New-York tribune., 1879-05-09
NETWORK CITY.

General +. NJ. Lee, of this city, VIII denver tho
address at West Point on Decoration Day.
Isaac Cooper, colored, arraigned yesterday Tor
receiving 500 of stolen money from some one
Red" Leary was formerly an actor. lie under
stood how to make his exit gracefully IL IL e'I
The Municipal Society has formally protested
against all the proposed cnciOachUeH'S oi '"o wy
parks.
Fireman James Masterson. of Engine Company
No. 81 has been dismissed for neglect OF duty ana
disObedience of orders.
Hattie NJ. Hooker age twenty-ninc died yester-
day from an overdose Of chloral taken accidentally
She was from Lexington, ny.
Is n policeman man hired to see 10 it that
gamblers and other criminals are not mOiested as
long as they don't make noise
The Calvary Baptist Church in Twenty-third-st.,
of which the Rev. X. = Macarthur Is PASTOR mas
Just celebrated its thirty second anniversary.
Colonel vose. of the 71st Reriment, has been re-.
oucsted to yacate the buding now used as an AZ
mory. the owner refusing $4,000 rent for 1t.
John Hildebrandt, age seventv-one, florist, who
took arsenic at his lodgings, No. 10 East twenty
ninth-st Sunday, died yesterday from ltseHecls.
The bay was specSled with Yachts and snil-6oat9
YESTERDAY but the pleasure-seekers generally tired
to scud in before sundOwn. Nights are not yet
warm.
There was aschoolmaster named Kiddle; tospooks
he prOpounded a riddle; 70 Shakespeare ne SAT-
- Sing song of the dead" and Shakespeare sang
" III i-diddle-diddle
During the first three months of this year there
were 412 fires III this city, involving loss Oh
Il
covered by insurance.
Parole coniures better than he did. He won yes
terday. This leads to a renewal OF the DOUBT ABOUT
tie nationality OF ms ancestors lie cah o'iuch'l5
win every time lie tries.
perbaps tbe great "JudgcD Oterbourg will now
climb down from his high horse. Bu some one else
NAV be asked 10 change bill some time, ana that
will ave him another chance.
Alden b. Stockwel and George ". Bartholomew
were elected members OF the Stock Exchange yes
terdGy. Mr.. StOckwcll was formerly president OF
the acfc Mail Steamship Company
Resolutions have been adopted by the Municipal
Socetv expressive of the great rendered to
the CITY by the'late A. W. Craven, who was Chief
Engineer of the Croton Aqueduct for twenty
years.
Detective Dorsey yesterday returned from Albany
with q requisltOn for JOhn Dobbs, the Manhattan
bank burglar. The officer has gone to Harrisburg,
and will probably bring the prisoner from Phla-
delphla to-day.
At meeting of canoests held yesterday under
the auspices of the Ncw-YOrk Canoe Club, pre-
liminary arrangements were made for regatta at
Staten Island on June Z. II Is expected that there
will be about fifteen entries.
What is so fair as a morn in May now II ever
come perfect morns. The goat eats the washing in
lieu of hay, and butts the babe with bis festive
horns. he organ grlnds to tune internal, ana
every influence secmcth VernaL
The demand at the Post Office for the SO
funding certificates Yesterday vas greater than
Oh the previous days of the sale. The supply how
ever was limited, and by o'clock all the certificates
on maud, 100000, had been sold.
Michael Byrne, the rectifier, of West Twenty
sixthst., whose establishment was seized last Mon
day for violation of the revenue law and against
whom a warrant of arrest had been issued. yester-
day surrendered himself He was held i'll $4,000
bail.
Adam Hart. age forty-fve, halter in the employ
of Henry Mollenhaur, at observation-disclosures d-forty-
fourth-st. and 1hrd-ave, attempted suicide yester-
day by cutting his throat. lie Is now at the
Nnety-nlnth Street Hospital NO cause is assigned
for the act
Seven Grecian cities mourned for Homer dead
through which the living Homer begged his bread,
but NewYork City doesn't care to own herself the
bruiser Elliots native town, for yesterday, in the
Dominions cline, smaller fellow knocked him
out of time.
