New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-03-24
NENv-YORK CITY.

81 n nd April and y, at headquarters.
The arrivals of cotton since Saturday, rs an
nounced Yesterday Of the Cotton Exchange. were LASS
bales The exports to Europe Tor the week ohu"s
March 20 were 100000 bales.
petition was in circulation at the Produce
Exchange yesterday, urging the Legislature W adopt
measures for the consolidation OF New-York Brookyn,
and the adjacent towns OF Kings county uhuer on0
municipal government 1870,
An infant, three years of age, named Will
liam White was burned death yesterday morning at
the home Of his parents in sixtyfourthst, between
Tenth and Elevenayes Ihe cothes OF 'nd v the ali
fire while he was playing ABOUT oto'c, uu'i"s WV
sence of his parents.
An inquest was yesterday held in the case
of Charles Moser, who committed suicide Dy taxing
morphine and audanum, at the vandyke House az cue
Bowery and BayaId-st, on sunday eVenngi ono1 The
jury rendered verdict OF suicide.
Application was made yesterday In the
Supreme Court. before Judge Donohue, by Inc Mer-
chants Steam Line discharge the attachment issued
AGAINST them at the suit Of Herbert Lawrence ana Wiz
nam Faills and a bond OF $4,000 gwen TO sccure
payment OF any judgment which may be awarded tue
plaintiffs.
A deputation of junk dealers waited on tue
Mayor Yesterday and requested him to take measures 20
procure the passage of On ordinance i'i'ir %
licensed junk dealers to wear bass hcenas as many
corre-pOnding To che numbers Of hslr T No.
thieves now pretend 10 bs JUNK uo"ei1 en- Conn,on
ren,cd thot he wonld communicate Win tue Conmoh
Council on the SUBJECT >. = -o
In order to make the police force moro
oatio Presaen, gardner IL now Transferring 10 post
dnty largo number OF men not required IN the twenty
sixth tCity IIalD Precinct and the sanitary end court
squads. From the Twcnty-siAih Precinct there nav
been transferred y men, From the sanitary sdad 20
men were transferred TO post duty aud several nun
TIE Police Court sqiadi
The officers of the Domestic Sewing Machine
Company state that the Company is now IN good coh
ton and In fair way recover from the interruption
10 their business caused by the financial royu'on OF s
al hat
amounting TO SlOl)00. Is unlmphred ana tnat tio ~
tension Of time grauted ~ tue cre.ltoF' M to
Company opportunity 10 pace H9'l III h''" N'"1'''
financially
John Hofnacle, n licensed vcnder living at
seyentetE St and Ninhavc was arrested yesterday Dy
Coroner Elckhof and committed 10 tie TOmDs on
charge OF having been implicated in the killing OF john
Haas who was found dead on Sunday at tue foot OF an
enbankmeht Ninthaye., near seyenty -lr,tst' Leo
mold Yang witness detained by the Coroner stated
Informally That fight occurred between the prisoner
ana the d,cea ed on SATURDAY night IN SlHySeNehtui
near Ei,htA-dyc. when HOinase STRUCK haas sc'eldl
times.
John Murphy Of No. 100 Sccond-aye, who
was stabbed during wedding festival at his residence
on Saturday night made an ane-mortem siatefneht ~
Bellevue Hospital on Sunday, charging Carl steizel, who
resides on the second floor of the house, and another
man living in SiXteenth-st, whose name ne dld 10.
know with the assault III admits being very drunh az
me time. Elizabeth U1rtzcl ard fGnr>: mmefm1h
have been arrested On the charge OF b'ing lmp,alen IN
the assault and arc held to await Tie result Of Murphy
injuries.
Tho sailing of the steamship Ontario for
d., r,5,tr, mas been postponed until this morning at 10
o'clock, because Of the pcn-arrya OF the steamship
Merri,iack' which Il now due. Bon st5ali3iis ARD
owned by the United states and Brazil Mail steamship
Comuany Tue Merrimlck, bound from Rio Janeiro To
fe M S She d not arrived at that port
March H. The detention rs no douuv GasoI ps
during the past Iortni-hl'
The brig Endymion which arrived from "a
lerr.o Yesterday reports having encountered heaVy
Weather on her voyage whereby her sails we're spit ana
a norton of them lost while two topsai yards were
carried away The brig, while lying at anchor on inc
bar was struck at midnight OF sunday ny ue -cuoouet
Grace webster The chain plates three stancons, aud
about u OF the bulwHrks ana ran OF tht EnS lo,
Srrc cried away. The schooner Cahl, with cargo
OF coal from south Amb0y Tor Fan RIVER went ashore ."
Bartletps Reef yesterday!
In the Lunatic Asylum, on Wards island,
new regulation has lately been made regarding the
distribution of books from the library Previously the
k.eper-braran exercised his own Judgment as to the
works best suited TO the patients Now the patients are
allowed 10 enter the library and select for themselves:
Tne result that the patients seem better peSeH anu
ypIIanie information to the mental CONDITION oI
pateuts. AbOut go volumes comprise thc library;
rls number Is totally inadequate to furnish assorted
reading and the Warden, H. G. LUSH, earnestly dteHoS
donations vi books to tue asylum hoidiy'
BROOKLYN.
An order of arrest which had been issued By
Judge Pratt against Cyrus W. Waite OF Richmond
County, vacated yesterday Inc "ronb petSou h"u
been arrested.
Al meeting of the Board of Health, held
YIELD Yesterday afternoon 10 cases of smallpox were re
ported one ease was stated TO have been kept secret
by the attending phy stefan, "Ao reported II IS case oi
typhoid fever.
Many explosions of burning oils have oc-
curred Of late in Brooklyn and the law regarding its
sale ha. been generally dsreslrdcd. Accordingly the
Fire Commissioners have sent the copy OF nlact to
Senator Jacobs, having for its object more rigid cen
sorshp of oils and providing the creation OF bureau
Of combus iDies uuuer the control OF the Ere Commits
siouers. These explosive oils caused sGt ih's yes
erdly at 30. 1874 MJugrr-st ana the Othei at NO
Il Navy-st.
James Grove the boy who fractured the
skull Of jacob Signund Ivy hitting hun with stone,
was brought up again before Justice Demar yesterday
morning and a letter was read from Or. AtchlsOn of
the Lang Island College Hospital stating that the in
urcd man was rapidly growing worse and liable 90 die
at any moment. The plea oil Groves counsel 10 adnt
his client to bail refused, and the prisoner was re-
handed TO il 10 await the result OF segsmuud's ln-
urias Or. Atcson told fRIBt NJ reporter last even
inc that sl.1.nund would PROBABLY not live through tne
night.
Mavor Hunter, who returned from Wash
lngton on Saturday stated that he had interview
with Cen woodford and the Secretary OF the Navy In
relation 10 the walaboat property. Tho city owns two
pier, Oh the west side OF Westinghouse, between
rlusling-,ye and Newtown Creek The Government Is
filling in its property Washington aud Fushnga
the citys piers UDstructed thereby The MAYOR
thinks that the Government should build new pier,
ana nc believes thnt course Will probably he adopted.
The subject OF building a large and connOdI0us city
market the WaliabOut property has not yet taken
detluite form.
A large crowd gathered at an early hour
yesterday afternoon in the council chamber OF tho
Board of Aldermen In anticipation OF spirited discus
sion regarding the Mayors candidate for Assessor IN
place OF JACOB Worth. Mayor Hunter, however did not
present any name TO the Couaci and possibly he may
The nlarp A Te al
lowing Controller to issue certificates Ia the amount
Of 50 TO defray expenses incurred by the police
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