Ii Is feared that ne has mauo away
with himself.
The seventeen Aldermen and ex-Aldermen, VINO
were arrested for contempt OF court on Iue:suay'
consulted with their counsel, Winchester brlt'oh,
Yesterday The defence will be based on tne
gro nd that the COuri had no right 10 restrain Tue
Alderman in the performance OF legislative duties
If this is Overruled appeal Will be made 10 tuo
General Term, aud stay of proceedings secured
Ex-Alderman Roberts the last OF the seventeen 10
be found by Sheriff Stegman, furnished Dali yes
terday.
The statements of Mr.. Beecher Sunday in re-
gard to the board of Education arc exciting much
comment After the committee of the Board was
appointed to wait upon Mr.. Beecher on TUESDAY
night, il met and authorized Secretary lallnadge
to write letter TO Mr. Beecher, inquirihg II he was
correctly reported as saying: But what shall
say of the men who make the teaching Oh our
children the means of ministering TO their lust !;
who make the loss of virtue the condltlon OF giving
q place" The letter was transmitted TO NJ
Beccher He was out Of town yesterday ana ""
not send any reply
JERSEY CITY,
Postmaster Gopsill reports the number of letters,
pOstaI-cards and newspapers delivered through INC
Post Office and by carriers for he month OF Decem-
Der 1881 b. be 274 913; an increase over December
1850, OF AZ, 657 pieces.
Edward Coughlln, who was assaulted by Peter
Lawless sunday night in front of his own mouse
No. lSl2 Coden Is IN Grlcal Gonu he ms nor
sufficient strength to rally from the effects OI MS H.
Jurles.
John Callahan. of No. $40 Railroad-ave., car
penter, employed on building IN course o. cIcc,
ton in Eighth, near Grovc-st fell from tne Top
story through the he ms TO the cellar yeSEeIua5 a.
tcrnoon, and sustained fatal injuries. He was re-
moved 90 81. Francls's Hospital
NEWARK.
Tn the Court of Oyer and Terminer Yesterday
lanes t. Graves plea led not guilty 10 an indictment
for murder in tie first degree for shooting and XIII
inp Edward T. Soden, age twelve, on the nlght of
December 20 last. His trial was set down 1of Jan
D"'' '0 NEW-JERSEY.
UoB0KET-The market men who were elected
from the site on which the new City Hall stands
the CITY authorizes Determined 10 Dullu llt
hail. have begun a suit to recover damages Inc
site was dedicated TO the city for market purposes
by John Stevens, in 1909, but 1t was not USED TOT
q market until 1860. When the Common COunCu
bv authority of legislative act determined to take
the site tor city hall purposes the marketmen re-
fused 10 leave the place and were torclDy GJected'
A test case IN the name of John NJ. Wrlght, VINO
claims IS, 600 damages, is now being tired IN the
>'''''''' LONG ISLAND.
UryrFR's POINT.-Mchael Fitzgerald age forty,
Standard Oil Company, at Hunters Point, while
engaged making some repairs to tank tuesday
evening sDped and fell TO the ground distance OF
over ffty feet, receiving internal injuries that re-
suited in his death shortly after he was removed to
LIS Holn'' STATEN ISLAND.
To,rpKIxsv1ILE.-J.C c. Johnson, of Perth Amboy,
n D. was found half frozen IN ooat on Jhe hIllS'
He was taken ashore at Tompkinsyille, and was re-
moved to the Smith lnirnary.
RIcHMoND.--The Richmond County Superntend-
EMS of The Poor met yesterday and reOrganlzcd.
John O'Ncil, the new superintendent from Mlddle,
town took his seat, and Mr. Storer was reelected
chairman Thomas Mccormack ana MISS hcCoI-
mact we're reappontad keeper aud rnatron, respect
lively, of the Almshousc.
RossvIIE-Captain Charles Mclean a former
resident of Staten Island who died at his home in
Flizaheth \ j. few DAYS ago, will be buried
today III the Morayian Cemetery at eW-Dorp.
Captain Mclean, who was seventy-o years OF age,
was one of the oldest stcambOatinen about the
harbor He was a native of Staten Island and Tor
many years was in the employ OF the late Comlno-
dOre Vanderbilt. lie also c0muLluded boaIs IOr we
lafe George Law. ami was in the employ of the
New-.Jersey Central Railroad Company. being in
command of the steamer Kill Won kuli. On Friday
last aptain Mclean went to Rossvie, ;. L., TO see
his daughter, Mrs. Decker, who was ILL., In her
presence he was stricken with paralysis, from which
he died on Monday. The harbor steamboats, had
their flags at hal-nast yesterday ont OF respect to
the memory of Captain Mclean
WESTMINSTER COUNTY.
OssrNGNG.-Mrs. Mary Bacon, executrlX, and DR..
Charles 4. Bacon. executor. yesterday hled an III
Daniel p Bacon of the town OF Osslning. The per
sonal property is valued at S250,00O, the most of
which is in stocks and bonds.
Mourn VERNON.-John Frost, for some time
ticket agent of the Harlem Railroad Company AZ
White Plains, but who Tor year past has lived at
Mount Vernon, spraug from train on the New
Haven Railroad. while II was approaching the
bridgs over the Harlem River, and had one of his
legs broken He was otherwise seriously, if not