New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-19
NENN-NORK CITY.

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teen ba hers visited the free baths last week. About
| onc-third of them were women.
Louis Hammer, twenty-one years old, OF No. 10
| East lmrty-u nth-st, went In bathing at Ninety-
| sixth-st. and the North River Yesterday, and was
| drowned. The body was recovered ana taken 10
| the mOTguc.
| The body of an unknown man about thirty-fye
years old five feet eight inches In height, with no
| beard. dressed III dark clothes. calico SHIRT ana
CATER shoes, was found in the East River at Per
| T. and sent TO the Morgue yesterday.
The company Of Italian dancers and speciality
| artists engaged by Manager f. G. Gilmore for the
ne " spectacle called Enchantmeut" now in course
of preparation at Niblos Garden, arrived yesterday
| in the lnman steamship CITY OF New-1orK.
A special meeting of the Board of Police Commits
| s'oners OF jersey City held last evening, ana
! Commissioner John g. Bird, in tie name OF the
| Board, presented gold badge valued at @loo 10
| Benjamin Murphy, the new Chief OF Police.
| John Trell, a German, twenty-siX years old, at
tempted to commit suicide yesterday IN his room at
No. PIG stanton-st; lie had been married lately
and domestic troubles it Is believed, led him to stab
| himself in the side. lie was removed TO Bellevue
| Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Bandmann, who are to begin the
regular season at the Standard Theatre in Septem-
| ber arrived yesterday in the steamship Arizona.
| Arrangements had been made for giving MI. Band
man a warm reception on his arrival, but the waves
| and the storm prevented.
| Farley RipOn Sweat q merchant OF Savannah,
| Ga. died at the New-York Hotel at nine O'Clock on
SUNDAY morning, after short illness. lie had come
to this city on business and had been here only SIX
|
| liam Wetzel, of No. II Waverly-place. The body
| will he taken to Savannah for burial.
| A woman was found lying intoxicated In the gut
ter in EleYeuth-aye Ihlrty-slXth-st., YesteT-
! day A few feet from her was an infant three or
/ four months Old, perfectly naked, lying upon the
| rough cObbie stones The woman was sent to the
police station, and the child was cared for by the
! Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to ChlI-
| dren.
| row of French fats with frontage Of 100 feet,
is being constructed at One Hundred and Second-st;
| in Nylt gl
] with a solid formation OF trap rock. Enough has
been cleared away to permit the erection of three
OF the buildings, but the rock stands directly III the
| rear of these % the height OF the third story.
number Of steam-drills are busy on what Is left.
| James Davett -four and grain broker at No. 10
Water-st, aud a member OF the FrOduce Exchange,
| died Yesterday after lingering illness. lie was
about sixty years old and had been III business Tor
| many years He was at one time man OF great
wealth but Of late years has been qnsuccesSil ~;
He went to KeypOr n. D.. about week ago lor us
| health, but was not improved.
| The Taxpayers Central Association met last
night al No. $40 Third-ave. Mr.. Nhitchurcli, OF
the committee appointed to investigate the work OF
tGe new Court House Commissioners III the com
pletion of that building, reported that they had
preferred charges against the COMMISSIONERS win
the exception OF Commissioner Blessing, to Mayor
Cooper aud that the Mayor promised he would
carefully and thoroughly Investigate tier report
and charges
In a drunken quarrel in the liquor-store at No.
147 Baxter ST.. early yesterday morning, John
OBrian age eighteen, OF No. II Pari-st, was shot
i'm the left shoulder by homeless man named
Lefnre the police arrived. O'BIien went to the
Mulberry street POce-station, where his wound
was found DE serious Dut not dangerous. lie
was directed to the 81. NIncents Hospital Tor FUR
Their treatment.
BROOKLYN.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, now in Europe,
has had his vacation extended until October L by
the trustees of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
II was reported to the police yesterday that Mrs.
Elizabeth Curling, OF No. 594 Dedn-st., had been
missing from her home since Wednesday. When
last she wore a lSht gray dress, trimmed Win
blue. and a white hat.
Cars began running yesterday for the first time
upon an extension OF the Myrte-ave street railroad
line beyond Broadway the former terminus, to
| Myrtle Avenue Park, distance OF one mile. Con-
nertion also made here with steam cars to Cypress
Hills Eyergreens and other cemeteries, at an add
| tional fare of cents
II Is expected that the new iron bridge over the
NewtowH Creek, connecting the Greenpoint section
| of BROOKLYN and Long Island City, IN Manhattan
ave- Will be opened TO the public to-day. There is
| some competition for the position OF keeper. Ihe
| Boards OF Supervisors of both Kings and queens
Counties have TO agree upon the appointment as the
bridge is jointly owned 1t Is Thought that eX-Su-
| peryIsor ferney. of Kings County. viii supersede
the present keeper. Patrick Callahan.
| JERSEY CITY.
Apair of boarding -house sneak thieves who claim
| 10 be husbaGd and wife, and gave the names OF
William and Emma Taylor, was arraigned before
| Judge Davis in Jersey City yesterday, on charge
| of having robbed the clearinghouse at No. 222
|
tickets for the stolen property having bcen found
| III thelr pOsSessloh'
Leon Sutherland, of Monticello-ave., Jersey City
| Heights vino is insane on the subject or Second Adj
yenTism and religion observes Saturday as a day or
rest His wife did sewing last Saturday night,
| and therefore her husband beat her terribly for
| what he called sin. Some Of the neghbOTs inter
fered and Sutherland drove them out with pistol
and knife.
There were sixty deaths IN Newark last week, of
| which ten were from cnOlera lnlantum ana eght
| from consumption.
IT isnow denied tibet Dr. T. II. Bodenius of New
ark died from yellow fever at Memphis. He is said
| to have gone to Madison, Indiana.
tea store at Market and Westinghouse. was
| entered on Sunday night by burglar, who rled
| the money drawers aud made good his escape.
| Michael Mcdonald, age forty, of No. 103 Adams
ST., while suffering from temporary lneanIty. left
! his home on Friday last HIS body was found float
| ing in the PassaIc River near Rlpleys dock. He
| leaves widow and three children,
Mrs. Virginia T. Beasley Duryee, age TWENTY-FIVE,
| wife of the Hon. George S. Duryee, a daughter OF
| fine late Rev DIR. Beasley, of Toucsdale. Philade-
mia ard a niece of Chief Justice Beasley, of New
Jersey, died suddenly on Sunday night at the resi-
| dence of her husband, No Central-aVe. she was
| married on October 10, 1878.
DIR" Joseph II. King made charge of con-
| spiracy before Police Justice Ricord, on Saturday
against Philip c., Anne aud Maggie Walsh, of Gin
| tOn-st. alleging that they combined 10 ruin his
business by GAZING out at his patients they went
into his Office There goes another to be Killed.
| subsequently, Philip and Annie Walsh made a COM
plant against King of perjury before Justice of the
Peace Dwyer. KING arrested yesterday and
| gave 5000 ball Tor trial.
NEWJERsEY.
| PATERsON.-Michael Cox, laborer of No. 49S
| Maiu-st., was arTaigned before Recorder Warren
Yesterday fol- entering the house OF Michael Buck
lev at Mill and divers T.. Sunday night, and as
saul ting Mary and Cathar.ne Buckley. age four and
| Elk wears Cox committed TO the county jail 10
| await the action of tue Grand JuIy.... Michael
arrOll, age scYeuty-5eyeu years, of No. u Me
| chauic-st., found dead the floor of his
| apartments on Sunday night. He was widOwer
| and lived alone. The body was much decOmp posed.