New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-20
NRw-YnRK CITY.


| Broadway studio building. :.
| The mild weather is not without lis pcsts' 10
| brings out the organ grlnOers'
branch Of the Parnell Land League has been es-
| tablished In the annexed dstrlct' .
Worlmen began removing the Ice roIh Ine eiue-
| walks around the Battery yesterday
The IntercoIIgiate Athletic Association Will hold
| a business meeting in this city SATURDAY
The heaps of dirty snow make Madison and Filth
| ayes. resemble o thrifty farmers Darhyau
The West Side and Yonkers Railroad bridge over
| the Harlem IA rapidly approaching completion
The ice in the streets has caused the blacksmiths
face to broaden. while the truckdriVer mas lehs'u-
ened.
Most of the diaries started 80 oad roso Jew
DAYS ago are now laid away with the good resolu-
| tons -
MANY persons enjoyed the skating ct Central Park
yesterday the ice on the upper lake Deing III AaiI
| condition. "
Porters washing windows in upper stories OF build
nrs in Broadway often cause alarm by the perilouS
| positions they take.
The streets in the lower parts of the city were
| flooded Yesterday by the melting sno" WHICH IL
embarked along the cutters.
It was a great surprise to many pedestrians yes
terday when they saw two or three workmen Clean
| ing the walks in City Hall PARK
George Hill age fifty-five has been missing from
his home, No. s Stsnton-st, since December D.
| The police sent out an alarm yesterday.
DECORATIONS IN EMBROIDERY. :,
Renaissance embroidery. although very difficult
halOR
and MANY ladies Interested in high ART" are learn
| ing to embroider their own drapery.
FAILURE OF NEGOTIATIONS.
Senior Garcia the Peruvian Minister, now in
New-York City has failed to conelnde the negotia-
tions for the sale of the right to work and ship
Peruvian guano during fifteen years.
APPOINTED COUNSEL TO 5HE POLICE LICE BOARD 41 Cor
porstion Counsel Whitney Yesterday announced
that ne had assigned Richard J. Morrison formerly
Excise Commissioners as Counsel TO tho Board
FAST MAIL TRAIN .DIsCONnNUED.
The fast mail train on the New-York Central
leaving this city at p. nc. has been discontinued,
This train overlook and passed the $3.50 tram at
POnghkeepse, and reached Rochester nearly TWO
hours and a half ahead of 1t.
A WRETCHRD TERMINAL STATION
Although attention has been called repeatedly TO
the condition of the terminal station OF the Third
Ayenue Elevated Railroad at One-hundred-and-
twenty-nInth-st.. nothing has been done: The old
wooden stairs are yet uncovered aud ouer no pro-
lection against snow or rain.
STEALING FROM U. 8. GRANT. JR.
Henry Raymond, the cOlored waiter who was ar
rested for stealing All overcoat from No. 20 west
IT, pleaded guilty in the Court of General Sessions
Yesterday and was sentenced by Judge GildersleeVe
to the State Prison for five years
POLICEMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.
James Coyle. q young man living at No. ~ East
Thirty thiri-st complained at Police Headquarters
yesterday that he bad been assaulted by Officer
Ehs ats1dU9 in front Of his own door snparn.
tendent Walng directed that charges be preferred
against the policeman.
PLEADING GUILTY TO FORGERY
Charles A. Byrne, clerk twenty-one years OF age,
who lives in Brooklyn, pleaded guilty Ill the Court
of General Sessions Yesterday to an Indictment
hm MIN torgnS Gne bo o[ hem on drawS
by F. L. Martin, of No. % Pine-st. lie was sent TO
the Elmira Reformatory.
SUSPENDED TOBACCO FIRM.
Julius Bunzl, assignee of Seidenberg q Co., man
ufactureTs of cigars nj Reade aud Church-sts and
AT Key West. Fla has completed the schedules OF
Ss 7o2 s Of Which G t. eS. ARE
$685. 49S 49, The nominal assets are H. 024, 02o 10;
actual assets, $500, 100 OIL.
DECLINING PROFFERKD HONOR.
Edmund Clarence Stedman declined the prcsi-
dency Of the Goethe Club yesterday. 10 which he
was unanimously elected Monday In his letter de-
cpng the honor no said he could not assume the
responsibilities OF the position on account 81 other
and imperative duties, which already suffered be-
cause he lacked time and strength TO fulfil them.
PARpoHED BY PRESIDENT HAYES
Pardons were received from the President yester-
day by United States Marshal Payn for Daniel Sui
Ivan and Patrick Duane Sullivan WAS convicted
was sentenced 10 sixteen months imprisonment.
Duane was convicted of smuggling March 20, 1880.
aud was sentenced to the Pententlary for thirteen
months.
FALSE REPORT ABOUT COLONEL ISGEBsOLL.
The rumor that Colonel Robert g. lngerso had
purchased the mansion and grounds occupied by tho
Americas Club at Greenwich. Conn, during Tweed's
time, for the alleged purpose of turning the prop
erty into private country seat turns out upon ia,
hands, but Colonel Ingerson has nothing TO do with
NEw-YoRK INFANT ASYLUM.
At the annual meeting OF the Board " Managers
of the New-York Infant Asylum Tuesday evening,
Clark Bell was reelected president and Joel Foster
vice-presdent. The other officers and the LadleS
Advisory Committee were also reelected. Tho re-
port submitted stated that there was largo number
OF children in tho asylum awaiting adoption The
treasurers report showed expenditures last year OF
$4,000.
STATISTICS ABOUT THE CTIY's MORTALITY.
record Of tho city's mortality. classified by
streets, has been in preparation in the Bureau Of
Vital Statistics Tor some time past, and is
nearly completed. 1t IL expected that it will con-
tain some curious and valuable facts Tho tenement
houses in such streets BrOOme, Cherry, Clinton,
and Chrystie, and Frs-ave., show the heaviest IN
FAINT mortality and largely swell the record OF the
whole city.
THE FROST COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS
portion of the Frost collection OF oil paintings
was sold last evening az the art gallery No. S45
Broadway. About 800 people were present and
the bidding was extremely cautious. The total re-
cepts tor the evening amounted to %4,6lS, Among
the pictures sold were the following: Mount Tyn-
schachinGer. S2OC; 1.-THE Chase,n by o. Van
Thoren, $205 and marine, ~ p. j. Clayo, 1915.
AN UNFORTUNATE VISIT TO PAwNsHoP.
Awel-dressed man and woman were walk
ing along Chatban-st, yesterday, by Detectives
Drcey and Hickey OF Inspector Byrnes's Police.
They watched them, and saw them entering Simp-
sons pawn-sbOp, where they endeavOred To paw n
seal-skin cap aud gold chain. They were arrested
and taken to Police Headquarters where the woman
was recognized as Mary Melville, alias Amelia
Miller a sister of the we'll known shopfter Black
Lena" The man described himself as Henry Nor
ris, but he was identified as A" Wilson, thief.
CHARGED WITH TRYING TO DEPRAUD.
At the Toubs Police Court yesterday afternoon,
before Justice Wandell Samuel Murray, age nine.
teen years, at No. 81 ThOmas-st arrested on
the charge of attempting to defraud j. Lorenz
Cellar lawyer Of No. 81 Cedar-st., by introducing
TO him stranger with such representations az in
rduced the complainant 10 cash check for 1926,
pufpOrtLag to have been drawn by Charles Gorse on
fha Nann Ran
and payable December Is, at tine Hanover National
Bank in this city. IL certified by the Hanover
Bank, before the fraud discovered The &C
eused man was held for further examination.
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