New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-24
NETWORK CITY.


The second platoon of police Of the Twentv-third
Precinct enjoyed picnic yesterday at Buena Ridge
Grove on the Harlem River.
Scaffodng and wooden forms for tho arches have
been nut up between Clff-st and Franklin-sguare
for the work upon the approaches to tie East River
Bridge upon this side.
Workmen ENGAGED in extending the platform
Mt the Elevated Railroad Station in FOrty-second-
st. toward the Grand Central Depot. preparatory TO
the running of trains upon the branch I'm that street
The Rev. DR.. s. d. Burchard has accepted the
presidency Of Rutgers Frmale College in the place
of the Rev. DR.. Thomas ID. Anderson, who rctrcs
TO continue the work of the university In some
new field.
Considerable excitement was caused yesterday
afternoon by the explosi on of steam cylinder m
wors'ed factory at Oue-huHdrcd-and- wcnly-nnth-
ST. and the Boulevard. No one was injured and the
damage was slight.
At meeting Of the Rubber Manufcturers' Ex-
change Yesterday. new prce lls' was unanimously
adopted with new basis of discount, covering nm
advance in accordance with the prices of crnde
rubber and cotton duck. The now list and discounts
will take effect August I.
The dccIsion Of the Produce Exchange 10 adopt
the GENITAL system all dealings after October
next. thar there be greater simplicity ana uni
formitv in commercial transactions, Is meeting WIN
general approval among other commercial boards Ot
this country and in Europe.
Corporation Counsel Whitney has furnished IN
opinion to the Common Council that the SINKING
Fund Commissioners have the necessary power 10
allow the for hOspa purposes OF the city prop
crty lying between Sixteenth and S6yenteenth-sts,
Avenue-C and the East River.
Sir Arthur H. Gordon the Governor Of the Fiji
Islands arrived ut the Windsor Hotel on Tuesday
evening, and started for san Francisco early yeser-
day morning. II his party are gei9r A W,ili ram
don. Gerald Browne, Captain l.. i. Knollys and III.
Romilly.
Young woman about thirty years Of age and
neatly dressed, Yesterday afternoon jnmped INTO
the North River at the foot of Fortv-tifth-st.,
, but was rescued. She gave her name a Charlotte
Ireland, wife Of Walter Ireland, bookkssePeT.
husband was unkind.
The duties paid upon goods withdrawn from bond
on the first DAYS Of the present week amounted
TO nearly 81 900 900. This sum is unusually large
for the season Of year. aud Is said TO exceed the
duties collected on two consecutive DAYS Of July in
any year ancc the panic of 1873 Ii is regarded as
an Indication Of the revival Of business.
The New-Zealand mail for Great Britain. consist
ing of 1913 sacks, arrived in thus city by the Penn
sylvania Railroad yesterday at a. m and was i'm
mediately transferred to the steamship Abyssinia,
which sailed at 1870 q. M. The British mail for
New-Zcaland arrived by the Bothnia on Tuesday.
and was forwarded to San Francisco yesterday
morning
New-York correspondent of Boston paper
Gently went into details concerning new concert
garden for Ncw-York, which should eclipse every.
thing that NewYork has ever had; The name of
Edward A. Gibson, proprietor of tie Westminster
Hotel was mentioned as the probable manager or
the garden. This has greatly annoyed Mr.. Gibson
who says he never authorized such statements, and
has had recently no knowledge of or conversation
on the subject.
Charles Poser, age ffty-fve, shirt cutter en-
ployed by s. g. NJ. Davidson, of No; 800 Broadway,
trains at the Franklin Street Station at 8:15 last
evening TO the street. distance of about thirty
feet and striking on his head instantly killed
The statiOn-maser ut Franklin-St. said that Poser
with a fellOwworlman, opened the gate of the
front platform of the forward car, and finding the
door locked attempted 10 get OF while the train was
I'm motion and when 1t had passed the station plat
form.
BROOKLYN.
The skeleton of an infant was found by the police
on Tuesday hanging from a sign post on CIrce-rOad
near Fatbush-ave. it had evidently been used by
a medical student.
The milk license of James J. Peppard, of No. 271
COlumbI-st., the grocer who recently sold watered
milk which caused sickness in n number of families,
was revoked by the Board of Health yesterday.
Mary and Annie Nelson, ages respectively twelve
and nine years. of No. State,st. while playing on
a canal boat at Columbia stores yesterday, fell INTO
the river. The older one was rescued, but the
younger was drowned.
Navor Howelps sickness continues and he Is una
bic TO visit bis Office. 4 majority OF Aldermen have
assured him that no advantage will be taken of his
absence in regard to filling the vacant commission
ershps and he viii soon leave the city orecuperate
his health
1t is feared that Nicholas Meyners, who is con-
fined in the Raymond Street Jail. on the charge of
shooting Patrick AIcDermott, and causing his death
on July II, viii attempt 10 commit suicide, and a
strict watch IL kept upon him. tie Is now III cell
with two other prisoners.
The tower on the CITY Hall is surmounted with %
figure OF justice holding in her hand the trad tiOna
scales. These recently taken away to DO re-
Cidcd. and were probably insecurity fastened, as
they were found Yesterday morning on the roof of
the building by Keeper Tomey.
The second game of the series for the Metropol-
itln champions Up between the New-NOrk and
Mont gOmcTy Base Ball Clubs played the
Union Grounds Yesterday. The game was closely
contested throughout and resulted In the defeat OF
the NeN-loTk Club by a score OF D to !.
The following reduct ions have been made IN the
salaries of the employees in the Department of Ar
rears Charles II. BuruS Deputy REGISTRAR S.
500 to 81 400 Richard VI. Stoves, Cashier 81 800
to $1,000; y. {. Toal bookkeepori 400 to 81
$ioo5. MOTIFS redemption ''''A' Fi''o0 10
William J. Goetz who committed suicide at No.
s. Eight hist, Eastern District, Tuesday after
goods dealer in ChamOersst., New-iork, but was
discharged on Monday. On Tuesday, Goetz met
friend on Broadway, and invited him to come 20 his
funeral saying that he would be dead before IL
o'clock that nicht. The inquest was held by COro-
oneT Nolan, aud a verdict of suicide was rendered
JERSEY CITY.
John Osborne a brakeman or the Wcehawken
branch OF the New-loIk. Lake Erie and Western
Railroad accidentally fell under train yesterday
and was badly crushed by the wheels.
A valuable gold watch which was stolen from II.
G. FAINT, of Washington, n. c., in Jersey City, six
years ago, has been recovered by the police au-
thOrlties, and was sent to Its owner yesterday.
The 81 900 bonds of George A. Garfield the New
York sawdu7t swindler, who was arrested in
jersey Cry recently, were yesterday declared for
fcitod. Ills boudsulan paid the money to Judge
DAVIS.
Gustav Klotz, German tramp, who bad caused
considerable annoyance 10 the residents of Jersey
City Heights, was aTres, ed late Tuesday night by
Officer VOnlcfschmidt. klotz attacked the officer
with bale stick, bat was knocked down and dis
armed. lie was sent to the County Ja;.
While two tramps were walking on the track of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, last evening near
Manor, one OF them was struck by locomotive