New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-25
NETWORK CITY. .

NEM-1Ohh I'll IL
Ladies are already looking forward to the sprips
costumes .,.
Another large business block is being erected IN
Fourteenth-st
The hinges Of the stationary Post Office elevator
are thick with rust -, w..
There remains little to be done on tne Ouion
Clock lamps with the face 1aintiy niu-'"9u "-'
among the novelties.
tunnel under the Harlem is one Of the improve
ments advocated uptown -.
There has been good sleighng in the annexed us
trict for thirty consecutive days.
few vigorous persons sat on the pHlA pon0ne'
during the sunny hours yesterday. go
All the newest dolmans have full DacKs, eitnef
shirred or laid in Vatican pleat'-
The Harlem boats began running again yesterday
as the East River is almost clear vi lCe'
Tn some retail houses clocks that sold for S29
before the holidays are now offered TOT @o
Strawberries NAV be bought in Broadway fruit
stores for 10 cents apiece-about $o quart
1t is rumored that soft woolen textures in chev,ot
stripes and checks OF mlXeu coiors Will "o poPU'
IN the spring.
Eiehth-aye. above Twenty-thrd-st, is the nightly
resort of hundreds OF fruit vendors, WHO seom 10 ho
an active market.
life size figure in wax of Prince Bismarck stands
in most fraternal proximity to like figure OF Gam
BETA in a Broadway windOW.
Workmen were engaged yesterday in clearing
away the branches of the trees IN the parks winch
were DlOWu uOWu w tuO iOCCHU S'"'"
"a Blessing" appears above liquor shop, IN
Third-aye Even this blessing, though IN DIS
guise, might be brightest if it took Its flight.
Cases of smallpox were reported YESTERDAY at No.
GO Bayard-st and at No. i0I2 ~ Inlig-sI' Ahe
patients were taken to the Riverside Hospital.
STRIKES NOT ENDED,
There was no change Yesterday III the .attItude OF
The striking worlmen at Webers piano factory ana
at the furniture factories of hlmDel ana CaouS ana
of llerts Brothers.
Dr,Tu OF Mrs COHEN
Mrs. Eliza Cohen. the mother of Assemblyman
Cohen died Saturday last from blow inflicted Oy
herself with hammer, January o. enc strucA AcI-
self on the head while out oil her mihu'
REDUCTIONS IN TIE FINANCE DEPARTMENT..
Controller Campbell has made a further reduction
in the expenditures of his Office OF ~ per cent IL, ee
ally reduced, but the smaller ONES "cIo no' ste""y
cut. - -.
Charles Edward Duff id, age seven, OF NO. z East
Twelfth-st., fell while AT play saturday. Inc sharp
point of a stick that he held III ms hih, ehteIci MS
eye and penetrated his brain. lie died TINS IoAo"-
ing day.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COOPER UNION.
According to the annual report Of the Cooner
s U%G sbd for ISSG n2 [%iSGi vi" o
sets are 81 1886 o. and the current Indebtedness
$l7G6S IL.
MORE DELAY IN TIRE GENET CASE.
District-Attorney Rollins yesterday returned to
the Court of Appeals the papers received by him on
Saturday last in the Henry W. Genet case Tor cor
rectiOu, They should have been sent 10 Tie court
of Oyer aud IeTmiEer
THE PRICE OF ADMISSION BOOK.
The Young Mems Hebrew Association OF Harlem
has adopted novel plan 10 increase its library. 1t
will give an entertainment shortly. and each person
taking ticket will be required TO pay for It with
book Resery ed seats will cost additional books
A SECULAR EXPERIENCE IN roRDnAM.
To leave hts watch with jcweller for repairs. to
call for It several times and be put oil each rIme aud
finally on demanding it, to be informed that the
watch had been given for rent TO tho jewellers land
lord was the Eoyel experience OF man IN fordham
recently.
PROTESTING AGAINST TAXES AND TOLLS.
Alta meeting of the Boat Owners Association
yesterday, protest was adopted against the Efforts
crease the tolls on the canals; IL was recOmme1ded
that the revenues OF the canals should be increased
by the abolition Of number of useless Offices.
REFUSING TO PROVE HFR CHARGES
Fannie Person, an attendant mt the Female In
aane Asylnm, was accused some time ago Of having
said that serious abuses existed IN the management
nIanation to the Commissioners of Charities and
Correction. and was dismissed from service yeSter-
day. - -
The Rev. G. n. 1homasscn. of West Hoboken, read
an essay before the Baptist Ministers Conference
yIstsTdd nnd %0h s sA T ChTs mission was
primarily to the Hebrews and there was every rca-
son 10 believe he thought, that lie spoke in one of
the branches of that language.
FOUR Funerals.
The funeral of the Rev. DIR. Samuel Richards took
Mace at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church
Yesterday; that OF the Rev. Father Charles f. Pay
Ames at hiS late home in Sixty-fourth-si. The
funeral services over the Rev. Arthur DAVIS were
held at st. Agncss Church, Brooklyn.
PRINCErON ALUMNI.
Many Princeton graduates met at DelmnncOs last
night to rcOrgauIze the Alumni Association OI
Princeton College. The following officer, were
elected: President, J. Coleman Draylon; Wee;
Presidents, ". A. Butler, ir., X. Edwin Bonner and
w. Earl Dodge; Secretary. jonas W. Libby; Treas
urcr, NJ. I. Pyne; Executive Committee, u. Patton.
i. T. Mct:osh, s. Alexander, &. ". Ilornblower. A.
T. Dnncan. j. Farr and Charles Scrbncr. Adnfe..es
were made hv the Rev. DR.. McCnsh President Of the
college, and the Rev Dr. Shields.
OEGANIZ tTIuN OF THT BOARD OF ESTIMATE.
The Board Of Apportionncn; Yesterday elected
Mayor Grace permanent chairman, and President
Asen, oil the Department of Taxes, temporary
rctayy. Mayor Grace offered reooulon request
lny the Controller to report t. The Board the Sums
received from the various railroad companies of this
city since January l. 1870, as lcrnse fees and per-
centage upon receipts and to state the amount re-
celvcd from each company IN each year, the
amounts claimed by the city and the amounts re-
manning unpaid. 1t was adopted.
DEATH FROM GASTRIC CATARRn.
A report was made at the Bureau OF Vital Stats-
tics Yesterday of the death of Mira sarah llaiscy
cgIty-hree years of age, at No. leo Fast twenty
iirst-st from gastric catarrh, which led TO exhalis
ton OF the body through starvation and resulted IN
death. DR.. William j.. RIdndS, VINO attended the
deceased woman, said last night that she had been
troubled with catirrh OF the stomach for clght
years but it was not until within eight weeks that
ndi.lds would not he retained by her stomach Shn
attempted sevcral times TO drink orange JUICE. hut
her stomach wodl not bear IL. She showed no di,-
tress from want Of nJarishncnt, and felt neither
thirst munger. T""atis t!ic Last the pulse heat
from l20 10 100 "a minute, and az death came shr
was fogcrIs.
VIOLATING TWO LAWS AT ONCE
John OGOrman, who was arrested Sunday for
keeping an unlIcenIcd liquor store ~ No. % WrStt
and for admitting boys To his poOl-rDOm and sellin1
them aprItd0us drinks. arraigncd before liz
ticc Morgan at the Tombs Police Court yesterday
lie was held III default of 800 bail for yioIaiin,,
the Excise law. He was also charged by Spccia1
Agent ChiaTdi of tho Society for the Preycniion Of
Cruelty TO Children. with violating the Laws ~
1877. which prohibit the admission of boys to beer
shops or places OF entertainment where liquors ara