New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-20
NFW-YORK CITY.

Saratoga special trains will be run in close connec-
ton with the day line boats TO and from Albany ana
| Saratoga on and after Monday, June 70.
The 1876 immigrants brought the steamship
| Nevada were nj Castle Garden yesterday. lhey are
nearly all Swedes and will settle in Kansas.
| Among the passengers on board the steamship
| Claribe of the Atlas Line, which arrived yesterday
| from South America, was Captain Prado, son OF the
| President OF Peru.
Madison Square Garden is TO be lighted next Mon
| DAY night with electric lights from ten lamps. he
cost of making all the necessary raugeinents Tor
this experiment is stated to be $4,000.
The schedule in the assignment of Richard T.
| Edwards to John Creighton filed yesterday.
The liabilities are P76,9o5 90; the nominal assets,
| $24,45S II, and the real assets, 81 = ,s07 81.
! The yellow foyer patient at the Quarantine Hos
p pnr on f S Wafn NJ Howl from t T Wcf ' Tpd
! died yesterday morning. No new cases have been
| received
The Union Climb, at Fifth-aye and Twenty-frst-
| front of the clubhouse. The balcony will furnish
| pleasant place for longing ana smoking on sum
| mer evenings.
The schooner Early Bind. Captain Dahm sailed
| from New-York May s. and il was supposed nc he
| time that Red" Leary on board, She has
reached her destination. and the captain states that
| " Red" LeaTy was not passenger on lis vessel.
William 4. Ross, lumber commission merchant at
| No. $50 Pcar-st, has made an assignment IN
was appointed receiver in this city Of his property,
on the application of John ID. Taylor, judgment
| creditor.
The dsorganized strike Of groups Of DISCONTINUED
pongshoremcn continues About 800 men arc on
strike, intending some Of the new men employed
since the beginning of the first trouble. Some of
these are employed in other branches of labor, so
that the OeT OF men ont oil employment Is eStl
mated at about 800 to 400.
Trains were not run yesterday over the extension
of the West Side Elevated Road from Eighty-irst-
st. 10 ne-hundred-and- fOurtl-st az expected.
Superintendent Van Brocklin said that the noces-
sary arrangements for opening this part of the lne
would not be completed until Saturday afternoon.
when through trains would begin to run to One
hundred-and-fourh-St.
John Kelly. alias Corners, an old offender, was
sentenced yesterday 10 State Prison for six years by
Judge Gidersleeve for burglary committed at No.
81 Lexngton-ave. on the night of June 6. He Sc
cured two silk dresses quantity of other wearing
| apparel and some iewelTv, in all worth 1918. He
was arrested by Detective Lyon, of the Central
Office after he had pawned the dresses. Iio had
only been released from State Prison few weeks.
The investigation of the charges against Sheriff
Reilly was not continued yesterday, as one of the
defendants counsel sick and the Others had
gagements in the various courts Mr. Bush, counsel
for the Bar Association. gave notice TO the Sheriff to
produce at the next hearing on Tuesday, julius f.
De Berg, whose story of cruelty and mismanage-
ment in Ludlow Street Jail was published in yes
terdays TRIBUNE.
A vote was taken yesterday in the Produce Ex-
change upon the proposition to appropriate the sur
plus fund for the purchase of a site for build
ing and for building purposes. This was recon-
mended by the committee on the subject
open for voting yesterday from IL until p. M.
and the result was that 100 votes ont of the LOOP
cast were in favor OF the appropriation, and 20
were opposed.
Formal visits to the French frigate La Galisso-
Mere, lying at anchor off the Battery were paid at
different time; ySjterday, by Vice-AdmiIa Rowan
Nicholson, of the BROOKLYN Navy Yard. Each was
received with salute from the vessels guns and
the dipping OF nags. Inc French COMMANDER ana
board. The scenes attracted the attention OF many
persons at the Battery.
Collector Merritt hss received from the Treasury
Department at Washington n dispatch from the
United States Minister at Sweden relative to the
action of the Swedish Diet in increasing the duties
on articles imported into Sweden and Norway. The
changes III the tar took effect on May 49, The duties
have been decreased on coffee. sugar, Wines spirits
tobacco, vinegar and ether. The excise duties on
Swedish brandy have been raised but in case of ex-
port the duty viii be refunded in full. THIS pro-
vision is to take effect on October l, 1879.
Mary Clark, age seventy, No.3O West Thirteenth
ST.. was before Justice Morgan at the jefferson Mar
ke Police Court yesterday, charged with attempt
to kill with Mary Fields, age thrty-five, ly-
ing IN the same house. Mrs. Clark in her own be-
half said that she went into the room TO get some of
her clothes. and that the complainant while she was
there fell over stove and cut her head and then
cuSed her of the assault. The Justice held Mrs.
Clark for further examination.
Professor John +. Church. of the State University
at Columbus, Ohio, spoke last evening, at the Bull
ion Club on the prospects of deep-mining on the
Comstock Lode. He expressed the opinion that
with success. The most imporiaut and difficult
problem the question of drainage. The other
obstacles the great heat in the rocks, the re-
suit of chemical action and the doubts in regard
the geological formation of the vein.
The United States steamer Powhatan, flagship of
the North Atlantic Squadron, and the steamer Van
dalia, arrived at tins port from Norfolk yesterday,
and anchored OFF 1wenty-thlrd-st., North River.
The Powhatan is commanded by Captain /. s. File
brown. The fleet officers are: Medical Inspector,
John y. Taylor: Pay Inspector, &. L. Wallach
Chief Engineer, ID. :. Macomb and Captain of Ma
rines, Henry j. Bishop The Vandalia IL commanded
by Commander Richard w. Meade Surgeon. J. r.
TTyOn Chief Engineer, Joseph 1rilley Paymaster,
john MacMahon.
James Armstrong, car-drver on the Blocker
Street Line. was arrested yesterday by Officer Kelly
and arraigned ut the Jefferson Market Police Cont
charged with beating bis wife. On the complaint
Of Mrs. Armstrong setting forth his outrageous con-
duet toward her. Justice Morgan sentenced the ac-
cused man TO the Island for thirty days. Armstrong
was taken into the prison and locked IN cell to
await transportation to the Island. and there he
was discovered in the afternoon hanging from the
water faucet by cord tied about his neck. Tie
physician who examined him said that his recovery
was doubtful.
Hannah Cleveland. twenty years old. niece Of
tine Rev. Char les j. Young, II Methodist clergyman
at Long Branch, y. j., growing weary of home re-
strant. left her uncle's house two months ago and
came to this city in search of employment. She
was lost sight of until Wednesday night when OH
Ger Regan found her wandering about III Harlem
Yesterday Judge OtterbOurg committed her to the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS twenty -sl1th Street Prison until
he could communicate with her uncle. She told the
Judge that il he sent her back to Long Branch sue
would run away again.
Knox. the halter has reGstablished himself under
the Fifth Avenue Hoel anu at No. 2l2 Broadway
and there resum the business of which. according
late revelations In court he appears TO have been
illegally deprived at his old stand at Fultou-st and
broadway. Knox many wears ago appropriated the
article ne as q sort Of trademark when he was
known all over the city as Knox, the halter. with
strong emphasis on The Since then he has had in
Vulnerable imitatOTs who varied his style Of adyer-
Using only 10y printing the article Ia big cap. let
| tsrs. Nevertheless, Knox has always remained the
! halter Of the city; just as Ncoll is the tailor
Morris Werner. of No. 10 Ludow-st was before
Justice Morgan at the jefferson Market Police Court