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

The fashionable silk for summer dresses is the
twled Surah.
Bathing dresses with short sleeves are worn oy
ladies who swim we'll
Workmen are still engaged In raising the Durnc"
steamer City Of New-fork.
Hoods of monkish shape are added to all new
French jackets and NANTES.
The latest caprice is to the fan thrust in the
belt instead of suspended by chatelaIne.
Almost every cellar door in South-st was occupied
Yesterday by drunken man who was endeayorlnB
to sleep of his debanch.
Ferrv-st. was infested Yesterday by a crowd of
runians who were pitching pennies, dancing )lRs
and insulting every decent person who had 10 pass
TRIMMING FOR SUMNER HATS.
Cords with tasses and silk pOmp0ns trim me
rough and ready straw hats worn at the Seasho!e'
White muslin is the fashionable trimming al the III
land resorts
INsENsIBIE IN THE STREET go
Henry Halsey age tifty-tYe, was found lnsensiDle
in West-st. yesterday afternoon lie was sent 10
st. Vncent's Hospital. The police could not learn
wAere he lived.
UNIFORMS FOR FERRY EMPLOYEES.
The deckhands on the Staten Island North Shore
ferry have been measured for uniforms TO cost $40
each. The men claim that they could nave the same
suits made for 81 If they were allowed 10 40 3d.
TWO OFFICERS WORTHY OF PRAISE.
little girl named Catharine Johnson, OF No. So
LaIght-st. fell into the North River At Per NO. 80
Yesterday afternoon. She was rescued from dr0wn-
ing and taken TO her home by Officers shaw ana
Reilly, of the Steamboat Squad.
ASCENDING TO THE ELEVATED ROAD
The track from the ground 10 the Metropolltan
Elevated Railroad. by which ears are raised upon
the elevated tracks. is being pm up 1T the terminus
of the road the Harlem River. Until lately IL
has been placed at RectOr-st., but was removed by
order of the city authorities.
DANGFPs OF LEARNING TO SMOKE
Some bows who were steahly smoking cigars III
the large lumber ward at lhIrdaye: and Onc-nuh-
drCd-and- hTty-thrd-st accidentally SET hre 10
pile OF lumber, and then, becoming frightened, ran
AWAY. A Waterman dis covered the flames IN time
TO prevent n disastrous fire.
DOG-CArCuERs' DESPERATION.
DOg-catchers are becoming desperate IN the upper
part of the city. One entered store IN Harlem Il
Jew days ago aud attempted TO seize dog wearing
a license tag The woman in attendance ordered
him ont and after indugng IN some lmpudence ne
departed, promising TO come again.
FOUR-FOOTED POLICEMAN.
A large black dog on whose neck IS collar bear
ing the inscription Faithful jack or tne brotuWay
squad" stands from morning unul night at Broad
way and Maiden-aue; only leaving the place 10
accompany the policeman 20 the staiIon-hols',
where ne his dluner, after when he returns
BROOKLYN.
Many persons carrying lunch baskets were seen
in Prospect Park yesterday.
The drives and walks of Greenwood Cemetery
were thronged with visitors yesterday afternoon.
Michael Abbott age six of No. 600 Elevent h-st.,
New IOrlI was run over about D. III. yesterday Dy
a train of the Long Island Railroad in AtlantlG'aye,
near Van Smderen-aYe., in East Newly Ork. lie was
instantly killed.
Dennis Reardon, of No 8 Garnet-st., was arrested
on Saturday upon a warrant obtained by Mordecal
Johnson, a tea merchant az No; 40 FINEST, New
York charging HIM with illegally collecting money
from Mrs. Mary 4. Courtney, ol No. 439 Hlcks-st.
An attempt was made on Saturday evening to eff
feet an entrance IN the baRgage-roon OF the New
York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company on
JEWELS wharf by pTylng the door open WIN
Jimmy" The burglars were frightened away by
the approach of policeman
In a fit of insanity on Saturday night Martin
Miner age thrty-seyen, OF South Second and FIRST
SITS, attempted suicide by cutting the artery in his
lett arm with razor. He was found before losing
much blood and was taken to St. GATHERINGS
Hospital. He Will probably recover.
yesterday afternoon, c. b. Baldwin, age fotyeight,
of No. 553 Unon-st:, was thrown out IN COLLISION
Union-st Mr. Baldwin struck the pavement with
such force that he was almost instantly killed.
The police Of the Ninth Precinct yesterday ar
rested William +. Robinson and his wife, of No.
431 Van Buren-st., upon the complaint of Mrs.
Lydia G. Libby with whom they live. she saws
that they entered her sleepipgr0om and stole $500.
Detective Kelly recovered 1898 at the house of the
father of Mrs. Robinson, No 324 TOmpkns-ave.,
and S5 IS in Mr.. RobinsOns pocket.
George Sperry, age fourteen, of No. 26l3 Grand
ST. aud Edward Waller, age seventeen, OF No. 156
Hart-st., were arrested on Saturday for burglary
committed two weeks ago at the house of Walters
father, in which $50 in goods were taken: En-
trance to the house was effected through the
scutte. The two boys attempted to enter by the
bir. Waller.
girl fourteen years of age giving her name as
Mamie Edge, on Saturday afternoon went TO the
Fifth Precinct Station and told Captain WOgOm
that she had been living until recently with her
aunt, who had moved away to the West, leayag
her behind. She WAS closely questioned, aud finally
admitted that she had run away from her home,
at No 81 Lewls-st New York Word was sent to
her mother and she vas taken home.
A supposed attempt at suicide was discovered
late Saturday night in Brooklyn. Two nen
walking i'll Monroe-St near \ atesave., when they
noticed young woman apparently abOut twenty
years Old who was acting queerly. She passed
into a vacant lot near the street and sat down.
Upon following her ii found that she had about
two feet of stout cord tied around her neck. She
was nearly insenslble, and could not make any eX-
PLANTATION when taken taken to a drug store at
Yates and Gates-aVcs. She was subsequently
NOV ed to the City Hospital.
NEWARK.
James Moore, boy fifteen years old, was very
seriously boned about the abdomen OH Saturday
by the ignition Of can of alcohol at the factory of
Roberts * Hayell i'll Westinghouse.
The Essex District Medical Society has appointed
n committee To Investigate all diplomas filed with
the County Clerk, IN accordance with the provi-
sOns of the new State law, and another committee
to obtain information relating TO illegal practice in
the district
Thomas OBrien, labOrer, who lives AT No 43
Adams-st. aud Is employed on the Central Railroad.
was killt Il yesterday by construction train the
Newark and Elizabeth Branch. o. Dncn was work
ing OH the road 18th gang of abOrers at the time.
HIS head and arms were cut from his body.