New-York tribune., 1879-05-31
NETWORK CITY.
The fresh porIee man now raises his cheerful


CRY.
Robert T. Charles, of No. 430 West Seventeenth
ST., capsized and drowned Thursday III the East
River where he was rowing.
The Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, viii preach
in the Church of the Messiah at PaTk-aYe. and
Thirty y-fOuTth-st. tomorrow.
This weather is nice If you please, for roses and
robins and bees and likewise for grain OF all SORTS
but ii bankrupts the pleasure resorts
The horseshoe mania has attacked confcctoners
and a Broadway window one day tins week dis
PLAYED all kinds of candy in this shape.
Bottles representing the busts Of famous men ere
novelties for holding perfumcry, etc. Shakespeare,
Goethe and Schiller are fayorite subjects.
4 mad dog which had created great excitement
Thursday was shot at Bioadway and Groye-st. by
Officer Kellogg, OF the Ninth lreclnct.
William Schmidt, of No. GO1 East Thirteenth-st.,
died Yesterday from the effects of being run over by
an unknown peders wagon on May p.
Now let US have ,great, solid, clean handsome
| Fulton and Washington shambles now reek.
The office of the Colonization Aid Association,
room % Cooper Institute, will be open evenings
| hereafter TO receive applicants who want to join
! colonies
To dlsigure an1 mann scoundrel with vitriOl
is "A horrible revenge for young girl 10 resort to-,
but 1t is possible that yitrol-nania might prove i
cure for the seductiOn-manla.
All the flags on the City Hall were at fu-!nast
Yesterday, instead of at balf-luast III indication OF
mourning. There was a good deal OF treason IN
Newly Orl during the war, bat not enough to justify
| this.
The suggestion to the police force that the mem
hers should appropriate one days pay as an adj
dional fee to he counsel who have taken the salary
case through the courts, has not been fayoraby re-
ceiycd.
The body of James Frisbec, who had been missing
since Mas IS. was found yesterday at Pier No. 43
North River. Frsbee was mate of the scEo o)ner
Union Flag. 1t is supposed that he accidentally fell
overheard
The steamer Continental is now running on the
New-Haven Line from Peck Slip, having been re-
fitted. The c. II. Northam is the other steamer on
this route Connections are made at Ncw-llaycn
with special steamboat trains.
The body found on Thursday at Pier No. Is East
River has been identified rs that of John Wilder
of No. 7Ss Third-aYc., who fell overheard on Nav
%. while stepping on board boat at Pier No IS
He was on his TO secure work at the grain ele
yatOr at the foot of SlXtletl-st.
At meeting on Thursday of the Board Of
Directors OF the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail
road Company, the following officers were elected :
ID. Oakes Clarke. president; George c. Clark, first
vice-presdent; john I. Agnew, second vice-presi-
dent II. B Henson, secretary aud treasurer.
The sth Regiment Of the National Guard will as
semble III full uniform at the Madison Avenue
Church of the Disciples Sunday ut 7i5 p. at the
invitation of the Rev. W. X. Davis, chaplain, to
listen to the annual sermon before the regiment.
General Wylie and stan and General Varian and
staff Will be present.
The case of Maud Weller, of Nos. 10 and ~ Bow
ery a woman of uncertain age, who seven years ago
took to cherish and educate rs doctor Andrcas j.
Krick, age Twenty-Five, on the calendar Of the
/ 1Ombs Ponce Court yesterday, but was postponed
unril to-day. krick denies that he took money
from her fraudulentlY.
The report of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for
1879 shows the receipts to have been S32 G2l, and
the expenditures S22G21. The present financial
condition of the museum IS as follows: Total sub
scriptiOus TO fund paid 1924 G75 06; gifts If works
Of art valued at S74 2f5 80 loans payable $685.
900; total, SiO2, 900 90.
John Ellis, a frequenter of Wcst-st. saloons, was
found unconscious yesterday moraing IN West st.
and was removed to Chambers Street Hospital
where he has since died. Apunctured wound, which
had been bleeding prOluscly, was discovered in his
left leg. Whether death was due TO this wound or
the bursting of varcOse Yeln the autopsy, which
will be held to-day, Is expected TO show. 1t is not
known how the wound was received.
On Thursday evening the Angamar non-explosivc
steam motor car was run over the Third Avenue
street car track from the compauy's stables at
Sixty-seventh-st. TO Printing House Square and
| turn. No high speed was attempted, rs tho horse
| cars were running on regular time. II shown
however that the motor was under very quick con
| troll in starting and stopping director Of the
Third Avenue Company said yesterday that the d-
rectors had taken no steps toward adopting the
| motor on that line but that their charter would
allow of their using such u motor on obtaining the
| proper permit FROM the city authorities,
Decoration Day out of doors Is the best possible
occasion for half-ledgcd orator to make his first
| appearance. Because nobody will hear much that
| he SAYS and all will receive with enthusiasm the
little they do hear whether there is any 10 it
| or not. An orator at one of the stands yesterday
| b,ot,u flv IN sav hn Ina Ia