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Ijc gostoiT gntln 6kfc: ggflnbag lltgrnmg, gctcmkt 30, 1S72. GENTS1 GOODS. 1 Hi fll'I'Y HIJCJKL most remarkable pigmies ever seon, will amiear in their unique entertainments here, three times each day. The Long Wharf Fire. On Saturday morning a number of teams and men were busily at work digging nut various goo Is from among tbe rains with which the end of the wharf was covered.

The tire was first discovered in the office of Joseph C. Cole, United States weigher, and spread with buch rapidity that the entire contents of the office were destroyed, including a valuable set of standard weights belonging to the government and used in the testing apparatus employed bv the United States weighers. A large quantity of baled cotton and cotton cloth was destroyed, and what remained lay buried in snow and ice. Among either valuable property three pianos were burned in less than half an hour after being left on the wharf by an expressman. The Ball-room.

December 31 Annual ball of the Knights of St. Patrick, at Horticultural Hall third annual ball of the Shawmiu Boat Club, at Bovlston Hall. January 1 Festival of the Warren Street Chapel, at Music Hall, afternoon anil evening. January 2 First of a series of sociables, by the Boston Light Infantry, at Minot Hall. January 3 First annual ball af Walter E.

Hawes Engine Company, at Wait's Hall. January 7 Annual ball of the Ninth regiment, at Music Hall. January 15-Annual ball of tbe North End Fishing Club, at Horticultural Hall. ing the year, $1,399,421 47; earnings, net earnings above operating excuses, $574,201 36. The Boston, Hartford and Erie has a debt of expenses for operating the road, $637,454 46; total earnings, $841,391 74; net earnings above operating expenses, $203,937 28.

RELIEF MATTERS. Report of tbe Committee to Solicit Aid. The work of relief went on Saturday art usual, at, the Charden street building. It is purposed to discontinue the workingmen's bureau after next Thursday, inasmuch as it seems impossible to furnish employment to any more applieatit.8 at present, and cases among the unemployed in need of relief can be attended to by the general committee. The number of new applications at the general committee's rooms was fifty at the moil's employment bureau, about twenty.

The Summer street fire fund has now reached a total of $330,601 89. The labors of the committee to solicit aid, of which Mr. George B. Upton was chuirman, are now brought to a close. The committee has received at it rooms $135,000 60 Expenses tor assistant, renting, postage and stationery 4 80 There was paid in addition to this amount into the hands of Oils Noreross, treasurer, by the members of the $00,000 00 Making an aggregate of collections liiOOO W) The chairman, on behalf of the committee, returns their thanks to Mr.

W. R. Browu, the treasurer, and assistant, for the zeal and fidelity with which his duties have been performed. The services of tbe Hon. George B.

Upton as chairman of the committee on colled ine subscriptions for the benefit of the sutferers by the late tire, deserve the hearty thanks of all our fellow-citizens. With commendable promptness and zeal he accepted the losition a few days after tho great tire, and from that day to the present he has been constantly engaged iu the various duties incident to tho othce, in organizing cominitbses of the various trades and occupations, iu the collection by jiersonal solicitations of upwards of of the $226,000 secured nd paid over to Hon. Otis Norcross, general treasurer of the relit committee. To the active assistance ami continued interest of the secretary, Mr. Henry Callen-der, and to the several gentlemen of the committee, Mr.

Galtield, and others, and also to the several chairmen of the many sub-committees, f.re our thanks clue, for the saorilice of time and personal duties, in-ciiient to the acceptance of such positions. The energy and devotion displayed by our elder merchant. Messrs. Norcross, Upton, Gray and Callender, and others, iu this season of our city's trial, will long be remembered, aud are worthy the emulation of those v. hose heads are not silvered with the frosts of age.

Mrs. L. E. Caswell gratefully acknowledges the receipt of the following gifts during the past week for Portuguese women. luemtxTS of her industrial school, at No.

201 North street (fioston North End ission), who do-not yet find employment on account of tbe small-pox in their vicinity Mrs. Helen Hunt. Newjuirt, It. 1 proceeds of an entertainment by the yfung ladies of the Lassell- French Seminary, $:13 50; Mrs. Francis Hush, $10; James W.

Bteck, Shrewsbury, Mrs. George Ripley, Andover, $10; from the Abbott Female Seminary, Andover. two barrels clothing; from the "ladies of Andover," one barrel of new clothing; from Mrs. K. il.

Storer.Cam-I ridgc, one trunk of clothing; from Mrs. P. Quincy, one package clothing; from Mrs. Eitward Atkinson, Boston, four packages clothing; from Salem, through Mrs. Browning and Mrs.

E. B. Dav. one Iwrrel of clothing. All donors of clothing will please mark tho packages or barrels: "For the Portuguese, No.

201 North street. OFFICERS ELECTED. Insurance Companies. Eliot Insurance Company: President, Goorge A. Curtis; secretary, William M.

Lathrop; directors, George A. Curtis, David W. Williams, 11. Augustus Johnson. Daniel Davies, Koliert Codman, kieth Turner, Cai ini E.

King, Calvin V. Haven, John Hogg, Joseph 11. Moors, Charles A. CumiuiugH. Francis Dane, James T.

Haywaid, William M. Lathrop, Isaac P. T. Isaac Taylor. Dwelling House 1 usurance Company President, Arthur William llobart secretary, Henry F.

Perkins; directors, George C. Richardson, Avery Pluiuer, Alexander Strong, James M. lichee. Otis Norcross, H. Real, N.J.

Bradlee, L. Little. Henry P. Kidder, Walter Hastings. A.

S. Wheeler, John 1). W. Joy. Augustus Flagg, Charles Merriaiu, Arthur William llobart.

Post 7, G. A. It. Commander, William H.Cutidy; senior vice-commander, A)lo-rt W. Dyer; junior vice-commander, 'Jhaddeus Churchill; quartermaster, John McKay, surgeon, William Woods, M.

D. chaplain, Sam). Vaughan; officer of the day, E. B. Mcehan; otlicer of the guard, John Scales; trustees of relief fund, L.

S. Hapgood, E.H.Woods, William I'farT, E. E. Wetherbee, J. S.

Dwyer; delegates to department convruliou. A. W. liver, E. H.

Woods, Herbert Smith, hn MKav, W. W. Hanscom, Thomas 11. Rees, William Pfall, E. A.

Millard, G. B. Martis; alternates. S. Vaughan.

J. W. Chickie, Win. Christie, ('. R.

Wairen, E. B. Median, J. S. Dwyer, James McKay, Howard Byrne, George Itoafe.

National Council of Debonair. Chief. H.C. Osgood. Manchester, N.

marshal, M. H. Wadsworth. Boston swordsman, J. O.

Coleman, Boston; corresponding secretary, A. W. Cross-ley, Boston treasurer, W. L. Crnoker, Washington.

D. C. secretary, W. Boyce, Woodstock, Vt. The following officers were chosen, for the coming year, at the annual meeting of Tims Council of the Stx-iety of Debnairs: Chief, G.

B. Colter, Boston; marshal, church, and believed hi the general iniquity of the clergy. The sciences and arts which had km? been devoted to religion then sought a broader sphere. Tnscany was the preat centre of the light ami heat which warmed the movement. Mr.

Perkins also short sketches from the lives of Antonio Plrila-rete and Francisco Cclloima, authors of the fifteenth century. The annual meeting of the Club will be held ou Wednesday evening. PRESENTATIONS. Mr. T.

