New-York tribune., 1879-05-23
NEw-YORK CITY.

atons.
The Job-tail car was invented chiefly to carry the
small boz Tree.
The man with the melancholy oagPpeS Is ho" II"
Testing Murry Hill.
Between the Elevated Railroad Company and the
Water Works Department, Second-aVe' - III q S'''0
of eruption throughout nearly ITS Whole iength'
host of woTkmen are putting the roof on the
great armorv building of the 9TH Regiment, In the
square bounded by Lexington and fourth-aVes' ana
Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh-sts.
Yesterday was very fine forerunner OF June me
yyar,n bland and ouicRening 10 oil vegetable ife
Now comes warm weather, with Its dust, roses;
pcrspiraton ''straw-be-rees cholera-lniahtui' anu
other luxuries.
He caroed, Now my dear, Will yOn h9ye Az sS glass
have n scboonerr But the couple, let MS say got
their manners far away, for they hailed from "es'
ROsanna, Indiana.
petition has been signed by many members OF
the Cotton Exchange requesting the Board OF MAN
rprs 10 make Saturday, May 81, hohqay as " iol
lows Decoration Day. The proposition VIII DO
voted upon tomorrow.
Edward Daley, age forty-fve, laborer, found
shelter from Wednesdays storm under the Duikr
head al the foot of East Twentieth-st. A LOAD oI
refuse was dumped on him, and IT was not untli
several hours after that his dead Dody was os-
covered.
The annual reception OF the Woman's Art De-
partmcDt of the Cooper Union will take place
Thursday evening, May % and that OF the Male n
Art Department on the following evening. On
ment of the Union viii occur
Ex-Secretary McCuoch returned yesterday from
Boston after two weeks lecture season before inc
students of Harvard College on taxation ana
finance He has declined request from the faculty
10 prepare the lectures for publication II paphiet
form, pleading a lack Of time.
Louis w. Holcom, Of No; sos West Fifty-trst-st'
driver of car No 1877 of the Belt Line, last night,
while STOPPING over the dashboard at flity-nlnth-
ST. and Third-ave, lost his balance and fell TO the
street The wheels Of the car passed oyer Ills heau,
killing him almost instantly
A certificate of the marriage of Otto How, and
Louise Neu was filed at the Burean OF vital sta
tstios two weeks ago by William Kuftner notary
public of No. 14G Prince-st., who had performed
tho ceremony. The Health Boards counsel mas
decided that the marriage isiilegal.
There is n place on the West Side extension OF the
New-York Elevated Ran lrOad, between One-hun-
dred-andtenth and One-hundred-and nd-twel1tfi-sts.,
where the columns which support the track VIII be
about eighty feet in height. 1t being necessary to
sink the bases a number Of feet OWING TO the marshy
nature of the ground.
four-lesved clover discovered In the Park yes
terday was worn in her shoe by the fair and for
tunate finder on her return down town. The luck
1t brought she would have preferred to have done
without, for her pocket was picked In the car she
was too late for supper and her lover went 10 tne
theatre with another girl.
The Funding Association expects to begin fund
ing the debt of Virginia early in june and 1t is be-
July l. The terms of exchange adopted are 70 giye @
Sl12l2 Of the new " average fours for each SlOO
Of the consols surrendered and $40 OF the average
fours for 800 of "peelers."
Tho following was received yesterday at the
Board of Education, direct from the other world
You done wrong to except bis resignation f9u
should have looked upon his intention Because he
was a most excellent man, And was guided by the
spirit land w. shaG)kelsp(eltalrle)D The writer
of the poem evidently means TO let terrestrial peo-
pie spell his name as they choose.
B. Never was arraigned before judge Barrett, IN
the Court Of Oyer and Terminer Yesterday for sem
tence under his conviction for obtaining $1,000 nm
der false pretences from the firm of Converse Stan
ton & Davis. His counsel, William A. Beach, OBJ
enable him To prepare a bill of exceptions, and the
prisoner was sent to the City Prison.
Many school teachers expressed regret Yesterday
at the resignation of Mr. hldde. They said that he
had been so long at the head Of the school system In
this city that they had become thoroughly familiar
with his ideas to the management and instruction
of scholars. Ii was feared that new superlnten-
dent might materially alter the present system and
give the teachers additional work III carrying out
his views regarding the methods OF teaching.
The annual report of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company was not made public yesterday as ex-
pected the directors having deferred the pnblica-
tiou until Monday. President Babcock said " 1t
has pleased MIR. Hart and his friends TO keep back
the report i do not know what their aims In doing
this may be. but they think evidently that there ls
some great advantage in the delay. Mr.. Hart and
his friends can Out-vote now III the board, and
therefore DO us they please"
The latest pedestrian tournament so far is be-
tween men who have lost their arms. AS they are
relieved of just so much extra baggage, they Will
be expected to beat ROwell's time If they walk
against armed men trey should be handicapped by
being required to carry wooden upper branches of
the same size and weight. IL is pleasant to an
nouncc that the next grand worlds pedestrian tour
naInent will be Letween blind men and men who
lost their legs in the war.
Fire Commissioner Van COtt was assigned yester-
day TO all the dutes in the Department formerly
reformed By Mr.. Perley, his predecessor. Pro-
pooas were ordered opened for the erection of new
f.,- IUC a. Tqfr Ipg Nm ut M
437 East HOustO-st., No. II, at No. 81 Luui0wst.,
and No 26, at No. 60i East Eleventh-st. During
the month Of April there were n the city 12s fires,
involving total loss of Sl39 694 elghty-thIee OF
the fires caused less than 500 damage, and only
two caused over $4,000 damage.
Edward Lungen, who was employed by the Pratt
Marble RcnOvatinE Company in cleaning the front
OF the Home Binding No. 1877 Broadway, fell to
the sidewalk yesterday from sCatfOld Suspended
opposite tho fourth story. and died IN two hours.
He was twenty-five years old, unmarried, and of
excellent habits. He had been employed by the
company only three days ana had concluded to dis
continue work last night on account Of lameness.
1t is thought that the accident was due 10 this
lameness.
Captain Petty and a sufficient force of officers OF
the Fourth Precinct yesterday morning made de
scent on the low lodgnc-hOusc known as the
dirty Spoon" at No. IS Oliver-st and arrested
twenty women and twenty -four men. In court yes
terday the women weTo nearly all committed 10
RlackwelPs Island for threee months, and similar
term was assigned 10 the men. hr5 Donnelly, the
proprietrcss, was required TO furnish bail In $500
Tor her appearance in the Court of General Sessions
to answer an indictment for keeping a dDcrderly
house.
A Anumber of gentlemen, among whom were the
Rev. DIS. Crosby, Robinson. Deems. Ferris, Taylor
and Fowler met at the exhibition or WythGs
Model OF Jerusalem in East Fourteenth-st. yester-
dav at q private view OF a smaller model, which has
lust been completed for the Union Theological Semi
nary. The question came up whether the large
model should be kept III this city for the nstruc-
tion of Sunday and churches. a committee
of Ave was appointed consisting Of X. A. Brick aud
Drs. Crosby Robinson Deems and Ferris, who viii
report on the matter
The sales Of funding certificates at the Post
Office yesterday amounted to $50 600 III two
hours The attendance increases daily, and II re-
quires dozen policemen Ia maintain order The
number of women present Is lar greater than that