New-York daily tribune., 1845-05-26
City Items.


likely to surprise in aannsls and overcoa Yesterday
although clear most disagreeabiy cold The cTons
grass fruit. &C.. aus be very backward Our summer
resorts all opened prematurely and cecseams have
long ago exhas,ed their margin. Housewives who have
taken pa-lors;oves and PIT nice aprons on the
CRATES protesting, for the twentieth time, tha; they
will never prepare for summer again before the Fourth Of
July while everybody Is unanimous In opinion that ins
Is decidedly the worst season ever experienced
e. The SMALL Pox excitement Is pretty much
over and the number OF cases diminishing The streets
are beginning TO b. In passable condition again. thousn
there is still enough TO be done.
10 The re paving Of Broadway, between Char-l-
bers and war-ep-..reets completed in very substantial
manner and the old wooden blocks have disappeared We
hope 20 hear no more such wooden pavement In Broad
way It has been thoroughly tested and Will not answer
We have heard recently good deal said about paving
Broadway with square plates OF cas-iron strong enough
u, resist the action OF wheels. and perfectly even The
street should be slightly graded and the plates all made
sxscv sfte 20 that the momen; broke il could be
repIsced at a most rfing expense. Such pavement
would be perpetual and the repairs would be erey no
ninal.
MA Gang OF CouNTERFElTEgs isin fair way
Of being broken uP On Saturday evening officer Warren
arrested for passing counterfeit money and
on searching them SIS bill altered from some other bank
no, dstnguishable) 10 the Seneca County Bank, was
ound beside purse containing about $50 in good money
rolled up separate packages as If they had been asen
different places in exchange for the counterfeit and put
into the purse time. One OF the women Is the
wife of very respectable man named John Fisher car
penter SO Elevenh-sreet other calls herself Mary
Hoyt They say that they bought the spurious money Of
man who keeps q policy and exchange office in West
| and ha fe in
the regular trade Of supplying this kind OF currency at ss5
good maney for SloO spurious. The women promise fur
ther Developments and the officers we believe are in hopes
Of making some important discoveries in the course Of the
day.
(-- Saturday morning, about O'clock. officers
| William H. Stevens and Gilbert Hays and Mr. Beaaley'
Police Clerk under the direction Justice Osborn made
descent on place in Chatham street. and recovered
large amount Of stolen goods consisting OF broadcoths,
silks ,hawls gloves inen &c. Part OF The goods amount
ny to nearly $780, been identified by frm in Allan
tic street. Brooklyn whose had been entered BY false
keys. large amoun, Of properly remains unclaimed :
among it black three-corned cardinal or peeliRe.
| HoBoKEy-This celebrated resort Is new-prankt
for the summer pagn, and If get any warm
weather the Eysian shades will be crowded ever. But
present prefers sitting in warm room and anc-
| patins delights of Hohoken.
iJ- A man in Nassau'street, near Ann, who
keeps Kind OF Curiosity Shop, composed OF odd volumes
OF old books and engravngs Of all sorts has bundle OF
pamphlets lying on his labeled Christian Herald,
volume 81. If it the Sporting Magazine, l could
sell /, for $40. Think of that and blush -
| 1-,- The OREGON Steamer, whose magnificent
dimensions we have already chroniced launched on
S4,urday morning. from the shp-yard OF Smith 4 Dlmon'
foot Of Fourth-street East River She is TO ran the out
side passage TO Providence under The command OF Capt
| ST. John.
| Dc FLOWER SALES are quite frequent now a-days,
but they rather blue affairs quite slim and out OF
| season.
The opposition on the North River still continues.
You can go TO Albany for 25 cents.
lMpogrAyT.-We learn from the Mirror that bo-
quets have gone on, of fashion, and the peculiar flowers of
JaYoncadom are e, unpucked si1glenessor single un-
pluckedness-we really have forgotten which,
The new-old 1--WE are obliged to the Commercial
for explaining adectve) Presbyterian Church. recently
arrived In Jersey City from walstreet the Hudson
River. dedicated yesterday morning.
MIR. SAMUEL DEWITT, an old and respectable c-
zen died his residence in this city, on Saturday morn
| ing.
G15- The moon is bad street-llghter-las week
she failed perform her engagements five nights out of
| o. Mr. Soren's money and property (stolsn from
him in College Place week. has been pretty much
all recovered. On Saturday John Miller, alias English
Bill, arrested, and So0 bill found him, besides
silver watch. In house in Ezabeth-street, a box was
also found containing Of the There are now
persons under charged with this robbery ard
there is but $500 of the lost money yet missing This
added 10 the $500 reward suppose may be down
what the wreckers call salvage We think Mr. soren got
on pretty well
&C. Officer Josephs has gold watch for which
he is very anxious to find an owner.
A couple of negroes, named Jacob Jackson and
Charles Ferguson, arrested and taken the Upper
Police, on suspicion Of having stolen decoyed away
"carrer pigeon ard "ruitlcr The birds belonged to
exchange Office policy mill, and had been trained to
carry the returns o! the lotteries of New Jersey.
The Polly Bodine case is to be argued before the
Supreme Court during the present weekpossbly to-day
or tomorrow,
The Court of Sessions adjourned on Saturday.
John H. Chadwick sentenced 10 days in the Peni
en,iary and Rne Of S. FOR obtaining sO999 worth Of
goods by false preences from Mess-s eknap and Wyko
In the Of Joseph c. Ashley agains; whom there
indictments for forgery and PERU Mr. r. H. Morris
piled 10 the court TO enter Roi rCs?H the grounds
that Mr. Ashley had been mmi,ted In by him when
mayor Of this city, the charges Mr. Morris stated that
he had carefully pesed the papers and investigated the
circumstances and felt confident he had committed
committing Mr. Ashley, which mad eTtently done
the time. The District Attorney refused noe pros
and the case lies over 10 the next term.
o. The brig Rudolph Groning, Capt. EIdridse,
bound Key West; put back Saturday morning, in
qcnce of the small pox having made It's appearance among
the crew.
% Kleim, it will be seen, has been acquitted on
the ground OF insanity.
g. The City is travelling up the Island very ra-
pdly We noticed that in afsw evenings since, crowd
ed with citizens going their domcie, up-town there
but two left In the Car below Tenth-streei Eshtysx-
will he within few minutes walk Of,he Exchange"
In short time.
BRooKLYN ORPHAN ASYLrA The anniversary
of the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum held on THURSDAY
evening, at the Brooklyn destitute. l. gratifying 10
The children In good health and In high glee hey
numbered about forty. and OF them If not all were
under ten years OF The shows tie Asylum 10
be in more prosperous condition than before The
expenditures for the past wear amounted 10 little over
S100 and the receipts 81 l00 leaving ba-nce in the
treasury Of about $500. The house occupied by the ins
tuition has been cleared Of debt and the outstanding claims
settled tina; the officers and MANAGERS Of The Asylum
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