New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-01-08
NETWORK CITY,

The customs receipts Tor duties yesterday
were nearly 100000, only $4,000 OF which was IN
gold coin.
Theodorus Mcleod has been appointed
CLERK in tie Surveyors Dapartmen i'll place Of Edward
De Lacey resigned.
Clarke T.. Wilson, somewhat celebrated
billiard and oopiayer. living at No 10 West E!ev nth
ST., has been pronounced hopeessy insane.
The collections yesterday for Captain Boyn-
toms fe-sayng service along the river front, amounted
5000 the stock Exchange aud $3.50 at the Produce
| Exchange.
At the Eighth Avenue Station on the Fifty
hrl-.i branch of the Met ropoan Elevated Road, the
hoor dayc been placed in position and the stair
>1S1vr -Ht
Collector Merritt left the city yesterday to
attend the dedication ceremonies OF the NV Capitol al
Albany. General Merit; Tor several years one Ot
! the Capitol Commissioners.
4 lace pin at Theodore b. Stari's Is the
| Egyptian lotos flowers in dead gold and enamel. New
card eases aud betting books, at Tfnys are Of amiga
| tor skin with rlmo of silver.
The official report Of the reductions made IN
the Custom IIouc by Colcc or Merritt, PREPARED by W.
H. Stilwcll private scc"cay, shows an annual saving
| 90 The GuytInElcnt OF S2'Ooo.
james Donnedy, accused of beating his wife
80 that dici, arragncd again vest ldiy morn
| ing IN the J~Grrson Market Police Court. justice Jam
mcr held hiin il - 900 to answer
The official list of patents granted during
the six years beginning with 1874 and ending with
| 1877 shows that Thomas \. I3nson received 100
patents daring thai time nearly al Ter teesiap'hc lm
! prOvcmcnts.
| William McGlory, proprietor of the 60 Wind
sor Palace" saloon, was arragncd on indictment for
! keeping disoIdeIly house at 40. l03 Bowery, and
pleaded not guilty. TWO other similar cha seS are phU
| ing against HIM
The abandoned steamship seen on fire by
the captain the snip Cambran. in latitude is' NORTH
longitude 1872 west December 30. is thought by The Ma
uo here To be- one u those engaged IN the
| south American or West India trade.
The dry goods house of Aiken, Son & Co.,
No s73 Broadway closed yesterday on account OF
the death of the scnio" member Of the firm John Aitkem
rno died nj his residence No 81 West Ffty-se cOnst
| Oh Monday at the age OF seyeniy-two years.
Mena Bogcrt, age thirty-cight, entered
coal vault az No 20 Dcancey-s yesterday afternoon
with lighted lamp in her hand. Escaping gas iGnicd
and before assistance could reach her the woman was
severely il not fatally, burned. The premises were
damaged 10 the extent OfSJo
| Sparks from a CRATE set fire to the carpet
on the second floor OF No. @24 Fifthayc, yesterday
| morning The flames not cXtiugushed before
damage 10 the extent OF 500 had ben done: Ihc
aorments we're occupied by Martin Rick as dwelling
and tailor shop. and were iuly lhsufeI'
J. p. Morgan, who died at Oakland, Cal,
on sunday morning. formerly an organist in Brook
yn and this city, his last appointment beng at Trinity
church lie was of the Rev. Dr.. Morgan, Of Obcr
lin College Obern Ohio ara ms musical educ"Uoh was
received at the LcipSic Conservatory
Insurance Company have presented to W. T. Read, who
has lust retired iro ;he position of jontrcscn man
accr OF the COMPANY, crayon cory of Muril0's Mag
dalcn." This was accompanied 6y a letter EXPRESSING
the regret OF the employees at Mr.. Reads retirement
The following is comparative statement of
cases of contagious disease rcported Tor week.
! ending January 4 1879:
ws rasa ss25e' cs;e 1s ,P9a Measles. I R
Pee Pee Is. Il 4 !siI Is
| Oh day
| and no messages have been Transmitted since. The
hr.k which IS IN the nam cable occurred Torbay
on the ccast Of Nova Scotia. 1t stared AT the com
parys Office yesterday, that the cable steamer NINA
had been ordered 10 sail from HaIliaN 10 tPar 'hc
| damage at once.
The Crane Jnry of the Court of General
SEES ons directed yesterday an Indictment for murder o.
william l.. Palmer the man who in a fit Of insanity
shot Officer Furucss III the Metropolitan Hotel 1t is not
prohabe that he Will be arraIgucd as it thought that
he Indictment will he made the basis OF commission
To inquire INTO ms SANITY
The American Temperance Union elected the
following officers at the quarterly meeting in Clarendon
Hal last evening: Professor W. Mason Evans, prcsi-
dent John T. Ferguson, William Cakes and DR.. Rich
ards vice-pre sdents; j. W. Gull, c. Couiard. T. II.
Carpenter secretaries Duncan F. Scott treasurer; the
| Rev John Keller, chaplain.
Thomas Dillon age forty of No. so Tenth
ave laDorer employed In the Stewart retail
Broadway and Tenthst, when going TO floor in
an elevator yesterday put his head the rail to look
down. and IT caught between the ran and the floor
that Dillon'- neck broken. lie died almost i'm
| medlately.
The cl7ltOrcal contest of the Intercollegiate
Literary Association will take place at Steinway Hall.
| FRIDAY evening" January 10. The colleges represented
Will he the Cnrgc Of The city OF NcwYor, Princeton,
! Rutgers, Williams Cornell. Madison. Northwestern,
Wesley, n an the University of the City Of hcwIork.
The Nictors IN the Greek, Latin and mathematical ex-
| aunatiOnS viii bc ANNOUNCED
I,,.. Iot
desk in tic moulding factory of William Cramm at No. /,
3and Maron-sl. aud cicum> pointed TO the quit
of Frederick 4. ShcwOrth, nineteen years. assist
| ant bookkecper. Whei arraS nod AT the TOmbs Police
Court yesterday he ACKNOWLEDGED hs ru'lr, and said
that lie had taken between 500 and 5000. lie was
| committed for trial III default 81 ~ 800 bait.
The Board Of Police yesterday received
communication from the Police Board OF Boston, sug-
gcsns the organization OF an association Of thr police
forces Of large cities The charges preferred against
! Patroman Byrnrs and Ryan. of the Fourteenth Pre-.
! cnct for conduct uubccOmins officers at the tine OF
| the shooting of Patromnn A. II. Furne.s al the
Metropolitan Hotel on Saturday, December - VIII he
| tred at ii a III. to-day
BROOKLYN.
4 canal-boat loaded with coal, lying at
the of Washington spans leak and sank yes
| terday afternoon
Policy shops at No. b Front-st., No. II
CLorIes.st and No. 32 Varetst have been broken up
| BY the police of the second and Sixth Precincts.
| At the annual meeting of the Brooklyn Diet
Dispensary tomorrow evening addresses VIII be made
! by Henry Ward Beccher. DiSrict-Attoney Woodford
| and the REV. Wayland HOyt.
| An illicit distillery, which was carried on in
| n dwelling on LOiimer-st, between Mckbbcn and
Rocrum-sts was seized at yesterday by Deputy
Deycnue Collectors Patterson aud Phillips TIE still
nor In operation AT the mc and no arrests were made
City Treasurer Little recently refused, at the
Mayors suggestion TO pay two warrants OF the Board Of
Fducaton amounting to nearly 10000, drawn In anc
ipaton Of the appropriation for this year but the money
was aued 10y the First National Bank, in the Eastern
District. Yesterday the drafts presented at the