New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-20
NETWORK CITY.


ths Madison University Alumni Will he held at Tue
Fifth Avenue Hotel Thursday evening" Decein-
Der %.
The bodv of DIR. Isaac I. HAYES, the Arctic Gex-
plorer was taken to Philadelphia Yesterday me
brother brOtheT-n-l aw and cousin OF Dr' nay Co az
compaBied the remains
GENERAL EWING ADMITTED TO THE BAR II
General Thomas Ewing ou motion Of Joseph u;
Choate was admitted yesterday in the GaneIai
Term of the supreme Court rs az attorney ana
COunsellOr-at-aw of his STATE.
A PLACE TO sEND DISCARDED Toys.
Old dolls scds and other toys that may De lS't al
The bousc of Mrs L. NJ. Bates 10. Ho4 5la .iisol-
ave. win be distributed among the children Oh 'le
Ncw-York Infant Asylum, at Mount vernon Oh
Christmas.
THE NEW sURRoGATE's BONDs;
District Attorney Rollins yesterday filed his bonds
Surrogate in the County Clerk oitce' 1I han
men III $4,000 each. and they qudfiled Ill uoupio
that amount
AN OVERDOSE or MORPHINE
William Foster. age fifty, shoemaker, dled NJ
No $50 Thirl-ave. yesterday, from an overdose Oh
morphine. He had been sufferer from cohsuinip-
ton, and had taken morphine to ease MS pam 10y
accident he took too much.
MR. COLEMAN PREPARING HIS PROOF. =,
Commissioner Colem2r is preparing letter 10 ths
Police Commissioners in which he intends 10 prov
of the police to comply with the ordinances III INC
matter of sreet-cleaning really emanated from HIS
Office.
TO TAKE EFFECT TfMEDIATELY:
A petition 10 the authorities is circulating III
Harlem asking that steps be Ia ken Tor me opening
If one acknowledgements and One-hundred-
wenty-seventh-ss. from Second-ave. TO liar-
lem River in accordance with the act 10 ItAc
effect Immediately" passed by the Legislature a
year ago. -
The agent of the Signal Service III TINS Guy s'ts
that the Chief Signal Officer AZ Washington desires
in order that vessels may be properly repoiIeu Ia
passing in and out of the entrances 10 the dluergn
pOrts of the United States, that captains VIII as
play their national ensign in addition 10 thcH inter-
eio mol pgiO
OPPOSED 70 AMENDMENTS.
A special meeting of the Maritime exchange was
held Yesterday to discuss proposed amendmehlS 70
the by-laws The one mainly objected TO SPecinG1d
that each certificate of membership shouhi eltltJ
the holder to only one card Of admission HeyeI1l
sneecbes in opposition to the amendments were
made. II was then resolved TO suspend acton upon
the amendments Tor thirty days.
FINAL DIVIDEND OF SEVEN PER CENT.
The receiver OF the Ieutonia Savings Bank mas
been ordered TO pay final dividend OF per cent
cent Ii was hoped that tie bonds OF the town or
Snrinerport held by the bank, would he available,
bnnt the Court of Appeals decided that they were
void The checksfor the last dividend viii be paid
in January.
AID FOR SUFFERERS BY THE yIESN' FIR:
The ThaIa Theatre was well filled yesterday
ofternoon at fLe matinee performance for the bencht
of the sufferers by the Vienna fire. The programme
was a very long and varied one. Madame Janau1;
and a duet from the d" Mascotte was sung Oy
Jenny Stubel and Alexander Klein IN costume. Inc
CONGRESSMAN FLOWERS GENEROSITY.
Congressman Flower has sent To the Key. Dr
MORGAN "a check for T2,Ol4 90, 10 De Distributed
among the deserving charities of the district ne rep
Tesnnts The money Is the salary Tor the five
months in which the district was not represented
being the time intervening between Mt ,M0rlons
resignation and Mr.. Flowers election. Under the
law Mr.. Flower is entitled to the salary.
ILLUSTRATED LECTURES AT MASONIC TEMPLE.