B. Gaskill, one of the proprietors of the Revere Honse, who has accepted a call from the proprietors of the Grand Pacifie Hotel in Chicago to undertake the duties of steward in that establishment, was pleasantly surprised on Saturday evening, by the employes of the Revere House, who presented him with an elegant set of cutlery, consisting of a roast beef knife and fork, a turkey knife and fork and a eteel knife-shariiener. The blades are of tine silver steel, highly polished, ami the handle of each is ivory, mounted with solid gold. Upon one side of each is a gold tablet bearing the name T. B.

Gaskill, and upon the opposite the inscription: From the employes of the Revere House, Boston, Decemter, 1M2." The set was manufactured at a cost of The presentation was made by Mr. H. M. English, the assistant steward of the house, and Mr. Uaskill returned his thanks in a brief speech.

The remainder of the evening was pleasantly occupied with social speech-making and conversation. Mr. O. Clapp, long the superintendent of the white work department of the establishment of Jordan. Marsh was presented with a handsome silver frnit service by the work women under his charge; sinel Mrs.

Baxter, the head cutter, was the recipient of a silver pitcher, salver and goblets from the Bams source. llr. Charles A. riutuer was presented with a russia-bound set of the Encyclopedia Britannica, in a hanessome mahogany case, by the uireetors of the haple National Bank, for the valuable assistance he rendered in aiding in removing their books and valuables to a place of safety on the night of the great fire. Mr.

Thomas McVey has been presented, by his friends, with a handsome gold watch and chain, valued at S15U, and bearing au appropriate inscription. On Christmas night, at a meeting of the North End Fishing Club, Edward Aveling and Matt. Dew nes were made the recipients of gifts from their fellow-members. Mr. Aveling was presented with a solid gold shield, with a fish, also of gold, attached, and Mr.

Downes with an elegant gold Maltese crow. At the rooms of the Sew England Agricultural Society, on Saturday morning, Mr. H. M.Clarke of Belmont, was presented with two testimonials in honor of his tine herd of Swiss cattle, one consisting of the medal of the society and the other, trom the New Hampshire Society, of a picture, in water colors, of a Swiss bull, cow and calf. The officers of the Junior Sodality of St.

Mary's Church have presented their director, Rev. W. H. Duncan, with a silver watch. Rev.

D. T. Packard of the Brighton Congregational Society rectived a Christmas gift from members of his congregation, amounting to the sum of over four hundred dollars. Mr. S.

Burt, foreman of tbe material department of the American Watch Company, and Miss Sanborn, one of the book-keepers, were presented with goid watches on Christmas by their associates at the factory. LECTURES. The third of the series of lectures npon "Daily Life" at the South Congregational Church, was delivered yesterday afternoon by Rev. S. H.

Winkley. The subject chosen by Mr. Winkley was, "Christianity In our relatious to the poor," and the text chosen for the discourse was the seventh and eighth versos of the fifteenth chapter of. Deuteronomy. Mr.

Winkle commenttd at some length uiion the way theoid law was spoken of. and said that many of its provisions would be excellent legislation for even this advanced stage of civilization. Indiscriminate charity was thought by tbe speaker to be injurious, and where beggars, known to be such, for charity we should aid them to recover theirnianbood rather than by thoughtless giving encourage them in their debasing occupation. The question of relieving poverty is a difficult one to solve, ami requires earnest Christian effort as well as worldly means. The lecture was interesting throughout, anl full of practical bints in regard to the disbursement of charity drawn from the personal experiences of the speaker.

The attendance upon the lecture was larie, but the fact that all the pews are open to the public during tbe course should cause a much larger attendance during the rest of the series, in which some of the leading speakers of this city and its vicinity will lecture. The third lecture in the New England Women's course was delivered in the Meionaon, on Saturday afternoon, by Miss Maria Mitchell, on the Bubject of Astronomy, the lecturer taking for her esnecial illustration the constellation so familiarly known as Ursa Major, or the Great Bear. Virginia Vaughn will deliver the next lecture. Subject, Genius aud Traue. The siieakers at the Sunday afternoon lecture before the Free Religious Association are Messrs.

Oo-tavius B. Frr.thingham, T. W. Higgiuson, William C. Gannett.

William J. Potter, Francis E. Abbott and John Weiss. These lectures will begin Suuday next, at three o'clock, in Horticultural Hail, and there will be no charge for admission. The lecture which was to be given at Boffin's Bower on Saturday evening was postponed, and gave place to an interesting discussion ou the question of suffrage for women.

Miss Kate Stanton will deliver her lecture on the Loves of Great Men, before the Young Men's Christian Association, this evening. gPEClAL NOTICE. IF1 IR, A FEW DAYS ONLY, TO REDUCE STOCK. Best English and French Diagonal Suits Fine Business Suits Street Suits PanU 11 All to be made from measure in the very best manner, and warranted to suit and fit. fine Hne of GENTS FURNISHINGS, including fitting Sturts to order), very much under usual prices.

JACKMAN, 209 Washington Street (Corner of Bromfield). HEN THE SNOW Is deep and children can't go out, a box of Masquerade Blocks, a Music Box, Parcheesi Board, or some Bound Game, ill make them happy if it is obtained at fjl II I It Wasliington Street. Jftacullar, Williani3 Parker. We will take orders in our CUST03I BEPAKT3IENT For Overcoats to be made to measure, in the best manner, from Kockhacker's best German Beaver Coatings, and Carr's English Ely si an Beaver, tor THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS. Usual prices from JfD to J'iO.

ALSO. Business Coat, made to order in any style from the best English and German Worsted Coatings, at THIRTY DOLLARS. Late prices $33 to 40. ALSO Trousers, from a lot of first-class English Fancy Casrfimeres, at TEN AND TWELVE DOLLARS. Former prices $13 to J1S.

ALSO Suits from the BEST QUALITY of BOCKHACK-EK'S GERMAN CASTOR EDREDON Black, Blue and other colors (a large lot bought Just previous to the fire, and saved) FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS PER SUIT. (Coat 827. Trousers $13, Waistcoat $5.) Usual pi ices 23 to 35 per cent, higher. At these prices these goods are very cheap, bnt we wish to offer decided inducements for our customers to find us in our new place of business, and also to be able to umfsh work to all our custom hands through the winter. We also offer in our RETAIL CLOTHING DEPARTMENT A lot of Overcoats at TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS.

Marked down from $39 and $15. These are lots in which the sizes are somewhat broken, but still in very good assortment, andaremade from fine German beaver coatings, Carr's Eugnsa treble milled drab Meltons, English Kerseys, and other first-class goods. Also, another assorted lot of Overcoats for TWENTY DOLLARS, ot Beaver, Melton and Chinchilla coatings, marked down from $22, $25 and $30. We have also marked down the balance of several lots of Business Coats to TWELVE DOLLARS. Form er prices, $14 to $20.

Macullar, Williams Parker, 33 Washington Street, BETWEEN COURT STREET St CQRXHILL. NOTHER, Lr Of those cut fjlass Paper Weights for Photographs, received this day, and the price will be only 75 cents, at leOVEJOY'S. JAXY GOO DS Which were ordered too late lor Christmas sales have been received to-day, and are now opening lor our New Year's assortment, at LOVEJOY'S. "WILL J3E PUBLISHED FRIDAY, JAN. 3, 1873, THE Boston Mcthln (Slcrk.

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TERMS One Sobscriber One Vear Two Four Six Ten Fifteen S2.0O 3.30 6.0O 8.50 13.0O 18.75 BRIEF LOCAL NEWS. Deaths in Boston, last week, 167. The farewell dinner of the Common Council is announced for Thursday evening. The Baptists will hold a watch meeting in Tre-mont Temple, to-morrow evening. The draw of the West Boston bridge will, iu a few months, be moved by steam power.

