, 1873-01-16
NEW YORK,

DcniaI-Thc Rush to See Stokes
|. Phelps, Dodge q, Co.-rrfnity Church
Finnnces-The N1urdercrs In the
Tonabs Unenay-The Tweed Trial
|. Horrible Wife nlnr1cr.
Speeial Despatch to The Chicago Tribune.
|! New yoaK, Jan. 15.-Stimulated By the fact
that Commodore Vanderbilt has placed under
contract all that portion Of his Underground
City Railway between Forty-second street md
Harlem, the Directors Of the Gilbert Elevated
Railroad met to-dxy and resolved to be-
gin at once tho construction OF their road,
which will girdle Manhattan Island
from the Battery to- Kings bridge.
Tho road viii form an archway over the streets
selected, from curb to curb, reeting on Light iron
'arches thlrty-six feet apart. The speed of the
fastest trains will be twenty miles an hour.
President Watson and Mr. Barlow, of tho Eric
Road, and other prominent railway capitalists,
are interested in tho enterprise.
Jay Gould denies the telegraphio report that
he has an agent in Springfield, ILL.,, locking after
LEGISLATION affecting the Northwestern Railroad.
The boot and shoe manufacturers report an
advance u in spring goods Of ~ per cent. :
a turtte friend. The rush to see him exceeds
that in the case OF any other prisoner over.
confined in the Tombs, many of the applicants
being fashionable women. None are admitted
except his relatives. tho clergyman, and inlmo-
date friends: He walks every afternoon in the
courtyard, attended by tho Deputy Sheriff. He
is still hopeful Of new trial
The Custom House clerk Of Phelps, Dodge &
Co., who was reported on the sick list BY the
firm, is ascertained to have sailed for Europe
some time between Jan. and 8. The firm
now say they gave him leave Of absence on ac-:
count of his health. It is this clerk who piled
between the store and tho Custom House.
a discussion over the income Of Trinity
Church is proceeding in the newspapers, which
bringa cut figures that suggest sort Of Credit
Mobiher somewhere in the management of it's.
vast properties. 4 lively Sunday 1,ayer RECENTLY
etated the income Of Trinity at $1,000, 900. The
Times followed With an editorial denial
Is ' much '' as ed,ooo @ 900 ,se in fo'stsag sng |
one year. To-day correspondent Of the Times,
who gives his initials, says The yearly income
OF the Church from all sources has, in fact,
never exceeded SAas, 900, from which mnst be
assessments, etc. In view OF this apparently
official exhibit, the heirs Of Anneke Jams will |
hkve to be contentod With less than i dollar |
apiece.
Matilda Heron, who arrived from San Francis
co few days ago, is an inmate Of the Park Hos
pltel IN this city, suffering from alcoholic hyB-
samo institution. -.
Tho munlerers in tho Tonbs arc .ory. !; busy |
consulting with their lawyers, fearing now that !
hanging is about to break out in New York as an |
epidemic. Stokes THINKS it very hard fortune tnot
bis case should be successfully abandoned BY |
Graham, Mckeon, and Tremaine. Fosters case |
I'LL come before the Court Of Appeals next |
Monday. In tho cases OF Sharkey, Scannell.
md King true bills have been found by ths |
iEand Jury. 6haEkoy will be tried in the Court |
# General Sessions, and King aud Scannell in
be Oyer and Terrniner, as soon. as tho
# Blakely, who killed his depraved niece, the
,apers hare nc+ yei gone before the GRIND Jury. |
2osenzwig. and Hickey MIL >haye-csch a ue1v
rial, the first in the Supreme Court, tho other
b inquest has yet to be heid. The defence OF |
rau1. Ell will be conducted BY Mr.. Tremaine. IT