New-York tribune., 1876-08-19
NFW-YORK CITY.


port where he has spending part Of the summer
There are 422 prisoners confined in the
Tombs for various oenses from murder to intoxicato
The new school-house in Eighty-second-st.,
near the Boulevard will be ready for occupancy at the
end Of vacation.
The buttresses of the Jefferson Market Court
house are he surmouned with figures representing
Law and Justice.
Sheepsheads," with mouths full of human
looking teeth grin Oh the stalls OF fish dealers in wash
ingtOn Market.
Apricots are more plentiful this season than
for several years Their enemies the curcnios, nave
diminished in number
Every night good sized eel is placed in an
aquarium filed with goldfish in Washington Market
The eels bare backbone is all that Is left OF MN thc lo
lowing morning.
Conductors on the open cars on the lhlrd-
Ayeruc line do enforce the rule allowing smoking
orIy on tine 1.-TWO back seats" Any one occupying an
end seat can smoke without being moes,ed'
Three scow loads of rubbish, the debris OF
the nlc in Castle Garden, have been towd out to sea
and dumped The haggagc-roon j. entirely cleared sx
crpt pile OF half burned timber, which viii be kept Tor
nrcSood
In small safe in Castle Garden the letters
awaiting immigrants ARE kept. These often contain
large sums OF money. As soon the immigrants name
is rns tered bis letters delivered to MIN by the chie
IN charge.
The shanties remaining on the rocks near Cen
trl Park have dry and shrunken in the drouth
puiinE the late rain many OF them leaked badly. one
occupant s,ii she Thought hrr pigs anu eh'Aeh' "ou
"haNc to shwIm.'
Officer Hamilton of the Twenty y-sevcnth Police
Precinct charged william simmons, yesterday at the
romus Police Corst. with having. while intoxicated,
starving miami ~ his arms al Motifs anu
iIr was tClu for tIIa.
The steamship State of Pennsylvania, which
has just aniyed nom Glasgow, encountered several
lree cehcrss durqs The y9yase G@p CA pHia5t hG pSGs g
tHC icC beri,s were ~ enormous sizc
Fruits for preserving are coming in market
50 fast "a 10 bcwi,dor housewives Wild grapes crab
apcs and ihc varieties Of peacae; Thch are ,ne moSt @
excellent branded aud preserved In sugar are now
maxim. the fTuil market tempting.
A monument upon the grave of Robert ROose-
vrlt tine founder of Roosevelt Hospital VIII be erected
NJ month 10y the trustee of the hospital Mr koo'e-
yr!t's grave IL tine lawn among the noNcrs ON th'
Nintl-ayc. side Of the hospital
The Department of Public Parks have an
nouncrd reduction from the prices heretofore charged
fer passenger" aud cai" boats on the lake III Central
Park They viii also make CORES "nhhs E'uus'i3H- n
thr charges Tor public CARRIAGE ooat- %c OUTSIDE t"'
pax
Controller Green signed warrants yesterday
on the following accounts: street Improvement fHni,
SOS 20: assessment fund r65.G-l 9o Fire Department
inuI @-l5 40; repairing pivcmcnts. >5.6-7 80, and
Iarous other funds. DC. 5000 22-bcIns total Oh
S75.Oi3 o..
On board the United States flagship Mime
sofa at about 1901 yesterday during the exercise OF
s,ndiug down topsallan yards, George smith s,cont
class hp, fell from duft tnd down the main hatchwaY,
ird wa Instantly killed. His mother, widow, lives IN
Wet NInctccuth-sL
The great stores on Broadway look donbly
magnificent to those wno have been sImmcring where
thr country store" il the only shop. Uncle Rillys
Ointment" Worm strap" aud Rat Poison " piacards
do lot I'LL tl, eye satisfactorily as the me goods
wu.cn u.Oru eli! stores.
An assignment for the benefit of creditors
was flied yos.erly with the County Clerk by Leon Levy
and Jules Levy e. Levy 4 Coz TO solonau We'll Robert
Y. Lynch ard william Elnhrrson died yrSiefl.N thrr
ana their O. Gs.ctH at Sl2,1~1 -.
W. Irving Bishop has challenged Prof. Her
70 public competition. at Chckering Hail. In
exposing sprituali,c phenomena, the proceeds Of the
exhibition % be- devoted 10 the Caster Monument FUND
4 committee of gentlemen two Ia Ice appointed bY
each c,cito and the Il IN by The ionr II TO have tLc
m4ua,I'"u' 81 the cNiibtOn ana decide Whch of the
two rivals Is thr superior
II has been asceriaincd by IN autopsy upon
the body o. Nlrgaretia Vch German girl who died on
Au. L at 40 G7 Broadway that death WAS the result
OF N abortion and subsequent Inflammation The family
,ui whom the grl had been living sccms have been
wholly ignorant Of her condition. aud The physician who
.i,, i, Sn1sr or lcatb 10 have been sunstrokc
Coroner Crokcr VIII Investigate the matter thoroughly
J. II. Real of No. 1G Bcckman-st. has printed
a photograph Of NcU-York CITY seen from the Brook
n pier the last River bridge The lower district OF
the cy nearly opposite the pier Is SHOWN win great ds-
tictn,ss but Il found that the region around the
Grand Central Depot whs too far distant to airut OF
clear reproduction by the best and largest ustru
mcuts The photographs were taken IN five Large plates,
which neatly Joined tosether on heavy paper form
A meeting of the Liederl,ranz, Arion, and
sanccrruic Societies held At Liederkranz Hall, IN
Fourth5t Thursday evening, 10 make preparations
FOR memorial 10 be In honor of the late
conductor Carl Bergman. fhe proceeds oi tile concert
Which is 10 take place al St-nway Han, To be used
erect tombstone to the deceased director II IL
thought other musical ORGANIZATIONS ike the Phil
harmonic Snctty AscAcuhiOicl society, and Musical
Protective Union. viii also desire 10 take part In the
dcraklug Frederick oi"u .cr has been elected
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