The widening of Otis and Devonshire streets will come up before the street commissioners to-day. The Cunard steamer Siberia is expected at this port to-day. She will sail hence on Wednesday. A reunion of the graduates of Bowdoin College will take place in this city on the 22d of January. The pleasant announcement i made that Mayor Pierce's inaugural address will be short but suggestive.

Three Liverpool steamers are now on the way to Boston the Sir Francis, the Texas and the Chesapeake. The fair in aid of Huntington Honse will be open this ami to-morrow evenings, lrom seven to ten o'clock. Measures have lwen taken by the Metropolitan and Middlesex railroad cotupauics to disinfect, their cars dally. A strip of land on Pearl street six inches wide was last week for $S45. It was one hundred and Unity felt long, A Christmas: entertainment, is to be given by the ladies ct the New England omen Club, at their rooms, this afternoon.

The excellent sleighing has brought the horse-traders to this city in large numbers, but business is, as vet, not very brisk. Mr. H. D. Litchfield of the Stale Police has resigned, ami will become assistant superintendent of the Metropolitan after January 1.

Mr. C. L. Fowle of this citv has received a government contract for 5600 clastic sKinge inaltrassea for use in the United States navy. The annual sermon before the South Boston Samaritan Society was delivered iu Phillips Church, last evening, by Rev.

George A. Thayer. The championship pennant will lie presented to the Boston Base Ball Club, to-morrow evening, at Braekett's Hall. The friends of the club are invited. The branch of the Woman's Union Missionary Society of the Beach Street Presbyterian Church paid $00 last year for the support of a missionary at Allahabad, ludia.

At Messenger Brothers', on Bromfield street, there is a trout preserve and a trout breeding establishment, which attracts considerable attention from those who visit the place. The contract for building the new small-pox hospital has been awarded to Smith Co. at $9500. It must lie linished within ten working days from the date of awarding the contract. Those ho admire fo see fast driving should now visit the Brighton road those contrary minded will enjoy tbe spectacle of the lines of dump carts getting through the lanes of the burnt district.

A Christmas festival was held in the Chapel of the Gooil Shepherd on Saturday eveniug. Girts were distributed among the scholars and remarks were made by the rector and by Russell Sturgis, Jr. O. L. Gillett of this city, manufacturer of cigars and denier in cigars and' tobacco, has failed.

His lmhihto are stated at It is thought that he will pay between forty and fifty cents on the dollar. The second annual exhibition of tho Massachusetts Poultry Association will take place in Music Hall on January 14, and the next following three days. Upwards of $2500 ill premiums will be offered. The black horse "Pet." one of the fine span attached for a lopg time to Steamer No. 4, died, on Saturday morning, from the effects of tbe epizootic, aggravated by arduous service in hauling' the steanier to tbe Ixmg wharf tire Friday.

Miss Pcabody's lectures on "Child Gardening." which will continue till the last week in May, will henceforth free, aod begin at three and a half o'clock on Saturdays, at the vestry of the Swedeu-lKirgian Church, oh Bowdoin street. The new floating steam engine, the William M. Flanders, which has not yet formally been delivered to the fire department of Boston. wa. taken from the dork at East Boston on Friday, on the occasion of the tire on Long wharf, and worked to the satisfaction of every one.

The singing schools, opened a month ago by the Boston Catholic Choral Society, have proved emiently successful, and upwards of one thousand young ladies and pentlemiiii are at present attending the sessions, evening, January 6th, another school will be opened in East Boston. A very interesting tcmjvranee meeting was held in the hall of the ltoslon Young Men's Christian Association, under the auspices oi the temperance society of tbe association, Saturday evening. After the si taking the pledge was circulated and received the signatures of many of those present. A handsome marble-front building will be erected by Mr. W.

C. Tebbets and Mr. C. L. Healey at the corner of Summer and Kingston st reets.

where the great lire started. It will be lour stories high, with a Mansard roof and will have an inscription marking it as the spot where the tire began. The commission appointed to investigate the circumstances attending the great fire of November 9tb and loth, will hold their last meeting on Thursday next, and will report as soon thercaf ler as tbe testimony can be printed. The commission has held ut-wards of thirty meetings and examined over two hundred witucsscs. The meuilicrs of the Boston Base Ball Club and all interested in the game are invited to meet at Braekett's Hall, 409 Washington street this evening, to witness the presentation of the champion pennant.

A large meeting is anticipated, as tlie interest in the game has been sufficient to add a large number of names to tbe rolls of the new club. The railroad commissioners have decided to allow tbe city of Boston to build bridges over the Boston aud Albany railroad at Beacon street and Brook-line avenue, with a headway of fifteen feet instead of the eighteen feet required by the general law. 1 his is done at the ish tif all interested parties so as greatly to diminish the expense of this necessary improvement. A social meeting will lie held in tho hall of the Young Men's Christian Union, to-morrow evening. Addresses are expected from Rev.

Phillips Brooks, Rev. E. E. Hale. Rev.

J. F. W. Ware, and others. There will lie music and tduging, and a part of the evening ill be spent in the Union coffee rooms.

These mbined attractions present rare inducements for an evening of profit and enjoyment to the young men. A petition, signed by a numlier of Citizens of East Cambridge and thers, has been presented to the Governor for a commutation of tlie sentence of James McFlhancy, who murdered bis wife by shooting her nt tbe house of her parents in Roxbury, and who is now in the Suffolk comity jail awaiting execution. It is probable a hearing' will be granted the petitioners as shiu as tlie next executive council is organized. Any one who believes in the physical degeneracy of the American people should stand for ten minutes at the head of Sudbury street, and note the agile swiftness with which the men of Charlestown rush down that thoroughfare and jump on board the Middlesex horse-cars, and any one who fears that the doctrine of womau's rights is too widely prevalent in Massachusetts shonld see how patiently the ladies of Charlestown stand upon the platforms of the cars while their chivalrous protectors sit inside. DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Italia Opera. On Monday evening next the Lucca opera troupe will appear at the Boston Theatre, in fulfilment of an engagement for a brief season of Italian opera. Tlie troujie is a very full one, and beside Madame Pauline Lucca and Mis? Clara Louise Kellogg, consists of Mme. Kosine Lcveille, together with Scnora Eleanor Sauz, contralto; Signor Abrug-ntdo and Signor Vizzani, tenors; Signor Moriami, and Signor Sparapani, baritones; Signor Jamet and Signor Coulon, bassos; and Signor Giorgio Ronconi, basso buffo. For second parts, the troupo contains Miss Coonv, Signora Manresa, Lyall, Cetto and Bat-tachi.

Signor tl. Santi is chorus master, and Max Maretzek ami G. Car lbetg are conductors. The re-icrtoire, as advertised, consists of the following operas: "Faust." "Huguenots." "Trovatore," "Mig-non," "Don Giovanni," "lc Nozzi di Figaro." "Tra-viata," "La Favorita," and "Linda di Chamonnix." Hie owning opera will be "Faust," in which Lucca will give her wonderful impersonation of Marguerite, pronounced by all who have witnessed it tbe most striking aud powerful interpretation of the role that the lyric stage can lioast of. Want of space a niore ttetailed account of the troupe, but we shall recur to the subject at greater length in a day or wo.

The sale of seats is to commence ou Thursday next at tbe box office of the theatre. Gi.org Theatre. The last week of the engagement of Miss Carlotta Leclcrcq begins to-night, when Pygmalion and Galatea," with its fine acting, beautiful scenery and its charming illusion of the dissolving datue, will be repeated. It will hold the stage through the week until Saturday night, which has been set apart for the benefit of Miss Leclcrcq, aud on which occasion she will appear in two favorite characters. The popular comedian, Mr.

