New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-23
NETWORK CITY.

day from Chicago, and Will SAL 1Or LiVerpooi III
t0-mOrrOw's steamer.
One of the latest novelties in Easter eggs is on
exhibition in a FutOn-st. cOnfectioner's window
1t is made of chocolate and weighs 100 pounds.
Police Commissioner Wheeler was at Headquarters
yesterday for the first time since the beg ming OF
his long illness. He was weak, but getting DcIer
fast
A Madonna said to have been painted by, Fabri-
anO in 1914 IN on exhibition at "A store IN Nassau
St. TIN ancient pointing appears very wen pre-
served
The golden wedding of Charles r. Thorne, sr., and
wife, which was to have been celebrated yesterday
at the Union square Hotel was postponed on ac-
count of the illness OF Mrs. lhorne
There has been great dimnution in the patron
age of cheap lo1elng-houses during the last few
DAYS. As Spring comes on, those who nave passeI
their nights in these places Lie 20 fresh heids ana
pastures new.
Cherry, Batavia, Oak, Crosby. East Sixteenth ana
other very dirty streets. of the condition OF whicn
complaint had been IN ide, were cleared YESTERDAY
Captain Williams that he Is gong on as lar as
the money will hold out.
The owl train from Boston, due in, this city about
$3.50 Yesterday morning, struck n large Tie wnlcn
had been placed length wise on the track NJ point
between WestpOrt and South Norwalk owing 10
The hardness of the ground at the time the tIe slu
along the surface before tue engine without DONG
any damage.
Superintendent Walling said yesterday that the
only charge the police had against John d, wal
lace. who, II was reported, WIS suspected OF ine
murder of Superintendent Daley, of Backwcirs
Island. was for escaping from me pehltehlaIy.
Wallace will he taken TO the Island to-day 10 serve
the rest of his sentence.
Thieves male their way through an open window
into the rooms on the first floor of the Gramcrcy
Park Hotel occupied by Willy Waliach ana his
family on Saturday night, at the dinner hour.
They broke open a bureau and stole sllverwaree
valued at $500, two gold watches and several goIu
pencils The thieves escaped undiscovered.
There was general decline in breadstuifs yester-
day which had a tendency 10 increase the business
for export. Flour about 10 cents barrel lower
with fair sales principally oi low grades. Wheat
was from liz to cents lower with sales OF ABOUT
300 900 bushels for export at the decline. Corn
was from l TO u cents lower and oats / cent
lower, with a moderate inquiry
Jasper Eaton, a young man who has been an es-
tecmcd clerk with Samuel Frank, at No - walker
St. was arragnod in the TombS Ponce Court v"s-
day 1or stealing gold watch nom hls employers
safe. former larceny had been forgiven. Eaton
was fond of playing faro. IIc was held for trial IN
* 900 bail. HIS mother was III court, ana cIcu
out " Ii was cards that ruined him."
Coroner Knox took the ante-moItcm statement
Yesterday of Andre BacOli, the Italian, who was
stabbed IN n bar-rOom ~ No Ia Sprlng-st. Tues
day night u was 10 the effect that having been
drinking III different baI-.OJms with three cOmpan-
ions. he got into a fight with them They all fell
upon him and one. named Charles Deango, stabbed
him. Then the three ran away. Bacon ldentlhed
Deango yesterday.
Two little girls, each about eleven years old,
named Caroline Schmidt aud Mary Rocsner, were
missing from their homes. Nc. III West twenty
from Sunday afternoon until late yesterday after
noon. On sunday afternoon they went together to
Sunday-schoo at the D. Witt Chapel, but did not
return 10 their homes at its close. hr Schmidt
then informed the police. Yesterday afternoon the
children returned and reported that they had been
at East williamsburg, az Caroline Schmidi's grand
fathers.
The steamship CITY of san Antonio, OF NAL
lory's line, for Galveston. met with an acc.-
dent to her machinery when of Sandy Hook
saturday afternoon. Tho vessel WAS outward
bound, under command Of Captain y. {.
