New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-22
NETWORK CITY.


NETWORK CITY.
Controller Green reports that he received
| Yesterday s54,ss6 %, and disbursed s5a,54o
The Mayor sent a check for 81, 535 yesterday
to John Phelps, President OF the Nswor'eanS '0''oh
| exchange, in aid OF the louisiana suHerois'
The steamships Nevada and Russia from
| riyo,,ool Uosaria from Hamburg, and Bolivia from
Giasgow landed immigrants at Castle Garden Yesterday
| The new propeller City of New-Bedford,
built by j. b. Van Deusen for the daily line between
this city and New-Bedord, made very successui ti''
| trip down the Bay yesterday
The light which generally Eliminates the
CITY Hall clock has been scarcely visible during tho past
TOGO nights and last evening IL almost Impossible
| to 9sccrtain the time 90 yards from the building
Mavor Havemeyer signed the ordinance for
licensing steamboat runners and requiring them 10 wear
badges The cost OF license 49, and the penalty tor
cugaeng In tire business without license OF Dadge Is
| SO for each offense.
The White Star Steamship Company are
about to transfer the terminus Of their line from jersey
city to this city They have leased piers Nos 81 and o.
n. r.. at an annual rental OF $4,000; lhe oceahic VIII
| sail from pier No. %, N. r., on May 80
| fair was opened in the hall adjoining the
residence Of Richard Brennan at Ninety-sixth-
st. and Broadway, last evening The proceeds are 70 be
| Gently purchased for the erection or a new church
The Association for Befriending Children
and Young Girls Will open its new house. at No l3G Sec
ond ave. tomorrow afternoon. The object OF tho Asso-
citation, s indicates is to reform unfortunate
girls ana TO the children or poor parents. The
new quarters Of the Association nave ACCOMMODATIONS
| for $50 persons
The arrivals of cotton at this port yester-
day were Norfolk 65 bales; Baltimore bales; National
Railroad $50 bales and Erie, al bales total 800 bales.
The arrivals at all ports for four days this week are
1904 bales The stock in tho city Is 1864 bales,
against 1865 bales for the corresponding day last year
| Excess tins year, 6i,e69 Dales.
| hn oypursiou marty. numbering inward OF
100 persons, comprising the members OF the Indiana
Editors and Publishers Association arrived at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening from PHILADELPHIA
They intend to remain IN the city several days ana our
| OF interest They will then proceed TO Boston
Col. James Norval, NJ D., died yesterday at
his residence in this city OF cyspea in the 59i year OF
hls age He was for many years prominent R'pub-
Iican poitcian in the Ninth Ward and a can
didate for Coroner He was the surgeon oil the 7yth
| REGIMENT QIghianders) during the war, ana dsiin-
gu.ed himself at Bull Run for bravery and devotion
to the WOUNDED, for which lie received tho RANK OF
Colonel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris arrived at Jersey City
| at lO:l5 p. IN. They accompanied by Frederick
Grant brother OF the bride. and Gen Horace Porter
The party crossed the ferry and took three carriages
| which had sent down by the clerk OF tine FIlth
| Avenue HOlc, and drove rapidly to the motel. lac
rooms the hotel were fragrant with howers Dnt no
attempt decoration had been made President Urdb1
viii be in tins city to-day.
The new room of the Merchants Exchange
and Maritime Association at No. ll3 Pearst IS rap
idly approaching completion 1t has rehtted and
rcpainted throughout. The stands for newspaper files
have already been stationed the sides and in the
ter, and the room VIII be much better adapted Tor a
news-room than the one recently abandoned, AT NO o.
PIne-s The room Of the Maritime Exchange, AT No %
Beavorst. will also soon ~ completed The two rooms
are connected, and the two Organizations VIII receive
shlp news III common
BROOKLYN.
There is to be an additional discharge OF
4 Inc Yard on 1.
| The Mayor approved yesterday the action of
| the Common Council, granting quit claim deed to
Capt: White and Of much OF the GOwanus road
as xtends from the souherly side of Wyckos Bal
test and not disturbed by the opening oi Ffth-
ave.
The Board Of Health resolved yesterday that
the owners of sv milk stables should be informed that
they must Danish all sw from stables forthwith.
III the order Of Board Is not complied wt the sam
tary officers Will seize the milk 1t leaves the stables
and empty 1t IN the gutter
The Assessment Committee of the Common
Council listened last night to objections from Alderman
McIntyre John Bergen and Others to the extent Of the
area for the Iamiltondye. Improvement, aud
the amount levied upon property Further objections
| will he heard next Thursday night.
James McNcal, who was stabbed in the side
on Tuesday night by Daniel Mccoy, while endeavorins
10 separate Mccoy and his brother, who were lighting,
died yesterday at the city Hospital. Previous to his
death his ante-moriem statement was taken, and he
| charged Mccoy with having stabbed MIN.
Some Of the property Owners along the line
OF Aauticave., having understood that propelled
by conf ressed Steam to the railway track
| sent remonstrlnces against the movement to Mayor
Hunter who. however, does not share their apprehcu
sion, of danger and damage TO property, but believes
that the would be OF great benefit /; properly
managed.
The clerk of the Common Council transmit
ted to the Park Commissioners yesterday resolution
passed by that body inqurng for detailed statement
of the amounts paid to them for assessments for local
improvements. aud the amount OF percentage paid
due for collecting tine same, 10 whom said percentage
| Was paid due and the respective amount for the
|
number of ladies met yesterday in the
| Mercantile Library building, and began make up
baskets and bouquets OF flowers for distribution among
tho various charities OF the city. large quantity OF
anwers have received, but the supply il almost
The ladies have had TO purchase "a quantity
to supply the demand and they urgently appeal
nublic Tor help Incalculabe benefit has already
Afforded the SEX in the hospitals By the
Theses floral offerings, and the smallest contributions
| Will he gratefully received
| LONG ISLAND.
| Observation-Disclosures the civil cases before
the recent adjourned OF the Suffolk County Circuit
sitting In this place. entitled The People of
the state OF New-York agt. The Long Island Railroad
| Company" in which action brought to recover
$4,000 which was the amount OF penalties for year
and interest fron February 1872 TO February 1873. at
the rate of $3.50 10 at SIS day. This
IL fixed statute for each ofense or emitting To
vide proper eceptacles for cool water In each
ear with necessary vessels ior drinking The ease was
| IA the request OF the defendants The
nose OF this the prosecution claim, il To
the better comfort Of passengers the
ty OF Long Island Railroad, which has heretofore
heen ne gec August kellerman who pleaded guilty
IA the fourth degree. IN shooting Andrew
Miller at Bresau in March last has been sentenced by