W. .1. Florence, will commence an engagement here Monday, January 6. Boston Musecm. A varied programme ia announced here for the week.

To-night and to-morrow night "The Angel of Midnight" will he performed, for the last times; Wednesday afternoon and evening, Camille," for the last time; Thursday, last time of "Oliver Twist" and the Warren farce, Tlie Post of Honor;" Friday, Richard for the benefit of r. Charles Barron Saturday afternoon' and evening, first and only time this season of "East Lycne." Boston Theatre. The popular drama, "Tlie St reefs of New York," will be performed here every evening this week, and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Mr. Harry Bloodgood has been engaged expressly to play Bob, and Masters Kelly and Case will represent the street boys.

Tbe Seigristd and their perfoiming dogs and the Arabs will aiso appear in tlieii popular and amusing acts. Mr. Liu is Aldrich will enact Badger, and t.ie whole strength of the company will appear in the Howard Athknjeum. A new and original comic pantomime entitled "Flick and Flock" will be produced here, to-night, with new scenery, mechanical effects, elegant costumes, tricks and transformations. The popular and Bartholomew, with their entire troupe of fifty performers, will appear in this piece.

It will be given every evening during the week antli on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Tkjemont Temple. The Fairy Sisters, two of the SERMONS ON THE PARABLES. Dr. Lorimer's Fourth DisH-onrse.

The Rev. Dr. George 0. Lorimer, pastor of the Shawmut Avenue Baptist Church, preached the fourth his series of "Sermons on the Parables," yesterday evening. The congregation was large, newly filling the building.

Taking for bis text the words found in Matthew, 44, 45, 46, he considered the two parables of the treasure hidden in a field, and of tbe merchant seeking the pearl of great price, so intimately related to each other that it was best to consider them both together. The Golden Age of the ancients, said the preacher, iB not a myth it is a fragment of history which helps to prove that God's word is true. Man in the beginning was, as the legend says, simple-minded and virtuous, with but few wants and craving. It may seem strange, both that the age should bo called golden, since with gold and the lust of it is associated so much of the misery and crime of tho world. Yet, with wealth is closely connected tbe prosperity, the education and tho civilization of the world.

Let us realize that, while evil has beeu associated with wealth as. indeed, with everything in this world, vet that much of our good and the wotld's good lies in that very commodity. And so the age in which God's favor was esiocially manifested to man has been called the Gildeu Age. The Scriptures, both old and new, tell usof the treasures of God's grace and the jewels in His crown. So the Saviour would express, in these parables, the exceeding value of the great salvation which Ho came to obtain for us.

As salvation is of value, so we must place upon it a proper valuation. Another vear is declining; it does not find you where you were cue year ago. Affliction aud death have viaited your households; many lessons should have Iweii learnt by the bitter experiences of the proud sliijw going down at sea, or the great city given over to the flames. Have you not seen the valuclessncss and uncertainty of earthly riches? That salvation is of value may be learnt from a consideration of the parable of the pearl, which in former times ranked as does the diamond to-day. Whenever we look upon treasure, we think of the toil and sacrifices necessary to obtain it.

The pearl must lie sought for, at great peril, in the depths of the sea. So we rejoice over the birth of Christ, but cannot help thinking of his death en the the cross, nor separate Bethany from Calvary. The pearl not, like the diamond, to be made into beautiful forms by artificial means; it is perfect in itself, and so a beautiful type of the perfect salvation ofChiist. Again, we find that there is a time of discovery for this treasure, for it is hidden. So the sidvali in of Jesus, though it has Unshed upon the world, because of the veil tin men's faces, is not to be discovered bv the nipss of men.

Men dwelt in the valleys of California long before the discovery of gold, dwelt very near the treasure, but knew it not. Sometimes wa see that the salvation of Jesus is made known to men suddenly, whilo they are not thinking of it, as in the case of Paul and many others since. But it the duty of all. as enforced by the teachings of these parables, to strive and search for the great treasure, lhesemen sold all that they had to gain the treasure or the pearl; why have some of yon not so striven for the saving grace of God? Ilo-ligion. if worth anvthing.

is worth everything. Many like a little religion at funerals or marriages or christenings, or when death is approaching. Now religion is indeed a great blessing in view of eternity. But tbat is not all. In spite of misrepresentations, evangelical Christians give it a higher valuation than that of n.ere preparation for future life.

It is to cheer and comfort man all his life through. This is the last lesson of the vear. We are hastening towards the eternal land. Docs any one say that it is all a suiH-rstition. that there is no land ahead? As well tell the perishing sailors on board of the ships that went down in the storm, that home and fireside were but a dream, and hud no real existence.

Are we sailing cauily towards the eternal land, or are we in the storm, with the drifting snows ot the world's delusion blinding the vision? If so, let us break away from them, and see clearly that the only enduring thing is God's salvation. SUNDAY-SCHOOL ANNIVERSARIES. t'nion Church. The fiftieth anniversary of the Union Church Sunday-! chool was celebrated, yesterdity afternoon. The church was not crowded, but the attendance, both of scholars and congregation, was very good.

The exercises consisted of singing, recitations, and there were addresses by the pastor, the Rev. if. M. Parsons, the Kv. Nehennah Adan D.

and the Rev. Albert G. Plume of Fort k-ci it, Kan. Tho superintendent's report for lie year stiuwel the school to be in a very prospeious condition. Several missionaries, lioth in the unsettled portions of this country and in other lands, have been supported in part by contributions from this school.

The chancel was prettily deeorated with flowers for the occasion. Dr. Adams, in his address, sjKike in feeling terms of the interest which he felt in the Sabbath school, and gave an inteiesting account of the celebration of the tweuty-hfth anniversary in the old church on Essex street. St. Matthew's Church.

The Christmas office of the Sunday-school of St. Matthew's Church. South Boston, occurred evening. church was filled with the members of the school, then" parents and friends, and the exercises were of Interest. The decorations of the church for tl Christmas season were very elaborate and in excellent taste.

The exercises were intro-ouced by the singing of an opening hymn by the scholars, and this was followed by the invitation, tbe general confession, absolution and Lord's prayer, hymn, the Magnificat, the chapter, hymn, the" Kieene creed, anthem, superintendent's report, carol, address by the rector, Rev. J. I. T. Coolidge, earol, presentation of offerings.

Christmas carol and the blessing. The superintendent's report gave the total numlier of tbe school as in 2ti classes. Both Bcholars and teachers have been very reenlar in their attendance. The offerings of the children were 133 for the year, and the total re ceipts for the school were 37. The library numbers about the same as last year, 3iio volumes.

The address by the rector, who has been connected with the parish over ten years, was full of good advice for the children and hearty encouragement for all the friends of the school. Young Men's Christian Union. The Sunday evening service at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Uuion was conducted by Rev. A. W.

Jackson. He preached from Galatians, 7: "Whatsovtr a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Tbe aim of the discourse was to show upon philosophical principles that the dictum of the Scripture was correct. He illustrated by quoting from Plato, and showed that that master of heathen philosophy had taught the precise doctrine of the text. The soul of man is elevated to its original purity by right doing, and degenerates toward the animal or carnal state by pursuing be opposite course. Taking PI ito's doctrine of the transmigration of souls in a metaphorical rather than a literal sense, it is true, aud is consistent with the Biblical doctrine of the soul's degeneracy and its restoration.

Right doing is to be inculcated, not upon the ground that it is the best policy, nor upon the ground that it will be rewarded by heaven hereafter, but because it constitutes the normal and legitimate activity of the soul. The instinct of tbe soul is coincident with the will of 1W Creator. The Railroad Robbery. It will be remembered that about two months ago an employe of the Old Colony Railroad Company was knocked down in one of the passageways of the station of that corporation, and robbed of a large sum of money. Tbetxaet amount of money was 83195, and there were money-orders to the value of $931 33.

