New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-11
NETWORK CITY.


OF the Loan Division OF the Treasury Department
NETWORK CITY.
The Germans OF the Eighteenth Ward have
taken action to form citizens organization.
The English members of the High Commits
sion. ana GOV ITO OF Japan visited Wast yesterday
Posts and chains are to be substituted for
the cumbrous railing which surrounds Unionsqlare
Many lids of lamp-pOst letter-boxcs are loose
or entirely off, and on rainy days letters unpeasantly
dampcned
Another detachment Of troops will leave
Governors Island for duty in Michigan with
tine ls u :. Infantry.
The East Side Association has taken posses
sion Of new and spacious hall the northeast corner
OF Third-aye. and Eghty-siAlh-st.
One hundred and ninety-six new patients
were treated during April at the Manhattan Ego and
Ear Hospital, No 255 East Thirty-iourt1-st.
Arrangements were completed yesterday for
the anniversary of the school of Design connected with
Cooper Institute. TIC number or pupils Is lOO.
The Old Walton House, Franllin-square,
erected in 1852 by William Walton colonial shipowncr,
affords shop-rOom and lodgings for 30 tenants
At 0:0t p. m. yesterday, a brilliant blue
meteor suddenly shot into the atmosphere at point
degrees northwest OF Vega or Alpha Zyrae Direction
of motion northeast passed over 20 Degrees pc
Rod Of visibility, second
New time schedules are expected about Mny
10 on the New-York Central Hudson River Harlem,
Erie New-Jer.ey. Newark and NewYork, New-Jersey
Central and south Side Railroads ana on the Se"Jer
sey Southern Railroad about May 3D.
Wilhelm Straube one of the German refill
gees OF 1889. died Tuesday at Bellevue Hospital He
was editor OF daily paper at Erurt Thurin1ia IN iSS
participated the revolution in Baden, and arrived In
been employed in "A German publishing mousse
A collection of autographs was sold yester-
day. at the Of Bangs, Merwin d Co. Among inc
prices obtained the following: Benedict Arnolds
s. 25 Henry Clays 81 49, William DunlaP,s q 70; X; w.
toms 25 Lafayetes 81 lG Richard Henry Lees " zo
Thomas Nelson, jr', 81 Timothy Pickering 81 charles
COtsworth Pckneys 81 so; and J. ". WaacRs, 81 IS.
The bark Orchilla, which arrived yesterday
from Matanzas, had narrow escape from water-Spou's
in mld-ocean. Tho weather had suddenly cleared after
succession of rain squalls when IonI WaTTspO or
est of tho four swept toward the vessel a aiier the
ships guns had been discharged Win no eiiect, pistl
the ship three yards distant with the violence Oh Whit
wind.
BROOKLYN.
The Prospect Park Commissioners ask for
s53OOo for the maintenance OF the parks during 1872
The Rev. Newland Maynard of Staten Island
has elected to the rectorshp of ST. Paus Church.
Brooklyn, L. ID.
One hundred and seventy-One persons died
in Brooklyn last week. 81 and - women; II we're
under one year There were six deaths from smallpox
George Carson attempted to rob an alms-box
yesterday, at the Catholic Church of the Assnmp-
nll.1l
Three men and a woman are engaged Ill
building brick and brownstonc house on Rutedge-st,
in the Eastern District. The woman carries the Orek
aud mortar go
The Young Mems Christian Association has
received LILO paid and members during the past
year. The expenditures OF tho Association during the
year were sli,'F.
Judge Pratt yesterday. in the case of the
Board of Water Commissioners against Mayor KabeSch,
decided that discretion bonds to carry into eect
the plan for an increased supply OF water Tor the oly
OF Brooklyn vested exclusively in the water ana sewer
age Board; that the Commissioners may ana Shouu Nc
held to an honest of this discretion but neither
the Mayor nor the other officers. whose ministerial duty
it ia to sign bonds, can interfere with the water
and Sewerage Commissioners IN calling IOr the Dohs or
sale. the proceeds Thereof i3r s con FRED on
this Beard. the Commissioners are lloe anu ta, hT
must Issue requiring me Nyol " 95 'o O0i'
asked for now remaining Unsigned
STATEN ISLAND.
STAPIEToN.-Eliiah Purdy was arrested on
the iefry-boat last Tuesday for committing violent
assault ON boy aud fined $50 yesterday, By Judge
Garrett.
elected te follow ing directors for the ensuing year jose
Noncarieds John Il. Mcrsereau, A. g. BehlItJ; H. H.
i EunhaI!' y9i Shaw g. W Jewctt, X W. Weston A. q.
Riker A. C. Wood, WIN. Iaws, a. W. Sexton q lssic' l.
Encyv.TER-A reform " ticket, irrespective of par
ties has beo issued Tor the election Tor village trustees
TO be held next week
NEw-BRIGHTON-TAe new Church OF The AScehSioh
will be opened next Ihufsuay'
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
YovKERs.-James Smith, c0lored, attempted
tocommit suicide yesterday, by hanging himself III
bovloft but WAS discovered by another colored man.
NEW,JERSEY.
Jrpsry CITy.-The Grand jury of hudson
Comfy were discharged the term, yesterday, AFTER
,eeutip 55 bills of indictment Edwin Han, lOrger
~ rrostod nj the Erie Railroad depot Tuesday nght'
80, - ,.ition from GOV. Hoffman, obtained by lEOcheS-
t rtborties who charge Han with altering the Dohd'
~ tbot itv 70 the amount Of $4,000 His plan waS 10
,ao honda of small denomination, aud to forge
trgcr a,norts He will be rcturHCe 10 iocncsci U"
day9 Thr Erie Railway Company nave leeehty P'hc'u
uuou the road about 700 OIl-tahh '"i' VI ~
tern. -, a.. o...,t.o No
r,ro,,,s Two detectives OF the Secret Service De
49, v,t traced Samuel PERKS, n bank iOi'Der, nom
Sew-Utmpsire to this place, anu hites , ILL., &c.
dny wtil-lrcssed man slol hIiSl Iii % III
noon on "a Barclayst. leri! -Ooa'' IN "l wa " ~
to-day. - ,,,.,u.,. po,, -,
N,,,,pV The newly-clected Essex county Board OF
pre.Lnders held Their first meeting ~ me N'h h" s
Yesterday James Wheeler wa, teelec'. hd ,eIdi
annual report of the County La,nrr ,ts 900 The
tIfrs $50 00 receipts, s37IrOi pdtut, $3.50. m
~, rr The amounts % hc raised by thAatIo Stae
- ,"e soi state School tax, s2Ol5y1i County par
noses ,2COON Other items H,Ie"so 'iJ q ninntnoteJ
a, T. orcd i'm the old marhel-hOuaS beethoven
wv boa-t of Excise received and granted o5 apphca
tiun Tor lie. nses on Tuesday night
pA,rpsoS-The Third Prcsby tsii4h 'hur,h WIS OF
1917 =, ,rurs,av The Rev. J. II. ltop@u'd delivered
lie charge Ia the Ll'lr, anu 'i'o No. " ~ WV
charge TO the cOusfeai'ion' - . ,,,.-
go, Tho Camden Comfy Medical Society hold its
o, I a., Ting on Tuesday: DR.. H. NJ Cooper was