New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-04
NEW-YORK CITY.


over their kid gloves.
The doors of down town restaurants are sur
rounded by hungy-looking Migrants
II was a slippery dav yesterday, both for pedes-
trians and recently formed good resolutions e
Coal stoves IN place of gas stoves are being put up
in the Sixth Avenue Elevated Railroad stations.
Lazy passengers who hnger in getting on or on
the car. of the elevated roads are greVous pests 10
people in hurry.
New dinner sets are decorated in Japanese designs.
each set consisting of plate cup and saucer, Delng
III different patterns.
The body of an unknown man who fell into the
river at the Battery and was drowned NeW-Aears
Day was recovered yesterday
The forward decks of tho ferry-boats are again
becoming popular resorts, passengers staining
there to view the fields of floating ice.
The peanut vendors have made an addition to
their rolling stock They sell not w3tles heateu Dy
the same heat that rOasts their peanuts.
There has been welcome lull in the clamor of
newsboys and vendors at the apprOacbes to Elevated
Railway stations during the last few days.
Cause and effect: Sleighing and cOastng are ex-
celent the accident wards of all the hospitals are
rapidly filling up, and surgeons are cheerful.
The residents of Governors Island are entirely
surrounded by floating ice. GOODNESS seems to
have sprung up between them aud New-York citi-
Zens.
The dead body Of m aged woman was found lying
in the doorway of No sc Grcenwich-st. yesterday
morning. She had apparently died from natural
causes.
and Joshua Howard. age fifty, Of No. Eas Eigh-
teenth-st died yesterday from injuries received by
falling downstairs.
In HOuston-st. window is a log cabin made Of
sausage with furniture made of head-cheese. A
vivid imagination may even detect traces Of thin
bark on the miniature logs.
Practical studies in shades, shadows and perspec-
tive. may be made in Sxth-ave., between Twenty
third and Thirty-fourth-sts., as these blocks are
given up largely to cOored people.
Many of the drivers on the Second Avenue surface
road were fatgued by the recent storm that they
{" LAID off" and now there are than thirty
in the depOtS lacking the ruling power
ABREAST OF THE COLOR LINF.
rs this blockade or a blackadeV thought
man coming up Futon-st. on encOunter1ng several
coored men walking abreast. and taking up the Gu
tire sidewalk
AFFLICTED WITH SMALLPOX.
John Lysaght, q brother OF eX-Aldcrman Lysaght
was found sick with the smallpox yesterday, at No
$40 Broome-st. lie was sent TO the Riverside Hos
pital Several other reported tor investi-
CATION during the day.
BLOWING IT OUT INSTEAD OF TURNING 1T OFF.
r. b. Reynolds, a sailor on the United States
steamer POwhatan, took a room IN tie van DYke
House, at Bayard-st. and the BOwery. Sunday morn
ing, blew the gas out and went to Dgd. yesterday
lie was found dead, and the room hlled with gas.
THE WHITAKER CoURT-MARuAL-
Tho Ex-Governor Chamberlain who is to act ms
counsel for Cadet Whitaker at his forthcoming
trial by cOurt-martial IS ID. II. Chamberlain, for
merry of South Carolina, and now of this city II Is
again rumored that the court will sit in New-York.
AN ENTIRE BLOCK FOR DOLLAR.
Among the transactions recorded IN Register
block bounded by Third and Lexingtonaves. and
One-hundred-and'sixth and Observation-Disclosures.
eepth-sts,, by Benjamin RichaTdsOn to Eugene
Kelly. The consideration was 81.
SALE or PAIN1GNGs
Edward Schenck has on exhibition, at No. 81
Nassau-st., a private collection Of elghty-fve OIL
trand, Clogs. CorOt, Col, Courbet Escosura, Pot,
Roybet Verbockhoevrn Won Marcke and Zeim.
They will be sold at auction on Thursday and Il
day afternoons, at . O'CLOCK.
OPPOSITION To THE PLAN OF FOREIGN BANKERs
The interest which has been manifested by lead
ing merchants in this city 10 opposition to tho pro-
posed change in quoting and computing sterling
change by certain foreign ban kers has induced the
Board of Managers of the Produce Exchange 10 re-
monstrate against the proposed system, ID yester
day series Of resolutions on the subject was
geld FOR POSSIBLE wIFE-MURDER.
pOst-mortem examination OF the body Of Mary
Maher whose husband was arrested on suspicion of
wife-murder, showed yesterday that she had prob
ably died from natural causes. As the husband,
however, admitted that he had beaten her, Coroner
Hermann held him to await the result OF the In
quest. There were bruises OH the head and body Of
the dead woman.
TRYING TO SET ASIDE AN OLD SALE.
George Z. Belts yesterday made "A motion in the
United States District Court before Judge Choate,
IN the matter Of the estate of the late Jordan Mott,
a bankrupt, to set aside sale made by the general
assignee in bankruptcy. in 1868. of the interest of
the bankrupt IN fifty acres of land above Fifty
third-st. and between Broadway and tho Hudson
River. The property is now very valuable. Page
& Campbell opposed the notion and Judge Choate |
MEETING OF sOROsIs.
The monthly social meeting OF SOrOss was held in |
DelmOnicos Darl0s yesterday. There wns large
gathering. Mss &. Bogart read paper on Thought |
as a Fine Art; Mrs FarnswOrth one on 1.-THE Min
isry of ArtP The question for discussion was |
Resolved, That il IS the duty of American women |
so to direct the growth of ue arts in this country
that they shall not lead to the destruction of mo-
If,ra audi ha HpOa Of M
discussed By Mrs. Helnuth, Mrs. CrOly. Mrs Dallas |
Mrs Bronson, Mrs. Morse Miss Fuller. Mrs King |
and Mrs. Smith.
NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE HIS BROTHERS PLACE.
Thomas McShane, on New Years Day, relieved |
his brother Of his duties letter carrier attached
TO Station ID, i'll order that the latter might visit his
friends. lie dOnned his brothers uniform, and went
systematically to work to deliver the letters in |
trusted to his brother lie WAS arrested under Sec
ton 3. S67 of the Revised Statutes which forblds
any person wearing Post Office uniform without |
the consent OF tho Postmaster-Gencral. lie spent
Sunday in the cells and was yesterday arragned |
before United States Commissioner Shields He |
waIved examination, and was committed to await |
the action Of the Grand Jury. lie was allowed his
liberty on his own recOgnIzance.
BROOKLYN.
The Register of Arrears collected $2l12,2I3 Oh |
last year.
The foreman of the Grand Jury mpanclled in the
Court of Oyer aud Termner yesterday is Eugene |
Clark, of No. $50 Greenc-avc.
There being 10 provision for heating the main
room Of the Post ONCE persons waiting for mail or
stamps suffer severely ftOm the cold.
Supreme Court Judge f. NJ, Cullen. the SUCCESSOR
of Judge Erasus Cooke sat on the bench yesterday
for the first time. In n suit before him ex-Judge |
Cooke appeared as counsel.
More care should be taken in cleaning tho floors |
in the ferry-hOuses. People coming to New-York |
yesterday morning by tho Hamilton Ferry had to |
wade through heaps Of mud and pools Of water that
had accumulated in tho fc7ry-housc.
Captain Benjamin Burt Of the oil barge Astral. |
who injured by the explosion OF the boiler OF the
tugbOat Mcclellan Saturday, died yesterday IN the
Long Island College Hospital. The tug was draw
ing tho barge in GOwanus Canal. No cause for the |
explosion has been found. Burt left q widow and |
children. His home was at North Second aud |
Tenth-sts. -
JERSEY CITY.