New-York tribune., 1879-10-30
NEW-YORK CITY.

many dem ed Yesterday the rumor of reduction III
! WAGES and threats of strike.
The new pasementeie buttons, that come TO match
oil desi,ns and colors these trimmings, are pref
| tily embroidered with jet or chameleon beads
Short evening dresses Will be much IN favor this
! Winter az well as those with the demi-iraln; ne
long sweeping tram Will no longer lie the rule but
the exception 80
An Unknown man, about ff,y years Of ace, fell
from Thirtv-iOurth street ferry-boaI ana was
drowned. Yesterday morning. his Douy WAS Ic-
covered and taken 10 the Morguc
In order to induce persons 10 return 70 Memphis,
who fled from that city during the yellow fever
epidemic. PASSENGER rates have ecn greatly reduced
on railroads starting from New-lork
Dr. Lewis 4. Sayre and wife, and their ellcst son,
DR.. G. H. II. Save, returned Tuesday from Lnr'Pe
IN The steamship AIIzrna. Dr. Savre went IN H. ly
10 Cork where he delivered paper before the
British Medical Association.
The Princesse dress viii be the favoutc style If
ar'~s for evening, notwithstanding the fact
that dres~makers are trying 20 revive the basque.
e secret Is that the prure,,c dress Is much more
iDcDiuIng and more difficult To at.
On the arrival of the Arizona on Tuesday II WAS
board John Smiths family vas il win scarlet
fever. Ihls cau-ci much CONSERVATION among the
/ other Immigrants and their uumcrou, children.
Al tle meeting oi the Emi.ra ion Commissioners
yesterday. TIE report oi Sup,r.rtc cnd'nt jackson
/ showed that the number of immigrants arrived at
Castle Garden rom January to ia ic va, lSJ,iOJ.
an increase over tie same period oi LAST year oI
l5.15l.
officer Patricl. Fallon. Of Tie Sixteenth Precinct,
Was CHARGED hv Als captain, before tie Police Board
/ lcsferIqv with dls0rdcriv conduct in tine street,
and bN john NLci8n. b1rkecp'r "a. No. 30 Ninth
/ ave. with entcrug his barr0om aud t1rc3tcuiug To
shoot han the same dav Decision was re erved.
A court cf inquiry was convened 10 the brooklyn
! Navy Yard yesterday, with Commodore \. {. khind
as president inquire IutO the responsibility Tor
/ the collision f thc United states tIaIning-shIp
| Minnesota with tine schooner Abhc liima., during
"a dense iog on thr night oi October H. of Absecom
Light. The schooner was sunk ana atierward raised.
\ man who described himself rs Francis How
! land. age forty OF No. - IIt,h-ave.. Oh tuesday
/ kissed "A Mrs. Mccormick. who WAS sta ding at
Sxtl-ave. and Twenty -slXth-st., waiting Tor her
/ husband. who had stepped into store near by.
/ iowiaud was arrested and at the Jefferson Market
! Police Court Yesterday was hned $40 and held III
/ 500 bonds to Keep the peace
! The Committee uf the state Board of Charities
! investigating the affairs of the House OF Refuge,
cou;inted tle eN animation of George w. Hunter of
Northport yes erday. HIS testimony was chiefly IN
relation To ire second division employees Of The III
! sntation. Robert Ii. Linus, OF Meschester.
! formerly machini-t at the House of Refuge, and
brother of the witness examined tuesday. testified
III regard the management Of the part of the in
! stltutsOn with wLicH he was connected.
Officer Buckl"v of The Twentieth Precinct placed
hetoie justice B Nby. at th jefferson Market Polc,
| Conrt Yesterday Robert DO. ms, of No. 2i7 West
! Foty-third->i paic-iaccd chlld of seven years.
