New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-30
NEW-YORK CITY


| in the Twentythlrd Ward.
The grass in City Hall Park is drying Up and turn
] ing brown for lack of rain.
WorISmen are busy repairing the spire of ST. Paurs
! Chapel, Trinity Parish. Many timbers were found
| much decayed.
Mss Roberts pnd hss received $40 from
| for Mrs. Fitzgerald and her sister
The Sunday school children of the Forsyth Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, yesterday, made their
| annual excursion TO oriental Grove on the Sound
| THOUSAND MEN WANTED
LIE LaDor bureau at Castle Garden has orders for
900 men for next week 700 of them are wanted
| by railroads ut $l 20 an 81 50a day.
KILLED BY A FALLING BEAM
Johh Cotter, age lorty-two, of No. 80 Canal-st.,
Jersey City, was strucG on the head by a falling
| beam while at work at West Broadway and Frank
INST. to-day, and was instantly killed.
| ~, ARRIVAL or NEW SEASON TEA.
frd Ys,easnp hord of the lses arrived Yesterday
| cargo OF new season Japan teas. 1t is the first
arrival OF the season by that route.
| r,. DECLINING a CALL TO 4 CHURCH.
Gnurch In Forty-secondst., OF which the Rev. DR..
Has:ngs was pastor to the Rev. DIR. J. s jones' of
Baltimore, has Just been declined by DIR. Jones who
| prefers 10 remain in Baltimore.
~, LEASE OF TELEGRAPH LINES RECORDED.
=, me Western Union Telegraph Company's lease of
Company, the particulars of which were published
recently in The TRIBUNE, recorded YESTERDAY
| III the Office of the Register.
HIS MEDALS STOLEN
John fiussey. gatekceper at Castle Garden, was
presented some time ago with two gold medals one
by Congress and the other by merchants in South
st., for saving twenty-ninc persons from drowning
ihey were stolen from him near Fulton Ferry and
the detectives have yet found no clew to the
thief.
-, A NEW ILLUMINATED BUOY.
An an Illuminated buoy painted with black and
perirncntal purposes about one-thrd of mile from
the wreck of the Scotland lgntship near the south
Scotland lghtship southeast by south; Highland
lights southwest. The buoy is in seven fathoms of
water and Is intended to show continuous white
light. "i-''O
=, TOO YOUNG TO TAKE AN OATH
In the Essex Market Police Court yesterday morn
ing Calre Maell, age seven, of No 1873 Stanton-st.
cnargeu Henry Scheldorf, fourteen, of No $40
Last Honston-st, with the larceny of gold ring
She said ina, she was standing front of her house
wten inc ad approached and took the ring from her
finger The boy was discharged by Justice smith.
shc uiu not understand the nature of an OATH
THE sTRANDING OF THE BRIrANNIC
t. D. Cortis, agent of the White Star Line of steam
shlps, received dispatch from Liverpool yesterday
stating that the Investigation of the Board of Trade
showed that the Britannia which recently was
ashore was pradently navigated and that the i'm
the Board. y
TEXAN CATTLE HARDEST TO KILL.
III was rumored yesterday that the slaughter
mouse butchers 1f this city and Brooklyn would to-
gay lnake strike for higher wages. Regular meet
IL Is Thought that demand is to be made for CON
SESSIONS III the matter OF wages and for different
cattle, which the men claim are tougher than
domestic stock and require work to butcher.
SELLING ATTACHED PROPERTY.
At the Iombs Police Court Yesterday afternoon
before Justice Flammer, John III. Leary, of No. 100
last Broadway, charged John Carroll of No 754
Willoughby,ave.. Brooklyn, with the larceny of a
machine called Bogardus Mill, valued at Si6O
IL was alleged that he took the mill from tho
Peter Bowe, Sheriff of New-York. by virtue of an at
ta a AZ, issued Iy the Supreme Court, 1t is also
alleged that Carroll subsequently, sold this for SI2o
he was held Tor examination.
MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMISSIONERS
meeting OF the Dock Commissioners was held
gard to needed repairs piers were read Bids were
also also opened for building and repairing pier No. 3s
were made. Commissioner Laimbccr offered a reso-
tion asking the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund
10 request the corporation Counsel To assign sprcal
counsel to examine the titles of certain water front
property which is ~ possession of private citizens
out wiich really belongs to the city,
TRYING TO ROB A LIQUOR STORE
Two men entered the liquor store of Fritz Bent
zng, No. go Chrystie-st, Thursday night, ami one
of them was behind the bar in tic act OF oncninv
the money drawer before the proprietor Mr. BENT
eng, observed HIM. Bcntzng seized n chair and
wound lie was arrested and gave his name as
George SLACK In the Essex Market Police Court
yss,ernay d mGITnng, Black was DISCHARGED as Mr.
the man who went behind the bar.
UNABLE TO HOLD THEIR TONGUES
=. Eva Nagel and Barbara Reder live in tho shan
ties in ne,hundrcd-and -sxteenth-st., between
Fifth and Madison-ayes. They are not very friendly
and Thursday, each being backed by about half OF
the other inmates of the shantcs they had a
pitched battle in the street using stones and any
thing else handy as implements of war. Both tho
ringlcaders were arrested and arraigned yesterday
morning before Justice Patterson, IN the Harlem
Police, Court. They were put under 5000 bail TO
keep the peace and were allowed to go. They had
no sooner reached the street than they renewed
their abuse of each other. They again brought
before the Justice, who gave them a last warning
and sent them away.
ARRESTED FOR STEALING HER OWN CHILD
Mrs. Kidle Ricka Zelner, forty years of age of No
81 Ridge-st- was n prisoner in the Essex Market
Kuzfusmidt, of No. 81 Canai-st for stealing her
own child. About five years ago Mrs Zelner was
divorced from her husband in Germany. She gave
her threc-wccks-od infant into the custody OF Mr.
and Mrs. kuzfusnidt, and paid them $40 q year for
tho support of it, Finally she came to America and
lost all trace of her daughter until yesterday morn
ing. She learned then that the kuZfusmidts lived
ut No. 81 Canal-st. and meeting her daughter she
persuaded her TO go with her. Justice Smith came to
the conclusion that Mrs Zelner tiled to tho
custody oil her child, and released her from GUS
tody.
MISPIACING A SWITCH.
Michael Conroy, of No. 537 West Fifty ninth-st
at 3 % clock yesterday morning saw James Mayorga
age fifteen, of No. East Seventy th-st dlsplaco
switch on the Hudson River Railroad at Sixty-iirst-
ST. and Twelfth-ave. and pin it down. MayOrga was
arrested and was taken before Justice WandeI. at
the Yorkville Police Court, where he said he was n
messenger for the Mutual Telegraph Company
The Court put HIM under 81. 200 bail to answer the
charge. In connection with the case it was stated
that ut o'clock Thursday night, train of four
ears of children coming from an excursion at
inwood, the engineer noticed that the switch was
misplaced and applied his brakes, stopping the train
in time to prevent what might have been u terrible
disaster.
BROOKLYN.
Complaints numerous that the street lamps
not lighted until long after darl. in many parts
OF South BrooNlyn.
Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, age fOrty of No o4O
Sackett-st, near Bufalo-ave., who fatally