New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-23
NEW-YORK CITY.

diamonds.
There arc .436 students in all the departments OF
Columbia College.
The activity in railroad frelgnts mas eanseo " W.
naud for bTakemen.
hamburger cheese is now manufactured in New
York for eXp0rtaton. ,
Two policemen at one time can rae Tree Oh tho
street cars. Tie third mast pay
The insurance companies report largely increased
business owing TO the good times.
Novel riding gloves are in gauntlet shape anu are
ornamented with hounds head.
The demand for oysters this year. dealers say
exceeds that of any previous year
moonstone cut in the shape OF an owPS head ID
among the new scarf-pinS Tor gentlemen.
Rr,ad.st is almost blocked with huge piles OF
briid NC material for the Stock Exchange.
Among new gloves are shades matching the star
sapphire trimmed at the wrist with IRISH point en-
brOideTy.
President HAYES, who had been the gnest OF A. NJ
Low. i'll Brooklyn. since Monday, went to Wasnins-
ton at noon yesterday
The practice of jumping on the boats after they
have eft the bridge is alarminGy common at vac
Corilandt Street Ferry.
Proposals we're received by the Fire COMMISSION
els Yesterday for new eDgne-house 10 oe oV''' ~
ThOmas-ave.. Eordlam
Rev,vsl Of the slave trade in New. York; Street
Nrnd.r (in loud voiccl" Here you are ; JoD lo1 Oh
japanese babies for 10 cents -
genuine eggplant in full boom-not the edible
kinds exhibited IN Il Fulton-st store WlhuOW' 1t
las q flower resembling large g0Ose-egg
The stock Exchange will be opened on the Mon,
DAYS following Christmas ana New Year Ddy III II
O'clock one hour later than the usual honr
Among the many Inducements for shui1 ng oil nus
mort Al coil j. the following ON Gfand-s,,. sign
4 iarge coffin, hearse and coach, only 40"
Beggars comfortably clothed and CARVING travti-
ing bags now call at basement doors III Harlem
ragged ones. with dry baskets, are becoming rare
The slippery condition of he sidewalks yesterday
resulted in the INSTEAD ness OF clothing; laplu
Use III oyer-shoes was ioIio"eu w IAN III o''i-
coats.
There is something suggestive about the action OF
n cIty IN mp who stands IN mont o. Bowery p9Wh-
snop 20 at the secoEd-hand reviewers ana u' AS
displayed ID the windows.
DIET OF A BIRD IN BARBRR-sHoP.
South AmeEean bId that ENJOYS me freedom Oh
d0Wn-tOw barber shop re9ales hunSell OCCASION
aliv on pomade and hair-oil. The Diet seems TO
agtee with him. for he Is plump as robln'
TIE CHILDREN CROWDED AWAY.
The scenes IN doll life exhibited IN store windows
attract so much attention from men and women
that The little children, foe whose oeneht the us
play is made, cannot get near enough 10 ca'ch d
glimpse OF " ialTy-andD
LOTTERY DEALER CONVICTED.
William X. Porter. of No 1927 Broadway, agent
for the Kentucky state Lottery, was convicted yes
terday III the criminal branch OF the United Stales
Circuit Court of sending lottery circulars through
The mails. He was Temanded for sentence.
Illness OF DR. W. s. MAYO.
DR.. William ). Mayo has been lying seriously III
with pegro-pueumOnla for some DAYS at MS house
No. 500 Fifth-ave. Fears are entertained that he
world as the author OF "Kaoolah" and Never
Again"
The Guion steamship Wisconsin, which arrived
from Liverpool yesterday. met severe westerly
gales with head seas during her voyage. Abortion
Oh be rigging was blown away and her bulwarKs
were damaged. The AncbOria, from Glasgow, also
encountered bad weather.
THE PRICE FOR MILK.
