New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-01
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NETWORK CITY.

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NETWORK CITY.
The total number of immigrants landed at Castle
| Garden during last week was 1.J77.
The employees of Lord & Taylor were agrceably
| eut.rtoiucd last evening at u dinner gwen by the
finn at the Hotel Monico, on the occasion OF their
| seui-annual taking OF stock
Tie firm of Enrich & Co., the popular dry goods
| house. will hereafter be known ~ Enrich Bros
| Samuel w. and Julius :. Enrich. younger brothers.
| beng admitted as members.
Professor Peisifer Frazer, jr Of IA,ladeInhIa
| lcclurcd last evening at Cooper Institute on MI
croscopic Minera logV" The lecturer illustrated
| by number of microscopic reflections thrown on
screen.
The highest price ever paid for scat in the Stock
Exchange was given Friday by John W; Ammcr-
/ who was elected member recently. The price was
$1,000.
John Cunther age forty-nine years. Of Sixty
| seven list. between Eighth and Nnth-avcs.. hung
| hunse last night. but was discovered and cu down
! III time. The police took INN 10 the Nlnety-nlDth
street Hospital.
The cahnet-makcrs in the employ of knuSkopp
| & Schneider yesterday resolved 10 strike on the
| ground that some unfinished work had been re-
ceIyed nj the shop from Film q Co.. whose work
men hav. been on strike for three weeks.
| Among the names signed to the petition shortly
| to be forwarded TO Albany protesting against the
| Robbins Reef bill being pass.dare lhuriow Weed
| General Ward. George aw, Henry Clews CO., j.
| j Cisco u sons, q. NJ. Bogart ~ Co.. aud Wother-
/ spoon Il Co.
The Grand Jury was discharged yesterday for the
| term by Recorder Smyth. II January the District
| Attorneys office received G3G cases; indlcimcuts
were found AGAINST 2gS persons; c'msalhts were
dismissed against - 10 were tired and acquitted
| and 90 were convicted.
Blank petitions were mailed by the Board Of
! Trade and Transportation Yesterday 20 each Com
rressiona District ia the United states, where they
| will be placed m responsible hands and signed Ivy
merchants and others, and then forwarded 10 Com
grcss. The petitions are for the carly passage Of
| the Reagan bill
Char.cs II. Titus. alias pr Thompson. charged
| " tn attempting 10 negotiate forged check for
| 500 600. putporiin 10 have been drawn by j. H..
Colgate a Co. the BAN; or America, was le>ter-
| dav convicted If having The forged paper ~ his
possession with lntcn, tO d"iaud. Recorder Hmy IN
sentenced him TO STATE Prison for two y"lis.
John H. Emcrck, Superintendent OF the Fire
Alarm Telegraph. was dismissed by the FIRE Com
| missioner. Yesterday without notice and without
charges. llc entered the department m 1871 as m
| operator. and has been superintendent since NIB
| Assistant superintendent j. Elliot smith was pro-
NOTED to the vacant position. Mr. limerick asserts
that hIs dismissal must bee due 90 political rcJsOus
| for no fault had ever been found with him.
Traphagcn & Co.. dealers in clothing M No. 400
Rowcfv have put their affairs in the bands Of their
creditors for ritemcnt. The firm has been re-
gaTGcd weak in the trade on account ol the failure
| In 1876 Of the old firm Of Imphagcn Hunter q
| Co.. who compromised their liabilities oiTGIOOO at
| go cents on the dollar rhe liabilities OF tho
| present firm are about 10000, aud tho nominal
assets are valued at $500, consisting pI ncr-
chandise $4,000 and good accounts S2,s0
| The United State, steamer Powhatan sailed from
her anchorage of the Battery Yesterday for Norfolk,
| and will thence proceed to the West Indies FOR
| crulse. II was rumOrcd that General Grant would
! he taken on board at Havana, aud after visiting
some of the other Island, would be taken 10 Vera
| Cruz Her principal officers are captain - l..
! Brine commanding; Lieut. 'hant Commander u.
| H. Mc(aler executive officer: Lieutenant \. Dun
| lap, navigator; Chief Eneincrr W g., BnehGr;
Passed Assistant Engineers Roberi Is. llinc }. ".
Gardner Surgeon, l. Wolycrton Paymaster, >. /.
| Brow ne. ,, go.
Twenty-Five building permits were issued during
last week.
The public evening schools, with tho exception of
the Evening High School. VIII Ell viii be kept open
three weeks longer were closed FRIDAY nlGht, altcr
a session of twelve weeks.
The Rev. David X. Fraser, of the First Prcsbyte-
nan Church in liunalO, has accepted the call eX-
tended 10 him few days ago by the GLEASON Avenue
Presbyterian Church. He Will begin MS pastoral
duties about March /.
Thomas Mc(iuire. age twenty-three, Of No. 1s2
Grcen-st., while assisting in turning the III wheel
of the engine in y. &. Smiths bOX-tacOry, at Oak
land and iox-sts. yesterday afternoon was caught
| between the wheel and the floor, aud was so badly
| crushed that death ensued almost Instantly
A, Robert Anty, ace forty. OF No. J3 North
Tcuth-st. was passing through Van Gotta near
| the Bushwck Creek Bridge, Friday night, he was
| assaulted by nh unknown man. who struck at ms
face with knife, iniIclnR severe hut not danger
| ans emf The assailant then fed. Mr. Auty knows
no reason why anyone should assault HIM.
Cornelius Kundson was arrested in Futon-st. at
| a IN
| drunk and disordorly. lie drew IA club upon the
onicer who, after struggle, succeeded IN getting
| nnsscs.ion of IL. Kundson then broke from the
| IN ecr's grasp and ran away pursued by Mckenna,
| who fired two shots at HIM The man was recap
| tured at Fulton-st. and Hudson-ave.
| Officer Michael GIlfeather, who rs charged with
infIctI ing probably fatal injuries upon Thomas KEN
ncdy At the latters saloon. at Court and Nnth-sts-
| carly Thursday morning aud who admitted to
hail i'm $500 by Justice Ferry, rearresed vcster
dev morning. He il sIXtyf0ur years of age and has
heen connected with ho Now York police for thirty
| wears. He WAS sent to the Raymond Street Jail
| without bail
District Attorney Catlin yesterday sent TO JUS
| tice Walsh letter ia reference TO Gertrude
n gold double eagle from Miss Mary liile of No. 81
| Eicventh-st. He suggested that Miss Knight be
| given AN opportunity to reform inasmuch tins
| was her first offence and she had already been III
the iail Tor several weeks. General Calm SAID that
| he had understood that two ladies were willing TO
take her into their antilles and care Tor her. JUS
| tice Walsh suspended sentence.
NEWARK
| Frank Lammens is improving in health, and the
| murder trial will probably be resumed tomorrow.
| Lammens says he Is anxious that the trial should
| 90 on, aud seems very cheerful.
An issue has arisen between the large shippers Of
! Newark and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| and Plank Road Bridge Company relative TO
| the rights of the railroad and plank-rcad. com
panies TO close their bridges for repairs and thus
| prevent the navigation Of the river. The matter
has been laid before the Collector of the Port aud
| will be submitted to Judge Nixon at Trenton.
Officer Mossbaeker, of the First Precinct. took a
| man named James Lacey TO the staton-h house on
| FRIDAY night. apparently very drunk. Yesterday
| morning the police surgeon pronounced the man
-, f,ou, alc and ordered his removal