New-York tribune., 1880-01-07
NEW.YORK CITY.

Tho number of deaths in tenement-houses in this
city in 1870 was 1906. In the Potters fleld
3.497 bodies were buried.
James w. Clark yesterday made an assignment
for the nefit OF creditors to John }. Adams. Elias
Moore made an assignment to John Merchant; pref
ercnces about c3,OOO.
Miss Linda Gilbert called ut the TOmbs yester-
day and presented TO each of the boy inmates
loiae slate and pencil big picture book, wooden
pail full of candy, an apple and an orange
Tho Pilot Commissioners yesterday again post
poned the trial OF the pilots of the steam pilot-0oat
Hercules They ordered the removal of a sunken
canal boat in the slip pat Merchants Stores, Brooklyn
The Tobacco Board of Trade met at its rooms, No.
1s7 Pcar-st yesterday A report of the Committee
ON Trade Regulations was presented. submitting
rules for the sale of leaf tobacco.
The Young Mems Christian Association reports
for December; General attendance, 223oO; read
ing-rOom. 0,45O; library 34Io gymnasium
3 300; prayer-meetngs. 1922; Bible classes.
2.1s7.
The members Of the Produce Exchange will vote
to-day on the question whether me operatIon 1 Oh
grcss and the State Legislature shall take action
for it's adoption.
The directors Of tho National Rife Association
Yesterday received proposition from Mr.. Poppen-
heusen 10 sell additional ground adjoining the range
at Crecdmoor 10 the association. A special COM
mittec was appointed in regard to the matter.
The committee of the Maritime Exchange havin
under consideration a bill to reduce pilotage fees
and to abolish compulsory piotage at this port met
Yesterday and reported large subscription list. In
relief from Congress.
William A. Kimball, of Ferris & Kimball Alfred
Wilkinson, of Wilkinson & Co.. OF Syracuse; and
Henry W. Dodd, OF Richardson, HiIl & Co., Boston,
have been admitted recently members of the Stock
Exchange. The election of one other candidate viii
complete the membership.
In the absence of n disposition 10 trade. and tho
export demand being very light, the breadstui'
market was unusually heavy yesterday with sharp
decline in prices. Flour fell 10 TO ID cents barrel,
wheat from 2 to 2al cents bushel, corn L to
| cent, and oats l2 TO q cents bushel.
The following Is comparative statement OF
tho contagious diseases reported to the Board Of
Health during the week ending january 81
Week ending rPSSa J3s4 GS15s' fsysS Mea,o tdsRs dDRs
Psss%%e5 5sSsaIy f5 f3s5 sa5s7o:: q 81 is $s55
| The Board of Supervisors for 1850 will meet for
the first time to-day and will organize rs their pre-
siding officer. the Supervsor-at-Large Is already
elected, the only contest VIII be over the president
| pro tenn The Democrats in caucus here resolved to
| support Supervisor Moran. The majority is Demo-
| cratic.
The United States ship Tennessee flagship. of the
| North Atlautic Station left the Navy Yard Monday
afternoon and anchored off the Battrey for the pur-
| pose of taking in her powder. She will sail this
afternoon for Norfolk, and go from there to the
West Indies. She will return Northward early IN
| the Spring and will probably touch at this port on
| her way to Halifax
| A complimentary benefit will be given to J. Levy,
the cornet player at Roster & Bials Hall in
| Twenty-thirCl-st Thursday evening. January 10.
| The orchestra will be greatly increased and alter,
| natelv directed by r. Bal and T. 5. Gilmore. and
while under the leadership of the latter will play
| tbe new American anthem Columbia" Miss Abbe
Carrngton will sing, and Mr.. Levy wlli play some
| of his most difficult pieces
| gentleman who prefers that his name should
NOT he known has given n church organ 10 the Five
Points House of Industry for in the chapel, and
n series of free weekly organ concerts Will be gwen
The first will occur this evening the organlst being
| T. A. Penield, Organlst Of the Rev Dr. Cuyiers
| Church Brooklyn. The children of the House OF
Industry will participate i'll the concert.
The tenants in the house No. 90 Socond-Gve. re-
ported yesterday to the Bonrd oI health that !, a
with a suspicious fever, in the house. On iuvesti-
| cation she was found 10 be n Mrs. Sickzclmcr, 4
| member of the chorus Of Strak0schs opera troupe,
! who falling sick with typhoid fever In Baltimore
had been left behind by the troupe, and. when con-
| valescent came to this city.
The rooms OF the Art Students League, at No. los
| Fifth-ave., were well filled at the monthly Iecep-
tion last evening. The antique room had been
| cleared Of it, usual contents, and paintings and
Among them were number OF sketches by Mur
| phy photographs of panels by Coleman, q pOrtait o
a son of 5. =. Avery by Robert G; Hardie, an old
student of the League now with Ger0me, and said
20 be ct the head OF his life class, and several paint
ings by Weir among them portrait of his father
Robert Weir. of West Point. The portrait Of Aver,
| by Hardie received honorable mention By the jury
OF the fine arts nt Paris last season. The evening
was passed in an informal manner by the guests Ii
inspecting the paintings and sketches, ana examin
ing the work OF the students IN the lie and portrai
BROOKLYN.
Sergeant John Carr of the Fourth Precinct, wa
Yesterday retired on half pay by the Board of Po
lice and Excise. at his own request aud IN accord
anco with the law concerning twenty years service
A case of smallpox was found yesterday in IN
Sixteenth Ward, and tho victim, a man. rs
moved 10 tho hospital for contagious diseases /
, Fiatbush. The Board of Health refuse TO max
known the exact locality Of the tenement-houso !
| which the disease was found.
, The Directors of tho Fulton Municipal Con
many who stopped laying pipes while the movomci
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