New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-07
NETWORK CITY.


| Yesterday.
An unknown man, about thitv-fve years old,
| dressed like laborer. was found dead on "dsoh
in front of No. 10 Wochawken-st. yesterday
| PREPARING WINTER QUARTERS.
! The slips on the lower portion of the East River
water front are eng prepared for the large fleet OF
canal boats which Is anchored there during inc
| winter.
| KILLED IN A DERAUCH
Edward Miller, the laboer who shot himself IN me
| head in a drunken debauch on Saturday az No 4lS
West tity-t iTdst., died yesterday at the h"ose-
| welt Hospital.
| The Rev. GEORGE H. Smyth, late chaplain OF ire
| RandalPs Island reform school. was installed aSV
evening as pastor of the X formed Church at on
pulpit of which has been vacant since slLce the re-
| tircment of the Rev. DIR. Vaudeville last April Inc
Rev. Drs Coe, Chambers, Clark and Fairchild took
| part III the service.
| USING A KNIFE AT TmRTEEN
A number of boys, Saturday night. became en-
gagged i'll an alteration i'll Ninh-ayc;, between SIX
tcenth and Seventeenth-Ss' Mchael Nur{ ~d Az"
| 49, West Scventeentl-st. intcr'ered, whcreupqh
John Kelly, thirteen. of No. 40i West SiXtcchh-
ST.. stabbed him in the breast, In the Jror son
Market Police Court, yesterday, Kelly was held tor
trial without bail.
ACCUSED BY HER EMPLOYER.
Mabe LLOYD, of No. 81 Downlng-St, was aTralg-
ned in the jefferson Market Police Cont Scder-
day, on a charge OF stealing furniture and ic""lry
worth $3.50 from the house of Edward Ellsworth
! of No. DIS WooSter-St She was held for examlna-
ployed by Mr.. Betsworth housekeeper, and she
claimed that she had a right to the property
ELECTION DAY At CIR FDM r
The National Rife Association has arranged u
entertain enthusiast IN nhe-Sbootlng al Crcedmo"r
tomorrow, i'll match at 200 yards distance, opcn
to everybody without restrictions 10 kind of rife
used or 10 number of entries. There are twenty,
eight offered. which include $40 in cash and
| smoking tobacco and CT areties valued at floU;
The shooting begins at $3.50 q. H. and continues all
| day.
| James Gould, one OF the employees az Castle l'ar-
den, added another, yesterday, the score oi lives
he has saved the past five years from drowning.
| George Ficken living at No. 6 Battery Place, was
| fishing from the bulkhead ut Castle Garden, when
he lost his balance and fell overheard. lie was
about TO sink for the third time, when Gould srraS
IN and rescued hun, at great peril 10 himself from
| the force of the undcrtow.
wOMANs EXCUSE FOR USING A PISTOL
At the TOmbs Police Court yesterday, before just
| ice RiXby August Demo, of No. 172 Nulberr ST.
charged Regad Miscordi, age twenly-siX, OF No. CT
| Mulberry-st., married woman, with dlscharHng
pistol loaded with powder and ball at his head III
Alien-St., on Saturday evening, the bullet passing
| through his hat. 1t is claimed by Mrs Miscordl
| that he made improper proposal us to her. She was
| committed for tual without bail.
| AZURE WAY TO CURE COUGH.
Michael Leuzen, lahOrer slxty-sx years old, took
a drink of carbOlIc acid on Saturday hy mistake.
| believing that he was drinking cough mixture
lie taken Ill sOnn aiterward and died IN he al
ternOun from the effects of the poison. Jeremiah
Scanlon, laborcr employed III It. JoScpIS Home ~
West Fifteen h-st took quantity OF carboltc acld
IN similar manner yesterday, at No SO Leroy-st.
lie was troubled with a cough and drank the poison
believing 10 be medicine. lie was removed -.
Vincents Hospital.
HrBREw AND IRISH MN GRANTS.
