New-York tribune., 1873-03-15
NEW-YORK CITY.

letter-box upon q lamp-pOst at Fifty
second-st. and Eleventhave was broken open by
thieves and robbed Of its contents ON Thursday night
Gen. Thomas b. Van Buren, United States
Commissioner to the Vienna Exhibition, will sail for
Europe to-day with his family, in the steamship Adri
attic.
During the past week 1880 loads of ashes
ere removed from the city, at cost OF ss72s 30 In
addition 1876 loads of snow and ice we're carted away
cost, $5567.
An accident reported yesterday affords
lesson for careless womep. f. Hopper age A. cook III
restaurant at No COO Grandst;; was severely burned
yesterday by her clothes taking fire from the range
Eli Pen, Frenchman, age so, committed
suicide by cutting his throat In his bedroom at NO. 4
East Eighthst yesterday, while he was suffering from
mental depression, superinduced oy Ills inapy W o
tain employment
IL is said that James Cusick, the Man
Eater" who was lately convicted Of violent ASSAULT
and battery and who was sentenced to several @ Ts
past been seen In the streets
The New-York Homeopathic Dispensary, at
No. 493 seventh-ave.. founded IN 1860. 1t has
medical staff of 10 physicians, who treated last year
9Ol patients, of whom SO died ana 80 were sent 10 Nus
pitas; 45,s7S prescriptions were dispensed
The Trustees of Trinity NJ. E. Church, in
Thrty-fourtst Eghthave., have decided TO turn
II over TO the City Sunday school and Missionary Society
as free church. Curously enough the church orin
mated in secession from the Thrtiethst. Churcht ocea
stoned by a dispute on the free-seat question:
The hardened masses of snow and mud In
Chathamst were broken up yesterday and were carted
Off in the evening On Parkrow the ice was thrown INTO
the middle of the street, where 1t was dissolved owng
To the combined action of the sun and the sreetcs
rendering that thorOughfare nearly impassaOie.
As the time for the Methodist Annual Con-
ferences is approaching an interesting question IN
many of the churches OF that denomination Is; "Who
will be next preacher e. Most OF them nowever
to Providence and the Bishop having gone out o vogue
In cities
The central organization of the Turn Asso-
Citations Of this city andivcnity is circulating petition
calling for the enactment Of law making school educa-
tion compusory Copies of this petition receiving
signatures the Turn Hail. in Fonrh-st az the Bloom
ingdae Turn Hail. and at the halls of the Turn Organ
cations IN this city.
Controller Green received the following
amounts Yesterday From the Receiver Of Taxes, for
taxes and interest and CroOn Water rent 1858 36 from
the Bureau Of Arrears for arrears OF taxes and interest
sass l6 earso assessments ana Cfooh
Water arrears, sl33 95; total, AQE2 ifOin the bu
reau Of City Revenue, for market rents and fees,
s26OGC from the Collector OF or broadway
widening and other works, S55 e9i grand total re-
ceived s47.lS2 |
The disregard of life shown by men handling
goods in warehouses received forc9le illustration yes
terday AS Bernard Mccarthy, age CO. Of No IS Ryer-
son.st BROOKLYN, was going into carpet store at No.
32 Pearlst roll of carpet fell upon him through the
hatchway killing him instantly. J0hn Baldwin age %.
of No S2l Pearl-st in attempting TO warn Mccarthy of
his dancer was himself struck by a second roll OF car
pet which broke his right leg.
An unknown woman, age about 80, we'll
dressed and of apparent respeetabty, applied in the
Compton House. at Tbrdave. and Twenty-fOurthst, at
1015 D. IN on Thursday, for a nights lodging The clerk
assigned her a room, and understood her TO Gve her
name as Mrs Howard" She found dead yester-
day ing lying upon the outside OF the bed and fully
dressed ith the exception of black velvet sack and
hat which, with a gray chinchila muf and pair OF
cuffs, were hanging upon the clothes hooks several
phais with defaced labels found upon the bureau,
and one was discovered TO have been marked aconte
Coroner concluded that she had committed sui
eide hut will hold inquest after trying TO establish
her identity. She gray dress black cloth jacket,
and a red balmOral skirt.