New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-30

take ak weeks after the passage of the resolution
| to prepare for the work was disregarded' ana ny
| the solid vote of the Tammany Aldermen, alded Dy
one or two Others the passage of the resolution was
J defeated. After the board adjourned call was
[ signed for special meeting on friday next
I The Hon. John b. butcher of No. East Forty
fonrtb-st.. through his counsel Elliott 7. Shepard
| has obtained an injunction against D. VI. 1ougsoi,
the florist. and Henry Gebbard, the instructor IN
| gymnastics, restraining them from building tue
proposed new swimming bath and gymnasium on
the rear of the lots Nos. and East forty-h1th-s,,
on the grounds that old deeds contain covena lts
running with the land which problbit erec,loIs
within fifteen feet on the centre line of the block.
Workmcn engaged on the front of the edilce'
| but great hole IN the root shows "here inc pro-
| hbIted place begins.
The Department of Taxes and Assessments has
sent to Mayor Cooper the report for the quarter
ending March 81. with some statistics regarding
city taxes The taxation on personal property OF
individuals amounts to 50. 647 469 20; on the per-
sonal property of corporations TO SI2|,oZ4 70;
| and of banks TO $1,662, or SO. The tax on the
real estate of street railroad companies amounts to
S101 ,90S 20, and of elevated railroads to $780,
452 %. The property which is exempt from taxa,
other city property. This also includes church
property. Unpaid taxes amounted TO $7642,-
OIL O6 on December n, 1873.
As in the former hearing, most of the questions
asked in the of the charges against Superin-
| tendent Dudley yesterday were objected TO ana
reserved Charles X. Hyde, Chief of the Depart
ment of Fire Escapes and Of the BIIeau OF lnsGet
ment. He had taken five or six oaths OF ONCE he
said. nj the time of the several appointments; the
last one eight ten DAYS ago.. He did not sur
render his badges of office on leaving different
positions, because the clerk refused TO take them
II is said that Superintendent Dudley contemplates
making several removals and appointments within
q few days
If A.. being impecunious, steps into the office OF
b.. stranger and asks him TO change a bill, offer
ing Of the denomination OF III, ana then Claims
il was $50 bill, and If b. Indignantly denies H.
and If \. persists. and if a crowd gathers. ana II
policeman arrests b. Tor larceny ana locks INN up
and if H. is put on trial, and If his character whlcn
he has spent a lifetime i'll Strengthening is SET on
against AS, which A. has spent lifetime IN weak
ening. and if AS apochryphal $50 bill Doesn't hap
pen to he found in the stocking of his washerWo-
man or anywhere else, aud Il. is held cu!paDie,
then, and in that case, it discreet for Is or any
body else ever again to change bill Tor a. OF any
body else
These mistakes IN changing money before il is
handed TO the man who is asked to change It are
becoming alarmingly frequent. Yesterday Peter
Callahan. stage driver, was arrested by Lawrence
Smith for handing down only twenty-five cent
package in exchange for an alleged half dollar
Both very .certainthat is. toerably certain.
Smith swore positively that he was willing to swear
that he "could scarcely believe there was hardly
any possibility of doubling" that he passed mp
fifty cents. The Court not being named otter
bOurg very much, let the stage-drlver go. lie
hadn't any uncle to speak hadn't Gala
han-but the reasonable Court rushed preclpltateiy
to the conclusion that Smith had paid the odd TWEEN
ty-fye cents to his washerwOman III mistake for
twenty -fve dollars. The woman will please stand
upland confess.
BROOKLYN.
All dog licenses will expire to-day, and soon there
will be employment for the expert and nlmble dog
catcher, 10 whom nothing canine comes amiss.
The water in the Hampstead Storage Reservoir
lacks only one men of beng nineteen feet In
depth. 1t viii soon overflow the dam, which, 1t
was once said, would never hold water.
Hereafter the Department of City Works will be
required to furnish separate payroll for each
gang of wOrkmen, with the name of the foreman
and other details, which will prevent any fraud
from being perpetrated on the city.
The Sunday school anniversary In the Eastern
District will occur on June 4: The fountain at
Bedford and Division-aves; will be the point of
meeting. and the grand stand Will be erected there
The main parade will be on Bedford-aye.
Matilda Fischer, the serve girl who left her
employers home, NJ. s., rand-st., last week,
leaving letter which q ated her intention to
commit suicide renrne IN Monday Se msnt Sne
James III. Prentice, the hal manufacturer, who
failed recently with large Ina lities, has effected
composition with his creditors. and yesterday by
the order of Judge Moore, his assignee John II.
Prentice was relieved of his trust and his su-eties
were discharged.
1t was reported yesterday that the Grand Jury
had adjourned until Friday IN order to allow the
District-Attorney to draw indictments in connec-
ton with the alleged irregu arities in the delivery
Of supplies to the county aS f6nnd seven IN
In the trial of the indicted officials Of the Brook
lyn Board of City Works yesterday, Commissioner
Flaherty, whose cross-examination was resumed,
TESTIFIED tHat Ill OctoDcI, lo1
ployed on the sewers while in the corresponding
month in 1873 seventy-twO men were employed.
The reason why larger number was employed In
1873 was that the Superintendent of Sewers said
that he had work for them, The Superintendent
told him subsequently that he employed some men
without the order of the Commissioners. The wit
ness did not know when he signed the pay-rolls
that they contained the of men not employed
by tie Board, but he assured by the Superin-
tendent that the rolls were correct; Superinendent
Dady the witness continued. told him that he had
employed six men on the recommendation of Alder
men Fisher and Burnet.