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NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1883
No. 25 Perry-st., to take measures for the appropri-
ate celebration of the four-hundredth anniversary
of Luther's birth, on November 10, 1883. The fol-
lowing gentlemen were made a committee to call
another meeting and lay before it a plan of organi-
zation: George B. Ockershausen, Augustus T.
Chur, A. J. D. Wedemeyer, Judge Charles J. Nehr-
bas, J. C. G. Taddicken, Charles Unganstand Adolph
Schniewind.
THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.
At a meeting of the New-York Genealogical and
Biographical Society at Mott Memorial Hall last
evening, Morey Hale Bartow read a paper entitled,
"A Historical Outline of the Society of the Cin-
cinnati." He spoke of the causes which led to the
formation of this organization at the close of the
Revolutionary War.
READING MATTER FOR LIFE-SAVERS.
Many inquiries have been sent to THE TRIBUNE
as to where magazines and other reading matter for
the Life-Saving Stations may be sent. Such pack-
ages should be forwarded to the headquarters of the
nearest light-house district. Captain George Brown,
United States Navy, is the Inspector of the Third
District, his headquarters being at Tompkinsville,
Staten Island. Clothing may be sent to No. 8 East
Fourteenth-st.
A LECTURE ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
The Rev. Dr. N, W. Miner, of Trenton, N. J., lec-
tured last night at Association Hall on "Personal
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln," before a large
audience. Dr. Miner spoke for an hour and a half,
and as an intimate personal friend and neighbor of
Mr. Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., he was enabled to
tell many interesting anecdotes of his private life.
Much of the lecture was devoted to proving that
Mr. Lincoln was a Christian.
FUNERAL OF PROFESSOR C. R. BATEMAN.
The funeral of Professor C. R. Bateman, of Co-
lumbia College, was held yesterday afternoon at the
Presbyterian Church at Madison-ave. and Seventy-
third-st. The Rev. Dr. Alexander preached the
funeral service. Among those present were Presi-
dent Barnard and Professors Drissler, Bargass Van
Ammand and Richmond Staith. A number of un-
dergraduates were also present. The father of the
dead man, President Bateman, of Galesburg, III.,
was among the mourners.
STEALING FORTY-ONE BALES OF RUBBER.
Charles L. Seager, an agent of the Canada Ship-
ping Company, appeared before Justice Patterson
yesterday, at the Essex Market Police Court, as
complainant against James Dougherty and William
J. McKeon, each twenty-three years old, for the
larceny of forty-one bales of India rubber, of the
value of $5,000, from Pier No. 41, North River, on
January 11. This was subsequently recovered in a
canal boat at Hoboken, N. J. They were held for
further examination.
FIGHTING WITH A SWORD AND GUN.
Two Frenchmen, one clad in the uniforn of the
French Army, fought on Seventh-ave, early
yesterday morning. One was armed with a sword,
the other with a gun. Officer Craig, of the Twen-
ty-ninth Precinct, arrested them. In the Jefferson
Market Police Court they described themselves as
Paul Dannat, of No. 250 West Twentieth-st., and
Joseph Lowder, of No. 374 Seventh-ave. Each of
them paid a fine of $10 and furnished bail in $100
to keep the peace for one month.
A BOGUS TICKET ON THE ELEVATED ROAD.
Detectives McGown and Cuff arrested a young
man yesterday, who gav his name as Charles Wil-
son, while he was trying to secure a ride on the ele-
vated railroad by means of a forged ticket. The
check was a slip of cardboard lettered and numbered
with a ven in imitation of one of the company's 5-
cent tickets. The prisoner was arraigued in the
Yorkville Police Court, where, on complaint of Abra-
ham Mesger, an inspector on the road, he was held
for examination. He was caught at the Fifty-third
Street and Third Avenue Station.
WORK OF MR. BERGH'S SOCIETY.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
yesterday afternoon, the superintendent reported
that during the last month fifty-nine persons had
been arrested and prosecuted, sixty-nine disabled an-
imals had been saved from labor, 171 horses had
been humanely destroyed, twenty-eight sick and in-
jured ones removed to hospitals in ambulances and
104 complaints investigated. Charles L. Tiffany
has given to the society a handsome clock. Ten
new members were elected.
