New-York tribune., 1879-10-17

Piat,spurS n " and Colonel H. s. McComb OF Delaware
Hiss'0. isms H. cn,sns
and Professor T. j. Backus, Of vsssar College.
NETWORK CITY.
| The Committee on Grain of the Produce Excharac
| has approved plan for the reorganization OF the
| office of Inspector-in-Chief of Grain.
| While opposite Pierreponts stores yesterday af-
| ternoon the oyster boat Colonel Chalmer was run
| into and sunk by the tugboat M. Kalbhelsch No
person was injured.
| John McCullom, conductor on the Second Ave.
nue. Railroad, SAYS Two men oilerra MN a ark m "a
drueged liquor at No. 62 West Ihirty-hrst-st. on
| knocked him down and kicked him.
The sloop yachts Regina: Mischief, Wave and
Blanche, of the Seawanaka Yacht Club started on
| the ocean race from Sandy Hook to Cape May light
| Yesterday, and If the breeze with which they
started continues they will finish the race early
| this evening.
| The anniversary exercises of ST. Luke's Home for
INDECENT Christian Women at Eighty-ninth-st and
Madison-ave., will take place Tomorrow at p M.
in the Church of the Beloved Disciple, adjoining
the Home. The institution will be open to visitors
from IL o'clock. Refreshments flowers and fancy
articles. many of them made by the inmates, will
| be for sale.
The teachers In the public schools are making
preparations to give musical and literary enter
| tainment at the Lexington Avenue Opera House
Saturday evening. The object is TO assist the fam
| lly of james Murphy. late yicc-prnclpal OF GRAM
| mar School No. 1S. who died few weeks ago.
Among those announced to read are Mrs Vanden-
III. t.
Roberts and Crosby.
| The sessions of the Protestant Episcopal Mission
| ary Conference were continued yesterday in Asso-
cation Hail. The subject for the morning was
"What is wanting to the successful EvangelizatlOn
of the coored people of this Country" The Chris
tian solution of the Indian Problem" was the topic
| for the afternoon. AT the evening meeting, the
general topic was "The Indebtedness Of the World
TO Foreign Missionary Enterprise"
The visiting carriage builders had pleasant ex-
cursion yesterday, given them by the New-fork
manufacturers The steamer Sylvan Dell carried
the party up the Sound as far Fort Schuyler.
down and around the harbor to Coney Island, max
| ing short stay at the new Iron Pier. The McrTi-
mac Cornet Band accompanied the excursion. and
collation. served by the propretors of the Hotel
Brunswick. There was much speech-naking.
| Dion Boucicanlt was taken i'll suddenly Wednes-
| day morning and was unable to act in the evening.
| The attack was like vertigo such as he has been
subject to- but much more severe thnn ever before,
| and accompanied by pr0straton. IL WIS attributed
| by his physician, Dr. A. B. Mott, to overwOrk and
anxiety, and absolute rest was ordered Mr. Bouci-
| cault comfortable last evening. although stu
confined 10 his room, but was not permitted TO see
anyone.
Superintendent Walling. yesterday morning
ceived information that daring burglary had been
committed in the store of Joseph Musllner. at No.
| 2l9 East Houston-st. The thieves broke INTO the
store by tearing off IA shutter from rear window
which opened upon q narrow courtyard; once IN
| the building they attacked u large safe, and at
| length pried of the door with a sectional jimmy
They took S400 i'll cash. slverwarc' worth Sl7, and
package of papers which were or cOnslderaLle
| value To the owner but worthless TO anyone else.
| Ellen Wallace. of No. II Carllsle-st., young girl
with pretty features, owing TO some domestic aifiic
| tlnns. attempted To commit suicide on "Wednesday
! by drowning herself from Pier No. H. North River
Officer Allen. of the Steamboat Squad. rescued her
and took her to the Iwenty-seventh Pr clnct sta
ton where she made an effort 10 put end To her
| existence 10y hanging herself. The doorman pre-
vented the execution of her design. she was ar
raIgned before Justice Otterbourg yesterday at the
| Ionbs and committed temporarily until her parents
were advised of her acts.
