New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-26
NETWORK CITY.

The population of New-York at midday is
nearly 100000.
Tax receipts on real estate, yesterday (esti-
matedl, 100000.
A noted politician is said to be Ledwith,
Tammany nomination.
The cornerstone of the Franklin statue, IN
Printing HousesQuare, will be laid to-day, at p M
The Thirty fourth-st line has the dirtleSt
and the Fourth and Sixthaye. lines the eeanest cars
One hundred and forty thousand people have
visited the Fair of the American Institute up 10 'n''
date.
Mary Ann Cunningham, age 107, was locked
nm Yesterday by the Third Ward Police for disordery
conduct
The condition of the cobble-stOne pavement
in Twenty.ninthst between Sixth and Eghthaves' Is
disgrace TO the Clty'
The Boulevard OF Grand Drive passes through
the center Of. Trinity Cemetery; An ornamental IRON
bridge will reestablish the connection.
A ragged urchin asked gentleman in Broad
way yesterday to tell him the time and on seeing the
watch attempted to seize it, but only succeeded IN
man by the shoulders and detained him with bland Ill
uuiries until the thief had escaped.
The passenger trains of the Hudson River
Railway with the exception of the Yonkers special Will
run on and after Monday next Oct 80 to and from the
Grand Central Depot at FOrty-second-st, ana Fourth
tween Forty.third and Forty -fonrth-st.
One of the liveliest of city sights is the
unloading of express wagons the cellars OF the great
express offices Broadway. The airy manner in which
heavy boxes and bales Sent spinning down the iron
shOd aud gracefully curvinear inclined planes euR
gestve of loading cotton on Alabama RIVER Doats from
the high bluffs.
The most dangerous firing witnessed in this
city since the Eghthave riot that Of the Skyrockets
discharged in front Of Cooper Institute, last night They
were wet or somebody bundered, and consequently
number of them were shot along the ground through he
crowd, came down pIOutu inc
Mercantile Library.
The motion, which was to have been made
in the Fskstokes yesterday to set aside the awards
Of arbratOrs to whom the whole matter in dispute be-
tween Fisk and Stokes had been referred was withdrawn
ON the ground that all the questions which could he
heard the motion would come up IN another hut Ill
stituted by Fisk IN Brooklyn.
The United States Public Stores on Green
vichst above Rector for years presented an i'm
Venerable barrier Of trucks in the way Of pedestrians
This the public have endured But when those loading
the trucks by help Of wheelbarrows attempt to run
down" messengers who impertinent enough 10 Try
the blockade, some relnOnstrance caeu lo
The present condition of the Quarantine
Station is such to call for immediate action Should
there be an arrival of several large immigrant vessels
with diseases on board, would be difficult
matter to provide decent accommodations Although
the appropriation has been made for the construction OF
the new Quarantine Station still the officers IN charge
seem to maintain very censurable inactivity.
An autograph collector of this city, knowing
the lively antipathy Of Oliver Wendell Holmes to crea
lures of his class and wishing to capture specimen OF
the chrograpby, adopted the heartess
subterfuge Of asking by letter Which 90 you tnink
the best diconary-Webster's WOrcesters "a ques
tion which he believed Holiness courtesy would compel
him to The return mail brought single shGGt
of note paper on which neatly pasted the one word
clipped from the writer's own letter, Webstels''
An auction sale of 100000 tuns of Scranton
coal took place yesterday the prices being considerably
less than those at the last sale, Sept % The following
table shows the highest and lowest prices obtained with
a comparison Of the prices at the September sale