New-York tribune., 1872-07-02
NEW-YORK CITY.

NEW-YORK CITY
Music at the Battery at 6.
The Mercantile Library will be closed OF
July 4.
| 1t cost S7,467 50 to repair the Belgian pave
ment IN Ffthaye., from Washington-square to Fifty
| ninth-S.
| James Sutton g. Co. of No. 80 Liberty-st
acknowledge the receipt OF s27 for the relief OF hremei
woundd by the recent explosion.
Commissioner Van Mort says that there II
trut In the report that the public baths are badly
| kept, am that they are assignation places.
Commissioner Van Mort has appointed L. Z.
| Barker Deputy Commissioner Of Public Works. Mr
Barker associated with Mr. Van Mort in the Park ad
| minlstratOn for Is years.
The Matinee Garden saloon is in the
bas mentadoining the Southern Hotel and not In thai
building, rs was inadvertently stated in the article on
| concert sabons in THE TRIBUNE yesterday.
The Kiiser Franz Grenadier Band will be
| received By the Landwehr VerelE and number OF
| former German militia men on Its return from Boston
and will gvta concert at Joness Wood on Saturday
The banC of the Grenadier Guard will return
to England by the Inman steamer City Of Antwerp, on
Saturday. Pror their departure they win give con
cert tor the bneft Of st. Georges Society on Friday
evening.
The following is comparative statement of
contagious diseases for the two weeks ending June 29
tsdng Typha typhoid Scarlet Measles. iberia. pcI.
june june g.: g.. g y = 4
About 80 houses represented in the Cotton
Exchange have resolved 10 close their Offices from to-
morrow to July The members Of the Stock Exchange
advised, yesterday the Governing Committee OF the
Exchange to close he building from Tomorrow to July
81 but at meetingof the Committee In the afternoon
IL resolved not adjourn, az the principle was u
Just, and would inire the Interests OF the members
The Stock. Gold, Pnduce, Petroleum, and other Ex-
changes will he close0On July 4.
m q 6
Sessions was continued yesterday for the purpose Of
finishing the trial Of John II. Meeker, charged with
manufacturing and selling obeene prints photographs,
and negatives at No 81 ARn-st aud No los Nassaut The
accused testified that he puclased $500 obscene mega
uves in 1868, and printed iDOuI 5OJ PICTURES, EdWao
g. pickfOrd, a discharged empOye or TIE dclchdaht,
whose AFFIDAVIT the indictment was obtained, testified
that he had entlre charge o,he Vnscehe ",
dealers After brief charge by the Recorder the jury
retired. and at 10 p M, nOthaviug agreed upon YER
diet, they were locked up Dr the nisit
Henry s. Richards, Who lived in Fifty-s sacOnd-
ST., near Broadway, died last March, inesate, leaving
property worth about $1,000 and the brothers Of the
deceased applied in the Surogaes Court yesterday for
letters OF Administrations the ground that there was
no widow Gen. Wcodi'rd also applied for letters OF
administration in behalf ) MIS-. Mary c. Richards who
claims Ia have been TIE wue 90 me deceased ie rev
John Dickinson, Pastor Of tn, Ross Ill NJ l.. Church,
testified that August 70 III, the deceased called at
his house, No. 2i9 East l"ehty-seNehtmB-sI. Ia WIN q
woman. who gave her name az Amy =. EDWARDS, ana
the daughter OF Pierre ogden Edwards and Mary
Ann Spencer, an born at sea; but short time
before the death of the deceased he sent Tor witness ana
said that his wfG only tie adopted daughter OF Mr..
Edwards and her true pareIts were Daniel tuftn and
Mary Mucahy de asked If the incorrect genealOgy as
stated in the marriage certificate vitiaIed the marriage
BROOKLYN.
James Carboy, President of the Board of Excise,
died. yestely morning bis rilce President aad Huntingdon
The Health Board repors 81 cases of smallpox,
typbu, fever ofpoel fever al Of cholera nnian darins the
The receipts Of the Collector Of Internal Revenue
for the past month s5Cl5 o. against S954 u in
June 1911
The Adermanic Committee on the annexation OF
New Lot; has reported that evdnee has been given to show that the
people favor the project.
Lemuel Burroughs, the Tax Collector elect, re-
appointed Gsorre Ardenon DrG'y Collector aud H. v" GIN
Assistant Collector, veteran
The Water Commissioners have determined TO
cnde the claim Of K and Hogan Tor $o9 80 10 payment Of
extra work On the Eighecuth Wan. sewer.
Judge Nelson granted, yesterday, temporary in
99cag9 ,s,isp"s % % s ss s % S1 S3'' fro" placing deal ''
Eif. na"si..! ntttshy reports ~ fires during june
s72 los. on buiir s22 0i took $I2oo innc; on tai
ny, $lz76oi on stock, $isW aiual los @s'1 Two - ''N
The Board Of supervisors passed a resolution,
yesterday inviting Jue McCue Thomas Knsea and the Board Of
Estimates cooperate II sbng equitable valuation OF
The taxable property u the count, as eonLa VAN oaer eoua ID
LONG ISLAND
OYSTER BAY-lhe first annual regatta OF the
,s,hsLa Yacht Clnb will take place on IL Sslay.
Popr IrPFFEsovThe Edward Strs tons connection With tr
Pro sytou Church has been dissolved, accuH; q III health.
STATEN ISLAND.
STAPLEToN.-John Dcgan was held M S3,OOO BAIL
for r,nd rceny yesterday John Dowe fell fOm thrsy vim
dow, yesterday, and va. aaly injured
HUDSON RIVER COUNTIES
MoTr HAvEN.-J. w. Gilmore bas been appointed
aster vice Thomas Wallace, resigned
NFw-JERSEY.
Jersey CITY.-A case of infantcide Qme 10 light
in Wet Bergen Oh sunday. The culpit Is Gem g age 90
married. and empoyei the boarding house Of Mr. Ale ia Culver
MARY Cannon 20 Rsrodave sunday night it is
believed Of assault msde her be husband two
weeks Mary oset arrested in The Fourth 'ecnot yestef
dsv charged with having thrown newbom clnto the sink at
e house No. The accused Is u mother OF SIX
children.
Nyw,pV-Tbe Rev J. Knowles late OF Atlanta Ga has been
asg NJ. t. thurch1 JoS Leonard died,
an spasr from the effects heithe people West Newak
against the saugbterhOuss be street
Council met last evening nd agreed Ia
d ali ordinances relative paving Of Cenraae and To intro
the with Prescott pliet paSemeut
TIE Trusees Reform School net m the Mayor M last even
appointed Committee 10 drait General pan T e esaDs'
neut management Of Reform School for THIS cy'
Rocx,w,y-Whe returning urh Sunday Mary A. Hof
was her ami instantly killed. ohePeons IN the
vehicle escaped with severe bruises
POLICE NOTES.