New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-06

Church, In aid of the Home for Friendess WU nna
and Children will bs delivered Tomorrow e'on'"e
REPORTS of contagious diseases up to Friday wefV;
diphtheria. ~ cases and deaths; scarlet io'0i'
cases and death.
.Judoe REYNOLDS in tho City Court YESTERDAY
handed down his decision granting new , In; y,
the suit of Mrs. Henrietta c. Deputy aea,nst rsnl
II. Hazard in which verdict tor @Ao'ooo ""' -'N
dered to the plaintiff
Mayor Howell yesterday sent q long commrumch ,
ton to Commissioner of City Works John frencn'
charging him with having slnecnres I'D the uepscf
meDt and asserting his belief that the eHpense9
the department for the current year can pc %
500, 900. Mr. French says he VIII proDaoE iep AZ
to tho letter on Monday. MIR. Howell recohusS H.
the discharge of fifteen twenty employees vi tpo
departments and the transfer OF their duties " tno
Police and Fire Departments.
NEW-JERSEY.
P1gan a Src SfhG %eSs
arrested by Officers McCurdy and Kivlon at an
early honr yesterday morning while IN Tue &C. VI
breaking into the grocery store OF Henry pfcAei "'
Third and WillOw-sts
STATEN ISLAND.
NEW BRrGHToN.-The Manhattan Life Insurance
Company recently bought at a foreclosure saio
Hamilton Park, at New-Brghton. for q 4o'ooo.
CAsTLHrON-rhe taxpayers of Castleton, OWING
IL 10 alleged TO unjust taxation have Gcteruiuen 10
pay their State town and county tax uIoer proVeS'
The form of protest is BEING prepared
S1APLEroN Last year the Staten Island police
made 1891 arrests. There were twenty-pinGo Cns
in the course of the year. involving loss oil Sl9oVo
Tho yalus of stolen property recovered by the poco
was 81, %
ToMPKI>svILLE.-A project is in contamination
for the Improvement of the grounds OF the Stateh
Island Cricket Club. Ly the erection or ciiDDmg
along the entire water front OF 723 feet hliipg IN
with refuse earth OF the proposed tunne Oh tho
new railway.
HUDSON RIVER TOWNS
DoBBs FEERY-Peter NJ. Begen has sold his
brewery and thirteen acres of land at DObbs Ferry
to the Hudson River Brewing Company Tor
$250OO0.
Observation-Disclosures forced an ENTRANCE
into the Trinity Episcopal Church at New Rochelle
THURSDAY night, and carried of the rectors sur
plicc and all the carpets III the alsles.
NYAcK-A reception was gwen to General Abram
Merr i, the newly-e.ected Commander of the Grand
Army ct the Republic. Department of New-York Dy
his fellow townsmen of Nyack. Friday night. under
the auspices Of Posts WadrOn and Skl!lman, the
latter composed of coOred veterans aud organized
by General Merrell. There Were deleRatlons from
Rankin Post No 10 OF Br"GrIyn smith PI IarG o.
some badge with Malor-ticneraPs insignia, was
presented to General Merrell 10y the comrades OF
Skillman Foot.
LONG ISLAND.
SvITHrowN-A valuable horse and sleigh were
stolen Friday night from the barn OF w. A. Miles, at
Shutdown.
Ro=LYx.-Tor violating the Excise law. Michael
Conn2s and Depn KK%san ~ 9!vn heu @i'
Long ISLAND ClTY.-S0me taxpayers of Long
Island City have combined to resist the payment OF
the taxes levied thus year on the ground OF ne
gality. THE ground of their complaint ls that The
city charter limits the amount to tie raised III any
one year to 4 cent OF the assessed Naluatloh OF
nil tGc taxable property in the city. 1t IL claimed
hat the cty officers have eXceeded the statute and
raised T27, 800 in excess OF the iiE't.
HFMPsrEAp.-Teer Riley, who owned hotel IN
IIrnlp.tr9d IN 1879, went INTO the cat
liz business, and while West buyirg stock.
wp4 stricken with paralysis and was absent
mined he found that his property had been trans
ferrcd. A Judgment had hecn obialnfd against hun
for Iqnos hl tor Sc 90. and his property was
sold bv the sheriff. he buyer was ! ~ brother,
who. it il alleged, got for $500 property worth
$1,000 Peter demanded the return OF hlS property.
| winch was refused, and be ha' brought suit 10
| recover II.