The miscreant successfully escaped at the time. Officers Brown and McCausland of the First police have meanwhile been looking the matter up, and believe that they have evidence that wilj show a man named James Maynes, whom they have arrested, to lie guilty of the crime. Maynes was brought before the Municipal Court on Saturday, and held in io to appear January 1st next for further examination. Mr. James W.

Wood, the man robbed, being out of town at present, ha not yet identiilo i the prisoner as bis assailant. Maynes is said to be respectably connected, his father being a wealthy oil merchant in Pennsylvania. Though having good opportunities to lead a reputable life, he has preferred the companionship of thieves and criminals, and has for some months past been travelling about the city vtiih two notorious characters named Whitney and Hew ins. All three are well known lolhe North End police, and have within a short time been convicted of a smaller offence of a similar character. The Old South Church.

And now comes the antiquary who has raked up from the ashes of the past the fact that the Old South Church came as near to being consumed by Ere sixty-two years ago as on the occason of tbe recent conflagration; indeed, it came nearer to destruction, since it was only by the courage and activity of Mr. Isaac Harris, ho mounted the of and cut away with an axe the burning gutter, that the building was saved. In commemoration of and gratitude for this act the society presented Mr. Harris a massive silver pitcher, bearing this inscription "To Mr. Isaac Harris, for bis intrepid and successful exertions on the roof of Old South Church, when on fire.

December 2th, 1810, the society presents this token of their gratitude. Boston, January 29th, 1811." On one side of this inscription is the monogram, and on the other an engraving of tho wing of the church, ami the li reman at work with his axe. Tbe pitcher is still in the possession of his descendants. Mr. Harris was a mechanic of note at the North End.

and represented his fellow-citizens in both branches of the Legislature and in both branches of the city government. Railroad Statistics. By returns at the railway commissioners office. It appears that the total debt of the Boston and Albinv railroad is $3,567,500 capital stock paid in, passengers carried during the year. 5.217,570; passengers carried one mile, 113,047,321 tons carried, 2.732,167; average fare of a transient passenger, per mile, 2 9-100 cents; average rate of freight per hi, per mile.

2 S7-100 cents; expended for operating road, 12; fotalearnings, 81; net income above operating expenses, $2,302,614 69. On the Fitchburg railroad Ihe total number of pas-seiiger carried during the year was expenses for operating the road, $1, 48; iasen-ger reetij ts, $524,420 28'; freight receipts. $7f 19.930 2.1 total earnings, fi2; net earnings abjve op-etaiirg expenses, 34 87. Cn ti Eastern railroae the total amount of debt is 30; expended for operating the road dur ird Island and Deer Island Insti tutions. action of the directors for public insti- liner fur mi additional annrniiriation tO neuse of the transfer of a part of the t.

1 1 11 lue DUlieiingR OU JXUIIISIUIU iewtu, i the change which has thug been made in rrti inn nt tun nnniie. rnariues. luenmi sonie change from the nituerto-existing ents by which the poor were sought to be a for at ueer island was imperative, xue oi inmates oe uie nouse oi iiiuumijt ucreasea witn me increase or fioimiaiioii iiiae. jlWIlUMUIHIUlK l.hilie ui lug eiw-o v. the Deer island building hatl been yicielen up, one hundred and seventy inmates of the House of Industry had to sleep on the floor of the main building.

Some relief has been gained by vacating the wing heretofore occupied by the male paupers, now transferred to Rainsford island, but the fact is that the ity has outgrown its reformatory and charitable institution buildings, and expansion in this particular will be required for the future. The buildings thus occupied at Bainsrord island are the brick building which stands near the shore and one of the wooden buildings close by. The mansion kouse npon the hill is also made U6e of for the residence of the superintendent, and physician of this department of the almshouse. Only the adult males have been taken to the island, and their number at present is about one hundred and forty. In one of the wings of the Deer island building there are two hundred and twenty-five women, forty koys and thirty girls of the pauper class.

The full limit of the accommodations at Rainsford island have been taken up to provide comfortably and decently for the men. The largo building toward the southerly end of the island, which, from its classic style of architecture, gives feature to the place and is a noted landmark for voyagers in the harbor, has been greatly neglected in years past, no epais having been made and the doors having been left open, so that the driving storms had full access to the interior. The floors are decayed and so rotten as to be' unsafe, the roof is leaky and affords httle or no shelter, and the structure is not regarded as worth repairing. The buildings now used are in good order and have been supplied with steam-heating and bathing apparatus and other fixtures, the expense of which in part account!) for the extra appropriation called for. The entire accommodations provided are very comfortable, and the sit nation of the paupers would be regarded by many of theirclassin other placeman enviable one.

There is, however, sort of Robinson Crusoe loneliness about the place which makes it fall short of being a paradise even for poor men. and many of the inmates regret the absence of the livelier scenes, the constant going ami coming of the city steamer, and various embarkations and disembarkations of the island from which they have been removed. The aims-house census varies with the changing sea-sou. A considerable part of its inhabitants have certain migrator instincts for which Mr. Darwin would, ready explanation.

Winter had not set in when the regular boarders were transferred to liaint-ford inland, and they numbered only eighty. The cold snap or the several snaps which have since visited Bestuu have added sixty recruits to the army of occupation. Next May and June will find this unstable population again domiciled in their favorite haunts on the mainland. All right-minded people Fvmpathize with the homeless and destitute, and the majority of such would gladly make that sympathy practical by lending a helpiug hand. A tale of forlorn and famine-stricken poverty, whether told by Dickens or by the average newspaper reporter, sets many hearts to throbbing, and were the sufferer visibly present, the spectacle would bring tears to the eyas of many witnesses and cash from the depths of many pockets.

A short experience as a member of the board of public charities would lead all such to discriminate, and they would learn to divide the people thus bereft of worldly goods and resources pretty evenly into three classes. These are, first, the respectable and worthy poor for whom our tears and our money may properly flow. A representative of this clas is presented by Burns a The wretch laid already low By cruel foitune undeserved blow." They are the victims of circumstances. Sickness, or accident, may have disabled them sr that profitable labor is no longer possible; a conflagration or a shipwreck has swept away their property, when years have so gathered upon them hat effort" for its restoration is impracticable, or an imprudent friend or downright swindler has managed to entangle their possessions in the meshes of the law, so that only the shadow of ownership remains to them. The second class are a combination of inebriates and criminals.

Convicted criminals are, of course, not sent to the almshouse, but there are those who are unsteady even in their viciousnesa. They keep on a while in some bumble industry suddenly fall from grace before me temptation to petty thieving, or transgress the law in some foolish brawl. Justice, in the shape of a policeman, overtakes them, they serve out a sentence in one of the penal institutions, and when once again at liberty, anil the conundrum, How to get a living? is presented, they give it up, and the almshouse opens its doors for their reception. After a while, they rccoverin some degree their moral, as their comrades, the inebriates, do their physical, stamina, and they go forth again with a real purpose and desire to become self-supporting and iu-dependent, wherein the chances are at least even that they fail. The third class are the subjects of an inborn, ingrained and incorrigible vagabondism.

To such life would not be worth living at the c-tst of honestly helning themselves. Lack of enterprise rather than height of moral character has preserved them from crime, and they drift into the almshouse as naturally as bottle corks thrown into tha river float down the stream. The idea of those most conversant with the subject is, that the almshouse thould be a building of that amplitude and so constructed that these three classes might be segregated as they properly belong. THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. Annual Meeting of the Corporation.

