Q 0 littAingtt Gaittts. CITY AND SUBURBAN Tar °mown' is Arrtired Ws the eay for lig days of L 166 week for 11 wan per Week : by isaa,lB per area : s roe.. ft The Grand Jury visited the work horn* yesterday. Thelobbies of Council were crowded yesterday. Threeeommon moot disposed of con stituted the business of the Allegheny bLayor's °Moe yesterday. - Tao married woman who idiom . commit suicide In Allegheny ft afternoon la slowly reoavering. The Anneal ball of the Trinity Literary Association is to be given -In Legato Hall this, evening. Lota of fun. and good time la expected. ' t L Cem•entlon of the ..loyal but Ws, franchised" colored mon of Pennsylvania win be held to-day and to morrow In Avery fdisidon Church, Allegheny. etualayattemoon the main water pipe, earner of Carson and First street; Bir mingham, bursted and flooded the streets and houses in the vicinity. The damage was repaired yesterday. Election.—Mr.' L. H. Hartman has been reelected 'President of the People's Bathing Bank of Allegheny, and ti. O. Scheyer, Feq.. has been re-anointed Solicitor to serve for tpe ensuing year. Reddesee far Bale7—Tbe attention- of our readers Is called' to the advertise. matt on first pane of today's paper, headed libr Bale—House. This is a rare d m unes to buy a met and' good house tep. VOIR& -sal o 3aturday rig on ht a watc m s etteen in a on Third avenue, whieh watt yesterday recovered by Lieut. Ounpbell. The owner can get it by call upon the Lieutenant at the Mayor's Ilastini of Presbytery.—The United _Presbyterian Presbytery °Monongahela Meta to-day In the Fifth United Presby - tetian Church. (Rev. B. A Reed's), earner of Washington street and Web• 'Star /111301111. inquest.-Coroner Clawson yeaterdity held an inquest on the bodyot Allen L. Cole, who shot himself In Allegheny on Quinn as eve, an aoconnt of which we pnbtlahedyeaterday. Thtf,lary returned alrardlot of “accidental shooting." Ship. suoralng Just aa we wentgoltigto rau alarm. of ere was streak front x im ea, oorner of Ibrty-drat and Butler atzeeta, Seventeenth ward, (Lawrence• nine.) Owing- to the !Menges of the hour we could not learn the particulars. G. A.lt.i.ectirea.-2dias gate Fields will deliver. a lecture to-morrow evening at the Academy of Music, under the Shaploes of p c Subject. "Wom e n and Arn of the Rs the Ly. oeum." We hope there will be a large attendance. Fair and FestlvaL—For the benefit of Emmanuel Church, (Free Episcopal), will be held at MotheraFs Hall, Beaver avenue, Manchester, on Wednesday and Thursday, December 29th( and 86th. Open day and evening. Admilaion 16 cent& A band will be In attendance. - Concluded.—The Inquest on the body of .John Barrett, who' died on Eistardar from injuries received by Jumping off • the feat line on. the Penna. 'Railroad, near the outer depot, was concluded yes terday. Theury found that death ermined from Injuries reoelved by Jump !n; from the train. The Bating Elder.—lty appointment of the MODouglibela . Presbytery of 'the United Presbyterian Church, the Rev Win; H. Andrewederill preach in the Pllth United Presbyterian Church, cor ner of Webster avenue and Washing - top street this evening at seven o'clock. Subject: ”Should the Ruling Elder be elected for life, or for a dentate period?" The stockholders of the Cooperative Life Insurance Company, of Western Pennsyvania, are hereby notified that an election for-twenty Directors of said Company will be bold at the Company's office. 125 Smithfield street, Ptsburgh, on Wednesday, January 12th. A. D. 1870. between the bourse( 2 and 4 o'clock P. M. ' By order of the President. . A. Parransow, Secretary. !Streets and Wewers.—Daring the year just ekiaing the amount of work done to the way of street improvements and newer construction has been far greater than ever before, as is shown by the fol., lowing statement of coat during the past ilve years: , Work of 1865 180,171 86 ,1866 60 ,271 00 - ' • 1867 1117,762 86 1868 103,630 44 1869 202,835 70 Watch. Prmentation.—On Christmas morning, Mrs. M. McCandless, No. 116 Third avenue, wee made the recipient of a Magnificent gold watch. as a token of retrardnnd esteem, from those who board with her. The ceremony of presentation was very interening sod conveyed to the 'excellent lady a full acknowledg_ meet of the high appreciation in which she is held by those who make their home With her and who receive so much attention end kind treatment at her hands: The Judiciary—An adjourned meeting or the bar win be held to-morrow (Wed nesday) morning at ten o'clock In the District Court room, to take anal action In the proposed addition of another law /Odd* en the bench of the District Court. tis most Important that there be a fall attendance. and it is earnestly hoped that both the senior and junior member. Of the bar wilt evince sufficient Interest to be resent and express their *opinions on the propos-. • • ? Oa Christmas day T. R. Power, Rsq., the popular Master of Transportation o f the Allegheny 'Valley Railroad, was pre. stated a handsome chronometer balance gold watch and chain by the petroleum refiners along the road, as a token of their appreMstion his hands. The of the many kind °Moen to:wired at pre mutation on the part of the refiners, wee made by Captain John B. Barbour, and received by Mr. Power In s few modest remarks. • The watch Ix of the finest American make, Plalatlataad at Mr. Wit son's, Fourth avenue. . The Lecture To-Night. Let none of our readers fail to-night to be present at the Academy of Meal° on the occasion of the lecture by ?dim Kate Fields; subject—u Out in the woods," under the auspices of tbe Young Men's Mercantile Labrary Aiwa:union. Thla lady eujoys, prominent place among America's mast gifted literary daughters, and humid to be the most elegant and polished female talkers In the country. will be no reserved seats. The gentlemen composing the Lecture Com mittee of the Associati tu deserve Much credit for the quality ,o 1 Intellectual Assam thus far 'girded. =dine trust the endorsement of their efforts will be sig nalled by a full attendance on this ooze- Mon at the Academy. GYlnmutic Aiwatitian Lest night the annual election of the Pittsburgh Gymnastic Axe:cation wu held at their ball, Fourth avenue. The election was animated and drew ant a hill pole of ram The following oiNecra far the ensuing year Ware chosen: Presi dent, W. C. Adams • Vice Preeldent. C. Bulvely, Jr.: Secretary , A. J. McNair': Treasurer, B. 8. Crompton. When the seault was annonnoed the defeated can didates acquiesced and general harmony prevailed. A. vote of thanks wail re. tilrned to the outgoing omoera for the able and-satisfactory manner In which tM affairs of the Association bad been conducted, and under whose Manage. mutt the Institution Nei attained per t:mum standing and prosperity. We gee sl a g To learn that the raffle announced to coma arks three doe Bullocks on Sitar - day next has been abandoned. The tie have been disposed of to a regular WV. Mr. /sub ighaltburg, the owner, , supposed no butcher could be found gig to pay the actual cash.. for hts re markstde cattle, and so he had deckled on deigning of item by Menem. But WARM Blelartine, the well known butc h. Si.: who bare a habit of supplying their ctudomors with beef lit for an En ' MUM or American Nobleman's table, were determined to own blr-tilimenburre teems, end so by actual scold el the chance of loping = l"