New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-13
NETWORK CITY.

which has been building for O number OF months
is completed.
crowd of street Arabs daily cOngregates in the
rear of the Post Office to play ball. to the annoyance
of passers by.
The steamer Louisiana was taken off the dry dock
Yesterday. The repairs on the State Oh NEVADA are
nearly completed
Owners of river steamers and barges are already
arranging dates for the numerous Excursions anu
pcnics of the coming Summer.
The State Superintendent of Public Works, ). Is.
butcher, has officially announced that the canais
will be opened for navigation on Tuesday next
House-hunters with weary, anxious look, may
now be seen trudRing through the streets closely m
spectng every house on which the sign 10 leu
appears
The Union 1ongshoremen employed by tie White
Star Line again refused to work on the Vessels OF
thai line yesterday unless the non-Union men were
discharged.
Office the transfer of Nos. 312 314 and 316 BrOad-
wav, and Nos. $50 and 655 Pearl-st, from J0hnand
d. j. Steward to Orlando Is. Potter. Inc cOnsluer-
alton was $45O,OOO.
The Gas Commission yesterday decided that the
total amount of the bids put in by the companies
was greater than the appropriation avalaOle; ana
adjourned to April 10, to give the companies al
opportunity to reduce their bids.
Mrs. Fanny Barrows, of No. 80 East Thirty,ffth-
ST. requests contributions Of clothing suitable for
the two boys age two and four years, of a gentle
woman in distress who is going on Saturday next TO
the West The case is one deserving sympathy.
A meeting of the Sixteenth Ward Irish Land
League was held Sunday afternoon in the rooms
of the LinwoOd Club at Twenty-ffth-st and Elehth
ave Owing to the absence of some of the leaders
in the movement, no important business was trans
acted.
The death of Mrs. Jane Charlotte Btion, at the
ported the Bureau of Vital Statistics Yesterday
Mrs Bitton was born in San Domingo, of French
parents, and lived at No. 16 West Ninth-st. she
will be buried at st. Louis, BIO.
The police of the Thirty-thrd Precinct reported
last night that the dead body Of male child abouta
week old had been found IN Motifs canal, One-luil-
uncG aU II S6meHSdv had stranded IT, The Cor
oner's attention was called to the matter.
The Maritime Association yesterday adopted
plan for providing gratuity fund for the families
formed to consist of not less than 300 members, OF
approved health and habits; each will pay 10 on
joining for the first dcath-oss, and SO at each sub
seQuent death OF q member.
At the last exposure of tho tricks of mediums"
by II. Cooke,a the Standard Theatre Sunday night,
he showed how easy it was TO unite himself after
being bound, and explained the slate-wrlting test.
which consisted in the substitution OF two states
already tied together one being written upon, Tor
the two tied in the presence of the audience.
The brig Lucy w. Snow, which sailed from this
port for CapetOwn, South Africa, OH October 81 Is
given upas lost She was commanded by Captain
B. Hall, and was owned by Snow, Farwell e. 90,
of IiOckland, Me. She had general cargo nclud-
Crossman & Bro, No. us Chambers-st
An autopsy on William Reid. negro who was
Sunday morning, was made yesterday by Deputy
Coroner Dcvlin. The cOllar-bOEe several ribs, one
ann and one leg were broken. Death was caused
by rupture of the heart from shock. The stories
that nc had been shot by policeman were set ct
rest by the fact that no bullet wound was found on
the body. The inquest will be held this week.
serious quarrel that ended in bOOtshed occurred
Yesterday in Constantine Horns beer shop at No.
Ola Third-ave., between his two sons Albert, age
twenty-seve9 years. ana Ftea i age elgnleen
theatre ticket. Ii lay Oh the counter, and Albert.
who was the strongest, took 1t and put 1t III his
pocket. Frederick, in rage, demanded 1T. and, ~
knife He cut him In tho arm wOundlnR him
severely, and then, frightened mt his own deed. ran
away. Tho police, when Informed OF the ARRAY,
failed TO find him.
Coroner Knox began the inquest yesterday In the
case of Mrs. Harriet butcher who died from an over
dose of opium on Monday last week. Few facts be-
yond those already known were brought out by the
testimony of Mr.. NewhalI, the womans attorney as
well as her husbands and DR.. Is. &. Miller, who at
tended her in vain effort to cure her of the habit
of taking OPIUM Mr.. butcher ~ an invalid, and Is
Mt present in Passaic N. j. too Ill TO attend the IN
quest. After the separation he had occasionally
visited her, and advised her with regard to the dis
position of her property.
In the Tombs Police Court yesterday, before JUS
rice Kilbreth, Cornelius Sullivan, Of No. 81 Cherry
st. preferred o charge against John Schiefielln who
saws 10 is beef carrier, of having attempted to
shoot him with revolver ut the place mentioned.
1t appeared that proceedings were brought by
Schcffen against his wife for separation, and that
she made q charge against him OF abandonment.
The latter case was to have come Oh for hearing
yesterday at the Iombs. At an early hour in the
morning Sehieffeln climbed up tile ire-cscape on
tue house where his wife was living anu bursting
open window, effected an entrance to a room
where he found Sullivan. lie exclaimed Sulll-
van, for two pins Pd blow your brains out" He
discharged the weapon. 'bnt did not hit Sullivan.
lie was held in default of 1000 bail.
BROOKLYN
street.sprinkler was in use on the lower part of
FnltOn-st. yesterday.
The Greenpoint Suudav-scbOols will have their
annual street parade on June 8.
W. r. Murray resigned his position as Deputy
Collector in the Internal Revenue Office yesterday.
Charles Schurig was appointed in his place.
The final service in st. AIMS Church. in Washing
tOn-st. which isto BIO torn down to make way for
the East River Bridge. will be held Oh Thursday
morning.
The work on the elevated railroad IL being rap.
idly completed along Park-aye. The large iron
cross pieces have been placed in position for num-
Der of blocks.
An officer of the Tenth Precinct found man lying
insensIble in Nlvy-st. at 3 n. M. yesterday. Upon
the arrival of the ambulance the man was pro-
nounced dead. His name is believed to be Gllen.
The Grand Jury yesterday found an Indictment
for murder in the first degree against the five men,
beers of the Smoky Hollow Gang who arc charged
with causing the death Of Officer james NJ Stone of
the Third Precinct The trial fixed for April 30.
Yesterday was the ffticth anniversary of the mar
riagc OF DIR. and Mr5 GarIar. of No. III Sands-st,
A merry tbrOnR consisting of their relatives and
friends, assembled at tine residence of the aged
couple last evening. and made the time pass pleas
antly.
Mrs. Adams tho wife of the sexton of the Sum-
nit Avenue Baptist Church. Jersey City Heights,
died Saturday night after taking three doses 0f
opium. Ii is alleged by her friends that her death
was caused by an overdose of the drug. She had
been i'll only two days
Herman Gcirke and John Schreyer, who were ar
rested in New-York on the charge of having forged
the namo of County Treasurer Schenck TO two
checks, were arraiened before Justice Walsh yes
terdav They pleaded not guilty. Tho case was
set down for examination to-day.
The committee appointed by Mayor Hopper. of
Jersey City, to investigate the sale OF funding debt
bonds by tho Board of Finance and Taxaton
adopied report las. NIGHT which will be presented
to the Mayor to-day. The committee states that
fair price was obtained for tia bonds and that no
evidence of fraud on the part of any person con-
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