BnrroTcs and was heavily iad'n with
thr , freight. Part of the gearing broke
in the cnginc-room, causing The screw to cease TO
revovc. Temporary repairs were "hrctch, suihcicnt
10 enable the steamship 10 get back 10 tins city..
She is now lying at Delamater's Iron Works on the
North River front.
The Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad Com
pany has closed a contract with William Cfamp ~
Sons the Philad~lpha Ship-building firm, for two
ron steamers $50 feet IN length 80 feet beam and
on feet depth of hold. The rumoT that these were
10 be built for the Ta1satantlr coal trude was de-
med Yesterday by President Sloan. He also de
cliucd 40 give any further information than that IL
was contemplated 10 build iirct of coal steamers
SIMILAR to those Of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad to NEE, the demands o; the England
trade.
The examination of the complaint preferred 10y
Ida Fvans of No. Is Nlcn-.i., against james Han
non, age nineteen wears of No. 10 Mulbcrry-si
Micnacl MctiuWou, G'nrg, johnson, age seventeen
years, of No. - + zlbatl,'t AMI John k-ily, age
twenty YEAR, of No. - Hester ST.. for having as
saulted Peter Higgins, au officer of the Fourteenth
Precinct, while ENGAGED IN the disch1sg" of hls
duty on the night of February -: came mp in the
To'nhs Police COurt yesterday. Miss Evans saw
the assault Harmon, johnson and Kelly were COM
mitted for trial in The Court of General Sessions
McGuTOn was discharged.
The house of Peter McKcnna OF No / West Nine
tcenth-at., was entered on the night OF Marci by
n thief and $500 worth OF property was stolen. The
house of William II. Miles, of No. 81 West Nine
teenth-st. was also robbed on the same night. The
cases were reported at the 1wenty-piuth Precinct
and Detective SchmIti berger on Sunday night she
ccedcd IN arresing Robert Luch. n hackdriver
twenty-thTee years Old. on whose person was some
of the stolen property. On searching the prisoners
room at No. All East Fiftccnth-st the remainder Of
the stolen articles were recovered. Yesterday, IN
tine Jefferson Market Police Court, Luch COM
mted for trial.
The Board of Trade anil Transportation received
n communication from the Secretary of the Navy
Yesterday, saving that the Department had received
from Commodore Shufeldt, commanding the I con-
deroga. now upon a special cruise on the Coast of
Africa various samples of cotton and silk goods
used IN commerce on the west coast OF Africa, and
in Arabia and Persia. 1t beng the desire OF the
Navy Department 10 bring 10 the attention of
American manufacturers aud exporters the quality
of goods required IN trade with those countries the
Secretary requests list Of the leading FIRMS in this
city which VIII he most likely to aee interest IN
the enterprise. Samples Of the goods are TO be sent
TO the Board III a few days
g. A. Farn of the London Aquarium, has arrived
in this city. having IN charge troupe of Zulus
These Zuus are fine specimens of their race, stand
ing about SIX feet in height, and are OF a copper
color; they have thin lips and prominent nose.
They are clothed with grdle around the waist and
n head-dress. They carry The assegai and a shield.
ZazeI n young woman who has gained considerable
don. is also of Mr.. FarmPs party. They are all
nnder the engagement Of Z. /. Barnum.
BROOKLYN.
Thomas Moon was arrested Yesterday on the
charge of stabbing Patrick Riley IN Washington
ave IN june last. niIiciing very severe wound.
Moon raIf away after TO Liverpool, whence he has
lust returned.
A woman about sixty wears of age was seized
with "A fit at Gates-ave. and MagnOia-st., Yesterday
afternoon and fell to the sidewalk. She was taken
TO the Ninth Sub-precinct Police station, where she
died soon after. 1t was learned that she was Mrs.
Light, the mother of Supervisor Light, of the Thr-
tecnth Ward
The stage company whose stages run through
Iafayette-ave., SchermeThOrn-st., COurt-st. and
Joralemon-st to the Wall street Ferry yesterday
Inn EnInmnn lnunnil In