New-York tribune., 1876-08-23
NEW-YORI[ CITY.

Fish of all kinds are very scarce IN market
and vices high. =,
A halbut weighing 200 pounds was on the
fish counters of Washington Market yesterday
The cracks in the stone courtyard OF Gram
mar School No. ~ blossoming with basams'
A new gate is being built at the Seventh
ave- and Fiity-nnth-st. entrance to Central Park.
Since the escape of Sharkey every female
passing the Iombs prison gate is obliged 10 t her 'ah
There were dispatched by the steamship
Wyoming Yesterday %, ,262 letters and so bags Oh
papers.
The wakes of vessels in the harbor begin 10
glow at night with the lambent fire of phosphorescehe
animals
The Canadian Rifle Club will leave Toronto
for New-Yor by the Erie Railway at 73O a. m Oh 'ep'
g. and will probably arrive here the next morning
A Tbird-aye. restaurant keeper has tame
crow that hons about his apartments eats the crumbs
thrown him. and is friendly to all his masters guests
Il takes only little thing to disturb the
current Of metropolitan life; escaped canary9ra ao
sorhed the attention OF laif Oh Nassau-s" SoS'.''
Water pipes connecting with the main aque-
duet at High Bridge have been laid along the under
ground road through Central PARK ut Elglty-sNthSI
Honest Yarn" peaches, a small but sound
variety sold for 80 cents basket yesterday, ana Con
cord grapes from Kcyport, sold for eight cents per
pound.
The chapel of the Tombs has been lately re-
pIaced there and seyea illuminated texts nave Deen
presented Dy a Ndy' - -,
The custom of having boxes filed with grow
ing plants in windows has reached tie business ocaes
down town Several wholesale firms have htted upper
windows with them.
The CITY Hall was almost deserted yesterday
By local politicians labor-seekers and others AcnuS
Mavor Lewis was In charge in the absence OF Mayor
Wickham, who has gone to the country.
Since the enforcement of the new postal law,
orbddns the sending OF lottery circulars aud advertise
ments through mails the dealers IN tins city arc ds
trihutng their circulars on the street.
Constantine Mckeecer, age 8, OF No. 2lo
West Fif,y-sevcnthst Killed Instantly about D. m
on Monday at scventynintAst and Eeventhaye, being
thrown into the air by the co"eatcher u "i"0o''''
passing that place
Assignments for the benefit of creditors were
fled Yesterday with the County Clerk by Joseph
GscbSnd TO August II Stockholm, and by Fske Broth
ers Co. Of this city, ami Monroe fisEe Co. OF bos'on
to Washington l.. Langley
Roosevelt Hospital is heir to all the effects
Of the late James H. Roosevelt The parlOr OF that psti
ttion contains several quaint pieces OF furniture, ever
century old that belonged 10 hi also number oi PIC
lures painted by his daughter.
Diego de Rojas, a Spaniard, age 80, was
missed on Aug from tho steamship City OF Mexico on
which he was passenger and which arrived at this port
yesterday from New-Oreans He is supposed TO have
conimittctsuicde by jumping overheard.
The stores in the vicinity of Washington
sidewalks man pays sl5 monthly for the privilege OF
staudlng three baskets containing fruit and vegetables
on The corner OF Greenwich and Ncseysts
The 81 laborers in Smiths st0ne-yard, on
One-hundrcd- secOnds, between First and
secoudays began strike tor higher wages on Monday
night Capt Osborne Of the Twelfth Precinct dcsaliea
men preserve order but no disturbance was antel
patcd yesterday
The Medical Board Of the Homeopathic Hos
pal ON Wards Island is giving course OF lectures to
The hospital nurses Dr.. Egbert Guernsey opened the
course on Aug. 10, and followed by Dr. Alfred n
Illls on Aug II. Tie lectures will be continued Tor
several months.
The fountain in the City Hall Park, at Cham
berss and Broadway used bY the street Arabs as
n swimming bath. crowd Of men, women, and children
gathered outside the chalas near tle iouhtlh on
MCuday evening and apparently were much Delighted
with the uatatoiia exhibition.
The Bureau for the Collection of Assessments
reports that following remained uncoliected on
Aug 10: Assessment Fund, S6i3,7lo 6s; street I'm
prOycmcnt Fund. S37g6,Oos 20; street Improvement
Fund above FIity-nuti-st., Sl,O33,Dn lo nlfuEaVe
aud Morrisana, Sl43j3 06; total s6.Oes,252 g..
The floating hospital of st. Johns Guild
made its G4th excursion yesterday, having s33 sick chill
dren and their mothers board The entire expenses
or the frp were paid by Mrs Theodore Moss. On Tues
dav will he given fourth Of the series OF excursions
for which the merchants OF Worth and Ihomassts. have
subscribed lundr
The following is comparative statement OF
cases contagious diseases reported for the two weeks
ending Aug. 10, 1876:
wseE Ty' Scar spinal Meas. Dph Small
ending phoid. let meningitis les. iberia pox
Aug. A@s. iS.:iii iS.:ii e g
Edward +. Madden of The Courier journal of
Louisville who the Associated Press agent in that
c,v ns entertained at breakfast Yesterday I'm the st.