New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-16
NETWORK CITY,


The subscriptions collected up to last evening by
the Szcgedn Relief Committee amounted To H.
}3S 40.
Three highway robbers arrested for opera
lions ON Monday night, and several got away. his
business begins to look up.
The annual Easter festival of the Home for the
Blind will be held at the Home, NO. ZlV Wcsl our
tccnth-st. on Thursday, from | n. III. to 10 p. III.
The report that Elliott +. Shepard and l.. b.
Shafer are comparing their codlfcations OF the city
ordinances before the Aldcrmen's Law COMMITTEE
is incorrect.
Jane Kncade, age forty-four. Of No. 80 Wooster
ST.. was shot and slightly wounded yesterday, by
some unknown person. while passing Thompson
and BroOme-sts.
dramatic entertainment for the benefit OF the
orphans of the st. Vincent de Panl Asylum at the
Union League Theatre, Friday evening. April -
A sky-blue wagon appeared on 1hrd-aye. yestcr,
day drawn by horses painted bright scarlet, ana
driven by a whitewashed colorcd man. II seemed
TO he an expression of patriotism i'll behalf OF some
body's bilious pills.
Time once was that performance In 1.-The Pima
foren was followed by dISmissals from church
choirs but times are when the JoSepttnes Rack
sirdus and even the big big y. Deddfyes are re-
ceivng proposals TO sing Ill the most laShiohaoio
churches
On Wednesday, the 23d, the Ceramics celebration
takes pace at the Union League Theatre, to help
build monument IN Central ParR IL every ,rc!
Quixote i'm this country should give 90 cents ire,
ncndous memorial of their great prototype could
be erected
If you are wakeful in the night, just think of the
twenty or thirty faggcd-Out men dragging them
selves through the sawdust at GilmOrcs, and long
ing to rest their weary limbs. IL NAV act rs sedi-
tive. Other peoples miseries sometimes make us
comparatively happy.
Patrick Coleman was Yesterday held for trial at
the Essex Market Police Court for having Knocked
down his mother Mrs. Annie Coleman. of No. lO2
st. Maris-pace Coleman was lately engaged as
a salesman at Park IL Iilford's store Ills mother
made the complaint against HIM.
Francis T. Allen and Louis Dalbor arraigned
Yesterday III the jefferson Market Court for recely.
ing stolen goods from William Ward, an unfalthfnl
employ6 of Il. +. Squire No. $50 Broadway. Ward
admitted having stolen goods from his employer.
who has missed some $500 worth.
Edward Burt who was sentenced to three months
in the penltentiary for keeping rat batting estab-
lshment, was remanded by Judge Barrett yester-
day, his petition for writ of habeas corpus being
dismissed. motion to admit the defendant TO ball
pending an appeal was also Overruled.
BY an order issued yesterday by Collector Merritt.
Isaac Snow, who has enjoyed for about eighteen
years special privileges as the agent of importers,
was excluded from the public stores, except 10 the
Office Of the Deputy Collector. The order was Is
sued after a thorough investigation.
Total depravity broke out early in Margaret Hen
messy, age nine, who was charged yesterday in the
YorkvIlle Police Court with stealing several pocket
books at a funeral in st. Agnes's Church. She said
girl from New-Jersey educated her IN this wicked,
ness. she was Hclu lOI lIIdl III ucldult VI Tooo
bail
Philip Obetz, Of No. OF Commercial-st, while
standing outside the chains on one of the twenty
river when the boat struck against the slip. lie
was rescued with great difficulty by one of the
deck hands and taken to the Seventh Precinct by
Officer Walsh.
Robert Marty had two coats snatched from him
in Rooseyelt-st last night. Went into a low dive
for sympathy. Phllanthropst offered to help hlm
hunt the Teller up II he YOU'D tLfat Maiy
grabbed money and ran. Being caught returned
500 of it. Committed for highway robbery.
The following extracts from the March report of
&. Dr., tim pf NrlVn EIn
nature Of the socletys work: Amount of fines OBJ
tained for violations of the Excise law, $3.50 num-
Der of indictments obtained from the Grand Jury
for violation of the Excise law, 20 persons ar
rested and held to bail for violation OF various laws,
AS tired and acquitted, l.
John Fisher, alias Murphy. age twenty-seven,
was held Monday III $500 bail 70 answer a
charge of forgery preferred by Henry Clews d Co.,
of No. IL Newest. The prisoner, 1t was alleged,
bought Government bonds, giving In payment a
forged draft of the Commercial National Bank OF
Chicago on the Bank of New-lOrk, Tor $1,000,
which he had raised from $3.50.
A notable service was held at noon yesterday In
the Russian Chapel No. 051 SecOnd-ave., where
Te Deum was celebrated III gratitude for the pre-
servation of the life of the Emperor Alexander from
the assassin Nicholas Shiskin, the Russian Min
lister to this country, was present, accompanied by
his wife Consul-General Kartchewsky. and many
Russian officers in their brilliant uniforms.
The following is a comparative statement OF cases
of contagious diseases reported Tor the TWO weeks
ending April -, 1879;
ending fever fever. ngiIs Measles tatra. pox,
% $Sai r. j Igs55 I 3 g 9
Poor John Brown left some unhappy namesakes.
One of them was brought by Charles Van Colt, of
the Steamboat Squad. into Jefferson Market Police
Court YESTERDAY afternoon, and arragned for hav,
ing just attempted suicide at Eighteenth-st and
North River As he was Tsspeetably dressed and
him in a private room. gave him some money and
sent him home
water-staned piece of paper was sent to the
Police Central Office yesterday. with the expand-
tiOn that IL had been found IN broken bottle IN
| the Harlem River. near Spuyten Duvvi Creek. On
il was written: Albany, April l, 1879 have
committed suicide on account of business troubles.
| Please inform my family. John Lathrop." The Al
bany Directory throws no light OH the mystery. The
paper is considered hoax
Mary Bickel had her boy, eleven years old,
brought into the Supreme Court yesterday. ON
writ of habcas corpus to secure his release from
the juvenile Asylum. Al affidavit by the boy
charged his mother with general neglect and abuse,
ordering him ont of the house and throwing knives
at Lin. Judge Barrett dSm ssed the writ aud re-
mandod the boy TO the Asylum, though throwing
knives at a boy doesn't seem at all like neglectng
HIM.
The funeral services of Alfred W; Craven, the
| weil-known civil engineer, who died recently IN
London took place yesterday III Grace Church. The
| Rev. DR. II. G. Potter, assisted by the Rev. Or.
| Thomas Gallaudet. conducted the services. The
pall-bearcrs were John Jacob Aston General George
Green. William l.. WOrthen, q. NJ. Ogden. lillian
NJ EvartS, John Carey. ). r. Clifford and George l..
| Hoffman. The intcrnent was III GREENWOOD Gene
| terry
Since General Myer sailed Saturday on the
Britannia carrying with HIM several trunks full Of
! the assorted weather-sharIs and betWtens-whlch,
| uuder the pseudonym of "Old PrObs - he has been
devisng and preparing, the weather has been yer
satile Yesterday the sky sat right down on the
city, Obscunug IL, and finally drenchng II through
and through. II was a day stimulating 10 suicides.
aud last night was dark, dismal, dripping-such
night as burglars wait for.
A report which was current about the city last
evening. 10 he effect that Washington Nathan was
dangerously III from the effects of the bullet wound
received at the hands of Mrs. Barrett at the Cole
man House, WAS found upon inquiry 10 be without
foundation Mr. Nathan said lac had entirely
cnVercd from fine wound and tlc street dur