New-York tribune., 1879-05-21
NETWORK CITY.

PanIers have become so popular that clinging
dresses begin to look old-fashlOned.
| The annual reunion of the Society of the Army OF
the James will be held at Albany June is.
The annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni
in New-York will be held at Delmonlco's tomorrow
| evening.
The profits at the fair for the benefit of ST. Law;
rence's Roman Catholic Church recently amounted
| to $4,000.
There will he n private exhibition of the new
organ at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Fifth
| ave-, Thursday evening.
The Church Of st. John the Evangelist in East
Fifie-st., will be used a schoOl-hOuse after the
new Cathedral is opened.
Passengers on the elevated roads would do well
to remember that stOycppe hats make poor receptl-
| cles for disabled cigar stumps.
The contract for the new reception hospital for
! contagious diseases has been awarded to Gibbs "
| Reilly, the lowest bidders, at Si,7OO.
The 9TH Regiment parades for inspection to-day
in Lafayette-place. at p. III. After inspection the
| regiment will parade in Broadway and tllth-aye.
Why are the OrSe-chesnut trees, holding mp
their lovely spikes of pink and white blossoms, 80
much admired lIhe answer Is Buckeyes they
| are.
| Small shoulder capes are seen with street suits:
The handsomest OF these stylish wraps are made OF
black silk, covered with jet beading and finished
with fringe.
The Chief Engineer of the Ncw-YorlI Elevated
Railroad will consult with the Board of Health re-
latve to effecting better sanitary arrangements III
the workings of the road
Henry Barnslcy. age forty an Englishman. sec
Ond officer of fhe steamship Robert Murray, jr,
lying at Pier No. H. East River shot himself in the
head with revolver yesterday morning, in his
stater0Om.
Matthew Brennan, an engineer, forty-hve years
Old whose residence could not be learned fell into
the North River at the foot of HobOkenst., Mt $50
p. III. Monday and was drowned. His body was
recovered.
William II. Webb has been selected rs associate
delegate with Cyrus W. Field TO represent the
Chamber of Commerce in the international Canal
'ou I'm vii to-ll
ship BOfhnla.
A very slim audience gathered at No. ia East
ThIrteenth-st last night. to listen to delegates APP
pointed by the Observation-Disclosures party. collec-
tion to defray the expenses OF tomorrow evenings
meeting in Union-square amounted to 80 AZ,
The Inspector of the Board of Health has reported
that the building of the Produce Exchange Is unfit
for usc account of sanitary defects. There is too
little air space, and the means for renewal of air
and the arrangements for lighting are deficient.
The milkmen Of the city have asked that the
Board of Health take into consideration the plan of
licensing mllkmen, as the best plan to keep poor
milk from the city, and 10 provide fund for proper
inspection. The counsePs opinion has been re-
queSted.
The convention called some time ago to devise
some plan by which the idle may be employed, will
meet to-day at Science Hall. No. Ill Eighth-st.
Delegates from virginia. New-Jersey, M6ssaohu-
setts, Rhode Island and other States have arrived
III the city.
ALegslative committee finds that it will cost $15.-
600 900 to finish the bridge The interest on this
at per cent is 81 900 900 year. or So, 500 day.
If 900 persons an hour cross the bridge for ten
hours a day, it would cost cents apiece merely to
pay the interest. However,.
In the case of Mrs. Julia Rosene, the actress who
died at No. OBS Eighth-ave on May 16, as supposed
from criminal malpractice, coroners jury yester-
day unable to place the responsibility, and rem
dered a verdict of death from BrightS disease ac-
celerated by criminal operation.
The movement begun several days ago by the
brickayers in the employ of the elevated railroad
companies for an increase of wages from - 90 TO
SO a day, and which was joined by members of the
trade generally throughout the city, has resulted in
the success of the mems demand.
Walter Boltz of the firm of Boltz & Copeland,
manufacturers of artificial flowers at No. ia
Mercer-st., attempted last night to end his life:
a dose of sulphurc acid. lie was sent to Bellevue
Hospital and antd0tes were administered but the
physicians despair of saving Boltz's life.
The number of disaftected 'longshoremen unem-
pOyed was less along the front yesterday than
on any previous day since the strike began three
weeks ago The two Anchor Line steamers which
were TO have sailed on Saturday last il is expected
will sail to-day. The other European steamships
will sail on tine
The following a comparative statement of cases
of contagious diseases reported for the two weeks
TyEaGd Scarlet earle spinal n ,roo.,. Plgn small
S$5IE %s{f@ Mn f. Il i5555 '' q '.si'' si ''N
daughter. age eleven, of Patrick McGowan
who keeps q laundry at No. Is Clinton-pace, is |
public school in Twelfth-st. She left her home at
noon on Monday to attend school, and has not been
seen since. Four years ago son. age nine, the
eldest child of the family, disappeared IN the
way.
Among the passengers from Liverpool by the |
City of Berlin. Monday, were four persons from |
Nevada who had been making n European tour |
Yesterday special inspectors seized mt Tayors |
Hotel in jersey City, two skin cloakS and three
pieces of valuable silk on which duties had not
been paid The goods were found III a trunk be- |
longing to the Nevada passengers
Elizabeth Leferts, ninety-two years Of age, died
on Sunday in the Ninth Ward, and the doctor said
she would have lived longer if she had taken excr-
else Her sister, Mrs. Polly Ruff, died in Newark
two months ago at The age of ninety-eight. and her
husband, John b. Leherts, died two years ago, at
the of one hundred and four, having married
her when scventy-ilyc years old.
Charles Green and William Edwards were ar
rested Monday night IN house on Cannon-st III
which they were manufacturing counterfeit coins |
The prisoners had broken up many of thcig models |
having received warning of the approach of the Of |
icers. They waived examination and were held
by United States Commissioner Shields yesterday |
III - 800 bail To await heacton Of the Grand Jury
fatal accident occurred yesterday in .Church-st
Edward Qulrk, age fifty years, and Francis Mars. |
two house se-painteTs, were on scaftod engaged in
painting the window of the fifth story of No. 213
Churcll-st, when suddenly, without warning, the !
rope IRON at one end of he scaOld broke. Mars
caught the rope ana saved himself by climbing to
the roof Qurk, who was near the other end of the
scalfjld was thrown TO the street ad-foreInost
HIS skull was crushed and he was instantly killed.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Ncw-1 ok ana Harlem ltuIOad Company yesterday |
the following were reelected directors without OPP |
position: William IL. Vanderbilt. Cornelius Van |
dorbilt William X. EanderbI, William &. Wet |
more Augustus Schell, James H. Banker, 4. b. Bay
lis John b. butcher. X. }. Niven, Chauncey ~ De |
pew. William H. Leonard, Joseph Harker and Sam |
uel 7. Barger. The election Of the officers will |
probably be deferred until William II. Nanderbilfs
return from Europe but there is no likelihood OF I!
any change.
John Flynn, who was convicted on May II of be- |
ing an accOmplice of David Pender in the robbery
from Mrs. DeBary of diamond earring while she
was walking in fIith-ave., was sentenced ycster- |
dicted with David Pend"r, who is now serving a
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