New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-17
NETWORK CITY.


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NETWORK CITY.
Cirar - ia the new shade of brown.
| Tho Loujs Onuze coat is much liked for dinner
| toilets. .,,,.
Brondst il blockaded with large piles OF building
materials.
An cntcrprsing publisher ndvertses sermons at
| cents apiece. -,
Plaids in the new ginghams are soueWha' '"le'
and French in design. .,
Black kid gloves are laced on tho back with goId
cord for dress occasions.
Rich Hamburg embroidere5 arc lower IN price
than they have been Tor years
The noners on file at the Cooper Union reading
room are literally to shreds by constant use.
French artificial hower-makers complain that
eir trade has not Ourshed greatly during the pas"
year.
Courtland- lave and tho adjacent streets are be;
coming notorious as pest-holes III the anheAe"
district
There ia sort of bootblack's EXCHANGE in front OF
Trinity Church with no less than hiteen actFo
members. ~,
Merchants are offering hand ONE danask silks
for 81 yard; this proves that damaSse' nave n"u
their day.
street dealer in stove backing in FourteenthIst.
poshes che lampposts to prove the virtue OF Dis
commodity.
A matinee in aid of thSDiet Kitchen Association
will he given by The San Francisco Minsrels at their
theatre February 10.
The members Of the Manhattan Club will give
complimentary dinner 10 General HancOcH OIL tne
evening of tho 5tn OF March.
An entertainment for tho benefit of tho poor Of
| Harlem was given in the Harlem Music Hall Tues
day evening. Over 800 was resz ID.
The Knickerbockers dramatic society," wl give
a performance at Harlem Music Hall Friday even
mo for fine benefit of the Harlem Homeopathic Dis
| pensaTy.
DINNER or SETON HALL ALUMNI. oo
The Alumni Of Seton Hall college, South Orange,
n. j., will give their annual dinner at PinaTds TINS
evening. Archbrehop Corrigan Bishop McQlade, of
| Rochester, and Others Will be present.
| REWARDED FOR HIS HEROIsM.
| luke Kayanagh, q fireman of Engine Company
| No. g. was placed on the roll OF merit Dy tne riIs
Commissioners yesterday for rescung julius Erhllch
from the burning building at No. W New-ChauiOefS-
| st., February 8.
| ATTEMPTED SUICIDE N "sHANTYTowN"
| Mrs Mary A. Quinn, age slxty-fiye. poor Lrlsll;
| woman living in Sxtvffth-st between Elgntn ana
| BY swallowing quantity OF kerosene OIL. one was
taken to the Roosevelt Hospital, where 1T was D.
| lieved that she would recover
AN ELEVATED RAILROAD ENGINE DISABLED.
| A slight accident occurred yesterday morning to
| engine pit on the Sixth Avenue Elevated Road
The w brace Oh the locomotive broke anu IL DC
| came disabled. The passengers on The tram were
| compelled to board The next train, the ROAD Deng
| clear after delay Of thirteen minutes.
DrATH FROM TUE RESULTS OF BEATING.
| Bridget UDOnncll. age siXty-threc who was fonnd
on thc 18Th inst. in her room at No. 212 East Eighty
| ffth-st.. usensible. having been beaten ~ her
husband and daughter died YESTERDAY in the Presny-
rerian Hospital The Coroner was called 10 hoid an
iuuucst. Mrs. ODOnuclPs assaIlants were arrested
Monday aud at present in PRISON awaiting trial.
RUS OVER BY A RAILROAD TRAIN.
! Robert Cornish, age twentY-thTce, stepping from
a railroad car ut One-hundred aud -thlrtleh-st. and
| Fnnrth-ave.. yesterday, was run over and Dadiy
injured by tram OIL the Harlem kiyer Railroad
Tie police took him to SiXty-eigh,h-s and Inlrd-
| ave- where he said he lived, but the inmates re-
fused to receive him. and he was taken to the Pres
| byterian Hospital.
