New-York tribune., 1874-08-27
NEW-YORK CITY.

NEW.YORK CITY.
Controller Green reports having received
| Yesterday S2lO6 81 and disbursed $ll7.527 97
The uphosterers held meeting last night
nj which II was resolved to send delegate 10 INC
| Furniture Workers Congress in Baltimore.
The payment of labOrers on the boulevards
and avenues work done in the first two weeks IN
August begun Yesterday by City Paymaser faiis'
| The sum to be paid out Is s5O,69J o.
| Postmaster James has issued the September
schedule Of steamers appointed to convey the United
States Mails foreign countries Daring the month
vessels will leave this port with mails
Members of the Board of Aldermen and the
Board of Councmen Of Cincinnati, TO the number OF
eightyfour, headed by Mayor W. c. Johnson will arrive
| in this city to-day from Philadephla
John Deatcher residing at the corner OF
Canal and wattsts had his feet badly crushed yester
day by the ferry boat Jersey City, while sitting on the
| string piece at Pier No. 10, North River
| j. n. PattisOn, the pianist, Will play his new
fantasia Victory" for the working girls this evening
AT the Free Training Schools, No 47 East T32tbs.
| workingwOmeu are cordially invited 10 attend
! nossrn ,,,s,h H. Drew and Terence Molloy, both
OF No. 24s West Twentyeehthst., quarreled at their
| rooms last evening Drew stabbed Molloy under the
| left eye, innicng wound. He was arrested.
| Julia Brown, a widow, age "a, committed
suicide yesterday while temporarily insane, by cutting
her throat with the woodhouse or her resi-
|
| las-ave.
The Central Organization of German Saloon
Keepers met yesterday Afternoon, ana fesoNed u nou
mass meeting Sept when committee VIII ,e pe
appointed TO to the Legislature anu y " seCu'e 'h0
| abolition Of tue Excise law
The taxes on personal property and bank
stock for 1874 amount s7GOoooO and those OIL real
estate 10 s2l7Oo0OO; total s32SOOCO@ TAX ReeelvHr
Mcmahon that the BOOKS ior tae icrmef M T
be opened for payment on sept l. 'nose Ao' 'No '"'
| Will not be open Tor seNtral Ga'-'
The Floating Hospital of st. Johns Guild
sailed up the Hudson yesterday having on board sls
sick babes and mothers Music was furnished oy the
Goyrruor's Island Band The 18th excursion VIII take
pacc tomorrow, leaving Pier No 81, ~ K, at A. M
Market-st L. r. at o. and Twenty -tnr'st T. h at soo
Some person scattered a handful of broken
bread under the trees in Madisonsquare last Monday
The sparrows flew down from the trees and ATE OF the
nreod Soon 10 Of them were lying dead on the grass
The bread was poisoned. Tue Park Commissioners Wl
M & 80 f ,ie bre,d and birds 10 Prof. DJremus Tor
| analysis.
The Erie Railroad Company have put up
notice in their Offices Jersey city announcing that
on and after Sept l. all employees receiving Il so per
day and upward be reduced 10 per cent Inc men
said Yesterday that they had expected the rsuuc'Io
| Ior some time, but were nevertheless anything Dul
pleased at the announcement
A newsboy who had become possessed OF
| small pumpkin succeeded yesterday In selling II TO
man at the Jersey City ferryhouse FOR 80 cents Under
the impression that "A California orange the
man wraBped up the vegetable ia newspaper Saying
t1at ne was goiug To take it nome to his Iamy Tie
sale made greatly TO the education of twenty OF
thirty people who stood around the palr'
The Pacific Mail steamship City of Guate-
maa is at length total wreck The details OF the as
aster on Watlng's Island have already been given In
TnE Tribune The cargo OF be steamer has 3een @ say1 @
Injured by the water was being appraised on Aug ~
and the remainder mad already Deen sou Inc sl'1so I
awarded the wreckets wa, ~ per cent on te ury
| portion OF tue cargo
An inquest was held yesterday in the case OF
Amelia Hem. age who run over and Killed on the
| l7th inst by a train on the Hudson River Railroad at
| Eleventhaye. aud Forty secondst. IL was shown IN
eVdeuce tnat the train was going at an suay aid
rate and that whistles were blown LOUIS brlnner
barkeeper who lived for twenty-one years on that
corner testified that nc bad seen ten accidents III tha1
| ne ghbOrnood during his residence.
