New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-19
NETWORK CITY.


Straw hats regained favor for another day yes
terday.
The free ice water tanks well patronized yes
terday.
The corsage bouquet is now more directly in front
of and Just below the waist line.
The cornerstone Of a new Roman Catholic Chuicn
will be laid in West Farms this morning.
The hermit costume is much in favor for general
wear. Ii is made with Kilt skirt and snort poioN-
ase looped with heavy cord and tassels
Deaths last week, 533 births. $50 marraee H.
1856 The police arrested 1,441 persons ato . ~,
censes were issued, and fees amounting 10 To'ooo
collected.
SEEKING TO DRAIN THE MUI-BHooK
A number of people living near the old MiIi-Drooh'
in Morrsania have petItiOned the Park Conhis-
sioners to connect the brook with the new sewer so
to drain 1t Oft.
RACING on THE ELEVATED ROADS.
The Second and Third Avenue Elevated kallro ond
have some exciting races between. NlheN -suconu
and One-Hundrcd- and-sxth-sts. The practice Is
said 70 be alarmngly frequent
AN OFFICER HURT IN A sOUFFLE.
Officer Leferts, OF the Mercer Street fonce ar
rested Yesterday William Cannon for being lnlON,,
cated IN the street. The man resisted arrest anu
threw the officer. who in the fall dislocated MS
shoulder.
Coroner Hermann committed James Fleming, age
twenty-six, of No. 1877 Westinghouse. to tie lomUs
Yesterday on suspicion OF causing the Gea,n Ul
of the brain fastened Furnisss death. The two men
had quaTeed, and it is suspected that FLEMING
struck FurnISs.
BARK DISABLED At sEA.
The Norwegian bark Statsmnster stang, having
become disabled on her voyage asked the captain
of the steamer Leverrier, from Newport, Ing
land. to tow her into Halifax. distance OF
eighty miles. In the effort TO tow the vessel the
hawser broke aud badly injured one OF the crew oil
the steamer. The attempt to tow the bark was
finally abandoned The bark was last seen drlItlhs
toward Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
ORDERED TO IMPROVE Ills HOUSES
Orders were issued yesterday from the Board oil
Health to d. NJ. Kohler. the owner of tho houses
Nos 439 Al 44S and 40 East Twenty third-st
and No $50 Avenue-A. To put them III habtable
condition These are the houses IN which more than
twenty children were found last week suffering
from diphthcra. IL was found that the sewer
pipes were III a wrctched condition. and that the
water from the river rose III the cellars III each gh
tide.
SWEARING IN SUPERVISORS OF Election.
Chief Supervisor Davenport will swear in super
visors for he approaching election IN room NO. |3,
on the third floor of the the Post once Building, rs
follows Ga Wednesday. September %. at 100 p No.
for the first six Assembly Districts; on Ihul sday
night for the With, With, lXth. Nth Xltb KILN,
ihe XYth, XVIII, XYIIth. XYillth, XiXth and
XXth Districts and Saturday night tor the re-
naming districts.
DEATH OF MRS. FELLOWS.
Mrs Lonis :. Fellows. the sister of Augustus
Schell died al her home IN this city on Friday. She
was born in Rhncteck. n. Y, December l, 1sO5,
and was nearly scventy-iye years old She leaves
five children and five grandchildren. Her children
are Richard c.. James " aud Robert Fellows Mrs.
Jefferson Coddrngton and Mrs. J. o. Hoyt She
will be buried from No. - West EIityeIghth-st., AZ
10 A. M. Monday. The body will be taken to
WOodlawn Cemetery.
BROOKLYN.
Bicycle riders make Bedford-ave. perilous to
pedestrians
walter Best, one of the three young men charged
with the murder of Lawyer Harvard, has Deen DIS
charged by Justice Ferry.
ExPOlice Commissioners Pyburn and LEIGH claim
their salaries for August under the bill reOrganZlng
The municipal departments. Controller StcinmetZ
to an Excise Commssioner,hip and had declined 1t,
lie did not come within the provision of the law.
Amanda L. Ballou took legal measures yesterday
70 obtain possession of her fourteen-year-Old son.
The boy, who is now i'll the House of Refuge, was
produced in court before Judge Gilbert. Ten years
ago the boys parents became estranGed. and the
child was placed the custody of his grandfather,
ly whom lie was sent TO a Roman Catholic Institu-
tion From the institution he was adopted into a
family in Dcgraw-st.. and all trace of him was lost
iOI years. - -
Isaac Burke was committed TO the Hudson County
Jail for four days last Tuesday on the charge OF
drunkenness. Friday he was seized with diph-
liberia of malignant type and died that night.
Mrs Mary OCoDnor. who some time ago murdered
her three little children at her home III Jersey CITY
by cutting their threats, was arIalgned yesterday
in the Hudson Comfy Court OF oyer and Iermlner;
she pleaded not guilty As she was not represented
b. counsel no date was fixed Tor her trial. Counsel
will be assigned By the Court.
NEW-JERSEY.
BULLS FERRY.-Ambrose Vision. a colored man
living at Bulls Ferry. accidentally shot himself
while hunting I'll the MOonache meadows. He was
alive yesterday, but no hopes were entertained of
his recovery. 1870 ,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Tucker. a ship carpenter,
while at work III the yard of Smith IL Terry. at
Grecnport, on Thursday. received injuries that
Likely to prove fatal. He was struck III the head by
a large piece Of timber known as the whale" o.
the lightshp, which is being rebuilt there
FLUsuING.-Henry Koch. who has just come out
Of the Penitentiary, shot Henry Bond, of Flushing,
on Friday night with gun. The men were night,
lodged charge of shot in Bonds head. neck and
back. Bond was not fatally injured. The Board
OF Education of the town OF Flushing has approDrl
atcd $500 to employ a teacher 10 introduce the
Quincy system OF instruction.
EAST MARIoN.-A fishing smack was found adrlft
in the Sound, near East Marion, last Sunday. In
the cabin of the smack was found pair Of trousers
in one pocket Of which was German silver shield
bearing the name X. J. Spencer. Old Say brook. Cap
tain S. II. Army, of WestbroOk, went tOGreenport
on FRIDAY and identified the boat ~ belonging to
Spencer. On Monday, September g. Spencer went
out take HIS lobster pots and was seen at work
in his boat. He probably fell overheard and was
STATEN ISLAND.
NEW BRIGHToN.-Mrs. John &. Green, of New
Brighton has offered reward of 1000 Tor the arrest
aud conviction of the thi, YES who entered her
house Wednesday night and carried oil several hun
drcd dollars worm OF property.
RICHMOND.-At the last meeting of the Richmond
County Police Commissioners. Il committee com
posed of ljqaor dealers OF the town OF Mddetown
waited upon the Commissioners and asked that
liquor dealers without licenses he compelled To
ply with the law. Ii was claimed that there were
about forty denquents IN this respect. and that III
consequence of the aXIty the enforcement of the
law in the district the school tax had increased by
about 81 900. The Commissioners. after consider
ing the matter, said that they would instruct Cap
tam Blake of the Comfy Police. 10 enforce the law
and cooperate with the Excise Commissioners.
Fifteen physicians only have registered in the Rich
moud County Clerks office.
HUDSON RIVER TOWNS
PoRT CHEs rER.-The Prcsbv terians are arranging
to celebrate the approaching seni-ccntennial of
their society.
IKVINGf0N.-John Green, a labOrcr while going
down a well at lrvington to do some work yester-
day, was thrown TO the bottom, distance OF sixty