New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-14
NETWORK CITY.

largest ever found. When wet it measures eight
feet IN circumference.
The windOw-curtain In w. II. s. WOOdss house,
No. East Sxty-third-st., caught fire yesteIday'
and the building and furniture we're damaged $6OO.
The Manhattan Elevated Railroad Company has
been requested to erect n station at lhrd-aVe anu
Nnety-secondst. for the accommodation OF AStOria
people,
A. G. Wheeler has started new anti-Kelly paper
at TarrYtOwn, n. Y, called The Sannyside Press,
quarto form, with attractive type and interesting
local and miscellaneous departments.
The faces of pedestrians yesterday contained as
many wrinkles as last years raISins. while their
| fingers were busy engaged in removing the dust
that had gathered in the corners OF their eyes,
The cloth that was tied around the neck of the
child which was found drowned at One-hundred-
and-forty-fOurth-St, in Motifs Canal was q me
cambric handkerchief with the name cut OUT
The Fisk University Singers will give q concert
Friday evening" April 49, ut Steinway Hall. the pro-
ceeds to be equally divided between the Chinese
Mission, at No. IA Mott-st.. and the FISK UniVer-
| sity.
The steamship Arizona. from Liverpool landed
| 812 eIniRrants at Castle Garden; the Clrcassia
from Glasgow, 724; the Casf9lIa. from IN London
| d total of 1907.
Daniel O'Leary offers to match Hart and Dobler
| against any two men in England In pedestrian
contest of 142 consecutive hours for $1OOOO SIDE
| and upwards. the place to be New York City, and
the time to DO any week within three months
Tho Aldermen's Committee on Public Works win
| go TO Albany to urge the passage OF bill drafted
| 6y Corporation Counsel Whitney, intended to cure
the present defects in the assessment laws and to
meet tho decision of the Court of Appeas that flag
| ging means paving.
The Fair for the benefit of st. AIMS Church. now
going on at Tammany Hail. will close on Friday
night when the handsome cedar row-boat and
great number of other valuable articles VIII be rat
fed OF sold at auction. The drawing for the 81. 600
bond Will take place on Thursday night.
One of the most disgusting of the many peripat-
etc nusances of the city is seen daily around South
Ferry, in the person OF dirty cigar Vender. VINO
| approaches yOn with crinRng look and % handful
Of two tor cents cigars omerlng lignten SUD-
| Tho Ncw-York and Brooklyn Elevated Railway
| Company whose application to the Brooklyn Com
mon Council for permission TO construct elevated
roads through number of streets in that city was
referred yesterday, has applied to the East River
Bridge Trustees tor permission to run its cars over
tue bridg". 1t promises to give adequate compeh-
| satiOn
A gentleman living in East Twenty third-st
missed his little fve-year-Od son yesterday alter:
| noon aud. after short fright found HIM several
| blocks from home. Tho child had feathers In his
| hat n wooden gun in his hands, and q plan TO gO
| West and kill Indians He was persuaded to forego
| his bloody intentions.
Among several appointments made by Adj1tant
General Townsend 10 fill vacancies in the National
| Guard are the following Samuel Richards, as
| sistant Acknowledgement; Lienionant- Colonel j.
| fIenry storey Inspector, and Robert Herbert and
Walter X. lOsseter, alde-dc-camps IN the second
DIVISION staff. Major Robert ELEPHANT y appointed
| Some piers and bnlkheads on the North and East
! Rivers were sold by the Dock Department yester-
day. Among the principal sales we're Pler West
| Company; pier No. q, North River, $4,000, An
cbor Steamship Line: half Of per No 20, North
| River So 100. to ID. =. Bahcock; pier No. 81
| East River 81 900. to Central Vermont Railroad.
