New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-12
NEM.YORK CITY.

| Valentines now appear in the windows OF many
statloners
People to whom time is no OBJECT tra'cl oh 'h0
| Bleecker-st cars.
Letter-carriers find the annexed district q hard
road to travel during thaw.
Bucfsh caught in the Gulf Stream arc now
| brought to this market for the first time.
Anew ornament for the watch chain is a gold
| pencil IN the shape of a miniature obesK'
| Bowcry theatre claims to have n greater than
| Diana Of the Ephesans-she weighs 7l2 pounds
The ventilatOrs in many street ears are genertly
omen on stormy DAYS, aud closed when 1t Is GEAR
Patrick Heffernan fell from an ash-cart at Third
| ave and Forty -ffth-tt yesterday and was Killed
! Walking has becomn amost impossible in many
streets the anNeXed district since the last laIl oI
| snow.
| An uproGfabe way OF taking a short vacation is
riding down West Broadway from Cana-st. to
vcseS.
The station of the Second Avenue Elevated Road
| at Observation-Disclosures Tcmdln' III III un
| finished state.
A thermometer in Wal-st registered $50 yestcr-
| day nj o'clock, orc in Broadway 20, ana another
| in Nassau-st. 3O0
Bogarlus succeeded the other day in making orc
of the best large portraits of General Grnt that has
| recently been taken.
A dog with the following inscription on placard
| on his neck was walking IN BrOalWaJ ScstCIu"S
." This dOrg for sale"
Merchants are anticipating n backward spring
trade because of the cold weather ana the heavy
| SHOWS IN the interior.
The drivers Of bOb-tail" cars wore 4 diGniied
| look yesterday; in many cases three horses were
| attached to then cars.
Many of the conductors on the elevated roads pay
more attention to flirting with pretty servantgris
| at the windows than to their other duties
John Smith, age twenty-one was killed by the
| fall of an cm6anllnent while driving dirt wagon
at Fourth-aye. aud Seventy -ninth-st. yesterday.
The Excise Commissioners decided yesterday to
| appoint no one to any position in the department
who in any way interested in the liquor Or beer
| traffic.
1t has been suggested that flag be raised in the
| CITY Hall Park TO announce skating there. The
walks around the Park are III an excellent condition
| for this sport.
Oystcmen say tha'. the refuse from the oil TO-
ineries at Hunters Point and other places on the
East River and bay has ruined many OF the oyster
beds near the city.
Vincent Frederick, tho Italian who was stabbed
in Rooseyelt-st, Monday morning in quarrel with
some of his countIymen, died IN the NeW-1Ork
Hospital yesterday.
MISS CAvENDIsn's CONDITION.
Miss Ada Cayendsh was sitting up in an easy
chair last evening IN her parlor at the New-l"rh
Hotel. Her condition Is improving, but she Is still
very ill.,
HELD FOR PASSING COUNTERFEIT DIMES.
Gracco Gaetano and GermanO Cantalupi, who
dimes wero yesterday held by United States ON
missioner Shields for tho action of the Grand jury
ALARMED BY THE ICE.
Timd passengers on the ferry boats are frightened
by the humping OF the boats against the ice. Last
night largo piece thrown up 10y the wheel on one
OF the boats caused a general rush from the ladies
cabin.
Justic. Barrett granted Yesterday in the Supreme
favor of Margaret IIoidc against Rudolf Holdc, for
infdelitv. Mrs. Holde was once goycrness III the
family Of Bancroft Davis.
REAfFMRFRED IN HIS Old AGr.
The rotunda OF Castle Garden was gayly decorated !
yesterday when Charles Wiegand, one Of the rail-
road agents. upon his sixtlcth birthday, was pre-
scntod by the employees OF Castle Garden with a
life-sIzc crayon picture of himself.
THE BYRNE LIBEL CASE CLOSED.
The case Of Charles A. Byrnc, charged with Grim
tee Smith yesterday for examination. Several wit
nesscs testified for the defence and the case wlS
closed Justice Smith will render his decision Friday
CASES OF smallpox
Twenty cases of small poI were reported last |
week. and there were thlrtythrce cases IN the
Riverside Hospital. case Of SMALLPOX was Re-
ported yesterday from the Colored Hospital. The
patient, man, was removed TO the Riverside Hos
pital.
PINES N THE POLICE COURTS
George w. Crcglcr secretary of the Board Of |
Police Justices. reports having received S3OG3 -
for fines during December rs follows: Special Ses-
sions, $06S 50i Iomhs SG2G; Jefferson Market
$3.50 Essex Market, $500; FfY-scycuth Street
1920 20 Harlem SOB.
-, THE UNITED sTA1T' pIsIRIcT;ATToRNFY:
Tho term Of Stewart J.. WoodfOrd as United !
States Distric-Attomey will expire to-day. III. sue
cessor has not yet buen named by the President
and he does not " hold over" until an appoint
ment Is made the duty OF designating somo on" to
perform the duties of the Office deyolycS upon Judge
Hunt, Of tho United States Supreme Court
CHEAP DINNERS FOR WORKING 'w9NrN
The problem Of supplying warm meals To Young |
women employed in the large mercantile honsc' is !
what Mrs. amelia lewis - iIylng 10 solve. lat |
al No. 704 Broadway TO thirty yonng women IN |
Lord Il IaylOTs employ the cost of which was 10 !
cents for each person. The bill Of fare consisted of
rice soup, scwcd beef steak, potatoes stcWed NUT
ton. with caper sauce, turnips and English plum pud
ding.
MUTUAL BENEFIT OF DEY GOODS MEN.
The fifth annual meeting Of the Dry Goods Mn |
tual Benefit ASSOCIATION was held last evening at the
st. Nicholas Hotel The reports for the year showed !
that the memberships had increased to 90, and |
that 81 $50 above all expenses remained in the |
treasury. The following we're elected to the Board |
of Directors W. b. Fuller, w. j HI. ). +. Tour
Nichols. A. j. Stone was reelected presit lt for the
present year.
COMPLAINT AGAINST AZ AUCIIoNEER.
George Maher, OF No. 2iO East Twenty second
st., complained yesterday at tn" Mayors ollrc
against Adolph Newman AN auctioncer, OF No. I2O
Wcst-sl. On January 10 he entered Ncwman's
place ana At the suggestion of young man bid
81 80 on a lot Of cIgars They were knocked down
to him. and hc handed over Il ~ bill III payment.
The auctioncer declared that the bid was 81 30 per
box and refused TO deliver the cigars refund the
money paid By Maher.
BOLD THIEF SENTENCED
George Post, all elderly nan, was walking IN
Forty ffth-st. between Broadway and ElghtlI-ave..
a few minutes before O'Clock on the morning of
November 20, 1880, when a young man rushed
toward him, Snatched large diamond stud and ran
away. Subsc 1ucntly Peter Fcnrch was positively |
identified by NJ. Post ~ the man who had robbed
him The prisoner, defence at tho trial waa an !
alib but he was convicted. and yesterday WAS SEN
fenced by Judge COwing to State Prison for five
years.
ACTION OF TIRE PILOT COMuisslONER'
The Pilot Commissioners yesterday discussed tho
proposition to build pier aud pavilion of the Bat
terry between the Barge Office aud Castle Gar
den. Secretary Nash directed to inform the
Park Commissioners not only that the Pilot Board
was opposed to the structure but that it would he
m obstruction to navigation and an encrOachment
upon the harbor lines rs established by law. In
spector Conway stated in his report that the Street
Cleaning Department was daily dumping its loaded
scows on East Bank in violation Of tho law.
CLRRGYMES IN CONFERENCE.