New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-28
NEW-YORK CITY.

The steamship Abysinnia, from Liverpool,
landed ninety eight immigrants at Castle Garden yescr
day. and the st. Laurent, from Hayre, ninety-sN'
Receiver Uhl, of the German Uptown Saw
ings Rank sold YESTERDAY at auction various securities
OF the bank which ranged in price from $3.50 TO 81
Julius Friduet who was recently charged
with stealing 500 from Bertha Cohen was acquitted OH
Monday by jury In the Court Of General Sessions.
The dead body of a tramp was found on
top OF one of the passenger OF the Boston tram
which arrived the Grand Central Station ut 55o a. H.
yesterday.
Sheppard Knapp is making speciality OF
the Smyrna Knappstan reversible carpets which come
in all cOors and designs OF the turkey carpets
atgery much lower prices
A picture in Broadway window which
attracts much attention from passersby represents the
Inauguration of jefferson Davis as President OF the
Southern COnfcdeiacy.
The schooner Lltagawa arrived here yester-
day from GonaIves distress. All hands, except tue
captain, cook and one taken sick with swamp
fever, and the vessel had TO put IN at the DeI"""o
Breadwater for medical aid.
The steamship City of Washington, Captain
Tmmermann Of the Alexandra Line, which lett havana
at $50 D. IN on November %. arrived at this port at
a. m, November 81. making the run IRON h"'"n' W
this port in days. 10 hours
NJ r Knowltop, who was assaulted on
Tuesday by J. Augustus Rogers Of the New-Iork Hotel
because "a is alleged. lie had stared at Mrs Rogers,
his case before Justice Morgnn yrs,Grnay ""' w
convicted man was dismissed with reprmhhu'
Nathan b. Hacker, who shot himself III
room In the Revere House Tuesday night. was yesir
dav ascertaned TO have been the OF wealth. Bos-
ton merchant. His father, who has clhmc thc n'"s'
says that the tendency toward suicide is here""'!,
Vice-Presdent Porter. Of the Pullman l"i
ace Car Company says that the Department 81
tate was mag,pc out the necessary papers for he ~
tradition OF ANGEL. the defaulter. and that one oil ,m
cOmpany's agents abroad would prOnaDV DC ""'Hor-
aEa nm Chicago
football match will he played to-day on
the grounds OF the St Georges Cricket Cub. ioboinn
between the teams Princeton and Yale: AZ each am
has defeated Harvard This season the Question o, eJ
roriy bet ween the three colleges VIII DC decdeo 'o-
The Congressional Committee on Army Re-
orOanizaon closed its sessions this city yesterday
II will meet In Washington next week The business
transacted here merely TO revise the woIh 81 w
committee accomplished NJ "hi'e ouiph"' 0p'"s' '''
Summer.
During the season at Gilmore's Garden, Mr..
Barnum has invited the orphans of this city to attend
his exhibition. over 1000 children have thus enjoyed
tbe circus The Commis Of Charities and Corcc
ton have sent TO g. Bailey the manager OF me now
expressing hearty thanks for this Kindness
10 the crippled children nj Randalls Island
Patrick Meehan and Hugh Gallagher were
Yesterday held in 80 900 hail 10 await the action OF the
Grand Jury on tine charge OF causing the death Of
Charles Proeschcr who. with Them was a stableman 1t
No 900 Frrt-ave. On October TO- the three m,n were
caring their horses, and Gallagher was heaId 10 ~
vino was I'm the ay-lOft 40 the time, then heard tc
and cries Tor help Later Prreschcr was found bruised
ana bleeding In an empty stat.
The Manhattan Athletic Club will give open
games to-day 10 M at the club grounds at Eighth
ave. between Fi'ty-si1th and Fifty-seycnth-
sts. consisting OF the following events: goo
yards run, handicap; two-mile walk for those
who never won a prize, thrce-qurter-mile run,
bopdicap, and onc-mile bicycle race. Nearly Two
hundred athletes are entered for competition, ana goOi
suort Is anticipated. Gold and silver medals VIII be
awarded to the winner.
BROOKLYN.
George BcrnbeTger employee in Have
never & Elders sugar refinery, at the foot OF West
Thiri-st yesterday fell into a tank Of boiling sugar ana
was fatally scdlded.
Ex-Coroner Edward II. Favin, a Republic
can OF the Twenty fifth Ward, was appointed an IN
spcctor in the Engineers Bureau In the place OF vii
liam IT, CiofI Democrat. The president OF the ooard
voted aga INST appointment and said he cOnsldeed
outrageous.
A pOst-mortem examination OF the body OF
Mrs Christina Riley who was found dead Tuesday
morning at No. - suliyanst. showed that death was
caused by compression of the brain. Dr. shepard, WI"
made the examination. SAID mat III MS ollhln w.
iury was caused by q blow. Riley has been committed
10 the ial to await the action Of the COrOners jury
In the trial of the Kings County Charities
Commissioners yesterday, paper WAS introduced
showing that Supervisors supplies Committee had
called the COMMISSIONER attention to their repeated
violations of the Emergency Act President Norris said
that he remembered this report Of the supplies Com
mtce ia regard To bill for roofing TN was also read
although General Pryor objected TO 1t as partisan
document and an atrOcOuS libel on the defendants
Commissioners Kes-el and Midas also testified