The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-02
NEW YORK CITY.

The police arrested 500 persons last week.
Marshal Hart granted 247 licenses last week, and
received 1895 IS.
The vital statistics of the past week show that
there have been $40 deaths, 234 marriages. 400
births aud 40 still births.
Smallpox Is nearly gone. There are only eight
cases in the city now and only four deaths resulted
from the disease last week.
Fifteen hundred and twenty-six persons were
accommodated with lodgings at the various police
stations during the past year.
The students of Columbia College are to have
boat club and the trustees for that purpose have
voted an annual sum OF 81, 600.
Fire Marshal McSpedon reports twenty-seven
fires TOR the past week, upon which the estimated
loss is $54, 100 and the insurance $4,000.
The applications for employment at the Free La
Dor Bureau in Clinton place, during the past week
were 773 and situations were procured for 657
persons.
Chamberlain Palmer's report, issued yesterday,
gives the following figures :-Balance on hand Feb
ruary q, $4,oe2,e5S 80; receipts last week.
S1,5l1 2S7 "a payments, 81. H. 566 Isl balance In
the treasury $4,49l,376 AS
On Friday night burglars forced an entrance, by
prying or the lock, into the publishing house Of
M. Doolady, on the second moor of 9s Nassau
street The total value OF the property taken is
over one hundred dollars.
Master Barry, who recently wen cadetship at
West Point, has not, as stated for some time been
pupil OF Grammar School No. 20, but is men,
Der OF the Introductory or lowest class OF the Col
lege OF the City oil New York.
A Mr.. Isaac Coldstein, Of No. 1876 Chambers street.
wishes to have 1t stated that he has no identity
with the gentleman Of that name who was re-
Gently arrested and arraigned In the Yorkville
Police Court for receiving stolen goods.
club has been formed in this city composed Of
the members OF the leading Southern firms doing
business here, together with delegates from every
Southern State. The association strictly excludes
politics, as well as gambling of any description,
and 1t Is its purpose to establish permanent club
house.
Oscar II. Failes, late deck hand on one Of the
Tenth street ferrybOats. died in Bellevue Hospital
on the sth ult Deceased had his foot crushed
between the boat and bridge, death being the re-.
suit Failes was thlrty-two years of age and q
native of New York. Coroner Young was notified
10 hold an inquest.
Coroner Young was yesterday called to the
Morgue to hold an inquest on the body of Mary A.
Emmett, Q woman thirty-hve years Of age, who
died in Bellevue Hospital on Thursday last. Mary
dropped a lighted Kerosene oil lamp on the floor,
and the fiuld splitting, fire TO her clothes and
burned her fatally. Deceased lived at 226 East
Twenty fifth street.
The cartman who was arrested on the 21st OF
February for taking sand from lSeth street. for the
firm OF J. NJ e. A. Thorp, was subsequently dis
charged representation that his employers
sent him to get 1t under Misunderstanding as
TO its proprietorship, they having been authorized
by Patrick Bannon to remove II. Bannon was sup
posed TO be the owner.
Last evening an unknown man, about thirty.nve
years OF age, was found floating in the East
River, opposite the foot Of Thrty-fou street.
He was about five feet nine inches in height, with
a sandy mnstache; dressed In q blue overcoat,
black dresscOat and vest, dark striped pants,
wooen stockings Congress CATERS, white shirt and
gray ribbed undershirt. He was tn1An to the
Ioygue and the Cogeney was netlne3