New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-06
NETWORK CITY.


for the scarcity Of flowers displayed gadolas and wa
ter lilies being about the only flowers in market
Scarfs for midsummer wear are made OF
heavy black Brussels net trimmed with lace fringe
and draped in Greek fashion around the shoulders.
New curtains for sleeping-rooms are made
Of unbleached muslin, faced with Turkey-red, and
looped back with red ribbons, with very pretty effect
The Breton dress was so becoming and pretty
that the ladies' 10th to give it up and since fashion
has ccreed It may longer be the style is used
| In underwear.
New linen-lawn and muslin dresses are made
with yoke waist the yoke entirely covered with rows OF
narrow lace laid on fat The rufes that trim the skirt
are edged with the same lace
| The members of the Cotton Exchange yes
day adopted the amendment to the bylaws IN regard to
the classification of cotton and the examination Of cOm
| plants. by a vote OF l33 10 80.
Officer McGlOin, of the Fifteenth Precinct,
Yesterday charged Patrick Marion with attempt to
| shoot him with pistol The prisoner committed
| to answer in default OF $1,000 bail.
The Metropolitan Association of Amateur
| oarsmen announce their annual regatta for Wednes
! regatta must be made by August IL.
A Broadway window exhibits large picture
| frame filled with more than . thousand specimens OF
butterflies from all parts Of the world arsticay i'm
paled and arranged with reference TO size and color
Collector Merritt was called away from the
Custom House at an early yesterday by the illness
|
alton as private secretary TO the Collector aud he was
sworn In by the Collector
At the TOmbs Police Court, yesterday, James
MeGrauby, OF No. ll3 Crosby-st., charged John smp
sou with having assaulted him, assisted by six or seven
boys while he taking pitcher OF beer 70 his house
bail.
Ann Dolan, of No 347 East 0ne-hundred-
and-ninth-st., was cent TO the Ninetyninth Street
| Hospital yesterday morning, suffering from severe
injuries about the head and body, inflicted by her hus
band. Her condition IL said To be critical, but her
husband has not yet been arrested
The first bale of Mississippi cotton of this
season was sold In this city yesterday for 20 cents
| pound, being rated a good middng IL was grown
by George f. Keinstra, Of Adams County and was
! shipped by Edward Keenan, OF NewOrleans. TO VIII
| liams, Black * Co., OF this city. The purchaser
Macaulev & Co. will forward It TO Barnes, Davidson
| Co., OF Liverpool
A resident of Yonkers reported at the Cen
trail Office yesterday that John McLain, age fifty, a
prominent contractor o; that city had been missing
since July g. on that day he came 20 New-YOrk at
D. H. land parted with friend at NInth-ave and Thr-
tieths, saying that he had business downtown since
then he has not been seen As ne mas nad nmahS,a
| suicide.
An inquest was held yesterday in the case
OF Ella Mccall. the young actress who committed suicide
at No 400 Fourthaye, on July II. The testimony has
already boeu published The jury rendered verdict OF
suicide by cyanide OF potassium A verdict Of acct
dental death was rendered In the case OF George
Mcclellan age nineteen, the clerk who fell from the
second-story window OF Arnold q COnstaOles' at
Eighteenth-st and Broadway, on July 10.
Mrs. Jane Condor, the old woman who says
she the sister OF Richard King the Texas cattle raiser
and her husband. st sit on the stoop Of No. 81
Beeckers and watch the pile Of furniture the
sidewalk. Yesterday the old man carefully spread an
oilcloh the household goods, and with apiece OF
chalk ne marked the words 'fOr sale the backs OF
the sofas and chairs An elegant sofa offered Ior 20
|
arraigned the jefferson Market Police Court, yester
day. charged with interfering with oncer Meyer, Of
the Eighth Precinct The officer testified that while
| pursuing a prisoner Hamilton interfered with him,
| whereupon he arrested him and found brick In his
hand. Here the brick was put III evidence Inc pris-
declared that the brick not IN bis hand but IN
his pocket. The Justice fined him $40, and committed
him 10 the Island for six months unless he could furnish
| 1000 bail.
The will of George S. Appleton, who died
July z, was filed yesterday His viii Is dated May, 1870.
BY Il he leaves the furniture in his residence absolutely
his wife all the remainder Of his property he leaves
10 his brothers John A. Appleton and Daniel s. Apple
ton pay the income 20 hs widow, aud at her death TO
divide the principal among his children by his cOdcil,
made In July 1875, he authorizes the executors o adj
half the principal OF their shares 10 his sons dur
ing their mothers life, and enough build residence
for daughters them, before the nal distribution
BROOKLYN.
The three public baths were patrOnized by
% 800 persons last week.
John Brady, engineer of the Court House,
was thrown from his carriage while driving 10 Coney
Island Sunday, and received fracture Of the right
| arm
The new passenger waiting rooms of the
Street Ferry Company at the foot ~ Broad
way, f. ID. are completed. They a great improve
ment over the OLD Ones being uch larger Anu petter
ventilated.
The persons arrested for gambling in the
saloon Of William Bridges No. 1872 PerrepOnt-st, satur-
day night were arraigned before Justice Walsh yester
day morning and their examination was postponed un-
! tlneXt Tuesday.
The Schuetzenfest OF the Brooklyn Schuetzen
Corps will begin to-day, the Myrtle Avenue Park and
continue days The members will march from No.
34s Fuon-st in green uniforms Prizes 70 the amount
OF 5000 will be given 70 the beat marksmen the king
ceivng $50
Three officers Of the First Precinct made q
descent at a yesterday upon floating junk shop
at the foot OF Joralemon-st In which il suspected
| that quantity OF stolen sugar secreted They
| found twelve bags and six barrels Of sugar, and
rested three men, who gave their Francis Dl
lon, John Mckenna and Francis Lott Later In the day.
NeW-YOr Custom House officers Informed the Brooklyn
police that they believed the sugar 10 have been Snug
gled They mad planned to seize the place at . a. NJ
yesterday. but had been anticipated by the police.
A suit of good clothes, with q revolver and
so III In the pockets. found yesterday mOrnirg
soop IN sands-s near Washingon-st., and was taken
70 the York Street Station House detective who
out TO hunt the owner, found that the clothes
belonged TO young man whose name the police Will
not reveal. but who lives IN Wlloughby, GOl,st
He went TO Concy Island on SUNDAY, and came back on
the last train at IL y. m About u. M. yesterday he
! reached his home Invested OF his clothing He
was under the influence OF liquor and is unable to tell
where he spent the intervening time or how he lost his
| clothing.
| JERSEY CITY.
Louis Mile, a German, residing on BishOp-st..
was badly bitten Yesterday about the head and shout
ders, by dog, owned by one OF his neighbors
| James Sigbe, carpenter residing on Grand
st. fell overheard from the yacht Jesse Payne Bay
Ridge, L. l., yesterday, at q. and drowned He
leaves wife and three children.
Frank KehOe and Thomas Murray, alias