New-York tribune., 1879-06-02
NEW-YORK CITY.

tween Now-York aud Chicago.
Arrests last week, 1,412; births, 3S7 marriages.
12O deaths no excise licenses, 2O2 : excise re-
ce.pts. Pl2, 100.
The improvement of TomDkns-square has ad-
vaEced so Ear that several GASES of green grass
appear in the otherwise arid waste.
Pit away the spangled jacket the pedestrian nsed
10 wear. bo will need his tights no longer he has
climbed the golden stair. Gone 10 meet blue glass
The Commissioners for the Indian Department
have awarded - cOntrac5 for twcHty-SlX tons
of baking powder 10 the Royal Baking Powder Com
pauy. of Ncw-IOrk.
At the Swedenborgian General Convention on Sat
urday ihc second coming of Christ was considered.
The Reformed Presbyterian SynCd difcuSSed the
value of Sunday 80 families.
The West Side Association passed resolutions OF
Saturday denOuncIng the Aldermen for their action
IN insisting upon public improvements being dOno
by days wOIk and not by contract.
The Albany day boats, c. yibbard and Daniel
Drew viii begin Their re "a ar trips for the season
to-day, making the principal landings and connec-
tions to all points North and West.
Robert Bonner on Saturday drove his famous
gcdng, Edwin Forrest, mile to wagon in the ex-
rraordnary time oi 2:lIt, The horse was bandi-
capped with his owner, too, who weighs lS2.
The body OF James McWilliams. of No. 800 East
Onr-hundred d-and-eieyenth-'t., who left his home
" 20 go on Jolly drunk" the night before Christ
mas. was found in the Harlem River Saturday.
General Lloyd Aspinwall, treasurer Of the com
mI.tce engaged ia obtlinlug money for soldiers
and saiior" monument IN TINS city. received $3.50
ernOr l.. y. Morgan.
what j, the difference said the inquiring boy
IN college, between an lsraciIto and an DrOilteY p
The other freshman looked thoughtful moment
and then expressed the opinion that il was merely
"a difference Of tense.
George Van lIofe Il German. who arrived in this
country Nav 7, blew ont his brains on Fulton
fcrry boat saturday night lis few friends in this
city think hc committed suicide because Lie could
get no work ana had no money.
Your neXt-d0or neighbor meets You now, and
gasps for breath; and mops his brow, and shuts
MY eyes! how awfuly hot it lsW
In The rifle matches at CreedmOGr on Saturday,
j. ;. Case won the Remington Rifle match and j.
{. Mailery the Handicap match. At the BrHtQn
Range L. II. GTeVe won the Sharps- -l}Orchard milf
ta1y rife and J. ". Goold the Association match.
The body of an unknown man, apparently about
forty years oi age, neatly dressed IN SUIT o. black
was iOund floating III the East River near the Asto-
ria Ferry yesterday afternoon. The body had been
so long the water that the features could not be
recognized.
Few men have ever read so many pleasant obitu-
aries of thcnseyes as Peter Cooper Is permitted to
paruse at each close of tr acadeGica year at Coop
eIs Union He furnishes an example OF prudent
and effective beneyoence which should Oe widely
initiated
The number Of immigrants landed at this port
since January Is 1882, against 2S,1fJ for the
rived against IL ,450 in May. 1875 During last
week 5, $50 arrived, of whom 7SJ came IN the Adr-
attic on Saturday.
The work Of taking down the outer walls of the
two houses the west side OF Fifih-aYe. at
Fify-seyenth-st., where Cornelius Vanderbilt Iu-
tends building house for himself has been begun.
As soon these are removed the work of eXcayat-
ing FOR the new house viii 90 forward.
The body Of an unknown man vas found IN the
East River ye tcrday at the foot of Thirty yeighth
ST. 1t that Ola man about iorty years OLD, five
feet niue inches high, gTay-halred, and dressed III
brown OYercOai, diagonal coat ana WalStc0tt, and
black trousers. Ii was taken to the Morgae.