At the third annual meeting Yesterday of the
Hardware Board Of Trade the following directors
| were elected u +. HungerfOrd, +. A. Boxer +. Il.
| Cole, + Wicbusch, James Z. Pope, John Z. Cook,
| H. +. Richardson, Henry Is Newhall, and Peter
G1T t. GSTS VIZ f. Goe
James Il. Goldey, actuary; and Frederick u. Dow,
! CGnuScl.
James Connerty, of No. II Main;;t.. Brooklyn, q
| wnichman in rho employ of Van Hoesen & Co. at
their MGR on the North River. held in default
| of $500 bail by Justice Kbreth yesterday at the
ToInbs for an unustiliabe assault aud battery with
n club on Dennis McGrath, of No. 240 Cherry-st, at
o o'clock yesterday morning. The wounded man
had his head wrapped up III Oahdages' ana appeared
10 be suffering acutey,
The nollco of the Twenly-ninth Precinct reported
| Yesterday that David Ilennessey, young machnst
living at No. 21S Rutledgest., Brooklyn, had been
hire Garden at No. COG Sixth-ave. Tho trouble
occurred at hnlfpast O'Clock in the morning,
Fights in this place have been frequent but rs yet
no complaint has been made OF the saloon to tho
Excise Commissioners
The many friends of tho late Charles G. Waite. SO
long and favoraby known as the proprietor OF the
BrcyOort House. will not 6e surprised to know that
the same business sagacity which he evlnceh IN the
management of his extensive hotel Investments
surrd in tho Mutual Life OF New-York for $4,000,
and rho claim was paid yesterday ! he accnmula-
lions on bis pOllcleS we're over p0,OoU'
BROOKLYN.
An entertainment Is to be given ut the Academy
of Music for tine benefit of the widow and children
Of the late Officer James N; stone, who was MUIR
dcrcd by TutlianS i'll South Brooklyn. Mr. 3eechcr
has consented to give II lecture on the occasion.
A man named Albert Prentice took a room at
Moorc's Hotel, No. II FultOn-st;, on Friday. On
Sunday night he went out for short time. 1ester-
duv morning as he failed to come out of his room
the door was forced open. and he was found to bG
deed He was tweny-scvcn years of age, and lived
-, believed that his death duo
to- natural causes,
The sale of property for unpaid taxes and water
rotcS for 1873, which has been advertised for
several mouths. was begun yesterday in the Office
| of the Registrar of Arrears. The number of par
cells OF property advertised to es sold was 40i0
only nine bids were received The sale was ad-
| jOurned Tor IL week.
The new Board Of Finance aud Taxation was or
eanized yesterday by the reelection of Marcus
| Beach as president,
The suit of Henry Morgan against Patrick Lally,
| TO recover $4,000 damages for cnticing away Mrs.
MORGAN was taken up in the Hudson County Circuit
Conrt yesterday, when Mr.. Morgan was nOnsuited.
The hall and stairs at No 63 Newark ave-, Jersey
| Civ were saturated with kerosene oil yesterday
morning and then set on fire. The flames were dis
covered by one of the inmates OF tue house and eX-
tugiished. There are five families IN the building.
NEWARK.
Frederick KOCH boy employed in Hopper s. Val
entlnes iewelry shop has been held Tor trial on O
charge OF stealing gold from the firm.
Tho inquest IN the case Of Mrs. DR.. Franklin,
who died suddenly on April 2, came to an end last
evening, the Jury charging one with criminal H.
ability.
Tic special committee of the Board Of Freehold,
ers has been engaged In private investigation OF
| the circumstances attending the escape % The
forper Lindner from the custody of the Jail Warden
| while on the way to Newark from Trenton
NEW-JERSEY.
| RAuwAY.-James Thompson, n colOrcd preacher.
was found dead Sunday morning in an old unten-
onted house in Milton under circumstances which
afr Olv hat he had tO
| E1lzABETu-Dr NJ. NJ. Woodruff leading ply
sicnn and director of the Elizabeth Savings lnsti
tntion tile National State Bank and Mutual lnsur-
nnce Company died on Sunday evening, age sew
| o,,f v-DiD