New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-18
NETWORK CITY.

The receipts Of grain at TINS p11Ii ySs,sIhIiaSS
| amounted 10 q total of 1Oio,ofo Dush'nN' vi WIZ"
! GAL 900 came by canal. ,
Sophia Soman, age twenty-sevsn fell 81 from S the
! fifth story of the tcnement,ouSe W. i'i'' "
| ave Yesterday and was killed.
Tho seurer excavations in Fifth-avc now extend
from Fifty-ffthst. TO Fifty-cighth-st ana scarcely
admit of two carr ages passing abreast, ~. ~.
The trustees of the College of the Clty OF New
| WI ,'esterdav decided 10 have the annual COM
mencement a rthe Academy of Music June -.
Tho Ranttst Sunday-schools connected with the
! first anniversary exercises yesterday hItcIhOoh
HELD IN $1,000 BAIL.
William Mnir who charged with forging q
81 600 bond of the California ana Orrg4h m 600
| hail at The Jefferson Market Court yesterday
WORK on MR.. vANDERmLTs HoTsE;, "
Work has begun upon the enlran'tV 70 w., one
de rbilts new house The entrance Is u3uh,e HIn;
| aud IL between Mr. Nandcrbilts house anu the sln-
lar honse which occupies the remainder OF the block
| GUILTY or 4 CHILD's DEATH;
| A coroner's ury Yesterday held fredenck Dan
nor niltv of murder in causing the death ~ George
! Scham. a child of eight years. by striking nm on
| the head, April 20. Danncr was committed to the
| Tombs. - o,.s.>.o
! The steamer General Werlcr, from Bremen, Win
LILY immigrants the Mas from kotterdam' Witn
and the Pcreire from Havre, with 1885, arrived yes
terlay. -. -,.-o,
The Mayor yesterday returned To the Aldermen
| without his approval n resolution adopted oS the
HOarl
| in Bergen and BOston-aves ana certain olneI
bsrreets. 49,, ,,,rr ,,,s.n,rn
Tho Italian bark Gulio and Anna, which sailed for
| Queenstown Nav D. returned TO tins port yeatsrday
| in icalSy condition. The leak was discovered May
/ g. but the vessel continued until May 3D. Nhcn ~
| was concluded to return for repairs.
| RESTORED TO EXCHANGE PRIVILEGES.
| Herman Brock. n provision broker OF NO. 81 New,
st., who failed few days ago ana s snse" ,a
| from the privileges of the Produce Exchange, wa,
restored 20 full membership yesterday, having paiu
all claims in full and resumed business
prArInOF sEA CAPTAIN.
James T.. Ward d Go. yesterday learned OF we
death i'm Galveston Of Captain Valentine of the brig
| Rameriez, belonging 10 that firm. captain THIeIl-
fine was formerly stakeholder in Murray, Ferris
q Co.'S Steamship Line, and commanded the
steamer Cleopatra until she was wrecked
REGULAR PAY-DAYs PROMISED.
II has been said recently that committee nom
the employees Of the Manhattan Elevated kallway
would wait on the officers Of that company yestrI-
day and request them 10 fix regular ray-daNs. but
no committee appeared An officer OF the road stated
that what the men desired had already De'h p'oii-
COLUMBIA COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL
schooI of Columbia College will take place at the
| Academy of Music this evening. Degrees VIII be
conferred upon the members of the graduating class
| and the annual prizes will be awarded. Addresses
will be delivered by Professor Theodore W. Dwight
aud Cortlandt Parker
| THE woMANs RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
| In The TRIBUNE of May y the I'D Regiment At
| mory was mentioned as the headquaftcn Of the
| Wonan's National Relief Association. The head
quarters Of the Natonal Association are at aslilng
| ion and the Fourteenth Street ArInOry IN this city
ia the office Of the New ork state auxiliary 10 the
! National Association.
| SENT TO HOMES IN THE WEST.
