New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-04
NETWORK CITY.


was S1i3,4 AIS, 4O3 40; 1877, $ll7,700,7i2 80;
1876 Sll9, $40 80
The employment committee Of the XaUer Alumnl
Sodatv will celebrate the success OF the last year
work by dinner nj the Sinclair House on January
.. Their report shows that of applicants ior
employment, eighty had been supplied
There wps a falling ua IN the breadstnfss market
M Ger yesterday consequent the lack oi us
positi 20 trade under the III system. flouI
was from 10 10 . cents IA b - lower wheat from
10 cents lower, and corn Ina oats from 2 10
cent lower.
Henry Berph yesterday received from member
of the Union Club check for 81 900. TO be used ny
the Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to AM
mails especially TO pr0iect horses from cruelty Inc
giver did not wish ls name 10 he published III coh-
ncctiOn with the gift
The steamship Westphalia, which arrived from
Hamburg Friday night, was detained at Quaran,
tine until yesterday afternoon for fumlgatIon ana
the vaccination of the STORAGE passengers. one OF
the latter was discovered sick with smallpox. and
was sent to the hospital at BlackwelPs Island.
The Shoemakers' Protective Union OF this city,
nj n meeting held last Tuesday evening, passed res
outions requesting employers of members OF the
Union to give an advance OF Is per cent upon
present rates of wages. A copy of the resolutions
sent TO Cach OF inc snOe manufacturers Oh INC
city
Daniel Sullivan, the victim of the alleged club
hing on New Years night by Officer Hogan, OF the
EiGbteenth Precinci was arraigned in the l9rkyllle
The officer failed To show, IN the opinion OF justice
Wandel. any justification for the assault upon Sui
livan.
The ffty-fourth anniversary of the founding Of
the Kappa Alpha Fraternity was celebrated Mt Del
monico's on January by the usual dinner. Over
forty-seven members were present representing the
several Chapters Of the society NJ Union, Williams
and Hobart Colleges aud Cornell University. Henry
X. Person presided.
Jane L6bree of No. 412 East Twenticth-st.. and
Mathew McDermott were arraigned IN the Yorkvilie
Police Court Yesterday on complaint OF Maggie
fbree age sixteen and the daughter ot the woman.
Maggie said that she worked every day but that
her wages mostly spent bv her mother IN sup
porting McDcrmott The prisoners, who are dlssl'
= pated, sent 10 prison foF ten days.
The body of the Young woman who was found
dead IN her bed on Friday at No. 500 Sixthavc: was
Rloine n ain Vlc woman of This city, whose father
works at No. II East feminist. The father was
much astorlshcd YESTERDAY 10 learn OF his dangh-
tors lonely and frendles- death as ne supposed she
WIS NJ work. The womans death is supposed To
be the result of dissipation.
Abont y. IN Yesterday, while workmcn were ey-
cavating at Eighteth-st. and FOnrth-ave. to find
leak in the g,s-ppes, an explosion occurred which
blew MP the eidewak for some distance. There had
been leak in the pines az that point for some time,
aad the gas had collected under the sewer pipe,
whore the earth had fallen away so rs TO cause the
the explosion when tho lantern that was used By
the wOrkmcn camein contact with IT.
Robert A. Johnston, president and Irvine
Schools treasurer OF the FermanHgh Relief Associa-
ton. have received during the last week Sl,625 IN
addition to $1,000 previously received 10 aid de-
serving lrshmcn Of all creeds in finding homes of
$500 from Arnold. Constable & Co.. 5000 from
Henry Hilton. aud 800 from Feorg~ Lake. Alost
of the passenger steamship lines contributed S1O
each
John Hope, age Gftv-seveu, OF No. 500 East
Twenteth-st., was arrested yesterday afternoon on
warrant issued by Justice smith now sitting III
Evelyn VI. Bliss. Of Toms River. y. j.. was the
complainant. and alleged that Hope committed
perjury some months ago IN suit brought by him
against Der for the possession Of certain real estate
left to her by their father. Hope was taken 10 the
Harlem Police Court but Justice smith having LEFT
the bench the prisoner WAS locked up until to-day
Mrs Lewis, a D0arding-house keeper at No. 13s
Fifth-ave.. has been robbed at least ten times In
two years by dishonest servants. five OF whom are
now IN prison. In November she took into her
ploy Annie Doyle, girl fifteen years old who
brought recommendations of the highest character.
Soon after her arrival various articles Of small
value began % disappear. Mrs. Lewis finally sus-
pcctcd Annie OF being the thief, and on Thursday
Detective Price found the property at the house OF
the servant committed for trial.
At the Tombs Police Court yesterday before
Justice Kilbrcth. a woman scontly dressed in faded
worn garments. whose features wero pinchcd
by want, and who gave the name of Martha Wash
ington was called 10 the bar for vagrancy. She
SAID she had been an inmate of the pooI-honse az
Fairfield. Conn. from which place she had been
sent to New Haven after being fifteen months at
the former place. Subsequently she sent back
to Fairfield. whence the keeper sad he would send
her to Virginia. but She was turned adTft In New
York. Justice Kilbreth committed her 10 the care
of the Commissioners of Charities and Correc-
ton. ll.
Permits for the erection of eleven new buildings
Were granted yesterday.
The records of Vital Statistics for 1870 show the
total number of deaths TO have been 1881. Pncu-
monia caused 972, diphhcra $50, and cOusump-
ton 1868. The number of suicides was 81.
Charles Marx postmaster of College Point Long
Island who was arrested on Wednesday charged
with robbing the mails was held by United states
10, 1gef n lvn in ~
bail, to appear for examination January q. Tho d.
legged pecnlations are comparatively trihing
The Brooklyn Gaslight Company, the oldest aud
strongest in the city, which furnishes gas 10 the
portion of the city north OF Atlautic-ave. and west
Of Westinghouse. has reduced its price TO private
consumers from - 90 a thousand feet to 50. No
tice of the change was gwen yesterday.
While John Talcott, aged forty-six. of Sherin.st
New-York. was attempting 10 get of his truck Mt
No. 1873 Coolest, while II was in motion, AZ 10 a. n
Yesterday his feet slipped and he fell striking the
back Of his head upon the curb. fracture of the
skull resulted. from which death ensued IN few
minutes
At tho meeting of the Board of Police and Excise
Yesterday a request was received from Detective d.
H. Corwiu, Of the Central Office, To be retired under
the Pension law upon half pay. He has served the
Department since 1880, rs patrOman until 1862
since which time he has been q detective. The re-
quest was granted. aud Mr. Corwin will enter The
employ Of firm dealing in dry good goods as private
detective. His half-pay VIII be S75O.
The Republican and Drmocratic members of the
new Board Of Aldermen. which meets for the first
time tomorrow. arc actively caucusng with refer
ence to the choice of president for the Board IL is
reported that eleven Of the thirteen Republican
members will vote for Alderman Ray, OF the Four
teenth Ward the president last year. The Demo
Gratis will support Alderman Black, of the Fourth
Ward and IL IL possible that two AZ least of the Re
publican members, Messrs Powers and Smith. viii
vote with them, ms they acted with the Democrats
in confirming nominations last Summer
JERSEY CITY
A servant in the employ Of Mrs. Frederick H.
Pangborn. of BelmOnt-ave., jersey CITY Heights
accidentally set. fire to her clothing Friday night
MIR Pangborn sm0thered the flames with his coat.
The servant was badly burned.