The Superintendent of the Castle Garden Labor
Bureau reports that during the last month 1,27l
applicants were provided with employment-SO3
men aud Al women. OF the men, III were en-
ployed as farm labOrerS. The women were mainly
engaged as house scryant5in the city.
On Decoration Day. Engine Companies Nos. /, 9,
l. 80 10 1S % and 30. and Hook and Ladder
Companies Nos and u VIII axe pari IN ne pre-
cession, in two battalions, commanded by Chiefs
Rhodes and Wilhelm respectively, and the brigade
by Assistant Chief of Department Shay.
The Rev. DR.. William Hayes Ward, the Rev:
James ID. Wilson and :. J. StoTTs, committee of
The Ncw-YOrk alumni OF Amherst Col 'cgc, have L.
sued a circular 70 the alumni in reference 10 the
two vacancies III the Board OF Trustees OF the col
lcea Il Is suggested that the alumni yote for John
II. Washbum, 10. OF this city, and George How
land, 80, of Chicago.
The special committee of the Producc Exchange,
can petroleum. Yesterday decided to submit new
rule TO the Exchange, providing that the electric
ny points be taken at o. 100, 104-, lOS9, llO1,
115-, 1fS1. 120-, 122- and l2j~ and from that
point every s. until the burning point Is reached.
Martin Disch, age ffty-fouT. prosperous tailor,
owning the house where he lived at No. 130 Will
Ictt.st., Yesterday afternoon committed suicide on
account Of a dIsea-e which had forced him TO
abandon hi' business, n1 shoa or, himself VA tna
the :op OF his head. lie leaves a wife and two
daughters 4 CoronT'sjury rendered a verdict that
he did the deed while suffering irOn temporary
alteration Of mind
The mystery surrounding the fac of Charles
Pencil Measor, the old British pcusioncr who, n
was said was murdered IN tins city several years
ago, was partly cleared ~ by eAaih!naiIon oi the
records IN the CrtUu'r's Office ana "5 Bellevue
hospital. On the cyopln" Of July !, 1876,
Ic was ;ouud seuScrss IN tire street by the go irt
AID was brought 10 Bellevue HOSPITAL. There be
cied the next day and was buried IN EyeretccHs
Cemetery. BrghtS disease ~ recorded as the cause
OF his death.
Unusual ouiet roigGct ~ the Police Contra, iicc
yesterday. No meeting Of t"u Bard "as Lci'.
Stephen b. French ca.d - IN sc ci A'r EinalH.
Thomas ORourllr. "a, contractor. who SON" tim"
ago subT tied a plan To- the disposition at tu"
city's refuse, yesterday as%cG Ior sIaco OF zen
days, order tiat he might perfect ms arrange
ments before eX-JuGge ii!s0n's offer Was accepted.
The Eie Caral was oGiciI.ly Opcrcd 20 HtyIeatl %
for the season Yesterday. Last ycTr the canals were
opened on April 10. President LnsOn, of tic Pro
Henry /. FISH SUPERINTENDENT OF the Western calai
division. stating Ist " the greatest aht grand. .i
commercial channel IN thc world y Is how II, L-'-
ter condition than oYtr b. tore and thar me "Jst-
ern division is ready tor the Irrc passag" OF oadrd
[ boats.
The treasurer of tho Nev-YJrS Association to ali
Southern Refugees, reports having received since
lfpr 1, $3J4 ~, OF which $40 has been forwarded
tOWyandotte Kansas, and $50 to II. Louis Giiis Of
clothing have also been sent. The officers are the
Rev Wm. L. DIcliersOn, president, at No. 2lS Salli-
van-st. VIM. Z. Gross, secretary, at No. - last
IcHtl-st.; John M.IhOHas, treasurer al NO.l7 Cor
ncha-st. The Executive Committee has resolved
20 issue appeal To ministers, asking that Il coilrc-
tor be taken in their churches to aid the sufferers
Tho lnnr trade Of tho ProInce ENchanga met yns-