New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-08
NETWORK CITY.

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work in the pantry. The ascending smoke causeu
a brief excitement among the guests
At Messrs Roster & Balls establishment III
Twenty-third-st this evening the usual orchestrai
concert will be given, and Mr.. Levy; the cornoo
virtuoso will be heard in solos. The place Is open
every dav but the concerts only begin In the even
ings. .
The Rridcenort Steamboat Company is negot-
ating for the purchase of fast steamboat to put on
the day line between this city and Bridgeport dur
ing the Summer season. The large ana Iast s.eii
boat Laura is TO be thoroughly overhauled 0efore
the season opens.
The members of Engine Company No. 33 last even
ing presented John J. Bresnan, hadrecently pee
promoted to the position of Chei goa watch a ,hn
chain valued at 1900. Alderman Morris made me
presentations and Fire Commissioners van Cott anu
German were present $50
The New-York Press Club held its regular monthly
meeting at the club rooms, Nos; ~ ana IL MI, MIS-
sau-st., Yesterday afternoon. Eighteen new meh
bers were elected and a committee was appoii,'cu
to CONSIDER the feasibility OF holding ladies re-
ceptOn shortly after Lent.
Messrs. Wright g. Cormac provision brokers Mt
No 80 Broad-st. sent word TO the Produce tx
change Yesterday of their inability 10 meet tnelI
mercantile engagements. The liabilities Of the hrm
amount TO about $4,000. lhc Iallure - saiu W III
due to speCu ai1On pfoVlSlOns
A table Of the nationalities of the persons who
died in New-York III 1879, prepared hy deputy
Register DR.. Maggie shows that ls,S33 were born III
the United States. 49i0 III iceland, 2,U9 III rer-
many, 533 in England, 1876 IN Italy, l7s IN scot
land 100 in France, III Spain, and 30 we're OF I'M
known nationality.
DIR. Maggie. Deputy Register Of Vital statistics re-
ceIyed Yesterday q twenty -fOurp letter from a
crazy man in Hamburg. Sussex County, n. j., VINO
insists that there is house on jersey CITY Helghs
where murder Is done daily; The murderers, ne
SAYS, have machine tnat VIII XIII t"o PeiS"nS az
once and they do 1t.
A counterfeit 20-ccnt piece was discovered yes
terday at the Sub-lreasury. This is the second
spurious coin of this denomination ever taken az
the Sub-rreasury. 1t bore the date Of 1879. a
new counterfeit silver dollar is said 10 be III circu-
latiou. 1t does not differ materially from other
counterfeit dollars il is lighter III weight, but the
die is sharp and clear.
Philip LAM, of No 2G4 East Sixteenth-st., was
prisoner in the Yorkvile Police Court Yesterday on
a charge of having conspired with Two 0thcr
swndlcrs to defraud a German widow ont OF her
Iagel-beer saloon and 1896. They gave her forty
lots under water at the mouth of Toms River
for that amount of money. lie was heid Tor triai'
The other men have not been arrested
Acknowledgement Townsend has commissioned the
following as officers of the National Gnard to Oh
vacancies: Thirteenth Regiment, BrookIVn-C. ].
Christensen lieutenant-cOlOnel W. X. Applebaugh,
CAPTAIN; X. b. Sedgewick first lieutenant Cyrus
4. Hubbard inspector OF rifle practice Twenty
third Recommendation n. Partridge, colonel; Willis
l. Ogden, heutrnant-colonel WV. Rossiter, quar-
termaster: DR.. Edwin A. Lewis. surgeon.
John Nichols, James Morgan and Wallace Dun
bor comprising the firm of John Nichols d Co.,
paint manufactIrcrs' OF rms cty; naVng peeh IN
Thomas s. Atwood for perjury and CONTRIBUTING
mr. vate labels, appeared at the Dstrict-Attorncys
Yesterday aud gave bdIl an .OOO cacIi 10 )-
pear when called on. The proceeding is taken un-
der an old State law for the protection of trade
marks. The penalty is fine not exceeding $500
BROOKLYN
Nineteen building permits were issued last week.
