New-York tribune., 1879-04-28
NFM-YGRK CITY.

SEW-YCRk CITY.
| Arrests last week, 1,244; marriages, 176; births,
| 4O5 deaths, 079.
If you change bill for q man get notary public
| TO witness the deed.
The Board Of Excise granted 32s licenses last
| week, and received in fees S21565.
| Messrs. Bowring g. Archibald. shipping mer-
chants, have been appointed New-York agents for
| LlOyds, London.
Summer seems frozen ut its source; the shiverng
grass IL chlliy-very-like hair upon an ancient
| horse turned out 30 browse in January.
Richard Meares & Co.. az Sixth-ave. and Nine
teenth-st.. viii have an opening of their Spring
goods Tomorrow and on Wednesday.
Thomas D. Scdawick, of Louisville. Ky, once
Colonel of the 2d Regiment of Volunteers, died in
the City hall Park, of apoplexy, on Saturday.
The annual election OF the Hebrew Benevolent
and Orphan Asylum Society took place yesterday
morning, when the officers were reelected. There
are now 296 inmates of the Asylum.
4" Ennis has his hands full" was the universal
! verdict In the city yesterday among those inter
ested in the outcome of the great London walking
match. Brown Is a fast color So IS HaZael.
Judge Giderseeve, who has been confined TO his
house for several weeks, went out Saturday for
the first time He will resume his seat Part ii.
OF the Court of General Sessions at the opening Of
the May Term.
THE TRIBUNE has received So from Partner
80 from {. f. lIarra, - from A. L. b., and 81 from
Miss Ross for the relief of Mrs. Emily HarWOod at
No rs west ki2hteenth-st, and the money has
| been gwen her.
1t is understood that the New-Yor1 Communists
have written coItemptuous letter 70 the Russian
Nihilists, saying: For Heavens sake, aim lower!
And turn your back 70 the Car when you shoot,
If you want to hit himw
4 concert In aid Of the Ladies' Homeopathic
! Guild Will he given IN Steinway Hall, tuesday
evening. The Vocal Union of New-IOrk. the 81.
Cecilia Society of brooklyn. Mrs. RIce-knOX, Mrs.
Imogene Brown and others will take part IN it.
General Samuel F. Cary spoke for an hour and
half at the meeting Of the National Temperance
Institute, Cooper Union, yesterday afternoon, on
the evils Of lntemperance. His speech was Intended
principally to meet the statement that the Bible
sanctioned the use Of alcoholic drinks.
The city streets are in a depOrable condition.
All the cutters full Of dust and pulyerized filth,
| which every gust whirs through horse-cars,
| carriages, houses, to the discomfort of every
| body who possesses seusI bItles. Are there any
officials whose duty it is 70 attend to this nuisance
| The war days of the past week have made
great cha ge IN Central Park. Many trees, notably
their Sum er dress, while the yellow bushes of the
| FOrSytbia g already aiiame, and the pink buds Of
| the PyTU5 s1p0Rca are Just opening. The Park Is
never 80 lovely as IN the hrst fresh days OF Spring.
| The Messrs. Alexandra, owners Of the New-YOr1
| and Mexico Steamship Line, have had the
dining-salOOn OF their steamer City of Washington
rehtted after the plan Of some of the Sound steam
ers Small tables, each Tor hye or SIX persons have
taken the place of tine long tables and passengers
will be served with meals at their convenience
| Mrs. II. Z. Shay, known on the stage Caroline
| Hayes. the actress who disappeared mysterlOusly
last week was found on Saturday by her son IN
house in One-hundred and-ffty whittier
| she wandered while out OF her mind. she mad been
| kindly cared for. She had lost the 500 she had
| with her when she left Brooklyn.
Columbia Princeton and the University of Penn
sylvania are 70 row in four-oared shells, one and
half miles straightawaV, the Schuylklll River at
Philadelphia between June 10 and June so. The
prize VIII be challenge cup worth pZ5O, and gold
medal T % 9e gwen e@ea N PeneeF OF tns ne Tnnng
| the other colleges which have accepted.