The annual meeting of the corporation of this instil ution was held at No. 21 Sears building on Saturday last. The reports of the board of managers, treasurer, and medical staff were presented, and showed that the hospital is doing an excellent work among the children of the poorer classee, having furnished a home to many children during attacks of disease, or while suffering from injuries, giving them fresh vigor and strength. The hospital has been in existence for nearly fonr years in what may be called the trial of au experiment. That experiment has succeeded even beyond what might reasonably have been hoped, except in securing for the institution such permanent endowments, or such annual or occasional contributions as are necessary for the continuance of the work.

Dur ing the past year eighty-two children have been received as inmates, making a total of 278 since the 0 ning of the hospital in July, lf.9. The managers made it a part of their plan, in the organisation of the Hospital, to secure voluntary care and nursing by Christian and cultivated ladies. During the past year they were fortunate in obtaining the assistance of the Sisterhood of St. Margaret's at East Grinstead, Knglaud, one of whom, a lady admirably qualified for all her duties by nature, education and hospital exterience. has administered the internal affairs of the hospital througu the year.

Her beautiful influence, as every visitor noticed, has given to the hospital the air of a pleasant home. Sue has been assisted by associate sisters and by other Cnria-tian ladies, in the of tbe little sutferers. The Ladies' Aid Association have contributed largely to the comfort and enjoyment of the -children, having; during the year, cut and made for the use of tbe institution 794 garments, beside furnishing toys, fruit, flowers, tor the pleasure of the children. Tbe annual expenditures amount to between 3KK and and the receipts for the pant year were not sufficient to cover the expenses. The manager commend the imjrerative necessities of the hospital to the kind consideration of those who may be able to help them.

They do not believe that such an institution would willingly be suffered to die for want of a few thousand dollars per annum they ennnot think that the continued care of the little invalids is a matter of unconcern to the benevolent hearts of the public, anil they feel assured that sufficient contributions will be furidshed in season to prevent the exhaustion of the little invested fund which the hospital possesses. 1 he officers elected for the coming year are President, Nathaniel Thayer; vice-president, li. T. treasurer, J. (i.

Wetherell; secretarv. Frances H. Brown; managers, Charles Kobhins, AlWrt Fearing, N. H. Emmons, Charles Faulkner, R.

C. Wiii-throp, William lngalls, C. II. Fiske, S. A.

tlreen, iraac Thather, K. A. Strong, Jere. Abbott and G. D.

-Howe. The Barque Kadosh. S. K. Gorsuch, the first mate of the barque Kadosh wtmh was wrecked on Point Alderton, on Taursday He "ays that the barque was DClting about in eVo l.

oi iiaee roitit, when the -T aWe nn'1 a Pt. to to put too far ra8 blowing them shor TLrWV'J the barque was anchored bntwHT' She struck on Point and" suV" on. There were two large boat. Ten of the men Into 'ed for the shore, landing safely, capt Mauhewl wdwu-d tbe whale boat, into which himself aid seven but on its passage it was cap-giieu, its occupants into the sea, and all wre di The nantical instrument were in tins boat. mi nothing was saved except a chronometer, wliicli was afterwards picked upon the sh ra.

1 be snrvivm attempted to ive their comrades, but iM living the body of the captaiu. which they taught to th0rt, but the next morning Here unable tonj it. The Art Cfub. At the regular n-ejng, of the Bost) Art anb on Saturday evening, c. c.

Perkils read a very L-sting paper on tlit taian Til3 ory fii naiy was iuto three rf ai and rue inv. irius-ance was tlie wilitu aitainetl Hi -a- fsftecnttt. centnr. tlle the people uau belief iii the CHARLESTOWN. Anniversary.

Tlie fiftieth anniversary of the Trinity M. E. Sunday school was held yesterday af ternaem. The exercises were of a very interesting nature, consisting of singing tsy the school, reading of the Scriptures iy Rev. Mark Trafton, pastor, prayer, reports of the treasurer, secretary and 8tter-intendent, and addresses by Rev.

Bradford K. Pierce and Henry Moore, of Somerville. The reports show that both the main and branch schools are in a flourishing condition; the reports embraced but the last two vears, the records for the forty-eight years pievious having been destroyed when the church was burneel some years ago. In he main school during the year, twenty have been convcrteel, ami six have been deemed wtirthy of entering the church. The in-, crease in the school the past year was sixty our.

I he library is now in gooel condition, and contains about bla volumes, ninety being added the past year. Ihere was received from inny contributions In the branch school the good results of their work is also a the whole numlier in the sc hool being 3i6, forty having joineel the school the past year; average attendance, ninety-four; re-ceivi'd from jienny contributions, $10 31. The monthly concert of the sediool have proved exceedingly successful, and have been largely atteiuled. I.nterehtinu Fl'KERAL SERVICES. The funeral of the late Albert Abbeitt, the fireman who die at the Massachueetts General Hospital on Thursday last, lrom injuries receive! at the great fire, took place yersterelay.

The funeral services were held in tbe Wi'nthrop Church, on ire-en street. Tne Rev. S. Twombley, tbe pastor of the church, preached the sermon and made the pravcr. alluding, in a very touching manner, to thesuiMeii calamity which had fallen on the family of tbe eleceased, and to the noble way in which the eieparted had risked his life to save public property from destruction.

The foneial cortege formed on tJreen street, opposite the church, and, headed by O'Connor's Band, mareneei to the old cemetery on Pliipps street, where the remains were placed in a tomb, from whence they wiil be renioveel to Andover in a few ys. The artillery. Company Fifth regiment, tlelegations from all the lire companies. Chief Engineer Damrell, and many distinguished firemen of Beston and vicinity were present to do honor to the remains of their friend and comrade. An iKCENtnARY Arrested.

Lovell Pratt, win was sente nced to the State Prison for life in 18J6 for attempting to fire one of the city buildings on Win-tbrop street, and who was pardoned in 1H7J, was arretted early Saturday morning on suspicion of seating fire to the stable eif Timothy Murphy, on Henley street. He was arraigne-d in the Police Court and held iu for examination on Monday. Mr.T. W. Peak of Maiden, a breither-in-law of Pratt, beeame his bomlsman, and he has been released from custody Lfcti'RE.

The third tecture of the Catholic Lyceum course was eieiivered in the basement of St. Mary's Church, on Richmond street, last evening, by the Rev. W. il. Gross, on the subject of intemperance.

Toe lecturer placed his ideas before his audience in a very forcible manner, and drew graphic pictures of the evils of intemperance and also tlie attending gooel re-sults of temperance. Tlie audience was alarge one, and the efforts of the lecturer appreciated. SrirEN Death. Gardner Howe, a elriver of trie Mielellesex Horse Railroad Corfioration, was found elead in bee! at his boarding place, em Saturday. He as about bis work as usual on Friday evening, and retired about eleven o'clock, apparently in good, health.

He was a native of Maine. State Prison. The records of the State Prison the past year show that on January 1, 1872. there were in the institution 538 cemvii-ts. During the year 1(h5 have been received WJ have been discharged by expiration ef sentence; 11 have been pardoned; 18 have elied ami 2 sent to the Insane Asylum, leaving the total number of inmates at present 573.

Chips. Warren bridge, as has been previously stated, is to have its draw oiierated by steam power. An eight-horse power double-cylinder engine was cuutrni'ted for three or four weeks ago. and will be iu operation be-fore or by the first of January. Preifessor B.

