New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-16
NETWORK CITY.

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Officer McQuade, of the Western Steamboat
Squad awarded silver medal and $25, yesterday,
by the Humane society for saving the e OF an insane
man who jumped into the North River, last summer.
At the First Reformed Episcopal Church, to-
morrow evening, before the Synod OF New-fork Bishop
Cheney of Chicago, will review the recent action OF the
General Convention. The synod VIII begin lts session
| in the church at IL a. III.
| The National COlumbarian Society Will open
exhibition Of pigeons at the Aquarium, Broadway and
Thirty nfth-st, this morning At the close OF the exhib
| ton, which Will contin e week. $1,000 in przes
| will be distributed TO exhibitors.
Many persons after reading the account of the
failure OF Abraham BoGardus have COMPOUNDED him with
T. W. Bogarlus, OF No AGA Broadway corner OF Frank
lms The latter photographer mas not failed IN paying
| his debts or making gool pictures
The interest in St. Bernard dogs is so great
that nfty OF that breed promised
for the coming dog show Two classes will be made one
for rough and one for smooth coats. and twelve prizes
! will be distributed for that breed alone
| The gentleman stationed at the box Office of
the Acadomy OF Music for tbe purpose of selling tickets
for the Brougham nci stated last evening that $4,000
had already been deposited the Bank Of the MetrOpO
| lis, "a the result Of the three days sales.
| John 4. Kennedy, of No. $40 Eighth-ave
reported to Sergeant Tuck. at the Police Central Office
yesterday. that his wife, Elizabeth, had disappeared
from her home She is sixty,ninc years Old has dark
| eyes aud gray hair and was partially insane
The ship Young America takes as portion
of her cargo, to san Francisco the soop yacht Clara
bult at Mystic. Conn, for gentleman in California
The Clara has an established record for speed forty
She Will De transported on the deck OF the SHIP
| Amelia Rehcm, aged nineteen, n servant in
the employ of Henry Clauson, AT seyentythri-st ANA
Avenue A. while closing the blinds Of mont window
about o O'Clock Monday night, was struck upon iLe
head by unknown man aud rendered insehs.1r li't
as~aart escaped No reason can be assigned 10y BE po
| lice Tor the assault
1t is now generally believed at the City
Hall that Arthur Leary. recently confirmed Excise
Commissioner place OF owen Murphy, Will decline the
Office Nj Lcary stated to Mayor Ely yesterday that be
SIN hal the matter under cousl ration. bat Thought
that II De- accepted the Commls-ioncrshp lie would be
| obliged TO give up his private business
The Police Commissioners yesterday dis
missed Pltromcn Thomas Finning OF the Thirty
second and Thomas Welsh of the Thirty hr. Precinct
Sergeant Thomas Ryan transferred from Che six
the Nineteenth Precinct. and Sergeant Francis
Fitzgerald. from the Nineteenth to the Twenty
! receive a reward Of 500 from the Municipal C. g.
Sanitary Engineer Thomas j. Meals reported
70 the Board OF Health. yc-icrdIy, that Tho r'~ %!
| bowu-st0nc buliugs extending from ~. 100 10 v"
los Eas Fftysecond-t was defective In dgi"ae' and
ventilation two deaths from malaral fever having 90
cured there during the eight months Of their o,cpancy
| Accompanying the report suggestion nat itc
builder De- preceded against cmln.ly fnr t'ar los-
Of and health through neglect Of suitable drainage
Asso atlon view OF the proposed removal ~ Frederick
Law Om.tcd from hs position superintendent ~ the
Bureau Of Design Of thc Park Department. ha passed
resolution THAT The Interests ~ the city and x ihc
West -dcp property owners imIcravcy demand tAii Mr.