The freight agents of the trunk lines have sent
! notice to the Produce Exchange that they have
/ a. II . FNaf~ rfIlr lufr A.sr
! cries Of -four, by deciding that they will not put
irtO effect the charge of cents barrel on flour
| which may be way-Ollled for free Hghterage, and
which is ordered for delivery at the regular docks
/ until May 10.
r. Shriver & Co.. iron founders, at No. 333 East
Fifty-slXth-st., sag that they have discovered a
counterfeit trade dollar which Is IN circulation 1t
IS described as perfect rae slmle or the genuine
| coin as 10 details Of the design and lettering. But
| it has yellowish tint which distinguishes 1t on
comparison with the genuine coin, and its weight Is
| 124 grains less than the genuine.
| A large number of personal friends Of Miss Clara
| Louise Kellogg collected on board the White Star
! steamship Germanic on Saturday morning to pay
their respects To the prlma donna, who was starting
| for Europe a two years tour. There were many
| floral remembrances. Miss Kellogg was accom-
| panied by her mother She is engaged with Maple
! sons tr0upe for two months frOm May Is. and
after that Will sing in Paris Vienna and ST. Peters
! burg.
| Unsteady walkers in great numbers were arrested
! last evening and lodged in NeW-IOrk station
| houses, the surplus being probably Jersey
| men driven from their native land by the
| cold i4hospitality of the Bue-Law. enioreers
| 1t used TO be q favOrlte remark OF sir Will
! liam Jones that the moon looks upon many
| nght-flOwers; the night-fower sees but single
moon" This, alas cannot be said to be true OF the
! poor inebrlate.
| The floating church for seamen, at the foot Of
| Pike-st., has $50 communicates, mostly sailors
and an average attendance of three or four hundred
| persons AT the Church OF the Holy Comforter,
! No 36J West-st.. services are well attended, and
10000 Bibles, testaments and religious works have
| been distributed during the year The new sailors
! Home, at No. 3S1 Pearl-st. has accommodated 500
/ ulors, and has S2o,52O OF their money IN its
! b.nk.
| No arrangement could easily have been devised
| for the establishment Of regulations FOR veracIty
more effective than tho circumstance attending the
finding Of the $50 bill Of the colored sailor. Now
Williams will easily get another opportunity to go
| before the mast, Clerk MeTltts standing is i'm
| proved at the Metropolitan Hotel and the washer
| woman has made hersef name which should bring
to her wash tub for renovation all the cast-ot gar
| ments of the negnbOrhO0d.
The Scottish-Amefcan Athletic Club gave band-
| cap games on its track III West Ffty-f0urth-st.
| Saturday w. j. Crowley won the 75-yards DASH
! for which there had been slxty-One entries, in
! : seconds There were twenty-one starters out Of
ffty-fOur entries for the twO-mlles walk, the de-
cisive heat Of which was taken by +. Lacken-
macher in 16:36l2. +. f. Carroll was successful IN
| the half-mile run IN 217l2 The Ono-mile walk for
| members was won by L. g. flaming IN 7:4ol2.
| The Grand Opera House management is still ac-
lively engaged IN introducing 70 IT'S West-ode au-
! dences the principal Broadway attractions Thus
! far It has presented 10 its peculiar constituency
| Wallack Bouecault, Mayo aud Miss Davenport,
! and now Madame Modjeaka. It is a singular fact.
however, that the Broadway audiences follow these
fayorites to the far west o Eignt-aYe Ot an THESE
| several engagements, Miss Davenport with
| Piqueo and Lester Wallack with " ROsedale y
| have been most successful.
| Matilda Fischer age nineteen who was employed
"a servant in the family Of Nathan Lehman. of No.
$50 Grand-st, Brooklyn, left her employers house
last Friday night and has not been seen since. She
! had been visited frequently during the past four
! months by "A young man named Joseph hogan, TO
whom she was engaged 10 be married. On the pr o.
yious evening no is said to have told her that his
fesIIn9s had changed letter addressed 70 '' Dear