New-York tribune., 1879-10-29
NTWYORK CITY.

relaid.
The latest Thunderstorm of the season passed over
this city Yesterday just after noon. The lightning
flashes were vivid and after the thunder tho ram
| fell heavily.
All the ca binct-makers employed in IIart's manu-
factory. in West Twenty-nlnth-st.. yesgrMtay M Moho
on strike because their employer refused To acccdc
| to "a reduction of the hours of labor.
Gustave Gubcrt, an old employ6 in a shirt man
ufactorv in Church-st.. was arrested Yesterday with
| his clothes padded ont with stolen goods. lie has
taken IN all about $f00 worth of goods.
William Mel the pickpocSet arrested on Sunday
last III the synagogue at Lexington-avc. and Ftiy-
lilI-st.. was committed for trial IN the iorkyile
Police Court yesterday in default of ~ 900 bail.
Thieves made a bungng attempt 10 blow mp
safe yesterday morningin harrington a ii@mrigel ;
| pork-nackug establishment at No. s2l fir.t-avc.
! An officer surprised them IN the attempt aud they
! ran away.
After three meetings and considerable discussion
b. the grain trade OF the Produce EXCHANGE Il re-
port was adopted yesterday which provides lor tie
rcorgl lnization Of the grain inspection Department.
the vote being IS to 3d.
John II. Patt, the assignee OF the Siuyvcsant
Bank, has called general meet ng oi the cred '"is
of that bank for thc purpose Of dctcrniniue upon
or D. M, ~ the office of Mr. Dwight, the Register
/ in Bankruptcy, at M. Z tcckman-~t.
The officer, of the Continental National Bank ves-
/ teIday submitted TO ihc nenineis oi .he S.ocA lN-
| change proposition for thr establishment o.
| siton was made originally by Pros lent Randolph
over two years aud half ago. shortly after he ne
]
Pearson $. lials;cad. "a wcl-snown provision Inrr'
/ Giant ol this city. while crossing Nallor--t. at
! Broadway yesterday was kpookrd down bv horse
attached 10 truck, ard suffered severe shock and
| cOncu~-ion Of the brain. Nh llalStcad Is nearly
seventy years old. ana was on lis vaV 10 attend "a
meeting of the directors ot the Citizens Bank 200 ;hc
| time of the accident. H. was reported 10 BE- Iin-
! proving last night.
A statement Published Tuesday In teerraphc
/ dispatch from -. Louis connected the New-foIk
| Life Insurance Company with an attempt 10 wreck
| the -. Louis Lite Insurance COMPANY The o1ic -rs
denied Yesterday that IL had been implicated In amy
! way with the scheme. In rcmsur.ng another COM
pany n world have 10 accept the securities held by
| the rcinsurcd company. Under the avs oi ihs
/ state no N.w-iofk company can hold any bonds oil
| another State
There were three witnesses examined yesterday
by the committee of the State Board of Charities III
eating the affairs of the House oi Refuge They
were Hiram Ackcriy, of Northport, Long Island,
| formerly ward man at the institution; John u;
! Linus, of Westchestcr. formerly machnist and
George w. Hunter, also of Norihport formerly hall
man and ward man in the Second Division OF the
Ilousc of Refuge, Their testimony referred chiefly
! 10 tine workings of the departments IL winch they
Lad been employed.
| By the Guion steamship Arizona. which arrived !
from Lvcr2ool on MONDAY, came 2l3 Mormon i'm
| migrants and eleven Mormo' missionaries, who
had been at work IN Great Britain. on the CONT
nCnt and IN Germany for nearly 'wO years. Most "t
the Mornons were IN families. the majority being |
mechanics in various trades. with few farmers |
They came about cquai divisions from Scotland
Waes. ENGLAND and ire Scandinavian countries !
and most OF them will 20 10 Ogden, Logan and
Echo.