Daniel H. Kitchen, NJ. d., Chief or Staff of
the Charity Hospital, Blaekwel's Island, has
written to the Commissioners of Charities and Cor
recon to say that the excursion of the 10 women upon
the steamer BellevIle, on Wednesday OF last week,
seemed To be 50 beneficial that be would recommend
that p male patients be ta.en upon similar eXcur-
sion. Inc recommendation VIII pfODdDy DC acJed upon
| and the excursion gwen at an early date.
| The examination of Thomas Costa, sus-
pected OF having fire his barber shop No 90 Oak
st. on Monday night resumed before Fire Marshal
Sheldon yesterday. Several Witnesses we're examined,
hut soon discovered that there was no testimony
proving the guilt of Costa and that he could not be held
Fire Marshal sheldon appeared DeOGo one OF e lnasl
and stated these facts. Costa was at once hOerated
Funeral services were held yesterday morning
over the remains of Albert Hayemeyer, long prom
nen sugar of TINS city, at mis- late residence,
No. 3I7 West Foureenh-st Among those present wore
Thurlow Weed. Mayor Havemeyer brother OF the de-
ceased; Controller Green, ex Police Commissioner Gard
ner, Police Commissioner MttseN, eXMdyOr Godfrey
Gu1ther, and Alderman MeGdhgrty. The Rev. Dr.
CLapn, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Bach, conducted the
| services. The remains were inferred IN Greenwood.
The monthly auction sale OF Scranton coal
was made III Exchange place yesterday. The attend
anee was smaller than usual but the bidding brisk
There was material advance over the rates Of July
Al The sale 5000 tons OF steamboat coal disposed
Of the bids starting ut So quickly advancing 10 Is To-
crate coal were sold the hist onr being - the
highest S. 90 The largest sae OF the day was tnat OF
stove coal, VI winch NCc tons were tdhe' Ihe pfice
| Of tie entIe quantity was s. 92i.
The body found on Tuesday in the Nar.oWs
of the Health OHicers Station has been recognized
that of a young German archcect named Mester of No.
"a East Firstst. His acquantances say that he was
man OF steady babit but had been without work for
long time. lie owed consideFabe sum TO ms ahuCfd
| a bin for which was to his room last Thursday.
then he has not been seen ana II supposed tha
being dishcarened over MS misfortune, ne cast himself
iItO the river arse number OF Tue pOdrs OF persons
drowned the North and East Rivers near The city are
found the spot where Meisters remains were re-
'O''' BROOKLYN.
Admiral Porters torpedo boat. the Alarm,
will leave the Navy-Yard a trial trip in October.
George Mcclellan, a stOne-cutter, aged 49,
| residing at EIghteenth-st. and Nnlh-ave. Brooklyn,
taken before Justice Gertrum OF New Lots yesteT
day, charged with bigamy He was held Tor examina-
| lion Friday.
The public schools will be reopened on
Sept 49, SIX school bindings have been erected TO
meet tbe yincreasIng demands for more room
from the children Of the city. The OLD schOol-houses
! nave been thoroughly cleaned.
second trial Of the Rev. T. r. Kendrick
| Will begin next week. Mr.. Kendrck insists the post
popement of trial until after his hearing before the
touference appeal, but the Trial Committee Of the
| Church are not Wiling to put 1t of any longer.
George Robinson. claiming to reside in
Tepth-st NewYork, arrested yesterday afternoon
| nv Deputy Sheriff Hardy on "A charge of robbng Cath