New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-16
NETWORK CITY.

A new poem is advertised filling gap in the
literature the day" From the number oil BOOKS under
which presses now groaning the gap IS not ap
parent.
There was all in cotton yesterday-not on
Change Pier No. 10, East River 1t knocked down
officer John j. Craig Of the Eastern Steamboat Squad and
broke his shoulder.bl
An exhibition of modelling in butter will be given
at the adjoining the Aquarium by Mrs Caroline D.
Brooks, whose work, the Dreaming lolanthe attracted
much attention at the Centennial Exhibition.
Goshen butter, fresh from the churn, Is used by
the artist who models the Aquarium This selection OF ma
eria should mode! 10 those amateurs In applied
household art, the boarding house keepers.
One of the veteran lions in the Central Park
nenagerie Sunday. His skin and claws viii doubt
Of keeper at the arsenal aud furnish
theme thrilling accounts Of that lion hunt in Alcrs
Foreigners visiting Ncw-York assert that the bad
a stormy day business is more marked here
than any where else judging from the general stagnaton
In trade yesterday the conclusion would seem to be correct
John j. Kerwan, an empoy6 in II. ". COllenders
billiard mandatory No 738 Broadway who run over
by secondave New Years night died at Bellevue
Hospital yesterday after undergoing an amputaon OF the
leNlcg.
The latest invention in timepieces is small clock
called the Yankee Notion In appearance resembles the
clock and It's chief merit that key ia re-
CURED wind IT, The winding is done by turning screw
placed in the back Of the clock
/ he cana-boat Emma DOolcy, with a load of coal,
while towing River yesterday, struck the rocks OF
sank She lies about 2jO feet from the dock
in the track vessels passing aud down the river spar
buoy placed the spot designate her position
Assignments for the benefit of creditors were filed
County Clerk yesterday by Joan g. Gosberser to
Bernard Reilly, by Hughes aud Thomas Herman to
Daniel Shields by syus La1dsbeg to Lafayette Hasey by
George c. b. W. Ellison and BY Charles H. Wenhaus
to Richard Field.
Under the last quarterly civil service examination
asserting clerks in the Office the following persons
attained standing 90 the being in the
OF their rank f. j. Masterton, r. Miller, j. f. Tobn,
+. Wood c. f. Page r. Smith, W. s. Purdy D. d. EgaD.
A. II. Schultz, W. Il. Dixon.
Custom-house officers Hagan, McCort, and Judd
OF Surveyor Shapes stan seized 200 cigars found concealed
board steamship City Of Merida from Havana and In
spcctors Jackson Neyin Dodge and smith of capt Brc
ets $50 cigars found in the sailors hunks and
said 10 be Tor their own use.
The managers and actors of this city and Brooklyn
purpose to request William r.. Alger Of the Park
Avenue Unitarian the recently de-
yered Theacr and the Church" at as early date as
convenient to him. II he complies with this request they
promise him an Overlooking house.
In a suit of Henry b. Sn0wden against b. I.
Reese as trustee Of Sewing Machine Company for
zoo rent on the ground had failed to file
required by Law, Judge Lawrence iii
supreme Court, Special Term oyeFuied demurrer to the
complaint that IL did not state a cause of action.
William McNanus, the little son of u widow lady
yiag in the rear OF No 4j7 West Nneeents, fatally
l5rcd yesterday lie had fastened his sled behinu
gTcccrs wagon, and Was eDcynga swift rde "hen WINE
going hill the sled sped forward under tie wheels OF
the wagon and the boy was run over and crushed
in the suit of Henry ii. Body against Samuel u
Ten and Others growing Of the purchase Of stock for
the consolidation the Chicago aud Galena Railroad Com
pauy it'll ago and North Western Railway Company
the recently taken by Mr. dens counsel was openeo
By their and the restored TO the calendar
The plans for the new StrakOscn Opera House
have prepared and the site for its erection Will be Sc
lec,ed this 1t Will lie on Madison ave, somewhere
between Thrtieth and Fehsts The architect who has
charge construction is Arthur Gilmore and Is intended
to have the building completed the st OF october.
The trial of the suit of Cecilia Clarke against
ToLas CCckeul ana another was begun yesterday before
Judge Van Brunt in supreme Court Circuit The defendants
were contractors alter portion of house in Twentiehst
ara plaintiff claims that by their negligence the walls ie H.
jag Ter severely Pending motion io nohsuit the court
ay urned
at mems race is to take place at Gilmore's Gar
den this evening purse OF 81 Twentyone contestants
entered The lightweight among these adpose athletes
bin the scales az POI pounds while the helVy nan
4co. 3 o pounds When they fairly under way brave
sight may expected. Like Jack Falstlf when he took TO
his aees host in buckram they be sure to Lard
the lean earth with their iatness'
The annual meeting of the Dominion Board of
Trade at ottawa tns week. John F. Henry OF the
Cheap TRANSFORMATION Association Wallace Groom actuary
of the Board Trade aud l. j. " Stark Of the Produce tx
change appointed by tie National Board OF Trade
United states delegates 10 Tie Dominion Boau elt
this city for Canada last night
". Il }. Sloane brought suit against Chauncey
Nibari for $40 46 carpets furnished to the Fire Ami
hla;,r Company OF which MI Vibbard was President The
plaintiffs received from Mr. Vibbari letter containing the
following 1.-THE carpets for above company is all
right Your bill will be paid presentation at their Office"
jude Spc holds that this is not such promise
IA, nav or guarantee ~ to make Mr.. NDbard liable.
III, Board of ApporOnmcnt yesterday authorized
b ds follows: For Improvement of Ryersdcaye $4,000;
Thtaye in Twenty.thrl and Twenty.fOurth Wards, S2i
900; Third District Courthouse S3oOOO APpropr
atious W. re made TO Hebrew Benevolent Society OF
5G o. and to the Society FOR the Relief Of the Rupured
and implied $500 So Park Commissioners were allowed
$1,000 FOR the parks $1,000 for surveying lauds and
places Improvements in the Twenty third ana twenty
fourth Wards. -
BROOKLYN