F. Tweed, siiieriiitendent over the public schools of this city, has been chosen resident editor of the Massachusetts Teacher, the magazine published by the Association of Massachusetts School Teachers. Daniel Ryan, who was arresteel for an attempt to fire the stable ef T. W. Grow Miller street, Friday evening, was held in $1500 for examination Monday.

CAMBRIDGE. Vanpknhoff's Lecture at Ukion Haix. The regular lecture in the Dowse Institute, which was postponed last Tuesday in consequence of the absence of the lecturer, Mr. Geo. Vandenhoff, was delivered last Saturday evening, liefore a larze audience, at Union Hall, Cambridceport.

Mr. Vandenhoff chose for a subject, The Fools and Jesters of Shakespe are, "anil, in the course of many of their laughable sayings, greatly to the amusement of bis audience. I. O. of O.

F. The New England Lodge, No. 4. I. O.of O.

have elected the following ollicers George Cullis, N. John E. Rue, V. G. F.

Goodfellow, Reooreling Secretary; W. Winward, Treasurer; S. P. Goodtelhiw, Permanent Secretary; J. It.

Hogden, Daniel Bennett aud J. D. Wellington, Trustees. CHELSEA. AnotTT Tows.

An interesting Sabbath school concert was held last evening in tbe chapel of the Young Men's ChristiaAssociation, Chester avenue. The First 'National Bank has declared a dividend of $5 per share, payable January 1st. A course of lectures on "European Scenes" is an-nounceel at the First Baptist Church, by the pastor. The kindergarten school has been merged with the Wiiinisimmet academy. City Marshal Drury will recommend, in his forta-coming annual refiort, putting several cells iu the new engine hemse at Caryville.

Samaritan Encampment, No. 23. I. O. of O.

have ele-cted their officers for the ensiling year. Mr. T. M. Hunter has assumed the management of the Academy of Music, and proposes to furnish entertainments thprein twie-e each we-ek.

The Universalist sociables are making arrangements fur a brilliant demonstration at Granite Hall, next Wlnesetay evening. SALEM. AcnriENTS. On Saturday forenoon. Thomas Mc-Tartland ot Stonehain got em to the 10.45 A.

M. train feir Portsmouth at the Eastern depot, thinking it to be the train for Pealiody, to which place he wanted to go. A Iter the train started he found out bis mistake, ami as tbe train was crossing Bridge street he jumiied from the platform of the rear car and was thrown against a switch, receiving a severe cut on his head, besieles several broken ribs and internal injuries. He was taken into the signal-house near by and Dr. O.

B. Shrove was callenl, who dressed his weiunels anel he was then removed to the Derby House, where he died of his injuries about two o'clock the same afternoon. Coroner Walton was notified ani be summoned a jury, ho held an inquest at the police-station anel rendered a verdie-t in accordance with the facts. Mr. McPartland was about 30 years old and a currier by trade.

A telegram was sent to his ieuds in Stonebam. and tbe remains were taken in charge by an undertaker. On Christmas morning, Dennis Nolan an employe of the city for several years in the street department, fell on "the ice ou Derby street, breaking bis arm. Tricks Reduced. The prices for which Jacobs Deane are selling overcoats at their elegant store under the Tremont House will attract the attention of every gentleman in want of first-class garments at reasonable cost.

Chanob op Time. We invite attention to numerous changes in the time-table of the Boston and Albany railroad. Morris Jt Ireland are having great sale for their fire-prewf safes. Send for dcscrlotive cataloirue. MARRIAGES.

i In this city, 26th bv Rev. Dr. Neale, Charles E. Greenlaw te Miss Emma I. Parker: William U.

Ring to Miss Anna Jane Williams. UU by Rev. S. B. Cruft, James H.

Hall to Irene M. Stewartson; also, by the same, Daniel J. Fry to Sarah J. Wood, both of Lowell. In Boston Highlands, 'Uth by Rev.

John O. Means, Mr. Benjamin E. Whiting to Miss Annie M. iairar, all of Boston Highlands.

In Boston Highlands, 26th by Rev. E. A. Dunning. Dr.

Edwarel S. Wood of Cambridee to Irene Elelrielge. veiungest daughter of the late Luther Hills. In Nantucket, 25th by Rev. J.

II. Temple. Mr. Benjamin F. of Charlestown to Miss Annie Louisa Brown of Nantucket, Mass.

DEATHS. In th's city. 27th Mrs. Marv, relict of the late Col. Samuel (ieiokin of Portsmouth, N.

1L, 81 vears. Itineral from the residence of her son, 11 Commonwealth avenue, to-day, at 12 'it. of membranous croup, Helen Isabel Ad-ems, only daucbter of Edward H. and Helen A. Adams, 3 years months 15 elavs.

zsrh of lung fever, William H. Harrison. 28. 26th at the Massachusetts General Hospital, from injuries received at the tire 10th ulu, AiaertC. Abbott, tut years 2 months ll da vs.

In Highlands, from enlargement of thebeart, Luther B. Hntchins. son of Calvin aud S.urah F. Hntcbins. 16 veais 10 mouths.

In De-rehester, v7th John Peirce, formerly of tbe II. 8. avy, 70 years. In Mrs. Jane willow of the late Beujuuiin R.

Tiiudur of the U. S. Navy, W. H. C.

Osgood, Manchester, N. swordsman, F. Wood secretary ami treasurer, M. C. Upham; corresponding secretary, 1).

Braiuard. Odd Fellows. Tri-Mount Er.eampinent, No. 2 George TI. Prince, C.

George H. Colby, 11. Parker Rid. iler.S.W.; George A. Paine, Scribe; D.

T. Haraden, Treasurer; Albert Cooler, .1. W. Trustees, 11. T.

Spear, T. C. PorUr, J. P. Paine.

Oriental Lodge, No. 10 Samuel Abbott, N. G. H. V.

Ha ward, V. William Stephens, P. Recording Secretarv; L. Slade, P. Treasurer; barbs H.

Porter, l'ermanent Secretary. Trustees. William Duraut, B. J. Rcmicb, L.

Slade. THE MILITARY. An adjourned meeting of such members of the Ninth regiment as contemplate the forming of a regimental association was held, yesterday afternoon, at the head-quarters, Essex street, Sergeants Desmond of Company and McDouough of Company A acting as chairman and secretary. Tbe committee appointed at the previous meeting to draw np a constitution and by-laws stated that they would be unable to make a final report until next Sunday, and the neriod allotted was emended to that day. Considerable trouble was occasioned by a question as to the right of some of those present" to represent the companies to which they lielonged, and the result was the withdrawal of several.

Two or three committees of minor importance were appointed, among them one to take measures for the formation of a dramatic class, anil the meeting adjourned to next Sunday afternoon at the armory of Company Eliot street. The armory appropriations made by the City Council during tbe past year have been an follows: First regiment head-quarters on Penilicrton Company Capt. Parkinson (East Boston), (Yuifianv Capt. Evans (Boston Highlands), $250; Company 1, Capt. Paget (Dorchester), Company K.Capt.

Faulkner (South Boston), $500; total, $1K)0. Ninth rtgiment head-quarters on Essex street (altering, rci-auing, furnishing, Company Capt. Houghton, $L'00; Company B. Capt. Dunn, $400; Company Capt.

Hvlaud (since reined), $150; Company F. Capt. Kelley (South Boston), $400; Company H. Capt. Weston (East Boston), $250; Company 1.

'Capt. Mullins. $500; Company Capt. Colpan (South Boston), $250, armory Bii.ce burned; total, $3o50. First battalion of infantry Company Capt.

Burgess, $4o. Second battalion Ounpany A (colored), Capt. Watkins, $200. First battalion of csvalry Company A (Lancers), Capt. Smith, $1200.

