New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-17
NETWORK CITY.


and circuses will soon leave out.
The Easter bonnet shivers with cold and res
tivity has ITS head under It's WING
Mary Nostrand. Swedc. was sent to Harlem
prison for stealing 5000 diamond ring.
Cmldrens straw hats At ODonoghnes nave t.lr
ton of the crown lndented anu nIIou WIN Pi0''
little pOmpoms
II is understood that several yornG. men are
practising so to be eligible TO membership I'D Tue
Moderation Society.
TheSzeredin Relief Committee reports that the
subscriptions To the fund as late rs last evening
amounted to 1880 40.
A coroners Jury Yesterday ccnsured the New-fork
Elevated Railway for carelessness IN causing inc
death of Thomas Mooney.
The handsome embroidered satin vestinGs that
are popular ut present are shown at stewart III
all shades, uncut but embroidered.
fair for the benefit of st. Lawrence's Church
FigEty-fOuTth-st., will begin IN me parish schooi-
house to-day. and last until May 10.
The three men who were arrested for stealing
watches end icwelrv from b. :. Squire were yester-
dav held for trial III default OF 81 900 bail.
festival will be held to-day at st. Luke's House
for INDECENT Females, Madlson-ave. ana i.ighy-
ninth-st, for the benefit of that worthy charity
Twenty-eght trains now run on the sixth Ave
me Elevated Road. Trains will run all night as
soon as the track Is stretched to Harlem River.
James HAYES. son of the cx-Asscmblyman of that
name was Yesterday held to trial Tor stcailhg =
musc-box. valued at 5000, from his mother, ana
pawning It.
Very large Leghorn hats, bent in the most ont
landish shapes, exhibited at the 1ashlonappie
millinery establishments. They form one Oh the
coming STYLES.
large cologne fountain has been added 70
Macy'7 store II is Of silver on an ebony pedestal.
The base is ornamented with figures III silver rep
resenting the Seasons.
Among the assignments OF mortgages recorded
Yesterday are sixty papers for $40 l,32j from the
Manhattan Savings Institution to the Manhattan
Life Insurance Company
Mourning handkerchiefs have black borders two
inches and half WIDE. with row Of embroidered
dots above the borders The monogram or lnitlai
is embroidered in black silk in one corner.
Fifth Anniversary Celebration Young Mems He
brew Association tonight, Chickering Hall. Adj
dresses by Judge Brady. A. 6. Sullivan. the Rev.
Mr. Hepwortb, the Rev. DR.. Gottheil and Others.
Augustus W. Davis, of Brooklyn, and Charles w;
Stein. of Hobolsen. of Davis ~ stem, No. POP
Broadway, made an aSsgnnent Ior the P nS u
creditors yesterday, to Wesley G. Davis Preferred
creditors with CLAIMS to the amount of more than
$4,000, are named i'll the assignment.
bullet fred from house in South Fifth-ave. at
4 p. m yesterday passed through the window OF
an Elevated Railroad car, and whzzed by q
PASSENGERS head. The bullet must have struck
with great force, for it made round hole III the
glass, and caused split OF only lew lnches.
Several women in the city have been arrested
recently for treating their husbands brutay. 1t is
fortunate there are police TO protect men, or the
women might soon carry as high hand as do female
spiders, who eat at least twenty husbands every
Summer and fling their bones into the back yard
At a meeting of the Park Commissioners yester-
day. a bridge was ordered TO be constructed over
the Bronx River at Woodlawn. The Blossom CInb
received permission to decorate Stewards statue i'll
UniOn-suuare and the president OF the Department
was authorized to make arrangements for muse III
the parks during the summer.
The body of n man much decomposed was found
In the East River at tho foot of Stantonst, yester
day and was taken to the morgue. A pocket-book
containing 81 40 and prayer-bGok were iound IN
the clothing. From name written IN the latter
book the body was identified rs that OF Patrick
Daley, a book agent, who has been missing since
Marcn 81 from Newark, n. j.
