New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-23
THE CITY

THE CITY,
| Two cases of smallpox were yesterday re-
I ported at No. sos West sixteenthst
Benjamin Walters, last evening. fell from
| to the Duane-st Hospital
The gross receipts of the Dry Dock, East
Broadway and Battery Railroad Company for passengers
last month were Sa,33l TO- : -. e
! Henry Munster seaman on the ship Palm
erstOn lying at Pier No 80 East River last evening Tell
down the hold OF the vessel and fractured his thigh
The annual meeting of the Engineers Clam
BaE has Sfsn aay e. raay
The Schafer Guards Will make their second
aniGii target sKegrsOn to Hamilton Pars today ;S ~
About 100 prizes Varying in value from 500 to w. VIII DO
contested Tor >.-.77--~.,4.
The body of ar unknown man, >ageu a9o OUT
Battery yesterday Deceased had gray hair and whis-
kers. and was dressed in dark clothing. ~
Mrs. Julia Scott attempted suicide on Tues
quantity OF rat.paste. physician called who re
eved her OF the effect of the poison Domestic trouble
prompted the act,
The CrOton Aqueduct Department has re-
quesed Metropolitan Board OF Health to reduce the
How VI the cro0n water oil Of the drinking hJdrants
at least half the usual quantity owing TO tire present
scarcity of the supply.
The allusion to Mr. W. c. Van Meter In
Yesterdays TRIBUNE may convey the impression that he
rs still IN his Old work He Is now connected with the
Baptist Publication Society, aud makes appeal behalf
OF the work they are doing.
Madame Testt, one of the ladies connected
with the French Opera Company yesterday took large
dose OF by mistake When the fact discovered
she in great agony, but prompt application OF anti
saved
The picnic of the Spencer Association yes
afternoon and evening" at the Bevdere Garden,
although the attendance numerically small, owing
10 the rain, very pleasant affair The dancing hall
comfortably filled in the evening and dancing was
kept up until a late hour.
Thomas Mcclure, aged years, of No. 100
Tcnth.ave last evening by horse ridden
mt high rate of speed by Patrick Clark near the corner
OF Tenhaye. aud sixteenttst, aud the boys leg was
broken in three places Clark arrested and locked
up IN the West Twenteth-st. Police Station.
The following changes have taken place in
Inspectors Of CustOms-Edward Murray, f. B. Wad-
deli, removed Edward ID. Connery. jr, vice f. ". SIN
clair. resigned. Captain OF Night lnspcctors-J0hn
y. Meek. ID. ID. Bullock, removed Night Inspector
John Fitzpatrick
On Tuesday night Officer DonOhue of the
Fifteenth Precinct arrested Charles Cayendsh alias Car
ter one OF the cOnvcts who escaped from sing Sing
Prison June last a barge which was lying at the
prison wharf The prisoner was serving out ,erm OF
Ave years Imprisonment for passing counterfeit money
reward OF 500 offered by the prison authorities
for his arrest He was sent back to prison yesterday
BRO0KLYN.-Th crOss-tOwn cars, from
South Ferry TO Hunters Point, commenced running
through Washington-aye Yesterday.
Neil & Patrick McGoldrick, proprietors of
distulery at Flushingave.. were held
Of 81 900 EACH for Obstrucng United States officers
in their duty saturday last while they seziug
the dstillery for alleged rregularty Ia the books.
The deaths in Brooklyn last week number
1884, Males IS: females g. FROM cholera mfantum. -:
consumption, %; marasmus ~ commissions, 3 bronchitis,
g. Under year. under 81. Born in the United
states. 49, ireland, 20; England o. Germany,o Scot
land. .
About o'clock yesterday afternoon quarre
took place IN Ca:rOllst, near J. ghthave between two
laborers. James Fogerty ana Timothy Mohade during
which Mohade struck Fogerty over tho head with
spade, causing a dangerous wound, from which II Is
feared e may not recover fogerty was taken TO the
Hospital and Mohade was locked up in the Fortleth
Precinct station.
WESTCHESTER.-Th labor strikers en-
poyed the Roman Catholic Protectores have resumed
work ~ g. 90 day the contractor absolutely refusing
pay the s. 70 demanded. The Hon. Ed. Haight aud
friends will give grand ball aud supper to their lady
acquaintances. IN the Town Hall tonight
YONKERS.-Wm. A. AudaIiese, brakeman
the Hudson River Railroad was instantly killed yes
terday, his head coming III contact with the beams OF
bridge at Irving short distance below IaPryown. while
he walking on the top OF the tram with ms back to
the engine The body taken 10 the residence OF ms
parents, this place, where Coroner Smith held an IN
quest.
JERSEY CITY Baldwin, a boy, fell off the
the dock at Murrsst. yesterday and drowned. An
inquest will be held 70 day.. A public meeting will be
held ON Monday evening for the purpose Of discussing
the Consolidation BILL at the Catholic Institute In South
Sxth-st. HObOken. The inquest IN the case OF Mrs.
Corrigan, who died from injuries received during n
drunken brawl the 9th inst, adjourned yeser-
Coroner White and viii he resumed tins morning.
- About midnight Oh Tuesday Mr.. Daniel Mcnamara,
while lahoring under temporary III OF insanity, at
tempted 10 cut his wfe's throat with razor, but
prevented by the timely intervention OF Mr. Young his
soilin,law from accomplishing his purpose. Mrs. Nc
Namara seriously injured Chancellor Rabrlskie
yesterday heard another motion on the AbattOr case
asking that the company be allowed 10 Keep hogs on
their premises twelve hours before killing them. The
motion was refused and the Injunction remains un
changed
HOBOKEN.-The inquest in the case of Pau.
line Pecunt. child that supposed 10 have died OF
starvation continued last evening before Coroner
White and the jury returned verdict exoneratng its
parents from all blame.