, 1881-03-06
CITY-HALL.

scR1r amounting to little over SOS 900 va
| redeemed Lust week.
/ THE Treasurer received from the Water Of1c
| $90S, and the Controller $3.50.
The Mayor, Chief Of Police, and the othe
New Orleans ercursionists are expected hom,
Monday.
THE Special Committee on the Chicago aveuu,
and Central avenue v1nducts will meet at $50 p
m. Friday.
SALARIES amounting to ss4.5oo were paid yes
terony. n the school 3anitors, engineers. etc. get
laborers $500.
IcEBERGs ten and twelve feet high are floating
around the Crib and rubbing up against fl
though not damaging the structure. The mer
employed there have all they can do to keep the
ice out Of the we'll
AMONG the building permits issued we're the
following: Edward Koch, four story brick store
2Vxn feet- Lake street, near franklin, $7,500;
9lrica bush, three-story brick dwelling, s.2.xGe
feet Grant place, near Clark street, $7,UU.
CONTROLLER GunxEY's annual report is out
In pamphlet form, and from It the clty's system
Of bookkeeping can be understood itnpos-
siblllty to the ordinary mind heretofore, on NC
count of the multitude of separate funds grow
ing out OF the nom collection of back taxes.
Those ut 1873 and 1874 having been wiped out,
the oldest account now kept is In 1871, the great
1879 e0's 0"-> ~
A LARGE piece of ice fell from water-pipe
On tho Grand Pacific yesterday, ano, In its de-
scent, struck bunch of the tire-alarm wires.
nfsakt!ns ncs1t e. ye or six Of them and eYt!ng
minutes after the break, however, grounds were
put ot-possfble on account Of the metallic cir
cuits-and, notwithstanding that five wires were
parted. I'M alarm could have been received over
any one Of them.
TEE mortality report for last month contains
the following: Deuths. EW: preceding mouth,
$40; corresponding month in 1sso 73s. The an
MIN r1fA r f1,rx3
II were der l year, ISL under s. aud - be-
tween 70 and 100. There were deaths In the
First Ward, Il in the Fifth. GO In the Seventh, 9G
IL tho Fourteenth, anu q in the Eighteenth.
Group carried OF II. dtphtherin II. scarlet-fever
p smallpox 5s consumption 10, convulsions o3,
anu pneumonia 81.
C1TY-AIToRSEY GR1SSELL commenced suit
yesterday against Frederick H. Ayers TO recover
Judgment Of 5000 and interest t<6oU0, OBJ
tanned Two or three years ago against the city by
one Van Berschoit, who fell into a coal-hoie il
front of property On West Lake street owned by
Arers- The intention is to tesr the question as
to whether property-owners should not be COM
PEELED to repay 70 the city the damages recov-
cred against 1t by people injured through de-
fectsve sidewalks. Few judgments have been
fccovered lately on this account but cases arise
every once in while, and it IS thought well to
get decision of the Supreme Court on the
point
A'cRArn vs.. srAunEn.
The Communists are jubilant over the fact
that the Supreme Court threw out the case Of
Mctirath VS.. Stauber, believing that, as the time
for an appeal to the Appeifute Court has ex-
Pired .aln order from Judge Moran showing the
stauber the seat. They do not know thnt not
the lapse, the case can he gotten
into the Appellate Court on d writ OF errur md
there it is understood, AID. McGrnth INTENDS to
takc It In order to estnblsn his rights. The
II decision" " Of the Supreme Court cuts no
figure whatever. as the Judges simply held TINT
they hod no Jurisdiction. So MCGr3lth will con-
sinue to represent the people Of tho Fourteenth
Ward who elected hun.
COMPARATIVE MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS,
Controller Gurney, being curious to know the
per capita debt of the principal cities Of tue
country, and having procured the necessary
figures pertaining to NIL except New York, tho