New-York tribune., 1879-12-19
NEW YORK CITY.

"Ihe shows that have seem"
There were Ola storage passengers on the Vader-
land which arrived yesterday. OF this number
fflv-four were Belgian glass blowers. and 16O we're
Italians.
The next lecture in the course of the Yonng Mems
Christian Association VIII ne dehverea nhiS evening"
subject will b. Norway and the Midnight Snn."
At meeting of the XyIIth Assembly District
Republican Association last evening several res
uutions tending To promote harmony between the
Simonson and Mason parties were unanimously
adopted
All officers and members OF the Fire Department
are now forbidden. either directly or indirectly. to
solicit coat ributions subscriptions, or to iniln
any one topurchasc tickets. for entertainments
of any kind.
The French Cnnsnl-Gcneral Mt Ncw-York sent p
letter 10 the Produce Exchange yesterday stating
that in cnusrQucucc al the deepening OF the canal
from the ~ Caen. ships drawing seventeen feet
can easily enter H.
A dozen persons repres"ntnr several steamship
lines and the Eastn.cns Association called up"n
Police Commissioner, Noorh'S and French yc>icr-
day aiternoon, and lr'icSicG against the Iooscd
abolition OF the s;oamDJd, squad.
A meeting OF the grain n dc was he'll. yesterday
60 adOp: certain amendments relative 10 the call on
the GENITAL system. These amendments were votcd
down Amos! unanimously. he feeling among The
grain trade against tie GENITAL system continues 10
bc great.
Edward Leuthy, who refused to join the other
employees OF the Ncw-Ycrk Meat Canning Company.
at No. ju2 West Ihifty-nDtli-St. on strike, VAS
knocked down Wednesday night hy striker. who
held for iial Yesterday i'll tie Essex Market
Conrt III ~ coo bail.
4 fire tha, broke ont in the cellar under the store
At No. 10 Broadway, i'll the New-Y0rk Hotel, yes
teriay al ilcrn0on, caascd some excitement among
the guests in the hotel The pronptncss oi the tire
lHcn. VINO speedily CNtinTuished thc n3lnrS. pr
vented panic. The damage amounted to 5000.
The death from measles of anoih..r child in tie
Baby shelter at No. lf3 Wcst iw"u,Ictp-st.
Wa reported yesterday. The disease is assuming an
epidemic form IN the city and daily increasing.
but is chiefly OF mid type. The new cases re-
ported to the Health Board average about thirty
five daily.
Nelson Ladonser dcc. hand. who found dead
shot in the forehead on the tugboat Belle, at tine
foot cf West Fourtsenth-St.. ON the morning of
September O. The pollcc found evidence that la
Gonser had been murdered ny rivcr-thlcves but
have been unable 10 trace the criminals.
Francis W. Fitch a boy. was run over and killed
in Thirc-ave on Srplemhrr 81 by an express wagon
driven hy hi-lrs kIrchdOTfeT " hen the boy was
knocked down kiTchdoricr whipped his horse and
drove away. lie WAS aitcrward arrested. In the
Court of General 's'ons yesterday he was con,
viclcd of manslaughtcr in the fourth degree and
was remandcd for sentence.
At a meeting Of tlie Worlds Fair Committee last
evening nj the Fifth Avenue Hotel, The. Executive
Committee reported that it had been hoped 10 per-
suado General Grant 70 preside at public meeting
| 90 he held tins month at the Academy of Mu,ic,
! hut owing to his trip t0 Cuba and Congress not
having Vet passed bill for tho Worlds Far, it had
been determined 10 postpone the meeting until
| some time lii January.
| your woman, VITO signs herself Alice Tracy of
Kent. Portage County, Ohio. has written TO the po-
| lice OF this city for information conccrning her
family, which in 1S62 or 1868 lived in New York.
| She writes that her father q drunkaTd and
| frightened her one night. when she girl of
three OF four years, that she ran away. was found
| by the police, and after some time was sent To
| Grcensburg, Ind, with many other children.