THE CELEBRATION OF EVACUATION DAY.
The special committees appointed by the Cham-
ber of Commerce, the Common Council and the His-
torical Society to arrange for the celebration of
ant's new counsel, ex-Judge B. F. Tracy and ex-
Corporation Counsel De Witt, being unfamiliar with
the case.
Mary McGinnis, age fourteen, a servant, of No.
90 Second-place, who was fatally burned by her
clothes taking fire from the kitchen range, while
putting on a kettle of water, on Wednesday, died
yesterday at St. Peter's Hospital.
The doorbell of the house of Patrick Cook, No.
359 Nineteenth-st., was rang last evening, and on
answering it a basket containing fifty-nine pieces
of baby clothing was found on the step, with a note
asking Mr. Cook to use them or to give them to his
neighbors. He considered the police his nearest
neighbors and turned the property over to them.
JERSEY CITY.
G. Ross Carey died at his home in Fairview-ave.
on Thursday night from an abcess of the hip. Mr.
Carey was fifty-two years of age, and was until a
few months ago manager of the offices in Jersey
City of the Western Union Telegraph Company.
Chancellor Runyon has issued an order to the di-
rectors of the defunct Fifth Ward Savings Bank.
stating that the bank will continue a ward of the
Court under the conduct of the present managers.
They are to have charge of all the affairs of the
bank, and convert into cash all assets, where this
can be done without sacrifice. When a sufficient
sum has accumulated for a dividend, the Court will
order it to be paid. The managers are to make such
reductions of expenses as practicable, and the in-
junction issued against them will be modified to
admit of the provisions of this order.
Herman Havner, the Newark-ave. tailor, who was
convicted in the Court of Sessions a few days ago of
a charge of receiving goods which John Grav, a
clerk in the employ of Goddard & Co., New York,
had stolen from the firm, was sentenced yesterday
to eighteen months in the State Prison.
NEW-JERSEY.
HOBOKEN. Six small boys were arrested on
Friday night for annoying the people living in the
neighborhood of the Fourth Street Park by declar-
ing that they had seen the apparition of a woman in
the Park.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
YONKERS. The persons living on the site of the
proposed depot of the Yonkers and New-York Rapid
Transit Railroad have received notice to vacate
their premises by February 15. The officers of the
company assert that the road will be in running
order from Getty Square to the junction with the
New-York City and Northern Railroad within three
months.
LONG ISLAND.
LONG ISLAND CITY. The Board of Aldermen
held a special meeting yesterday, and adopted reso-
lutions in favor of abolishing the Police Board and
substituting for it a commission composed of the
Mayor, the President of the Common Council and
the Supervisor. The Commissioners now acting are
paid a salary of $500 each, but the new Board is to
do the work for nothing.... A young man, William
Ricker, living at Hunter's Point, was arrested on
Wednesday on a charge of burglary. He was placed
in a cell in the Hunter's Point Police Station, but
within five hours he succeeded in crawling through
a hole in the partition dividing his cell from the ad-
joining one, the door of which was unlocked. Then
he made his way out of the building. The police
kept the fact of the escape very quiet in hopes of
rearresting him, but they have not been successful.
The Coroner's jury in the case of Matthew
Curran, who died at Blissville on January 17, has
found a verdict virtually holding Officer Grinham
responsible for the man's death. Coroner Robinson
still bolds Grinham under bonds.
RIDGEWOOD.--Francis Spittel, living in Myrtle-
ave., di covered on January 29 that an attempt
had been made to burn his dwelling. Fire had
been built in the lower hall, the flames burning
through the door panels. A tire had also been kin-
died under the cellar stairs. Max Leitzenberger,
his wife and his brother, Jacob were arrested on
suspicion, and yesterday, after a lengthy examma-
tion before Justice McKenna, at Maspeth, they were
committed.
STATEN ISLAND.
RICHMOND.- The Democrats have made the fol-
lowing nominations for Supervisors: Westfield,
Gilbert C. Dean; Northfield, S. D. Riddle, south-
field, Nathaniel Marsh; Middletown, George Bech-
tel; and Castleton, Robert Moore.
TAPLETON.-The Society Erheiterung has for-
warded $1,500 more for the sufferers by the floods
in Germany.
