New-York tribune., 1876-08-18
NEW-YORK CITY.


! Controller Green yesterday pad So,o4I 20
TO the employees the Croton Aqueduct
| The bell of Jefferson Market is the largest
| nrc-bell in the city. 1t weighs 10,501 pounds
| The Oldest tombstone in Trinity churrhyard
IL that of Samuel Clurcher who died Aug ., lG5l'
The rain which fell yesterday caused the
various city parks look If Spring had come again.
| The walls of the fountain that ornamented
| Castle Garden when 1t n garden are Nt standnS'
A Tenth-avc. grocer's sign reads thus: " But
ter in market 81 cts per bwe sell 1t Tor % cts
! Try ouIn.'
| Cauier-ropes for the Brooklyn Bridge arrived
Yesterday the rain prevented continuation Oh "orA
| upon the structure
| An assignment for the benefit of creditors
was flied yesterday with the County Clerk by Cos MIX
wood Cross to julius Jones
Controller Green sold yesterday portion OF
the material OF the old Croton Aaneduct for 7lio Inc
remainder VIII hc sold on Aug 81
The police of the Twelfth Precinct continue
their raids upon the Harlem goats More than % nave
been mpouudcd within three days
Terth-avc., from One -hundrcd-and- -hity-sec-
ou-st.i0 High rrid-c Is iayor.c drive ior IN" "eny
residents of tnat part OF the country ,
4 nctition of 5000 of the residents IN the
nc,hhJrhooi OF Jefferson Market 10 the legislature mat
/ 4 new market might be built was refused
\ steam ferry has been established between
Fort Washington and a temporary landing on the oppo-
site shore, near tie PdiiSaGe Mountain hoH'e'
The work on the. new East River Park at
the foot of Echty-aixtlst. il advancing rapidly; Ihe
large ul,tfolu facing me river j. nearly completed
The foreign mails, consisting OF 2gtoo let
ter, and 81 Dags of papers dispatched yeSterday
hy the steamships Ilmmouia T.. Cdaud, Gamma, and
Colon.
The music in the gardens in the nclghbor-
hood Of Enst Ffyuinn-st that horoughiAIc 70
BE- rhiuugd in the evening with listeners sitting ~ every
/ available place
Fomth-avc., above Fifty -tifth-st., is much IN
need of paving condition Of the road ~ wet "'tca
/ being extremely dislTccabc and annoying 10 'ho'c
| living Iu the vicinity.
The Grand Lodge Of the Jewish order hesher
snc Bagzyl continued it, session at ryihagoFas Han
/ Yesterday. II determined That l9 moh'u' SHOUT"
! clafsc before TIE next session
! The conductor of Blccckcr-st ear No. l2 says
that hc urnn.iic recently put upon that car as thr
passenger, become accustomed 10 H. NoIh' auiHt"'h
/ and sayVs much trouble and annoy y'h'''
Work has been suspended for the present on
Pot Rock i'm the Hell Gate channel II is feared that
Tie coming blasting operation at iid,t's Reef may
c.us. The chambers to iull tn and Hood the WortS'
Majors Fulton aud G.. W. Yale of the Amen-
can a, Team started ior Montreal yesterday 70 witness
the ri, match ot the Cauadan Team Lieut. Mad'oghs
OF tn Australian Team departed for Philadelphia Oh
! visit 20 tIc Ccuchul"l'
Five families of Mcnnonites are waiting at
Castle Garden friends expected n arrive next euF
dly They sleep In the cmpo'm,nt olhcc, get th.I, &
t1T At a stale boarding NOdsr, and lounge uuutl thc
/ sheds ~ castle Garden In the day time
! 4 counterfeit note on the Lafayette Indiana,
National Bank has made It, appearance III th's ''S' "
rs badly executed and ba easily detected by IT. gen
oral app,,rucc. II + supposed To come from Canada
w.tncr number ~ the in">i skilled o"ut'ri''is nave
/ fled nee the recent arrests IN TINS c''y'
! The Controller yesterday signed warrants on