Conrad Santer, age thrty-eight, is reported as
missing He had separated from his wife and had
been jiving at Fnnks Hotel, at Seyenth-aye and and
ThTty-slXth-st. lie was last seon at noon on May
% He behaved strangely ar tunes. and it Is
feared that ne has committed suicide while insane.
General r. W. Conway and the Rev. John Turner,
MANAGERS of the negro exodus at st. Louis, who
have been in this city for few days have received
assurarce of assistance for the colored emgrants
now on the Mississippi River, and will at once
charter a steamer to take rs many as possible to
81. Louis.
Detectives OConnor and Field, of the District
Attorneys Office, on Saturday arrested James
Stewart, proprietor of the gambliug-house No. l
Ann-st. Two indictments have been found against
Stewart on complaint OF Walter r. Barnard, son
of ex-.Jud0c Barnard, of Brooklyn. The prisoner
was admitted TO bail IN $1,000.
The Harlem Bank has been legally dissolved On
August 80. 1877. II was resolved by the directors
TO discontinue business although the bank was sol
vent Its dep0sit0rS and debtors have since all
been paid OFF, with the exception Of the depostors
of SS94 who do not call for their money. Judge
DOnOhuc iSSaed decree on saturday dlssolylng the
corporation and appointing William /. Ryers0n its
receiver.
The motion made before Judges Batchford, Choate
and Benedict as u court of review for trial III
the case OF De Bogne N. Bennett, who was recently
convicted in the criminal branch Of the United
States Crcut Court, before Judge Benedict, of
sending obscene matter through the mails, was de-
MED Saturday, the decision OF the court being
unanimous.
A meeting was held yesterday in Clarendon Hall,
Ia, tta Af,agr rtaaa
Temperance Lyceum. The follow ing pledge was
adopted: 1--WE the undersigned hereby pledge
ourselves to each other not to patronize nor encour-
age IN any manner. any vocation that Is GetrImen-
raj To the welfare of the public" committee was
appointed to select officers and TO draw up plan of
ORGANIZATION. j. B. Gibbs, Dr.. Lambert, {: G;
Leigh the Rev. w. B. Afieck and Daniel Walford
made addresses.
Police Captain Williams, while walking in civil
ian garb along Thlrtietb-st., near Sixth-aye, on
Saturday. noticed that two burly men were appar-
emily dogging his footsteps de ordered them to
move on aud one of them, John hogan, OF No.
Ill West Twenty y-ninth-st:, seized Captain VIII
Jams about the body William Kelly OF NO. QUO
West Thirty y-thlrd-st., the other man, then struck
the captain with q stick. Tho captain was rescued
by Detective Price, and his assailants were clnb0ed
and arrested. Justice Morgan sent them to Black
wells Island for monlh.
A Awell-kuown resident of Newark came to tins
city ON Saturday to dispose of $4,000 Of funding
certificates These were in q package which he
carried IN his hand. In the sm0king-car he found
friend, President hopper, Oh tue SHScI SemiuE 'd
chine Company, who offered l,lm cigar. While he
was lighting the cigar ho laid his precious package
on the seat of the When he reached the ferry
boat he missed the certificates. lie hurried pack 20
fine tram. but the package had disappeared. He
gave notice of his loss at the Office OF his brokers,
Dyett IL Co.
The congregation Of the Free Tabernacle NJ =.
Church, in Thirty-fourth-st., the Rev William n.
Seares pastor celebrated its twenty-ifth anniyer-
sary Yesterday. The pulpit was decorated with cut
flowers In various designs. and the auditorium was
hung with the banners of the Sunday-school Ser
mons were preached morning and evening, by the
Rev. j. L. Hulbut, assistant secretary of the sun
day-school Union. The afternoon was devoted to
Sunday-school exercises, addresses Deing mace py
tbe Rev. George Strobrdge, Prof. B. ID. L. Suther-
land and the Rev. Mr.. Hulbut.
H.. onn rnannhsrs of the Sih Reriment under