The steamship Egypt, from Liverpool, landed BOB
immigrants at Castle Garden yesterday the Cliy
of Montreal. from Liverpool, landed GIG the
| Britannia from Liverpool, COG. and the RoNburg
| Castle from Dundee, IA, making total OF 2,lG.
| Among those on the Egypt were about 25c eNued
Russian Hebrews, who VIII he sent to different parts
| of the country by the Russian Immigrant Ald A.
sociation of this city. There was also large NUN
Der of Irish immigrants landed yesterday, many ~
whom conspicuous green scaTls upon which, In
gold the " Harp of Erin" and the w2rIs
Land League"
WELCOME FOX TWO FRESHMEN.
meeting of the Irish Convention WAS held last
night at No. 427 Secondave. to hear the report Of
a committee which, together with the PROVISIONAL
Committee of the National irish Land League. Par
nell Land League and other IRISH organizations,
was to make arrangements Tor receiving Father
Sheehy and T. NJ. iiealy VI. 7. The plan adopted is
that Representatives of tie different Irish oaulZI-
| tons of the city shall 20 down the htrbOr IN two
steamers 10 meet the vessel that brings Father
Shcehy and Mir. Heay, and escort it TO the city On
| thursday evening there will be public reception
| at Cooper Institute
BROOKLYN.
The house of Police Justice Bergen, No. 262 Pres-
| dentist was entered by burglars some time on
! Saturday night, and two ovcrcOas, together with
| "a pair of gold sleeve buttons, were stolen.
| a horse and wagon worth $3.50, owned by Louis
GOeting of No. l05 COOk-st., were stolen yesterday
| Edward West. of No. 9S South Ionth-St., and
| Michael Qunan. of No. ID franhlin-ayc., were al
rested for the crime.
While washing a front window in the house Of
| Mr.. HattOn No. 10 Puaskl-st., on Saturday after
noon, Ellen McGowan. Il servant grl, fell to the
pavement. She received fracture OF the skull and
broke her right arm. She was taken to St. Gather
| ines Hospital.
In a brawI in front of No 1875 Front-st Yesterday
morning LOuis DuvIe stabbed in the head aud
the left temporal artery cntby knife i'll the hands
| of Joseph Fish. Duvle was cared for at the City
| Hospital and Fish locked up. Both are lta-
| ians and live at No. l35 Fronl-st.
| Benjamin Levcrick, age ffty-eight, of No. 81
Butcr-st last evening cut three gashes in his throat
| with razor but failed To sever lis wlndppe.
| physician summoned and the wounds were pro-
| nonnced probably fatal. Mr. Levcrlck had been i'll
long time and Is believed to have been out of his
| mind at the time.
John Brady, of No 81 North Sxth-st, was ar
rested early yesterday morning for shooting Thomas
Thompson, of No 30 North Flith-st., IN the hea
II appears that Brady forced an entrance into the
liquor store OF Owen Murphy, at No. 215 SIXth-st.,
| and began firing at the proprietor. After three
shots be turned on Thompson, whom he severely
wounded. The injured man was cared for at st.
GATHERINGS Hospital.
JERSEY CITY.
Two deaths from smallpox were reported ys.er-
day.
A man supposed to be James Nolan, of FIfteth-st.,
York, struck by a locomotive at the Hen
dersOn-st crossing of the Newf0rk, Lake Erie and
Western RAJ lIoad, at $40 last night and instantly
killed. The body was removed 10 Speers Morguo.
NEW-JERSEY.
PATERsoN-Mrs Catharine Congdon, wife OF
Major Joseph w. Congdon. and daughter of OK
Senator BurlOck, of Connecticut, died her house
in Paterson, yesterday, after short illness, from
congestion of the brain. She born i'll Bridge
port Conn, and was thrty-two years of age
LONG ISLAND.
HUNIISGToN-The Rev w. w. Knox pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Church. preached his fare
well sermon yesterday lie has received a call To
church in New Jersey. The Presbytcry met on Fri
day, and dissolved Mr.. KnOX's relations with the
church
STATEN ISLAND.
CIIFToN-Cardinal McClOskey yesterday con-
fItncd over 800 persons, men, women and children
in st. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. In the core
mony the Cardinal was assisted by Father Lewis
pastor of the church. Father Peters the assistant
pastor Father Dominick OF HobOken, and several
other priests from this city. large congregation