The second exhibition given at Fleetwood Park
yesterday afternoon by Mr. Butler OF Hamburg
| s. c. of a negro and pack of ordinary fox hounds
attracted about three dozen men and youths. and
| as a speculation was a dismal failure The affair
was merely repetition of the previous exhibition
| described IN 1Hr TRIBUNE. 1t proved that the
negro sam" is good runner. and that fox
hounds can be trained To chase "A man as well as
fox or hare and to give the play wnen recalled
| by the master of the hunt As realistic picture
of slave life II SIMPLY ridiculous.
AT the Tombs Police Court Yesterday before JUS
tice Ottcrbourg, Theodore Hanson. passenger
who arrived by the steamer Sueyia from Europe
| three days ago, was arraigned lie II native OF
| Odense Denmark, and the Danish Consul in this
c,tv received a cablcgram instructing him to cause
the arrest of Hanson on his arrival on charge OF
| embezzlement. aud larceny of gold watch
draft was found III his possession for Tl.693 and
he was going To the banking house of q. Is. "
Richard Boas Broadway. He declined to surrender
! the draft saving il was his own. As no complaint
was preferred he was sent TO Police Headquarters
for remand until to-day.
On July ~. John Smith, an Englishman, eighteen
| wears of agc employed az driver on an ice wagon
| while crossing the sidewalk III Sevonty-third-st
with pair of ice-tongs in his hand stumbled over
| cripple an Italian named John Baptiste Marsino.
| The latter became angry, and attempted to hit
| smith with cane he carried. Smith parried the
| blow and struck back at Marsino with the ce-tongs
hitting him on the head. The Italian died five days
! later 1t found that his skull had been frac-
tured In the Court of General Sessions yesterday
| Smith pleaded guilty to manslangher IN the third
degree, and vas sentenced TO state Prison Tor three
| years.
The produce markets still remain under the infu-
ence of specnlators and Yesterday there was an
from 10 to % cents barrel above We'd
nosday's prices The wheat market continued ex-
| cIted No. 9 Red Winter for November and Decem-
her delivery being the principal feature. This adj
vanced at the opening from TO cents bushel
falling off after the iir' cal ana rsganng wnat II
| grades of wheat from i To cents higher.
| Corn advanced from to cents, with "A large de-
| mand principally on speculative account Oats
were cent better the business being largely specu
lative. In provisions, lard advanced l2i2 cents q
hundred, and pork from 10 to 10 cents hundred,
| there being an active demand.
| BROOKLYN.
| The Registrar of Vital Statistics recorded 2O7
deaths. 16l births and S3 marriages last week.
The Kings County Supervisors and the Long
| Island CITY authorities to build "A temporary
bridge over the Newton Creek, at Bssville, at an
| expense OF Sl,ooO.
4 sewer in which William Morgan, age forty6ye,
of No. 1O5 Oakland-st. was dlgHng at Meseroei ,Di
ave. and Novelist, yesterday, cayed III ana buried
| Morgan. He was injured seriously.
Gilbert c. Young, boy of six years, died at No;
| 81 Chauncey-st Wednesday night from a dose or
| carbolic acid gwen to him by his mother. who mis-
took IL for the medicine prescribed by the attending
| physician. The boy was suffering from dlphtherla.
The Rev. Nevn Woodside, pastor OF the First Re-
formed Presbyterian Church. has accepted a call to
! The pastoratc of tine First Reformed Presbyterian
| ChuIch of PttsbuTg. Penn. Mr.: Woodsde has been
IN charge of the Brooklyn church for thirteen years
| I'm. faction of the Kings County Labor League
| on Wednesday evening, nominated ex-Mayor
Schroeder for Senator IN the Hid District William
| Macdonald Wood. who is also the candidate OF The
Sociastc Labor party, for Senator IN the lVth Dis