The Rev. James A. Paige. OF Nashville. Ill.,
while passing through the city on hIs way 10 VISIT
friend at rrcchold " j., late in the afternoon of
Monday took a stroll in Broadway, when ne was ac- |
costed by a stranger who pretended to know him. |
With his friend the preacher entered saloon |
at No. 1O4 Canal-st, ana becoming interested IN |
game of cards was swndled out OF $40. The police |
arrested the two confidence" men who had been |
engaged III the affair." ana AZ the loinhS GOllce |
Court Yesterday they held for trial. The |
preacher was sent to the House OF Detention.
ON a summons issued by Justice BIxby. Officer
Michael Ward. Of the Charles Street station. ap- !
pcarcd at the Jefferson Market Police Conr yestcr
day. where Peter Thompson charged him with an |
unpIOvokeG attack on saturday night ut the Folly |
Incatro IN Gfccnwlcl-aNc, Mr. Thompson alleged |
that while standing in the vestbule of the theatre
Oncer Ward seized hun by the collar aud thrust !
HIM INTO the street. lhe oihccr denied the charge,
and asked that the case he postponed 10 enable him
to Obtain his witnesse, from the theatre. The mag
Stratc paroicd tuc occr and adjourned the further
hearing until Thursday.
The Manhattan Railway Company recently issued |
an order permitting all scholars aud female teach
of the public schools and academies of tins city,
in going to and returning from school to ride on The
elevated roads upon payment of . cents fare BY |
applying at the companl's office, No II Broadway, |
they receive card on when are spcched hc sta-
tiOuS between which the holder may Iidc the sta |
tons being designated with reference to the appl
cants residence and the school which he OF sno is
attending When this card is shown 5cent ticket |
Is furnished The company has already issued be- |
tween SIX and seven Thousand of these cards.
Eastman. BigeOw a. Dayton, of No. 27J Canal-st |
some time ago learned that some Oi their ribbons
were being sold about the city below the market |
price, aud upon examination discovered that sew |
eral hundred dollars worth OF thcI stock had been
stolen. detective yesterday arrested benjamin |
WtkowsA. cutter IA the employ OF his brother l.
Eighth-ave. Ii appeared on the examination yes
teTday that the accused man had sold or offered to
sell tie ribbon To- several houses IN town. Justice
B.xby at the jefferson Market Police Court, re- |
mauded him for further examination. How these !
goods valued at about $500, were purlomed from
the store is yet mystery.
Mrs Susan McGnnis. who keeps boarding-house
/ ot and Kings
bridge Road appeared vest rday in the Harlem Police
Court and asked Justice Nandcll 10 take charge OF
three little girls, aces respectively eI9hi Ten ana
fourteen years. She said that gentleman lad lett
them In her charge over "A year ago. paying SIX
months board in advance Tor them. lie promised
To call again. but has never done sO and not having
cft his name or adj rcss she did not know what To
do with the children. Justice Nandcll declined 10
take charge OF them, however, ana told MIS-. Mo
Gnnis that she must keep them unlll she could ma
then father the person "lo had lett them III her
custody.
Thirty applicants presented themselves yesterday
/ at the evil service examination at tile custom
! House. They were manly from the lowest grades
! Of clerks. The examination was strct and thor
/ ougl and was not concluded until p Among
the visitors WAS T.. y. Graves. OF the Treasury De-
| partment at W Washlngiou, VINO was member OF tho
| ,"rn,l t'iyil Stryic Board of that Department I'm
| so and 1873 The result of the examination
uot reached yesterday. The appointments TO the
vacant cierksips viii be made from 81 500 clerks
| If any ol them shall have reached IN their eXanlna-
ZION rank above 50 per cent If none of that class
shall nave attained that grade of excellence the
canccs will b. filled from any members of the lower
| grades who shall have reached that rank.
BROOKLYN.
The police have been informed that wellcxecuted
| counterfeit 800 bills on the Broadway National
Bank are IN circulation. One was passed success
| fully upon COurt-st. merchant Monday evening.
| Caspar Ulrch. "A member of the United States
Marine Corps, who was arrested ON October 10 Tor
| assaultng aud TObbIng Mrs. Elizabeth Luttjen and
for assaulting George &. Williams was sent To the
iaIl by Justice SenleT yesterday lOr nifty days Oh
| each OF the charges Of assault.