SANITARY FUND. -- Three months ago, during the delivery of his very interesting address, Dr. Bellows, the worthy President of the United States Sanitary Commission, promised that he should at other times address the citizens of this city, and give them a clearer idea of the workings of the Commission than he was able to do in a single evening. His second address upon that topic, interesting to all true and loyal men, will be delivered this evening at Platt's Music Hall, and we are aware that a word to the wise is sufficient. Dr. Bellows' addresses are always vigorous, pertinent and interesting, when he talks, as he always does, in the interests of humanity, and we are sure he will be so this evening when he chooses his favorite theme -- the great work of which he is the chief -- the succor of the wounded and the sick among those who have gone out into the field to throttle treason and restore the peace of old.
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. -- About six o'clock yesterday evening, Charles Wilson rescued a man named Clarke, who had jumped into the bay from Broadway wharf, intent upon suicide. He was in bad health, and Captain Douglass sent him to the hospital. Clarke pushed Wilson's boat away when it approached him in the bay, and tried to keep from being saved. He made another attempt to take his life a sort time ago, and, when asked why he did it, he said he had suffered for years from an incurable disease, and his life had finally become a curse to him, and he wished to rid himself of it. It is said that he is a fine looking , intelligent young man, of gentlemanly appearance and well dressed.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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WAR OF THE FRUIT DEALERS. -- "Apple of Discord" has of late been added to the stock of sundry small fruit vendors, creating a greater sensation in the market than the famous Bartlett pear, etc. Strife waxes warm between the outsiders and insiders. Up to the present writing the insiders have the inside track, and the traffic of the outsiders is temporarily interdicted, until advices can be had from the Supervisors. So, for the time being, it remains a question whether Mary Hays, Mary Ryan, Michael Candy, Morris Froud, et. id. etc., shall be permitted to turn a penny by selling an occasional bit's worth of fruit on the sidewalk.
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SCHOOL CHILDREN'S REHEARSAL. -- The School children who are to sing to-day, at Platt's Hall, rehearsed there yesterday afternoon. There were great numbers of them -- perhaps a million, or may be a million and a half; that is, as nearly as we could guess, off-hand, for we were not present when they were all in a body, but saw them as they swarmed out, in droves and gangs of forty and fifty thousand at a time. It will be a fine sight to-day, to see so many lovely, uneasy, beautiful, fidgetty children, all stacked up together on the stage and going it.
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HELD TO ANSWER. -- Judge Shepheard yesterday committed Peter Murray to answer to a charge of grand larceny, in the County Court. His bail was fixed at one thousand dollars. A. S. Circles was also held in the sum of five hundred dollars to answer to the charge of gambling, in the County Court. Murray is the man who, a short time since, took a cloak, with four hundred and fifty dollars wrapped in it, from the wagon of Joseph Gimlet, at the Four-Mile House.
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MORE THIEVING. -- Mr. D. E. Webb, of the Mercantile Library rooms, has been robbed of a new suit of clothes, and his wife of a lot of silk dresses and other wearing apparel. The depredation was committed between eight and nine o'clock at night, while the family were absent from their apartments, corner of Stockton and Sacramento streets. Another dry goods theft was committed in the same building a night or two before.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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BOARDING-HOUSE GOSSIP. -- We saw new sweet potatoes in market yesterday, and very fine ones. If it might be of any interest to our landlady to know it, their price was a bit a pound; if we could find some old substantial meat that cheap, she would hasten to salt down a few dollars' worth. These potatoes are said to be about the first of the season and came from Stockton.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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GROWING. -- The record of unrighteousness, upon which Judge Shepheard is called to sit in judgment, was a little inflated yesterday morning, consisting of drunks, eight; misdemeanors, seven; violating city orders, seven; assault and battery, one; threats, one; petty larceny, two; burglary, one; and one not specified. Total, twenty-eight.
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STILL PENDING. -- The superanuated case of Donner vs. Palmer and others, still drags its slow length along in the Twelfth District Court. A portion of yesterday was occupied in discovering a similarity between a letter L in one part of a certain record and the same letter written in another place in the book.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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LOVELINESS IN DISTRESS. -- Nine China women were arrested yesterday for misdemeanor, and let off on five dollars bail, each.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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