COST OF BUILDING Nrw PIrRs.
| Ri,Is wore oppupd by the Dock Commissioners
| yesterday for removing the old pier Mt west
rwenty-Sixth-st and preparing to build a. new new
| 10 SO new numbcr. North River. The bud of Fla
hcrlv q OConneIi, Brooklyn vas %92,413; joseph
! Walsh No. ia Wall-st.. $4,000; Ross ~ Sanford,
| No. lOi IludsOn-st.. $531OO.
| ;rNIrED STATES GRAND JURY.
The United States Gr,nd Jury Tor the present
term was sworn in before Judge Benedict Yesterday
| Frederick T. Thompson, banner, OF No. "a Broad
Way, was appointed foreman. The jury rafterward
| had session, which lasted four hours. the calen-
dar for the term s the heaviest one which has ever
been before thu court. The Grand Jhrv ordered in-
| dlctmen;s III sev,uty-one cases yesterday
CHARGED WITH COMMITTING MCRpEE.
| james Jackson, age twcntv-Onr, was shot and
| killed on December Is, in his house ut No 223
Lewis-st. Jy Hugh McCabe, w1ee, attempting TO
| nrotcct a guest who hal incurred McCabes wrath
by Il drug wit IcsS against him IN an accusation OF
robDcYv. The murderer escaped and was never
caught. Tie ease was laid before a coroncrs jury
Yesterday he verdict charged McCaDe Win the
murder.
| TrMrrrAHcE RFFoRMEE's INVESTIGATIONS
Robert Graham. secretary Of the Church of Eng
land temperance Society, ~ visiting this country
tor the purpose of studying the operation or the
liquor laws and also the cheap lodging house syS-
TEN. Last night. III company with Detective Let;
icrts of the Central ONCE. lie visited Tine"
Aliens. Harry Hills. the Atlantic Garden the
Opera Garden. No. 81 Bowcry, and several Water-s
dancc-housrs.
JOuN KELLY TO MOVE.
JOHN Kelly will leave his present house at Thirty
eighth.St and LexnZioI,ayc. on NAV |. ne hnhj
Nj. KrIly has engaged Il house IN NlXlv.n,nth-st..
near Madlson-ave. lie rOw livcsm the XNlllLh AS
! s.wbly District. HIS new house ~ IN the XXlst
District. The former district is strongly Democratic.
while the XXist Is Republican, aud the party is
growing stronger each year
A TENT FOR ERYsIPELAS PATIENTS.
A tent has been erected ~ Bellevue lIOSpltol for
the accommodation OF cri Slpclas c1ass. II stands
ON Il green trent of he hospital ard is fifty feet
long and twenty-five feet wide; thn lOOr made Of
hoarll4 aud the sides are boarded up to height of
five feet. Warden O'ROurk, said Yesterday that the
mrccssrV for the tent arose from the fact that IN
rIarY cases the patients were not able to be re-
moved to BiackwciA Island.
| INDICTMENTS FOR MANsLAUGHTER DEEMED GOOD.
In the criminal branch of tho United States Cir
emil Court yesterday Judge Benedict rendered de
csuI on the motion argued some weeks ago 10 quash
the indictments against the Local Inspectors of
steam Vessels for mauslaughter in connection with
thc Srawanhaka disasicr Judge Benedict held that
the indictments were good. Assistant United states
Attorney Fiero said that the cases would probably
! be tried ~ the second week III March,
VICTIM OF THE sEAwANHAKA DISASTER.
| Berth Never, OF No. 10 hottest, III the Harlem
| Police Court yesterday. asked that her children
Rose, age seven, and Deborah, age n'ne he com
| mltted 10 tbs Hebrew Shelterng Guardian Society.
| she said that her husband, Simon Meyer, lost Ills life
Oh the ill-ialed Seawanhaka last summer, and thar
since then she had stnyen part to care for her
Jusuce Power committed the children TO tho care
Of the Socioy
MEASURES BEFORE THE PARK COMMISSIONERS.
| The business before the Park Commissioners yes
| terday was wholly Of u routine nature. CommIs-
sioner OllIile occupied the chair communication