New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-07
NEW YORK CITY.
Music in the City Hall Park at p. IN.

! Music in the City Hall Park at p. IN.
An alligator, presented by =. ID. Byrnes
will soon be placed in Central Park.
The Board of Marine Underwriters held no
meeting yesterday for lack of quorum. The meetings
of the Chamber of Commerce are suspended until oc
| tOber.
| The single drawng-rOOm car of the Third
ave line very popular and the question often asked
"When will other similar cars be placed on this ana
other lines"
The auction sale of the tools machinery and
fixtures of the Novelty Iron Works at the foot of East
Twelfth-st began yesterday, by order Of the receiver
Jackson h Schultze.
Fashionable parasOls are now made with
handle each end for carrying them when open,
and the other for use rs cane when they shut Par
asos with whip attached are also popular among LADIES'
who drive
Ferdinand KOgge of Hoboken, foreman in
the photographic establishment Of Hatch Co, at Vesey
and Churchsts rescued Yesterday morning, az the risk
OF his lfc IN unknown stranger who had FALLEN over
board from the Hoboken ferry
The sulriness of the weather yesterday af-
ternoon aud evening forbOed the thunderstorm which
came up from the southwest about midnight. The
thunder occasionally violent and the lightning
vivid, but the fall Of rain was not heavy
The Fourth-ave Railroad Company reports
90 cases of the horse disease, ten Of which have
proved fatal The veterinary surgeon Of the Company
describes the disease as PARALYSIS OF me muscular ana
nervous systems, produced by atmospheric causes.
Extreme midsummer dizziness appears to
have begun in Wall-St. with the hecra preceding the
Fourth. Very few Of those who became abscntec' on
saturday have returned. Rarely have the crowds about
the Exchanges been small, upon business days as
they yesterday and the day before.
A drunken ruflian seized little child by
the neck yesterday without provocation, and threw il
into watering trough Frstaye. near Tnirteentl-st
Tie screams OF the little drew large crowd ana for
a wonder policeman appeared but the mother refused
TO prefer charge, and the ufan went hi' way
IL. 10 l,,r
ladies' who had been annoyed and insuted by men ire
oueptng the croouet-grouud on the side OF the Ram
bic in Central Park that the Commissioners have decided
this season To allow none mt ladle, 10 pay on tne
ground. This rule Is vigorously enforced, even IN we
ease of gentlemen living i'm the houses round the park
the protection OF the ladies playing there
The Dock Commissioners ordered Superin-
endent Fitzgerald yesterday have the membranes
removed from Piers Nos and 81 +. r. aud instructed
superintendent Westerve TO have Piers Nos 81 and -.
T. r. repaired on recommendation oil itei Mc ellf ~
the BOARD ordered that new pier be buit ~ the i"o o
Fifty-seyenth-s, y. r.. together with bridge leading
the bridge about 100 feet long. the work be done
under the supervision " the Enslneer-n Chief
A stamp, said to be the largest of the kind
inhe country, has Just been finished for the Use Of the
V!aduct Railway Company. The instrument is OF metal.
mounted on handsome stand OF dark wood with GIT
designs The upper part is beautifully iapanned The
stamp about u inches in diameter and represents
train passing. The die which occupied over 10
DAYS in the cutting. can he separated from the stamp 80
IS to be preserved In a safe, secure from robbery
The 18th annual report of the Chamber of
Commerce, compiled by the secretary, George Wilson,
contains not only the detailed proceedings Of the Cham
her, regular and special meetings IN which mem
ber> alone are particularly interested but aso special
reports on the leading branches OF trade and statistical
tables relating finance, domestic and foreign trade,
tuunagc shp-bulIIng. coinage banking, ana foreign
exchange, which render IL useful to the commercial pun
lie generally "a a book of reference. II also contains
several reports on important subjects which have occu-
pied the attention Of the Chamber during the year. III
Guiding Pacific Ocean Ielegraphs Immunity OF FrlNate
Properly at Sea Time Of War the Improvement OF the
Mater Front Of the City, the Application OF steam to
Canal aNigatUn, and the Reduction OF CANA Tolls.