New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-07

Almost every fcrry-boat which left this city for
Jersey CITY yesterday had for it, passengers .Wo or
| more hunters with guns and dogs, b0uhd IOr the
| happy hunting grounds"
RECEIPTS At HE POST OFFICE.
The receipts at the Ncw-lOrk Post once Tor noSt-
are and box rents iasi week were f6S, 400 No GUS
| mess was done on election day and the amount ls
! considered unusually large.
A CHILD FATALLY BCRNED.
Lizzie Eclert age seven, of No l24 D2lancy-St'
wenttoo near the kitchen fire, al her home Yesterday
Her clothes set on fire. and she was burned 50
badly that she died shortly after
| ANNIVERSARY or A BUSINESS COLLEGE.
| TIE Rev Me,srs. Robt. Collyer J.Hyatt Smith and
William. Lloyd will speak at the 9nnlyersary OF
| envy of Music Thursday evening, November is.
DEPARTURE OF sALvIN.
Salvini sailed from lIayre for New-York in the
steamship Canada yesterday, HIS season IN ms
| c1nnfrv viii omen at Philadcph November %.
| He will play IL Ncw-York III February.
EVIDENCE OF ITS POPULARITY.
| Metropolitan Concert Hall, for balls, entertain
| mcnts etc. for the ensuing season. The Socletc
PAmtle has selected January II, 1851, as the date
for It's annual ball, at this hall.
NURSES FATAL CARFLEssNTss.
! The infant child of family named Christie, at
No 800 East Ffty-iourth-st., died suddenly yester
day. The Coroner found that careless nurse had
administered TO the child dose of carbolIc acid,
| installing it for a soothing medicine.
| MOVING THE OBELIsK.
| Tieutcnant- Commander GOrrlnRe'S men swung the
! obelisl into position on the Boulevard "Wednesday
| morning, aud now II is moving down TO Eighty
siyth.s AT the rate of 500 feet a day. The number
OF visitors has hardly diminished since the work OF
| landing the stone began.
EXPLOSION or GAS IN A CELLAR.
| A. Westphaon, "A saoon-keeper al No. 2l4 Grand
ST. went to turn oil the gas in his cellar, yesterday
morning The PIPE busted ana the e. tnh1 es
held An explosion followed, and the house was set
| on fire. but little damage was done.
CHARGED WITH PASSING BAD MONEY.
Francis Clcchattl Young ltaI,an was in arrested
yesterday at his fathers RESTAURANT No. lO2 Chat
! ham-st charged by Kate Mcintyre with passing on
her a counterfeit - bl on the Bank Of Troy, He
was held by United States Commissioner Shields IN
5000 bail for examination Monday.
TIE YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS
| The report of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
| ton for October shows general ATTENDANCE Of
% 100 in the reading groom, 9TH library, 3,317
gymnasium. 5000 in various evening classes CSC ;
at prayer-meetngs and Bible-classes, 2, 500; nyi-
| tations distributed, $4,000; new members 342.
MISSING FOR sEYEN WEEKS.
reward Of :; / 900 Is offered for information of
| Henry Evans IT,, who September ii. left st.
| Joseph Mo-, to 70 to Nebraska. Nothing has been
heard Of him SINCE and IT Is supposed that he has
gone astray in iit of insanity. The police received
| his description yesterday irom tho authorities Of
| Baltimore.
An OVERDOSE OF CHLOROFoRM.
Josephine s. Sparks age thrty-SlX died at No.
| OH East Thirty-iourth-St., yesterday, from an
overdose Of choroorm. Mrs Sparks had suffered
| acutclv from rheumatism, and had used the drug
severe attack she took too much, and was found
dead in her bed IN the morning
ALL ABOUT An ASH BARREL,
William Knuth age eleven. and John Roach, age
twelve Of No A9G First-ave.. Guarrclled aud beat
each other in the street on the night of election day.
beng unable to agree about the possession Of an
ash barrel. Roach struck knuth on the head with
one Of the slaves and fractured his skull. leSteT
day the boy died. Roach has disappeared.
