New-York tribune., 1879-04-08
NEW-YORK CITY.

Judge Noah Davis is confined TO his house through
illness. but his condition Is not such as 10 CAUSE
anxiety to his friends.
The Szegedin Relief Committee reports that the
amount of subscriptions received up to last evening
were S9.Sl2 %.
The MAY anniversaries preparing TO desolatee
the land. Broadway Tabernacle Will be Submerged
from the 4th to the llth.
Muldoon and Bauer are training to-day around
the north end of the island, they say, 1or theII
wrestle the first week III May.
Jacob Neuss of Fif'y-fifth-st died Yesterday, one
hundred years old. Frenchman. Remembered Wheh
Napoleon Bonapartc was boy.
Some burglars broke into No. 5S7 Broadway early
yesterday morning and stole $1,000 worm OF laces'
Rather lacerating TO the feelings OF r. lie Nichols,
importer.
Venerable liers are those wooden water-pipes be
ing taken from under Broadway below the Fost
Office. They have lain there four decades, and are
much decayed.
The Rev. DR.. r. H. Hitchcock viii lecture before
the Lebanon Club for Workingmen this evening at
o'clock, at the hall at Stanton and Columbia-sts''
on Socialism,
During the quarter ending April the New-YorES
Elevated Road carried 7.599,17G passengers and
the Metropolitan carried $685., G23 making total
of IL ,47j,090.
Sparks from an engine on the Elevated Railroad
set fire to the awning In front of Robert Greggs
furniture store, No. Bowery. last evening, ana
damaged 1t 500.
Catherine Murphy age fortv-fve. Yesterday broke
her leg while getting ont of FIfth-ave. stage at
the Post Office. One vehicle about as sale as an-
other, after all if not more so.
The bark Rosita, which sailed from here for Cork
with grain about ten days ago. returned TO port yes
terday disabled. Her bulwark5 had been damaged
by heavy seas and she had sprung a leak.
The grain market on the Produce Exchange was
easier Yesterday i9owing more li iay9abe " reports
bushel, and corn was half-cent lower than the
opening.
Those pneumatic tubes laid on Park-row yester-
day are to carry news TO the papers An old lady
I...ar daft nTsl
matte tubes! What be they BE they good for
pneumonia y
Why is il that if man is "found dead IN bed"
the event Is made much of and teegraphed all over
the country, but If he dies according 10 expectation
nobody says word about It'll That brooklyn man
yesterday, Tor instance
A lady uptown yesterday gave birth to four
babes. News confidential, and names cannot be
given. This is almost as bad as the case reported
out III Indiana Ii ~ believed that the census OF
1850 will show population Ot 5O,U0O,OUO souls.
James +. Peacock. law student who was secretly
married TO Margaret DOnney year ago in Pater-
son, n. j., was obliged to give bonds yesterday to
support his wife, Soon after he received dispatch
saying be had drawn prize of Sl5.OOOin lottery.
"The old lady died" said the narrator. from
being run over by the cars. She wounded fear
fully Dear me ] hope she died Immediately
said sympathetic lady listener. " II she didn't"
exclaimed her tour-y year-old boy, nope they shot
herp
Captain Williams tried to be tried yesterday.
Twenty witnessesclamOTed to swear for him. No
chance. Police commissioners We're dressing tner
own bruises, and had 10 time to look after this
guardian of the peace. lie may have chance to-
day at noon.
young gentleman who wrote love poem and
inflicted II several lady acQuantances, assuring
each that 1t for herself alone, received from one
the keen reply, have seen twice before this beau
fu poem you now dedicate TO me- III seems sOlt OF
anacreOuismW
Miss Louise Carpenter. of No. 32G StantOn-st.,
fell into the East River Sunday, when she
cued by William Martin, of No. 80 RIyHgtOn-st.,
h.u tl1fht
is, of course, supposed that -; but 1t may not be-
for Louise is only ten, and her hero Is only twelve
The Board of Aldermen met yesterday TO receive
nominations from the Mayor for three Excise Com
missiouers, according to the law of 1870. The
Mayor transmitted To the Board the opinion of
Corporation Counsel Whitney that the law OF 1870
was no longer III force, upon which the Board ad-
JOurned
Cherry blossoms are exhibited in this city on the
ends of branches that were broken from trees a
fortnight ago, and have been kept in water indoors
Bits of branches of cherry, apple, pear, lilac and
other trees and shrubs, taken INTO the house now
and kept standing III vases OF water, Will blossom
In a week or two.
The IXth Assembly District Republican Associa-
tion vO ed last night to disapprove of the amend
ment to article II of the constitution, which de-
clares that no person who shall have been nom
Republican party shall be deemed a Democrat
WITHIN the meaning of the article. A good-natured
discussion followed the motion.
1t Will be remembered that in the great gale of
lost, carrying 143 men, who lett 53 widows
and 141 children eomPrehe1siye charity has
G2 Dey-st., Is the New-York agent. lie acknOwl-
edges the receipt OF $4S9 to date.
The Spring opening of f. Ridley & Sons of Grand
and Allcn-sts., takes place to-day and Tomorrow.
Among the goods shown are trimmed and un-
trimmed bOnnCts and round hats also clOaks,
suits, dolmans and tichns. This opening has been
somewhat delayed by the obstruction caused by the
building of the Metropolitan Elevated Railway.
of tip rd nf Do
lice Justices, makes the following return of fines
collected III March, 1879: Special Sessions
S32G %; First District Police Court, $44l; Second
district Police Court, $317 80; Third District Po
hge Court, 1880 30 Fourth District Police Court,
1927 Fifth District Police Court. SOC; Sixth Dis
tuct Police Court, $40 total -, ,493 %
More women are missing Pauline Dreschke age
sixteen, IL reported missing from Breslln, Long
island. Three weeks ago she came from Bohemia,
the wife OF young cOuntryman. On March - and
%, she visited friends at No. 1l9 lhiTd-st, and
started to return to her husband, but has not since
been seen. The police have been asked to keep a
sharp lookout 1Or Mrs. Christine lhumm. age fifty
three, VINO has been missing since sunday. She Is
small, pecuilaT-lOOklng aud insane.
The COroner's Office yesterday recorded the sixth
death within SIX months, on the new-fashIOned
elevated railroad. Thomas Mooney, a carpenter on
the New-lo Line, at IhIrd-aye. ana One-hundred-
and-seventeenth-st., was az work III the morning
a tram approached backed up by engine No. So
He mIscaculated its speed, and was struck by the
rear car, and knocked from the track. He struck
headiiGst the pavement aud his skull was crushed
III, killing HIM instantly. Mooney was forty three
years Old and leaves a wife aud two children.
According to the monthly report of the Naval Off
Ger the number of vessels from toTe ports entered
at the Custom House during the past month was
G44. OF these the nationality was as follows:
American, l05 Brilsh, 2l3; German, 80 Italian
A ; Norwegian So swedish, 3 Danish, Dutch
& ; French, spanish, = Portuguese, (; Austrian
% Russian, Belgian, 4 Haytian, Central
American, /, ana Venezuelan, /. The vessels were
classified steamers, III; ; ships. Gl : barks, 25s
bng~, 81, aud schOoners, TO-
SOross had a hyely and profitable meeting yes
tcrday at DcmOmcO's. Among the guests from
abroad we're Mrs Brooks, the sculptor who gets her
marble from the quarry, and Miss NJ. T.. Lam
bert, of Philadelphia. lac influence OF Woinans
Work on Literature" was the theme for
discussion, and papers read by Mrs. Henrietta