New-York tribune., 1879-03-03

Arrests last week, /, ,124; births, 5Zo; mar
| rages 2O3 deaths, 600
Tiaany's birthday and Easter cards are IN
QUAINT ana elegant designs and are very popular
Johnston. of Twenty -second-st. and Broad
wav is having n special sale i'm the shoe department.
The Alsatian bonnet is the name given to
tho opcra decoration winch consists OF one large DO"
and strings
The principal iObbers in the oil trade nave
sgncdan tnat on aud after Wednesday 'ne,
viii not receive trade dollars except at discount OF
per cent.
The Board of Excise granted G5 licenses
Ia, week. and received in foes, $500 In FEBRUARY
3I5 licenses were granted, and the receipts amounted
T. S1jI7j.
Superintendent Wallng has been instructed
by the Board of Police give the necessary orders to
prevent boys the vicinity or the hOtel ID
from annoying passtIs by
The longshorcmcn who struck because the
Cromwell Steamship Company reduced Their wages
were not taken back on SATURDAY. New men mrh "oiAc"
in rheil places, under the protection OF tHe ponce
The East River Ferry Company proposes to
establish new line OF boats TO rn between Hunters
Paint and some pont near East Elevcnhst II after
air trial the ferry is found to be profitable 1t Will be
continued.
Ions Palmcro. who is supposed TO be the
Italian WHO klci ON Sunday last, at one hundred-and-
scvcntA-st. and Thirdsvc., the German butcher y"n
schuczc has obtained writ OF hahras corpus return
al l-
The United States steamer Marion has been
thoroughly ovchaued and equipped for another three
years cruise, since her return from the European
squadron several weeks she VIII be attached TO
the North Atlantic squadron, ana T san rom mere ou
Wednesday for Norfolk, thence 10 the West Indies
The counsel Of the indicted officials OF the
BROOKLYN Board OF CITY Works have decided not 10
move to quash the indictment the ground that tue
G. and JuIy which found II Ns n"t lGaiy Us Us
10 rv the case and they discharged last Monday
By Judge Nelson.
Mavor Cooper and Commissioner Erhardt
have Guided TO hold another conversation today
about the affairs Of the Police Board The notes Of the
,tcnoerapher are being corrected aud il Is said thcse Is
some disagreement on tbl' point Mr. cooper ls re-
ported having stated recently that tho charges II
proven very serious, sufficiently 80 to cause Teor-
eauization of the Board.
There is lively scramble by candidates for
the office Of Dock Commissioner made vacant by the
death Of Commissioner Wcstcryclt The persons pIomi-
nently mentioned for the place are eXMay"rs Ely and
WIckham Salem II. Wales, General Alexander shalcr,
James OIis John Richardson, Matthew Kane George
H. Penniman Dexter A. Hawkins, Isaac Bcll, John +:
probably M the vacancy This week for the unexpIred
term 10 May l. when an appointment will be made for
the full term OF slG years.
BROOKLYN.
Twenty building permits were issued last
week.
Louis A. Cole, of No. il Soutl-st., New
York, was arrested Saturday, warrant charging him
with committing perjury his testimony at the Trial Of
John Wilbur, one Of the Pttohcn-avc burglars.
Patrick EtOn, of No. 3G2 Hicks-st, as
sauIted his wife with poker uGicug several severe
scalp wounds and probably fIacturiug her skull He is
now angushng IN the jail awaiting the results OF the
injuries
During a quarrel on Carroll-st. between
william Martinson and Charles Thompson, Saturday
night MartinsOn BIT Thompson's lip and thumb In q
rihe manner. MartinsOn arrested. Both sail
Ors the ship Caledona, lying at the Atlantic Dock
The committee which was appointed soon
after the great Brooklyn Theatre fire. December 3,
1876 to distribute funds collected for the relief of
the families OF victims. has paid out all the money
that was raised. The committee was com
posed Of the Rev. Dr. A. L. Putnam. j.. VI.
Chluucey, Albert DacGett, Thomas Carroll,
William j. SImus and Mayor Schroeder, ana
II i, believed that the money carefully and u-
dicOusy expended report has been prepared IT The
conmttee'- work, and after IL Is audited bY Mayor
Howell ex-supervisor Fleeman and Thomas Carroll. II
Will he given 10 the public. The amount contributed
was about 81 900, and time the relief lst COM
pIlsed - families representing 700 persons.