New-York tribune., 1879-05-22
NETWORK CITY.


Tunnel of New-Iork City. go
The corners of blocks are now buttressed WIN
piles OF new bananas and pineapples'
Is IL not high time that somebody was hung lps
committing murder with pistol thatl ho' loauo"'
A few more fountains placed in conspicuous
places and Kept running Woud peheho ma" anu
beast. ~,
The grass and the lawn-mowers have begun their
annual wrestling match in the parks Ill eoou
earnest.
Elliott tbe trniser. is still engaged in repairing
his fencer It would have been wiser 10 put IL w
in time. -
The elevated roads reveal the fact that the wall,
naper frenzy Is still continuing 10 desoia'o 'nii"
ilOOr fronts.
Small mirrors for the toilet or boudolr have porce
lain frames Among the handsomest are those at
Howard s Co.'s.
Ornaments for the hair are silver arrows, d9ggerss
or pins with pendants. New designs are oAni'i''U
at kirkpatrcSs. 5.
New cake baskets at the Mcriden Company's are
very high on slender standards, and are ID eNqui-
site repOusS6 work.
The contract for supplying scales for me indian INA
Bureau has been awarded TO l.. ~ l. Idiiu'ihS "
Co.. of ST. JohnsbGry, Vt.
There are Y steamships, 50 ships, go barks, 81
brgS and 1j6 schoOneTS, or totli Oh ooo easo'"s
vessels lying ut this port at present.
Again is heard the well-knOwn song, The courts
will merely retard us well clutch the money that
used to belong to Anneke JAMS Bogardus'
First sunstroke of the season Annie McDermott.
age forty-fve, of No. 561 Greenwich-st, was over
come by the heat yesterday at No. 10 SlXth-aVe'
RIocx l. tbe color most worn by Partisan as well
as New-York ladies, and 1t is sometimes dhcuiJ 10
determine whether they are In mourning or not
TheWhitc Star steamship Republic, which broke
her cranl-pln on the last voyage from Liverpool
will not be able 70 sail untl tomorrow "hcn io
pairs Will be completed.
A. T. Stewart 81 Co. have given 500 TO be APP
Piled in aid of Decoration Day services. ne urn
will also furnish several trucks 10 ald III colccths
and distributing the flowers.
Miss Kate A. Sanborn will deliver this evening
another of her lectures on English literature IN the
parlor of DR.. Cros6ys church. subject: VANITY
and Insanity the Shadows OF Genius"
The newly appointed Commissioners of Charetes
Jacob Hess, took part in the deliberations OF the
Board for the first time yesterday morning. Iie was
warmly congratulated by his fellow members
The schooner J. II. Chrystie. of Sydney, Z. Is,
which sailed from Ponce j. r., March 10, for this
port, with a cargo of moasses, for Henry Beste
has not been heard FROM and 1t Is feared she Is lost
The work on Tompkins-square is rapidly approach
ing completion. The curbing Is finished the trees
are planted The walks laid ont, and the Rrass-plots
seeded down. 1t yet remains to put up the lamp
posts.
new caprice in evening gloves Is to have them
laced instead Of huttoued. Eyelet holes are not
used and they ale laced by very simple arrange
inent, which adds greatly TO the neatness OF
the fit.
O walker, walk on, you're a rapid pedestrian,
you whiz round the ring like circus equestrian
q ALWAYS walk on as you're walking tonight, and
never stop once till you've walked out OF sight
Now go
Edward II. johnson. president of the American
PhOnograph Company, Will 90 TO England next
week In the interest of EdsOns new telephone,
which speaks so loud that it can be heard over
large room.
William Watts, of No. De Peyster-st., and Henry
Here. of No. 126 Bowery. were charged yesterday
at the 1ombs Police Conrt with selling policy slips
at the places mentioned, ana were eacn neIu III ue-
fault Of 5000 bail.
The cotton market was more quiet yesterday,
with less desire for speculation than for several
days previous. The firm of Williams, Birnie & Co.,
which suspended on Tuesday, has been dissolved.
and the creditors are to be paid III full.
The barrel of new flour sent from Americus, Ga,
to be sold for the benefit OF the Episcopal church
there, sold for the second time Yesterday at the
Exchange Sales Rooms for S11. The total amount
obtained thus far is S32, toward debt of $500.
Flat-irons should not be left on window ledges in
tenement-houSes. Gertrude Brand, a woman Of
eivtv died in Bellevue Hospital yesterday from in
iuries received in RiyngOn-st., where a fiat-iron
fell on her head from the third story of building
The stockholders of the New-York and Brooklyn
Ferry Company Yesterday elected George Law,
Iosenh j. OD0nohue, John Englis. Seymour l..
Unsted. Joln G. jenkins, Richard POllon Henry
Crossman, Andrew V. Stout and Michael W. Wall,
directors.
The Germania Life Insurance Company takes ex-
tcpdrnt that S4,17S was deducted from the value
If ;t assets on examination. 1t shows from the Of
fetal report that its assets were S2o322 more than
ii claimed.
Sosbes are again coming into favor. They are
worn i'm a variety of ways, draDed loosely about
te hips or tied closely about the waist, and are of
ali widths and lengths. the preference being for
very wide ribbons, as the present desire is to
shorten the waist as much as possible
The Health Officer at Quarantine discovered two
cases of SMALLPOX among the children In the steer
age of the steamship Slesia, which arrived yeser-
dav from Hamburg, and they were removed to the
hospjtal After vaccnating the rest of the p3esen-
gers and the crewSh he vessel was allowed to come
10 the city. No fearls felt Of spread OF the disease
from tins Vessci.
William Llovd Garris0n's condition had NOT i'm
nroyed last night; twas thought that if any change
had occurred il was for the worse. As his disease Is
OF long standing, and 0t a character that will not
easily Weld To medical treatment, his friends are
very apprehcnsIyc Of the result. Some of his
friends Who were summoned to his bedside arrived
i'm the city yesterday evening
The Committee of the Bar Association and fbe
conuse for scientifically yesterday agreed To submit
to Coycruor Robinson the names Of George Tickn0r
Curtis and Everett 7. Wheeler for the position of
commissioner TO take testimony on the charges
a,,aiust thc sheriff. As soon as the Governor do
ii"s which one of the gentlemen named he will an
noint as Commissioner the taking of testimony will
begin.
n,vid Palmer commission -four merchant. M No
90 BIoad-st., and member of the Produce Ex-
cLongc. dlcd from asthma and bronchitis. I'm ST.
SiId Mich on Thursday last. and his remains ar
Ni ,o.i t 40 cvruinr i'm charge OF his BROTHER and
yerc taken to his late residence, No: 3s2 Atlantic
o,c Rrooklyn. He was bern in New-EnglanJ IN
IsG5 and had been III business IN tins ci.y about
twelve years.
Herman Grccnberg, of No "a Eldridge-st.. on
Anrl . lost i6 at faro, in the gambling saloon of
nppnieI Hall at No. Attorney-st. He Informed
,iirr of the fact, and Tuesday night Sergeant
TroI,icy and Detective Mcconnell of the Central
one, arrested Hall at his house. No. % Attorney
81, On being arlagned before Justice Blxby yes
ferdev' at Essex Market Police Court, he was re-
mired 10 furnish bail IN 5000.
The vote Of the members of the Produce Fx-
change Yesterday on the adoption of the "centalp
system was 4s5 in favor TO 232 against, a much
cniar was distributed III the Exchange IN opposition
to the system. The Board of Managers will now
submit thc question to the different trades inter
ested In the Exchange, as TO whether they will
adopt the system for general use.
Carl Thurman, gardener, Of No. II East