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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.
