New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-07
NETWORK CITY.

The homestead of the late General Brisbin was
sold at private sale yesterday.
Catalogues of the collections in the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art are now ready.
FlowcrinG Almonds are in blossom, and the WIS
teTia is just beginning to bloom.
A crate of Florida peaches was seen IN the WINDOW
Of Broadway fruit-deaer yesterday.
The North Baptist Church has just paid OFT an ad'
ditiOnal So, 600 on the mortgage debt.
The filling-in Of the new sea wall at the United
States Barge Office is nearly completed.
The Battery was crowded yesterday with poor
people enjoying the breeze from the bay.
Staten Island travel is greatly auGmented by per-
SOILS seeking the cool air in these unseas0nahly
hot days.
Ira D. Sankcy is in the city. and will conduct the
Gospel temperance services at Cooper Union nuh-
day evening.
The number of visitors at the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art yesterday was lO,ZOo total LOT Che
week so far, II ,72S.
Twcnty-four canal boats, the first of the through
fleets from Buffalo, arrived yesterday with totai
If 1876 600 bushels Of grain.
Tobaccochcwcrs riding on the elevated trains use
Tie streets below spittOons often to the unutter-
able disgust of unfortunate pedestrians
William A. Boyd, CoTporation-AttOrney, paid to
the Controller yesterday f20S penalties collected
during April for violation OF City ordinances.
A high wind Yesterday afternoon envelOped the
city in clouds of smoke and dust. In streets th4t
had not been watercd there was almost sand
storm.
Anumber of young girls, headed by May Quern
dressed in buo and white and carrying May pole
dccked with ribbons, visited the Central Park yes
tcrdaY
Tho large clock ordered for tho new tower ut tho
Arsenal in Central Park, was placed III position on
Wednesday, aud was illuminated last night lor the
first time
George F. Slosson has challenged Jacob Schacfer
to play for the Collcndrr Badge mt the champions
game, cmhlcmatIc of the championship OF America,
and for 300.
Friends of Leopold Wallhrunn, n German, who
nj Ngh m IL hp IL Of
be insane reported at Police Headquarters last
evening that he had been missing since Tuesday.
The body of an unknown man of niddic age and
TnaIng in North River at The foot of West thirty
iirl-st. last evening. II was sent to the Moreue.
Professor William II. Thomson, ". d., will dc.
liver an address to Young men only in the hall OF
Tie Young Mems Christian Association this even
ing Suhicc: physiological Relations OF the
Will" Admission Tree.
William Maxwell. age twcnty-threo years, of No.
337 Rivington.st. fci under his own truck ycstcr-
day was run over aud had bO'h legs crushed The
ac,Ilcnt happened in Cannon-St. lie was taken To
Bellevue Hospital by the police.
Post CAPTAIN j. Pcizrl. commanding the Austrian
frgatc SailG visited General Hancock. ut Gov
rrnor'S Island. yesterday. lie was accompanied by
two officers. General lancock was invited TO visit
the Austrian vessel, and will do 80 next week.
The body of the man found floating two days ago
in The North River near Guttcnburg y. j., was yes
trriay identified as tLlt OF John Crowthcr, an Eng
lisb c1rprt-willcr who lived at West F0rty.Sccond
|
urday.
A pair Of large vases in a Broadway window at
tracts much a.t,rtiou The OTnamcntaton repre-
cents Tire dance of the frogs" and 80 naturally
are the little creatures represented among the
leaves AID VINES that they look rs ii they were
really alive.
tirnr.,o Brown, the laborcr, whose death at No.
-Gp T,lr,-alr Va, reported ~ bring thc result Of
Op.uin poisoning, TOOK the poison. 1t was asccr-
/ tanned Yesterday. with thc purpose ol DESTROYING
his he liz had been sick for thirteen years aud
| wanted 4 change.
Hugh KmscIc, fry years Of age of no, 81 Bur
nrt-si. committed suicide on Wednesday afternoon.
| IL. drank great deal of whislry and then took
! Paris green. HIS wife Thought ho had taken an
cmcic, and PAID no attention to HIM until Inc threw
! himself upon the ln0r.
John IIoif age twenty -hrcc years, standing in the
! ward at ms humc No. $50 Fursyth-St., Yesterday.
