New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-09
NEW-YoRK CITY.

NETWORK CITY.
A great deal of gray is worn.
Storm doors are being removed.
The Battery Park has again become popuinr az
traction.
Nearly all the dry docks along the East River are
occupied.
The broadway omnibuses are crowded at oil hours
just now.
Japanese sateens are in the usual umbrella ana
fan designs
The upper part OF SXth-ave' is IN "olui S'~'o VI
mud and NTH. as,
The spring openings in fashionable houses will be-
gin next week.
Twenty-three new houses are being finished in one
block in Harlem.
Strawberries are becoming consplcuens IN Ine
Broadway fruit stores.
Tho downtown streets are clean compared with
some of the avenues uptown.
The transition from mud to dust has been very
sudden in the uptown districts,
LazY-loolung groups of 'longshoremen were loung-
ing about the wharVes yesterday.
Many groups of queer-looking foreigners were seen
In Broadway yesterday afternoon.
Street car conductors refuse to accept coins with
holes in them, but pay them out freely.
The approach of the Brooklyn Bridge is now only
few feet distant from Chatham-square.
Broadway looked yesterday as if the whole popu-
lation were out on business or pleasure bent.
There are $50 licensed liquor shops in Harlem. and
respectable people wish the number -educed TO lIty
at most.
The Bovery and Chatham Square have broken out
in bloches of pawn-brOerS signs and vile pacarus,
announcing Pool for Drinks"
Shark oil and shark skins dealt in by South
st. firm The oil Is used for aduteraung ohVe OIL
and the skins for jewellers cases, etc.
The uptown streets are filled with women shop
ping some in new spring costumes without wraps,
and some in heavy, fur-hned garments.
The cargoos Of potatoes IN canal boats are nearly
ali sold and the warm weather is waking up inc
from
II would be mpossb BILE to walk in some OF the
paths IN Central Park If it were not for the single
plank that IL thrown down in the middle OF them'
A SMALL GAMBLER PUNISHED.
Charles Waters for selling lottery policy slip at
No 505 Grand.st., in November 1880, was sentenced
yesterday by Judge GIderseeve to the PenltentlaTy
Tor ten days and fined 500.
PROMOTION IN THE SEVENTH REGIMENT.
The officers Of the 9TH Regiment met Monday
night aud elected Major George Moore smith, LIEU
tenant Colonel, to fill vacancy. Senior captain
ID, A. Pollard was elected Major.
ASKING FOR MORE TIME.
The Police Commissioners yesterday asked Mayor
Grace for extension OF the tins in which TO an
swef his structures on the Street Cleaning Depart
ment. Their reply will be ready IN n week.
NEW CASES OF SMALLPOX.
-Four new cases OF smallpox were reported yester-
Frederick Holm, Spanish sailor; was taken to the
Riverside Hospital from No. Peck Slip, Monday
night, suffering from the disease.
PREVENTING A BLOCKADE.
The stairway facing the Brooklyn bridge ap-
preach ut the City Hail station OF the elevated rall-
road has been boarded up to prevent people from
stopping to watch the men at work on tho Oruge
structure, and causing blockade on tue stalrs'
RECOMMENDING INCREASED DivIDENDs.
The general meeting OF the stockholder5 OF the
Union Pacific Railway Company VIII DO held az tno
company's Office In this city to-day. Inc directors
AZ n meeting yesterday agreed informally to recon-
mend an increase in tho annual dividends from 10
P'' '' STREET rEDLERs ARRESTED.
- al ppt Dlleu their
mesa ON broadway, Park Row. the Bowery and
Grand-st., arrested Monday night ana arTalgn-
al Yesterday ut tho TOmbs and Essex Market Police
Co1rts Those who had no permits were fined 20 or
SO each for violating city ordinance
srABBtD on HIS OWN DOORSTEP.
Cornelus Reilly age thIrty-tive. OF No 265 East
broadway, was assaulted by an unknown man on
his own doorstep, yesterday morning at O'Clock,
L, Tie nolce and taken 10 the Chambers Street Hos
pitll. The assailant made his escape
AS YET no TRACE or JAMES ORR.
Jackson s. Schultz said Yesterday that he had re-
cclyed no news 10 throw light upon the mysterious
dsnppealanCe Of James Orr the trusted euploye OF
hIs firm MIR. Schultz wrote to the lrm OF tiffany ~
Company yesterday Tor the number OF the watGh
which Orr carried and he intends 10 nave all inc
pawnbrokerS shops searched.
ASSISTING THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Recorder smyth yesterday directed that Part III.
Of the Court OF General sessions IN whcn ne Pre-
O'clock instead of an hour later as has been usual
The change is made in order to give the District
of the way before the trials are called.
TuIrr's PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE CHECKED.
Detective Oates. Of the First Precinct on Monday
observed William Maynard. well-knOwn sneak
tLicf enter the Office OF HcZckel L. Brown. at No.
10 Pearl-st., and shortly atterward saw him reap
Dear with a Wcbster's Unabridged Dictionary under
his arm He took Maynard into custody, ana Mr.
Brown made a charge of larceny against INN before
Iusttce Morgan Yesterday at the IomDs. lie was
held in default of $500 bail
DoYs WHOM TIE POLICE SHOULD WATCH
lad h,tva In form
notorious Ienthaye gSng attacked an % 4iT Tdntb
ave- aud FOrty-second-st knocked MN down; anu
iassolng him with rope dragged hun through the
attention at last and the old man was rescued His
shoulder was disOcated and after having u SGT NJ
tho FOrty-seventh Street station, nc went 10 MS
home, at No. 900 West tOrty-iourth-st Mono VI
his asallants were arrested
ONE SHIP WITH O34 IMMIGRANTS.
Nine hundred and thrty-four Immigrants arrived
on the steamship Gcllcrt, from Bremen yesfruhy-
the largest consignment at casio uaIueh Ny any
onc steamsbip since January land the scenes IN
Tho rotunda were similar To those OF iasJ season.
The destinations of the immigrants were geheTally
in Iowa, Michigan and illinois, but about w Hun
garians went 20 Pennsylvania. The t0tal arrivals
for the first week in March were 0,3Z3 an increase
NJ 2,47O over the flrst eight days In March, 1881.
MIR. Parsons FRIENDS AT WORK.
Petitions to the President for the appointment OF
Harry g. Pearson as Postmaster continue TO DO
LARGELY signed. Several kilograms aud letters wero
scnt TO Postmaster General james Yesterday ask
ing him not to oppose the earnest wishes OF the Dus
ineaa community in the matter Yesterday AFTER
noon petitons from the Stock. Produce, Cotton ana
Petroleum Exchanges were sent 10 the tresIdehI.
| There wero also sent petitions from the. union
| League Club the leading steamship cohpanlos' anu
| from some of the banks.
| AssIUITING TIE CORPSE OF HIS CHILD.
| The fwo-year-Old sou OF james ana mary Coyle'
| of No. 1876 East Thirty-thrd-s died sunday even
ing, aud at NJ YESTERDAY fo t3 cocE the father