New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-29
NETWORK CITY.

NETWORK CITY.
The telegraph messengers Will appear in the pro-
| cession on Decoration Day.
| Susan Brown colored washerwOman) has
| "thrOwn glamour round a common name"
The annual athletic games of Columbia Col
| leae will he held at the New-York Athletic Club
| grounds Mott Haven. on Saturday next
| General Samuel f. Cary. the most prominent
Greenback apostle out of Congress, is to discuss the
urgent demand for more currency In the form OF
| greenbacks at the Cooper Institute tomorrow
yening.
Lemuel Williams, the colored sailor, has walked
| up one morning and found himself famous. Where
Will he first deliver his lecture on " he }ewlldered
| Bill or the Restitution OF the PerpleXed Washer
| wOmanI
| In the muddy streets last evening there was
| there was mud-mud was gathered-that is, was
| scattered--in the muddy mud-well, conversation
the subject Is not satisfactory to those who were
! ont in it.
IL" sends 81 for Mrs. Emily HARDWOOD, who is in
house at No. 22s West Eighteentl-st. Mrs. liar-
wood has a son. fifteen years old, for whom she is
anxious TO obtain employment.
The Board of Police Justices last evening elected
Charles Blackic Clerk of the Court of Special ScS
SONS for six years from Nav /, az a salary OF So
| 600 year. Mr.. Backie is at present a United
| States Wegher. He was a member OF the Assembly
| IN 1873
George Howard. the negro who shot and killed his
| wife in Eghty-trst-st some weeks ago. whllo she
| was holding IN her arms her infant, and then
he iI.Woburn, Mass, but the police could not find
| him there.
Postmaster James drew from the Treasury De-
| parnent yesterday morning SSo,OOO in $40
| funding certificates, and the whole amount was
| sold at the Post Office at p. m, when the sales
were discontinued for the day. There will be
! fresh supply this morning.
Most of the tobacco leaf dealers, In accordance
| with resolution recently passed by conference
of the tobacco trade are now selling the new crop
of leaf tobacco at reweght lt Is reported that
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on Havana tobacco, instead OF II pounds as here
tOfOrc.
Herman r. Leroy, Woodbury. G. Langdon, I. B.
Mnsgrave August Belmont, Augustus H. Brown, J.
III. MahOny, Henry Draper Levi L. Morton, Joseph
Brandon, Theodore A. IIavemeyer, j. j. Goodwin,
jeremiah Mllbank and j. n. 4. GrswOd were
elected directors OF the Academy OF Music last
night.
The front of the Globe Theatre has assumed all
the pomp and circumstance of war, with three
bristling brass cannOns and solitary cOlored ma
beat however, as he Is standing advertisement of
the cOlored " Pinatore" troupe at this theatre and
attracts much attention.
The WOman's Christian Temperance Union will
hold Its fifth anniversary in the Brick Church. at
Ihirty-seventh-st. and Fifth-ave this evening at
p, M, The Hon, William L. Dodge will preside
The Rev. DIS. l.. ID. Bevan, Z. III. Fowler X. s.
Macarthur, aud J. 7. Newman are expected to par
tlcipate III the exercises.
Dr. Richard Rose of Ontario Canada on arriv-
ing here On Saturday fell very Precpaely into
ave-, and spent lost and otherwise disposed of the
sum of ; $50 during Sunday. Delilah IL Co., being
arrested, restored the money yesterday, and were
released to hunt other game.
The Board of Fire Commissioners yesterday rem
dered decision in the case of Foreman Grltfiths of
Engine Company No. 43. He was found guilty of
using improper language to his men and of selling
the property of the department.. His resignation
an officer was accepted and he was assigned to duty
a fireman In Engine Company No. 10.
The little play Of Pinafore " is not allowed on
Sunday night and, If you haven't been afOre, you'll
have to wait TIL Monday night. For, though it was
Hebraic a benefit for Szegedn, and claimed to be
Mosaic the Captain had to take it In. But the de-
ightful thing of III going to theatre is when you
needn't sing of it III such uncommon me-a-tre.
The proposed combination of oil producers and
relners, including the Standard Oil Company, for
the purpose of limiting production at the wells and
increasing the price at the seaboard has fallen
through and the special committee appointed at
the recent conference held at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel to arrange basis of settlement, has been
dsbanded, as it was found impracticabe to unite
upon plan which would be satisfactory to the
various conflicting interests
petition was circulated on the Produce Ex-
change yesterday recommending that Mayor Cooper
appoint General Alexander Shaler to the vacancy of
best represent the interests of the bankers aud
merchants of New-York." Numerous signatures
were appended, including those of David Dows 4
Co., Jesse Hoyt, I. |. Hustled, Ii. X. & F. b.
Thurber Franklin Edison, L. X. LivermOre Josiah
NJ. Fske and ). X. Lane
John Gibson was arrested on Saturday night by
Officer MulYey, OF the twenty -SeYenth Precinct,
for passing counterfeit trade dollars. Thirty spuri
trade dollars were found in the prisoners pos
session. besides about Sl5 i'll small silver, show
ing that he had evidently passed many other coins
of the same kind during the evening. Gibson was
arraigned before United States Commissioner
Shields yesterday morning, and was held for exam-
nation in $4,000 bail
Prayers were offered at the meeting of the
Baptist preachers yesterday for Dr. Scott, of New
Jersey, who has recently become blind at the
Ophthalmc Hospital in this city. During the last
wppk "a 40.
Rev. Halsey Knapp and the Rev. Samuel Allen sent
III their designations. communication from the
Providence preachers was read relative to collect
ing sketches of the Baptist churches and preachers
throughout the country. Seven ministers were ap-
pointed committee for this purpose.
A dense fog settled on the rivers early yesterday
morning, and ferry travel was interrupted TO some
extent until about o'clock. The greatest incOn-
venicnce was felt at the long ferries, aud the
their trips to Grand-st, The other ferries ran a
lesser number of boats, and made trips ut long in
tervals. The engineers of the elevated roads OBJ
served great precautions, sounding their whistles
at short intervals and running on slower speed.
Jacob Berry. the former proprietor of the Column
bia Opera House AT Twelfth-st and Greenwichave.,
was sentenced at the April term of the Court of
General Sessions last year to Imprisonment for eight
| months and to pay fine of $3.50. The case
appealed to the Supreme Court, where the sentence
confirmed, and afIerward 1t was carried to the
Court of Appeals with similar result. Berry was
taken into custody yesterday and his sentence will
20 into execution to-day.
young Methodist clergyman. named Henry A.
Clifford, age twenty-six, who since the first of the
year has been living with his brOthe--ln-aw, Sam
uel L. Pollard, at No. 257 West Houston-st., has
not been or heard of by his friends since last
| Thursday morning when he left the house to de-
liver book for which lie had obtained a subscrip-
| ton. HIS health had not been good. but was inn
proving and he was in cheerful spirits. His friends
are unable to account for his disappearance.
Captain Gunner says that the city's streets will
be thoroughly clean by SUNDAY if the weather il
such that the ash scows can be sent out to sea. The
complaint is made that too many of these
scows old and unseaworthy, and that the men
who go out in them are rlsking their lives every
day. Last Saturday fleet of eight loaded scoYs,
L LI... III IL.