New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-05
NETWORK CITY.

The Board of Estimate and Apportionment
will meet on Thursday -,
Tur TRrRrrNE has received % cents for the
Children's Picnic, from little boy.
Over five millions of Delaware and Mary
land peaches reached TINS market yesterday W '"o
Pennsylvania Railroad.
TIE TRIBUNE has received 81 for the Hans
Andersen Testimonial Fund, from c. Is. Loomis jr, ana
Harvey LOOMS, Brooklyn.
II was rumored yesterday that the Governor
would public his decision with reference to the
charges against the Mayor tomorrow.
Fvelina Kennedy of No. 1872 Madison ST,
age 49, burned so severely on Sunday night by ner
clothes taking fire the range that she died in Belle
yue Hospital yesterday.
There will be music in Tompkin's-square
by the Central Park Band this afternoon, beginning at
o'clock There win also be music at Central Park on
the Lake an hour earlier.
Theodore f. Higgins age 80, of Galveston,
Texas was stricken with para yss while on the steamer
George W. Clyde, coming to this port, and upon the
arrival Of the steamer yesterday he was the faK
Hospital.
The trial of the Inspectors of Election for
the prosecution OF whom Coils George W. wingate and
John r. Fellows have been assigned VIII probably go
until September for the reason that there are so
cases having precedence on the calendar OF the
Court OF General Sessions.
Mayor Havemeyer has ordered lander e.
Mcmahon, intelligence Office keepers to refund 50 to
each emgrant procured by them for shipment to Vene
zuela The emigrants legal adviser counseed them TO
refuse the money, and under his instructions civil SUITS
for damages are to be begun against the nrm.
The Superintendent of Membranes, f. B.
shaer has not received warrant for his July salary
the Controller holds that the work OF the bureau
is practically suspended. Mr. shafer that for four
past he has not removed membranes, be
cause there was money enable HIN to do the
necessary appropriation having been withheld by the
Controller.
When asked, yesterday, if he intended to
ga,, %, ham Io Of
highwines which seized by the Revenue officers
Monday United States DistrctAtorney Bliss said that
all he knew the matter was what nc had read IN
the newspapers that the seizure Of tine hghwines had
nor been repor to him. and that he could do nothing
as the case stood
The Superintendent of the Eighth-ave. Rail
road Company gave orders June to have two cents
added 70 the price OF collected above Fftynnth
st. Before this order was issued the fare was eight
cents aud this makes the price demanded higher than
that of anv other line. Tue patrons OF the Egnthave
line are mostly poor people ana tney feel TINS burden
very heavily.
Thomas Bryson, who killed Mrs. Catharine
Hickey NJ No go West sxteenth-st sunday morning
by throwing her down stairs, was arrested ON Monday
night by Capt Cherry OF the Sixteenth Precinct on an
Ice barge at the foot OF sxeenth,st n H. Bryson was
ing TO escape from the city on board OF IT, lie Was com
united TO the TomDs.
During the first seven months Of 1873 the
total uutoer OF immi grants landing III New-YOrk was
hoep ss53 This shows falling-oG OF IO5559. Follow
ing IS the plumber OF Immigrants who came here during
the first seven months o. eacn ycr Tor zen years -
2G623; 1862 2jlsS; 1870, 2l5oJii lel' 4-oyOZ 1872,
292,g53; 1875. 26S,2os
Five new cases of smallpox were reported
to the Board Health yesterday from the nghborhood
of Observation-Disclosures nineteenth and Northumberland
tweptietl-sts between Fourth aud Madson-avcs, one
OF them being fatal. Olher cases are SAID To exist
among the snaues on he roeAs' put have NOT pgeu
a.. fbe uofic a IL
than two months since smallpox broke out ia
Harlem, and 1t is spreading instead OF aoatlng
The ship and ferry bridge intended for the
freight boats which to connection with the
freight trains on the Harlem River Branch OF the New
York. New-Haven aud Hartford Railroad. from its
southern terminus, Ia now completed Two steam der
uckS now being erected on the wharf Tor Bolsthg
coal and other heavy freight III Is expected tnat large
quantities Of fruit aud other pershane ireigh from tue
Southern railroads viii he forwarded by thls route 10
New-Eugland without change OF cars.
A meeting of the Pilot Commissioners was
held At No 40 Burning slip yesterday afternoon. let
ter was received the office OF the United States
Coast Survey nqulring as TO the amount or damage
recently Occasioned IN dredging the harbor 10 the
s.sn Channel the west bank, and statlng THAT an
immediate survey would be made complaint was
received from several residents OF staten lan1
IL is said the law is violated almost daily III his
way
In the United States District Court yester-
dav in the case OF the II barrels of whisky which were
sell ed
which were condemned by default on Tuesday OF last
week aud which were subsequently Claimed by +: q.
Boyd 90 OF No 70 Broadst on e eroIha e , "a MI
Cropkhte Of Morris H.. from "n0h lhes were rece.Su
ON COMMISSION, Judge Batcford refused To- Omen the
DO ont because the nsuthciency OF he affidavit upon
which the motion to open was made lie granted then
permissiOn to make a new GihldNt'
The Army Medical Board consisting of Sur
geons Joseph b. Brown. John Moore j. IL. Bill ana b.
= rcrand Assistant Surgeon A. H. Hoa, held their irst
o,,, Yesterday at the Army Headqu rers In this city
t cx,iuii;e the applications for positions IN the army
70 ii st,T Examinations are conducted simuta-
n~onsv IN San Francisco and in this city. About co
Vacancies are be ed. There are many applications
i vii take two weeks at least examine them
A. the meeting yesterday morning decisive done.
A. soon ~ the examinations are concluded me Board
vii report the results to the Secretary OF War at
Washington.
One of the chief objects of the Oriental
roporraphical Corps is the establishment OF Oriental
Museum in America. George NJ Powell brought back
from the Expedition OF 1873 much valuable material
irom Africa aud Western Asia, and on Monday evening
very valuable installment OF this material came 10
aond fron Prof. Schumacher, German engineer resd-
ipg AZ Mount Carmel. TINS nstament includes over
thonsand geological and botanical specimens ana Shells
hu,Iding stone burr stone TOR mill-stones ako Soils
rare ancient stone caryings &C., &c Pfoi schumacher
seu besides map OF new surveys Vi seNerd huhdfeds
of square miles OF Palestine.
William Young, age. Is, a prisoner III the
Peuitentary Blackwelrs Island. was one of gang
OF In charge of Trustworthy" prisoner
named Patrick Manning. age l6, on Monday, and re-
fusing TO do his task. sharply reprmanded by the
LATER Angry words led TO blows when Young. seziug
stone hammer from the hands OF convict him,
strnck Manning a heavy blow on the forehead. Tno
aet WAS carried insensble to the hospital, and there
attended by the regular physicians. The wound is
severe one the skul not fractured and there
Of, ,nce of recovery Warden LiscOmb made "a state
neur Of the facts TO the District Attorney.
grey tweed coat and rOund-top hat were
found on the banks Of the Hudson at the foot of One
ed-and-forty- on Monday afternoon. In
the pocket of coat there envelope addressed
., . Charles pliers St Denis Hotel n Y" The police
of the Thirty Precinct, making inquiries AZ
the hotel, learned that mau who had registered UNA,
name In the hotel books had been missing since the