The committee which organized III November
to decide the price of milk for each month IN az,
vance, met Wednesday at Middetown. and failed
TO agree a price for January. A new association
of New-York and Brooklyn dealers was organized
Yesterday at the Cosmopolitan Hotel
The VICTIM or DISCHARGED EMPLOYEES WRATH.
Jobn J. Tooey the Washington Market butcher
who was stabbed at his stand Saturday night by
james IralnOr, discharged enpioye. dled Xester-
day at the Chambers Street Hospital Mr. TooleYy
was f0rty-six years Of age and Ived at NO. lO3
Park-place The murderer Is still at large.
HOSPITAL FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Assistant sanitary Superintendent James and Dr.
TAYLOR the chief OF the Vaccination Bureau, made
trio Yesterday TO North Brothers Island III the
sound near Port Morris, 10 examine its fitness as
site for a scarlet fever and diphthera hospital.
North Brothers Island is isolated, aud belongs 10
the city
PORCELAIN AND BRIC-A-BRAc st AUCTION.
The sale OF part Of tue Laiarse G" n OF
day. at No. S17 Broadway. About fifty persons
We're present and the bidding was comparatively ara d
sale was about so. 500 The auction is to he con-
tinued this afternoon and evening.
ASSIGNMENT OF BOWIE DASH co.
The ASSIGNMENT Of Bowie Dash and Richard h.
Anthony of the firm OF Bowie Dash d Co., to Henry
D. Babcock filed yesterday III the County
nary form. turns over TO the assignee all their
Partnership and individual estates, real and per
sonal" except such property as IS exempt by law
from levy and sale under execution
MISSING FROM HER HOME.
Mrs. NJ. +. Babblt, OF No. pa West Twenty
fftli-st. left her home Tuesday afternoon, saving
That she wished 10 10 10 a neghDOrlng store. Since
g then she has not been seen by her husband or
friends Her husband says that she was probably
aeranged as she had shown signs II mental trouble
recently She Is about thlrtytwo years of age, five
feet and six inches in height with dark hair. blue
eyes and plump inquire. she wore piacK dreSs.a
rubber cloak aud O dark hat.
uI-yENrIL,rED FERRY-BOATs.
The attention of the Health Officers was drawn
YESTERDAY TO the condition OF the Roosevelt Ferry
boats NV an Official communication from the Brook
vu Board of Health. referred 10 III yesterdays IKIB
I,SE At the Health Office il was stated that last
winter Sanitary Superintendent James reported that
the condition OF the boats this Jerry was raught
with danger as well discomfort to passengers
and suggested certain Improvements, which inc
company promised TO make. The matter Will be
taken ID by the Board at its meeting next Tuesday
SENTENCED FOR ASSAULT.
Michael Lane was convicted IN the Court OF Cen
era! SESSIONS Yesterday of fel0nous assault COM
In,ted on TnOm1s McNales. OF No. 432 West Seven
teenth-st. December 2. lie was jointly indicted
gang OF ruiians which has made its headquarters in
the neiglborbood of Nlnth-ave. and Sixteenth
st On Monday Kearney pleaded guilty TO an ILL.,
dcJment charging him with assault with intent to
lill Yesterday Recorder Smyth sentenced hun to
the State Prison for ten years Lane VINO was CON
Nctcd of less serious offence was sentenced 10 Tie
State Prison for I'VE years
A NOVEL sWINDLE.
new swndle discovered by the police yes
teruay. Two Central Office detectives on Rivington-
st. saw the driver Of an express wagon stop AID
uulaad some packages at the honse OF German
snspected of being " fence" Tor thieves. lie was
arrested and il found that the driver who was
recognized as William Lynch. a ,hief, had hired
express wagon at the Metropolitan Express Com
pays stables in Mercer-st. and. going to the store
of Dang a. 1encbwauger bad coolly called for
"anythme to deliver to-day" lie received several
packages and was about 10 practice the TRICK Oh
other merchants when he was arrested
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