Felix Armstrong, the discharged employee of the
Dock Department whO a few weeks ago, preferred
charges of ineompetency against Engineer Greene,
appeared before the commissioners yesterday and
demanded to know what they were going to do
about II. He was told that the Corporation
Counsel had been requested to inform the commits
siOners what to do.
The committee of twelve appointed by the de-
positors Of the suspended Teutonia Savings Bank
at their meeting on Monday last to press the
charges against the late trustees of that institution
called at the District Attorneys office yesterday
Mr. Phelps was ab.ent but his assistant, Mr. Bell,
assured the committee that the charges would be
laid before the Grand Jury in day or two.
At the Exchange Saesroom, No. III Broadway,
Yesterday the one-sxteenth part in the following
ships of The Black Ball Line was sold to satisfy the
estate of the late Nathan Cobb, William II. Onion
being the purchaser: The Alexander Marshall,
| sos tons built In New-YOrk In 1860, brought
81 ,OOO James Foster, jr., ,42s tons built IN New
York 1854, $3.50; Isaac Webb, ], 497 tons, built in
New-YOrk, 1850, $500.
The schooner Calista, from Thomastown for New
York with cargo of lime was last seen at the be-
ginning of the gale of March 81 on Nantucket
Shoals and ii is feared she il lost. She was of 10
tons bnrhen, and belonged to Mr. Hall. of this city
The schooner Mansfield, belonging to Snow IL
Richardson. of this city, from Rock and for New
lOrk with 100 barrels of lime, also has not been
heard from since the storm of March 81.
A nublic meeting Of the Brian Born circle OF the
Fenian Brotherhood was held last evening at No:
253 Avenue-A. James Stephens one Of the old
leaders of the organization, SAID that he was in
Ireland three years ago. ana hohceg me strength OF
not completely dead, II had not One-quarter as
many members as formerly He did not believe in
parliamentary agitation, and thought mat the free
dom OF Ireland could only be gained by the sword.
William NJ. Williams and others made speeches.
The following contributions are acknowledged in
aid of the Seaside Sanitarlum for destitute Sick
Children Through Mr. Bergh, Mrs. G. l.. Spencer,
5000 f.; through Mr.. King, Charles OConOr, 800 /;
Pierre LOrillard, 800; John Sneden, SO Mater
nifty Society, Church of the 1ransfguration SD
r. X. James. $40 i. l.. A., SO. Further gifts
NAV be sent to Henry Bergh, Twenty second-st and
Fonrth-ave., Robert Begcs, treasurer, No 3S1
Eighth-ave.. or Henry King, president, No. 3O4
West Twenty-elghth-st.
The Morrisania police found the body of woman
floating IN the Harlem River near the railroad
bridge yesterday morning The clothing on the
body was much worn, and the coverings Tor the
feet consisted of q button gater and clOth-laced
shoe The woman is believed to have been IA
yaprant, as she was seen wandering about in the
neigh borhOOd of the bridge on the previous day.
II rs belle ed that she fell into the river while in
toxicated card, giving the bearer the privilege
70 visit the workhouse on BackwelPs Island, was
the only thing found in her dress pocket The
body was sent to the moTgue.
The infant daughter Of Catherine Erickson, of
No. 292 Cherry-st.. disappeared mysteri0usly on
April T. All search proved unavaihng. and on the
gth the mother was arrested on suspicion of infaDi-
eide. She admitted that she knew where the child
was but obstinately refused 10 tell. She was kept
in prison and daily questioned, but adhered to her
BODY was IN pit IN the yard of her home. The pit
was dragged and the body found. 1t bears marks
of strangulatiOn Coroner Croker will hold an in
yesfigatIon in the case to-day at the MOrgue. The
mother remains III the IOmbs.
In the Y0rkvile Court. yesterday, John Murphy
sought refuge from the brutality of his wife