| party of bows and girls and families, numbering
nncty-nine persons left the office Of the Childrens
Aid Society Tuesday afternoon under the charge OF
| j. f. Brace the Western agent. Their destination
is IIarrisonville. Mo- sixteen boys, whose ages
ranged from seven TO fourteen years, were sent
! through the kindness0f j. Ii. HeWson TO complete
/ 81 e. .,ra IN
| cicty. -
| A dispatch from London published yestcIday
stated that society Of Lishncn in America had
placed $50 900 to tho credit of the Land League
lrishmen in this city stated Yesterday that they
thought that the dispatch referred To tho action of
the Aacient Order of libewians OF st. Louis at it,
recent convention; when IT was recommended that
the society in the United states give per cent OF
its funds to the Land League,
DYING SUDDENLY IN HIS MOTHERS ARMS.
| Hermann Staubsant, age tWcnt! -srNeL con
sumptiye, was sent to the West Indies 10y ms ms
l ealth. He became hOmcsick and returned uneX-
I poctcdly to this city Monday. Al No; $40 Monroe
| ST. where his home was hr came suddenly face to
face with his aged mother. The joy and excitement
of the reunion OycrcaInc Stauhsant and hc expired
in her arms. The mother yesterday was very III
| from the shock
TIIR LADIKs' FLOWER MISSION.
The Ladies' Flower Mission, which for many sea-
SONS has had IT, headquarters AT NO. 23D Fourth;
| occupy tho same rooms. Contributions of flowers
and plants Of every description viii he gratefully
| RECEIVED Thousands of bouquets were made up aud
sent lnht year ca hospitals and nsyluns and among
| tho homes Of the poor. The rooms viii bc open
Mondays and lhurrdays for the reception and dis
| tIbutiUn Of plants ana iiONcfs.
WORK Or THE rILOf COHMissIOSERs
| A communication from the New-Jrrscy Pilot Com
missionrrs WAS received by the New-lork Pilot
| Commissioners Yesterday asking that committee
be appointed To take into consideration the fees 10
he paid Sandy Hook, Ncw.Jersey aud Perth AmbOy
| pilots. Commissioners HinCkcn and Morgan were
Mt oil M he
ported that while the of the street Cleaning
bureau were being dumped further seward than be-
fore the recent inyesgatOn they were not going far
enough yet.
DESCENT on DsoRDEmY HOUSE.
Captain Ryan, with a squad Of officers, visited
the dsordery house kept by Mrs. Annie Blanchard
| at No 2O7 LexiugtOn-aye., Monday night, aud
| rested the proprictrcss with eleven other womcn
and seventeen men who were in the place. The
before Of M at the RGrc
| in $500 bail for keeping disorderly house. Her
| sister was sent 20 the House Of Detention. The
| others were discharged
| MAKING A LARGE CASTING.
The large iron bed plate for the Fall River
steamer Puritan, OF the Old Dominion Steamship
Company, now being built at Chester, PENN, by
| John Roach & Son. cast ut the Morgan Iron
Works at the foot Of East Ninth-st., yesterday af
ternoOn. The plate is twenty-one feet nine inches
long twelve feet six inches wide, and thirty-seycn
| inches thioA. The flanges will be three and one
fourth inches thick after planlng of. Twenty-eight
| tons of metal were employed in the casting and the
| plate will weigh twenty-four tons. The work occu-
| pied about two minutes
A PRIzg-PIGHT on THE RIVER
| The prize-hght between John L. Sullivan and
John Flood took place on the river, nine miles above
| Yonkers, Monday night on the barge L. A. Arthur,
hired By the prize-hghters and their hackers. Sull
| van defeated Flood in eight rounds The light was
ended in sixteen minutes, and the cOmbatants were
| taken off and landed before the barge was turned
down stream. On ITS return 10 the city il was
stopped by the police boat, but all found quiet
on board and it allowed to proceed 10 the dock
nj the foot of West Forty -thrdst. where the com
| ltor,n rIyoI N.