whom re had ionnd -tupd Win liquor the night
previous IN seventh Tue boy told he Magistrate
/ that he went to Robinson meeting where they had
/ free beer ane he drank iOur OF five glas>es NIch-
Oas Mil or. Keeper ol "a saloon IN S'Nenih-aNc. from
whom ne SAID that he goi the peerwa subsequently,
arrcsl ed and ucld oT trial III 500 bail. Miller SAID
that hc did not sell The hoy any beer
The Hon. William +. Lctchworth, of Buffalo,
! president of the State Board of Charities. stated
Yesterday a TRIBUNE reporer that word had just
been received hv tnc Board To tlIc effect that the
Binghamton Iuebriate Asylum. which has recently
been made a Safe asylum Ior the chronic insane,
will ready for the reception of inmates by the
first OF next year. A. the placing of patients in
this institution l. unier the care of the State Board
| of ChaTIiIes, Mr. Leichworib >aid that meeting ot
| the Board would he held November IL 10 designate
from wnat counties they snail he taken. When tine
remod. ling Is completed the ylum will accOmmO-
date $50 patients. 1t Is proposed 70 finish the build
ing So that additional roinmodatIons can easily
| be made for from 500 10 1000 patients.
Ii appears that IN the theft of 800 worth of
ribbons from Eastman Is gel0w Il Dayton, in port
ers at No. 27J Cana-si.. three persons impli-
| Gated The iIIsi arrest was that of BenJamln Wit
ko>N cutter ia tue tailor store of his brother, IN
Einlth-aye The goods were stolen by Michael
| Crimes, assistant porter III Eastman u Co.'s
| store. Grimes had associated himself with young
| man named John Gurncy. of No 265 West Thirty
seventh-St., and Quincy had gwen The stolen goods
to WItko,ki To SELL tne three sharing the proceeds
Grimes and Quincy were next arrested, and also ar
rMgncd before Justice b xby, AT the Jefferson Mar
| kct Police Court, Yesterday morning. The three
men were committed Tor tTal III default oi $500
bail cacn.
A Nat onal Convention of wool and fur hat-mak-
ers and hnshcrs of The United States met yesterday
morning IN Military Hail. No 1913 Bowery, to con-
the prison cont act labor system ana It's effects
npon free labor. There are now. II was stated, $50
| convlcts in Clinton Prison, engaged H. max
ing hats and the prison IL to he enlarged 10 accom-
m0datc 800 moro. contractor named Carroll had
| stated that if he got bis quota of cOnvicts this
wear he wond clear $40, 900 Tie hat-makers Of
New-Jersey had, by oiganlzed effort, stopped hat
making III the prison at Trenton. hut two more con-
wet shops had Dccn opened III COlcOrd, y. H.,
aud the other in the Rhode Island Penitcniiary,
with 200 and 75 men respectively engaged in
making mats. Resolutions were adopted, express
ing unalterabic opposition 10 the system, aud urg-
ing upon the Legislatures OF the different States
| its abolition.
BROOKLYN.
The frames of two buildings in process Of erection
on Nyrtle-avc. near Magnclia-st. were blown down
early yesterday morning. John linchen was the
| owner bis loss Is $500.
Matilda Burger, age thirteen, Of No. % Tompkins-
| ave. yesterday caused her mothers arrest for box
iug her ca s. Shc claimed tnat her mother had no
contro over her, she able To earn her own liv
ing. Justice Semier dismissed the cnmp. int against
Mrs. BurgcT and warned the girl that she was sub
ject to her mothers authority.
In view of the approaching election, Superinten-
den Campbell has called the attention OF the po-
ice to the necessity OF enforcing the ordinance
against bonhres. The law authonzes the captains
of police to permits for bonircs provided that
they not WITHIN twenty-five feet OF any build
ng aud do not interfere win public traffic.
Carl Hoffman, German living IN BowsOnyille.
near East New-York. was tried IN the Court of
General Sessions yesterday for stealing three cows
and horse. lie claimed mat he h9l Dought the
ANIMALS from Mr. Loeb, of New-YoTk who
testified. however, tnat he had never seen Hoffman
The jury found the prisoner guilty. but recon-
mended him 10 the mercy OF the Court.
Justice buck, Ia the Nth District Court yester-
day decided the ease ot " lam Hudson. vino was
charged with siabbing William o. Johnston un Oc-
tober g. Hudson thirteen years of age and John
stou twelve. The s,abbing was done with "a knife
which penetrated Johnston's right lung, causng a
dangerous wound The Justice held Hudson IN
81 900 bail 10 await the action Of the Grand Jury.
JERSEY CITY.
| Ellen Bevins. "a dissipated woman. was yesterday
committed to the County jail. aud hanged herself
| TO the door OF her cell. but was cut down.
Pal Har
jersey City Police Department. wrT. arrested yes-
| tcTday Oh charge of false imprisonment made by
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