New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-26
NETWORK CITY.

From April to Saturday evening the total num-
Der of visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
without counting the children, has been 124,247.
The gas from the smoke stacks Of the engines on
the Third Avenue Elevated Road Is almost Stirling az
times 1t is especially dlsagreeaDle aJ Ihe Cly di
station, where there is at least one engine all the
time.
Half dozen urchins of an average age of about
ten years were having walking match" in Frank
fOrtst. Yesterday afternoon, greatly to the interest
of crowd of boys gathered around, one of whom
marked the laps i'll chalk on the iron door OF one
of the large warehouses.
Although the weather was damp and chilly yes,
tcrday, large number Of persons visited Central
Park. In the morning especially the walks were
thronged with people who had left the close guar
tiers of the tenemenhOuSes to seek wholesome ar III
the upper part of the city.
The steamship Herder, which arrived here from
Hamburg and Havre Thursday has been undergo
ing extensive repairs and alterations during the last
three months. The kitchens have been transferred
TO the upper deck, and spacious sitting and smoking
rooms have been built on the same deck.
The physicians connected with Bellevue Hospital
for the last three years have been trying to have
additions made to the main building, for the pur-
pose of separating the wards from all connection
with the sewers The city has slowly given money
sufficient TO build four Of these paYillons' There
are to be seven IN all.
John Caran, o messenger employed in the Russian
bath at No. 10 Lafayette-place who on Saturday
night was accused of TO0bnR Edward DUNCAN
SnIfen of No. 10 West Forty-second-st., was taken
before Justice Duffy, in the Essex Market Police
Court yesterday morning. He was held to await
bail.
Mrs Elizabeth Thompson, Mrs. Cobb, Of Virginia,
and others. visited BlaokwellS Island YESTERDAY TO
listen to an address to the prisoners from Governor
w. F. NJ. Army. of New-MexcO. The party visited
the various institutions under escort OF Anthony
Allare, superintendent Of the workhouse and
lunched with him that institution. In the after
noon the Governor addressed the convIcts after the
sermon by the chaplain.
BROOKLYN.
While Josephine Palmer, age thrty-one, of No.
9S4 Lafayete-ave., was sitting in the dlnng-T0Om
at breakfast, she was struck i'll the right arm by
which came Nc t nGG Vo rear wnd9%
| arrested He says that he was shooting at cat
| While under the influence of liquor Saturday
| night George Hamer, of No. 90 Scholcs.st quar-
| relied with one COsteier, who struck him on the
| head with broom. Hamer was taken home, but
Yesterday his injuries assumed serious character
| and lie was removed to the Long Island College
| Hospital.
The house Of the Williamsburg Yacht Club, at the
! foot of Eagle-st was entered by burglars SatlT-
| day night, and sails and rigging valued at T3O0
were stolen The thieves gained access to tho build
ing by a boat. One of them, named Dutch" was
arrested by Officer Walsh of the Twenty-tirst Pre-
| cinct, NewYork, and the property was recovered.
Walter Parsley, a boy of three years, living at No;
| 232 Bergen-st on his return from Sunday-school
yesterday afternoon was run over by street car AT
| .Fifth-ave and Bergen-st. The wheel OF the car
passed over his left leg and stripped the flesh from
| the bone from the knee to the ankle. The hoy was
taken home. The car was No. 206, Of the Flth-ayc.
| line and was driven by John Stone.
| NEWARK.
| It's stated that the Grand Jury has indicted n
! well-known citizen of Newark who, according Ia
| the books in the tax Office. swOrc off tho whole
| amount of his large personal property 1t Is be-
| lcved that other indictments will follow
James Denerly an Engshman. set upon and
robbed Mt Mechanic and Ward-sts. Yesterday 10y
| three rufllans. Two officers who were near gave
| chase and succeeded in capturing Il. -. Murphy
and William Riordon, who were locked up at Police
Headquarters.
Peter Weller, n wealthy German living NJ Wood
| side Newark, hanged himself last evening IN the
loft Of the barn near his house. No cause has been
assigned for the suicide except that for mum bci
| of DAYS he has been complaining OF his head. lie
| leaves wife and one son.
Argument was heard before the Chancellor OF
Saturday in the matter OF the viii OF the late
| Lucy H. Eddy, of Railway, who died possessed 81
| about Sl5O,O00. The property was bcqueathct
parflv to charitable institutions. Louisa Pollock
grand niece of the tesaOT contests the Will on th'
| ground Of undue influence aud tcstamcntary IN
| capacity. The testatOr died March, 1870 nget
eighty-three years.
LONG ISLAND.
PATCHOGUR.-Th Young Mems Christian AssOci
atoms of Long Island will hold u convention a
Patchogue on Wednesday and Thursday of thi
week.
| BEOOKuAvEN.-Egbrrt r. Smith, Of Brookhavcn
has been appointed by the trustees of the town
commissioner to look after the publication of TIN
records Of the town. from its earliest settlement II
1865 to the present time.