In several shops in Sixth-ave., in the neiGhbOr-
/ hood oi Twenty -secondst., on Wednesday even
ing a young. wcll-dressed man appeared and stated
| 10 the propr'ctors that many counterioit trade
dollars were IN circulation. lie SAID that he came
| from Police Headquarters. and that the West Side
was 10 he flooded with counterfeits. and that one
| shopkeeper had taken already 5000 OF them. ln-
guiry last evening failed to ind that any counter
feits had been circulated.
Controller Kelly sent a long letter to Corporation
! Counsel Whtney yesterday III regard to the advice
given by lim TO Mayor Cooper, not TO sign the
| warrant for Alderman George Halls salary during
December. Mr.. Kelly aryues that Mr. Halls salary
should be paid on the ground that hc still holds
commission as Alderman, lie adds: IL appears
to me to he my duty. as laid down for me by the
! Court of Appeals in tho Doan case, To treat Mr..
Hall, while hc holds his commission. as the ohcer
de jure. without nquirng whether another has the
better right"
BROOKLYN.
Emma Armstrong, girl of twelve. il reported as
missing from her home since December II. at No.
! $50 SiXtii-st.. T.. ID.
Deaths recorded in Brooklyn last week. 212;
| births, 251 marriages. GO. Twenty-Five deaths
were caused by diphtheria and twenty-five by
pneumonia.
Nathaniel II. Law. "A wcll-known resident of the
Nineteenth Ward died suddenly at his house. No.
81 Bedford lave. of paralysis of the heart late ON
Wednesday night. Mir. Law was born at Cantcr-
bury, Orange County, in 1919, and had lived in
Brooklyn for thirty years.
Justice Courtney yesterday sentenced Thomas
smith to twentN-nlnc days Imprisonment in the
iail for yagraLcy. When Officer Gihardt started 10
lead Smith from the courtroom the latter struck
him in ihe face. The Justice thcreupon increased
Smiths sentence to six months IN the Penientary
for assault and battery.
joseph Carroll. OF No. 23s Franklln-st. who com.
mittcd suicide Wednesday evening by cutting ms
throat with razor. had been employed for twenty
two years as superintendent of the stables of
the Myrile-ave. and tirtcTpolnt Inc. II is believed
that his mind had become affected by the fact that
he lcnr $500 10 ST. Amthonys Roman Catholic
Church, which recently became bankrupt.
The examination of the three n.cmle ers of the
Tlary-st. Kettle Gang" Francis Walsh. Francis
Harrington and John McLaughlin. who were
charged with aSsaultng and iObbing Martin
/ Connolly. of No 16O Prospectst. in B.Id-c-,t
Saturday night was neld before Justice Walsh y~s-
te tlay Connolly identified Harrington sS one ot
his ;is>aamts. but admitted that hc drunk
when the lray took place Other witnesses tesii-
fed 10 seeing Walsh kick Conaolly. The Justice
discharged Harrington and Mclaughlin Walsh
pleaded guilty To assault and battery.
NEWARK
The suit Of Andrew Albright against Andrew
Teas for sandcr IN the campaign was begun yestcr-
DAY IN the Circuit Court.
The cable of the American Union Telo graph Com
pamy crossing the Tassac River was tampcred with
by Unknown persons on Wednesday. and commune
cation was interrupted, but was soon restored.
NEw-JEEsEY.
PlAINFIrLp-Mrs. Link. . hard working woman
lives in cabin III the mountains back of this city,
On Saturday night she went out to make Il visit
In her absence her cabin was entered bv uukuovn
PERSONS who carried of all the furniture and doors
and even ripped up the flooring. They then set tire
10 the house, and Il was burned to the ground.
PATERsoy.-Edward J. Watson. the eldest son of
c1-Niayor Watson. of Paterson, attempted TO jump
from a train Wednesday night. and falling under
the wheels he 80 badly injured that death fol-
lowed in a few moments.
HUDSON RIVER TOWNS.
CR0TON DAM.-Ninc Irish laborers, digging gravel
near Crolon Dam. on Tuesday, worc buried un1er