MORTALITY ARRESTS AND KXCIsE LICENsrs.
Deaths last week 6S3 births, DOB marriages
lf.u,ttt iCsi -
and collected fees amounting to S3,4l6. The p0-
lice only arrested /, 176 persons III the week, a
much lower plumber than the ordinary average, de-
spite the election and It's attendant excitement On
election day l37 persons were arrested and on the
following day 23G'
WORK OF THE BIBLE SOCIETY
Atameeting Of the Board of Managers OF the
American Bible society, November 4, encouraging
| reports made. Books to the value oisS2,O 600
were voted to the Agency in Mexico, and books
worth SO 600 for cOlportaee work In the United
States Several meetings have been held prepare
lory 10 the Wycife COmmemoratiOn TO be held in
the Academy of NJ Isle December 2, when the Rev
Dr. rs Sorrs will deliver Grafton The presses of
| the society printed 100000 Bibles and lostamcnts
during the past two months. The receipts for the
past month were 3Z6,S49 Al.
ROBDING AN ELEVATED STATION.
The safe III the ticket office Mt the elevated rail-
road station at EoTtysecOnd st. and Ihrd-avc., was
opened October % and FL in money and u guam
tIty OF tickets were stolen. Suspicion was directed
TO Addison Watkins, a cOlOred porter employed at
the station, he bong tho only person besides John
| Matthews, the ticket agent. who knew the cOmO-
NATHAN of tbc safes lock- On the evening of NOvem-
her l. Matthew'S left the station in charge of
| Watkins, who was sweeping the Waitlng-Ioom,
| while he went to lunch. He left the door of tho
| ticket Office unlocked. When he returned W Watkins
| was not there and he found that Sl18 had been
| stolen and that 500 III tickets was missing. Fri
day evening he had Watkins arrested by Detective
| Mcmahon OF the Nineteenth sub-Proclnct. In tho
| Yorkvle Police Court yesterday the prisoner was
remaudcd. ,,.l.,-, go,
Inhabitants of Smtll-st are Offering rewards for
! missing garbage collectors. Meanwhile countless
| aSh-barrcs cumber the ground
During October permits were issued for 204 new
buildings the estlma ed cost OF hciI Is 81 l1SOl1
| OF ;he buildings. PIG are of brick.
Two human skulls were unearthad yesterday by
| some boys, playing On the old De B'NoI5c farm in
| WIthcr-st., near klngSland-aye. The ground was
inclosed "A family burial plot.
As a result of an election wager. n sicEy-lookiug
Democrat was compelled to push Repu ican IN 4
| wheebarrow from iates-aye. to the City Hall and
| back Friday night. They were accompanied by a
| dram and hte. and followed by IA large crowd
| The daily consumption of water is decreasing
| The consumption Friday was 26,266.2O0 gallons,
| against 81 .S52,979 gallons on the corresponding
day of last year. he water at the distributing
reservoir IL IL lcet , Inches IN deph and ut the
storage reservoir feet Iuches al increase in the
latter OF six inches since Friday morning.
| JERSEY CITY.
| Report Jelly, sergeant Of the Second Police
| Precinct, Eel early Yesterday morning while craS-
| ing some disOTderly boys nud broke his rIgut
| arm at the shoulder joint. lie had Just recovered
| from severe Illness
Andrew Iravl!le was arrested at the Pennsyl-
| yana Railroad Ferry at %. IN. yesterday white
| driving "A horse when he had stolen from Charles
| Meter. of Newark. gold watch winch lie had
| stolen from Mr.. Meter was alsO found IN Ills pos
| SESSION.
John Nash No. 3Gs Wayne st., n street-lamp,
| lighter. attempted To fiji lighted lamp at Bruins
! wick and MoutgOmery-sts. last evening. The OH
| caught fro and the can held by Nash exploded
| with a loud report. Nash almost INSTANTLY en-
yeopcd ia iaucS, ana ran down the street scream
| ing for help. The hilnes were eXtinguIshcd by
| several persons, but Nash probably fatally
| burned. He was removed TO ST. Francis Hosp tai
| IN the police ambulance.
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