ulm,tcd he retained. to Supervise aud direct the com
! prtiun II the Improvement now being mad uu ~"
West side and especially -" construction OF Riverside
| aud Motning,dr parks and alcnuc-, uPoh the glan-
| designed hy him"
One of the young assistants at the AStor Ii
brary discovered yesterday afternoon, reader drawing
HE pcnknc acrps- the pages Of book he Lad called FOR
Mr. Brc,o,rt aud Mr. flanders the Librarians, wee IN
formed ~ once and the latter, moving quickly upon the
.rav ,anhnl caught hun with his vest pocket full oi
cutting. Tie book proved t. bo bound volume ~ Tia
Ee,,e des DcuI NDHlts Upon examination q was found
irat eight vouu,, had been uiutdicc. TIE reader -lyr
h, name - " Argrrui. amt cNprr.,'i surprise th.t
such thing as agrrstHH hm should ho Thought ~ aud
protested that h" had 40 intention 81 dong "Ftmnr
arons. and di not suppose that "hjectoa would he
made 10 lie mere cutting ol &C ,ionhl aics lie Was
| handed over To policeman, and viii be tried
BROOKLYN.
The city treasury contains > Il 1886 %.
MAYOR Howell performed the marriage Cclc-
mony Yesterday FOR fret time. TIE groom Max
Lew Il Gcr,nnn about twenty-five years OIL ana tHo
bride Miss Matilda Dom"u>h.
The lowest bid among the proposals opened
Yesterday by Board 81 city Works Tor IN" deepening
Of smith, Pond To Increase the water supply OF the city
that 81 O'Eourkc Hart They "Hoiod 10 perform
TIE work for tl3,>~6.
4 physician reported Monday night, tn the
Captain the Fourth Police Precinct, that Joseph Wa
,rs age thirty four. Of No. 30 Cnm9ride'pIacr had 's
capped from iucbriaes Home ~ Bughamon. waters
arrested al his home
William h. Nichols will take I'M appeal from
the decision OF judge Gilbert, Who last week gave Tho
custody Nichols, youngest boy t. Mrs Nichols under
tue divorce which he recently obtained ftom her nus
| band IN a Conn, cticui court
| The society of the Central Congregational
Church, the Rev DR. H. NJ sculdcr pastor held another
meeting on Monday night for tbs purpose 90 further
| Inch he lebt of he
tIibued $4,000 in short time. Ihrrc stil remains
un-ubscrbcd - 900 ~ the original debt of $4,000
The Brooklyn Annex Company begun, yes
| terday morning. the carrying OF mails To aud from
jersey CITY. Tho fcryboa bridge a the foot OF Fulton
st. was completed Yesterday morning and the company
now transfer from Brooklyn Ia jersey CITY for the
| same amount the combined fares Of the Union AMI
| Nrw-Iork
Three more new yachts are building III
BROOKLYN ccntrcboard yacht for j. buchanan Henry,
Of Staten Island, nephew Of eXPrcstcn buchanan. IN
the yard of j. Lennox, at the foot Of Thirtyfolrh
| centreboari soop yacht for William Watts, # the
| Williamsburg Yacht Club, az the foot ot Edelr-i,
Grcenponi. and racing yacht cxComnod"rc Noble,
If the columbia Yacht Club nj tho foot OF Court 81
| Michael Rupert, Il workman employed Ill
| Trban's brewery IN williamsburg. Monday evening
| struck down Magdalcna Merhert. young woman who
was walking with some companions In scholcsst AFTER
she fell 10 the pavement he continued To Kick and beat
her on the head and an earring from her Ru
pert who 40 arrested, offered no reason Tor M
conduct. Miss Merhert was stranger To MN justice
Guck yesterday required Rupert 10 iufnish p"hd III
| 81, 900 for his appearance IN court.
| Dr. T.. Newton Whitehead, of No. 81 Kos
| ciuskost and Mrs. Amelia Hyde of No. 13i Thrd't,
caused the arrest several months ago. Of Benjamin W
uawker alias Perry, alias West. for alleged abortion
ON Mrs. Hyde. No indictment was brought against
| Uawker the charges against him. and he retaatcd
Yesterday by causing the arrest of Mrs. Hyde Dr.
Whitehead, charging them with conspiracy against
him. Justice Walsh held tue Two prsOnets In 900
each, to appear for trial.