New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-02
NFW-YORK CITY.

Children are busily selecting Christmas gifts from
store windows.
Trains are no longer plain and flowing, bat must
be fully trimmed.
Yesterday was day to enhance the appreciation
of home comforts.
Furniture effects are creeping into costumes and
much admired.
Many ladies have their costumes copied from old
paintings or eugravings.
Many stores on SiXth-ave. attract attention by
their color OF bright yellow.
The fic-mcrchants on the street corners seem to
be rapidly Increasing in numbers.
"Is that the wav God makes men ~ asked small
boy, looking at a skeleton yesterday.
The Fourteenlh-st. sidewalk. between Broadway
and Fifth-ave has become an out-of-doors bazaar.
West Broadway at Chambers-st. is now probably
the most difficult and dangerous crossing IN the
CITY.
Electric lights become more numerous as the
months roll by. Slxth-aye IS particularly luml-
nous.
The crowds which gather at Fourteenth-st. and
Sixth-ave. daily are sometimes an elect1al barrier
to travel.
The Polo Grounds bid fair to be Turned into a skat-
ing rink before the college football complications
adjusted.
The unfavorablc weather for the bootblaching
profession has reduced the price of shine to 2cents
in many cases
The elevated roads have caused new departure
in advertising. The tops of houses are now eX-
tenSiVely used.
Ninth-ave.. at Ffty-ninih-st. is nearly impassable,
owing 10 he piles of building materials which OBJ
struct the street.
begcar displaying the sign am blind and led
by my dog" was seen Yesterday making good time
up Unverslty-place without The dog.
Almost every corner in the business part Of the
city now has its mot mullins" They arc baked
while one waits, and sell for cents each.
INsoLFNT TLooR-wAIKEEs.
While shopping in some of the large uptown
stores, ladies are sometimes annoyed by the lnSo-
lence of walkers, who watch with suspicion
every movement.
A HEAVY FOREIGN MAIL.
The heaviest foreign mail which ever LETT the
New-York Post Office was dispatched Yesterday by
the outgoing steamers. IL contained IOO.07o
letters and 1872 bags of papers.
TUMULT AT THE STATIONS.
The uproar ~ the foot of the stalrways to many
elevated stations uptown is nearly deafening even
ings by reason of the shouts of newsbOys, banana
men and numerous other yenders
ALIIGyR ADMITTED TO BAIL
Elijah Aiger who was acquitted In the Court
of General Sessions Tuesday, on charge OF recelV-
ing securities knowing them to have been stolen,
was admitted to bail yesterday i'll $1,000 on the
two other indictments against HIM for similar
offences.
THE FAULT IN DELAYED TRAINS.
Postmaster James has received several complaints
from Boston merchants on account OF delay III the
delivery of letters written by them to persons IN
tins city The Postmaster says that the delay is due
entirely to the railway trains being behind time.
The letters delivered promptly after theirrecept
SELLING HIS MORTGAGED FURNITURE.
j. " SOlican, hairdrcsser. recently mortgaged
his furniture to j. Gradt of No. $50 East Thirty
seyenth-st for 1915 Subsequently he sold the
tIcles at secondhand furniture store for 500.
Yesterday SoIican arrested for this offence on
Sixth-ave.. ana va locked mp at Police Headquar-
tiers. He SAID that he lived at No. 800 Bowery.
CHARGEsI Against A SCHOOL TRUSTEE.
At the reglNaf INeting of the Board Of Education
Yesterday yhdrers were filed by John Powers, trus-
tee of the Beventh, W2rd, against John c. Lin
LnY, of fhn ri n Irns IA
charges includcd six specifications alleging I'M
moral conduct on the part of Limbeck III the dis
charge of his official duties. An Investigation VIII
be made By the Committee on bylaws. Several
trustees were appointed
A PAPER BY LItUTRNANT sCHwATKA.
At q meeting of the New-lork branch Of the
United States Naval Institute held 81 the BROOKLYN
Navy Yard yesterday afternoon, Lieutenant Fred
erck Schwatha read paper on the experiences ana
results of his recent Franklin Search Expedition.
Iiautcnant Schwatka will explain the scientific
features of the expedition especially the variations
of tie compass and the best methods OF zee nayiga-
ton at a meeting OF the institute to be held III
January.
The commission de unatcO inquirendo in the
case of Amedc Bizot charged with the murder OF
Mrs. Harriet Renanlt. met yesterday lnthe District
Attorneys Office. DIR. Ellinger testified that he had
examined Bigot. aud did not consider him of I'M
sound mind. He was llcted with what might be
he did not believe Bigot to DO q saue man.
Other witnesses said that they had never signs
ofmental alteration IN Blg0t
STABBED TwiCr BY HIS BRoTHFP.
The members of the Walsh family live at No. 563
FIrst-ave. Tuesday evening Edward Walsh, age
twenty-tbree. returned home intoxicated, aud
created q disturbance. John Walsh, his elder
brother attempted to quiet him, and y quarrel fol-
lowed in which Edward stabbed John in the right
arm and in the left side. An officer was called ~,
and tho assaIlant was arrested. In the Yorkye
Police Court. yesterday, he was held in $1,000 bail
for trial. John WalsiPs injuries are not serious.
A THIEF WITH MUSICAL TASTES
Professor Henry Bcrd. of No. GIG Ihrd-avc.,
missed from his apartments vioin worth 500;
about two weeks ago. lie informed the police, and
Tuesday R0undsman COsgrove and Officer Kinds. OF
the Central Office, arrested Emile Hartmann,
pripter age twenty-five, of No. 80 DIvisOn.sr.,
while he was trying to dispose OF tho instrument IN
hatnam-squars pawnshop,, AT the Essex Mar
ket Police Court yesterday. Hartmann admitted his
guilt and he was held for trial i'll default OF $1,000
bail.
ARREST or A BOSTON BURGLAR.
The millinery store of Ellen b. Collins, No 350
Man-st'. Cbariestown Mas, was broken into No
vember % and property valued at $500 was stolen.
Ii was learned by the authorities in Boston that the
press COMPANY. and they so informed the police of
New-York. Yesterday Detectives Hickey and Ma
lony arrested at the express Office No, % Broad
way A. H. Jackson alias Carroll, alias Weston. who
had called to get the goods. lie was taken to
The Jefie son Market Police Court yesterday after
noon and conscntIng to go back To Boston without
rcouisition, was taken IN charge by Officer Geraiy,
of that city, wl0 at once started for Boston.
BROOKLYN.
The ship yards OH Gowanus Bay have never been
busy ~ now.
Spow-pou.hs were in use on the walks in Prospect
Park Yesterday morning.
Deaths IN the week endiag November 81 257 ;
marriages. 50 births, 24l.
IL Is reported that new Democratic daily news
paper Is to be started III BROOKLYN
The dead body OF mao infant was found in a
cigar box at Leonar aud Conselyea-sts. yesterday
Internal Revenus Collector Ward reported the
coilactio~ of S23OOlO CT IN November. Nearly
SD OOO. 30 has been collected since January 1.
Building is lively in Brooklyn. In the Twenty
secoud Ward there are 1915 houses, two churches
and factory in course OF erection. Many OF these
are owned by New-York capitalists
Collector Tanner received By check 81 100 900 Of
tho toxes for 1881, the payment Of which began
hufnr Maid at nla nllica-