New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-17

Mercy, Mission OF the Immaculate NIeIh' ""' o
Home for Fallen and Friendless Girls ABOUT
SO 900 more asked for by other lnstltu'lonS
for the same purpose, but the matter was iald o.ci
unit Monday The number OF c.,iiem ~" in
by the city in this way is constantly increasing IN
some cases whole families being committed 10 inc
care of these institutions.
In the Marine Court yesterday before the stern
MacAdam j., the case of gentle Josie Rose versus
Bob Saunders lone of her beans for breach OF
promise came to trial. Claim. broken VOWS; de,
fence, denial. And she was black. or one they can
that he was long attentive, and love was PLAINLY
the incentive he sang and played upon the either
and Sat sat ba ho i0 0 heT M'n but shortly
matters took turn. aud wheh hIr
heart and hand were plGhted she saw she sud
denly was sighted. In court was Robert; then arose
ne and sworo he never courted JOSIE and never
popped the question.neyer; and then he SAID said,
Well-hordly ever" She used to suffer IRON
he acted as her parent rather; he went lust sofa
and 10 father at last she tried to make hun own
he had meant n%a TO IFs tea = he talked she
wept ; he VENT she wted she wrote 'perhdlous
wretch, Pd have YOU return at once the Things 1
gave yOu-tbat book, that smoking cap that mott0,
?God bless our Home oh, Rob, he'd ought to"
These he declares he did surrender, was care
full everything TO send her, . done he saa no
more'n should do owe her nothin more II you
do The lady looked depressed and wan; whlle
Bob was cheerful. Case still ON.
BROOKLYN.
The balance of city funds nowon hand, according
to Treasurer Little, Is $685. u.
Alderman Smith. of the Fifteenth Ward, who
lives nj No. 2i2 LOrmcI-st., Is very SICK at HIS
house with pneumonia.
The clerk of the Superintendent of Police has
compiled statistics that show the number OF private
24,73l pupils MANY of these schools are attached
to Roman Catholic parishes
The Grand Jury has found twenty-five lndlct-
ments against Mrs. Ellen Peck. Inc chiel one IS
for obtaining diamonds valued at $4,000 ON false
prctcnces from Lyoncc LANCER, of No. G52 Broad
way. Her trial is set down for April %
TIE Spring session of the South Chassis of Long
Island of the Reformed Church was held Tuesday.
Elder j. X. Bennett, of New-Utrecht sand that the
Rev DAVID :. Sutphcn, who recently was placer III
an asylum is still subject to Authorizations but that
his condition Is improving
ID. :. Schanck an cmplOy6 of the Wheeler q Will
son sewing Machine Company, was arrested yester-
day and taken before Justice Walsh charged with
embezzemcnt by his EMPLOYER Il. Is. Appleton,
manager of the Brooklyn office of tine company;
The affidavit sets forth that Schanck retained e0I
$500.
The funeral of DIR. Joseph Howard, brother OF
John +. Howard. one of the deacons of Plymouth
Church, took place yesterday at 3 p: m. at bis
brothers residence, No. ia Hlcks-st His death oc-
CURED on Monday at the age OF seyenty-t"o years
Dr. Howard was born at Salem. Mass, was gradu-
ated at Amherst College and went to Brooklyn
ifty-wo years ago. The funeral sermon was
preached by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and the
intermcnt took place at GREENWOOD.
Yesterday was the seventh day of the trial of the
indicted commissioners of City Works Brooklyn.
Bernard Gibbs. timekeepcr III the plpe-yard testi-
fed that from October % TO November IL there
were In the pIpe-vard nincty-nine men ; there were
as many more who were away from the yard, put
who reported from time to time lie supposed q
force OF thrty-siX men was enough. This would
include the men necessary 10 set hydrants. The
number OF these repaired last year was ,l34.
JERSEY CITY.
There are 1876 Sunday schools in Hudson County,
with 2,1l2 teachers and 23,61l scholars. The
libraries are valued at S23 S.}5, and the collections
last year amounted to S2G21o.
HUDSON RIVER COUNTIES
YoNKERs.-George w. Cobb, Democrat, of Yon-
kers. nominated by Mayor Mosten of that city as
Police Commissioner has been unanimously con
tirmed by the Common Council, composed of five
Republicans and three Democrats.
-ROCHELLF.-A number of the prominent
Democrats and personal friends of George b. Acker-
man, the cx-Supervisor of New-Rochelle, are said
to be quietly engaged in raising by subscription the
amount of his default not secured by the $4,000
bOnd Of his sureties,
MOUNT VFRNON.-Charles H. Ostrander, William
H. Broughton and John G.. Rankin, of Mount Yer
non, have been appointed by County Judge Clifford
Commissioners of Appralsement in the matter OF
tees of the village of West Mount Vernon, now an
nexed to Mount VERNON; having ceded T., STRIP OF
Railroad Company for depot purposes.
WHITE PLAINs.-Hcnry Morris. of Port Chester,
fatber-n-law of Sheriff Brundage, who has arrived
at the ripe age of eighty years. after being wld-
over for one year yesterday married Mrs. Margaret
Roselle, of White Plains, age sixty-four Mr. Nor
rs is a veteran of the war of ST. in which he was
drummer boy....-.W, A. Woodworth, appointed
referee by the Supreme Court to take testimony IN
the proceedings for the removal OF justice Eugene
Archer, of White Plains, engaged yesterday in
the examination OF witnesses on the part OF the
Barnes who active officers i'll Justice Archers
court testified that they arrested tramps about the
streets and took them before the Justice without
the request of citizens, and that neither ever made
such arrests on a warrant.