New-York tribune., 1876-09-04
NEW-YORK CITY.
le nnhlin schools reopen to-day.

| NEW-fORk CIlf.
| The public schools reopen to-day.
The police made 1892 arrests last week.
Eela + immense length are daily appearing
| In market
The free baths were used by 1887 persons
A Fifth-ave. florist has sacred palm which
| is 100 years old.
The number of emigrant arrivals at this port,
| last week, was 53S.
| Costly specimens Of pottery are now Tor sale
| In the shops Of uptown norstH.
| In the last ten years about S26O,OOO,OOO
| have been expended for buildings In this CITY
| Four immense gas tanks are being built on
Avenue d. between Twelfth and Thirieenth-sts
| The Board of Excise received during the
past week l02 applications for licenses ana S43oo
| The exterior of the tenement houses on East
Fourtecnth-st. are nhy and offensive to the sight
| The ocean steamships on Saturday carried
from this port 5277l letters and sS bags OF newspapers
| Several bales of shavings on Pier NO. z,
East River, have been the bugbears of horses passing
| them.
"dog cartn was seen in Fifth-ave. on
| Saturday the motive power OF which was maj anu
| two dogs.
The fgure-heads of old ships, displayed
along west-st, stanch reminders OF the dangers
| they have passed"
A rare specimen of sea cOcoanut, obtained
from the Indian Ocean, is cxhibi cd on North "liiasI
| by curiosity hunter.
The only paid nurses on Blackwelps Island
the wnote lnteIHScnce
| trustworthiness are Indispensable
| A rare specimen of a cassowary, from Sumatra,
! stuffed by downtown tandermist-
A magnificent head of Waph, shot by
Bin Reynolds tho chief scout Of Gen Custer, was last
week stuffed by downtown tixidermist
The report of the Register of Vital Stats,
ties that there th city during the past
week, 0lO deaths 49S brths, lOl marriages
The breaking of a crank by the locomotive
Harlem above Canast caused considerable interruption
yesterday afternoon on the Elevated Railroad
A saltwater bath, in the form of an Ameri-
can shield is on the grounds Of the Insane Asylum ON
Blackwe'a Island, and 100 insane women daily bathe
In ut
The principal public libraries reopen to-day.
Tie Ast5r APPRENTICES. and NewYOrk Historical have
been renovated and much improved during the past
mouth
Don Carlos sailed for England on Saturday
on board tue RrtaUnc. lie was accompanied by his
suite aud entered ON the passenger Inst as Duque dc
The flagstone-step of old Federal Hall, on
which Geo ge Washington stood when ne was nangu-
rated President In 1889, Is preserved in the hall oil Belle
There has been n decrease in the importa-
ton OF dry goods during thc last eight months, TO the
amount OF sis2 1874, compared with the correspond
ing period OF last year.
The leaders Of the greenback party in this
State have resolved 10 Issue call for State convention
to meet In Albany Sept 20 10 nominate state ticket
and Presidential electors.
The industry of the German element is ap-
parent at Castle Garden Women OF other nItionaitles
German women are always knitting or sewing.
The bodies of II persons-14 men and
womSn-were received at the aorgle during tno month
by suicide. by rupture OF the heart, aud by old age
The daily deposits at the Post-oiiice last
week-mueh larger ihan the preceding "eeesIwere 40 os
$1,000 Aug. 81, so,ioo; sept 1, $500; sept 2,
sIl 500.
All the property and documents of the bank
rupt Abingdon Square Savings Bank we're turned over on
Saturday the cciyer, Francis Thompson OF NO %
Lbertyst The liabilities of the INK amount to sio3
050 23 and the assets TO about r)2oOOs
The commission, provided for by the last
Congress 70 report on INC value Of gold and syer coin
a % De re m ssao tory Boui Snd Bosy
aud Representatives Gibson Band, aud willard.
The fish wells off the piers near Fulton
oeoSI ON HssS satursy. TurSs Of all sizes were lifted in
and out by tncr arms" like children ana fishes great
and small thrown about their scales cleaning In
the Sunlight.
BY the falling Of scaffold In the Tivoli
Theatcr in 50 narksaaee ON saturday three men who
seriously injured. Mathew Barley OF No 40 Prncest,
and Richard Bell Of No 62 East iionston-st received
were taken Bellevue Hospital The other man. James
Welsh, Of Bowery and Houstonst, escaped with u
Controller Green's financial statement for
August shows ,1 ta, during m tnat mont; warrants were
drawn during the eight months OF the present year Of
1871 AIS S4t o. The amount OF the cry debt, less the
city treasury, S3005 $50 10 cash In sinking Fund, $780,
I3s 2G issues OF stocks and bonds, 1876, S23i96,-
1t il proposed to organize in this city cheap
cab company with capital OF III, 100000, similar 10
those now In operation In London, Paris, Berlin and
enough TO accommodate four persons inside with room
for baggage on top They will ply at che rate OF 80 cents
be assigned throughout the city and cabs viii be sta
toned at them night and day.
BROOKLYN.
The police made 2,51s arrests during Au-
There are 1,071 teachers in the public
schools
The county payroll for August amounted to
$26,255 62.
The body of drowned man, about 80 years
Of age, found at the foot OF Amity St yesterday
The Police Property Clerk received property
Of the value of $354l 81 during August and delivered
S3,061 81 worth.
The steamer Massachusetts,, built for the
Providence and stonington Steamship Company viii DO
launched on Wednesday at steerss shipyard In Green
point.
Officer John Gibson arrested n young man
for lounging at UnOnplace and Huron-st Saturday
night and was assaulted by gang Of the young mans
friends, who rescued the prisoner.
The fortnightly regatta of the Prospect Park
Clu', which TO nave of Saturday had to be
postponed for week owing TO the strong wind Few
racing was between the Adca, Gully and Unknown OF
the Long Island Club the Adca winning IN each race.
JERSEY CITY
John Kudener, q resident of Congress-st.,
jersey City Hghts, made attempts to jump
board from Christ0pher-st ferryboat on Saturday He
was laboring under a temporary attack Of insanity.
Argument was heard in the Circuit Court,
before Jds Knapp on Saturday, on tbe Application OF
obtained anst jersey City by Peter hendorson by de-
fault aud Judge Knapp granted an order allowing the
entry OF plea on the part OF the city.
David Dillon was arrested on Friday even
ing while making his bed under the Pennsylvania
rcse-work lie stated that he had been left property,
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