New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-24
NETWORK CITY.

Peaches are abundant and cheap.
Mayor Wickham returned to the city yeSter-
day.
The Sd Brigade of the 1st Division OF In
fantry first and second classes i'll go to Creedoor oi
shortrange military rife practice today
The labOrers on stone and wooden pave
meps and at the pipe yard were paid yeeGg s Gr 1 I
A boy IN Duane-st. had o narrow escape
Yesterday He was knocked down by passing truck
and had one Of his ears crushed under wheel without
sustaining other injury.
The General Transatlantic Company the
French line Steamship has leased pier No A. North
River aud is erecting substantial and rcr2ot sheos
and Offices for it, use. The works viii DC completed Ia d
few weeks.
The schooner Wardwell, Capt. Birnbaum,
hence for Hayti while proceeding to sea- at $50 p m
Yesterday was run when of Quarantine ny the ting
JOnn Mitchell The Jug took Aer IN 10" anu drought
her back to the city.
The shantrs huddled on the pile of high
rocks in Fifty seyenthst near Scyentb-aYe are awe
with goats pigs and fowls There arc several trees
growing from the cracks oi the rocks ana giving shaue
10 TINS odd settlement
A truck driver named Jansen rem his team
against gentleman on Broadway yesterday, knocking
him down. and when he demonstrated with for his
car.cssness, struck the gentleman across the lace win
by the Mayors Marshall.
The Commissioner of Jurors, Col. Thomas
Dunlap has begun tho work Of enrolment, using the
city directory for that purpose AS fast as the lists arc
made mp, notices sent 10 the persons 70 appear pc
fore the Commissioner on or before sept - Ie peua'S
for not attending To the notice VIII DC nne oi 800.
At the meeting of the Commissioners Of
Public Parks yesterday, II bids for Furnishing sewer
pipe in Central Park received. Controller Green
ing the bids had been opened before his arrival lhis c
claimed, Illegal and nc referred to the ordinances
on the subJec"
The referee on the affairs of Hoyt Sprague
& Co. having fled several days ago third list OF cred
rtors who had proved their Claims order entered
Yesterday before Judge Donolua, In Supreme Court
Chambers, approving his finding, except IA one inSi'hc,
where the claim reduced $500. ana ordering ~
per cent to be paid ON these claims as on TIE Two INST
The Fire Commissioners have found that
about 800 buildings In this city are deficient In the
matters required by the law governing tho safety OF
buildings in OF fire. Tho commissioners state That
h IL their determination 10 enforce the lay" AS IN many
cases the lives Of fremcn are hazarted The board
having appointed Geo. Wheeler, euperutenoent OF on
spcctors that officer aud his men will soon begin Ieir
annual tour OF inspection.
Controller Green sioncd warrants yesterday
on the following accounts aud transmitted the same TO
tho MAYOR for his countersgn1turc interest the city
debt s2j5; street Improvements above fiiy-ninth7t
81 6j3 90; Museum of Natural History Fund, 1913 75
Cro'on Water Main Fund $3.50 70 Assessment Fund
SGJO2 80; City Parks Improvement kHnd - 70; JaJg
and places $3.50 30; repairing and keeping N order
wooden and concrete paycueus. 5000 supplies FOR and
cleaning public Offices, $50; Health Fund, 1892 IA;
aqueduct repairs and mtint"nance, SO %; public
building, constructions and repairs, Ti.S 70 iiee l3a
Ing baths. Sj3 GB; Pablo Charities aud Correction tl2
1874 Of total, SI6,3S3 81.
Augustine Gautier, Bincenzo Cortcs, and
Capt asn, who taken from the Spanish schooner
Jolluiua on board of the steamship Frsia in an ex-
hausod state LETT the steamship yesterday aud placed
themselves under the protection OF the spanish Consul
The Consul said that the men would be obliged 70 file
document stating good cause for abandoning the
schooner after hch hc would send them TO SPAIN He
said that the captain known as man Of integrity
aud good standing and considered good seaman.
Tho men who died attacked with fever, and the
work ~ .ug The schooner was too great Tor the
naming men. The Consul thinks they were justified IN
abandoning the schooner.