New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-21
NETWORK CITY.


| Controller Kelly yesterday paid $4,000 to
the Trustees Of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Officer Bleil, the water-dog" of the police
force Will be publicly pre- sented to-day with the gold
medal awarded by Congress.
During the present Winter over $500 poor
families have been supplied with coal by the Depart
ment Of Charities and Correction.
There are more than 5000 INNS" " tiv-
erns and hotels" In this city. and the Board OF Ex
else is daily increasing the number
Among the passengers who arrived from
Europe yesterday In the scythia g. H. Boxer, for
mery United states Minister at St. Petersburg and Mrs.
Boxer.
Custom House Inspector Hagan seized 800
cigars and 1872 bundles of cigarettes yesterday which
were being smugglcd into this port on the steamer City
OF Vera Cruz from Havana.
In accordance with recent decision OF the
Court OF Appeals four clerks, who claimed that their re-
moval August Is, 1877 was Illegal were relnstated
yesterday by the Fire COMMISSIONERS.
The youthful residents of Harlem have
opened miniature theatre bearing the title of 1.-THE
Little Gayety" The play Of the 4" Two Orphans was
enacted few nights ago before weeping audience.
The first drectrcss and treasurer OF the
Ladies' Union Aid Society state that woman between
thirty and years OF age has been collecting money
over the forged signature OF Mrs. Jane Kelly the treas
urer.
Fifty-four ocean steamships, 81 ships. 2l4
harks 10 bgs and $50 schooners are now lying IN ths
port The sailing vessels are either waiting Tor catgofs
repairing and IL are laid up.
With regard to the unpaid school teachers
salaries which should have been paid on February 10,
Controller Kelly said yesterday, that the delay was
to the neglect in making up the payros As soon
s they completed the teachers womb Dc phh'
The American Fish Culturist,' Association,
Of which Robert Il. Roosevelt Is president will meet
audo AZ The
FsMongers Association for the discussion Of the best
methods Of prOpasatin ilsh. Inc ASSOCIATION nls III
vi "a all persons Interested IN the matter to ~ present
Deputy Coroner Cushman's autopsy, yester-
day. on the body Charles Davis, who died from the
effects II was supposed injuries received at the hands
II a crowd ~ ruiiiaus in front OF owen Geoghegans
place, No. 1913 oWcry, showed that DEAN VIE caused
hy pTyspe.as aud alcoholism. No marks Ot violence
could De- Discovered
Monsignor Chatard, rector of the American
college at Rome LEFT this city for Rome. yesterday, on
The China For several months ne has travelled through
the ncd states collecting money for the colleg1; which
Gastard las collected So 0oi with winch he says he
will Uc able 70 continue tne work OF the college
For the past year the members of the Prod
nee Exchange have condemned the ceaseless ringing OF
he gong for ten minutes after the cc 'ing hour giving
notice That they must leave TIE floor or be ned my
cents The BOARD # Managers YESTERDAY ordered Tue
nuisance" DISCONTINUED WIN stfirt "Fu'fs thtt nc
inc Ia members violating the rules 10 carried oNt III
iuil force.
Bishop Potter, assisted by about fifty clergy
men, VIII consecrate 81 Bari holomew's Protestant Fps
copa Church. at Jadsou-ayo and Fory-iourth-st, this
morning The church wis completed live years ago. and
with the rcctory cost over $iOO,000 II Il now ittc
rom debt bishop Potter VIII preach the sermon "i.er
the conservation services. The musical services are
In charge OF General Dodge.
Jesse Hoyt & Co., and seventy other firms
engaged In the grain aud -four made. asked the DOCK
Commissioners recently by petition that southst should
be extended. by ling in concties SIP from the easter
,s.I.. A.. A. - lHa =.
River CORPORATION Counsel whitney holds that the sp
cruuOt b. led in by the Dock Department WITHOUT e1-
press al hmity from the Legislature
The Office furniture of Meter s. Co., the
brokers WHO recently failed at No. - EEchaugeplacc.
was YESTERDAY. by order Of the assignee. Among
tie article. sold several backwalnu desks, which
bronrht rom T3 to s13 each; oicg carpet some oil
er'd set Of furniture $40; snod Gnapr oo1 library
BROOHLYN.
Custom House Inspector j. A. Wisner on
Tuesday seized at Harbrcs stores, nny nine packages
of merchandise found In the cargo OF the Connaught
Ranger from Manila. No entry Of the articles appeared
the ships manifest.
Officer Corwin, of the Twelfth Precinct, ar
rested Tuesday night John wn'tcad age thiriyve' OF
No. I0i sumterst. brutay beating John kerr. age
fourteen, OF No. Macdcugils, while Kerr was going
home from night-school.
John McGarvcy set fire to n bag oil Jute In
Furniyas baggng factory, in water-st, last month,
the building He was tried in the Court OF Sessions
tcrday and found guilty of arson.
The appropriation for salaries in the Fire
Department having been reduced, the Commissioners
nav, reduced salaries of the Ave district engineers
per cent similar reduction VIII probably be made III
The salaries OF the other ems loNes.
The gas ret0rt at Raymond Street Jail eX-
ploded with loud report at $40 D. IN, yesterday. and
sci nle 10 the shed in which 1t Is situated The flames
were ,x;inguished by Officer shaunesscy and Keeper
Cassidy. The damage amounted 10 so.
James Murray, II notorious burglar, who en-
tered the residence of John OCallahan in Flushugave
ON January ~ and captured after severe struggle,
during which he attacked OCallnban with knife, was
sentenced by Judge Moore 10 ten years imprisonment III
the Kings County Peniteniary.
The Board Of Education has resolved to
spend 500 900 the erection OF three new schoohoses
and $50 900 In enarsIng Public Schools Nos o, ID and
10 Permission Will he asked Of the Common Council TO
purchase the Lay College Building. IN Schermerhornst
Tor school purposes. The sale OF this building. Or TAT
mage states will interfere with the work of the Lay
college which VIII he carried on In the Tabernacle