The cost of lighting The street lamps this year viii
be T325.64l
The suit begun some time AGO by the Attorney
General against the Mutual Gaslight Company. to
annul the company's charter for failure TO comply
with its provisions, was discontinued yesterday by
mutual consent
Mary FLYNN, age twenty, Of No. 1875 Plymouth
ST. Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon accidentally
shot herself with pistol belonging to her brother,
Thc hall psscd through her Ugh; hand. and entered
her right breast IL Is iedred that IL peheuateh the
lung.
w. II. Thornton. age twentv-seyen, was arrested
last night on susp cOn " stealing gold watch,
valued nj $50, from Mrs. SibDCrly OF No. 2bS
pvcrsou-st Mrs Sibberly aitcrward discovered
the watch where she had placed IT, and Thornton
was released.
|, is said that considerable quantity Of extra
work will have 10 be done uDon the new jail
wing which will bring the cost considerably be-
vond the contract price new wall viii have to
be bnlt around the jail, and II ispoposci To terrace
the enhancement IN the adjoining Fort Greene
Park.
Surrogate Livingston yesterday made the follow
ing appointments: Judah h; voorhees, lretaincdl,
chief clerk Washington A. Coster, Ernest Lasche.
sylvester w. Porter, Lawrence j. Quinn and Dan
iel W. Costigan clerks, IN The places OF Thomas +.
Farrell. John Campbcll, Charles Arcnlerins Will
Coroner Simms has summoned the following pcr-
cons 10 sit rs n jury Ia determine the cause of The
death oil ex-Sherifl Aras q. Williams, who died sud
dcnIv on Friday afternoon in the office of Gcnernl
Tracy: General james Jourlan william Richard
ton. Colonel Rodney G.. Ward, BENJAMIN Lewis.
William Julian. A. b. Thorn, Michael Chauncey
and Charles Sternc
The council for the dismissal Of the Rev s. NJ
Freeland from the Tompkins Avenue Conefega-
tional Church will be held on Tuesday afternoon.
Tie churches invited are the Pilgrims, Clinton
DftVf
brooklyn; Broadway tabernacle. tins city; Taber-
nacle. Jersey City; and First, Newark. The Row
Drs A. II. Clapp aud Ray Palmer have also been
invited to attend
JERSEY CITY.
A voupg man whose name Is Theodore Wall ior
WILSON, was arrested yesterday at Jersey Civ bv
John H. Brown, detective for the Ere Railroad.
for tbefts committed about three weeks ago I'M the
house of Charles w. Douglas SupeI iUtendcnt of
the New-York and Greenwood Railroad, IN Morris
County. n. j.
Morris oBrion, of No. 77G Bergen Plank road.
Jersey City, who had been grossly intoxicated for
over n week returned home last night and found
his wife packing up their household goods. He set
Ere TO them aud burned them NJ. The house
caught fire. and after the flames were extinguished
by the firemen O'Brien was arrested.
NEWARK
The Meicrhoeffer murder trial was yesterday post-
poned until Monday; Lamnens, who was examined
AT considerable length on Friday, being too i'll 10 be
in court. Mr.. Rider, the ninth Juror, was also sick
and has been mdsposed ever since the trial began
The will Of the late John Brisbin has been adj
mitted to probate. The requests are rs follows (:
| To Miss Annie Wilson, $50 0O0 Mrs Remsen. his
| InoIher.in-law, $4,000; Miss Louisa Stark a
prot1q6 of his late wife, $4,000: ID. NJ Bartle.
| Chenango County, New-York, $4,000; and ~. 900
each 20 his two colored grooms. The residue of the
estate is devised TO various charitable institutions
| of Newark The estate Is worth about $3.50 600.
NEW-JERSEY.
| IrNtoS HIII.-The remains of Franz Venino. the
| artist we're buried ut Union Hill Yesterday.
| Frederick Schaefer made address. and the Lie
! dertafcl Society sang
| LONG ISLAND
| NFwTowN-The Newtown people proceeding
| for an Injunction To restrain Contractor Dubois
| from going on with the dredging of Flushing BAY
I'm accordance with the plans Of General Newton.
HrcKsvmLF.-James Seaman the negro arrested