New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-12
NEW.YORK CITY.

NETWORK CITY.
The Ninth Avenue Elevated Rail Dad Company is
| building new station at COrtlandt-st
| A rag-baby was hanging on the lamppost at Mar
s Ser SI the word Monopoly
The pretty little GASES of grass running along the
centre of the Western Boulevard have been trodden
into arid wastes by the vandas who persist in using
| them as fOotpaths.
The transfer of plot 12Ox1O22 feet at the NORTH
west corner Seventy-ninth-st: and Madlson-ave tor
| 100000 by Frederick w. Gunther TO Matnlas d.
| Smith, was recorded Saturday.
The troubles of travel on the Bleecker-st. cars
from Fulton Ferry suggest the Thought that u the
| horses had more oats in their stomach and the
drivers fewer oaths in their mouths the public
| would be benefited.
| The colors of the "canallers " whose boats are
lying along the East River were flying deliantly in
| the wind yesterday III the shape OF their many
| hued garments. which were hanging on grooming
lines that stretched from stem to stern OF their u-
| wieldy craft.
| Dr. Charles H. n. Sayre who fell from the steps
| of the Gsey House entrance in Twenty -niuth-st.
| to the paved space below few days ago. died yes
terday from the injuries then received lie was the
eldest son of the well-known surgeon Dr. Lewis A.
| Sayre, and was twenty-nine years OF age
John Bower Rochester boy, sixteen years old,
came to this city two weeks ago and went 70 board
with his aunt in West Thirty irst-st Last Monday
he went out to search for work and did not return.
Alarmed at bis continued disappearance bis mother
came from Rochester on saturday. She visited
Police Headquarters to seek the aid OF the police
General Regulations for the Military Forces of the
State of New-Yorl" tLat the names OF all IcIsonS
who have been received retained us members of
the militia, contrary 10 the provisions OF law, must
be stricken from the rolls and 10 such person is to
receive certificate of service or of exemption OF
discharge from military service. This amendment
applies to those who have been enlisted under the
age of twentyone years. without consent OF parent
or guardian.
At Essex Market Police Court Yesterday before JUS
tce Smith James Clarke, age thirty years keeper
in the lunatic asylum at Backwelps Island, was ar
raigned by Officer BlaSS, of the Seventeenth Pre-
cinct for having, witlrsix other men whose names
are unknown, assembled in dsOrdcrly manner, at
twenty minutes after o'clock on Sunday morning
at Twefth-st. and Avenue-B. and Obstructcd the
officer in the discharge of his duty, and with having
kicked and knocked him down when he endeav0red
to make arrest. The officer was obliged to dis;
charge four barrels of his revolver before he could
disperse his assailants. Clarke was fined $40. and
assigned term Of six months in prison in default of
$500 bail. ,
Hester Newman and Flora Wcise, ages nine who
were arrested for picking pockets in FntOn-st on
Saturday, were released on bail by Justice Walsh.
in the Police Court. yesterday. They will be ex-
amined today.
While playing on Saturday evening, John f..
Downey, age twelve, of No. 20l South t.Ist-st, was
shot in the face with pistol loaded With powder
in the hands of Joseph Phinney, OF No. 20 Grand
St His injury was not serious.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage announced yester-
day that the dollar subscriptions to the debt on the
steadily. and he was confident the whole amount
would be paid. He said 10000 persons had prom
ised to pay 81 each
1t appears that Henry. Klein. Of No. 403 Van Bu-
ren-st., who disappeared on Friday last leaving
note to his family stating that he was in tie water
at the foot of Conover-st visited G. II. Edau, of
Broadway aud KOssuth-place, on Saturday morning
and borrowed 49, sending So of it to his wife.
Judge Gilbert of the Supreme Court of Kings
County, has granted an order setting aside the de-
cree of divorce granted by him IN May 1879 in the
Qumby, on the ground that the proceedings were
carried on without the knowledge of the defendant
JERSEY CITY.
Alfred Carson, who died last Thursday, was
buried Yesterday in jersey City; Many years ago
this city, and nearly 300 members OF the old vOlun-
taaBre department were present at his funeral The
and Decker, and Zophar Mills, Augustus Reynolds
Henry r. Room and Frances b. Ball. all old vOun-
teer fremen. ,,,,u.r,,
The amount to be raised by taxation this year is
81 1913 $40, increase of $53 700 over Last year.
fire broke out in u two story frame hnildiug at
tached to tho iron foundry of Arlon Steemas No. SO
Polk-st at l o'clock yesterday morning. The loss
was about 81 900. The stock is insured for $4,000
in the Manufacturers Insurance Company.
A large mastif. foaming at the mouth and show
ing symptoms of madness. appeared suddenly ~ the
neiQibOThOOd of SpTingfeld-ave, and Boyd-st.,
Saturday afternoon, aud created great CONSERVATION
in that crowded place by Unfortunately attacking
D1qgerg-OV Two women NeTC DlbVtn ptlOTe the
brute was shot to death by policeman's revolver
Mrs. Mary Tappon complained to Justice Dean
that her husband, Charles H. Tappon, bookkeeper
at Carke's Thread Works. did not support her. In
her testimony she stated that she and her husband
bad lived with his parents since July, 1879; that
there she was completely isolated from the family,
having to remain in one room. That six weeks ago
her husband ordered her to quit the house. The
husband and mother-in-law denied the statements
of the wife, but the Justice ordered the payment Of
So week to the wife. The case was appealed.
Two stabbIng affairs occurred yesterday morning
Jacob Mikel came ont of his house at No. 100 West
Kinney-st at 10 o'clock having with him a favorite
dog number of boys Iii The neighbOrhoOd stole
the dog, and when Mikei demonstrated one of the
party drew knife and stabbed him over the right
temple. Thomas Haley the peTpetratOr of the crime
Flanagan and William Mcintosh became involved
in q quarrel about suit OF clothes at Market and
Halsey-sts., when Mcintosh drew q knife md
stabbed Flanagan twice, once In the hand and once
in the region of the heart The police last evening
were searching for Mcintosh Neither will prove
fatal.
A suit has been begun in chancery by McCarter
& Keene, counsel for Mrs. p. ii. Porter, against
Cephas M. Woodruff. TO recover an amount repre-
senting the difference between 16 and SO in
the sole of sixty shares of Central Railroad stock.
MIR. Woodruff acted as business adviser for Mrs.
Porter and transacted good deal OF the business Of
her husbands estate, OF which the sixty shares of
the Central stock was at 16 Ar. Woodruff advised
her to part with it. and with her consent the stock
was sold. She further, AYERS that recently she was
informed that the stock had been transferred on the
books of the company at SO. It was then found
that the transfer had been made in the name of
member OF Mr.. Woodruffs family. The defendant
in the suit alleges that the sale Of the stock at 16
yraa mn q Mrs Porter and VithOut