New-York tribune., 1873-03-22
NEW-YORK CITY.

making extensive preparations for their Spring fishing
and have secured large Quantity OF new hickory poles
when properly driven ready lor hshng cost about $1,000
per hundred.
The General Term Of the Supreme Court
decided yesterday, that the Judges OF the Superior
Court had power TO appoint crier. and accordingly
affirmed the order of the Court below directing
mandamus 10 issue requiring the controller to pay the
salary OF Daniel OBrien crier OF the Superior Court
Mary A. Maxwall age so, of No. 1913 West
Fourteenth-st was knocked down and tramped upon
by n runaway horse at sXthaye. and Fourteenth-st.,
Yesterday and was instantly killed The police subse
Guenty learned that the horse was owned by Casius H.
Reed ~ the Hoffman House Ihe Oody VI tue deceased
was taken TO her former home
The Controller has collected from the Erie
Railway Company sl2lS7 90, due on Feb l, for years
and months ground Of the city property bounded
by Duane, Reade, Washington, and West-ss. The first
erty aud new appraiser was appointed on behalf OF
the city, and the annual rental was h&ed at sl2tO III
stead OF 1880, rs heretofore
Controller Green received the following
amounts Yesterday From the Receiver OF Taxes for
taxes Croton water &C.. S95s9 II; from the Bureau Of
Arrears for arrears OF taxes assessments Croton water
rent. and interest S647S O@ from the Bureau OF Ciiy
Revenue, for market rents and fees S999 25 from the
Collector OF Assessments assessments for street i'm
provements sc, slO6l3 IS. Total, s27,679 G2.
In the case of the KnickerbOcker Life In
suranee Company agt. Erastus Lyman, the aifdayits
lcge that the defendant when President OF that Com
which the Company lost about $1,000 Upon the repre-
sentations made the adayts, judge Fancher Of the
LYMAN who was taken into custody yesterday, aud
released by Deputy sheriff Jarvis in $4,000 bail.
The body of Ida Spencer, age IA, who was
murdered at Syracuse Monday arrived at the Grand
Central Depot yesterday, on the way to Cypress Hills
Cemetery for interment her mother. On affidavit
Of cousin of the deceased Coroner Herman granted
permit transit of the remains through the city Al
hert Eeeler the murderer who approached his victim
cfq1It i1V nnd
heavy iron bar. killed instantly in trying TO escape
by jumping upon a irclght-tIain In rapi0 notion
The United States stOreship the Guard, Capt.
Kirkland commander will sail to-day from the Brook
IyD NayyYard for Trieste having on board about 1900
packages for the Vienna Exposition The vessel will
stop at Gibraltar and will be towed thence by steam
tug to Trieste, where she VIII probably arrive duilng the
missioner accompanied by A. L. stazny and T. r. Pick
ering superintendent OF the machinery department,
White star line He will hasten TO Trieste 10 meet the
storeship supply, winch left tins port last week.
Mary McNamee was arraigned before Coro-
ner Herman yesterday, suspicion OF having caused
the death of Bridget Mcsweegan The two lived
together In squalid apartment at No. As scammolst
Last Saturday night they drank excessively, and quar-
reled when Mary it is alleged. struck Bridget upon The
head with sOda-watcr bottle. nicting severe scalp
wound Bridget was conveyed TO Bellevue Hospital.
where erysipeas supervened, with fatal result. Mary
sreuuOusy denied the charge Yesterday and then sank
longed nemperance and the subseq uent sudden depr
walton of alcoholic stimulauts. She was taken the
Park Hospital 10 await the result of an inquest.
BROOKLYN.
The application of Francis Swift and other
property owners Bedord-ave to the assessment
for repaviDg that thOrOughfare with Scrmshaw pave
neut vacated denied ny Judge Pratt, yesterday.
Three swindlers went, yesterday, TO the resi-
de1ce OF Mrs. Rugers at No 3l4 Degraw-st Brooklyn,
and wanted to sell two Watches which they represented
worth 500 Me Rugers bought them Tor $780, a. the
men stated that they were pressed for money. She
found subsequently that tue watches worth SlO.
The canal-boat AlbatrOss, owned by Owen
Barey and loaded with 205 tons OF coal for the Brook
l Gas COMPANY sunk at end OF the pier the foot
escaped by jumping upon the wharf a. the vessel was
going down. Tie vessel was worth slV ana the cargo
about $500
BurglaTics in this city seem to become moro
frequent daily. The residence Of James Howard,
tractor at No. s4 JeersOnst, was broken into by bur
glars on Thursday night and robbed Of clothing valued
So pass-boo the Commercial Bank, and notes rep
resentng S26s6. Two of the notes indOrsed but
the others Of to any person but the owner.
The carpenter shop OF ~ W. Henriques. at broadway
and Jayst also robbed OF tools valued at SIS on
Thursday night. More clothing worth $50 was stolen
from the dwelling Of Mrs I A. seymour at No 40 Sands
=. Three thieves attempted Yesterday morning TO break
into the Office of Kenyon Newi0ns planning mill at No.
52s UnlOn-st Tor the supposed purpose oI fOpDng three
safes which there, hut they were detected by the
watchman while working buSily at a rear window.
Alter firing pistol shOt at the watchmdD, they de-
camped without any booty
The Kings Country Grand Jury came into
Court yesterday and made presentation in regard to
the condition OF the Penitentary, LuGatic Asylum,
Almshouse Nursery, and RaymVnd-st Jail The cOndl-
ton Of all these institutions was commended, except
that the Jail or this place the jury stated that they
could scarcely hnl angrse strong enough TO express
their sthor;ate G6nditiOn OF affairs existed when
resulted from msmanagemen but from the bad con-
sructiOn and entire unness of the building for the pur
poses il is made tU The ia Is said 10 he the
ycnient den Tor a miscellaneous class prisoners in
Guiding boys, young men, abandoned and vagrant
men, fraudulent debtors, and others daily sent there
from the Shers Office and the several criminal courts
of the city. Disorder, brutality Obscenity, aud general
decentralization of the inmates II Is added, the
liable results. The Jury recommend the Immediate
erection of . Jail building which will have the
cessary facilities for improving the sanitary aud moral
condition Ol the inmates.
HUDSON RIVER COUNTIES.
WEST FARNs-A decision was to have been