New-York tribune., 1879-03-28
NETWORK CITY.

| NEW-YoRK CITY.
The Swiss Fair has captured MADAM N marie hozt'
who is 10 sing there on the evening OF friday next
| Dr n r. St John Roosa will delIyer the closing
free medical talk at Association Hail. TINS evening
| at o'clock. His subject is "Ihe Ear anu tho
Care of It," c.;..or
Owing 70 the increase of travel on the Stonlngton
line the management has been compelled to put the
steamer Rhode Island on the route III place VI 'ho
| steamer Stonington . r.,
Jurv before the final adjournment to-day, VIII
make a presentment with reference to Tie eieVateu
railroads of this city.
A Flemish immigrant, A. Depons, age sixty-nne.
who came to this country recently WIN a. WY oan
| vouno nenhew has disappeared. Depons had ooooo
| francs of his own, and $4,000 of his nephowS.
The Midgets. Miss Lucia Zarate and General Mite
continue 10 draw large audiences at Masonic lem,
ple and to accommodate the many visitors specnl.
morning reception will be given on Saturday from
| 10 20 II o'clock.
| A short DELAY occurred yesterday morning on the
downtown track of the Metropolitan EieValeu
Pailroad at the Franklin Street Station III Is sup
| posed 10 have been caused by some ol the enRino
! machinery being out OF order.
day assigned sixtylive mortgages held py u 10 tuo
NewYork Life Insurance Conpany, III oorded IN
| tion of S373,G75. The instrument was recorueu III
| the Registers office yesterday
DIR. Dudlev A. Sargent, director of the School OF
PHYSICAL Culture in Twenty-fourth-s VIII delEer %
lecture Ihe Philosophy OF Exerclse IN fidt dtt
| Monday evening, at o'clock.
Mrs. Anna Niillet a Mormon widow, blind and
ffty years old. and opposed TO poygamy; with her
danphter seventeen years old. arrived here three
DAYS ago from Salt Lake City in destitute condl-
ton seeking means to reach her native nome III 20
penhagen. -,
Thomas Peterson of the Fourth Company; 7th
Regiment died Yesterday morning at No. lO3 East
Ninetleth-st Peterson joined the regiment IN June,
| 1915 and was next to the oldest man IN IL. lie
| has been treasurer of the Fourth Company lor
| twenty years.
At the meeting of the Funding Association of the
| United States yesterday the passage by the NlT-
ginia Legislature of the Funding bill was reported,
and it decided to take active steps at once 70
secure the cooperation of all tho holders OF the
present Virginia bonds, in exchanging them Tor the
issue proposed by the new law.
The bark lockwood, which sailed from this port
for London December IS, is supposed TO be lost,
AS she has not been heard from since. She had
cargo of 43,427 bushels OF corn fqlly insured Inc
vessel was owned in St. john y. b., and Liverpool;
and carried little insurance. Captain Buckhard
and Mate Robinson lived in st. John. n. Is.
The Grain Committee of tho Produce Exchange
has called meeting for the trade on Saturday, 10
decide about adopting an amendment TO the rules
which declares that all grain shall be sold at net
price, without deductions for elevation aud weigh
ing, tho charges for which must be paid by the
buyer. Buyers are also to pay any additional ex-
penses for harbor towing IN excess OF the customary
towing as agreed upon by the joint committee OF
grain merchants, transportation agents and tug
boat men.
Captain H. F. Schwensen, who commanded the
steamship Pommerana, of the Hamburg American
Line, when that vessel was lost in the English
Channel, November 26 1878. is expected to arrive
here about Wednesday nest. in command Of the
steamship Sesa, of the sane line. public recep-
tion will be gwen TO him in recognition of his ac-
ton when his vessel was lost The Board of Alder
men has granted the Use of the Governors room, at
the City Hail. to the reception committee
The steamship Labrador, of the French Line.
winch arrived from Havre yesterday LANDED 43S
immigrants at Castle Garden, WHICH is the largest
number arriving on any one vessel since July 10
626 The largest number arriving at Castle Gar
den on any steamer up to the same date last
year was 265 The immigrants mig an Ion on the Labrador
California to be employed IN vineyards.
William Newman, the keeper of the elephants in
Central Park was in tho lorkville Police Court
animals under his care. The charge was preferred
formally by the Society, for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals but the real complainant is
Ja cob Sem, of 29S Bowery, who declares that one
| day he saw Newman thrust red-hot iron at the
head of an unruly elephant, burning 1t he also
laid the hot iron around the animals legs and, con-
| tInued Mr.. Sem. punched him in the side with
| pitchfOrk. Newman says this is the only way
| angry elephants can be subdued. He was held for
| trial. o-,,
The steamt1g Brilliant ran into the Blissve
bridge over Newtown Creek yesterday, and injured
one Of the abutments and the draw SO as to render
| il unsafe.
| A baby, with card bearing the name of Henry
| L. Brown its clothing, was lett on the stoop of
| the Sheltering Arms Nursery, No. 157 Dean-st.,
| Wednesday evening. Shortly after it was found
| two men called and cautioned the matron against
receiving it. An investigation is being made by
| the police.
An illicit still was seized in Irvng-st., between
| Columbia and Van Brunt-sts., yesterday morning.
| 1t was in the basement of flour mill, and was in
| full operation. The machinery and stocks, valued
at 81 900, were put in the hands of the United
States Marshal, and 1000 gallons of mash were
| destroyed.
Areal estate muddle: The owner Of "a strip of
| land so feet wide III Hancock-st. erected hye
houses on it, but owing TO a surveyors mistake, an
error of 25 feet was made, and the houses partly
| on land owned by Others. Mortgages have been
] what rights they have on the premises.