New-York tribune., 1884-01-03

| Vefslty GluD OF New-fork Will be held at Clarks
| No. " West Iwenty-third-st., on Friday, at $3.50
p. m. The college glee club will be present. Ac-
ceptances have already been received from Mayor
low low OF brooklyn; T! General Clinton b. FISK. the
ing IS expected to be the largest aud most enjoyable
| III the history of the club.
| ARRIVAL OF "sARAH BARNUM"
| copy of Marie COOmbiers book, " Sarah Bar
num-" which is notOrously account Of the adj
ventures of Sarah BernhaTdt in this country, ar
| rived by the last French steamer and was obtained
| By publishing house in the city yesterday morn
ing. A force of translators, sixty-nine in number,
was Immediately set TO work, and the volume, con
| tanning 800 pages was finished at 10 o'clock last
night. The book Will be sold ON the streets this
evening
| FUNERAL OF W. REID GOULD.
Funeral services were held over the body of w.
teenth ST., yesterday. The Rev. E. B. Terry of the
| Christian Church, oiiciated. There were no pail
bearers and few flowers. Excepting number. Of
| Immediate family and friends were present. The
body had been embalmed by Charles A. Benedict
! and was buried in WoOdlawn Cemetery.
FINISHING Up A ROUND OF CALLS.
The one O'Clock train from Twenty-thrd-st on
| the sixth Avenue Elevated Road, yesterday morn
| ing had among its passengers four young men who
the thirty which they had planned. They recovered
| the last four, however, by passing around bottle
the neck of which was decorated with a red sea,
but which contained liquid which looked and
smeed suspiciOusly like bad whiskey.
| DENYING A SENSATIONAL STORY.
l.. Wenger, of No. 100 Third-ave., who was car
ried to Bellevue Hospital on Tuesday night with
wound in his head, supposed to have been inflicted
| by ruilans in SecOnd-ave. and Twenty-eighth-st,
! was much better yesterday. The officials of the
hospital denied the truth of the sensational state
! ments made by Ihe World in regard to the case
| They SAID that WengeT, while drunk, had simply
| stumbled down and bruised his head on the pave
ment,
| STATISTICS OF THE CORONER's OFFICE.
The statistics of the COrOners Office for 1888 are
| as follows: Sudden deaths from natural causes
! 1885, deaths where there no medical attend
ance, principally children under one year of age
,23i accidental deaths by violence 4l4; deaths
! from falls, 405; suicides (maes 1876, females "a,
| total 100; deaths by drowning, 225; run over by
vehicles and killed. 81 hOmlCideS, 40 antc-mOrtem
examinations made, Is; total number of cases at
| tended to, $3.50
A STEAMSHIP CAPTAIN DROWNED.
The steamship Lord Colingwood arrived yester-
| day from Trieste, having been twenty-one days
from Gibraltar. She lost sails and met with other
| slight damage in heavy gales. In hurricane on
was sighted, under short sail and laboring heavily
On Tuesday evening just after sundOwn, about nifty
miles southeast of Sandy Hook, Captain Nicholson
went to heaye the lead, and losing MS balance ieu
overheard. He was supposed to have drowned i'm
mediately, as he was not seen again.
WORK OF THE BUREAU OF PERMITS
George A. McDermott, the Mayors Marshal, has
made up his report of the business Of the Bureau
of Permits for last year. Therewere 25,290 licenses
| issued for which $l19,567 70 was received. OF
this amount S53754 rs was paid into the City
Treasury, S63,593 into the Sinking Fund,
and $500 into the Fund for the Poor
of the City. The amount received exceeds
that of any previous year by $6l,O67 rs. The
most of the Increase was due to the large sums
received for pawnbrokers' licenses amounting to
$4S,350. The number Of public carts has increased
to 1866
BROOKLYN.
The contract for cleaning the sewers this year has
been awarded by City Works Commissioner Ropes
to Peter Blake at SlO975.
The new Coroners Drs. Menninger and Hesse ap-
pointed Alexander Walker as their deputy yester-
day. Mr.. Walker was formerly Supervisor of the
Twentieth Ward, and has held his present position
for three years.
Mrs Augusta Kern. of No. 216 Broomc-st., New
York, has been admitted TO ball III So,OOO on the
charge of malpractice.
At the annual meeting of the Commissioners of
Charities and Correction yesterday Slr. Van Slclen
was reelected president and MIR. hssam treasurer.
John Brust was arragned yesterday before JUS
tice Massey for compelling his wife to walk bare
| footed in the snow from No. Boerum-st. to No.
1874 lhroop-9ve;. nearly half a mile. lie held the
| muzze of loaded revolver at her head.
The two fashionably dressed young women, the
! Misses Ella Harrison and Minnie Meyers, of West
| Twenty-Thrd-st New-YoTk, who were arrested on
| Monday for stealing silk handkerciefs and other
articles from the store of Patrick OIlanlon, at No.
| 81 Latayette-ave., were on trial before Justice
| Walsh in the City Hall Police Court yesterday,
| Both were found guilty but sentence was deferred
| until Saturday.
! The Board Of Supervisors for 1884 will meet to-
| day to organize. Supervisor-at-Large trltz WlI
| preside. The most important matter VIII De the
! selection of president pro tenn, who will appoint
| the standing committees for the year. Robert
| Adamson, of the Thirteenth Ward IS the Repubh-
can caucus nominee, and John N McKane, Of
Gravesend, will be voted for by the Democrats. 1t
! is feared that although the Republicans have
majority of two in the Board they will fail to elect
their candidete as two of the country members are
very friendly to Mr. McKane.
There is vacant clerkship In the Controllers
office caused by the absence of Thomas +. Farrell,
| who has gone to seat III the Assembly Chamber.
Under the Civil Service rules the filing of the
vacancy by Controller BrinlerhOffmake kes necessary
| q choice from those who have passed the requisite
| examination The Controller, who is o Democrat,
desires to evade the law and has taken counsel as
to neither he cannot assign the services performed
| by Assemblyman Farrell TO one Of the clerks en-
gagged in The nearly completed work of copying
| the arrears books
| JERSEY CITY
William II. Edsall. waO was convicted few days
| in HudsOn Comfy Court of General Sessions