New-York tribune., 1878-11-20
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW-YORK CITY
The American Institute Exhibition will pos
itively close Saturday next at 10 p M
The steamship Scythia, from Liverpool
landed lOs immigrants at Castle Garden yesterday.
William b. Astor sailed in his new yacht,
the Ambassadress yesterday for Florida, where he VIII
spend the winter
The Cercle Musical ct Philanthropique DE
rOrpheon Francois announces concert ana pail AZ
Tammany Hall next Sunday night
Fy-ITnited States Minister and exAttOrney-
General Edwards Pierrepont having resumed the prac
tce of law has offices the Western Union Building
No. l9J Broadway.
II was announced yesterday that the Cen
tra Banking Company of Georgia has purchased lhe en-
III issue OF second mortgage bonds OF the A'ahtc anu
Gulf Railroad, amounting TO Sl'ooo'ooo'
A woman was transferred from the Ninety
ninth Street Hospital Bellevue Hospital on MONDAY
supposed to suffering from the effects OF criminal mar
take
Private dispatches received III this clty yes
terday announced that the Easbound passenger ticket
war WAS at an end tho managers OF the Western roads
having healed all differences at meeting held yesterday
at Chicago.
The anniversary exercises of the WOmans
Hospital OF the State OF NewYork at Fourth ave- ana
Forty ty-ninthst. will take place on THURSDAY at p @ ,
Rev Mr.. Courtney.
The Anchor Line steamship AnchOria, from
Glasgow, which was due here on Sunday morning, mas
not yet arrived II thought she has been delayed by
the stormy weather which vessels from Europe recently
have encountered
The Police Commissioners yesterday re-
,nanded TO patrol duty over 100 members Of the force
who had been detailed for special detective duty In the
various precincts. Many transfers u paT0men, and
few sergeauts, were also ordered.
The banks of the excavation for the Third
n,.- -t,t,p.I a ..uH.f fuar,
ninth and fell IN yester-
day. and buried Luke O'Brieu,a workman, beneath
mass of gravel. He was quickly dug out His injuries
were slight.
A collection of Stvres. Dresden and WOrces-
ter chinaware, Faeuces, japanese and Chinese por-
ceain, Clois0nn6s and bronzes, belonging 10 Herman
frost & Coz OF Murray-st, Is now on exhibition NJ No
~ Union-squarc aud will be sold at auction November
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Great delay is occasioncd in building the
foundations for the Elevated Railroad on the Harlem
fats The highway Is all made ground and short dis-
ance below the surface The mechanics encounter water
In putting In Of the foundations the men worked
many days before solid bottom was found.
Assignments for the benefit Of creditors were
filed yesterday by John p Lynch TO Abraham :. Her
man. by Theodore Brooks, Of No l5G Greenwich ct. TO
Nathan Eogers py Aie@ f - 'TeI Sc , mo- "a W &
by Marian Lasky. with preferences OF slIOO to solo
mon +. Cohen
The ladies of St. Timothy's Church, in West
Fiftyseventh-st are making a determined effort to
duce the debt resting their parish, They viii hold
fair the Seventy first Regiment ArmOry broadway and
slxthave., beginning on Thursday evening" November
81 and extending through Friday and saturday. ~ and
%; afternoon and evening.
Receiver Cutting. of the Bankers and Brokers'
Association SAID yesterday that the larger shareholders
were paying necessary 35 per cent and that suits
would be brought to compel payment by those who do
not obey the call Mr. Cutting also said that he was con-
sdering the prOprety O paying dividend of % per
the deposor' The total amount OF deposits vac
$4,000.
As the steamboat james w. Baldwin was
going up the Hudson River on Monday night. she ran
into the steamboat c. Vanderbilt OF Staatsburg, and
cut large hole IN the lattcr's bow. The damage was
reached here two hours behind Tine Ar5 rb diShaIgms
guards were slightly damaged,
The Pacific Mail steamship Colon, which ar
rived from Aspinwall Monday two days behind
schedule time broke othc crank pms OF the engines
on Octooer 2s on the out trip As considerable OF
cargo had he shifted 10 get at the spare crank
shaft 10 replace the broken one was three DAYS before
the vessel proc ,rdcd under steam during hc hteINaI
the ship behaved well under hhll, ana one day maze
little over 100 miles.
The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund met
yesterday. They received letter from Kuhn, Loeb
Co. Offering to exchange per cent city bonds, maturing
from $50 TO s92, for long term per cent bonds now
i'm charge of the Sinking Fund Commissioners. A petit
ton was received G. II. Iraord and others asking
for q reduction Of the rate Of interest on outstanding
bonds from per cent 10 o. controller Kelly tald that
the laws forbade such II reduction.
BROOKLYN.
President Hayes has pardoned William Pre-
bic and Edward Dunscomb, who were sentenced to
years imprisonment each in the Raymond Street jan
ON Juiy ). 10y Judge Benedict for passing counterfeit
Trade dollars IN Graham-ayc saloon. In October the
two prisoners escaped from the jail by sealing the fence
absence Of two days tney returned Of their
own acCOId
When Mary McCaffrey, a servant in the en-
ploy OF A. T.. Marshall, Of No. 1913 Wllloughby-ave.,
oyencd the basement door ut 1880 yesterday, she
was confronted by a cOlOrcd man, who struck her
heavy blow the head she screened Tor help and the
He Is described a mulatto Of medium height wearing
a gray coat ana drab felt nat
John Waters age seventeen, went to the
home Of his foster parents, No 3l2 Fourthst East
ern District Monday night under the Influence OF liquor
and after DuHy beating his foster mother and taxing
- from her. turned her ont OF doors. Three weeks
be arrested for beating Mrs. Waters but shc refused
10 press complaint against him. Yesterday Justice
Elliott committed him for Blk months
Hugh Rice, age twenty-five, Of No. 1GS
Douglass-st committed 10 Jail yesterday by Justice
Ferry, on a charge OF feOnous assault Monday night
he came home drunk asked his wife for some money
and when she refused To give II to him, Knocked her
down. She attempted to escape from the house. when
hc struck her the head with club, iGcting severe
scalp wound The police found him hidden IN he cellar
OF his house
The following directors of the Union Ferry
Company elected at the annual meeting yesterday
Henry T.. PicrrcpOn Nathan h. Morse Charlcs f. Bill
Abraham b. Bayns, Abirl A. Low, H. Mclean IIorace b.
Chittcnden, James How, Walter n. DeGrauw. Bryan II.
Smith, Ripley Ropes and Peter G. Cornell j. sullivan
ThOrne Theodore r. Smith and William W. Swayne were
elected inspectors OF election.
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