! wa. struck in the face hv clohcs-po,t falling from
| the roof. \ sharp point penetrated hi- nose and
came ont through the roof IF the mon j.. The wound
! IL dangerous Inc police took HIM To the Chambers
| Street Hospital.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bowen who arrived here in tho
steamship England, from ldvrrp"o on April ..
| ,nuulaILrd to Superintendent Jackson. OF Castle
! CAMDEN yesterday, that her husband. John Bowen.
! had abaudoH,d her soon after landing. II was
found that he had returned 10 Europe on the White
| Star steamer yesterday.
Workmcn arc engaged in tearing down an Old
! buldng on the Luriillrd estate. ut No. 1913
| Srnng-,t. Yesterday PARTITION wall fell in. bury
| ing underneath II William Mckcnna, aborcr
who caluo 20 this country only thleI wtGkS ago.
ILL.,, head was broken, and he died immediately upon
being taken from the RUNS
| Afternoon teas have become general in this
CITY that dresses especially designed for these III
formal ucrlsiOuS are among the imported costumes.
aGd mr., called "tra GOWNS. Ihcy consist o short
| OF I-ini-trlIlu.d prHtrd skirt over Whl.l - worn
! Il long straight gown entirely without drlp'ng.
| PLAIN Cashmere and gay POnpadour brocddc are
! used.
! In quarrel early Yesterday morning Palricl,
! Ipy"ii, Il &Htrhn."u ~ tdu-rN'or Mli!'t S;a"h'd
! DANIEL Sullivan IN tire groin after chasing linn
| ayrral hlorlS. The wounded man was aItendcd IT
S. Nmr"nt3 Ilns!Hlal and LoNett was held In
| s. 900 hail bv Justice Murray al the Jrilrraon
| Market Police Court. Inc wound was only slight
! one.
THE barrel Of new Georgia nrur sent here to he
snld for thc brurtit OF lI" Calvary Epi>"npal
c. rrrl m Amrrig,, Ga, purcha ed Yesterday
! T.. Lang x Rnhiu,on for ~. II MIS- purchased
on Wednesday hY E.J. J.nulntS for go aud given
| hark 10 h" r"oi. il Will now b'#Ht {" the MI
| cr' Associations London 10 be SOLD again i0f thc
church,
Many Of tie rev costumes Lave the font o! the
sNiits in arral ioos" iuis stirred -rycral times to
tuit car,i rlir. Some ut these PENS aIr 'u Largo
tlaf t!l.,.. al tom iorm tie entire front al ~"
| dies. 1Er brtto.n % finished WITH narrow nun
| can wear Tins dress with grace must ne tail and
! SLENDER. and muic nan ~ ual!N graceful
The disappearance Of llraiy {. Maxwell, 4 boy OF
eight ,,"ll,. from hts honr M West lhirN-"Nrnlh-
! H. mivc"u Seventh aud EIghi-avc'., was reported
to ne police Yesterday. Thc boy WAS recently taken
on visit 10 lana;ic asylln,aud Thal Ila saw there
iJa'l" 50 srnnH an linrir,arm on n, '1inu t.at y"
| ha, siucc given signs OF mental drraiIscntnt. An
| a.rrin. WItn his drscripiion, was sent ont from
| IoIrc headquarters yesterday.
| The death Of Mary Anderson, Il married woman,
| twenty -rrht years Of ny" at No, Q | If Srrond-
| ave. IRON "SvE'npc' wa3 reported yesterday 20
! Ih, Board Of llcath nr. f. H. Daily, Of No. BOG
! LAT Observation-Disclosures cnty-iourth-St who -
turl the c,riicj!r made II foot note 10 the eff ct
tlat thr Woman had died lIrui larl, Of food ami OH
The official record tho Of death put star
| walton. I ne woman was Irish, and had been six
years in tn" country.
| james Riley. hotcl-krrpcr in Philadelphia, was
! murdered last Ortohcr 10y ruliian naEIrd CIrley,
alias "Shcrncy' harris, who made hlS escape aud
| lat rludrd pursuit since then. When Inspector
! L.rucs tna' his Manhattan bank prisoners 10 the
! Tomb, ON Wcdu,. dav, hc rec 'guizri in prisoner
| detained there lor grand larceny tie fugitive mur-
| Grrcr Yesterday, When the man VAS released on
! bail the INSPECTOR cluscd his arrest and in formed
1 dol uhio Dolicp