The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-05
NEW YORK CITY.
The police during the past week arrested LOTT
persons for various offences.

| The police during the past week arrested 1877
] persons for various offences.
| The Receiver Of Taxes last week collected
sso'l2o o. 49,
rporo - --v-,~-,c-
.-. mere we're fQrtS-sya area during tha Weeh.
..st,mated loss, $7o,e6o
Marshal Hart granted 2ol >ncenses last week.
Amount received, $40 40.
Mr.. G. d. Cardozo received, during the week, 1s3
complaints Of violatonr<of corporation ordinances,
all OF which have beef referred.
The record Of vital statistics for the past week
stands az fol9ws:-3s2 births, 2o2 marriages and
6d7 deaths.
The vital statistics for the week ending May 4
are deaths, se7; still births, As; marriages, 2o2;
and births, 3s2.
Fire Marshal McSpedon reports forty-fve fires for
the week ending May A. causing loss of sc, 900, on
which there was an insurance OF $l2s,SOo.
Two hundred ana forty-three new patients were
treated during the month Of April ut the Manhattan
Eye and Ear Hospital, 2ss East Thirtyourth street.
Thirteen cases Of smallpox were reported on
Friday, one where the patient had been vaccinated
by the Health oncers-the first instance Of the kind
John Cash, who was run over by car 10 OF the
Broadway line on the nth Of April last died at
Bellevue Hospital last night. The Coroner has been
notified, and will hold an inquest tomorrow.
The eloquent and learned Dominican lectures on
'erhe Tiara its Past and It's Future In the Academy
Of Music, on Thursday evening, May 10 This win
be the only opportunity OF hearing the reverend a
fat barva urr1Nto pf in Z
his return to Europe. !.
Sergeant Miller, Of the Eleventh precinct, reports
that the remains OF an unknown woman were found
floating in the dock foot OF Houston street, East
River. The body was far advanced In decomp0si-
ton, much so as to make it impossible to de-
scribe it. Coroner Keenan, was notified to hold an
inquest at the MOrgue, whittier the body was re-
moved.
The body Of an unknown man, about forty five
years Of age, was yesterday found floating in the
dock foot Of Thirtyfourth street. North River. De-
ceased was about five feet six inches in height light
lexiOn, sandy hair, mustache and WhskerB all
around his face. He was dressed In black overcoat,
blue vest, gray pants, blue flannel hickory shirt and
army Shoes The remains were sent to the Morgue
and Coroner keenan, notified.
Coroner Schirmer yesterday morning held an
ue st ut the Centre Street Hospital on the body
OF John Henry Maxwell, q lad seventeen years Of
wound OF the abdomen, received on Wednesday
last Deceased, who lived at 40 Mulberry street,
was playing with what he thought to be an empty
pistol, but 1t being loaded exploded and shot him
as stated. The jury rendered verdict OF acct
dental death. The shooting took place on the stoop
OF 81 Mulberry street.
The body of a man recognized rs Daniel Lunday,
formerly OF No. Ninth avenue, was yesterday
found floating in the dock foot of Little Twelfth
street, North River. Deceased was q man OF in
tnnV hnl.s hal
months and from tho act that he had handker-
chief bound over his eyes 1t Is suspected ne pur-
posely jumped overheard to END miserable exist
native OF Ireland. He was not married, but lived
with woman who passed as his wife. The
remains were sent to the MOrgue and Coroner
Schirmer notified.
On the 18th of March last three young men,
named Dick Hammond, Michael Farrell and Pat
rick Mayneld entered the basement Of the house No.
time and amused themselves by picking the wall
to pieces with large knife When demonstrated
with by an old man named Alexander Mertice,
plunged 1t into the thigh Of Mertice,
innictlng DANGEROUS wound. Farrell
up to appear for trial. Yesterday Detective Noble
OF the sixteenth n, precinct arrested Hammond and
Market, who locked him up for trial
Dr. Hans Powell the Treasurer OF the grand
soldiers meeting held In Cooper Institute Fri
DAY evening, for the purpose Of helping the sub
scriptions for the erection Of monument to Major
General George II. Thomas, ard also the monument
to the 900 brave Union men who sleep in Cypress
Hills Cemetery without stone or fence to show in
what cause they fell, reports the following adj
ditional subscriptions received General A. +.
Burnside, S25 G. T. Reynolds, $40; Senator Henry
Wilson, $40; General N. NJ Curtis SO; Q. L. Det-
mold, $25; General Henry Il. Davies, +. l.. Campbell
So; J. c. J. Langbein, sll; Samuel MINIS, sl4; Col
onel B. Willis IS. y.