the following accounts: Lamps and gas. ri5931 "9i
r.ralriug raycmcutS and other street improvements,
,Goio % public Instruction Sl312; ,En,"n maItF
! S.I.72i ~. heinz a total oi e'",''3
! John Mitchell steward on one of the YES
.c OF the East Indian steamship Line, waS arrested Oh
Tuesday for .uto1icaton and locked up In the lomDS'
Ills friends claim that he treated with unnecessary
lor.hucss i the officer by whom ne arrested; mat
becoming sick while in the l"mns meic'nr ana n"htis
were refused him nowitnsian..ng nus 'fist m & rS m
orft and that iu .cqu"Hcc ~ tnis refusal hc dou on
"Wednesday night The Coroner Will inv rsttsatc the case
Deputy Coroner MacWhinnie began an IN
vc.tgaou yesterday into the case OF "iilhm 'olp"hi'
an Italian. whose body found In the river on tues
day An italian who had lived IN the same house with
Cohoni at No 10 Jcr-ryst. said that Colbon WAS en-
poycd on the scows OF the StrcriccannG Department
The witness had seen him last Saturday morning AT
that time Colbou had in his pockets 500 Ia gold ana
-, N gr,cnbacks. when the body found Il was
much dccomposcd. AMI Dr.. MacNhinme was uhabic tn
decide whether not the man had been victim ot toul
PLAY. NJ money found upon the body when IL W"s
Conon carried ihls money, the police fear that lac was
| robbed and murdered
The Children's Sanitary Relief Committee of
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constituted 10 supplement the efforts the Health Board
in relieving the distress and suffering OF the sick
I poor. acknowledge donations Of money and other
! ar, !c,s from j. McCrcery n Co, Watts, Parker
/ 4 Co., J. H.. Hoyt a CO. A. +. 9 M2nMiIcImtinI EI
Ives: Bcecier Co.; rayson, Paul. a CO. T. Ne an.irii
others. Contributions of articles of food and mcd'ihc
should be sent To the Chlrrns sanitary RtlTl No. lUl
Banker Viii receive contributions ~
money. Checks should be drawn to tie order Il J"hh
! T. Banker, nlmonrr." WCScuttF express nave Nuiui-
farI All
! OF charge ,,,o,,,,,,
The new Jewish Synagogue on kcap-st., near
Dyisoutvc., f. D. nearly completed It's 100 by 81
feet In extent, and cost sJ5cOo.
John Mcintyre has sued the Brooklyn, Bath
and Concy Island Railroad Company for 5000 for
injuries received while driving the track Of the
! company.
Francis O. johnson of Macon-st. is the de-
fendani in n sut brought by Anna l.. ID. Robinson for
$1,000 for alleged breach OF promise 1 2t @ har,ras'
| of JohnsOn fixing his bail NJ $1,000
| Daring the absence of the Mayor from the
city his duties are performed by the President of the
Board OF Aldermen who receives the same pay rs the
| Mayor while performing the attcr's work. the Mayor
also drawing his salary during his absence During
Nav June and July Mayor schrocdrrs salary amounted
10 ~ I9g %, and President French OF the Board Of
Aldermen received Sill 81 az Acting Mayor
| A number of citizens of good standing in
| Brooklyn have been swiudlcd by who repre-
sened himself the agent of the Brooklyn Bon Ton
Publishing Company" which represented to be
about issue Il directory in which the names Of tie
bttcr classes only to he included Ii was Ia he
modelled after the private directory OF New York Tie
accnt" reducscd subscriptions and gave receipts TO
those who were crcduous enough he swndlcd charg-
ing ~ for an insertion III large type ana " Tor the prN
eI n % be- Saet G m he Tun GlsS Of Where VINE many injuries
have been made without success by persons who were
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