New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-12
NETWORK CITY.

main in favor for Spring ana SuinhcT'
The pillars for the elevated road IN Second.ave'
have been erected as far north rs East Ninety
thrd-st
SafTron-tinted lace is much in favor for trimming
evening dresses and is seen on some oil inc lie"
handkerchieis 49,
Drab in all its many shades viii he worn this
coming season. The newest shade Is called the
coachman's draO. ,
Hehotrope is the new color, and is exactly the
lovely pinklsh purple of the newly blown hover
from which it takes its name.
The total number of vessels in this port Yesterday
was 500 of which 81 were steamers 80 ships, 431
barks 1O1 brigs and 900 schooners.
{ Y White. receiver of the Grocers' Bank. will
apply to the court to-day for an order LOT the pay
me Mt of first dividend of 30 per cent to deposlt0rs
Fnr is used most deliberately this season, even
trimming very light evening dresses. and the sum
mer fringes and headings will be made to initiate
ii.
Innniries were made Yesterday from the police
for Alfred Saeger. "A married man, who has been
missing from his home IN the Nlhth Nard lor Il
week.
The tickets for the Arion Masquerade ball which
will take place at Madison Square Garden on the
10Th of this month have been ISSUED and abound III
amusing carlcaturcs
The new steamboat Albany recently launched at
Wilmington Del. arrived here Yesterday IN tow oi
the steamer Cyclops. The Albany is intended for
the Hudson River passenger trade
Daniel Mccarthy patient in the HOMEOPATHIC
Uosptal on Wards Island. came to This city on Feb
4 '.
next day. lie has not been seen since
w. 2. Seymour has sold for Frederick W. Gun
ther the five lots on the northwest corner OF Madl-
sou-ave and Seycnty-ninth-st.-belng iOZ iect on
Modisou-ave. By 100 feet on OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
100000.
In the Bowery, between Chatham-squarc and
Canal-st., where the fOnr tracks nearly cover the
street The ironwork of the Elevated road has been
nainted white in order that 1T may not darken the
shops as much rs formerly.
Thorough investigation Yesterday showed that
Walter +. Worrall, who claimed 10 be the rghtiul
owner of $50 900. though now imprisoned for va
grancy Is not entitled to any money is rather weak
mentally and very imaginative III his statements
Alta meeting Of shoemakers Yesterday. who re-
GENTLY organized to enforce an advance OF wages
II was announced that circular, in which an ad-
vance of 1 , per cent was demanded, had been sent
10 forty four manufacturers and that most OF them
had acceded to the demand without compelling the
men to strike.
A coroner's Jury found verdict Of suicide yester-
dav i'm the case Of William Allen, alias West, ~ho
hung himself in the TOmbs February 2. The fact
came out by the examination oil warden flhn that
there Is at light only one keeper IN each tier OF the
nrison IA tier contains thTtyfour cells. and that
his Is not enough. Sometimes one keeper has to
look after two tiers.
Tho Irving Hall Committee listened last evening
IN testimony respecting protest against the le-
qality of n primary election IN the lAth Assembly
H;etrct February .. IhcprOtest alleged that there
reneotng Of votes in the choice of sixty members
Of the General Committee. The Committee will
hear evidence In reference 70 the AlNth Assembly
District this evening.
Iocturc was delivered last evening nj Cooper
InstItnte by Clinton Roosevelt on Hard Times and
their Causes" The speaker read some extracts
from an address previously delivered before the
Social Science Association advocating n system OF
convention which, by Withdrawing the woTk mcn
iron, comretition would make them independent Of
the lowest price OF labor
The Board Of Apportionment yesterday trans
ferred SlJ 800 TO meet the expense OF laying four
feet crOton mains In Nlnetv-third-st., near Tenth
ave. An appropriation Of 100000 was made some
time ago, but on account OF the increased cost OF
iron this was inadequate. When Conmissloner
Campbell advertised for proposals. the lowest bid
for the work wasS1JOOo.
David Bows & Co. received no further news yes
tcrday in regard to their associate manager, John
Allan who has been missing from Baltimore for
nearly week. press dispatch from Baltimore
Yesterday stated that the ticket agent az the Cam
don station Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
said that last Thursday evening Mr.. Allan bought
an excursion ticket to Washington, and went
through the gate toward the train.
The Mayor Controller. and President OF the Board
of Aldermen met yesterday TO choose a successor to
! Thomas B. Clark. who was appointed a Brooklyn
! Bridge Trustee January IA, and resigned February
Q: Mr. Kelly, named John H. MGon,y, and the
| chosen 10y vote of to l. He was appointed n
| Commissioner of Accounts by Mayor Ely in 1877.
and was removed by Mayor Cooper.
Raphael Jungnera. Young Cuban employed as a
| clerk by f. EspInal. of No. % William-st., at
| tnmpted suicide at the Office yesterday by taking
| chioroform He had been in the employ OF Mr..
| Esuinal for several months, ana han proved him
self honest and attentive TO duty Tho cause Of his
attempt is not known. The police took Jmgnera
who lives at No go West Forty-seventh-st. TO the
| Chambers street Hospital, where hope was eX-
pressed of his recovery
| Contoin Ualsey Of the steamer New-Orleans
from New Orleans. sent TO the Central Ofco for a
detachment of police. late Tuesday evening -Four
| noiicemcn remained at Pier No. during the night
So nne seemed 10 know, yesterday why the officers
| bod bccn summoned. Captain Halsey, who, on
Tuesday evening had said that he sent for the Off
1yDnen an n bp ft.t5 - 10,
| gone TO Ncw-.Jcrsey Yesterday. The first officer
sad the matter didn't amount to anythmQ.p
The United States Local Inspectors of Steam Yes
sois have reported that in the collision between tho
/ Iawuary IT, by which the Olyphant became n con,
plcle wreck. the ELEPHANT was III fault: The liccns'
VI Charles Adams. master and pilot OF the Olyphaut
hos Lecn suspended indefinitely. The inspectors re-
| mort that the collision between the CITY OF New
York and schooner ~ tow OF the tux Hattie &
| Lawson December 81. was due 10 the negligence o
| Raymond Kelly master and pilot Of tic tug boat
and his license is suspended for sixty days
BROOKLYN.
Mr.. Beecher will deliver his lecture on "Amuse
msnts at the Academy of Music this evening, 70
the benefit Of the Brooklyn Nursery.
Mary FLYNN, age twenty, Of No. 1915 Plymouth
az who accidentally shot herself whilo bandl.n
her brothers pistol Saturday, died lato Tucsda
night.
The Rev. David r. Fraser, the newly,,electc
nastor of the Classon Avenue Presbyterian Churcl
formerly of Buffalo. will begin his pastorate o
Sunday February 10.
A driver named Daniel Miller delivered a load q
| goods AT the Kings County Penitrntiary YESTERDAY
| and when about 100 feet from the gate was seize
with CT. aud fell from his truck dead.
Mrs Teresa James, are seventy. of No ii
Twenty-second-st, accidentally fell down figl
| of stair, last evening. at No. 40 Ihiid-ave. an
sustained injuries which cause her death in shoi
, | time.
John J. Robinson, age forty. Of No. 100 Sout
Third-st died yesterday morning from the effec
, of n dose of laudanum taken WIN suicidal inter
J on fine previous evening. He had been Responder
Z for several weeks. owing 10 the death of rcatIv
and had eaten little food. An inquest will be hel
by Coroner Nolan.
| The largest city map ever made has Just bee
a completed for Controller Stcinmez by Engine
: Kotzlay II 1SxI4 fect. and the work on IL W.