The first three lectures of the course at Masonic
Temple IN behalf OF French Protestant work in the
| viii he December
| 81 and % by the Rev. Samuel Wells Powell and
George May Powell, of Philade phia. The subjects,
| are ION Foot Through Palestine" London" and
%Erypt and Central North Africa" The Rev II.
| NJ Storrs ID. D.. will preside at the opening OF tho
| course tonight.
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST UNSAFE BUILDINGS.
| Buildings reported unsafe yesterday: Nos. 2l9
| East Seventy -flth-st 800 East For y-nintl-st.;
go West Thrty-seventh-st; ~ and as New
| II Oliver-st; % Essex-st.; 3l0 Ienth-aye; l
James Slip. he inspectors who examined Macy
building at Fourteenth-st and SlAth-aye, reported
that although it perfectly safe, extra posts had
Teen put under the first floor girders for further Sc
| curity. -. ,,.,,,.,
Henry Meyer, of No. 27 Frankfort-st, repulslve
| looking man, was arraigned yesterday before Jus
tce Klbreth, at the Iombs on the COMPLIANT Oh
in the face with his clenched fist and knocking her
down 1t is alleged hat he seduced her from her
home in Hoboken, and then compel ed her to steal
from persons in thu street. and frequently beat her
badly when she failed to supply him with money.
He was held for trial.
TEN YEARS IN STATE PRISON.
| William Livingston, an ex-conyict, was convicted
in the Court of General Sessions few days ago or
shooting at Policeman Charles ). Pike in Mercer-st
on September 49, Living ton was acting In slIs-
| nicions manner near a large wholesale clothing
| Warehouse and when the policeman attempted to
arrest him he fired at the ofncer. A1tcr MS cOnylc-
ton. and when on bis way TO the Tombs, Livingston
made an unsuccessful attempt to escape. Yesterday
| Recorder Smyth sentenced him to the state Prison
for ten years.
| ACTION ON JUDGE DAvIEs's DEATH.
| The faculty and students OF the Law School Of the
| University OF the City OF newborn TOOK action
Yesterday in regard to the death OF eX-Judge Henry
| t. Davies who died on Saturday. At the ilme OF
his death ex-Judge Davies was professor emeritus
in the Law Department, and had been acting pres-
dent of the Law Faculty for eleven years prior TO
last October Pro lessons jacques and Isaac +. Rus
| sell made eulogslic remarks. ana committee was
appointed TO attend the funeral. The exercises OF
| the Law Department were auJouuou AoI Ai"h""J
Tuesday.
| THE EXCISE FHEs FOR ONE YEAR.
The present Excise commissioners had De6n Ia OF
fee one year on. Saturday They report that tine
amounted to S47 900 80, while III the period rom
December II. 1879 TO DeceI Der ~ 1880, only
SI3 $50 was collected the excess Tor the past year
| being $47 351 o. This, the commissioners say, Is
due to the fact that many liquor dealers VINO orn-
erly sold without authority have been competed 20
number of applications than ever before has been
refused for cause.
ADMITTING BOYS TO HIS THEATRE.
Jacob AbeTle, the proprietor OF Abere's Theatre
| in Eighth-st, was placed on trial III the Court OF
General Sessions yesterday, charged with admitting
| BOYS under fourteen years OF age TO ms theatre.
Tic prosecution was at the instance of the Society
for The Prevention of Cruelty 10 Children. Aberle
neaded ignorance of the fact that boys had been adj
| mitted and proved that there were notices posted
in The lobby of the theatre to the effect that boys
under fourteen years of age will not be admitted to
the theatre" The jury failed 70 agree ana was as
| charged.
| A SUIT DISCONTINUED.
| Assistant United States Dstrct-AttOrney wallace
! yesterday entered n discOntnuance IN the United
States District Court IN the ease of the Government
| against LongmTe, Gilmore d Mckenzie, wholesale
| dr. goods dealers. The suit brought in 1873 to
recover ST. 600 as duties on goods taken from the
| bonded warehouse. 1t shown that the hfin
paid the money 10 William g. Noyes, Custom
House broker that he forged the permits and that
81 1oods wore vsred fita firm. Moves