New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-18
NETWORK CITY.


daily, looking for work"
The grounds about st. Lnke's Hospital are ABOUT
as cool and shady as any place IN the CITY,
The new Union League Club House and tho van
derbilt mansions are rapidly nearing complouo"
Mrs A. RI sends So for the benefit of poor sex
children. 1t has been gwen to inc oeas'"e 6a''-
teriuln
Three of the Police Commissioners are out or town,
and it is probable that there VIII be no meeting oi
the Board this week.
Balkv horses on the Blocker Street hOrse-car line
have caused much Inconvenience To the passengers
on tn at line for the last few days.
The dummy hod Ia front Of the Metropoli"
tan Hotel does not impede travel hair so much as
does the crowd that gathers about IL.
The old Olympic Theatre in Broadway 10 being
rapidly demolished. handsome iron-front block
for business purposes is soon to be erected on the
site
BRIEF MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS.
Many tired-lOoking mothers with fretful, sickIy
children can be seen upon the different ferry boats
every morning enjoying the fresh. cooling air that
generally grects theui
STATISTICS OF WEEK.
Deaths last week. S13 births, 034 marriages
164. The police arrested 1o61 persons, and tns
Excise Commissioners granted 100 licenses ana
collected fees amounting to S4775.
HURT WHILE AT WORK.
Thomas Walsh, of Flatbush, l.. l., while at work
ar No. 81 Newest. yesterday, was caught between
the floor and the elevator and was badly
crushed. The police took him to the Chambers
A SMALL NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS
One ship, the Neckar from Bremen. brought all
the arrivals at Castle Garden yesterday when
numbered 1884. The arrivals for the week amounted
70 ,30G acons,derable falling off from the CORE
spending weeks in May and June.
LIFE OF WOODEN PIER.
wel-built. heavy wooden pier Is good for about
fifteen years One hundred and seventy Thousand
feet of lumber have been used in repairing the pier
mt the foot of Nineteenth-st., East River. 1t Is
40 feet in width and $50 feet I'm length.
IMPROVEMENTS AT sTUYvEsANT PARK,
The Park Commissioners are beginning to " Sum-
mer fallow" Stuyycsant Park. The walks and
lawns were torn NJ early III March and the surface
left in small hllocks. New curbstones have been
put down and the walks are being overhauled ana
rebuilt.
ARTIFICIAL ICE AT A PROFIT
Owing TO the high price Of ice in this city during
the present season, a company in West Fourteenth
st. has been enabled to manu- acure and sell ice at
profit. An artificial cold of some 200 below zero is
produced by the evaporation OF ammonia and the
cost is said to be only 70 cents per ton
THE FIRST BALE OF NEW COTTON.
The first bale of new cotton Of the United States
crop of 1SS0-'S1 was received in Houston, Texas.
July ~. IL was shipped from there by w ID. Cleve.
sold yesterday at auction in front OF the Cotton
Exchange at 80 cents per pound to N w. Emerson
IMPORTATION WANTED ABOUT A SUICIDE:
Information has been asked Of the police of New
who died at Mount Carroll, Ill, on Nav ii. from
poison administered by himself. 1t is believed that
he came from this city. but the police know nothing
Of him. He is described as having been six feet
three inches III height He was about twenty-three
years old.
BROOKLYN.
Timohy Carson, liquordealer Of Hudson-ave.
and Y0rk-st. was found lying in Nayy-st.. near
Highest, late on Friday night tie had been beaten
by tour men who attacked him for the purpose OF
robbery His ASSISTANTS were arrested
rur BOAT LITTLE WESTERN SPOKEN.
The steamer Neckar which has arrived ut this port
from Bremen. reports that July 10, in latitude
40 So. longitude 800 3@, was spoken the small
sailing boat Little Western, which left East Glou-
cester Mass, on June ~. All on board were well.
JERSEY CITY.
The census returns from Hudson County are in
complete, but the total population is estimated at
205 900.
John Garry brakeman, of No. 100 PavOnia-ave..
was struck yesterday by engine OH the New-York,
Lake Erie and Western Railroad at Henderson-st.
crossing, and was instantly killed. He left large
family
There were 10 marriages. $40 births and 412
deaths reported in Hudson County in June. OF
those who died 100 less than a year old and
237 were less than five years old. The death rate
was per 1000 above the average, and the highest
since 1876.
Judge Knapp yesterday denied an application
made foY the release of John ". Mudgett, who was
committed to the county Jail CHARGED with false
preteuces. Mulgctt purchased n house of W. w.
Sites, and gave III payment a note signed by man
in New-York. The note was not paid and Midget
was indicted, it baug alleged that he knew that the
NEW-JERSEY.
BERGEN PoINE-Wiam Greenman. boy liv-
ing with his parents az the LatOurette House acoi-
dentay shot himself in the breast on Friday night
will playing with rifle, which be Thought was
not loaded. His injury IS fatal The body of
Joseph Briggs, of West New-Brghton, Staten
Island. who drowned Oh Friday while bathing
was recovered yesterday afternoon at Bergen Point
LONG ISLAND.
LONG BEACH.-The new hotel ut Long Beach was
OUQuPu the
RIVERHEAD.-H Cooper, a salesman for n
New York house. who has been boarding at River
head for week past in company with several
friends went to the Sound shore to battle on Fri
day evening. lie was the first to enter the water
Swimming out a short distance he suddenly dIsap-
peared and was not again seen. His body has not
been recovered and his friends believe that he was
seized by shark.
WHIrEsToNE-William II. Miller of New-York.
who visiting friends at Whltestone, was ar
rested on Friday evening, on the charge of passing
a worthless check on Peter Hail. Pending an ex
animation he was committed To the care of Officer
CARL who permitted him TO visit his temporary
home. Going up stairs while the officer waited
below, Miller jumped from second-story window
and made his escape.
IsIIP-The differences between the towns If
Isp and Brookhaven in relation to the right of the
Great South Bay have been amicably settled and
all suits growing out of the differences between tbe
trustees of the two towns have been discontinued
The amount of the consideration paid to lain il
81 800, of which 81 300 will be applied to the I'm
provement and seeding of the BAY with oysters Ai'-
STATEN ISLAND,
RfcuMoND.-COlonel George Hitchcock has beer
reinstated rs chief clerk of the Richmond Can't
Police Department the charges preferred aoainst
him by Mrs. Mary RYAN having been dismisssJ
WEsTFIELD.-CaptainA bram j. Wood. of West
field, who was appointed by the Republican Com
mittee as an electOr for the LIST District has re-
s,gned that position. The Richmond County Re.
nnbican General Committee will make an appoint-
ment TO fill the vacancy. DE Witt Stafford, chair
man of the committee, will probably be appointed
sr,pLEToN.-George Krohne of New Brighton ran
into Police Headquarters at Stapcton Yesterday and
stated that he mad found barrel buried in the
where Edward Renhardt the condemned murderer
buried his wife in q barrel Captain Blake and
Officers Ambrose and Wolfe went with Krohne TO
he MACE The officers dug up the barrel and on