Tbe above appropriations were simply for improving aud furnishing armories. Pursuant to instructions, Strachan has assumed command of the First battalion, consisting of mpanies 11 and and Major Logan of the Second ba ttalion, Companies and and inspections will be had soon. The new company of the First battalion of infantry, ft rming at Hvde Park, has made such slow progress that a letter has been sent to the adjutant-general requesting that the company be disbanded. About seven hundred breech-loaders remain to be distributed to some of the organizations for whom they were originally intended. POLICE NOTES.

Officer Leavittof Station III. found a wagon, yesterday afternoon, in front of No. HI Merrimac street. Charles Barnard was employed to remove the same to the city yard. At 7 o'clock last evening.

Officer Gookin of Station T. arresteil Daniel Wilson and Mary Kinsley for robbing Bartholomew Kinsley of two dollars in money, at a house in North Brimmer place. John Davis, who resides at the corner of Second street and Dorchester avenue. South Boston, went to sleep ou Saturday night last in a barn belonging to J. Skinner and woke up the next morning with both feet frozen.

He was taken to the City 11 ospital. A young man, hailing from St. John, N. who has been" for a short time acting aa assistant corresponding clerk for Mr. Slerne of tbe firm of Sterne Company, importers ngents, 54 Broad street, walked oft on Wednesday with a large amount of the correspondence of the linn and many valuable papers, and basaiot since been heard from.

The bov Michaal Sheeran. who was so seriously stabbed about the face and head, on South Margin street on Tuesday evening last, by a man named William F. Irving, of which mention was made at tbe lime in the daily pajiers. sUll lies in a critical coniiiUou at bis home, No. 75 Pitts street, his recovery Ih irg corsidered extremely doubtful.

Irving is uudr bail to the amount of 1500. Accidents. Officer Harding of. Station whilo attempting to step a runaway horse on Saturday, was thrown to the ground and slightly injured. Mrs O'Neil.

ife of Otlicer Eugene O'Ncil of Station IL. fell on the sidewalk in Esex street, Saturday forenoon, and dislocaed her hip joint. Michael Corcoran, on Saturdav, fell on the sidewalk on Tremoiit street, and dislocated a hip. He was taken to his home on Trenton street, East Boston Andrew Monissry, 26 years okl, fell from a staging at the Boston Manufacturing Company's mills, in Walt hum, on Saturday. His left leg was broken near the km e.

and he was brought to the Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment. THE GENERAL COURT OF 1873. This body will come together on Wednesday next. Preparatory to this event, the interior of the State House has been polished up a little, and the apartments of the Governor and councirand the clerk of the Senate will have new carpets. Double doors, to keep out drafts of cold air and the noire of continual tramping through the passageways, will be provided for the Senate chamber.

The codfish will doubtless be permitted to come down and wash aud dust, and if any of the gilding has got off the enge petit plitci-dam inscription, the restoration thereof may be predicted. With regard to the doings of Wednesday, the augurs have been consulted and prophecy as follows: Hon. George B. Loring of Salem will be chosen president of the Senate, and Stephen N. Gilford of Duxbury will be re-elected clerk.

In the House of Representatives, Hon. John E. Sanford of Taunton will be again chosen to preside; William S. Robinson of Maiden will be re-elected clerk, although for this office there will be some rivalry, as the friends of Colonel E. P.

Loring. a member of the House of 1872, frcm Fitchburg, and those of Colonel Charles H. Taylor, also a member of the House of 1H72, from Scmerville, and re-elected from the same place for lfc73, have determined to try their strength. Hon. John Morrissey of Plymouth will be re-elected sergeant-at-armB.

Things being thus happily arranged, the two branches will meet in convention in the Representatives' Execellency the Governor and executive council and the heads of departments of the government, to listen to the annual election sermon. This will be preached by Rev. George C. Lorimer, pastor of the Shawmut Avenue Baptist Church, the Representatives7 hall being used for this purpose in accordance with a resolve passed at the recent session of the Legislature. BOSTON, HARTFORD AND ERIE R.

R. In the course of a few months this corporation, which has long been financially under a total eclipse, will begin to see daylight. Its history is contained in several octavos of printed matter, which may be found at the State House. To newspajier readers, tbe subject has long been a bore. It is timely, however, to announce that by the terms of the Berdell inoitgage, the bondholders may come into full nsses-sion of tbe road eighteen months and thirty days after tbe foreclosure.

This date will be April 18, 1K73. At that time the bondholders mayform a new corporation. Tbe old stock and floating elebt will by this means bo wiped out, and the bondholders will receive slock in the new company at the rate of ten shares for every one thousand dollar bond. The new corporation, thus organized, with a capital stock of twenty millions of dollars, will have to pay the underlying bonds of the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad Company, amounting to two millions fifty-five thousand dollars, and also for about four hundred thousand dollars of other underlying iMinds of various classes. Besides paying all expenses out of the earnings of the road, the trustees, since they have had tbe management of its affairs.have purchased eight new locomotives, several new cars, ami a considerable quantity of new iron.

They are now putting up new and commodious stations at the foot of Summer street, in place of those which were destroyed by tbe fire, and the prosfiect of the road is altogether encouraging just now. Boston's Dead. Among the well-known citizens who have died during the year 1p72 are Isaac Rich, agsd 70; Marshall William H. Smith, 66; John S. Edgerly, C7; J.

Bowdoin Bradlee, 59; Daniel Denny, George Merrill, fifi; Dr. Charles Gordon. Dr. Morrill, 72; Moses Clark, 70; Kobert B. Williams, Kf); Charles Arnold.

72; Paran Stevens, 73; Charles H. Mills. 50; Cuincy Tufts, 80; William Sanford Rogers, hi; Louis Papanti, 72; Mrs. Phiueas L'phHni, 81; Samuel A. Way, 55; Watson Gore, 79; William H.

lioaidman, (17 Dr. E. T. Wilson, 59; Win. Thomas.

C4; Horace Williams, 61: Mrs. Henry Atkins, 61; ex-Mayor liigclow 75; Samuel (i. Bowdlcar. 6); Vlrs. Isiatl Whitney.

68; Lowell Mason, 81 Dani-I Hammond, fcti; Cunningham. 71 Mrs. William B. Slexens, 46; John P. Ober, 42; John II.

Foster, 64; Klijah Morse, 51; Amos Coolidgc, 72; J-hn J. Swift, 72; George Langdon Pratt, 46; George Foster Williams, 67; John A. Hlanchard, 65; Mrs. William Slommiii, 85; Thomas, Richardson, 72; Samuel Froth-liigham, 62. Board of Aldermen.

A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held at noon on Saturday, for the purpose of taking action relative to the establishment of a small-pnx si al. The order or taking possession of the aluis- U'mn Council, i ii I lhu was claimed that, the InihUng which was worrh $25,000, would Iw nttj- and that th ridnts of the Highlands would through fear be driven cirion.es. Galloui e's island hospital was thought ti I sufficiently accessible during the brief intervil of bndajs which would clause before the new liiice to be built on the siUj of the one destroyed woul I be" a'ly for use. Accordingly, the order was rejected by the aldermen a unanimously as the (Jo'umou i ui.cilliad adopted it. Eleven al lermen voted reject.

Alderman Poland being ab-wnt. vcril in n.inations ol mcmbcis of the fird department were confirmed, after which the board adourued, Twenty 24.00 FIFTY COriES TO ONE ADDRESS fco.OO The last named rate makes The Bostoh Weekly Globe, when taken by a Club of Fifty, the cheapest newspaper in America. Ttrms always in advance. Send in your subscriptions at once, to commence with the first number of the paper. Address, Globe FnbliHhimr Company.

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