New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-13
NETWORK CITY.

| by lightning yesterday.
The transfer of property in Sixty-sixth-St near
| and his wife TO the New-York Loan and Improve
ment Company. was recorded yesterday.
One Of the largest sea turtles ever brought to this
| port was on exhibition yesterday on the schooner
| Cocheco, living at the Citizens Gas Companys
wharf South Brooklyn. Ii is about eight feet long
| and Fix feet broad.
| John George Bauer age ten months, died yester-
| day from smallpox on the top hoor OF No. 42o
| Fifth-st. Bohemian child named fandrlck. was
found sick with the same disease on the trst moor,
| and was removed TO tine Riverside Hospital.
| On and after June rs. Chief Miller of tie Fourth
| Battalion OF the Fire Department, Will have com
mand of the second Battalion Chief Bonner will
go from the Second to the repair shop, to relieve
| Chief Orr who takes command OF the Fourth.
The Rev. Dr. Stephen II. Tying jr:,, was in much
| improved condition last evening ne distressing
| cough with which he was affected the DAY before
| had ceased and his physician, DIR. ii. PInckney, had
hopes that his patient would now proceed steadily
| to recovery.
| A steamer has been chartered by the friends of
| William III. Vanderbilt, and will 90 down the bay
| at 9 A. H. Tomorrow TO meet the White Star steam
ship Bri annie which is expected TO arrive to-mor-
| row at an early hour. Mr. Vanderbilt Is passcn-
| ger on the britannia.
| Washington Nathan was shot in the Coleman
| House several months ago by a woman named Mrs.
Barrett, who went vol unfairly TO Jefferson Market
| Police Court yesterday to surrender herseli 70
| Justice Murray Nathan Is now IN Europe and he
| never made any complaint. The case was allowed
| to drop.
| The following have been reported to the police
missing from their homes Leonard Vogel, age fifty
| three. of No 222 ThompsOn-st n laborer; Rudolph
| Schadewald, age twelve, of No. 419 East Ihir-
teenth-st.; William Hnlme. age f9rty-tour, OF No.
30 Rvngton-st., and trancls DouDecKcl, age tnlr-
! teen, of No. liz Rivlngton-st
| The cotton market was again excited yesterday,
prices at the first call declining seven points. and
| afterward recovering aud closing twelve points
| higher than at Wednesdays close. The movement
was SAID to have been entirely speculative, and due
| to the reports that spnnerS were short OF stock
and would soon be Obliged 10 Duy even at te pres
| ent high prices.
| The veteran corps of the 7th Regiment will as
semble in full uniform at the Madison Square Gar
den on Thursday next to proceed to Brighton Beach
TO celebrate the anniversary of the departure for
the of war in 1861. The battalion line Will be
formed $40 a. No. and the line OF siarch VIII be
| through Elfth-ave and thirty -fOurtl-st. 10 the
ferry.
The Board of Managers of the Produce Exchange
Yesterday cleo ed Charles A. Walsh to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of II. de b. Routh.
The standing committees were elected. and COM
mittees were also appointed for the several trades
represented in the exchange. Hiram DurTyea, j. II.
Knowles, w. j. Lynch A. Keynes and W. IL. ThOmp-
son were elected to membership.
The inquest in the case of Chrsty Snyder, the
convict who died from the result of q kick, was
hour, and then four of them agreed that Snyder
came TO his death from kick administered
by Keeper Michael Adams, while the other, three
were unable to determine by whom the KICK was
given Adams furnished bail for his appearance
before the Grand jury.
meeting of the Cornell Association of New
York was held Yesterday at the office of lselin "
Warner No. 80 William-st. for the purpose of rails
ing subscriptions in aid of the Cornell Crew entered
for the coming Saratoga regatta The race viii
take place July 3, and four-Oared crews VIII be
sent by the University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan
University, and Trinity and Princeton Colleges.
The amount necessary to equip the crew properly is
about 100. number of subscriptions was re-
ceiyed
An address was delivered last evening before the
Bullion Club by Colonel G. Collier Robbins on THE
Of 10 NnN do
Robbins was of the pioneers of the place, and
has seen it grow from wilderness to town OF
5000 Inhabitants, lecture was also delivered by
Mining Fields of Arkansas :; their Geological Char
acter and Value" Senator Mcdonald of Indiana,
ex-senator Spencer, of Alabama, ex-United States
Treasurer John G. New and ex Congressman Willis
were among those present.
A consultation took place Yesterday between Off
GERS of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Confer
ence Committee of the Pacific Mail Company, rela-
tive to a continuation of the contract between the
companies. No agreement was reached. Ihe pro-
visions of the new Constitution of California for
bid the Central Pacific from making contracts with
rival lines. Without its cooperation the Union
Pacific. it is claimed could not continue the present
agreement 1t said yesterday that the steam
ship company intended to put additional ships on
the line
The strike of the pianomakers in the employ of
Kranich * Bach, in East overwhelmingly con-
tnues. The cigarmakers working for Greenhal IL
Teichmann in Warren-st. yesterday demanded an
increase of pay of 81 per thousand, winch was
granted. II was expected Yesterday that the strike
of the cigarmakers of CYCLIC IL Frischi would he
brought to a close by an agreement between the
employers and the workmsn. on Inc Journeymen
| fathers at a meeting held at No 236 Seventh-ave.
decided to demand - 80 for days labor, and they
will strike i'll case of refusal
| julius Cotter was arrested June 3 By Officer
Doess of the Prince Street Police Station, on a
charge of attempting to pass bogus checks drawn on
| the Broadway National Bank. Whenin the station
house he tired TO commit suicide by cutting himself
on the neck and left wrist with lead pencil. He
| was taken to Bellevue Hospital and was able to
| appear in Jefferson Market Police Court Wednesday
morning. Richard Kerns, of No. 100 Spnng-stt.,
| and asked $50 on account, upon when he caused
his arrest, believing it was bogus. Cotter told the
| Justice he was insane. His mind had been troubled
| for some time. not being able to find work. He de-
| stroyed the checks and was discharged.
| The National Association of Amateur Athletes,
of which G. w. Carr, president OF the Manhattan
| Athletic Club is president, will give the fourth
annual meeting for the Amateur Championship Of
America on September ~ 1879. on the grounds of
| following competitions will take place: Running,
| 100. 900 and 10 yards, One-half mile, one mile,
three miles hurdle race. 100 yards; walking, one
mile, three miles and seven miles; running high
! jump. running board jump, pole-leaping; putting
| the shot, Is pounds throwing the BANNER. ~
pounds throwing the 56-pDund weights bicycle
| race. two miles; individual tug of war; tug of war
| between teams of five men with two substitutes.
| Cold silver and bronze medals Will be gwen. The
| entrance fee will be 81 per man Tor each game.
| Entries will close September II Letters should
| be sent to the Secretary National Association OF
| Amateur Athletes, No. 1873 Broadway, New-fork.
Officer Fredercks of the Twentieth Precinct.
| early Yesterday morning found in the rear of the
premises at No. 525 West Fortieth-st the dead
body of Patrick Gettngs eighty years of age, lying
| on a shutter. He went away for assistance and on
his return Della Richards. the dead mans daughter
| and her brother John Gettings, were attempting 10
| carry the body into their miserable abode. They
! were under the influence of drink and let the body
fall TO the ground splitting open tue skull. Bridget
| Gettngs the wife, age seventy-eight years, and
| the son and daughter were taken to the Jefferson
| Market Police Court. The son was intoxicated
that he could not realize what charge he was
rested The officer saws, about year ago the entire